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When it hits $29, I'm all in!!!

Try increasing the DropoutMsec value in Preferences > Audio > Configuration File. I don’t know about Sample Tank, but as this happens during load it might be the same problem as I had with some Kontakt libraries from Audiofier. In my case increasing the default value of 250 to 2300 solved that issue. I guess my sample drive wasn’t fast enough to stream large audio files at the speed required for the default setting to work.

Besides all other aspects, the incredible amounts of historical architecture and items that have been lost is very sad. I've been there - very impressive! This is going to hit the Parisians hard both emotionally as well as financially. They get something like 13 million tourist visits to the cathedral every year...

Really like this idea A-Cab. Personally myself, I love all the bells and whistles but a bare bones DAW might bring in users who are looking to do basic things. After so many hours, you could move to another level.

I have nothing at all against AMD. At any point in time, I'll use what I feel is the best overall CPU available. With Ryzen, Thunderbolt-3 is not available. That's a show-stopper for myself and many of our clients. Ryzen's "Infinity Archtecture" benefits from running faster RAM (DDR4/3200)... but it's hard to find a motherboard that'll run DDR4/3200 absolutely rock-solid. Ironically, Intel architecture doesn't benefit significantly from running faster RAM... but most motherboards will run DDR4/3200 without issue. From a performance standpoint, Ryzen is amazing at tasks that are heavily multi-threaded (video rendering). With lower clock-speed, Ryzen is not so amazing at are tasks that aren't heavily multi-threaded. In a DAW application, not all tasks can be heavily multi-threaded. Playing thru an AmpSim plugin and monitoring in realtime using a 32-sample ASIO buffer size at 96k is not something that lends itself to being heavily multi-threaded. Thus, when it comes to a DAW, CPU clock-speed is the most critical factor. As far as cores, you want as many as you can get (or afford). What you don't want to do is sacrifice significant clock-speed for more cores. This is why Xeon CPUs are often a significant performance hit (when used for DAW purposes). Another thing to be aware of is that CPU core performance doesn't scale 1:1 IOW, doubling the number of CPU cores doesn't double performance. I don't see Intel being particularly "pricey". ? With the release of the i9-9900k, you've got high-end "workstation" level performance in a mid-tier (cost) CPU. You have to go high-end socket 2066 i9 to significantly best the 9900k. The 9900k has 8 cores (16 processing threads) that can be locked at 5GHz. You've got the best of both worlds (super high clock-speed and 8 cores/16 processing threads). With AMD, we've notice small "incompatibility" type issues. ie: On one of the Cakewalk demo sessions (which we often used to compare performance), Boost 11 was used on a kick drum track. When running a Ryzen CPU, Boost 11 was producing an unwanted "click/snap" that almost sounded like digital clipping. Running the same exact project with an Intel CPU, Boost 11 (same exact settings) yielded no click/snap. I don't put the fault for this on AMD (many applications/plugins aren't fully optimized for Ryzen CPUs)... but you're likely to encounter similar issues. As a point of reference, I paid ~$100 more for my PII-266 (266MHz single core CPU) than I did for my 9900k (8 cores at 5GHz). Healthy competition from Ryzen is good for all involved. Right now, I prefer Intel (for the reasons above). If/when AMD fully leap-frogs Intel, we'll be happy to use their CPUs. We built many Athlon and Athlon II based machines when AMD was beating Intel (badly) in floating-point performance. Regarding Apple manufacturing their own CPUs: AMD has been at it for decades... and still can't best Intel's top 9980xe CPU. Apple would likely reap higher profit margin by using their own CPU... but I have serious doubts that it would be on par with the best AMD/Intel CPUs. Apple has all but abandoned their power-users... so it wouldn't be out of character for them to continue this direction (fully knowing their machines would offer lower performance). The iMac Pro is a sleek/slick looking machine. But when that represents the pinnacle of your top-performance range, you're not aiming high.

If you Pea Crisps you should probably get that Iooked at.

Just wanted to share my walkthrough experience with NOIRE. I think it really was done well as far as the sampling and the effects, etc. offer lots of creative opportunities. Hope you enjoy? NOIRE by Native instruments | In Depth Walk-through/Review

Uganda https://vimeo.com/329705018/38f2178ab5 A friend of mine talked me into signing up for a group tour of Uganda. It was for bird watching mostly but also for viewing animals in the wild that you usually only see in zoos. So here's a slide show of the photos and videos that I took over there last month. The soundtrack probably isn't very African sounding, but I like it. Zero G Voices of Africa NI West Africa Stylus RMX Omnisphere Bolder Sounds Buffalo Drums Thanks for listening.

