chris.r

On 5/20/2023 at 3:48 AM, chris.r said:

Have you found the time to play with your 3340S yet, how you like it? From some youtubes I hear it does alter stereo image (sweeten?) more than the 6100 OTOH I don't hear this strong tape compression that I hear with 6100 anymore. Can't make up my mind between these two... gosh first world problems  

So here I am couple weeks later. Decided to go the trial route and so ended up choosing both cause they both do add two different flavours of the same magic to the sound (you know, like deeper depth, wider width and most specifically sweeter sweetness...) trying to be as much technical in my terms as possible here 😂.

I hate when they do this crap move, I remember Microsoft did that with XP or Win7!

Is there a way to manually download the second last version?

Sounds sweet but I'll wait for a good sale on singles...

(I like to hoard them one by one 😂)

Changelog updated: 

3.1.12

- Fix some crashes with Logic Pro in Rosetta Mode

- Fix Windows issue with Filechooser dialog

No changelog.

8 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

If you are reluctant to configure something to your taste because at some future date you could possibly forget how you did it, aren't you sacrificing years of convenience for the sake of avoiding a possible bit of confusion (resolved with a forum search)?

Yes, that's exactly what I do and way too often mainly because I still forget about the perfectly usable forum search. Silly me! 🤪 But more seriously it's mostly about future compatibility with any upcoming updates.

8 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

We've been over this ground before, at least I have. I've requested a couple of times that Cakewalk read VST3 format presets from the disk when they happen to be installed by the plug-in's installer in the canonical locations as specified by Steinberg. Which it already sort of does, but it only displays them in the "VST3" menu where you  must load them individually, one at a time, rather than easily browsing them as with the integrated Cakewalk Preset Manager.

I'm really glad that you at least tried to request that. Apparently I missed any threads and posts about it!

8 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

With presets for VST3's, we're really talking about three different cases.

First is when...

See, my initial enthusiasm has come from not understanding the mechanisms behind the ways of how it's working in VST3. Now it's clear to me why I failed with my own tests 😂.

8 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

What we want is to get these third type VST3 spec presets to show up in Cakewalk's internal Preset Manager, which is easier to use, may be quickly browsed, etc.

(...)

Easiest of all is to let someone else handle the bashing or script babysitting...

Oh yeah I like that best!  

8 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

It would be best if Cakewalk could do the importing automatically. It obviously knows where to look for .vstpresets as it displays them in the VST3 menu.

If there is an citizens' initiative form or a letter of intent I'll gladly fill in and sign 👍

Ok I did experiment a bit.. deleting the presets from disk doesn't stop them from showing up in their VST3 plugin preset manager so they must be read from somewhere else. The 'PresetPath' string is empty in their registry. Think this is getting too big for me, at this point I'm clueless .

27 minutes ago, Patrick Wichrowski said:

I have all this .ssp files backed up. In january I had to reinstall my Windows 7 and all the presets that I saved were restored. Very handy!

Guess that's the only way as for now for me too. Only if there will be any updates to the presets in future, I would have to know first when it happens and then update the SSP files each time. Too much of a headache.

57 minutes ago, Starship Krupa said:

Just go to the topic I linked to and follow the instructions. We figured it out. There are .SPP files there that you can import using Plug-in Manager. Between all of us, I think we covered all but a few PA products and a couple others, like McDSP.

No copying files around, no registry editing, just download the .SPP's and import them.

Eryk, but that could potentially lead to some trouble in future. Say I will re-install or migrate Windows in a few years and forget about all this, I'll end up with no vst3 presets wondering what I did couple years ago to make them work.

Wish there would be a simpler solution like pointing to the correct path on disk, but don't know how. For now I see at least 3 different locations. For example Opticon XLA-3 presets are in 'Documents\VST3 Presets\Plugin Alliance'  and they don't show up as most if not all from this path, and there are most of them (50).

Lindell PEX-500 presets are in both 'AppData\Roaming\VST3 Presets\Plugin Alliance' and 'C:\VST3 Presets\Plugin Alliance' and they do show up in Cakewalk so they are read from one of these places I guess.

But... in 'AppData\Roaming\VST3 Presets\Plugin Alliance' there are also presets for Lindell TE-100 and NEOLD BIG AL, Lindell presets do show up in Cakewalk but BIG AL are not... what gives?? I would prefer to read the original preset files from a correct path on disk as that's the manufacturer's 'proprietary' preset system, if I update a plugin and it's presets will get updated too, I want Cakewalk to read the updated presets from their original location. Doubt the '.SPP' way would do it.

17 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

On 5/29/2023 at 9:13 PM, PavlovsCat said:

I imagine that there's no solution to getting presets on PA plugins to show up since you made that post, Erik?

(...)

Once someone has bashed all of the PA (or other company's) .vstpresets into the Cakewalk system...

Thanks for heads up. This got me thinking. I wonder whether it's actually necessary to "bash" all PA vst3 presets into Cakewalk first, to make them work. So far I found these paths with VST presets on my system:

Documents\VST3 Presets\Plugin Alliance

AppData\Roaming\VST3 Presets\Plugin Alliance

ProgramData\VST3 Presets [no plugin alliance presets there]

C:\VST3 Presets\Plugin Alliance

also many places with individual plugin or company presets like AppData\Roaming\UnfilteredAudio

some of these presets do load automatically in VST3's preset manager in Cakewalk here, some won't, I wonder if there's maybe an incorrect path somewhere in registry or what makes them work or not?

Thought I'll ask before starting experimenting with copying all these presets between all different places on disk or editing registry  

4 hours ago, wallace said:

They show up just fine for me.

Thanks. Yeah, they are back now... not even rough idea what happened??

I don't see any Unfiltered Audio plugins, anyone getting this?

1 hour ago, Jojo Guingona said:

but Cakewalk doesn't see it

that's how it's invisible  

small print: check if it didn't install into a different path than expected, many small developers do a mess with their installers, just a thought but that's quite common thing, I'll check it later too and will post back if I find anything wrong...

always love their walkthroughs  

1 hour ago, Fleer said:

Just got that coupon in the mail. Now what. 

16 hours ago, chris.r said:

Code not valid for me anyway. Oh well, so much for a deal 😆

I sorted out the issue by acquiring purple audio's 1176 from PA on '2 for $49' sale and making use of my $25 voucher... effectively getting it for about $12,50 not a bad deal I'd say   

Looking for a free $75 voucher, sadly I've already used my $25 one so can't trade  

Code not valid for me anyway. Oh well, so much for a deal 😆

5 hours ago, PavlovsCat said:

... Then I came across another article,  this one by Craig Anderton comparing the Sonitus EQ to Cakewalk QuadCurve -- a plugin I never even heard of before.  Anyhow, all of that is the result of your post, so thanks, @Bruno de Souza Lino.

I've used QuadCurve EQ to tame resonances in a rough recording and it did a splendid job.

ONLY 651.5MB 😱😱😱 !!

confirmed 👍

Very airy.

On 5/18/2023 at 11:09 PM, Doug Rintoul said:

TEAC 3340S

Have you found the time to play with your 3340S yet, how you like it? From some youtubes I hear it does alter stereo image (sweeten?) more than the 6100 OTOH I don't hear this strong tape compression that I hear with 6100 anymore. Can't make up my mind between these two... gosh first world problems  

From their descriptions I learn that their plugins are far and beyond any other emulations  

8 minutes ago, MusicMan said:

Auth is iLok.

Oh at least that's fine, thanks!

What is their disk and cpu footprint and how's the authorization method?