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EDM DJ and producer The Him has announced the release of a new audio plugin that is designed to help you balance the lower frequencies in your mix. Sub Ninja features real-time audio waveform synchronization, instant filter control and microscopic detail to let you dial in the perfect sound. Sub Ninja for Windows and Mac (VST3, AU and AAX) is now available to purchase for $29.99 USD. However, for the month of February you can get the plugin for FREE by using discount code REKKERD at the checkout! Don’t miss the opportunity and grab your copy of Sub Ninja today. https://dsp.thehim.com/

https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/81-Bundles/82-Plugin-Boutique-Bundle/11901-Plugin-Boutique-12th-Anniversary-Bundle-Exclusive- not bad at all...

Use some kind of host like Cantabile that is designed for the purpose.

Serials awaits for me for everything February.

We couldn’t be more excited to announce Feb. 13 as the release date for our next EZkeys 2 milestone expansion. Who’s ready for the Session Organ EKX? Until it's available, have a listen to some snippets on this section of our site: https://www.toontrack.com/new-year-new-gear/#coming-up

I just want to say thank you to every person who has come here and helped someone else solve their problem. I have come here for many years and there has always been someone who has had the solution to my issue. Thank you to those who don't have to be here but they are, people like scook who helped me in the middle of the night fix an issue so I could keep recording. Guys like Cactus Music Studios, John Vere and Shane_B. This forum and these people are like emergency room personnel there to help in a time of crisis, and if you are recording, and something goes wrong, that is a real crisis. I would rather my house burn down than not be able to get signal coming through a channel. So a huge thank you and hug today to everyone who has helped someone here. ?

On a serious note; if everything we hear in the demo is available in the included midi this will be a “winner” for those of us that are Hammond “challenged”! t

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Updated versions: PSP oldTimer v 2.2.2 & PSP oldTimerME v 2.2.2 PSP oldTimerMB v 1.2.2 New: 1) Presets. Bug Fixes: 1) AudioUnit: Resizing problem fixed. 2) Cubase 13: Plugin no longer opens in full-screen window; issue resolved. 3) Minor bugs fixed. Please Note: 1) macOS 10.13 and Earlier: We are no longer supporting older versions of macOS (10.13 and earlier). 2) Windows Vista and Earlier: Discontinuing support for Windows Vista and earlier versions for better performance and security. Install: 1) Log-in to your PSP account and go to My plug-ins section. 2) Download the installer appropriate for your operating system. You can overwrite the newer version over the old one so after downloading simply start the installer. 3) Restart your computer.

Exactly the reason why I bought this and as a bonus I get God Mode, UniChannel, bx_subsynth and a big Glitchmachines Sample Pack (don't care much for the rest or already have it). I'm especially happy about bx_subsynth as I've been really dissappointed about the relatively thin sound of Arturia's Pigments and bx_subsynth helps a lot (Also great for sound design in general). This really is a great deal for any future Melda fans FYI, you also get an additional £2.60 back by rating each of the 13 items in this bundle ?

“Score” the track in EZK, then render in B3X! Simples! t

Intantiating a VST instrument as an insert FX in an audio track is supported in CbB for compatibility with legacy projects that used that architecture before the Synth Rack was implemented, but it's not the preferred method now, and can actually lead to issues such as stuck notes among other things. You can insert a synth in the rack without associated tracks being created either by clicking the + button in the synth rack or by Insert > Soft Synth in the main menu and unchecking the options to create tracks. When an Audio track has a synth output assigned as Input, it becomes a Synth track. Or you can insert an 'Instrument' track which is a combined MIDI an Audio track with an associated synth connecting them. An Instrument behaves like an Audio track and shows mostly Audio controls (other than the Input which is a MIDI port/channel). You can access all the 'hidden' controls of an Instrument track via the MIDI and Audio tabs at the bottom of the Track Inspector. Instrument tracks can help simplify your project. You can convert existing separate MIDI and Synth tracks (one of each) into an Instrument track by right-clicking one of the selected tracks and choosing Make Instrument Track. And, finally, note that it's also possible to create one Instrument track per output of a multitimbral synth. You can read up on all of this in the Ref. Guide.

