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Lightweight.

Ultra-deep sampled analog synths... For those that live in a universe where disk drives grow on trees!

IMO if you’re looking for the best (most balanced) composer forum, that’ll be The Soundboard (https://thesoundboard.net/). Sure, VI Control has many more threads and posts, but you may get lost between Cinesamples lovers and Spitfire haters or vice versa (pretty much like the IK Multimedia and Plugin Alliance spam you refer too). And you’ll find many naysayers without any experience there as well. OTOH, some very decent posters too. I tend to follow three or four forums, as they all have their particular merit and allure. Meanwhile, not bookmarking much anymore. And definitely not visiting KVR or Gearslutz the way I used to. But our Cakies forum has this je-ne-sais-quoi that I’m not feeling anywhere else.

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Blimey https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jan/05/iron-maiden-royal-mail-seal-approval-12-stamps

Hmm... Would be all over this if there was a discount for Tape owners.

Yeah, it's just this side of too small on my 1920x1080 monitors. Like much of the PA line, kinda overdue for some UI scaling. I just snagged the SPL Vitalizer and it's on the other side of too small. Tiny tiny.

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Ha! What a great idea! Spread the word and I see a new VSTi comming: "Finger Squeaks!": 50 GB Hi-Res samples, 5 microphone positions (requires full Kontakt). 🙂

Another compressor! But I have already more than 60 compressors! 😆

That post deserves the award for Least Self-Aware Post of 2023. I'm going to have a sense of humor about this, and I hope you can too, Carl. When you brutally ripped on Americans in the past, I didn't take too much offense. I thought it was more of a reflection of your worldview, as Americans, like citizens of any nation, can't be pigeon-holed so easily; they span a wide range of views, ethnicities, etc. But, as a lover of irony, I can't help but appreciate the irony of your complaining about people posting grievances in this forum while posting your own grievances and your posting about people not making helpful posts providing their insights while you never shared a helpful insight of your own in your post. If you're so unhappy with this forum -- as you very clearly expressed -- and prefer another forum, the logical thing is to simply use the other forum. If your objective is to make this forum more like you feel it should be, lead the way. Set the example if you want this forum to change into your ideal forum. I don't see the point in your insulting, demeaning and arrogantly lecturing this community, it's melodrama and attention-seeking worthy of a bye Felicia response. I've personally posted a lot of mini-reviews of libraries on this forum to help others and others have done the same on libraries and effects that I've found very useful. Even more, some of those people have PMed me with advice on mixing, on sample libraries and various techniques after seeing my posts sharing my interests and my lack of solid mixing skills. So my experience is that this is a very helpful and kind community. I spend time at multiple forums, but more at this one than any other, and my own opinion as to why I like this forum so much is that people here are helpful and friendly. That's the main reason I like -- no, I love -- this forum. Where I find VI Control has advantages -- and FTR, I've been connected to its owner on Facebook for many years -- is when it comes to cinematic or gaming music. I do rock music and find this forum is more in tune (pun intended) with my interests. But you started by attacking the forum and insulting its members and arrogantly and condescendingly telling people how you believe is the right way forums operate. Somehow, you find that constructive? Has this strategy been effective for you in other parts of your life? Rhetorical question. It's not effective. If you had a question about this library, you should have asked it, but instead, you complained and attacked. I'm objective oriented and don't see a point to that approach. So here's my take on why I like this forum so much and my contrast of this forum with VI-CONTROL, as someone who also uses both and knows the owner of VI-CONTROL. VI-CONTROL is incredibly developer-centric. Cakewalk forum is user-centric. VI-CONTROL's primary mission is to bring in revenue from developers. That has no small impact on the ethos of the community. I've seen many posts in various forums that describe VI Control as like a cult or series of cults and I think there's credibility to that assessment. There are a small number of pro composers from the film and gaming world that post there and they've developed personality cults, hanger ons; it's not subtle. Developers also have their share of hanger ons there too. That doesn't happen at this forum and many other forums. Look at the posts in this forum. They're the polar opposite. While VI Control charges developers to post and Mike (the owner) even discourages people from sharing bad customer experiences on his forum, Bandlab has done everything possible to ensure that developers don't have too much influence or use shilling in this forum. I don't know of any other music production related forum that has gone to the extent BandLab has to keep their forum from being manipulated by developers. And I'm a marketing pro who has given advice to more than two dozen developers, but I am a believer in facts and not the stereotype many people have in mind of a marketer. I want consumers to have control and developers to be here to honestly share their products -- but I don't appreciate hype or less than honest promotional tactics. While Bandlab goes far out of their way to do a great deal to make this community not prone to manipulation by less than ethical developers. VI Control does nothing and even engages in practices that enable shilling to flourish while discouraging harsh criticism of developers. Why? Their revenue model is based on making money from developers, Bandlab's isn't. Developer shilling is not rare at VI Control. That's not the case here from everything I can discern. It's no secret among developers is that some developers incentivize people to talk up their products at VI Control (some forum users disclose getting NFRs in their sig file, most do not). You don't see that here and the regulars here -- including me -- would make terrible shills! I know Troels and I've posted some very critical things about his sample libraries. I still like him as a person, but if you read my critiques, they certainly aren't something a developer would be happy with because they're honest and that honesty means sharing the positive and the negative openly -- and not the way an influencer does it (only making the most mild forms of criticism to create the mere appearance of fairness). There has been nothing at this forum that I could discern as shilling. A big part of that, no doubt, is due to the community size being much smaller. VI-Control has no consistent policies regarding forum harassment or bullying and bullying regularly occurs there. Cakewalk Forum uses best practices to stop bad behavior. VI-Control has a couple of well known bullies, the most infamous is a semi-pro composer who goes by the name re-peat. I've called the guy out on bullying people and I've gotten PMs from numerous people at VI-Control and two here who go to both forums, that have shared stories about being harassed or witnessing the guy harass people. The past forum owner and I had several discussions about his bullying after he bullied a sample developer friend of mine and I tried to have him banned. Why did they keep him there knowing of his bad behavior? Because he draws amateur composers who want access to a pro composer. He has a very large ego and craves attention and that means that while he's hyper abrasive and bullying, he still gives many people what they want. Being really blunt, it's about the hanger ons, the wannabes. I have been coming to Cakewalk Forum since the very beginning and I rarely have seen any bullying or harassment of forum members -- and yes, when I see that stuff, I report it. I have zero tolerance for bullying or harassment and if we tolerate it, we create a community where that kind of behavior becomes normalized. I don't want anyone to have to face that. But I also don't see a personality cult here (okay, someone might say that Larry has one, but that's not a cult, we just appreciate the man).

