Magic Russ

On 1/19/2023 at 10:22 AM, e-cue said:

He's a singer.  He rides the gravy train.

By the way, which one is he?

3 hours ago, DeeringAmps said:

I’m in when it hits ~$20.

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you know it will…

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.

5 hours ago, Fleer said:

Had similar thoughts. Not into the harsh tonality of an MS-20 myself, what with its filter as a freebie. But I do quite like the SQ80. And the Augmented Vocals. And the newly separated Prophets. And the incredible CS-80. And …

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.

On 1/12/2023 at 12:26 PM, marled said:

I don't understand Arturia's pricing philosophy! V Collection is so cheap compared to the single synths, but if you don't need most of them, it makes no sense to purchase the whole collection.

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. 

Old 97's, Timebomb: 

She's gonna kill me, and I don't mean softly...

Bob Dylan, Positively 4th St: 

Yes, I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
You'd know what a drag it is to see you

James, Laid:

You're driving me crazy, when are you coming home?

Wilco, Passenger Side:

You're gonna make me spill my beer, if you don't learn how to steer

Wilco, Jesus Etc.:

Our love is all of God's money

On 12/30/2022 at 11:26 PM, craigb said:

I kept waiting for someone to mention Manfred Mann (who's cover made it famous).

I always preferred his cover of "For You" 

One potentially important thing people may not have noticed is that with version 4.2 Battery no longer supports import of 3rd party formats such as soundfont, drumagog, mpc etc.  REX is an exception.

If you need these you can either roll back to 4.1.5 or keep Battery 3 around if you have it.

It just adds macOS Ventura compatibility and some minor graphical improvements when building instruments.

21 hours ago, Marina said:

4. PA plugins are heavily overpriced outside the promotions. 

 

The regular price for their emulation of the Boss DS-1 is $50.  I can get the real thing for $40 on Reverb or $50 new when Guitar Center has a sale.

Somehow I managed to get a coupon in my cart for Mesa Boogie 2 which brought it down to $14.99 (but no additional jam points) so perhaps check that before going to JRR.

I want to finish more songs this year.

Witcher III is a pretty good game and with the included expansions that's a lot of content for $10.

It's more or less a couple of test tones with some amp and filter envelopes and a cool interface.  

I think they are optimistic thinking they can get $15 for it at the regular price.

I listened to the demo video and did not like what that did for the EP at all.  I might download it though because it might sound interesting on some other instruments.

Picked up Currents.  

1 hour ago, pwalpwal said:

it's like your wardrobe, if you haven't worn it for more than a year...

..and you have to photoshop or discard all the pictures where you are wearing that old clothing.

5 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

See my quiz on "desert island" FX.

I wrote out my list, then looked at it, all 15 of them, and asked myself why I have 20X that many. Yeah, some of those are one-of-a-kind sound design-y things from the likes of Glitchmachines, Freakshow Industries, and Unfiltered Audio, but the list in my "compressors" category is huge.

Same here, although I don't think I've ever bought a compressor outside a bundle.  Sonar comes with Blue Tubes bundle, cool!  Joined IKM group buy to get Amplitube products, may as well go with TRacks components!  Oh look, Komplete has kompressors too!    Cheaper to buy the bundle from Arturia than the one FX I want, guess I have even more compressors than I will actually use.  I'm pretty much the same way with EQs for the same reasons.

Yeah but with Cakewalk there's the question of what is stock?  Do the plugins that were stock in SONAR count or just what is available in CBB?  OK so I take SONAR but can I use the  plugins that were there from earlier versions but not in the final one?

Multi-effect: Guitar Rig.  This is feels like a cheat because it has the three SoftTube compressors, Mod Pack, Crush Pack, bunch of reverbs etc.

Delay:  MTurboDelay.  Like Starship Krupa said, this covers more than you would expect a delay to.

WTF MFX:  Molekular

Amp Sim: Amplitube 5

Convolution Reverb: ReMatrix

One Stop Mastering:  Lurssen

Trance Gate:  MRhythmizer

LoFi: RC-20

I'm not committing to compressors because I have a boatload and usually don't get far enough into a track to be concerned with mixing.

I'm not committing to algorithmic reverbs because I just got the Arturia FX pack and Intensity could be a contender, but MTurboReverb is pretty good too.

4 hours ago, PavlovsCat said:

It sounds pretty cool and it's free, so I'm in!

I had clicked the button at NI's site several hours ago and then several minutes ago and still no sign of Hypha in Native Access. I did catch NI's message that it can take up to 24 hours to show up in Native Access,  Just an FYI for anyone else waiting for the freebie to show up. 

8 hours so far for me.

I'm not surprised it will take up to 24 hours to show up.  It took me a few tries before it would download the K7 player.

51 minutes ago, simon said:

possibly not, depending on your DAW - the latest Cubase/Nuendo version (plus latest VST3 SDK!) means that you can replace missing plugins with equivalent ones.  I think Kontakt is the first one to take advantage of it and reports of it working well.

 

Reaper is supposed to offer same functionality as well.  Unfortunately my preferred hosts are Cakewalk and Bitwig and neither support that.

Either way you still get the problem of having to update all your track templates every time they come out with a new version of Kontakt.

15 hours ago, Fleer said:

I didn’t gel with Ableton, always found it a bit ‘bland’. So I was quite happy when Bitwig was launched and I immediately jumped, as if they succeeded making a sexy version of Live. Even visited them during the Frankfurt MusikMesse when they were presenting their first version. Remained loyal ever since, as they’ve been adding incredible stuff with every upgrade. It really feels as if it’s a DAW-like instrument. It’s the DAW I actually “play”, Another very creative one is Tracktion’s Waveform. But my main DAW still is MainStage/Logic (while I love to dabble with Reason 12, but for god’s sake, make it Apple Silicon native, you silly Propellerheads). 

Ableton always put me off as well.  Bitwig seems a bit closer to Project 5 to me, so I use it on occasion.

However, there are a few things in Bitwig that are just completely unintuitive and not in the manual.  Tap Tempo is a great example.