Magic Russ

I make whatever comes together when I sit at the computer.  That does include lofi but not so much hip hop.

For my lofi though I mostly put XLN's RC-20 on it.  I'm really only asking about these tape sims because if I go with the 5 plugin bundle to get the 3 I want, that leaves two of the TEAC bundle for me to decide on.

Other than the PortaStudio model sounds a little harsh and tinny on the cymbals and hats, I am not hearing a huge difference between the dry and processed sounds.  Am I missing something or are these really that subtle?

16 hours ago, Scott H said:

The 10% sale is meant to weed out the noobies and the weak minded. Battle hardened veterans will of course wait for the right moment to strike.

Don't forget that this isn't a NI sale, but a sale on their stuff through Best Service.

4 minutes ago, MrFigg said:

Hahahaha. That’s the list of the ones I don’t have. Probably get the vocal strip and fame and farm stone becasue they’re the expensive ones. Then a couple of Tascams and then pick up the rest on a group buy using a free serial number you got somewhere. 

It seems like all the regulars here are in that boat.  Too bad there is no 7-pack.

The point is that EZKeys is a unique tool that will help you generate MIDI keyboard parts that you might not have thought of or might not have been able to play.  There are not a lot of other products out there that will do that.  For people like myself who are working on their keyboard chops, it saves a lot of time and makes it possible to create things we might not have been able to play.   I can't speak for how useful these compositional features are to a competent keyboard player, but if you have a guy named @abacab touting them...

If you were to get five out of these products, which ones would you get?

• The Farm Stone Room Studio Reverb
• Joe Chiccarelli Vocal Strip
• FAME Studio Reverb
• TASCAM 388
• TASCAM Porta ONE
• TEAC A-3340S
• TEAC A-6100 MKII

14 hours ago, abacab said:

I don't have these banks, but I've normally found and downloaded my banks for Arturia instruments in-app using the "Store" browser in Analog Lab V. If you own them they should show up in the "owned" category, from where you can install them. Once the sound banks have been installed they should show up in the instrument, as well as Analog Lab.

I'm pretty sure they can be found on the website somewhere, but I've never done it that way. Others may know how to do that.

With all of their other patch sets, when you download them in Analog Lab, they offer a handful of presets that you can load to demo.  With these three, when you download the bank none of the presets are playable.

7 hours ago, abacab said:

That's a good attitude! For better or worse these old products are still the property of BandLab, and not orphaned "abandonware".

Abandonware refers to software that is neither sold nor supported by its creator, so that term does apply.  Of course just because something fits that definition does not mean intellectual property law doesn't apply.

3 hours ago, LAGinz said:

I’ve got the Latin. Listened to the House midi, and while I’m pretty far from House music in what I do,… can use this midi.

I'm not overly well versed in Latin Pop, but when I was listening to the demos, I was hearing a lot more lounge piano than Latin rhythms.  Sure there were some classically Latin parts there, but a lot that didn't seem quite so much so.

The House demos had a few parts that sounded a bit more R&B than I expected too.

Gear Acquisition Syndrome

I think I first saw the term used in an ad for one of the online retailers, but it seems Walter Becker of Steely Dan coined the term.

On 4/15/2023 at 1:08 AM, Starship Krupa said:

 

I'd like to confess that I do not have 666 finished songs, I don't even have 66 finished songs (or even 66 song ideas). if I'm being honest with myself about "finished," and if that means "I'd play this at a party or send it to a college radio station or put it up on Bandcamp, where the song has all of its parts together and is recorded and mixed. Well, it's probably more like.....6.

If by song ideas, you mean 4-8 reasonably groovy bars that don't go anywhere, then yes I have nearly a thousand of them.  Many have been even inspired by checking out presets or putting together libraries.

It's more than XLN gives you for their updates.

I'm seeing it being out of stock now.   

Was there ever an answer on whether the serials for MIDI packs are use it or lose it like the serials for the sound packs?

1 hour ago, Bapu said:

Just curious, what are the top 10 things (in your opinion) that make it supremely better than either CbB or Studio One. Please, no bashing of the two products, just what you know is infinitely better.

The way it handles track templates and effects presets.

In Cakewalk, when you create a track template the only way of organizing them is by the paths you store the files in.

In Bitwig, you save your track templates with tags so you can search for them by  tags.

In Cakewalk, when you save an effects preset it gets saved under a container.  This can be nice if you want to only expose a few parameters in the underlying effects.  If that isn't what you want, you have to take an extra step to get rid of the container.  And you can actually insert an FX chain without the container, but you need to navigate through the file system to open the FX chain and then use Shift-Open to open it.  

In Bitwig the container is transparent and you can access the effects simply by clicking on them.

We used to have a similar model in our household growing up except that the F# key was broken.  We had the choice of either having it drone at that pitch or covering up the hole with duct tape.

One of the problems I have with EZ Keys is just trying to find the right patterns.  It looks like this update might be more helpful in that regard.

How does this compare to NI version?

