Leizer

6 hours ago, chuckebaby said:

Ive heard that SSD drives wont last as long because of writing to disk but I've owned one for 4 years now and yet to see issue with it. I have a 256GB and probably 70GB are project files. I have them all backed up just incase but so far so good with that theory.

now watch my SSD will die tonight because I said this

FWIW, I find leaving the audio files on the SSD drive, they load lightning fast. Totally different animal compared to when a I ran my projects off an HDD. Samples too.

Well, my main SSD is from early 2012, and have a secondary from around 2015. No probs so far here as well.

I bake in the audio in each project folder nowadays, have had too much trouble with disappeared audio files over the years...

18 hours ago, Robert Bone said:

By the way @Leizer, LOVE your signature's CbB notation.  Brilliant

Bob Bone

Thanks! I think I have to do a song with those notes. In C flat.

18 hours ago, Robert Bone said:

I have 2 of the NVME drives in my main desktop - 1 for the boot drive, and then the 2nd one for the most frequently used sample libraries.  I happen to have 4 additional standard SATA III SSDs (each is 2 TB), and 2 additional 2 TB regular 7,200 rpm HDD's, and I put my user folders from Windows (Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Pictures, Music, Videos), and the Cakewalk Content, and Cakewalk Projects on the regular HDD's, and folders that see a lot of reads and writes, (Cakewalk Projects and my user folders) really are best kept on regular 7,200 HDD's.

Bob Bone

This is a great idea. I will implement this because Desktop, Downloads and Documents are the most growing and changing folders on my computer. Good to have them off the main drive.

22 hours ago, Kev said:

Multisamples are definitely better on an SSD, and better still an m.2 SSD.  Mine are on a 256GB m.2 drive.  The size that you need will depend on what samples you have.

EDIT
Sorry, I hadn't read your post about your samples.  1½TB is a lot.  I would probably split them and put the important (or most used) sample sets on the faster drive.

It's a pity 2TB M.2 discs are so expensive, otherwise I would have got one of those. But a slower regular SSD will do perfectly for most of my samples, so as you say it will probably work nicely splitting on two drives with different speed. I actually run Albion One from my 5400 rpm HDD at the moment, and it works just fine. It is running through Kontakt5 that is on the 1TB SSD though, so maybe that helps a little.

1 hour ago, Kev said:

SSDs can have a longer life if you can reduce the overall amount of writing to disk. I would therefore keep project files off the system disk.  Project files are ok on a traditional hdd. You won't see any reduction in performance, aside from loading and saving projects being a bit slower.  I have one set of projects on a 128GB Samsung SSD and another set on a 128GB partition within a 2TB WD "black" hdd and I never notice any difference between the two.

Good to know! How long is the time difference approximately in %? The big wait for me is on orchestra library samples and they will perhaps be a little quicker loading from a M.2 disc, not much else to do about it.

Thanks everyone! Before my current PC, I used to partition the main HDD drive and have a small start up disc, but my last computer had so small start up disc (SSD 256GB) so I didnt partition that. And my secondary drive was (still is) a 5400 rpm HDD which were so slow compared to my main drive so I put almost everything on the SSD from the start. Bad planning and not much money to spend back then. Its almost 8 years old now. Around 4 years ago I bought EWHO and put it on internal 1TB SSD (EVO 850), because the loading times from the 5400 HHD had not been workable.

This time it's different. I have saved more money and have more knowledge of what I need to prioritize in the box.  Everyone of you seems to think that a 1 TB startup SSD is a waste of money,  space  and will make a re-install more complicated and tough.

So, if I get a primary drive (M.2) at 500 GB with no samples, try to keep it clean, I need to have a big sample disc. I have today over 1,5 TB of samples (just EWHO alone is around 700 GB).  My EVO 850 samples disc is starting to get old, so probably have to change that. If I have understood correctly I can only have two M.2s installed totally. So I can put demanding plugins like EWHO on a 1 TB M.2 SSD, and the rest on a 2TB regular SSD (EVO 860 f.e.). Then a 7200 HDD for the rest. What do you think of this? Where do I put the CbB project folder (current folder is now around 20 GB)? Main drive?

I am in a month or so going to build a new PC and after some reading here (and there) I have understood that fast processor, RAM and fast SSD discs are good to prioritize. Thinking of i7-9700K or i9-9900K, 64GB and at least two SSDs.

What about the size of the boot SSD?The 970 EVO plus 1 TB looks really interesting because I have had a lot of trouble leaving empty space in my current boot disc (256GB SSD). However, I see in many places they now recommend 500GB as boot disc. Are there any benefits of choosing a smaller start-up disc (in terms of loading speed/CbB loading time etc)? I thought of having CbB with project folder on the boot disc, then another disc for samples,  like an 860 EVO 2TB. Maybe also a 7200 rpm HDD for some backups and samples I don't use so often/not so demanding.

