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Audiority has released Dr Drive, a freeware modern overdrive guitar pedal effect in VST, VST3, AU, and AAX plugin formats for compatible DAW applications on PC and Mac. Dr Drive is an analog-modeled overdrive pedal plugin developed by Audiority. It is released in celebration of Audiority’s 10th anniversary. The plugin’s design and features are inspired by the Precision Drive overdrive pedal manufactured by Horizon Devices. https://www.audiority.com/shop/dr-drive/

run the Arturia Software Center to update Bugfixes: White frames at the first opening of the GUI is now fixed in Bitwig on MacOS10.15 Session crash and GUI issues with the DAW "Harrison MixBus" are now fixed for Audio Units Cubase session crashing at reopening is now fixed Compatibility issue with the DAW "Renoise" is now fixed We had issues with OFFLINE activation process, all seems to be back to normal

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Here is a Walkthrough Demo I published covering this amazing piano library. It is the sample piano and recording space (Air Studios Lyndhurst) where the Hans Zimmer Piano was recorded.

There’s a free update to UVI Falcon 2.1. This update includes: New Feedback Machine FX New Magnetic Bass Shaper FX New Step Arp script New Chord Strum script New record option to Arpeggiator New Gate Mod, Gate Mod Poly and Gate Mod Bernoulli scripts Various enhancements 40 new Wavetables 100 new Factory Presets So what's the deal? Also, there’s 30 % off for those who doesn’t have a previous version. This deal is valid through October 18th and includes two free expansions worth €39/$39 each. Regular price €349/$349, now €244/$244.

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Thanks Abacab, yes, the standard version misses out a lot of what you really need in the RAW conversion engine but that sounds fine. Just deciding whether I want to go for the Painter as well. My drawing skills are pretty bad, I've always wanted to improve my drawing for some of the stuff I do especially cartoon type characters, but thought it was a skill beyond me. I just quickly did this guys seminar though and was quite surprised how quick it came together to do something simple. Being able to draw can have all sorts of benefits for designing your own website graphics, CD covers/on-line product boxes, film storyboards (mine are terrible!) etc There are plenty of great videos on youtube and after a bit of research, I discovered there are group drawing classes at a local community center and art class for just $3.00 - $12.00 for 1hr. Could be a great skill for anyone to add for a little dosh and a bit of practice.

Should have waited until I read all the new posts before responding to the ST MAX thread!! Here is a chance for all GB participants to MAX IT OUT!! FOR REAL THIS TIME!! : )

A little more testing with Entire Mix. My first test just checked the file format. Subsequent tests put audio on the tracks. Entire Mix relies on hardware mains so in order to create six channels of audio requires six hardware outputs. I ended up using 6 ADAT channels on the Babyface. I have nothing connected to the interface ADAT ports.

OK, I just ran a test. Export using the Bus failed so I switch to Entire Mix. Going to write a bug report on this. All data was routed through a surround bus configured for 5.1 (film/alternative) in surround preferences Pulled the wav into SoundForge to confirm it was a 6 channel wav. I use an RME Babyface Pro as my interface.

To be clear, while UVI does say this deal includes two free expansions, in fact the deal is better than that--you get 100 euros to spend any way you want in the UVI store, and you have a little time to do it. In my case, I bought Falcon during this sale last year in October and then waited until the 30% UVI Store-wide sale during Black Friday to spend my 100 euros. By waiting I got FOUR expansions for an addional 9 euros. 39x4=156 156x70%= 109. You could also spend your100 euros on anything in the UVI store, but accumulating expansions really takes Falcon to another level. There are regular half price expansion sales that will help you add to your collection. This deal is offered every year, only at this time. So if you want the best price on Falcon, the time is now. But if you aren't sure, you probably can wait for it to come around again. I let this deal go by for years. I'm very happy I finally jumped on it last year. To be honest, Falcon scared me, like it would take me a century to learn. I think all the extensive documentation on the site backfired for me. The truth is that if you know a thing or two about synths, it's not hard at all. It's just sound sources, LFOs, filters, effects,arps and sequencers, etc. You know all that stuff. The difference is that Falcon has so many choices. The other thing is that you can click on practically any mod source and it will become a button or a switch on the front interface. One click. A very nice feature. And if you make a preset you like, you can drag and drop a picture in as a new front page. Very cool if you use a free source like Unsplash or Pixabay. There are also some odd drum sequencers that you won't find most other places. Also, they did a lot of updates between the original Falcon and Falcon 2.0. The kind of updates that other companies charge you for. So this is an excellent investment as we are only on Falcon 2.1. On the negative side, I have found it to be a resource hog. You should be able to load up a lot of layers, but I haven't been able to do that on my computer. It's main competition is HALion. I prefer Falcon to HALion, but HALion is less of a resource hog, so it's easier to load up a lot of layers. I'm going to buy another 32GB of memory this season, so I will see if that makes a difference. And @Fleer Unify is so light that it will definitely be a better way to layer up a lot of sounds.

