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Hope you get it sorted soon Larry. In the meantime: what should we do? Make music? whahaha

Good luck, Larry. For the rest of us....

Odin 2 is open source and the version on PA's site is out of date. Current version is 2.2.4 and can be grabbed on the plugin's website. https://www.thewavewarden.com/odin2

I have found new homes for all my spare AAS serials. My AAS account feels significantly lighter.

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A Different Hue Guys We had some time, as we are yet again in another lockdown, to produce some videos. These will be off our 2014 album, Stop The Bloody Trade. We did this album purely to raise money for charities here in South Africa to help combat Rhino Poaching – we only ever promoted the main title track, Stop the Bloody Trade and that did very well, raising a good chunk of money. To make up an “album”, we added some tracks we had sort of hanging about!! We never promoted any of them. But on listening to them again after all this time, there were a few of the tracks that I think deserve a second go!! We never spent the time we usually do mixing and mastering these, but even so I don’t think they sound too bad. So here’s the first, A Different Hue. Hope you enjoy it Nigel

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There is an additional medium background (the old large). Most themes will need 6 updates to the Select Module. 1 large background 1 medium background 4 new buttons

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Inevitably after part 5 there came Part 6. I hope you enjoy this it progresses on from the other parts. It has some other instruments not used in parts 1 to 4, SD 3 was present in Part 5 Notably Toontrack's Superior Drummer 3 Orchestral Percussion SDX part 1. Toontrack's EZBass in all other parts. Softube's Parallels Cherry Audios CA2600 Arturia's Stage-73 V V2 and B3 V V2 Audiority's Echoes T7E mark II Arturia's Rev Intensity Reverb. Boz Digitals +10dB David Bendeth Compressor All other FX are either Cakewalk Stock or as currently Supplied with CbB. Thanks for listening I really do appreciate your time and your ears.

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$159 Archetype: Gojira covers as vast a ground as the band’s iconic compositions. From clean, mellow ambience to the most obliterating high gain, Archetype: Gojira provides enough options for you to create your own iconic sounds. Save 20% with loyalty rewards, or download a 14-day free trial. Two brand-new algorithms to Neural DSP plugins ingratiate the Pitch Effects section, giving you unparalleled flexibility for crafting and tweaking your tone. Wow // A MIDI-programmable pitch shifter pedal with 3 different modes providing ultimate control over the additional octave and pitch sweep. Tracking better than the best analog equivalent, nothing is stopping you from nailing Stranded now. Oct // A polyphonic octaver pedal capable of adding two independent octaves, one -1 octave and the other -2 octaves below your dry signal. You’ve never played riffs this heavy. The pre-effects section features chorus and phaser pedals, new to the line-up, in addition to an overdrive and distortion pedal. CLN // A pristine model of a vintage tube amplifier sits at the front of the amp section. Lower the gain for clean tones or crank it for unbelievably natural tube saturation. RUST // Calling RUST a crunch amplifier would be like calling Silvera a lullaby. Sure, you could try to use it to send your little ones to sleep, but don’t blame us for the nightmares they have. Featuring one of the biggest gain sweeps we’ve ever worked with, this behemoth will take you to Another World. HOT // Hotter than Magma; this channel is what you’re here for. It perfectly captures the clear, defined, ultra high-gain tone Gojira is known for. Pair it with the Time Effects section for soaring lead tones or the Pitch Effects section for gargantuan rhythm tones. Joining the amplifiers, pitch effects, and pre-effects, is the customary 9-band graphic EQ for each amplifier, as well as the cabsim section with six movable microphones and hundreds of IRs made by Adam “Nolly” Getgood. Finally, the time effects section finishes the tone stack featuring a delay pedal with tape saturation and a reverb pedal with a haunting dark-voiced shimmer. The heaviest plugin in the universe. Save 20% with loyalty rewards, or download a 14-day free trial. https://neuraldsp.com/plugins/archetype-gojira

I am having none of those problems at all. There is no way you can call this a downgrade.

The plugin is very far from a one trick pony. Three different amps with very different characters, a great pitch shifter, a very nice delay and reverb, and can go anywhere between clean, deep melodic tones to ultra high gain rhythms. You shoud give a try to the demo, because the Neural DSP video only shows one preset: Silvera Solo, and I think it's not fair to the plugin itself.

