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Weird twist to this thread. All the drama aside, the more i look at this, the more it sounds like a product for people who don't actually make hip-hop and have not listened to it in the last 40 years.  Might be good for very retro hip-hop from mid 80s

I say that because every demo I have heard sounds like the awful "hip-hop" presets that are clearly made by someone who doesn't make hip-hop so i was hoping someone would take it or a spin that didn't sound like borderline mockery

Never tried it. Always have been skeptical of instruments with genre in name or attempts to sound "urban". With that said, I have seen a few of these turn out to be decent.  Let us know how it performs

Has anyone done a comparison to bertom? I have found that to be useful

Safe travels

6 hours ago, kevin H said:

I saw this before and intrigued me but I think the combination with scaler is actually really nice.  This is a pretty good deal so even if one doesn’t fully understand it, might be worth picking up if you are on the fence.

Agreed. I passed up deals on it a few times and then finally used demo and was very impressed

I was skeptical but this is an amazing plugin.  It works with any midi file. You can make your own midi files, open them up and chop up your own arrangements like samples, creating interesting takes on your own compositions. Using it with scaler is amazing since you can transpose your rearrangement on the fly to any key or inversion variation on the fly.

2 hours ago, Brian Walton said:

I personally didn't have any other EQs where I can literally draw the "form" I want...then it applies filters to sounds more or less like what you wanted (and you have settings to vary the accuracy, number of filters, etc.  

 

It is more of a difference of workflow than function with this one.

I can't draw worth ___ ! 😂😂  My EQ will curve will look like sonic Parkinson's.

Ok..what the @$! does this eq do that is different than my other 50 eqs?

10 minutes ago, Peter - IK Multimedia said:

Definitely make sure you are logged in as mentioned.  ARC 3 with microphone is 249.99 full / 149.99 crossgrade.

thanks.  didn't realize i was not logged in

2 minutes ago, chris.r said:

Make sure you're logged in.

Ah. I better check. I was on another device

Did the prices change on some products? I could have swore arc 3 with mic was 149?

2 hours ago, Magic Russ said:

 

TRK-01?  OK, I can't defend that one.  I'm not the target market and I haven't heard any of the people who it should appeal to singing its praises.

It's ok if you don't already have something that does same thing. It actually pairs well with cakewalk if you are short on synth bass producing plugins. I have too many things that do what it does better

3 hours ago, Olong Johnson said:

Maybe he ban't say the letter "C".

If he was a blood that would be hilarious

This is cool, but Craig kinda click baited us with title. 

Wow

44 minutes ago, Doug Rintoul said:

Maybe it was not clear, but I thought I had explicitly stated that you edit the MIDI outside the plugin, using the DAW's MIDI editor. This changes the audio output when you play the track in the DAW. For example, if the original audio had a C note and you wanted to change it to an E note, you just drag the MIDI note from a C to an E and it changes the pitch of the audio at that point in the track to an E note. This is the convenience I was referring to.

I am sure I misread. In any case, I didn't find this more convenient since to me the ability to edit the original audio  before converting to midi seemed more so.  I will concede that the essential version of melodyne ST1/ Cakewalk combo won't give you polyphonic audio editing in a more convenient manner.

3 minutes ago, Doug Rintoul said:

Now I am confused. I was going by using the product as well. What do you mean by "the pitches are not markedly"?

I meant "marked" and probably submitted a weird autocomplete lol. I was referring to notes as they appear in first step rather than once you drag midi out. For some reason I read your earlier reply as suggesting editing the audio directly in plugin. 

For some reason I thought your reply said something different previously. I must have been tired. Thanks for clearing up confusion.

15 hours ago, Doug Rintoul said:

Maybe this description from the website will clear up the confusion...

How does the Samplab Plugin work?

When you drag and drop an audio file into the plugin, it is sent to our server for processing. Once this is completed, you receive the result with all the notes in the audio separated. In order to edit the notes, we generate a MIDI file that you can drag into the Samplab track. From now on, the plugin acts like a virtual instrument: It gets the MIDI events as input from your DAW and plays the (edited) notes. If you don't make any changes to the MIDI, the result should sound the same as the original audio. Of course, you can also just use the MIDI file for other things.

I was going by actually using product and nothing at all seemed convenient. The pitches are not markedly

8 hours ago, Doug Rintoul said:

Maybe this description from the website will clear up the confusion...

How does the Samplab Plugin work?

When you drag and drop an audio file into the plugin, it is sent to our server for processing. Once this is completed, you receive the result with all the notes in the audio separated. In order to edit the notes, we generate a MIDI file that you can drag into the Samplab track. From now on, the plugin acts like a virtual instrument: It gets the MIDI events as input from your DAW and plays the (edited) notes. If you don't make any changes to the MIDI, the result should sound the same as the original audio. Of course, you can also just use the MIDI file for other things.

Serious question; have you used this? maybe you can show ,me what I am missing.  So far this is nowhere near convenient. The features that are described sound nice, but trying to edit notes on a fixed size  interface that does not show  keys, let alone pitch is anything but convenient. this is what I see when i drag a file into   both. Not only is it less accurate, it's not easy to grab notes and even harder to know what each note is other than perhaps seeing interval. Again, maybe you are using this and have found some hidden features. please share your experience beyond sharing their claims.

1 hour ago, Doug Rintoul said:

That is backwards to what I am describing. You insert the plugin as an instrument. You then drop the audio onto the plugin. SampLab send the audio to the server and the server send back the audio segmented into "notes" as well as the MIDI. You then take the MIDI and drop it onto the Samplab track. You can then change the pitch of each note in the original audio by simply modifying the track MIDI (outside of the plugin).  That is the part I was saying was a bit more convenient. To do that with Melodyne, you have to back into Melodyne.

I see what you are saying. I personally did not find it as convenient but maybe it is familiarity.

1 hour ago, Doug Rintoul said:

Bringing the MIDI file into the DAW does not allow you to change the pitch of the original audio. The MIDI editing in SampLab is very rudimentary because it only has one purpose, changing the pitch of the original audio, not the length, or the velocity or the start time.  

This software is very beta; I might even say alpha. In fact clicking on certain things brings up a dialog box stating that the feature is not implemented yet and suggests you subscribe to their email list to be informed when the feature does get implemented. 

Maybe I am misinterpreting what I am seeing. Isn't that what meoldyne does? Change the pitch of the audio, as well as other aspects of audio and then converts to midi. From what I am seeing this is that but at an earlier stage of development. I could be wrong.

Now i am at the awkward point of wondering if getting what I want is worth adding extra things that are icing to.  still annoyed at myself for buying modo one week before this started. i havr to say i have never really been disappointed with my ik products

15 minutes ago, abacab said:

LOL! My Alesis QS 61 is still in mint condition (I think, in my closet). If it had more knobs and sliders that keyboard would be a fine controller! 

But my Alesis VX49 (plastic and rubber) is standing in the corner now since i got the Arturia Keylab 61 MkII ... for lack of sliders mostly... just knobs and pads... but it could be useful for the B3 2nd tier... 🤣

I wish my vx49 had more sliders.  I used to use my MPD26 and VX49 at same time for sliders, but since i got nashine mikro, having two drum pad controllers felt redundant. I sold my QS 6.1 about 4 years ago.  i miss it