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All done, thank you both. I believe everything is setup perfectly now and all my audio is running smoothly. Thanks everyone for your help, I really appreciate it!

I'm pretty sure that you might want to re-evaluate your priorities. LOL.

I love the b3 sound. I will definitely check this out, but IK media “Hammond” B3X is phenomenal. Sorry no midi tracks?

Unless you've been under a rock, you may have noticed that the Bakers have been on an extended hiatus from this forum since shortly after the last release... and certainly aren't going to extend any effort in creating a patch for this incredibly minor inconvenience. Don't sweat the small stuff.

Yep. Very grateful for what I have, but I have allowed some of my skills to get rusty. I was fixing my cup of coffee this morning and thinking about working on my guitars, and doing this and that to a few of them. But then said, I should just go up there and start playing, cause it doesn't make sense to fix something I can't play. So I came and sat down, drank my coffee and started looking at this dang forum!! I am going play now.

Toontracks’s Hammond B3. Finally!

I have been so conflicted about the role The DAW has played in my musical life . Overall it's nice to have a DAW but The DAW been such a major time suck with me trying to catch up and crest multiple learning curves that seem to change every time a DAW has a major version upgrade . On many levels this BS does not help my music . How would you like it if I took your guitar and changed the strings to heavy gauge strings just before your performance ? What about me hoping on stage and switching your right handed guitar over to a lefty guitar ? or hows about me taking your rows of keyboards and changing all the notes and sounds from black keys to white keys and all the white key notes and sounds to black keys ? Before I got involved in recording with a DAW I had been striving to play my chosen instrument with my feet firmly planted on a pathway to achieving a personal virtuoso level . I used to listen listen listen , play play play and try to emulate the musicians I resonated with . I did my best to copy and learn from them ... I'm not gonna drop any names here ....FWIW it seems like a lifetime ago and Yet I did get a little respect and get taken under a few great players wings ? For the record I am grateful to have a DAW but in the end I wish I hadn't wasted all the time I eventually did dicking around with it .The same goes for social media I'm just not gonna pucker up and get on my knees just to get people to listen too me? I have gone full circle and my guitar playing comes first . I treat The DAW as a beefed up tape recorder and I wont waste my time sitting here trying to look up the horses AZS trying to figure out why my cart is not moving because the horse belongs in front of the cart not behind the cart .... I'm glad I caught this musical performance while having my morning coffee this fine morning .It brought me back to how I feel about musicians that can actually play . I don't care what genre music is in . If it's good it's good . Apparently these 2 don't need a whole bunch of cwap to sound good . ? Updated link to the video since CBS made it private ... https://www.cbsnews.com/video/saturday-sessions-billy-strings-and-chris-thile-perform-wild-bill-jones/#x Kenny

The website with all those dB readings is great. https://dr.loudness-war.info/ I got a lot of CDs as they first came out back in the day. Before the loudness wars began. I have the original CD of Brothers In Arms. Mobile Fidelity by far wins the dynamic range war for the good side. If you are Moody Blues fan, without doubt the best version of Days Of Future Passed is the Mobile Fidelity version. It's like you're sitting right there live. A Night At The Opera, Dark Side Of The Moon. Absolutely beautiful to listen to from Mobile Fidelity CD. I'm a little torn on this topic though. For example, I hear things in the background in all the current Beatles releases I never heard before. I don't know if that's a result of the compression or remix. The trick at home is to tame spikes so you don't over trigger compression while still maintaining some kind of dynamic range. It's taken me many years on a DAW to fully get an understanding of that and get a grasp on it. It just seemed to be a lot easier and almost a non-issue with analog. I have YouTube Music. Some albums are significantly softer than others. I listened to The Wall yesterday and I was constantly raising and lowering the level. So I'm assuming they do not compress the music for streaming, but I don't know. Another thing I like about YTM is there are no gaps between songs if you are streaming a full album, but you can skip around tracks. IOW it appears they don't just rip the albums to mp3s with gaps. I also have it set to stream in high quality. It sounds really good to me. I haven't picked up on any compression artifacts, but I haven't listened to anything on a good home system yet. Just in the truck and TV. I can hear compression artifacts sometimes when I listen to XM in the truck. My truck has a really good Bose system with a sub and it sounds almost as good as my home system.

