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Slightly OT, but here's one thing I just found out about Melda plugins, which really impressed me... I was watching this: ... so I tried it out for myself using a 9.5Khz sine wave through a range of plugins, e.g. Waves, Softube etc. All of them exhibited the same behaviour shown in the video - I was getting frequencies popping up as low as 440Hz. However, ALL Melda productions have this upsampling facility: At 1x, I get the same artefacts as other plugins, but setting the up-sampling to 4x or more completely removes any of these artefacts. I don't know of many other plugins that have this facility.

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Ouch that studio looks uncomfortable and seems a little drab . OK . Fixed. Kenny

And that gets you SampleTank 4 SE...which sells for $149.99!

I'm not saying that Larry is definitely wrong, just that both vendors mentioned here show a much different price for upgrading MPS1. https://www.jrrshop.com/izotope-music-production-suite-upgrade-mpb I have a MPB2 which contains O7A for example, but it is one licence for the bundle. Technically I do not have an O7A licence. In your case you did. Maybe semantics, but I'm just questioning why they would show a different (and considerably higher) price when people can just buy this instead and get the same thing? One thing for JRR (or whoever) to sell you the upgrade at that price, but I wonder what will happen when it's actually registered with Izotope if there is no specific Advanced licence? Just trying to save Larry from the voodoo dolls if it turns out that people have bought on his say so and it doesn't work that way.

$29! For the 25 mini key model.

JRRshop sell the MPS 2.1 crossgrade for $125 from ANY advanced product. Well, I had Ozone 6 Advanced and Nectar 2 Production Suite in my account. Worked fine.

Add an instrument to CbB..I used Arturia Jup-8V. I dragged it from the browser using the defaults which makes separate audio and MIDI tracks. Add Ripchord to CbB - I did this from the browser as above. Make sure on the VST properties of these plugins that Enable MIDI Input and Output are selected (they were by default for me). On the instrument track (e.g. Jup-8V) select the MIDI input as Ripchord MIDI Omni and make sure you are monitoring the instrument to be able to hear its output. You need to make a Ripchord preset to do anything (or load one from the community - requires a free account with them). For a quick test.... Click on EDIT in the Ripchord UI. Click on middle C on the input keyboard and a C Major triad or whatever you want on the output keyboard (C, E, G). You can set up anything; this is just a quick test. Name the preset and chord and switch back to PLAY mode. Now when you play that note you will hear whatever notes you have set up on the output played on the instrument. You may need to set your keyboard as input for the Ripchord MIDI track if not already or just use the UI input keyboard.

There are a few threads on Play's issue with fast bouncing. Starting with Play 5.0 they changed how Play streams data which can result in release tails not playing depending on how much of the samples are in memory and how fast the storage device is. EastWest support are pretty much determined to ignore this major failure and will run you in circles with blaming your computer/your hard drive/your DAW when it's really their software. You may be able to work around it by loading the samples fully into ram, placing the samples on a very fast SSD and not fast bouncing any tracks. But even in the best conditions it is still broken and can and will manifest. There is no 100% reliable solution really, no matter what other users may claim. Recent versions of Play 6 using the VST3 version only seems to work slightly better for me but it is still possible to get it to fail. If you have the ram try turning off "Stream from Disk" in the Play menu. You may also be able to adjust the cache settings for your drive in preferences/streaming (though there are bugs there also, for example on my computers that option lists no drives you might have more luck). All that and using a slow bounce/render can usually get you a viable recording. Rolling back to a 4.x version of Play can also work but cuts you off from all the other features added to Play 5 and 6.

Sweet deal indeed. Thanks, JRR and Uncle E, for making it a smooth purchase process. I’m ready to play.

Looks like you have to be careful and select the most expensive of your target product as your initial purchase. There are some "nice to haves" but no essentials for me. The Leslie collections look interesting, but I have several other Leslie emulations already, same applies to the tape machines. I will sit on this for a while.

