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Fill out the form...verify email...done! http://www.future-publishing.msgfocus.com/k/future-publishing/ik_multimedia_vintage_compressor?fbclid=IwAR1djqEtsexH6AUlDz7nLK4ElZsO1o6WbTBH8Ezk5QOzs0QlWgalBfiP5SY This one is a bit cheeky. It's free with this month's Computer Music issue, so pick up a copy for a clear conscious. It works for anyone though, but will probably only be open for a couple of weeks going by previous IK/CM freebies. EDITED FOR CLARITY - added 670 (Fairchild) to the Title...somehow people got off track by not reading the form

Yeah, those FlexPhrase patches in Sonic are really great. There's a lot more I could have said about using the FlexPhraser in the video but I forgot. As it is, I think it's kind of long. That's what I have to learn. What to mention. In a strange way I think I should have played more to show how cool it is, but when you're playing you're not explaining features. What I'm hoping is that people will just go in there and just try various phrases from the menus and hear what they sound like with different instruments. One thing that is cool is that some of them of them have empty spots--there could be a few beats of silence, followed by some notes. Weird by itself but very interesting when you start layering different kinds of sounds. Also instead of just layering up guitars or pianos, it can be fun to layer up a one-person band with guitars, a bass and drums. A lot of this stuff you wouldn't actually use in a track but they are fun to play. However, everything can be routed to different outs, so it is possible to do a more interesting mix in your DAW. I did talk to Greg Ondo from Yamaha/Steinberg when I was at IMSTA NY. I really got the impression that the FlexPhraser was not of any interest to them over there. They took everything that was created 19 years ago in the Motif and Montage and popped it in and called it a day. And if something worked in the workstation and not in Cubase... too bad, we were lucky to get such a cool thing for free. They do mention it as a feature on their site, but they've never promoted it, in my opinion. My impression is that if HALion 7 ever comes along, it will have a ton of new instruments and synths. Sampled instruments that Kontakt people will not be impressed with and synths that are excellent but few will use because... they come free with HALion! They also seem to be trying to get third party companies to make instruments for HALion 6. Good luck catching up with Kontakt, UVI, EastWest and Best Service! That's a tall order. HALion is amazing, but when they sell it for peanuts they diminish its value, like Sonible and AIR do. With the FlexPhraser they have technology that nobody else in the business has. Technology that would be very desirable to the main market of musicians who can't play instruments (one-finger arrangements!) as well as still interesting to people who do know how to play piano and theory. Definitely appealing to people who use loops, Toontrack, ujam, and some Sonuscore products. I think those expansions could be sold to people who just own Cubase and have Sonic SE. An even better product would be a FlexPhraser MIDI plugin that would work with any virtual instrument. But I think they will continue to follow the strategy of more instruments, because, as their deep discounts suggest, it doesn't work. To do this video I had to learn how to use Cubase in OBS, set up the video to show the keyboard, how to record my voice separately, etc., but now I know this stuff, so doing another one should be a bit easier. But still time-consuming I'd like to do one on NADA and one on the NKS templates that come from Freelance Soundlabs.

By the way after a small 30 min test , smile on my face , one word : CLASSY !!!

8 Years ago today I was getting ready to watch the Sonar X1 Webinar!!! Just thought I would throw out a little Nostalgia!

This hot fix update is for Cubase 10.5 on both Windows and macOS. Cubase 10.5.12 fixes a performance issue caused by ASIO overloads. We're happy to say that this update resolves the issues. Download hot fix update https://www.steinberg.net/en/support/downloads/cubase_105.html

You know you can drag and export them right onto the desktop ?

