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https://www.meldaproduction.com/changes/#changes-16.06 Several small updates, including the new rainbow colours in the EQ that some people like, some not so much.

Whenever people discovered becoming offended gave them power, more and more people are becoming offended.

I think we've discovered almost 20 YouTube channels that have Cakewalk tutorial content and that's just the ones we know about.

Fixed it for ya.

I’m sure it’s great, but $700 for a single fader and some standard buttons is kinda brutal 😅

I picked up the SPL Transient Designer Plus for $5. I already have several transient designers, but this had some extra features that seemed worthwhile. For 5 bucks, if I even find one song where it makes a nice difference, it was a great value.

I'm a hoarder not a reviewer. 😉

Late to message but maybe this will help someone. This message addresses what I feel is the hardest sound to get right in these drum samples on the market, the snare drum. I have had a chance to check out Superior drums latest version, Addictive drums full version and the demo on Hertz drums as well as Ezdrums, GGD, Modo drums and Perfect drums. A little on Room Sound Drums. This is a perspective from an audio engineer. If you want to mix your own stuff or make it easier to be mixed, which might save you money, then this is my advice. Addictive drums is totally unusable if you are looking to use it in rock via distorted guitars or metal/heavy guitar music. Overall for any music they are thin sounding. This is because you need very good overheads to get a big sound. Overheads are not just for cymbals. People generally think they have to rid the snare sound out of the overheads to make it good. This is not the case. This is why room mics are used as well, not just for depth. Some metal has fake sounding snares so Addictive drums might work for that but big sounding snares no. I am sorry if you bought this I have no intention to make you upset just my honest experience. Superior drums is better but a bitch to get a decent sound and in my opinion for rock not as useable but I suppose it could work ok. I could only get a few sounds to be ok and I had to use the double up mode which you really shouldn't have to do. The set should sound good on its own with all music tracks up. Then you use an extra snare sample or parallel compression to make it shine. Now wait for it you nay sayers . Yes I know they are unprocessed via Superior, and I am aware of this because I do mix. It just doesn't work. Why? Many famous people recorded it and though toontrack claims you can use it for all rock music and other styles, you can't without using some other samples not made by toontrack. The reason is communication between Toontrack and the recording engineer I am surmising. Snares have to be tuned differently, as well as different mic positions to get a certain sound that will work in a certain style such as heavy guitar music. Also the drummer has to hit it a certain way. Heavy guitar styles, if mic techniques are right, need a rimshot a lot of the times. However the harder it is hit the thinner the sound becomes. So the drummer is also a factor in recording. Lots of rimshots in this software are thin. Superior drums seems to be incredibly recorded but when I listen to it, it is like someone messed with them, I don't know maybe I'm crazy. They also sound very digital, I don't recall if they said they put them to tape or not but it doesn't sound like it. Overall it makes me wonder if that is really the way it sounded in the session. So for $400 I don't think it is worth it. One amazing thing is the way it gets midi data from audio but I don't still think it is worth it unless you are a pro that is making money, I know that is redundant, then maybe you'll want that. There are free methods of midi to audio that take more time if you are a bedroom producer that does it for pleasure and has time. EZ drums Not had too much experience with ez drums but it is processed and should cut through a mix and I really didn't like them . However I really can't give a fair review right now. Didn't care for Modo drums either. Perfect drums, like the ones above, I have extensive experience with them. Perfect drums is processed. They work for some music well and others no. No rhyme or reason just hit or miss probably because they are slightly over processed. Overheads are good unlike Addictive. Hertz drums I am trying the demo. White drums is the demo. It is processed and has different selections of snares to choose from like the others. The samples do have decent overheads and works. They also have a metal software version of their drums that is unprocessed. Be aware that unprocessed could be lightly processed which is ok as long as they are telling the truth. It is completely normal to limit peaks and add a very little amount of eq in the recording to make it sound like it does when you listen to it in the actual room. Also one may lightly eq to help you understand where they want the sound to go. So I do recommend Hertz drums for the White pack has one snare drum tuned mid range that I like. If you need a low mid tuned snares it has those also. If the other sets in the pack give you the same results then it would be a good one. It probably is good for heavy guitars but I have not checked yet. Listening to the demos it looks like that may be the case but listen for yourself and decide. Get good drums Modern and Massive is excellent for processed drums. Be aware you cant eq these for the most part they are heavily squashed but sound great. Here is a good tip. For the Yamaha drums use Slate's trigger. The overheads are way better and it sounds great. Use trigger for the Q drum as well, be advised the Q Drum has a ring you will have to lower with eq but it sounds great. The Kontakt version use the 14x6.5” Gretsch Bell Brass it sounds great. Also use the snare velocity control to adjust. Between that and the midi velocity you will get a great sound. Yes lots of work different from real drums tracks recorded live. GGD Invasion is lightly processed so you can eq and compress. I don't think they make it for trigger or maybe they do. I have used it extensively in Kontakt and it sounds great. Remember you have to mix this version. So you will need sometimes to use a second snare sample or parallel compression. So I do recommend this. However, remember that these drums in some lighter rock settings via not heavily distorted guitars, may not work. Again mic positions and drummer how he/she hits it as far as velocity's. Room sound drums . I have not check them out yet and they do not have a demo but I probably will purchase some sets from Room sound. So check them out . Stayed tuned for me to check them out. Feel free to reply here in a few months or more to ask me about them and Hertz. Feel free to ask me about any other ones that come up after this message. I'll check them out for you.

