dubdisciple

They bought the tabs back. Apparently, I had already upgraded.

Interesting sound design tool

Mine were already updated 

I suspect it may be a folder structure thing

I never got my voucher this month.  Hopefully this still works like this on the 1st when i get paid

45 minutes ago, Brian Lawler said:

Are you sure being greyed out indicates a problem?  They should change to white or "brighter grey" when you select the "search eye" left of them.  The way I have my stuff organized I tend to only search a single library at a time, so all of my folders are greyed out except the one I am searching.

I don't mean like this. This is normal. I mean folders sometimes are not selectable at all. This is a known issue :

I like this sample manager, but it drives me crazy that updates often lead to folders being grayed out and having to start rebuilding database from scratch

10 hours ago, Philip G Hunt said:

As someone who has only just got Scaler2 and has only tried it for an hour, it's great for generating chord progression ideas which you would not have come up with on your own. 

For me, I'm stuck in a creative rutt at the moment. I put a lot of love into my last release, but I'm now looking for something new. I'm hoping scaler is going to help me there.

This question prompted me to pull out Captain for the first time in a long time. What I do find Captain plugins useful for is songwriting. I laid down a foundation for a song we are making a demo for within minutes. The drums took the longest since Captain Beat is trash.  Eventually everything but perhaps the bassline and a pluck motiff will be replaced, but it did it's job on creating something to write to.

8 minutes ago, El Diablo said:

Is both dub and dumb the same person?

Not all, but my ex might beg to differ!

55 minutes ago, dumbquestions said:

Is there any value in this if you already have and use the captain plugin suite (chords, melody, deep, etc.) to generate ideas as a starting point for composing? Say if price were not a factor, is it better &/or would it be worth the time? Youtube comparisons aside, i’m just curious if anyone in this community has experience with both

I have both and they are very different beasts.  Scaler is a lot less random. Both can give instant gratification, but Scaler has more valuable to a person who understands music theory and can grow with you a lot better imho.  Captain is better at generating usable parts that work well together.  I use Scaler far more because I can place chords that are difficult for me to play. If I can think it, I can do it.  In any case, Scaler works well with other generative tools. 

I like this bundle but I occasionally get bugs . I fear the lack of updates will eventually catch me offguard on a critical project.

4 hours ago, iNate said:

Discussed in depth in another thread. Search post history. It's all there. 

Nothing confusing about "That’s not how it works," though. 

Not falling for troll bait. Enjoy your evening. Relay works just fine in that capacity for me.

On 7/6/2023 at 12:29 PM, antler said:

Wavetables maybe?

That would be my guess but i am drowning in Pigment presets already 

My guess is that Izotope figured that the people getting the elements versions were more interested in instant gratification than control. I always thought the most versions were kinda overpowered for items often given out for free. 

13 minutes ago, Bruno de Souza Lino said:

Isn't Mastering the Mix just that?

I think Mastering the Mix is more of a great value Izotope than an improved WA. 🤣

If you already have ozone elements 9, it's not a huge deal, especially if you have gotten elements free like a lot of us. If you got audiolens free, it may still be worth getting 10 on sale. 9 and 10 can run sude by side 

7 hours ago, iNate said:

No. Lol. Thats not how it works. 

Despite your indepth and detailed reply, I have no idea what you mean.  

2 hours ago, jackson white said:

 

I watched this and his follow up. It was a firm reminder that guys like Dan are very useful but not immune to bias. To his credit he acknowledged his bias. He clearly downplayed anything Kirchoff was better at by saying the feature was not useful. On the other hand, the main point I got from the video is the idea one sounds better is most likely a bit of placbo and that replacing fab filter if it works for you is plain silly. If you don't own either, it is hard to ignore the price difference.  If price is the absolute end all and you want a similar interface, Total EQ by Hornet is not a bad option since it can be had as low as $10. Nonw of these options will make you better at EQing but being used to a certain workflow and design will probably improve efficiency. I use stock studio one plugin or Mequaliser for most tasks. 

3 hours ago, El Diablo said:

I can never seem to find Scaler for $10.  I'm a hobbyist on a hobbyist budget and I don't put my songs out there to make money.  It's only for fun on YouTube.  Making music isn't a business model for me.  Too much competition.

I hardly use Scaler anyways as it's so frustrating, because it keeps changing my flats to sharps or my sharps to flats (it's one of those directions).  I couldn't find a setting solution.  Has this been fixed in a update or does it still demand one or the other when searching for chords in the search box?

 

I can empathize with financial struggles, but Scaler is one of those products that provides tons of value at it's price range even at full price, even though it always seems to be on sale for $29, which is more than reasonable. 

1 hour ago, cclarry said:

Relay is the plugin that allows other Izotope Plugins to communicate with one another.

Kinda. Izotope products will communicate with each other without Relay. Relay allows Izotope to communicate with tracks (on a limited level) with tracks that don't have Izotope. It's very basic, but useful for using Izotope AI for gain staging.

This video shows a way around one weakness of instacomposer. It becomes more like a way of adding Toontrack's bandmate to scaler.

I think where fabfilter and kirchoff shine more over melda is the more intuitive GUI. Other than that, I can't think of anything I do EQ wise that I can't do with Melda. 

Also, the process is generative, so the likelihood of having same song is low. Unfortunately that means you have to aort through a lot of random nonsense for anything useful.  Someone with more time than me will figure a hack to maximize ideal results

I wouldn't call it a scam.  It tells you exactly what it is. I am just not sure if the effort it takes to humanize the results is worth it

2 hours ago, Carl Ewing said:

No way it's the same filters. CPU hit alone will tell you that. Or, just listening to them. There is not a single filter in Pigments that comes anywhere remotely close to their MS-20, mini or M12. The filters in Pigments sound like *****. Worse than ***** compared to anything U-He, or Serum, or Knif Audio, or Massive X, or hell even Omnisphere, although Omnisphere's filter options are absurdly deep.

If you want to test how bad it sounds - build a simple saw bass patch in Pigments. Then build one in Repro-1. There is no reason to use Pigments for literally any synth purpose, unless it's the only synth one has, and it's just for very average jack-of-all-trades utility sounds. Which seems to be what it's made for. 

To each his own. I'm not buying a whole synth an attempt to tryvand convince you of something you clearly shave your mind made up on. I did once grab a wave cycle from serum and made a simple patch and I couldn't tell the difference. Sorry for your experience.