Been following the horrible news out of Paris. I come from a family of liturgical musicians, and my uncle once had the privilege of playing the pipe organ at Notre Dame Cathedral. It was iconic and a really glorious instrument with a sound like no other -- a one of a kind creation to which other pipe organs were compared. And it is apparently gone, or so I am hearing. No confirmation on that yet, but I can't see how it could survive.

Also make sure you have the latest versions of plug-ins. When doing an S1 project with two instances of the Line 6 Helix (which admittedly, I max out by doing multiband processing with several amps), I couldn't understand why I was getting terrible crackling. The performance monitor showed around 47% CPU for each instance. I went to the Line 6 website, and saw that I was several revisions behind. After updating, it went down to 32% for each instance - apparently someone has been doing optimizations

Yes, that is a nice pair of knobby's!!

Just a note about the sound quality issue. It is a well know fact that everything will be precieved as sounding better if the volume is turned up. To a point.

I will be using the gear in my signature until I die...

Not necessarily., I know at least some of the project templates bundled with CbB route audio preview to a Preview bus. Audio and MIDI preview assignments are made using the browser menu on the media browser tab, B on the image below

API is my favorite of the Waves Consoles. It does some amazing things...I like it better than the SSL

I DON'T need an API EQ!! I DON'T need an API EQ!! ... Or do I?

Yes, enjoy the new interface, it's miles beyond the old one! And since they actually included the ST3 engine in ST4, the old ST3 library formats are 100% compatible as is, including Syntronik and Philharmonik. So legacy content should play exactly as it did in ST3. There are 2 different edit pages now, depending on whether the part is in ST3 or ST4 format. There are additional modulation controls and mod matrix available and enhancements to the element structure for the new stuff.

Not that sort ?

Nice walk-through Simeon I pulled the plug on NOIRE a couple of weeks ago. I was looking for a piano VST, although I am far from an accomplished player (just one finger and I don't use the black notes at all). NI actually had a Piano Day sale on at the time but the crafty so and so's placed a link at the bottom of that sale page for NOIRE. I'm a bit of a Nils Frahm fan so that is what attracted me first. But that particles engine, for me, nailed the deal. A great piano library, and I don't own Kontakt so it was a real boon that NI have made this available for Player too. cheers andy

Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.

I'm thinking of having a becan sandwich. (Which, naturally, is becan surrounded by more becan, right?)

Until I recently started to track for clients, I had no idea how many of them really don't care what you use. If you can make them and their music sound good that seems to be all that matters for most. One client looked and said, Oh Cakewalk. That was it. The only ones who pick all of this apart are us geeks ?

The $14.9 sale is coming soon~

Interesting theory. They certainly have gotten aggressive with pricing.

Who's Earl Grey? Did he make an album?

This is not "a bunch", this is all of them (just two or three exceptions), even VSTis and plugins I thought I'd ever see at this price (e.g. NX). This is pretty aggressive... They're trying to kill someone

That type of porn always gets me in trouble! I don't even know what it is, but I want one! ?

You think it has something to do with birds? ?

Mar-a-Lago. Nutbush City.

Yea, i meant the clips tempo and all is well. I'm glad the feature is still here. I wasn't sure earlier

No, "Save As" to a different name in the existing project folder effectively renames the project (although the original project file will still be in the folder). Alternately, the project folder/file may be renamed at the OS level.

Just to add, you should always have backups stored to a different drive as well. Never delete ANYTHING that does not have a back up.

Thanks! I bumped my DropoutMsec up to 2000, and that seems to have taken care of the dropout on loading!

I guess that confirms what I have thought about this bloke for some time...

Use Save As with "Copy all audio with project" to create a new project in a different folder Verify the new project is what is expected Delete the old project folder

Yes that was Sade, and she still uses a Sure Beta 58 to this day with her lovely voice. Oohhh ?