I know, I declared a moratorium on mixing plug-ins, but gee, five bucks and it was an Unfiltered Audio plug-in that I didn't already have.... Unfiltered Audio's Zip, not only a mixing effect but a compressor of all things, as if I don't have dozens of them. Oh well, I bought four candy bars the other night at the market and it was $10 and I've eaten the candy bars already. So it's cheap fun by comparison.

Well, actually, Cakewalk forumites came to the rescue! I was just now thinking that people who mostly stick to the Coffee House/Deals forums might not have seen this, and here's the perfect opportunity. Together, some of us (special thanks to @MimoJP ) figured how to export and import the presets that Cakewalk displays in the plug-in UI (Cakewalk's Preset Manager, not to be confused with Plug-In Manager). It began with the Sonitus suite and then expanded to Plugin Alliance. Once someone has bashed all of the PA (or other company's) .vstpresets into the Cakewalk system, that person can use Plug-In Manager to export them for others to import. Steve Cook (with a little QA help from me) came up with a way to bash them in with a Windows script, but it's slow and requires babysitting, so he's not sharing it for general use. The GREAT NEWS is that between doing it manually and via the scripting software, we managed to cover almost all PA plug-ins. I still need to upload the .SPP file for Masterdesk True Peak. Unfortunately the topic was started in the forum for Templates since there is no sub forum for Preset Manager presets. I put a link to it in the ProChannel Preset sharing forum. ENJOY!!

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https://www.groove3.com/tutorials/Bandlab-Cakewalk-Getting-Started

Quiet Music - KLIM v1.0.0 FREE using the code: 00KLIM Virtual instrument created with a 17-key Kalimba Multi-sampled at 192 Khz and 32 bit and processed with different high-quality effects to offer you 15 presets with different textures https://quietmusic.gumroad.com/l/ctvsy

Last minute I picked up the Lindell Neve 80 Series channel strip for $20. Unfortunately I had no extra vouchers. I’ve always wanted a vintage Neve channel strip, but I haven’t been willing to sell my first born to Softube to get a good one. The Lindell Neve plugin appears to be excellent.

I noticed the tutorial on Groove3 last Saturday and also created a thread about it, but alas in the Tutorials forum. Stupid choice, I know. And for the benefit of worthless knowledge, I've made a quick check on Groove3 to see how much coverage some of the currently active DAWS have. Quantities are in number of tutorials available in descending order. Logic Pro: 91 Ableton Live: 54 Pro Tools: 47 Studio One: 41 Cubase: 32 Reason: 29 FL Studio: 13 Reaper: 8 Digital Performer: 7 Bitwig Studio: 3 Cakewalk by BandLab: 1

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This link from the topic below seems to work fine...

Nothing worth my $5 - $10 that I don't already have

Info here https://www.toontrack.com/michael-ilberts-signature-ezxs/

It does look good. I mean... it looks real good!! Clean, like I wanna touch it!

