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Just to make sure I cover the basics since I often skip right over them (my bad), when you use something like our tape machines, are you setting your buffer size to a larger value? Since our tape machines and some of our other processors are meant for mixing and/or mastering purposes, you'd typically want to go pretty large on the buffer size which can help performance and will not have other impact since you are not tracking directly with them. Those tape machines are definitely not meant for real-time tracking.

Full Kontakt required https://klang.cologne/klang21_free.php

I'll see your 22 years and raise it by 78!

Go back in time on the Forum to hear our fearless leader's (CC Larry) rant about having the TSM2 equivalent but no love on an upgrade path!!! The real value to me has been similar to my only gambling experience in Vegas: went with a buddy and brought $40 to limit my losses. I spent NINE hours at a blackjack table and ate, drank, and got chased away by the pit boss when I was dealt FOUR ACES in one hand. I had to ask others at the table for help as I had no idea what to do and ultimately lost exactly $40. Coming back to the topic, I just spent the last two months and 160 pages of forum magic getting to the TSM3 equivalent that I would have otherwise ignored had I upgraded to TSM3!!!! I love this forum.

And checking it twice no doubt. t

The real Tiny Terror is an amazing amp, sad that they're not making them any more. I went low wattage a while ago and haven't looked back. I do not have the handwired edition that we modeled but I do have the Korean-made version before they moved production to China if that means anything tone-wise but I couldn't tell you. I've only played this one I have and the model we did of the handwired version. For real amps my other low-wattage choice is a Fender Blues Junior which also sounds really great. I have used both in an A/B/Y setup with the Tiny Terror as the dirty side and the Blues Jr as the clean side and it worked very well. The Tiny Terror responds well to certain types of pedals and I was using boost, overdrive, and/or EQ pedals in front of a Tiny Terror like you'd push other amps and get to the "almost channel-switching" kind of vibe. But it really starts dirty for me even though it has some clean headroom. I had better success pushing a mid-boost, standard overdrive, standard booster (the Seymour Duncan with a pretty insane max boost - ignore the "pickup simulation" part on that one IMHO - plus I used to have an old LPB-1 but it was NOISY), and a treble booster. Those all worked pretty well with it.

Kenny

Godspeed to Eusebio & Jacques.

I just tried Saturator X this morning. Although some will argue that it is a totally different beast than the tape machines, I like it a lot! In tape mode it retains more of the high end and enhances it. It is much, much easier to use for someone not familiar with the inner workings of a tape machine and it is barely using any CPU. A winner for me!

thanks so much, Tom! Like how a short, simple phrase, repeated over and over, loses all literal meaning, and with increased repetitions you find a zoned-out state of mental non-focus. Sometimes spelled "mantric" . . . like the classic "ohmmmmmmmm" becomes a mantra when repeated into unconsciousness. Or so ommm told. Now what about that hat again??? ? cheers mate, thanks for the comments!

Those AI would deserve some percentage of those royalties

I'm late! I'm late! For a very important date! We'll kind of. But let's not go down that rabbit hole! ?? It's just that it has been a few hours since the last freebie and I didn't post the update to the 'guess the number of freebies' yet! Ok, I have to cross some nice people from the list again! ? @kevin H along with the most helpful guy promoting this GB, @Peter - IK Multimedia! You have helped us all, thanks mate! GroverKen 14 Brian Lawler 15 Fleer 16 DeeringAmps 16 Larry 17 telecode 101 17 InstrEd 17 husker 18 Marc Cormier 18 Doug Rintoul 19 kevin H 20 Peter 20 Bapu 21 Eusebio Rufian-Zilbermann 24 Me 24

Oh Yeah ! Life is Good!!! ? abacab , I get what your saying . I did go with the Saturator X , plus the Mix Buss Compressor for now . This still leaves me 2 promo slots to fill at the current GB tally . Yeah , If they add more plugs due the G B numbers getting larger we can all get more promo's ....I'm interested enough still to have the desire to pick up one of the Tape Machine plugs . The truth is I'm up to my eyeballs in learning curve with the plugs I have now ? thanks ... Kenny

Please disregard that last post, I have solved that issue also or rather, Cakewalk solved it. (I think) It seems the mic is only sent to the master if echo is turned on... (problem solved) This completes the entire chain for me. This thread is officially, "SOLVED"... Thanks Cakewalk peeps! Best to you, your help was awesome! I hope this thread helps others seeking the same solutions.

Blacksun Versatile Amp Free Edit: till Dec 1st.... Check their other freebies too if you haven't.

If you buy straight from Melda I think you are right that you forfeit using a referral code . However if you buy plugins from a 3rd party off the bat, I think you can still use a code. I recall using a code after I had melda plugins but it was my first time buying direct. At least that is what I remember happening.

Barry , I thought this was a Very cool song and the entire concept of it "hit home" for me. I think the weak point was the drums. The basic rhythm is correct , but needs to be more complex . It felt like there were missing hits that would drive the song a little harder. I think when the energy is up a little bit , it will prompt you to make other changes that this one deserves. I loved it and think it is Very worthy of reviving. mark

Got it loud and clear! ?

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Nineteen ... prime numbers: 23 Skidoo - Coup A bit of English white-boy post-punk industrial funk

So all I need now is to get InstaComposer, link it up to Drum Monkey and Ujam Iron 2, kick the result up to CloudBounce and then straight to Spotify. I'll be making tenths of cents while I sleep! ??