https://vstalarm.com/product/bakers-delight-midi-by-nnaudio-limited-time-free/ VST Alarm has launched a limited time promotion on the Bakers Delight MIDI Collection by New Nation, offering the collection of MIDI loops for free for the next few days. The Bakers Delight MIDI Collection is free until February 29th, 2024. Warning the above link is questionable.

Not bad, that PolyMax

Just A Dream Kind of a trippy video. Thanks for watching/commenting -Bjorn

Some kids in the neighborhood put together a metal/grunge band and asked me to write them some tunes. I wrote two for them and this is the 1st one. I called some of my old friends to help me jam it out so I could hear what it sounded like, we recorded it on a 1/4 reel to reel. very fast set up, a few practice runs, a few ???'s and then we recorded it. needless to say it's a bit sloppy, but it was great to get my mojo working? I'll post the 2nd one after we record it next week.

If you'd read the other 2 threads you'd have your answer

Perhaps a 3rd one will get some results...

Mix recall is a easy way to compare mixes. I’m not sure many people are even aware of it. I use it also to confirm I’m working with the right version of a project. When I export a mix I will save the mix scene with the date. So a year later you listen to a song and want to open the project and make changes. So you open the project and make sure the dates match between mix recall and the time stamp on the wave file. If they don’t you might have op-ed a back up version.

The guy who I traded said he didn’t like the sound of the G&L. I think it’s called a Astat. Made in Korea? I’m not at home so forget. It had 2 soap bar giant single coils. They are super noisy around my computer. So I found some soap bar humbuckers but I had to router the holes a little bigger. They were quiet but I didn’t like the sound I got. Not a Tele and not even close to a Gibson. Then I noticed the string spacing was wrong. Turns out why I like this guitar is it was designed with finger picking in mind and it is wider at the bridge but about 1/4”. So those replacements were wrong spacing. So I put the original back in at the bridge and a Jeff Beck Seymour Duncan at the neck. Sort of the opposite of your Strat. I coil tapped the Humbucker. So this gives me 5 sounds all good ones now. Oh and thanks for the PM

Hey Andy . . . I think this is well composed, and enjoyed it very much ! Many comments above say "nice", but I'm hearing some great potential, even if this may be more of a demo idea mix, the song stands strong on it's own, and if you ever decided to record those harmony vocals in a different way this could be awesome. There are some Melodyne or Cakewalk tricks you could also use to get a more "natural" sound, like adding random deviations of pitch, timing etc . . . I actually really like the lyrics and main vocal melody + piano here very much !

Ah! A real Strat made by George and Leo. I Have a G&L Tele that I got in trade for that Laney 100watt tube head I mentioned earlier. It’s been my main guitar for a long time. If you hear an electric guitar in one of my songs it’s that. Or occasionally my 1964 Guild semi hollow.

@Sander Verstraten Yes that's how it works. https://www.bitwig.com/support/shop_license_activation/how-does-the-12-month-upgrade-plan-work-5/

Did you click the little box that says "Do not show this screen again" Paulo? (It's just off the viewable area about five inches down and four inches over...) HTH!!! ?

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Music software developers need to constantly strive to reduce the number of mouse clicks when introducing new features. This teaser popup just increased the amount of clicks ➕ at each Cakewalk start... (Another example, the relatively recently revamped Bounce dialog is no longer possible to close just by pressing Enter. Another added mouse click. ➕ ) Bakers - please always think of the child-, sorry, mouse clicks! ❤

My first answer would be to try it and see if it works. I am going to say undo does not work for fader moves in the console since I tried it and I could not undo a fader move. You can, however, right click and set a snap point so you can double click it and it will return to that point. You can also save a snapshot or a mix recall point to store the state of everything.