If you seek the opinions of heavy hitters in the realm of sample libraries, get over to VI Control and read some threads, ask some questions. I think the place started as being oriented toward use of sample libraries and expanded from there. Heaven knows the MeldaProduction stuff in general is not for everyone. Vojtech doesn't market them as such. He's in a niche outside "the most authentic recreation of console X, complete with drifting resistors," "put this mystery plug-in on for fast results," etc. Much of it is for people who want to be able to get under the hood and like to tinker. I don't always want to get under the hood. I don't even usually want to when it comes to mixing FX. Despite having leveraged my referral codes and sale purchases all the way up to MComplete, I only regularly use about 10% of the product line. Once I had MFreeFX, MEssentials and MMixingFX I had all the MeldaProduction stuff I wanted. I think his stuff sounds really good, and it's some of the sippiest on resource usage, which helps me hang on to my trailing edge computer hardware that much longer. And I really respect tight coding. His responsiveness to bug fixing is top notch, up there with Acoustica. As a drummer, you'll understand what I mean when I say that MCompressor is the Ludwig Acrolite of compressors. Workhorse, no frills, sounds great, might be the first one you ever use, but it might also be the last one. I was surprised when I posted in a thread about MeldaProduction over on VI Control and mentioned that MCompressor was the compressor that most helped me unlock the mysteries of compression, because of the informative dynamics display with the moving line. Prior to that I was just copying settings from tutorials and hoping for the best. A number of others chimed in to say that they, too had the same experience. MCompressor triggered their lightbulb moment with compression. If I had to pick a desert island compressor, it would probably come in second to MDynamics, but only second. Contrary to MeldaProduction's (deserved) reputation for complexity and initial opacity, MCompressor is very intuitive, just the right amount of controls (with the notable exception of a mix knob, but that can be worked around), and that amazing display. There are others in the FreeFX bundle that are as easy to operate and characteristically powerful, like MTuner, MMetronome, MStereoscope, MAnalyzer, MOscillator, MNoiseGenerator, and MEQualizer. I watched the YouTube video for the PA equivalent of MSpectralPan and the products are about comparable. If MEqualizer and MCompressor were products that sold for $50 each, they would be among the most highly regarded and recommended. There are deeper features in MCompressor that took me years to stumble across, like the detector pre-EQ and the (amazing at this price point) draw-your-own compression curves. Try switching it to M/S mode and listening to the results. And despite the buttload of saturation plug-ins that I've tried, MEqualizer's saturation knob is still my favorite for that kind of sweetening. It's the only (non-Melda) EQ I've come across that does what it does with harmonics, which is so useful and powerful when making sounds cooperate in a mix, taming cymbal ping, etc. The automatic band soloing is also useful. If you can handle sonible's EQ's, MEQualizer will be no problem, and has features not present in sonible's (or iZotope's). So, my recommendation is that in their next 50% off sale, use @Brian Walton's referral code and the newsletter sign-up bonus to upgrade the FreeFX bundle for about $11 cash. Gets rid of the nag strip at the bottom and opens up some extra features. And it's probably all the MeldaProduction product you'll ever want or need. More, even.

I was downloading demos of Plugin Alliance plugins and comparing them against my existing plugins over the weekend, which I find the ideal way to decide on whether or not to purchase a plugin -- and even then, I only tend to download ones that friends or forum members have praised (I only wish we could do the same kind of demos with sample libraries -- I can only imagine how much money I could have saved from buying sample libraries that didn't meet expectations). One big finding, I was comparing the Acme Opticom Compressor -- which I absolutely loved on electric bass in the Youtube video I shared on a previous page; when I compared all of my compressors to it -- and I I have around two dozen (I realize that's a bit overboard, but I think most of us are in that category and I bet some of you have a lot more than that!) -- on drums, there was one I never tried, Melda's free MCompressor, that sounded great to my ears. And seeing @Starship Krupa posts in this thread made me want to again give the man credit, as he's been recommending Medla stuff for a long time. Candidly, I really am only starting to finally figure out the basics of mixing and some of Medla's interfaces can be, let's say, less than user friendly for the less expert mixers among us (AKA me), so while I greatly value Starship Krupa's opinions, I've largely skipped checking out Melda stuff after trying a couple of plugins in the past and finding the user interfaces overly complicated. But that's not the case for this one. I'm still not sure about whether I'm going to buy the Acme Compressor. I just used what I think is the last $20 code PA is giving out to buy the SPL Transient Designer. But finding that I had a free compressor plugin that I love on drums was the best deal of all. I'm definitely no expert on mixing plugins, so all I can say is that if you haven't tried MCompressor, you really should try it out.