I tend to just use clip gain automation, normally after consolidating all my comps to a single clip.

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I always just export out the audio of the entire mix (without the fade) and import it into a separate project. I can then do a fade in or out on the stereo mix . Super easy and if you don't like the fade you can easily change it on the one stereo track.

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Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast

Police - Murder By Numbers

In related news, the UK brings back the Iron Maiden as a punishment for not paying your taxes... 😁

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Go away with your rational thinking. This is the place where we buy all the things.

Opeth - Black Waterpark. I'm usually not into prog anything, but an amazing band!

2.8.2 is live

But. It’s. Free.

I just went through my 3 Melda Bundles, Creative, Mixing, and the Free upgraded. Man there is a lot that was added that I hadn't realized. I got stuff I never knew I had. Gonna check out the Turbo series. I haven't had the time to go through them all yet.

The bundles also go up in cost over time as well, so the cost to on-board keeps going up with new additions. I think the MCompleteBundle is roughly $200 more on sale than when I got it (had 99 plugins at that time). Also bear in mind that a number of multi-band plugins have free counterparts. I made an Excel spreadsheet years ago on that and didn't count the single-band ones since they are essentially dupes. Depending on personal usage, the instruments are the most expensive and one may or may not get full use from them.

You need one more. Arturia Dist Coldfire!

I bought an Arturia Keylab MkII 88 Controller in June of 2022 (I think it was after I watched one of Mike Enjo's (as usual) great tutorials when he referenced it. Thanks Mike! I LOVE the keyboard - responsive, great controls - fabulous! But recently I was experiencing some really bad 'clicking' noises on some (not all) of the white keys when playing the keyboard (black keys seem to be OK, at least so far). The 'clicks' were noisy enough that they would bleed into a mic if you were playing and recording vocals. :^( Note: These are physical noises - nothing to do with midi, audio, etc. The best way to describe/reproduce it is to lightly tap on each white key. Some will sound a solid 'thump' (like if I tapped a key on my Steinway B Grand). Others will make a clicking noise that sounds like you tapped the plastic key with your fingernail. Contacted Arturia support. Their suggestion was to 'reseat' the affected keys. They sent me the attached video. It works! Keys became noticeably quieter - just like all the others. Helped me - hope it helps others. Reseat MKII Keys.mp4

This and kontakt lol

LOL! Good luck with that one! 🤣

I do have a fair few waves plugin, unfortunately I'm now running an old Mac OS and the last time I started Waves Central app it automatically updated itself to a version incompatible with my OS! ...so I decided to depreciate my waves plugins ...they're just reserved for old projects. I hope Waves don't take it too badly. lol

By gradually reducing the volume until it is zero.

