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The link didn't work, so I popped over to your SC page to listen. Nice cover - I like it. Some great guitar work in there too. Splitting the vocals so wide is quite unusual - it was a little distracting. I didn't really notice the vocals popping in, but I did feel they disappeared quite quickly after each phrase; almost like there's a noise gate that's chopping the tail off with quite a fast attack. It's sounds ok, but in response to your question: if you're not doing so, I'd recommend passing the vocals through an optical compressor quite gently. Maybe add a little reverb here too to give the vocals a little tail*. Then maybe compressing the whole mix a little (again quite gently) on the master bus to help glue the elements together. Maybe before any compression, also use an EQ and roll off the lower frequencies on the vocal - this will help to not trigger the compressors with the bass content. Nothing wrong with how it sounds now though - well done! *Remember that the tails of a reverb are what's heard, and that the bass of the reverb has a tendency to muddy up a mix; if you put the reverb on a separate bus, put an EQ after it to roll off some lows if things start sounding mushy.

I misunderstood MODO Drum. It's main selling point is that it's a physically modelled drum kit - from that I understood that it was a bit like Pianoteq in that, while it's a piano, you get sound packs that use the engine in different ways to produce sounds ranging from tubular bells to electric pianos. I was hoping this meant that MODO Drum could do brushes, as it seems that this might be a tweak in the modelling algorithm. There are no brushes in MODO Drum, and the cymbals are sampled meaning that the overall footprint is still relatively sizable: just something to be aware of when deciding whether or not to purchase.

https://www.audioimperia.com/collections/all/products/flourish

The series is available here: https://klang.cologne/ Some instruments are free; some are paid for, but generally modestly priced. They're (full) Kontakt instruments, so they don't stop working/start charging.

Just delete the text and replace with a '.', or any other symbol of choice. <not serious>Alternatively, just type in a bunch of expletives, and your post will probably get removed by the mods 😜</not serious>

Not everyone has full Kontakt, but yes - some very nice sounds in that series

Some lovely sounds there - Dronar and Magnetism are great for atmospheric pads; Poiesis Cello has sounds you won't get from a typical cello library

It's been there as long as I can remember - it's been move around a little bit here and there though

Most probably because that part of GH is the 'engine-room'. When you go through the trouble of compiling it for others, you also probably want to build a showroom to display your binaries - this would be someone's website where there's a big button to download it, e.g. https://ant-f.github.io/#/software (ok; I admit there's a flaw in my argument - there's no button to download the latest version of File Hash Calculator; that said, there are more directly-accessible links to the other items there)

As mentioned above, GitHub is a source code distribution platform. It's a bit like walking into a guitar shop and asking for guitar loops to use in a DAW; there might be a section in the shop that sells software/loops, but the that isn't the main focus of the shop. It's because most people go to GitHub for code. There are many different open source OSs; Linux is a small umbrella of them. They're all built slightly differently, and building from the source means you have a binary that will be best for your platform. As an example, think of code for a program to be like a blueprint for an engine: there are many different cars; each will house the engine in a slightly different way, and connect the various parts with various custom bits that are best for that car - a single pre-built engine might not be best in every situation. PS. if you ever want a Windows app that helps you calculate file checksums (e.g. SHA256), you can check out my GH page - complete with a .zip containing a pre-built binary 😜 https://github.com/Ant-f/HashCalculator/releases

Give this a try: https://www.foobar2000.org/

No - Bapu said that he'd get his coat, not that it was installed 😁

Each instrument has a certain range of key frequencies that are important to it when trying to distinguish it in a mix. The aim is to try to get the key ranges of all of your instruments audible; the other bits can (to some degree) be cut without affecting the overall sound - this is useful when making room to let other instruments be heard. Think of it like a large-group photo: you generally try to arrange it so the taller people are stood at the back, and the others are in the front, maybe crouching or lying down to allow everyone's face to be visible. It doesn't matter so much that you can't see someone's legs if there's e.g. someone crouching in front of them; the important thing is that everyone's face can be seen. It'd be a slightly weird photo if peoples' faces couldn't be seen but you could see the rest of their bodies. It's the same concept with a mix - it wouldn't be ideal if all you could hear was e.g. the bass range of each instrument. There are quite a few websites with mixing guides than show the typical frequencies to cut/boost when mixing a song: I still occasionally refer to some notes I made on frequency ranges when I was learning to mix. I'm always keen to learn outside of my field/see things from different perspectives. If you have any insights on how to interpret marketing-speak/other examples you'd like to share, I'm up for listening if you're willing to share.

It might be cheaper during a sale. The best deal in the past has been somewhere between BF and New Year; they also have a buy 3, add a 4th title free promotion, which has worked during sales in the past. Alternatively, you could try writing to support.

I don't like the price hike either, but I'm not sure it was entirely under their control. There was a period of about a year or so where they had back-to-back sales: a new sale started on the very next day that the previous one ended. Then the price hike happened, and the continuous sales stopped. Their website received a complete redesign, and they started to convert all of their libraries to Kontakt Player; those that weren't orchestral/cinematic themed (e.g. Rio Grooves, Sew What) were dropped.

I tried just now: looks like you add the bundle to your cart; this puts both instruments into your cart. You can then delete the Outside In Edition.

The original Riff Generation instrument: https://insessionaudio.com/products/riff-generation/ It's a similar/same(?) engine, but uses more synthy sounds, rather than the more organic ones in Riff Generation Outside In Edition

I admit - I too find it hard work. That said, 20 years ago I probably would have just pushed a fader up if a snare wasn't cutting through the mix, and then wondered why everything just felt off and the main meter was clipping (and whether that mattered). Now, I know I might need to apply some PC: find an FET compressor, pull the attack time down, maximize the compression ratio, and then gently balance the compressed sound with the original to get both the transient and the body. Then pull out an EQ, boost a little at 7k for snap, do a little complementary 7k cut on other channels. Then maybe run the whole drum bus through a mild compression so it doesn't overly stick out in the mix. Possibly add a transient shaper. If you told that to a complete newcomer they'd likely stare blankly if you were lucky, and just flat out run away if not.

Not sure how long the intro price lasts https://www.audiothing.net/

I suspect most of us here know a lot more than we realise about how to use a DAW, and we don't realise/remember what it's like being new to the field of music making. Simple products for beginners are good: they bring people in and provide a bigger user base (and money) for the whole product range.

Zero-G also have another offer for bonus products depending on your cart value:

https://zero-g.co.uk/products/kada

It's a great mix of a very cool song: the only improvement would be to not let SoundCloud's sound encoding mash the mix and introduce artefacts into the upper end, but unfortunately that's out of our control 😄 I had no idea - Larry doesn't tend to share his work.

True, but if it's a new product/project, they might hire some new people to work on it independently. As you said though, time will tell.

tl;dr - it's a Kickstarter project to make a short film for people to use as scoring practise, and to include in their portfolio if they want. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thecuetube/cue-tube-pictures-short-film/