Magic Russ

Most of my track templates have an instance of MODO bass. It just seems to be a little bit better than any of the sample libraries I have.

I just had a chance to play with these. Cesium is a pretty good Chorus but not particularly unique. Tungsten, however has reverse and granular controls that can create some messed up delays that you won't find from just any delay.

I'd even qualify that to say that the rate of new development for AD is poor. I love RC-20 and the more recent drum kits of theirs are not bad at all. Besides, how many drum kits do you need anyway?

Because VI is also an acronym for Virtual Instrument? That and Gibson involvement.

Adds new compressor and bank featuring it.

I have two or three very simple tracks with it. One is a reggae thing and the other has sort of a spaghetti western vibe. The Strum part in the reggae track is not particularly convincing but doesn't need to be - just some rhythmic mutes. The spaghetti western song uses an acoustic guitar that I ran through Vinyl to make it sound like it was coming off an old gramophone record. This turned out to be a good way of hiding the flaws in Strum's modeling while adding a certain sense of place to the track. I mostly use Strum in the same way as EZ Keys - as a compositional tool. Anything it outputs will either get re-recorded or heavily effected.

It really looks like the samples are the same, with a prettier scripted front end and NKS integration. I can't say the Dimension version was among my most used libraries, so I'm not going to be in at $99. If you like the sounds and don't have the older Cakewalk version (which doesn't seem to be available any more) and can't wait until BF, it might make sense.

In addition to two others, I picked up the Shofuku cartridges by Nori Ubukata. I have mixed feelings about these. On one hand they are marvels of what you can do with a DX7. On the other hand, I don't know that they added that much to my existing palette. Every once in a while I try to mess around with FM synthesis, and these are probably as good to learn from as anything else out there.

Thanks for the heads up on this.

This does seem to load a lot faster.

Don't forget, in addition to all the effects that are there, you have the ability to modulate all these parameters based on the input envelope, or LFOs or step sequencers.

Fuzz Faces are not my favorite fuzz, but I think they did a reasonably good job with this.

I think the usage issues have less to do with the GUI and more to do with GR6 running in HQ mode by default and that the new cabinets are all IR.

I don't think that those are generating enough interest for them to invest resources in creating videos. I've also noticed that for certain manufacturers, Groove3 videos come out very close in time to the software/update they are covering. It could be that the relationships they have with manufacturers affects which products get featured.

That's a fairly good idea. Although if you only have a couple of drum sounds (as opposed to wanting dozens of varieties of snares, etc) it doesn't take a lot of time to sample the ones you want and pop them into Battery.

In for $10 for the two I didn't yet have. Masala is very much what you expect, but Low End Theory with a few nice lead sounds.

Unless I am reading it wrong, it looks like Mixcraft are distributing the Kjaerhus Audio Classic Series effects. If you know, enough said, if not google what happened to that company.

I think most DAWs have had Hall of Shame moments Logic for abandoning its PC users. Cakewalk for the way the add on components around the time of X2 made things less stable. Ableton for looking ugly as anything. Bitwig for offering WASAPI support for output but not input. Also both of them for not being able to audition midi to a track. Project 5 could do that and it's been out of development for 15 or 17 years already. Cubase had people calling their parent company Steinbug, so I'm sure there's something there. Frooty Loops offering lifetime upgrades and then changing the name of the product and everyone having to upgrade to the new version. Mixcraft for bundling software from an infamous *****. I guess that just leaves Reaper and Studio One as not having Hall of Shame moments.

Rainbow started with Dio, had big single "Since You've Been Gone" with Graham Bonnet, also "Stone Cold" with Joe Lynn Turner.

And the only reason for that was that it's huge enough that you need the hard drive it comes on. On the other hand, if I had to do a re-install a good chunk of these would have been updated and need to be downloaded anyway.

By the way, which one is he?

Probably not on its own but averaging prices in the next group buy it probably would be effectively less than that.

I don't think they let you do that anymore. I'm not sure if they let you sell your serials either.

I have been finding I like the SQ-80 more than I thought I would. I also am finding a lot of potential in the Synclavier. I've had this for a couple of months and feel like I haven't even scratched the surface.

They gave me the FX collection for $49 for BF, because I owned some of the freebies they gave away for Christmas. All I wanted was the Fragments granulizer, which goes for $99. And I also got the V Collection at $199 because I upgraded their string product from the holiday giveaway version.