Double points: Motörhead - Bite The Bullet

Cpu hit , be sure to test ....

🙁 I'll never forget when the first album came out and how it influenced me...thank you EVH RIP

Something that just sorted materialised and then would not go away. In Circles Custom Built Les Paul through Guitar Rig 5 Pro (no not 6 yet might might not) and an Arturia FX you would use Phaser. Softubes Model D-72 Toontrack's EZ Bass Rock Bass Toontrack's Superior Drummer 3 Legacy of Rock Arturia's Wurli V

2020 has been brutal. RIP Eddy Van Halen! 😥

Seems Uke forgot juan Straummy.

There is also the possibility to learn "Painter for Photographers", without the need for existing painting or drawing skills. Just the desire to be creative and turn your photos into works of art. Well, realizing that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, LOL! Painter for Photo Artists https://learn.corel.com/painting-tutorials/digital-painting-tutorials/Painter-for-Photo-Artists/ An example from an older version of Painter:

Alright, all the people that bought into the GB that just finished, here is your chance to MAX IT OUT!!

When you run Aftershot 3 Standard, you will get an offer to upgrade to Pro for $19.99. With Pro you get enhanced adjustments, catalogs, enhanced controls, HDR (high dynamic range), curves and histogram, advanced color correction, balance, and tint, advanced import/export, soft proofing, and more.

Another excellent plugin by ADPTR. Their Metric AB is second to none in metering and analysis.

When The Bullet Hits The Bone - Golden Earring

As far as I know, the brush packs only work in Painter and Painter ParticleShop, and they are additions to the factory brushes. These applications are bitmap editors, and the brushes let you paint pen and brush strokes and effects on bitmaps. [Edit] Since ParticleShop can also be a plug-in to other graphics apps, this is an update to correct some information previously posted. This text appears in the ParticleShop help file:

We've got one client (scores Films) who's running a Cubase template with 2600 (that's not a typo) tracks. He's not running at a 64-sample ASIO buffer size.

On Kontakt Hub there was a dropdown menu at the top that allowed you to search by developer or instrument. And it worked well. A lot of sites have the same thing but don't work as well. For example, in the APD store it is very fiddly to get it to let you select a developer. Sometimes you don't remember the name, like "Abstrung." Or you don't even know "Audiofier," but you can pick it out of a list. I hope that this feature comes back. It's in this sense that I think Loot Audio is harder to search. Is it in there somewhere and I just missed it? I also find it less intuitive and harder to just browse around without knowing what you're looking for, but I guess I'll get used to it. Browsing around aimlessly is how I put together my "Tiger the Frog" holiday post on VI:Control and I think it's going to be much harder this year. But I'll deal.

In the export dialog use Buses as the source category select the surround bus from Source Buses use Entire Mix set the channel format to multichannel update - uses Buses did not work for me

It is the velocity for the note Deselect "Show Velocity" on the PRV Notes menu For more info see http://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=3&help=EditingMIDI.12.html

This is what I was thinking when I read the info on it. That and based on my experience with Neutron I was thinking that this may be helpful to me in setting up some reverb without going overboard. Thanks for the mini review!!

Simeon, you cannot be so cruel I am not a pianist in any means but buying more and more pianos after your videos... Frightened to miss an opportunity. Please do a list for non piano guys looking for VSTi only for production , kind of rating in regards to application, please

Thanks for posting that link Mettelus, very useful info.

More brush packs added to the highest tier (check your account if you already bought it) : 13 days left to get this, if you haven't already.

That makes 2 of us. He was a huge influence for me when I picked up the guitar. That brown sound was off the hook!!

I logged in and found that if I click on the menu tab (top far right) that there was a drop down menu. At the bottom of the drop down list there is a "sign out" option. I don't know if it is working properly. It did not seem to log me out, but when I exited and went back I was logged out.

I read the OP, but didn't read every reply. I'm going to suggest you also look into some mastering software to help you make albums. Check out Wavelab by Steinberg.