Even if the Bakers thought it would be out by now and it isn't, this likely means that they are being careful that the product is really ready for release, and it is fair that the popup indicates that it is not far off from now. So, I would rather they be a little patient on the release and feel good about it, rather than have it come out and too many people criticize it. If it comes out in April or May, no one is going to say - Oh it is great but I am not happy because it did not come out earlier. But if it is half-baked (pun intended), there will be a lot of criticism. We waited this long and we have had the advantage of a free product, so I think we should give them some slack here.

We may need to invent Artificial, Synthetic Stupidity, or A.S.S., for short. Notes ♫

Already using it. I have my studio in my very suboptimal living room. I'm not putting up ugly (or less ugly but still nothing to look at) soundproofing.

Normally $70, now $21 https://pulse.audio/product/liminal-winds-by-crocus-soundware/

Seems there may be an issue with the site.

https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/1-Instruments/4-Synth/7149-Analog-Lab-Pro 99$ also look in arturia account for upgrade price https://www.arturia.com/products/software-instruments/v-collection/details

Deep Purple's Getting Tighter - 2010 remaster vs original. They killed the groove - and that groove was what the song was all about. I watch a lot of music related content on YouTube these days, so of course I get the targeted ads. And essentially, what they are advertising are products and libraries designed to get that sound you're familiar with - and that will make you sound just like everyone else. I cringe every time one of those ads start and I hear those libraries. Back in the days, I read about the making of Nine Inch Nails The Fragile in Keyboard magazine. Trent Reznor had hired a guy (Keith Hillerbrand from memory) to create a huge library of weird, unique sounds for him to use, just for that album. To me, the making of that record always represented everything that was fantastic about DAWs and working with computers. But there are also a lot of opportunities to remove almost every variable from the equation, thereby compromising the chances of creating something original. And it seems that a lot of people aren't making music for the love of art, so they're quite content to just assemble songs. It's their take on the same basic idea. If you spend 5 minutes on social media, it's quite obvious that most people only want to have their turn in the spotlight doing the same thing as everyone else. I remember recording demos with nothing but my guitars, a little Marshall transistor combo, an Akai XR10, a tube distortion, a wah pedal, and a Boss flanger. And the delay on my Sony reel machine. A lot of the things I had in mind like mellotron parts, a Hammond, or horns were simply impossible, so I would have to create something that had vaguely similar sonic qualities using what I had. In many ways, it often made the songs more interesting. It's something I try not to let go of, even now that I have access to all those instrument libraries.

First of all, I want to thank you for your help. Second, I realised it was a problem with my soundcard and I’ve managed to fix it. Can’t express how relieved I am ?

Thanks 57Gregy, I'll give those a try.

Unfortunately this didn't work, but you did lead me to the solution! On the same page, I disabled 'Controller' recording, which has fixed the issue. As for the ASIO buffer, how do I choose an appropriate value for the Manual Offset? I currently have enabled 'Use ASIO Reported Latency'. Thanks!

https://samplescience.gumroad.com/l/unsFY SampleScience has announced a limited time sale on its virtual instrument that brings the sounds of the Ensoniq SQ80. The SQ8ROM plugin is offered at an 80% discount through the weekend. Available for Windows and Mac (VST/VST3, AU), SQ8ROM is on sale for only $4 USD with coupon code NEONSUN at the checkout.

I got that today.... total PITA as pressing the CLOSE button after the countdown thing doesn't work and trying to move the sliders just produces a " ding" which I believe is windows for " it doesn't matter how many times you click me, I'm not doing it." My DAW pc is offline so I guess it was built in to the last version to activate on a certain date by which I'm also guessing the new version was supposed to be ready. Eventually it did allow me to close it, but it was quite some time after the CLOSE button appeared. Is this my life now?