When I "donated" my second monitor to my daughter, I thought it was a good time to get used to using just the one HD monitor. The idea being, that if I swapped to using my laptop, I wouldn't feel restricted in any way in my workflow. The key thing for me is to have a screen-set for each operation. It varies from project to project, but the basic idea is: Screen-set 1: Everything on it, but browser & track inspector minimised Screen-set 2: Console view full screen; no browser, track inspector minimised Screen-set 3: Track view full screen; browser & track inspector minimised Screen-set 4: PRV full screen Switching to a screen set for the function I want, means nothing is ever cluttered, and my workflow is sped up. I guess lenses go a stage further, but I've never felt a need for them myself - quite the opposite - when I open the control bar I like it to be exactly the same each time.

I don't turn OFF my antivirus software, I simply add folder paths to my sample libraries and such, to be skipped from scanning every time I access them in Cakewalk. That works great, for me. In Avast, those folder paths are called Exemptions. Bob Bone

I absolutely have to turn off the antivirus to get down to 64 or 128 in ASIO. If I don't, the settings before the snap, crackle, and pops disappear hover around 256 and 320 for tracking. I also have the internal soundcard disabled. As well as the wireless network turned off. BTW, I'm using the Windows Defender that came in Windows 10.

Pretty much until the end of time, you will be alternating your ASIO Buffer Size values: small value when recording tracks, huge value when mixing. It is simply the nature of the requirements of the more heavy duty plugins, added and used during mixing, that you need to do this, for all but the simplest projects. I don't even really think about it anymore. My brain automatically sets the ASIO Buffer Size to either 128 or 64 for tracking, and then way up to either 1024 or 2048 when switching to mixing. I never ever have audio Rice Crispy noises when mixing, and if I happen to get any issues when recording with the buffer set to 64, I simply bump it up to 128, which is still fine for tracking. Bob Bone

I totally agree with Bob. If you're just mixing, keep setting the ASIO buffer higher until the bacon stops frying. If it never does, it must be something else terrible wrong with your setup.

When I switch from tracking to mixing, I ALWAYS jack up my audio interface's ASIO Buffer Size to either 1024 or 2048 samples. This is for 2 reasons: 1) Many of the more robust plugins, like convoluted reverb plugs, use a technique of look-ahead processing, to do what they do, and this requires a huge buffer size to accommodate it. 2) There is no need to maintain a small ASIO Buffer Size when mixing, because any latency induced by a large buffer size doesn't matter, because you aren't trying to track to it, so any delay in playback is fine, for mixing. Bob Bone

The 64 sample buffer is the most likely problem. It can work fine for tracking. Not so much for mixing with those plug-ins.

Hi folks, I've never been entirely happy with my current roster of brass libraries, and am looking to expand my palette a bit. However, I'm finding it tough to figure out which direction go in, and I'm curious what other folks are using. I'm trying to find a brass library that will work with my existing template, which means it cannot be a resource hog, is highly configurable in terms of articulations, and covers the basics really well. I do old school orchestral stuff pretty much exclusively. My current set of libraries: Hollywood Brass - has some nice patches, but I am not a big fan of Play, and in general I don't find the library to be very efficient. HW Brass' various French Horns patches are its best feature, but I don't like its trumpets much. NI Symphony Series Brass -- the ensemble patch is quite decent as a quick and dirty way to add brass to a project, and the section patches have their moments. But I find the legatos unconvincing, and I don't find the sample set to be very deep - in particular, the trumpets have a couple of recurring samples that jump out as being different than their kindred and I find it really distracting. Albion ONE - love this library in general and use it a ton, but really don't like how they have distributed the instruments and ranges on their brass patches. And the trumpets sound thin and very synthy, and I really hate them. Da Capo - Adequate as a sketching tool, but not very configurable or detailed -- and no trumpets at all, which always struck me as a little weird. VSL Special Editions - very configurable, and they sound good (including the trumpets), but the Special Editions are quite limited and the full versions would be far more useful. However, I am very reluctant to get deeper into the VSL ecosystem, due to their draconian copy protection and licensing issues. Looking this list over, it seems to be all about trumpets. That is partially true; I don't have a trumpet patch or library that I like. But I'd also like some great horn and trombone patches, too. I'd be curious to know what other folks are using, and what you like, with the emphasis on a very traditional orchestral brass sound. Thanks! Rob

This sounds like it belongs in a very different forum.

Sorry, WDM not MDW

That's it!! That's what I was talking about!! Thanks Iva!