Magic Russ

On 9/19/2019 at 11:01 AM, InstrEd said:

P5 did have a cult following.  To bad it didn't survive to become 64 bit at least

They put out a survey before the last update asking for priorities on what they should update.  Multicore and 64 bit were listed as options.  The user base voted for input quantize.

Nothing in particular.   I feel I could use a better algorithmic verb, maybe the full BREVERB or MTurboReverb.   

2 hours ago, Carlos said:

Thanks for the suggestion mate (your video and the answers in the comments section (towards me) helped me out a lot and pull the trigger).

Ends in only 4 hours?

I had 8 of the bundle already and it was still a killer deal.

IK Multimedia has a few things in their group buy that might work.   Head over to the deals forum and Larry will be sure to find the cheapest way to get you in.

Nomad Factory is also highly discounted right now.

Rayzoon has just released a new mini-pack called Odd Time, with a new drummer Bill, which caters to odd time signatures.

They also have in the pipeline another one, NEO 60, which focuses on 60s pop and soul.  Included is a new drummer called Star.  It should be released in the next week or two.

How does the LA 2 mode compare with other LA-2A models?  Also how does the 2 mode compare with the 3 mode and where would you use one vs. the other?

One of my favorite sounds is the Pinnacle distortion into the Princeton amp.  Neither of these is in any of the bundles.

I've also done a fair amount of patches with the Vox.  And the Silvertone, Orange AD-30, Orange Rockerverb, Silver Anniversary Marshall, and various Fenders.

 

Don't forget that there are some nice effects in some of the collections.

For example, I was recently going through components and found that the Chorus from Ampeg 1 sounds nice with guitar.  In chorus mode, it has one sound which is between chorus and flanger (still a good sound), but I like its vibrato mode a lot too.

31 minutes ago, Zo said:

Larry is Slash , hendrix , marshall ect ..worth ? was thinking of Orange mainly , are the new ones included in deal ?

Can't we get individuals amp in the custom shop ?

 

You can get individuals in the custom shop, but usually if you want a couple of things from a collection you may as well go for the collection.

SO4 is great in a lot of ways, but for me, CW allows me to get ideas down and formed faster.

It would also be spelled with a K.

NI listed the names in their Massive X Feedback/Support Forum today.

https://support.native-instruments.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360006954818-Massive-X-100-Presets-Added-en-us-

Massive X Factory Library version 1.0.2 new presets:

All Luck

Ancient Strings

Apocalypse Forever

Arena Hands

Artocaster

Ballers Ivory

Balloon Time

Bellody

Bohrium

Bracket

Butterherz

Calm Rocket

Cathedralium

Celestial Plum

Circuit Celesta

Club Tropics

Crayon

Cruella

Crush Star

Daft

Dark Heart

Deep Blue

Digital Ghost

Dodo Scream

Dunkle

Earthly

Electra Fizzle

Electric Flow

Epica

Extinction Now

Fallen Crush

Fancy

Fist Front

Forest Metal

Funk Glider

Future Switch

Galaxy Quest

Glitch Line

Golden Age

Goon Walk

Granny

Hang Ten

Harvest

Iron Ivory

Kingson Brown

Kong Donk

Lately

Lets Dance

Lola

Lost

Lovely Eighties

Mashed

Melancholic Rims

Melo Square

Mini Ark

Missing Beats

Modern Funk

Modern Slap

Mystery Metal

Naked Saw

Neo Soul

Noise Pulse

Paloma

Passive

Phat Phase

Pipe Man

Plastique

Plucky

Port Meadow

Puffy

Quack

Quantum Foam

Rampenschutz

Retrograde

Rising Star

Rising Sun

Robot Wars

Sagittarius X

Shifter Spaces

Sid Arp

Sky Hands

Slim Jim

Smash Piano

Spaced

Spiked

Stabbath

Steam Pan

String Bundle

Sub Pop

Subterra

Summer Metal

Sweet Heaven

Techtronic

Tuby Tuesday

Wafty

Whirly Gate

White

Wild Pitch

Wobbly Orbit

Woozle

That's great, but I was looking for the names of the new presets.  The list of changes tells me that 100 new presets were added, but doesn't say which ones.

As far as I know, NI did not provide a list of the new presets, nor any way of telling which ones are new.

All the fuzzes are in the Hendrix collection.  I also like the Silvertone for rough blues.

Slash has some decent amps, but I like it more for the effects.

Fulltone has the OCD, which is one of the better drive pedals in Amplitube.

Orange - Rockerverb and AD-30 are my favorite in this collection.

For bass, I like to layer the Bassman 300 from the Fender collection 1 with the BA-500 from the first Ampeg collection.

Mesa Boogie turned out to be a nice surprise for me.  I've never been a big fan of the Rectifier thing, but you can get a lot more out of these than I expected.  The Model III sounds a lot better than the one in the core package.

Sadly inertia has dampened my GAS.  I've seen a lot of cool stuff on super sales that I just never got around to getting.

It also seems like there are a lot of sales that come around regularly.  There are very few once in a lifetime sales anymore.  I know the patterns and can wait for the next turn of the cycle.

 

1 hour ago, Fleer said:

Quite an amazing Group Buy, I must say. 

If you start with a $149 plugin purchase like the Fender 2 Pack (which you can buy for half that price at JRR as our King found out) then your first freebie could be the T-RackS 5 bundle which, on its own, contains 9 plugins you would have selected as individual freebies in a regular IK Group Buy, hence rapidly filling up your free slots. I’m talking about high quality plugins like Dyna-Mu, Master Match, EQual and ONE. During last year’s Group Buy you’d have to commit four freebie slots of $99 each, only for them.

In the current Group Buy a $149 valued freebie slot gets you all nine in T-RackS 5. 

Way to go, UIKG. 

I think the Meter plugin comes as part of the T-Racks custom shop,  I think I had it when I registered their LA-2A which came as a freebie with CM.  I haven't had a chance to test the "classic" ones that were listed at $49, but I suspect they might have been surpassed by newer offerings.  The other 4 have a lot of potential, so I'd definitely recommend picking up the suite if you got in at the $149 level or higher and one or more of the 4 newer ones look at all interesting to you.

On 8/25/2019 at 12:43 PM, craigb said:

If she wasn't already, Cher is going to He77 for starting the auto-tune popularity.  When I first got one of the original pitch correction units (Antares AVP-1 Pro) I couldn't believe that they actually called the extreme settings the "Cher Effect" in the manual!  

That said, I did use extreme settings a couple of times to prove that some friends couldn't sing... 😆

The sad state of pop vocals also owes a lot to Alanis, as well as American Idol.

Yes, they are either part of the custom shop or a collection.  You are not the only one annoyed by that.  I created a folder called "Unsupported" and moved all of those types of presets to that folder.

 

The one where you got a whole bunch of AAS expansion packs for $10 or so.  Even taking into account that I already had half of these, it still was a jackpot.

The IK pick and mix.  Even if I don't use half of it, I still came out way ahead.

I just heard that song on my wife's crummy pop station.  Case closed.

I got one in Chinese. 

Similar to Kontakt instruments, some are Player certified, others not.   If it works like Kontakt, vendors  need to pay a fee to NI to be licensed in the player.

If it's something NI is selling, it will work in the player.  If its something you find in the user library, it won't.

On 7/27/2019 at 5:22 PM, kitekrazy said:

https://bestclassicbands.com/we-built-this-city-1-7-17/

 My guess is those that thought so had never experienced enough decades of music.  Maybe it's because it was not a one hit wonder band.  The must have missed Disco when just about every mainstream artist made a contribution to that genre.   Disco Duck was one of the worst things I've heard. In the 80's music become more visual and changed whether a song was great. 

"Disco Duck" was a joke, and obviously intended as such.

"We Built This City" was by no means a good song.  It didn't even rise to mediocre.   I might be able to list a hundred worse songs that were popular.

What really makes it so hated though, is the way that it embodies everything that was wrong with rock/pop in the 80s.  You've got the artificial peppiness, the mechanical rhythms, cheesy horn stabs, awkward synth fills.  You have anti-corporate lyrics in a song that was a symbol of corporate rock.  And fewer things are more 80s than crappy sellout music from bands that used to be good in the 70s.