Amazing how users are looking for more plugins to get a free plugin. The site is a gold mine for sample packs, midi. and presets. Usually their top items bought is a good indication of what is good. This is probably my 2nd place where I go for sounds. BTW this was given away before. Check your Audio Thing account.

Hi chaps here`s a new one for 2023 way not finished needs some filling out towards the end and a decent mixdown as it say rough demo , the drums will be seperated in the new mix ,,have fun ...its about relationships as usual ..

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Hello , I'm working on a new song with Sliding chord changes and am using several instruments. I'm having a Rough time with string finger squeaks and they're all building up in the same spots. It's especially bad on a "dulcimer" I'm using. I picked up a pair of thin Kevlar gloves from Amazon (G&F Products , yellow) for a wood burning project . I put one of these on my fretting hand for a test and was Amazed at the result. No Squeaking at all ! My strings and fretboard feel "smooth as silk". Unreal effect on fretless instruments and I can actually wear one and play everything with the exception of my mandolin. Doesn't look that cool but it sure works .. mark edit: I've been having a hard time with it.. the gloves are too thick on narrow fretboards . ms

Falcon AAX was included in Pro Tools for free for a limited time. When it was removed they had a crossgrade offer. It wasn't well advertised and I found out several months later (https://avid.secure.force.com/pkb/articles/FAQ/UVI-Falcon-FAQ). I filled out the form, and they sent me a code that discounted Falcon to $100. The form seems to be still active If you don't have Pro Tools but have a friend who does, and is not interested in Falcon, try to convince your friend to get you a code, or to let you use his/her ilok id to fill out the form and get the code.

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I made it to the end and had to leave more praise. I'm more 70s than 80s but those references are nothing more than relevant genius. I love this.

Always nice to go back and snag the old ones and drag them into the future!

Lol...🤣🤣🤣 Thanks for checking it out man!

For anybody interested in this, I found a solution! Thanks to the new engine meter in Cakewalk (thanks for that devs!) I was able to pinpoint exactly the issue. It is that Cakewalk is really not the best (worse than Reaper and to a lesser degree Pro Tools in my tests with sessions I ported over) with longer Plugin Chains on Busses/Auxes. I dont know why that is but certain plugins place a higher load on the engine when on a buss compared to a stereo track. Zynaptiq Intensity for example added only 1,5% engine load to my session on a stereo track but a whooping 10% to the engine load when on a Buss. Similar story with other Multiband Processors or especially Acustica Audio plugins. Anyway, the solution for me is to just use Audio Gridder running as a "server" on the same machine (https://audiogridder.com/) to load chains on busses instead of inserting them directly into Cakewalk. That way I can now run a fairly heavy project at 256 Buffer with my RME ADI-2 Pro FS R without dropouts and an engine load at 50%! Fantastic! To do this install the Audo Gridder Server app and the plugin on the same machine. Start the Server App, then insert the plugin on your buss. Do a scan, load all your plugins in this wrapper et voila. Any negligible increase in latency by Audio Gridder is actually offset by me being able to have my buffer so low. So I have less engine load, and less latency! Cakewalk is my favourite DAW and I was really trying everything to be able to keep using it instead of REAPER. @Noel: Can you comment on why the engine load is different for a plugin on a buss compared to it on a track?

I gave this another listen on a different system and I confirmed what I heard. Listened to the song all the way through and it is an interesting song with really good bass lines. On my second listen I noticed high end harshness. Maybe you mistakenly uploaded the wrong version. I have done that.

Resolutions? Bollocks to that. Being a lazy slob has worked for me for over 5 decades. I see no point in changing a winning formula. 🤪

Bjorn, this mix sounds very good. I can tell that you really enjoy making your sounds, and the sounds you use are top notch. I agree with Wookiee, very trippy, but would be awesome background music for practically anything!

Hi Bjorn - sounds really good to me and vocal clips work particularly well. Cool stuff Nigel

The verb on the vox is perfect, as is the EQ. Drums sound great, perfect tone, nice beat.