The modeled vs sampled discussion is something that can never really be resolved. People should get what they want. I have a template I will be working on forever where I put similar instruments and presets in folders. The other day I put my favorite Keyscape Wurli patch in. I then loaded the Arturia Wurli in. Now the Arturia Wurli has tons of presets and most of them are very distorted or effect sounds. The sampled Keyscape sounds incredible. It sounds like a Wurli. The Arturia Wurli sounds sort of Wurli-ish. It is so unbelievably terrible next to Keyscape that it didn't make it into my template. Now somebody else can use those Wurl presets in Arturia and enjoy them for what they are. But they don't stand up to the samples in Keyscape. I just got Modo Bass and think it is an incredible program. But there is one bass in there that is a model of a Rickenbacker bass I owned for ten years. And I'm sorry, but it's not good. The Scarbee is better. But that's not why you buy Modo Bass. It gives you infinite options that no sampled bass gives you. Also in my template is a folder with 80s chimey digital piano sounds. I owned a DX7 for a long time and I like that stuff. There's the great MKS-20 from Keyscape, a few select presets from UVI digital library, Synth Anthology has some of the best stuff in there because it has Kawaii K3, which is really different from everything else. But the Arturia DX7? Nothing that's good. The free Dexed is SO much better. Probably because freeware can emulate Yamaha tech with more freedom than Arturia can. Maybe they have to make it a little more different because they're selling? No idea. Anyway, for the sound I was looking for, one of the most popular sounds in a decade,there should be a freaking good preset on a DX7 model. Syntronik really blows almost everything away. Because Syntronik has most of T-RackS and Amplitube built in and so the presets come loaded with some amazing effects. Syntronik takes this sound and makes something new with it. One of the best DX7 libraries out there is FM2, a free one on iOS. I love that. To me it comes down to what sounds you're looking for for the music you make. Stack the sounds from sampled vs modeled in your DAW and pick what you like best. The answer will change based on the sound you're looking for. You may prefer a modeled piano to a sampled piano--a lot of people do. When it comes to synths it may help if you've actually owned the hardware. For example, the Korg Collection M1 is to my ears the same as my M1. I think they just took the brains of the M1 and put it into iM1. So that's not modelling--it's Korg to Korg. Anything in Arturia where they have a relationship with the original developer should be great. But who really cares if a synth is "authentic" or not? Having all the customizing options in Arturia may over-ride that. Just as with Modo Bass or Modo Drums. I think Synth Anthology II is awesome and I am very glad I bought it. Its presets will find many, many spots in my template, because they have been curated as best of the best.

When I got the Black 76 from CM and registered it, I got $5 in JamPoints. These CM freebies are smart moves by IK. I liked the 76 so much that I ended up buying all of T-RackS and I'm very happy I did.

EPISODE 10 Hi folks! We are now on episode 10 of my 15 part series about recording a song from scratch, and I believe that one is about something that can make a big difference to the result - gain staging. WATCH HERE: https://youtu.be/HxNTCpCQclw

Hey Patrick Well the good news is my new PC is here, the bad news is I can't have until my Birthday in a month's time ( wife's orders ! )... I was worried that stuff might go up in price due to all the Chinese factories closing down to stop the spread of corona virus , and also the machine I was looking at from the local builder AWD-It had gotten £50 cheaper as had the NVME HDD upgrade. So I went for it. So I now have sat in the box Ryzen 3900x, Asus B450M-K, Samsung Polaris 512gb NVME , and I opted for 16gb of DDR4 3600 ...figured less but faster ram rather than more but slower..I'll upgrade when I next get a decent royalty cheque. I addition I ordered a 1tb Samsung Evo 970 SSD and the Audient ID4 as I won't be able to use my Focusrite The machine was £810 inc delivery and the extra SSD and Audio Interface came to £235...so I didn't quite manage to keep it under £1k but it was close I've fitted the extra drive and installed Win 10 , and ran the DPC latency checker on it ..all checks out within the ' good for audio ' range ( interestingly this PC I have now fails that test ) and the worst driver is the crappy Geforce 710 which is the base line GPU they put in them. I will probably stick something better in it at a later date that has better behaved drivers. it will have to suffice for now. CBB is installed but I didn't have time to try it properly as it's all packed away now ready for the big day.

It's agreat one , if you want that glue , go hard knee , sideahcin on and flirt with 1 db of gr max with this setting !!

If that annoys you I happened to see this post the other day about it when I was researching ARS3: --------- "I had the same problem with NX [launching every time on its own] which was annoying. I asked Waves support to help me. They sent me the following reply and it worked: In order to avoid Waves NX Waves HeadTrack application from opening every time you launch a session in Logic, please move the WavesHeadTracker file from its original path Applications > Waves > Plugins V10 > WavesHeadTracker > move the WavesHeadTrack file to the Waves folder. Once this is done, you can manually open the application after loading your Logic session." I assume it doesn't matter what daw is used.

Check them out here https://www.pro-tools-expert.com/production-expert-1/2020/2/17/7-free-audio-production-ebooks-we-recommend-you-download-and-read-today?mc_cid=d48310fdc4&mc_eid=16ee9f3b7d

I use the VST manager to create menus, and leave off the ones I don't have or cause problems in Cakewalk.

Lots to like here, that is for sure! Thumbs up, thumbs up. Now, there’s always a but, lots of low end, but I would like a bit more definition on the kick and bass. Both are better on the cans than in the car. Not muddy, just “there” but not well defined. There’s a high pitched percussive element in the right can that’s just a bit too loud on the Bose cans here. I love the tune. t

The booth are just wiked , i love using those to beef up lows , will try to show it if i review those ... also to give that intmate proximty to sources .. check around his voice