No offence to Michael Ilbert, but both EXZ cover designs are super cheesy. Looks like a Swede's clichéd view of LA. I don't really want to load them into Superior Drummer and have to look at them on the room banners. That said, of course it is the sounds that matter.

Part 2: Installed!

Well, I do have two available serial numbers...... Imma get them installed poste haste.

must resist the archies - must resist the archies Brown Sugar – Rolling Stones

Glad you did. I was gonna post this. The point here is a popular 3rd party tutorial site considered the free Bandlab worthy of trying to get sales.

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One of the many movie soundtracks I happen to like . Kenny

Ten Years After - Sugar the Road:

Sometimes it is just easier to do something like that than fight with a project that got messed up.

The "Generic Low Latency ASIO Driver" is an optional driver installed by Steinberg products and like ASIO4ALL should NOT be installed if a factory ASIO driver is available. Either uninstall the generic driver or at least remove its entry from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ASIO

No reason to rush, either. I thought it would have been a mistake to include anything new in their freebies and would have jumped sooner to take advantage of it, but no. No rush.

We bought AGFA tape by the pallet load. In 35 years, never had a bad reel. It always performed up to snuff.

I would have consumed less alcohol and drugs, taken better care of myself so I live long enough to take advantage of AI to write, compose, sing, play all the instruments, mix, produce and promote my music.

But... you had the foresight to save the coffee pot!

On The Road Again – Canned Heat

I find this browser add-on incredibly useful during these sales: https://github.com/m36/PA_owned Install, go to https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/manage-plugins.html first before going to https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/products.html. With this, I can easily see which plugins I own and which ones I don't.

Best Service has a EDX 3 pk for $162. The price for regular EDX is $81. So buying three is like getting one free!! Yeah, that's how you do it Michael!! Talk yourself into walking over the edge... and never looking back!!!

it's a meter!!!

This is a live performance of a song from the movie "200 Motels." This is the version from 200 Motels with lyrics sung by Theodore Bickel, Flo and Eddie, the orchestra, and cast members. "Strictly Genteel" from the 40th anniversary edition of the Orchestral Favorites album/CD. Another version performed live circa 1988. https://www.zappa-analysis.com/the-london-symphony-orchestra.htm#:~:text=2.4 Strictly genteel (1983) Link to commentary/analysis of Strictly Genteel

Since there is no subforum for sharing presets from the Cakewalk Preset Manager (for plug-ins other than ProChannel), the topic for sharing them started in the Templates subforum. It might be better to continue it here, maybe not, but at least there's a link to it here.

PS: There is a new Behringer driver (v 5.57.0), released in May 2023, in case any Behringer user needs to know. It is working just fine.

Nice one .. Your singers range is incredible. I Really liked the dreamy sliding background guitar stuff. The acoustic leading up to the horn section around 1:17 was perfect. It would be nice to hear more of that type of groove maybe just in an instrumental. I enjoyed the song and mix and enjoyed a little different take on your normal chilly Sub Vibe. Thanks for posting this.. mark

M-Audio is a no brainer. Edifier is a big NO! They are not monitors at all.

Part one of my journey with Cakewalk presets ... This file contains presets for the following software: ---snip--- Ampeg SVTVR Classic Ampeg SVTVR Black Box Analog Design HG-2 bx_cleansweep V2 bx_console AMEK 9099 bx_console Focusrite SC bx_console N bx_console SSL 4000 E bx_console SSL 4000 G bx_delay2500 bx_digital V3 mix bx_digital V3 bx_masterdesk True Peak bx_rooMS bx_solo bx_subfilter bx_subsynth bx_townhouse Buss Compressor elysia niveau filter Shadow Hills Class A Mastering Comp Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor SPL Attacker Plus SPL Attacker SPL De-Verb Plus SPL Free Ranger SPL IRON SPL Transient Designer Plus SPL TwinTube SPL Vitalizer MK2-T Vertigo VSM-3 ---snip--- Cheers PA-mimo-01-23jan23.spp