On 10/25/2019 at 6:56 PM, bjornpdx said:

Very playful fun tune. I would try slowing down the tempo a bit and putting in a delay on the main instrument, synced to the host maybe 1/8.
And when that doesn't work I'd go back to the original track. 😃
It does sound a little Asian, just a hint.  Would  be educational to find out what scale you're using.

Thanks Bjorn! Good idea about the 1/8 delay on lead, I will play around with that and see how it goes.

The scale is a major pentatonic scale (like in key of C - c,d,e,g,a)

On 10/25/2019 at 5:57 PM, John Maar said:

Fun listen! Nice, clean mix. Love Chromaphone AND Soundtoys!

And your wife is right...this definitely has a Panda Express taste to it!

Thanks for listening and commenting!

This tune is also made with AAS Chromaphone 2 (with associated sound banks this time).  In my mind I was going for something between Kotye and early 80s blipblop synth music, but I struggle to keep the soundscape dry enough. I like critique about the mix, use of effects, sound choice. My wife just said that most music I do nowadays sound a bit ...asian? 😆

Mostly Soundtoys FX  used.

Edit:  I listen to some of your earlier critique and have now made a new version that is more wet, and with some small changes and additions. Wetter is better?

Here is the new one:

Scary! Lovely when the maj7 comes in over the minor chord (1:10). Is it voices slowed down and played backwards? Cool effect nevertheless. Good work!

This was a nice piece. I liked the solo intro, good balance between the parts I think. Then you lost me around 1:45, I got back in it at 2:00 and the ending was nice I think. I didn't like the violin solo sound, but I know how difficult it is to get it to sound realistic. Nice work and thanks for posting!

Horr-Ryzen. Scary fast!

Intels respond:

i4sawthis

A little too much effects on the vocals for my taste... but you got a killer voice! Much nicer than Paul Stanleys nasal pipe. Now, do some Tears for fears covers!

Good work, and brave of you to do a cover of such a famous song.

Also heard a lovely Genesis vibe, enjoyed it a lot. Fantastic airy guitar sound. Good work! Perhaps the bass player has a bit early timing for my taste, from time to time.

Soundtrack for a journey movie perhaps? Nice and ambitious work! Loved the drum part. I hope the drums were not from JV-1080, because  my JV-2080 didn't sound so good.

Thanks for sharing, I enjoyed it!

Great song! I was a bit nostalgic hearing Mrs Daryl for the first time in a long while. Nice and clever chord progression in the pre chorus, like it a lot.  A well crafted mix and blend of sounds. A violin solo could have been suitable in this one... cafe violinist at the  first date?

Love the vocals. Little bit of Steely Dan in there(melody/choir/chord progression)? Maybe a little too long with the verses long notes in piano/bass? Though it makes a good transition to the chorus.

Good work!

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Those two extra faders were really expensive?

I use Xpand!2 mainly for two reasons:

1. The ability to layer up to four different sounds in a very quick and easy way.

2. Sketching. The fast loading time/huge instrument list with easy root system makes it quick to find a good sketch sound early on in a song. Sometimes its a keeper, sometimes I later go for another sound. When an idea pops up I don't want to search for a proper sound in 20+ min (Z3TA+2, SynthMaster etc.)

On 10/9/2019 at 11:48 PM, Leizer said:

I send a question about it as well. Bought MPS2.1 Aug 07, so just outside the grace period.

...and as you maybe have guessed, I also got the upgrade. Great of Izotope to do this!

I got the ones not present in 2.1 - Ozone9Adv, R4 and Nimbus. Really happy about the reverbs, can you get too many? 🤣 Bought the R2 some years ago and use it from time to time. Sounds nice and easy to use.

I send a question about it as well. Bought MPS2.1 Aug 07, so just outside the grace period.

On 10/2/2019 at 10:03 PM, bjornpdx said:

Leizer
I like started off with a preset and having things develop from there and you got a real nice result here.
I have AAS stuff but I always forget I have them for some reason. Kind of got into u-he synths lately I guess.

Thanks Bjorn! Not familiar with the u-he synths, though I have heard about them.

On 9/27/2019 at 6:16 PM, Robert Caley said:

I really like it. Nice combination of sounds, and the mix is really good. 

Thanks a lot!

On 9/27/2019 at 1:12 AM, Kevin Walsh said:

Wow, what a lush sound. Really nice mix, and a clever arrangement. Beautiful!

Thanks Kevin, glad you liked it!