OK I bought this, and it's quite good but super complex for a beginner I would think. I previously have Zynaptiq's Adaptiverb, Intensity, and the freebie Subspace so perhaps I'm just a bit more adept at their weird nomenclature universe. The only way I got on with Unveil is by watching this video, at least twice, while playing with the demo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL9cRsF2IFA I tried Unveil at the task of reducing some annoying reverb on the Hollywood Pop Brass horns. They are excellent funky horns but, even with all their reverb turned off, there is still a high shiny ringy parking-garage reverb baked in. Unveil got rid of 80% of the 1-second tingy tail, and that's all you need to get the horns to sit much better in the mix. It is also fantastic on drying up drum tracks and old spoken word audio from some ancient movie. Nicely incorporates a bit of a graphic eq (in Zynaptiqspeak: "focus bias") so you can tell it to dry up just the frequencies you want to dry up. And it has a treble make-up add ("Presence") to put back whatever high end the processing took out. So it's kind of a multiband transient shaper but a lot deeper in the toolbox of usefulness dept. There - so I'm not that lazy after all ! This will be a good plugin and a good buy for some people but yes perhaps maybe for the upper level dark arts sort. cheers, -Tom

If you have a lemon with your Corona I hear you are safe from the Virus..........................................

What are people's thoughts on this? I've never heard of the company before but everyone seems to be absolutely gushing over it. Seems a little fishy to me.

Thanks. That description pretty much matches what I saw. There doesn't appear to be any customer support contact information. The D-18 IR's I downloaded had very short succinct info files included explaining how the IRs were made. That's it.

Correct. That's what I did.

Maybe there here: https://www.sonarworks.com/blog/ebook/successful-studio-setup/ https://www.sonarworks.com/blog/

Its been discussed a few times around here and no one has received a straight answer and if they did, i must have missed it. My personal belief is that they run off (or use similar code) the Sonitus suite of plug ins. Some have mentioned the use the VX-64, PX-64, and TL-64 but i don't even have those plug ins active anymore and the style dials still work here. For what its worth, they aren't top of the line, amazing plug ins.. but they are fairly decent in the scheme of things, great for a quick fix on the go. Also running pretty low on CPU resources as well. Hope this helps.

Noice! A not-so ambient and chill selection I'm afraid! 😆

Is it possible to put them all into Gear Credits? If I understand correctly, Gear Credits don't expire.

And that is how you act (NOT react) to someone going under. Hating is so easy, and at least in the first page all people feel morally supportive. That's what we need from people. Cheers...

You're going home in a f*cking ambience! The Irresistible Force - Flying High (from the album of the same name - an Ambient House classic): Note: the link should start at track 3, but the whole album is worth a listen if you're in the mood to chill.

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Interesting... I did not notice that. I assumed that the "Thumb" color was also drawing the arrows. I will update my document with this information.

Success! I am now using TouchDAW (wireless control surface on Android phone) to control Cakewalk transport, and now, I can also set the loop range (the loop range was the part I was struggling to figure out). I realize now this is done fairly simply using the "pick list" of commands in the "Cakewalk control surface setup screen" that can be assigned to Function buttons: e.g. F1 Set "from selection" to Now F2 Set "thru selection" to Now F3 Set loop to selection

I really didn't catched up with those peamps emu's ...

You are correct. Starting with 2019.11 latency slider works for some ASIO drivers. RME does not support this feature so I saw no change in slider behavior. Thanks for reminding me,

As the sale only goes for a few more days (ends 2/24), I decided to finally get a video up on the HALion FlexPhraser. This is something I wanted to do for a long time, but it took me a long time to figure out how to pull it off technically. This is my first video demonstrating software in a DAW. I hope to do more of them and get better at it. Reid

So I need to cast a vote in order for other people to tell me my favourite Beatles song? I suppose that's democracy for you.

I'm still partial to While My Guitar Gently Weeps off the White album.