Been a while since I've done a solo piano piece. A little bit of blues and boogie. Hope you enjoy. Jeff

This was originally going to be done with my Korg X3 and E-mu Proteus FX until the E-mu died. Digital Sound Factory saved it with their SoundFonts of the Proteus 1,2 and 3 modules. While the FX is based on the same samples as the 1&2, the sounds aren't exactly the same. This got me close enough and I was able to complete the project in the same spirit. I was going for an 80's style synth tune. Yeah I know that the X3 and Proteus modules are 90's but the idea was to do it using only the vintage hardware. Even though I had to cheat. Lots of help on the arrangement and style from Band-in-a-Box (edited later in CbB). All the little ear candy bits I played in myself. I hope I captured the feel decently. I never really paid attention to this kind of thing the first time. I grew up as a Rocker and Metalhead and back then it was "eeeewww, synthesizers." Now we have Rammstein, Fear Factory and Dimmu Borgir. I'm not sure exactly what genre this is. Synthwave? It's not quite morose enough to be Darkwave. Maybe dim wave? Dusk wave? Anyway, here it is.

I have no words. That was cool as hell. Everything was perfect to my ears, and it had one hell of a groove. You, sir, are a master.

I'm not sure what ambient pop music is But I liked this. Put me in a nice mellow mood. Well done!

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I would say a definite yes to Saturator X, as it show a reasonably low CPU load on my system (4%). I suppose it's something that you could insert on all tracks, if desired. I like the lunchbox style module that IKM has employed in ST4, and Mixbox, but the full T-RackS version has more options. However, the tape machines show an avg 19% CPU load each, so they are definitely something to be used on a separate bus, or even just as mastering tools. And Zo really likes the 24 for his kind of music. Can't argue with that, but the whole Tape collection offers something for diverse material. And they have an uncanny ability to "glue" things together. Saturation and harmonic distortion...

Nice song Barry, great chord changes and melody.

Trippy man. Can't comment on the mix , I'm listening on crummy phone ear buds.

They have tutorials on them. I thought about making my own stuff.

This issue has been resolved. Some Promo lines allow for seperate selections for each Group Buy when at different price levels. That explains why the "Available" count appeared to be incorrect, i.e. one Promo line = Two promo selections!. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is a possible problem in using the Available Promotions options on the IK "Promotions" Page. Since I had two Group Buys, each a different price level, I tapped an "Available" Button to get to the next page which shows the max price for selections available. Without making any selection, and thereby obviously not "Confirming" a selection on the page that would follow making a selection, I backed out back to the Promotions page, and quickly noticed that the "Available" button on that line did not reset, but showed "Downloaded". I had done this once before on my first Group Buy, but didn't notice Available did not get reset because of all the other Promo lines. However, when I did the same process today, I counted the number of Available buttons before tapping one. Then when I backed out, it was not getting reset! I just filed a Support request to IK-US Sales/Promotions team explaining the possible problem in detail, and asking if they can provide a reconciliataion between the Promos made available and which products were selected (or downloaded/registered) I did a reconcile against the "My Products" page and correcting for the Original products ordered on the two Group Buys, indeed finding I'm two products short. If anyone knows ( @Peter - IK Multimedia ) of a better way to reconcile Promos to actual products ordered, please post, otherwise need to wait for a response from Support.

boy what a nice feel!jack c.check some voice notes tad off but ya do have a wonderful voice.

Fabulous skills - I could listen to this stuff all day. Andy

Good catch @pwalpwal, it's 88.2 that it doesn't run under.

If s/he visits this forum, my message is this: sample/replicate the Cinematic Orchestra drums! More specifically, from the Every Day album create all the aliases you want, blow smoke up your own ***, I don't care, I'll buy that Kontakt library

At your age you just might ?

Didn't sound to bad. Will take a closer look.

Yeah I was wondering the same thing. About you too @Bapu!!

I think I won't use it as an enema.

So much variation and cool chord changes inside a boogie piece! My favorite part was in the 2:20's. Your piano capture is very smooth, clear highs and solid lows. What did you use? Kudos on the ending as well - busting out the jazz chords! Great chops. cheers. -Tom

Hey Nineteen - Steely Dan

Fantastic performance ! I loved the tempo change around the 3 min. mark and the chord voicings. You also did a great job capturing the sound , I felt like I was sitting on the bench while listening. Very impressive .. mark

Enjoyable piano blues/boogie played with nice groove.

So much enjoyed this ! . . . and can't recall ever hearing just boogie woogie piano on the cakewalk songs forum, you're a great and skilled pianist here, a very fun piece, thanks for posting this !

Love the boogie-woogie...first song I ever wrote was called *the boogie man* in 3rd grade. It didn't sound like this haha. Beautifully detailed this was. I hope you're getting lots of gigs with these skills.

I got SampleTron about 6 weeks ago and the points today. The points say "IK Gift Points." I think they're just in recognition of my good looks. EDIT: maybe they realized some of us didn't get points from sampletron?

Nice song and good playing too.

Of course, that wouldn't fly nowadays. Now, I'd have to take a screenshot of page 37, circle the keywords and accompany it with a cute meme.

Actually, you need to work on your reading comprehension. That's not anything CLOSE to what I or anyone else said. No one said anything about CbB being incompatible with ASIO either. That is the preferred driver mode.

If we're searching for perfection in this mix . . . the one thing I've noticed compared to my previous listen to this . . . those very subtle background vocals have become just a whisper, in my opinion far to subtle. Please bring them back so they are audible again.