No, I've not re-installed the Korg KONTROL Editor since upgrading. I've got a dual (actually quad) boot, with Windows 7 64 bit and Windows 7 32 bit on it, so if I need to use the editor I just boot up into Windows 7 64bit (I use the Windows 7 32 bit boot for running even older Korg stuff like the X5D(R) editor, which I think is actually 16 bit). IIRC, to remove it I did the following: Uninstalled the Korg KONTROL software Renamed KORGUM64.SYS in C:\Windows\System32\drivers to KORGUM64.SYS.old Rebooted For the Native Instruments driver ( NIWinCDEmu.sys ) Renamed NIWinCDEmu.sys in C:\Windows\System32\drivers to NIWinCDEmu.sys.old Rebooted I guess you could try to re-install the Korg KONTROL Editor, but it wouldn't surprise me if you get a BSOD on bootup - it doesn't look like it's Windows 2020 / 20H2 compliant.

I keep on hoping to see a chord track. I much prefer MIDI in Cakewalk, particularly the PRV, but often use Studio One because of the chord track.

Just tried and eneded heavy on cpu as soon as you go time based fx , pedals are superbs , imho the best suite with cory wong , amp wise superb as usual with neural but noting new , for me the beauty is in the combinaison .... AT5 still for me the best offering for someone that knows a thing or two in tone making /shaping !! The clean has a superb dynamic that can be reached with nolly and plini but less direct !! They really should make some like AT5 or some where you unlock what you bougth and customise , if i want to use pedal from nolly , amp in plini , fx in cory wong ect ....it's a pain ...they should integrate those in a shell ....

I'm having a killer time using AT5

10cclarry ou Monsieur 10.000 Volt

Lar is back to cclarry

A-Men! Minor updates for World Suite 2 and Drone - 53 Gigs for me. Silly.

There are at least three ways to insert a software synth [aka Instrument] that I have used. (1) from the menu [Insert > Soft Synth], (2) from the Browser, (3) by right clicking in the track header area, (4) using the + button in the Synth Rack. Some of the methods have been updated quite a bit fairly recently, including new options in the Insert wizard accessible via insertion method three. The old insertions dialog [the one with the check boxes - synth properties] has been updated, too. I know there are discussions in the forum. Maybe look at some of the New/Updated Features from the past 6-8 months, too. But if you try the three methods above, I think you'll find it to be rather "intuitive" from past versions of SONAR/Cakewalk. There may be other ways, but I like these: (1) (2) (3) (4) For this, I usually use the Split Instrument Track option once the combined track has been made. (See below.) IIRC there are also ways to get separate tracks using the Insert Soft Synth Track wizard [Advanced Options button] and the old check-box dialog method. Those are some of the newer features I had in mind, but I am a slow learner and gravitate towards methods I've used for ages. Splitting tracks using the Advanced button options in the Insert Instrument / Add Track Wizard (method 3 above)--see below. For me, I tend not to do it this way (1) because it is a fairly recent method that (2) has changed a few times over the past year, (3) because different soft synths have differences which produce different track results that boggle my old school mind, and (4) I am so used to just splitting the track it is "intuitive." Not knocking the new methods at all--if I had the mind I had a couple of decades ago, I'd struggle with the newer methods until they became second nature. Hope this helps. BTW, the Enable MIDI Output (if available) checkbox option in the synth properties/ insert soft synth options dialog is relatively new (or had been missing)--from UI change list to a late 2020 update: "Enable MIDI Output check box was missing from Insert Synth Options dialog when opened from the Synth Rack."

My fingres are SPENT! I have been demoing this thing for 5 hours straight now - and haven't had this much fun playing guitar for years! It's a no brainer for me I think. It is heavy, but I do meddle in the heavier guitar tones mostly But I thought it was much better at both clean and crunchy tones than I expected. I actually got some very smooth clean tones out of it. But maybe I am listening for something else. I have only tried the Fortin Nameless suite from Neural DSP before and it does its one thing very great. The Gojira amp I think I could use for a ton of different tones. It's definitely worth demoing. I'm going to go and cool off my fingers on a cold glass of beer. Cheers! BTW, its built in IR loader is absolutely golden!

It’s the only software you never used? Lucky you...

First world problems... ?

hi Nigel! thanks for listening... yea, the guitar was fun on this one. it's cool to jam along with as well. hello sir wookie! i DO have some new toys, but not on this song. the kick is strong on my playback system, either i'm getting room nulls, or i just hear kick too good and back it off. nnot sure which i got new stuff to post soon

Thanks Larry. Well if someone wants any of the products I mentioned (Ozone 8 Elements, Neutron Elements, Neutron 3 Elements and Ozone 6 Standard) please PM me and I will ask iZotope to do the transfer.

If they would update AD2 instead of it's installer ..... ?

a general purpose mixing and recording template - includes the use of the Pro Channel EQ and in some tracks & busses, compressors. Ambience busses include the Sonitus reverb, and/or Sonitus delay. I deliberately left out the soft synths because there are many many choices, and in my own templates, i use licensed products which may not be generally available. besides, would you ever learn something if it was simply handed to you? ? in essence: tracks flow into sub-mix busses grouped by type of instrument tracks, sub-mixes feed into "stem" busses for overall gross-level setting, and those feed into the master buss. sub-mixes may have send to the "ambience" busses for drums, vocals, instruments, solos. stems may have send into a "room" buss for overall gluing. q&a yes - there are many opportunities to change, improve, or even wreck this template ? hopefully it's a just start for folks. no - there is no support for this other than kind sharing between people and positive commentary. attached are some diagrams which provide insight into how the flow and console is set up. 000_mix_record_template.cwt

This is not official; just my comment: It seems that the minimal change we need to make to have our custom themes be compatible with 2021.01 is to increase the width of one Theme Element: Control Bar / Modules / Select / Background (large) Increasing the width from 131px to 204px will allow the four new buttons to be visible in the UI. Otherwise, they are not shown except for a thin sliver on the right edge of the Select Module. (It is not essential to customize the new buttons themselves, but they will of course look like they do in Mercury, if you make no other changes.) This change is semi-backward compatible with 2020.11 in that the only side-effect is that the Select module is wider than previous, with "empty space" on the right side. Interesting... I wonder if we can make the other module backgrounds wider than they are currently without detriment?

Thanks, @scook, I missed the new medium background on my first review. All my themes have now been updated for 2021.01, because the theme changes seem to be backward-compatible, yay.

Does this video series explain how Amplitube 5 is a downgrade from version 4? Slower, full of bugs, tons of issues regarding people not having the models they paid for in the early version transfering despite IK People guaranteeing all purchases would carry over across versions...

Confirming, I just updated AD2, AK and the Installer itself a few days ago, now there was AK waiting for an update again.

Back to the top! Still time to get in and donate boys!

Almost everything important I keep on One Drive. I also have stuff on Dropbox and Google drive. All my photos are on iCloud but I dump that to data backups as well. All the cloud drives are backed up to data drives. Probably Cakewalk projects are the most critical to me and they are backed up to the moon. When a system drive dies I only lose my software installs. 480 GB is overkill for a system drive the way I use them but it's nice to not have to fuss over storage room. This is the last post on the machine, after I send this I'm tearing it apart!

Simple answer. Use Kontakt when you want to play a Kontakt instrument. Either standalone, or as a DAW plug-in. Komplete Kontrol is more of a host (but runs as a plug-in as well). Use KK when you want to host any NKI compatible instrument, including Kontakt. KK has some advantages such as browsing and previewing presets, and adding FX chains. As well as a macro controls panel that can be linked to your controller. Can be run either standalone without a host DAW, or as a plug-in. However it is limited to one instrument, unless you insert Kontakt or another multi-timbral instrument.

promo is on hold...technical issues

Interesting comments on this from the developers of Ardour: https://ardour.org/plugins-in-process.html

You gotta give it to them; everything they do oozes quality. I'm not sure I'll get this, or where it fits next to my gazillion other amp sims, but just demo-ing this, as with their other plugins, is just so much damn fun.

You're welcome! 480GB should be fine for a system drive. I'm using a 500GB with plenty of room to spare. But regardless of the brand, if using SSD you should definitely make a backup image. SSD can die suddenly and unexpectedly. Rare, but definitely annoying. I helped a friend build a new computer a few years ago. He installed a Samsung EVO SSD. After seeing how that performed, I went home and ordered me one of those before I went to bed that night! Two years later he called me because his computer wouldn't boot. It said there was no boot drive. After spending time on the phone troubleshooting, swapping SATA ports and cables, told him to bring the drive over. Hooked it up to my PC, drive was dead as a brick. Plus he had no backups, except some docs that he had saved online. Moral of the story: always back up your stuff. Images are really the easiest way, because they capture everything in one shot. My original Samsung SSD is still working fine 5 years later, and I bought 2 more. SSD failures are rare and random, but you never know...

The Archetype Nolly also has some nice high gain tones, and very smooth clean tones. I bought it during BF. It's worth demoing Gojira is next on my list :D

This thing is a beast. No pure clean tones which is a deal breaker for me but I've not heard gain like this in an amp sim before. The lead amp actually pairs nicely (and much differently!) with all three cabs. Going to dive in more over the weekend. This is my first full weekend at home since Thanksgiving so I have a ton of catching up to do.

You expected a deep-sampled angel? ?

Squeeze - Tempted by the fruit of another:

This one had a dreamy quality to it - I felt as if I were floating through the air while listening - interesting. The percussion section was quite nice. Excellent mix overall.

native american vs concert percussion vs dark music.good recording job.interesting chord changes.jack c.

Nice track to start my day off, also liked the transition & soft out section..enjoyed it.

harmonies are a bit out of tune.a few lead voice spots are also off.enjoyable recording.lower bass a tad and a little less reverb.jack c.

Kenny