The lower the latency (smaller the buffer size), the greater the advantage of the 10900k's significantly higher clock-speed. The higher the buffer size (higher the latency), the greater the advantage of the 3970x's many additional cores. I don't consider 512-sample buffer size to be small. I wouldn't work at anything higher than 256-samples. Most times, I'm working at 32/64/128-sample ASIO buffer size. Insert a single instance of Helix Native... running with Presonus Quantum set to 96k using a 32-sample ASIO buffer size. That's running at 1ms total round-trip latency. An extreme example... AMD 3950x and 3970x - audio will glitch Intel 10900k - no audio glitches If I'm paying $2000 for a CPU, I want it to excel at ultra low latency performance. 10900k is about 1/3 the cost of the 3970x... and offers a great balance of features: 5.3GHz all-core clock-speed Runs quiet with large/quality air-cooking 10 cores/20 processing threads TDP = 125w There's no such thing as a quiet 3970x machine (TDP = 280w)... unless you allow it to thermal-throttle (which negates the purpose)

I first notice a slight tremor in the back of my neck when I lay back on the sofa. That was about 10 years ago. As each year goes by it has increased in intensity but hasn't effected anything I'm doing. From what I've been told is it's an aging thing and common unless more extreme. Mine, knock on wood, is not.

nah, not worth it.

Pretty fine groove with a bass sound I'd love to cop. Awesome chorus and a great mix.. I like the solo and the tones, except that its too short. Besides drinking all your beer, a real drummer will also steal your girlfriend.

Great mix and a cool arrangement, I really enjoyed this one. I didn't hear the LP, but. I'm on the road and listening through these crappy Walmart buds so that may be why. Its a great road tune though. 😀

Eventide really need an installation manager

What was really cool was that we rarely talked about anything to do with music! (And NOTHING about guitar playing!) It was weird because the band I was in had recently opened for Blue Oyster Cult and our lead guitarist was a huge Eddie fan (who later went to play in his Godfather's band, Dio). Eddie never knew I could even spell "guitar" let alone attempt to play one... Whenever Valerie was back in New York, he'd pull up in his white Lambo (which was even nicer than my poser sports car - lol), then his two bodyguards would pull up in a sedan behind him. Since I was going out with one of the waitresses and not pestering him for an autograph or anything like that, I was "safe" and we'd sit up at the bar and his bodyguards would stand behind us. I have a lot of family in Michigan on my Mom's side with the last name of Van Heulen (she's 100% Dutch - my maternal grandparents immigrated from the Netherlands). So we ended up talking a lot about that and golfing. The only music-related stuff I remember talking with him about was about him playing piano! We hung out four or five times but, during the last one, David Lee Roth showed up basically acting like a big tool, then made is way into the DJ booth where he proceeded to yell out over the dance floor "Hey Ladies! Start deciding which of you will be going home with me tonight!!!" As soon as he showed up Eddie looked very disappointed (perhaps a big clue that things were not going smooth between them - something confirmed when they replaced him with Sammy!). After Dave made his "announcement," Eddie said he didn't want to "stick around for the childishness" (or something similar). I never saw him there after that...

As you wish! 😜

Man, fu#k 2020. RIP dude 😢

rbowser had a nice generic walk-through from 2006 that is still applicable. The comment about reverb giving the perception of far away is valid. How he talks of setup is good, especially for beginners (with sends/busses). No real "rule of thumb" with that part. He hints at using other reverbs (on other reverb busses), but doesn't go into that detail. Being sparing in reverb usage is a good guide (depending on genre). Comments like "dial up till you can barely notice it, then back it off" is often good advice for anything front and center. Other than that, no real "rules," but be mindful that reverb is like a "frequency smear." If you go overboard, you will often negate any EQ you took the time to do prior (i.e., the mud). For this reason, any time-based FX should be last in the signal chain in most instances.

The velocity is not quite the same as volume. If you make the velocity of a note very small, like 8-10, does it sound different or quieter? The velocity not only can affect volume but also the timbre of the note. Are you trying to make it quieter or just not hearing a difference of any kind when changing the velocity of a note?

Original price is $108 and the discounted price is $8.67 or €7.92. Requires Kontakt 6.4.2. https://www.rigid-audio.com/products_angus.html

Short-term, BlueCat's patchbay.

Why do cows have hooves instead of feet? Because they lactose

Well, it's not an earth shattering improvement having articulation mapping . . . because it seems you still have to program it . . . it just makes it more user friendly to program it, which is what a lot of the more recent Cakewalk improvements are all about. Maybe I'll like it more after it saves me some programming time ?