It seems all of their effects are being updated.

7.2.0 - 2023-03-29

New features for instrument builders, performance optimizations and bug fixes.

ADDED Bus amplifier section now includes phase invert and L/R swap controls

ADDED Naming voice groups is now possible in Group Editor

ADDED Stereo Modeller Pan parameter can now be modulated

ADDED Lo-Fi Color parameter can now be modulated

ADDED Lowpass and Highpass filters in Solid EQ

ADDED Repack NKR button in Instrument Options dialog (only shows if the instrument has a resource container assigned)

ADDED Collection of new wavetables and single cycle waveforms

ADDED Several new mod shaper presets

IMPROVED Previous and next instrument buttons in Single View are now disabled if only one instrument is loaded

IMPROVED Output section now correctly recalls effect slot settings saved in output section presets

IMPROVED Show additional useful info about the instrument in Monitor > Groups and Monitor > Zones panes

IMPROVED All remaining dropdown menus are replaced with HiDPI menus

FIXED TMPro Legato behavior was incorrect since Kontakt 7.1.3

FIXED Kontakt would crash attempting to reveal a sample in the Mapping Editor with no sample selected

FIXED Bass Pro would always process the signal in stereo even if Mono button was enabled

FIXED Mismatch in sample rate during sample analysis for AET filter which caused incorrect frequency response for non-44.1k samples

FIXED In certain cases the performance view would be incorrectly shifted in the rack

FIXED In certain cases the performance view size would not be updated correctly

FIXED Slice Trigger group start condition listed available slices in the Trigger Zone menu, instead of Slice Index menu

FIXED Pitch Bend Down/Up Only mod shaper presets were affecting the tuning even when pitch bend controller was zeroed out

FIXED Harmonize and Harmonize - Tonal multi scripts produced an extraneous note off event for the original note

ADDED KSP New source module engine parameters for Keyboard tracking, HQI mode, TMPro Keep Formants and S1200 filter mode

ADDED KSP Filename of the last loaded MIDI file can be retrieved with mf_get_last_filename()

ADDED KSP It is now possible to determine if Kontakt is running as a plugin or in standalone with $NI_KONTAKT_IS_STANDALONE

IMPROVED KSP In certain cases using many ui_panel widgets would lag the whole performance view

IMPROVED KSP Major performance improvement when setting zone, loop and sample parameters in batch

IMPROVED KSP Added optional arguments to search() command which allows searching only a specific range of the array instead of the whole array

FIXED KSP Incorrect script error was raised when load_array, save_array(), load_array_str(), save_array_str() commands were used in the init callback

REMOVED Pop-out buttons for Mapping/Wave Editors in plugin versions

On 3/25/2023 at 8:37 AM, John Vere said:

Hmm I was unaware that they had the code so that is really good news.  Sonitus suite seems to have all the important features and in a format anybody can figure out with out a manual. And it is clean. 

They were originally developed by a company called Ultrafunk.  Cakewalk bought them out 20 years or so ago.  It looks like TTS-1 was done by Roland when they owned Cakewalk and Roland wasn't nice enough to share the code.

Odd, because I update the whole collection back then and haven't seen this until now.

V 1.12.0

New features and improvements:

Window can now be resized by dragging the bottom right corner

Added audio protection on plugin output (Limiter at +12dB)

AAX is now compatible with Mac M1

NKS is now compatible with Mac M1 and VST3

Graphic performance improvements

Bug fixes:

Fixed crash in preset browser on Windows

Fixed crash when dragging & dropping a MIDI Clip in Ableton Live

Fixed potential install issues with .pkg files on macOS 13 Ventura

Fixed automation from controller in FL Studio

Mostly Apple stuff, but for Massive X allowing user preset tags to be edited has been long in coming.

1.4.3 - 2023-03-23

MASSIVE X is available as AAX, AU, VST and VST3 Plug-ins in this version.

MASSIVE X requires an Intel processor with AVX or an Apple Silicon processor.

The MASSIVE X Factory Library is a separate installation, be sure to install via NATIVE ACCESS.

ADDED AAX Apple Silicon support

IMPROVED Various browser fixes and enhancements. User preset tags can now be edited

FIXED Massive is now macOS Ventura compatible

KNOWN ISSUE VST3 crashes in Reaper on macOS during scan (but still passes validation)

KNOWN ISSUE Host automation parameter names are fixed to "Macro" in Logic and GarageBand on Apple Silicon computers

KNOWN ISSUE Intermittent crashes when used with Mainstage

KNOWN ISSUE VST3 Macro parameters are overwritten by the DAW when recalling projects with Digital Performer. Please use AU or VST2 instead

2.9.0 2023-03-22 

ADDED AAX plug-in running natively on Apple Silicon 

FIXED Crash in Logic Pro when closing plug-in UI with speech engine enabled 

FIXED Handling of MIDI program change messages with VST3 plug-ins 

FIXED AAS plug-ins UI are blank after reopening UI in Live FIXED ScanApp crashes