I have the main library Palette Symphonic Sketchpad. It's...ok-ish. It's actually kind of an odd package, in terms of quality. For a sketchpad it is quite complete, with many useful parts -- but also a bit rough around the edges and variable in quality from patch to patch. I don't like the interface much, and the samples are a distinctly mixed bag. It ticks all the boxes in terms of orchestral sections, with strings, woodwinds and brass being the main players, and additional patches for various percussion, timps, hand percussion, piano, harp, choir and some synth patches. For the ensemble patches (strings, woods and brass) Palette has a full set of articulations (all the usual suspects, plus tenuto and major/minor trills). And surprisingly, it has a separate chamber-sized patches for each ensemble. There are three mic positions: Close, Decca and Hall. The Decca is the default, but with more baked in room ambience than I expected. I find it a bit muddy and difficult to blend with other libraries. The Close mic is a lot better for that, but needs a fair amount of added reverb. The sound of the strings players is decent, but not the most refined sound (certainly not the glossy and pristine sound of the Albion ONE strings I regularly use). Rather, it is solid and workmanlike, with a hint of rasp. The basic articulations are fine, except I don't like the spiccato - too abrupt and punchy, and not enough velocity layers for my tastes. Admittedly, I haven't really played around with the settings in the GUI, so possibly that can be adjusted. The trills are a nice articulation option, and are the only parts of the package that are currently in my orchestral template, as they are the best trill samples available to me when it comes to blending them with my Albion and 8Dio strings (Albion doesn't have trills, and I don't like the 8Dio ones - and while the Pallete samples take a bit of work, they do fit in fairly well after some reverb, panning and eq). The woodwinds are adequate - nothing special, but they get the job done. The brass is okay when played en masse. But for both the winds and brass patches, the overlap points of the instruments is kind of obvious and does not leave enough room for individual sections to play melodies cleanly. I also don't like the position of the brass players in the soundscape. There are some weird bits to the library... The glockenspiel is really not good -- quite unusable, to my ears, which was something of a surprise. How do you mess up a glockenspiel? The Close mic sounds nice, but it's really dry and in-your-face, and thus hard to place in my orchestral soundscape. The Decca is really ambient, and has the weirdest sound when played hard -- there is a deep banging sound to the highest velocity samples, as though the percussionist is hitting his knees on the glock stand in his enthusiasm. The Hall mic is no better. Quite odd and quite unusable. The Harp has lots of nice strings, and one or two strings that sound brittle and obvious, and thus make the patch hard to use. Those strings (high C and D) stand out way too much, and draw all kinds of the wrong attention to themselves. They only fit in with their brethren when played at the lowest velocity. So I don't use the harp. The timps are perfectly fine, and include a nicely programmed set of mod wheel crescendos that drop in a final hit upon release. They work well, and I've used them to good effect. The piano sounds surprisingly decent for a small add-on to an orchestral package. Quite usable. The hand percussion, trailer percussion and orchestral percussion are all decent, with a generous number of different instruments. The choir is very limited, but adequate for the very basic stuff (oh, ah and mm). So, it's kind of a strange package -- almost like the alpha release of a good orchestral library, with solid potential but some genuine rough spots. It is good for sketching and works well on my laptop (where it sees most of its use, along with Da Capo). I bought it on sale earlier this year (I don't recall what I paid for it), and it has been useful - but I'm glad I didn't pay full price. That's just my two cents. As always, YMMV. Rob

I would never, for example, use LANDR to master the new album I've been working on for five years, but I am using it to get an idea of what mastering might do to my mixes when I listen to my mixes "out in the wild" (testing them in my car, on my home stereo, on a phone, etc.). It has its uses. I'd also use it for a quickie song that's only on my Soundcloud or something. It often represents an improvement over my pre-mastered mix. If there were no such thing as human mastering engineers, I'd most likely use LANDR on my songs. Fortunately, there are such a thing as human mastering engineers.

EPISODE 9 Hi folks! We are at episode 9 in my 15 part series about recording a song from scratch, and the tracking is finally done. So in this episode we start the mixing process with some important preparation. Don't miss out! WATCH HERE: https://youtu.be/6RqurUur3K0

Another aspect that hasn't been mentioned is that an algorithm can't do something like decide to cut four bars out of a long, self-indulgent solo...or decide where to fade, or whether to crossfade two cuts together. In theory, an algorithm could help fix some technical deficiencies, but there's no way it could make artistic decisions.

EPISODE 8 Hi folks! Its time to record lead vocals in episode 8 of my 15 part series about recording a song from scratch. As well as recording I'm loooking comping, pitch correction, and a few harmonies WATCH HERE: https://youtu.be/_SPRiIMD39Q

Thanks Andy!

I recently wanted to try online mastering and compare to my own limited skills. So i tried a few songs in a few versions on Bandlab, i signed up for a month of cloudbounce based on reviews, and did 10 songs of different styles in about 3 or 4 different setting combinations (they have quite a few options) and used ozone 9 master assistant with adding my own additional modules like imager exciter low end balance and made some changes to the eq and maximizer settings. My conclusion was i liked my ozone outcomes best but with all the modules available its a much broader bunch of tools. Im pretty new to mastering so just how i felt with little mastering experience. I did a lot of reading about online mastering first, and believe experienced mastering ppl dont think too highly of the ai mastering, but they are experienced. Overall it was interesting to do all i did, listen to all the versions, look at how their eq patterns were etc. I learned a little more from trying online mastering experiments, but will be using ozone.

Thank you Pedro

Another excellent video Mike. Found the tap tempo section particularly useful

I have watched a few of your videos and they are well done. You provide a great service here to those who are new to the software! Good luck. My only question is, are you doing this from the goodness of your heart? Is there an angle? I hope you're selling something because making these videos is a lot of work which I hope will be appreciated.

I will be watching... as usual! 👍 Best of luck with the series!

No mushrooms required, although a comfy chair would be a good idea: