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  1. Studio One 5.4 introduces a statistics tool in the plugin manager. This will tell you how frequently you use your plugins. It will tell you those you have never used. 😲 I deem this against the ethos of the deals forum.
    9 points
  2. On the subject of pace: the current thousand is clipping along at a pretty good rate, compared to most of the earlier September milestones. I have data for 16 "X hours post milestone" points in the 48 hours after the counts reached 11k, 12k, 13k and 14k, including how many signups were added since the previous milestone was reached: The 13k data is a little crazy -- with the big push, it didn't take much longer than 48 hours to hit the next level. But among the "normal" tiers, the 14k rate is consistently better than the others, from the jump. Maybe even without another huge boost right away, the rates are slowly creeping up over time.
    6 points
  3. FYI - If you find it an annoyance having to be online to watch the videos - If using Firefox on Windows to view the course, you can do Ctrl-i (page info) Alt-m (media), sort by type (click twice so that "video" shows up at the top) then save as. (there may be similar tricks for other browsers/os but I just don't know the menus/keys)
    6 points
  4. Pete's feeling good! He must be getting a bonus on this Group Buy! Seriously though, this is the dealio of the year!
    6 points
  5. Translation: someone tripped and face-planted the road
    5 points
  6. 450 And above, I forgot the little coda! Her majesty's a pretty nice girl But she didn't join the group buy Her majesty's a pretty nice girl But this attitude's not going to fly I wanna tell her that I want the whole lot But I gotta get a bellyful of rye Her majesty's a pretty nice girl Someday I'm going to make her buy, oh, yeah Someday I'm going to make her buy [end on the 5, Macca you *****]
    5 points
  7. Welcome Address to freshman parents at Boston Conservatory, given by Karl Paulnack, pianist and director of music division at Ithaca College. β€œOne of my parents' deepest fears, I suspect, is that society would not properly value me as a musician, that I wouldn't be appreciated. I had very good grades in high school, I was good in science and math, and they imagined that as a doctor or a research chemist or an engineer, I might be more appreciated than I would be as a musician. I still remember my mother's remark when I announced my decision to apply to music school-she said, "you're WASTING your SAT scores." On some level, I think, my parents were not sure themselves what the value of music was, what its purpose was. And they LOVED music, they listened to classical music all the time. They just weren't really clear about its function. So let me talk about that a little bit, because we live in a society that puts music in the "arts and entertainment" section of the newspaper, and serious music, the kind your kids are about to engage in, has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with entertainment, in fact it's the opposite of entertainment. Let me talk a little bit about music, and how it works. The first people to understand how music really works were the ancient Greeks. And this is going to fascinate you; the Greeks said that music and astronomy were two sides of the same coin. Astronomy was seen as the study of relationships between observable, permanent, external objects, and music was seen as the study of relationships between invisible, internal, hidden objects. Music has a way of finding the big, invisible moving pieces inside our hearts and souls and helping us figure out the position of things inside us. Let me give you some examples of how this works. One of the most profound musical compositions of all time is the Quartet for the End of Time written by French composer Olivier Messiaen in 1940. Messiaen was 31 years old when France entered the war against ***** Germany. He was captured by the Germans in June of 1940, sent across Germany in a cattle car and imprisoned in a concentration camp. He was fortunate to find a sympathetic prison guard who gave him paper and a place to compose. There were three other musicians in the camp, a cellist, a violinist, and a clarinetist, and Messiaen wrote his quartet with these specific players in mind. It was performed in January 1941 for four thousand prisoners and guards in the prison camp. Today it is one of the most famous masterworks in the repertoire. Given what we have since learned about life in the concentration camps, why would anyone in his right mind waste time and energy writing or playing music? There was barely enough energy on a good day to find food and water, to avoid a beating, to stay warm, to escape torture - why would anyone bother with music? And yet - from the camps, we have poetry, we have music, we have visual art; it wasn't just this one fanatic Messiaen; many, many people created art. Why? Well, in a place where people are only focused on survival, on the bare necessities, the obvious conclusion is that art must be, somehow, essential for life. The camps were without money, without hope, without commerce, without recreation, without basic respect, but they were not without art. Art is part of survival; art is part of the human spirit, an unquenchable expression of who we are. Art is one of the ways in which we say, "I am alive, and my life has meaning." On September 12, 2001 I was a resident of Manhattan. That morning I reached a new understanding of my art and its relationship to the world. I sat down at the piano that morning at 10 AM to practice as was my daily routine; I did it by force of habit, without thinking about it. I lifted the cover on the keyboard, and opened my music, and put my hands on the keys and took my hands off the keys. And I sat there and thought, does this even matter? Isn't this completely irrelevant? Playing the piano right now, given what happened in this city yesterday, seems silly, absurd, irreverent, pointless. Why am I here? What place has a musician in this moment in time? Who needs a piano player right now? I was completely lost. And then I, along with the rest of New York, went through the journey of getting through that week. I did not play the piano that day, and in fact I contemplated briefly whether I would ever want to play the piano again. And then I observed how we got through the day. At least in my neighborhood, we didn't shoot hoops or play Scrabble. We didn't play cards to pass the time, we didn't watch TV, we didn't shop, we most certainly did not go to the mall. The first organized activity that I saw in New York, that same day, was singing. People sang. People sang around fire houses, people sang "We Shall Overcome". Lots of people sang America the Beautiful. The first organized public event that I remember was the Brahms Requiem, later that week, at Lincoln Center, with the New York Philharmonic. The first organized public expression of grief, our first communal response to that historic event, was a concert. That was the beginning of a sense that life might go on. The US Military secured the airspace, but recovery was led by the arts, and by music in particular, that very night. From these two experiences, I have come to understand that music is not part of "arts and entertainment" as the newspaper section would have us believe. It's not a luxury, a lavish thing that we fund from leftovers of our budgets, not a plaything or an amusement or a pass time. Music is a basic need of human survival. Music is one of the ways we make sense of our lives, one of the ways in which we express feelings when we have no words, a way for us to understand things with our hearts when we can't with our minds. Some of you may know Samuel Barber's heart wrenchingly beautiful piece Adagio for Strings. If you don't know it by that name, then some of you may know it as the background music which accompanied the Oliver Stone movie Platoon, a film about the Vietnam War. If you know that piece of music either way, you know it has the ability to crack your heart open like a walnut; it can make you cry over sadness you didn't know you had. Music can slip beneath our conscious reality to get at what's really going on inside us the way a good therapist does. I bet that you have never been to a wedding where there was absolutely no music. There might have been only a little music, there might have been some really bad music, but I bet you there was some music. And something very predictable happens at weddings - people get all pent up with all kinds of emotions, and then there's some musical moment where the action of the wedding stops and someone sings or plays the flute or something. And even if the music is lame, even if the quality isn't good, predictably 30 or 40 percent of the people who are going to cry at a wedding, cry a couple of moments after the music starts. Why? The Greeks. Music allows us to move around those big invisible pieces of ourselves and rearrange our insides so that we can express what we feel even when we can't talk about it. Can you imagine watching Indiana Jones or Superman or Star Wars with the dialogue but no music? What is it about the music swelling up at just the right moment in ET so that all the softies in the audience start crying at exactly the same moment? I guarantee you if you showed the movie with the music stripped out, it wouldn't happen that way. The Greeks: Music is the understanding of the relationship between invisible internal objects. I'll give you one more example, the story of the most important concert of my life. I must tell you I have played a little less than a thousand concerts in my life so far. I have played in places that I thought were important. I like playing in Carnegie Hall; I enjoyed playing in Paris; it made me very happy to please the critics in St. Petersburg. I have played for people I thought were important; music critics of major newspapers, foreign heads of state. The most important concert of my entire life took place in a nursing home in Fargo, ND, about 4 years ago. I was playing with a very dear friend of mine who is a violinist. We began, as we often do, with Aaron Copland's Sonata, which was written during World War II and dedicated to a young friend of Copland's, a young pilot who was shot down during the war. Now we often talk to our audiences about the pieces we are going to play rather than providing them with written program notes. But in this case, because we began the concert with this piece, we decided to talk about the piece later in the program and to just come out and play the music without explanation. Midway through the piece, an elderly man seated in a wheelchair near the front of the concert hall began to weep. This man, whom I later met, was clearly a soldier-even in his 70's, it was clear from his buzz-cut hair, square jaw and general demeanor that he had spent a good deal of his life in the military. I thought it a little bit odd that someone would be moved to tears by that particular movement of that particular piece, but it wasn't the first time I've heard crying in a concert and we went on with the concert and finished the piece. When we came out to play the next piece on the program, we decided to talk about both the first and second pieces, and we described the circumstances in which the Copland was written and mentioned its dedication to a downed pilot. The man in the front of the audience became so disturbed that he had to leave the auditorium. I honestly figured that we would not see him again, but he did come backstage afterwards, tears and all, to explain himself. What he told us was this: "During World War II, I was a pilot, and I was in an aerial combat situation where one of my team's planes was hit. I watched my friend bail out, and watched his parachute open, but the Japanese planes which had engaged us returned and machine gunned across the parachute chords so as to separate the parachute from the pilot, and I watched my friend drop away into the ocean, realizing that he was lost. I have not thought about this for many years, but during that first piece of music you played, this memory returned to me so vividly that it was as though I was reliving it. I didn't understand why this was happening, why now, but then when you came out to explain that this piece of music was written to commemorate a lost pilot, it was a little more than I could handle. How does the music do that? How did it find those feelings and those memories in me?" Remember the Greeks: music is the study of invisible relationships between internal objects. This concert in Fargo was the most important work I have ever done. For me to play for this old soldier and help him connect, somehow, with Aaron Copland, and to connect their memories of their lost friends, to help him remember and mourn his friend, this is my work. This is why music matters. What follows is part of the talk I will give to this year's freshman class when I welcome them a few days from now. The responsibility I will charge your sons and daughters with is this: "If we were a medical school, and you were here as a med student practicing appendectomies, you'd take your work very seriously because you would imagine that some night at two AM someone is going to waltz into your emergency room and you're going to have to save their life. Well, my friends, someday at 8 PM someone is going to walk into your concert hall and bring you a mind that is confused, a heart that is overwhelmed, a soul that is weary. Whether they go out whole again will depend partly on how well you do your craft. You're not here to become an entertainer, and you don't have to sell yourself. The truth is you don't have anything to sell; being a musician isn't about dispensing a product, like selling used Chevys. I'm not an entertainer; I'm a lot closer to a paramedic, a firefighter, or a rescue worker. You're here to become a sort of therapist for the human soul, a spiritual version of a chiropractor, physical therapist, someone who works with our insides to see if they get things to line up, to see if we can come into harmony with ourselves and be healthy and happy and well. Frankly, ladies and gentlemen, I expect you not only to master music; I expect you to save the planet. If there is a future wave of wellness on this planet, of harmony, of peace, of an end to war, of mutual understanding, of equality, of fairness, I don't expect it will come from a government, a military force or a corporation. I no longer even expect it to come from the religions of the world, which together seem to have brought us as much war as they have peace. If there is a future of peace for humankind, if there is to be an understanding of how these invisible, internal things should fit together, I expect it will come from the artists, because that's what we do. As in the concentration camp and the evening of 9/11, the artists are the ones who might be able to help us with our internal, invisible lives."
    4 points
  8. Run Arturia Portal: UpdatesAnalog Lab V to 5.4.0.1685 Tuesday, September 14, 2021
    4 points
  9. Hi folks! A number of people have asked me about mixing vocals in Cakewalk - so here is a video about it, using ONLY stock plugins WATCH HERE: https://youtu.be/MRS9tByRUNk
    4 points
  10. I most sincerely dislike WUP.
    4 points
  11. Is the handle for when you use it to grate cheese? πŸ˜€
    4 points
  12. And was inspired to create the Kilohearts synth while he was there... https://kilohearts.com/products/phase_plant
    3 points
  13. I did warn about number 13 and that IK should just skip ahead a couple of tiers!!! πŸ˜‹
    3 points
  14. I for one don’t appreciate chickpeas.
    3 points
  15. Yeah- I always feel pressured to type these posts in fast lest Lars hit ENTER first and then drop the "dupe hammer" on me 😝
    3 points
  16. Are you trying to say it's pretty pretty good?
    3 points
  17. And when you spend... The plugs you buy Are going to multiply OK OK might be done now
    3 points
  18. Car crash ... Grace Jones-Warm Leatherette
    3 points
  19. Cheese Louise, that's more basses than I have, and all of mine are virtual.
    3 points
  20. https://www.orb-composer.com/ Midi generator (similar to Captain Plug-ins ) <edit> Originally I had Captain Beat here, but Orb Producer does NOT do percussion so far/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGGuxL4Ji84 99 Euros 49 Euros upgrade from 2 (2 was a free upgrade from 1) When I logged in to my Hexachords account I found a "Flash sale" upgrade for 39 Euros good until September 22
    2 points
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    2 points
  22. But then the following year it would be: 90 % of people that never finished songs switched to using compressor x and still didn’t help hahah
    2 points
  23. It just wouldn't be a WUP thread without the Fleer color....
    2 points
  24. I would like to see something like this in Cake. A scanner that could scan projects and then somehow show plugs used nowhere so we can "safely" prune our plugin bloat.
    2 points
  25. So close!!! If it aggregated all our data, it could come up with: "Most proficient users who produce >10 completed songs a year use (compressor x) on their drum bus"
    2 points
  26. You prolly doan liek chickpeas either, huh?
    2 points
  27. I can see it now. Pop up in SO telling you Ed that you can't possibly have that many plug ins 🀣
    2 points
  28. I just got this newsletter from NewBlueFX:
    2 points
  29. Version 5.4 Release Notes (September 14, 2021): New features and improvements: ● Native support for Apple Silicon (M1) processors ● Plug-in Nap – CPU-performance optimization ● Performance optimizations for Mix Engine FX ● Improved Autosave behavior ● Export Song to multiple audio file formats in one pass ● Realtime chord display in Editor ● New Chord Display floating window ● Improved chord detection ● Note Controller support for Audio Unit instruments ● Additional HD video frame rate support ● New β€œSet Time Offset to Cursor” option ● Updated Plug-in Manager with statistics ● Manual blocklisting of plug-ins ● User-definable diagnostics report and profiling options ● β€œCopy external files” option for Songs, Projects, and Shows ● New command β€œInsert Instrument Parts from Chord Track” ● β€œRemove all” option for sends ● Time Display and Remaining Record Time window now resizable ● FaderPort 8 + 16: On/Off for individual send slots ● FaderPort 8 + 16: Display send or cue mix slot numbers on display ● Switch Mono/Stereo for multiple selected tracks ● Mixdown settings also stored when dialog is canceled ● Improved file naming for mixdown between markers ● Long track names now abbreviated in plug-in window header 1 PreSonus Studio One 5 – Version History The following issues have been fixed: ● ROLI Equator (v1) VST3 plug-in no longer blocked ● [ATOM SQ] Control Link parameter drag and drop not working ● [ATOM SQ] Macro commands not displayed correctly ● [ATOM SQ] Text updates exceeding a certain length are ignored ● [FaderPort 8/16] Some tracks not shown after opening a song ● [FaderPort 8/16] Operating mode is not detected on launch under certain conditions ● [macOS] Delay in drag when moving a pinned editor ● [macOS] Playback may get stuck when using stock instruments ● [macOS] Security mechanism misses Waves 11 plug-in crashes ● [Note Editor] Editing might lag in certain cases, e. g. with many sound variations ● [PreSonus Sphere] Deleting multiple files in a workspace in Cloud tab is limited to two files ● [Sample One] Potential crash when playing reversed samples at 96 kHz ● [Score Editor] Certain transposed instrument tracks not playing back correctly ● [Score Editor] Duplicating musical directions causes overlaps in most situations ● [Score Editor] Jumps after entering score symbol ● [Score Editor] Sometimes incorrect rests are entered when editing events ● Alt + mouse wheel to select next layers stopped working ● Arpeggiator Note FX auditions without receiving events under certain conditions ● Arranger/Chord/Marker tracks cannot be opened in certain situations ● Automation tracks packed to a folder don't follow Solo/Mute state ● Broken automation lane for FabFilter Simplon ● Dragging audio clips from Pool to Impact/SampleOne not working ● Exported MIDI file contains scratch pad data ● Folder tracks do not follow "Disable Events under automation envelopes" option ● Horizontal scrolling with mouse wheel in Console only works properly above faders ● Impact XT pitch names out of sync when used in Multi Instrument ● Instrument automation keeps writing to undo history during playback ● Note Controller not reset when part removed ● Note Controllers don’t reset to default as expected for VST3 instruments ● Output Movement from Studio Magic Bundle does not appear in Studio One 5 Prime ● Parts and events should be selected exclusively when drawn with pencil tool ● β€œPlay Overlaps” settings revert to default when tracks are transformed ● Potential crash when selecting Browser tabs ● Potential crash on deleting unused instruments while multiple songs are open ● Switching process precision changes event gain ● Track Notes width not stored properly 2 PreSonus Studio One 5 – Version History ● "Select Highest/Lowest Notes" macros select too many notes ● Very long audio files may loop unexpectedly
    2 points
  30. Oooooohhhh Professor @Fleer Somebody said "WUP"...
    2 points
  31. I never really did more than very basic exporting (listening mixdowns), but with the new system, it is really worth taking the time to play with and understand in a deep way the various possibilities for a wide range of purposes. Thanks to the devs for the new design and greatly expanded functionality and thanks to all the users who have been making the time to help improve it and to help work out the kinks (and to users who have made feature requests / suggestions).
    2 points
  32. dealing with intricacies of MIDI often require some details... the OP seemed happy with the original response - use automation. now they're at the point of finding the optimal or alternative MIDI CC which do this best...
    2 points
  33. That's true although it would be nice to have some velocity layers to avoid very boring sound. Even if many songs on radio are boring it doesn't mean we would like to continue this 'practice'
    2 points
  34. One thing to bear in mind when using Process->Normalize / ALT + SHIFT + N, is that you should consider apply trimming or bounce to clip(s) to each clip individually before normalizing it. The reason being, is that when a clip is split or slip-edited, the remaining parts of the clip are still there even though hidden, and will be included in what is being considered when normalizing. This is especially true for split clip, where you've actually got two copies of the entire clip when it's split. Of course, after apply trimming or bounce to clip(s), you won't be able to slip edit the hidden parts back in any more.
    2 points
  35. I’ve picked some but I have The King’s words echoing in my ear: β€œwait β€˜til the end to make yer picks.”
    2 points
  36. Is this the part Abacab where I let you know how much you have disappointed me in the last year? (I love that show, and that episode is one of my favorites).
    2 points
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  38. That could be the title of Bapu's autobiography ...
    2 points
  39. Now I've gone and wasted a dollar on my music career. 🀣
    2 points
  40. Or if you add the "free meter" code and don't use that, the total comes down to $23.99 due to dynamic discounts.
    2 points
  41. Sorry can't help you there. Of course can we get you to pluck down at the next level? The GROUP BUY NEEDS YOU! πŸ˜†
    2 points
  42. Speaking of console emulators, Dan Worrall recently posted this excellent musing. Also ties in with the Plugin Doctor thread.
    2 points
  43. Eddie Cochran - Three Steps To Heaven So, so cool ...
    2 points
  44. Steal This Book! Apologies to Abbie Hoffman. And Craig A.
    2 points
  45. Billy F Gibbons - She's On Fire
    2 points
  46. Honestly, it was over three years ago and I can't be absolutely certain, but I think one of them was the BBE Sonic Maximizer. I don't think I bought it, since even though I wasn't sure exactly what it did I was already pretty sure it was snake oil. It is. I found it illuminating on a range of effects, including compression but mostly for distortion plugins, from amp sims to exciters to console emulators. Some of those do far less than their marketing material would suggest. Some do more, e.g. add aliasing. For EQs, it can show you the real spectral curve so you can tell if the plugin's own display is accurate (FabFilter Q3 and iZotope Ozone, for example, are spot-on), or reveal what EQs are doing that don't have a spectral display. In the latter case, there are some filters and "enhancers" out there that simply don't want you to know what they're doing because you'd be disappointed if you knew.
    2 points
  47. Would that be somewhere between a traditional Chartreuse and Citrine? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colors:_A–F
    1 point
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