Ah, there you are. This one could use some critiques and some mix ideas fer sure. Happy to hear any comments, and thank you for your time! -Tom

I recently was listening to Rokia Traore's song Tounka and then I went back and listened to one of Lynn's songs that had a world beat flavour. This inspired me try another world beat song (previous one How Will You Answer). It ended up being more difficult than I thought. In the first place I could not find decent drum(s) clips. I use loops in hopes that some drummer is getting paid for his/her work. Although I was going for more of an African beat I had to settle on a clip that I had that was a tumba beat. I also needed a stringed instrument that would sound like a Jeli Ngori. Well no luck with that so I used a one string SPAM guitar that my friend Thom had given to me. The only way I could record it was to mike it and it really sounded flat. So I had to fiddle around with amps and FX until I got something that would do. I was also going for that hypnotic rhythmic feel that gave birth to the Blues. Hmmmm, I may have overdone that. Anyway, it is a bit rough and out of synch in some places but here it is. As always I would appreciate some input on this song. Oh ya, I got a wee bit self-indulgent on this song and it runs on for almost 5 minutes. Sorry about that but I was having too much fun to stop. Thanks!!! I Went to the Well https://www.soundclick.com/bands3/default.cfm?bandID=963481 BTW the song icon (picture) shows the instruments that I used including my Spam guitar and homemade mbira.

Hello everyone! It has been a long time since I posted any new music (late 2017). Last year I wanted to try my hand at writing a bunch of new songs before recording them. The recording and mixing part took a lot longer than expected. An hour here, two hours there for months (but fun). Here is my effort, an album titled, "Despite My Situation." I hope you have a moment to listen to a track or two. Thanks. https://masarone.bandcamp.com/album/despite-my-situation

I have been trying to get to grips with more advanced audio editing functions but ultimately I often find myself not knowing what function it is I need and then have to search through quite traditional menus. It would be interested to know if there could be some more user friendly outcome based rather than process based pop up menus. e.g. if I want to match tempos/line up two tracks (I am struggling with this!) I select both tracks could it not just ask me in simpleton terms whether I want to do that, or x, y or z and then the software does the job behind the scenes (as it has all the tools to do it). Or rather than all the menus at the top and then the separate menus in the project itself. Could it be configured to have a simple "Timing" button and then it does the trick? This is just one example. Just an idea...I'm not a computer person really just a musician. EDT

A Flattened 3rd Just a little fun in a a minor scale. Thanks for listening.

I'd do the opposite. I think I need NagBap in my life..

See you do get it! Maybe you have what it takes, after all.

Usually more than enough to run CbB and the VST scanner. There are some users who must run as administrator (a higher setting) in order to use XP era plug-ins that write to protected parts of the registry or plug-ins, such as those created using synthedit, that write to areas of the HD which require elevated privileges.

we had a few good ones in August (Summer Strummer) in the past and some good ones in October. Hope the ST4 & Syntronic will have a good Group buy this fall.

F.I.L.T. Falling Is Like This - good one craigb!!! Black Is Black - Los Bravos

$39.90 https://www.adsrsounds.com/product/software/vocal-production-bundle-plugin-course-sample-pack/?_ke=eyJrbF9lbWFpbCI6ICJjY2xhcnJ5MTIyNzAwQGhvdG1haWwuY29tIiwgImtsX2NvbXBhbnlfaWQiOiAiSnlVdzNaIn0%3D

Sure push me over the edge. I could use all the help making " Tunes" ?

See? How could you NOT get inspired to make music with one of those? I hear the following song was made by someone who had an entire flock of Llama Lamps... ?

Maybe I should get that one instead Kenny

Wow, here I've been trying to find shrooms up here for 16 years and Kenny appears to already have them! ?

The Lava Lamp Genie is here to grant your wish . Kenny

For those who are interested in it MCabinet is 75% with introductory and anniversary discount. I doubt that it will be this low anytime soon.

I have MPS2.1 and when I installed it yesterday, it registered Ozone 8 Advance, Neutron 3 Advanced separately. However, I only have a serial number for MPS 2.1 Oh.. there's a new Nectar out now too, 3.1

You might want to change/add File associations on Windows.

Hey Tom, fantastic piece of music, love it, very creative. The only suggestion I have is to replace the bass sound in the first part with a tuba for that extra demented circus sound. Great job, really!

@ZincT - ALL of those plugins you listed are great! +1 on @Piotr comment too. And as @msmcleod points out, these plugins are amazingly deep. I have MTurboReverb and MTurboComp, but honestly, I just go through the "easy" screens - the same as the "LE" versions - and can usually find a really decent sound there pretty quickly. The SnakeOil guy did a video on MTurboReverb and said "I'm too stupid for this!" which is how I feel all the time using these plugins. So yeah, good deals can be had at Melda!

Hi. I believe this is a very good cover even though I must confess I never have been a huge PF fan. Perhaps the reason could be that PF music kind of demands certain musical intelligence to know how to respect and enjoy it and I lack it?

You’re right to do so, as iZotope is infamous for their upgrade and crossgrade pricing tactics! Also, I’m pretty sure Ozone 9 is around the corner, so I guess this is the last time we can get the MPS crossgrade at its lowest price. Next time will be in two years or so.

Thanks for listening and taking the time to comment!

grey matter matters keep it all in the space you have https://www.soundclick.com/html5/v4/player.cfm?songID=13905993

If that's what somebody who sucks sounds like, I wish I sucked like that, too.

Oh, I love this. So much going on here and everytime a new instrument was added to the layers it got better and better. I'm certainly not qualified to critique anything about the mix other than to say it sounded great to me. Only two small nits were there was something about the sound of the horns that struck me as a little off when the came in at 0:42. When other instruments come in later though, I didn't notice as much. Other thing is I loved the solo piano section in the middle, but for me it when on just a little too long without adding something else back in. Great job!

I bought a Soundblaster Live in the late 90's thinking that its S/PDIF input would be good for copying DAT CD master recordings to my computer. These DAT's had of course been made at 44.1. I made the transfers and they sounded fine, but then I started reading about something called "bit perfect transfer" or "bit perfect audio." This was the notion that contrary to what we had been led to believe, "digital audio" was not this pristine incorruptible thing that once the A/D converters had converted it to ones and zeroes, every step of the way it was going to stay unharmed until it was delivered to D/A converters on our end, then sent to an amplifier for reproduction. Especially in computer realm, this was actually a big, laughable lie on a par with Father Christmas or the Easter Bunny. Your CD had ones and zeroes on it, but once it left the CD drive, the OS would merrily upsample, downsample enhance, do all sorts of terrible things before delivering it, and if you were trying to work with digital audio, it was much more difficult to keep it pristine than if you were just working with analog audio. I also learned that my Soundblaster Live was one of the worst offenders, because without telling anyone, they had designed a card that, while it was fabulously powerful as far as processing digital audio effects, was awful at the job of merely passing a clean stream. While it claimed to be able to do I/O up to 96K, whatever sampling rate you sent it, 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96K, it would resample to 48 for internal processing before passing it along. Yes, it would take in 48K, then perform an unnecessary resample to 48K. And this was 25 years ago, and its algorithms were not great. I read that one could buy sound cards that used a chip by a company called CMedia that had S/PDIF headers on them but did not do the resampling that Soundblaster Live cards did. CMedia chips were used in cards costing anywhere from $12 on up to $150, so I bought a cheapie and did a test transfer of the DAT CD master of my girlfriend's album. What came out of my speakers when I played it back literally brought tears to my eyes. It sounded like her voice was floating in 3-D above my speakers, the way a good mix should. I immediately grabbed all the DAT's I had previously transferred and did them over. The Soundblaster Live was relegated to office computer use and my studio computer continued to use the $12 CMedia for digital I/O.

I've found that changing Play to stream from ram rather than disc fixes this.

(Let's see who can figure out THIS connection! ? )

The list is actually more impressive than what Noel indicates. In addition to writing in my Sound on Sound column about elastique pitch stretching and Scan in Sandbox, I also covered updates Noel didn't mention, like the Clean Audio Folder enhancements, note draw duration buttons, aim assist enhancements, the streamlined export function that simplifies exporting stems, and some of the other improvements that have been made. So, I don't think there's any need to convince SOS's editors that Cakewalk's updates deserve coverage, because it's already happening on a monthly basis. And as a writer, it certainly is convenient that Cakewalk still keeps doing updates - there's always something to write about However, I don't always write about enhancements. For example, I just submitted a column on how to do VCA fader-like functions using CbB's existing feature set.

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Damn Izotope! They always find a way to tempt when I have already decided to wait for another versions... ? Probably their AI included in plugins evolved and now is also helping them in sales ?

O8A alone is worth the money!

Jesse, listening to your songs is like going on an expedition. They all sound different and they go to places that you never seemed to have explored before. You're like the 21 century's version of Frank Zappa. ?John B

@EDT, I think I like your idea a lot but I want to make sure I understand your idea. Am I correct that what you're suggesting is task wizards? I'm defining a task wizard as a pop-up window with step-by-step instructions describing how to perform a task. Ideally there should be one pop-up window for each task step. Each pop-up window should also include a hyperlink that opens another pop-up window that details how to perform the step. Let's say you want to perform a specific task like copy midi between tracks. You would navigate to the task wizard menu and select "copy midi". A pop-up window would state: "highlight the midi in a track to be copied." If you don't know how to highlight then you can click on the word highlight and a new pop-up window opens that describes how to highlight. There will be a pop-up window to guide you through each step needed to copy midi between tracks. Does that describe and give an example of your suggestion?