Doug Steinschneider

I was able to buy aIR Rack for $5 - thanks for the tip. I think it's the right one for my usage.

This one probably aligns better with what I'm hoping to accomplish. The Amp and EQ sections of the Nembrini product are probably very good but I would probably use an amp sim instead. The Nembrini IR Loader looks more like a tool to create a very custom unique amp replacement more than just an IR tool

Unpredictable - one of the IR's might scorch my mix 🤪 (recently read Three Body Problem trilogy)

I love the AXE I/O Solo. It replaced one of my Behringer UMC202HD's (moved it over to keyboard duties) that I was very happy with but the AXE I/O helps my bass and guitar sound and play better. I use the Passive/Active switch depending on which bass I'm using. The Z-Tone knob is helpful when moving between a Strat and Les Paul.

CYBER10 at checkout brings it down to $14

I have been using Vegas Pro 14 that came with a Humble Bundle several years ago. As a user of DAW's I found after watching a bunch of YouTube videos that I could accomplish everything I needed. To create a live video of our band I took video from multiple phones and multitrack off the board and synced them up and edited it into a nice live band video. I'm going to buy this bundle to get up to v19.

I've collected some free bass cab impulse reponses from Dr Bonkers. I also have some that are supposed to be good for acoustic guitar. I've played with IR's in AmpliTube 5. I use Nembrini amp sims on a regular basis and like the product line. My IR use will be supplemental - mostly to improve the sound of amp sims while recording guitars and basses in DAW's. While reading reviews I see that users who have enormous collections of IR prize a good fast browsing system which apparently isn't one of the strengths of the Nembrini IR loader although they respond to comments about this that they will be addressing that. They include an EL-34 power amp section and a six band EQ. I see people who demo it are using preamp VST's and effect pedal emulations instead of an amp sim. Is anyone here using Nembrini's IR Loader? If so, how do you use it? I have downloaded ChopTones IR Loader , STL Nadir, Melda MConvolution EZ and Lancaster Pulse

Welcome to Unify - I think you'll be pleasantly surprised, especially with synth plugins you already own. I've learned a lot from John's weekly livestreams. Many of them involve Unify libraries for products I don't own like Omnisphere but it's a good way of learning more about those. The U-he Zebra2 Unify library is good.

Maybe one of the NI bundles includes it to accomplish some task they don't want to code into the NI product? It's pretty harmless, if on Windows you could just go into Task Manager/Startup Items and uncheck it.

I use Midi Translator Pro to do a bunch of interesting tricks. One example is I assigned one of the sliders on my keyboard to act as a series of keyswitch note holds for a Kontakt based pedal steel instrument. I did that because I needed the full range of my XBoard 49 to play the instrument. A little know secret is their forum, Steve there is a wizard who can get you started on how to do something like the above. Get all our software with a 30% discount: – MIDI Translator Pro – Bome Network Pro – Unlimited Named MIDI Ports …and more Enter the coupon code BOME_BLACK30 in the shopping cart to receive the Bome Black Friday discount.

If Mike Campbell did a collection I would be interested. I just watched "The Dumble Amp: A Short History" by Five Watt World on YouTube. I gathered from watching it that Dumble was obsessed with matching the character of the amp to the playing style of the guitarists he worked with. I'm curious about how much the Tonex ODS captures achieve that. My favorite amp/cab emulations are ones that react as much as possible like their physical counterparts. I find myself using Nembrini BG Extasy (Bogner) and DC30 (Vox) often.

I completely forgot it's been Unified - that will be the way to go.

impOSCar2 has three set UI sizes. When newly installed, it loads in the medium size. To change it turn the EDIT knob over to the CC position. Look for the UI Size dropdown list to the left of the on-screen keyboard. Select a new size from the list. Restart impOSCar2 to view the changes. I read somewhere that the large size is too big

I went to Pocketmags.com with the intention to buy the December issue for $5 to get Imposcar2 but ended up buying the year subscription for $14. I'm enjoying the December issue.

So the 20 downloads isn't 20 slots you can rotate? Good to know. I actually thought you can only have 20 downloaded at a time 😀 I don't think I've been getting white noise every 10 seconds. I'm using Tonex from AT5 running under Cantabile. I'll go back and check - the Hiwatt live at Leeds patch has a realistic noise floor.

I have AmpliTube 5 Standard. I haven't bought Tonex so I'm on CS for that. Last night I played for hours using a user Tonex Preset called "Double Hi-Watt John Entwistle Bass" to work on a set of Live at Leeds we're going to do. I been using all kinds of presets but my Tonex Account on Tone.net/tonex/users/dougs.ik "User Tone Models Downloads remaining" is still at 20/20. I'm not even sure how to download presets. Do I only need to download presets if I'm going offline? I find the Tonex pedal tempting. I could use it for when we record rehearsals direct to our Soundcraft Ui24R

Hi Peter, since the Product Manager combined everything into one place and automated the sound file installs using IK products has been really convenient. Please thank the developers for us.

I've been good about squirreling away the sound files. I wonder if I'll get lazy regarding this going forward.

Nembrini's Acoustic Voice requires a piezo pickup - it's Martin emulation sounds good. I converted an all acoustic Takamine Jade (budget line they produce) to acoustic electric using a JOYO JE-307 I bought on Amazon for $24. I'm going to try it with Acoustic Voice at some point. Blue Cat also has a guitar body/pickup emulator that includes acoustics.

As the humorous aside on the RTPmidi developer's website points out, this isn't going to be fun if your WiFi isn't working well. It turned out my trusty Netgear Nighthawk R7000 hand me down I've been using for years as an access point, has developed issues and that's why I was having problems.

I got it running again. I went into the RTPmidi control panel and removed all settings and then added back in and connected. I also went in Cakewalk and removed the control surface mackie Control -1 and re-added it.

I get a message Port 2 - No IP address bound from TouchDAW

Thanks - I'll check that thread

I set this up and it worked right away for my first session but on second use I'm getting "Cakewalk Initializing DAW Control" message for too long - then "No response from DAW" message. I checked the router - restarted computer running cakewalk. The WiFi connection is good - looks to be connected when I check in the RTPmidi control app - something in Cakewalk is tripping it up.

I'm in the market for a 414 clone - would this be similar?