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    Banned from KVR

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    Posted · Edited by Carlos

    Instead of hitting the like button here CC, I made a new thread on the Buy and Sell Kvr's section, lol.
    If you read it, well, is just because I root for you, because even if we really don't know each other, I feel I do: You show more with your doings than anything else.

    So, you making all these posts to help us that is  just great and I am thankful King. Hugs.

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    RME Babyface Pro

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    3 hours ago, synthmeister said:

    I have the BabyFace Pro and have used it for years live playing of VIs on an old laptop.

    This gets excellent measured performance in the GearSlutz interface database; the best PCIe cards don't perform that much better in the real world.

    RME software is rock solid. Low latency performance is superb. TotalMix is a nice bonus. The "box" and physical buttons and dial all are very high quality.

    Only complaints I ever see on these relate to pricing.

     

    3 hours ago, jude77 said:

    So true.  Plus, I have an original Babyface and they are STILL supporting the drivers.

     

    2 hours ago, John Bohlen said:

    I would definitely get the FS version. They trying to sell the old stock. I noticed with the FS version when you master and render your songs, the wav files will be much smaller in size due to less jitter noise introduced. Everything has more detail.

     

    2 hours ago, Amicus717 said:

    I bought a used original Babyface for $300 about 3 years ago, and it has been -- hands down -- the absolute best interface I have ever used. Clean sounding, solidly built, rock solid drivers that are still supported and updated, great latency and designed to last.

    RME pretty much locked me up as a permanent customer going forward. They're the best, in my books.

    Rob

     

    38 minutes ago, Grem said:

    I bought a used FireFace 400 for more money than I ever paid for any audio interface. But I had heard for a long time RME was the best. So I gave it a shot. They have won me over. I will be a RME customer for life now. 

    I recently purchased a used (like brand new!) UA Apollo Twin. And I really love it too! But I am not getting rid of the RME FF 400. 

    I rather RME console software over UA version. Much more flexible. But the UA plugins...... man!! I am waiting to see how the UA drivers work on big projects. 

    With the Covid 19 around the corner, I hope you have time in your hands to answer the next question, it's so simple I don't know why people in any forum focus on it, specially on GS, before I ask the question, let me tell you that:

    After I gave away in exchange for a Bluebird microphone (I didn't know what I was doing, although the trade was a good one) my Mbox (original), all the interfaces, not just them, but the audio coming out from my PC/Laptop, to me... was SHIT. My statements are bold, I know, just bear with me please 1 second.

    After a VERY long search, I got lucky and finally solved my issue: Having the Audient id44 made me realize that perhaps the DAC of the interfaces was the culprit.
    You don't have any idea how much time I put into trying to solve this problem, buying new cables (not of great quality, but different type of connections as the Audient offers a lot).

    How I solved it: Since the Audient headphone output is shit, I thought "ok, what some said on GS about not having enough power for a pair of Beyerdynamic DT 990 is true, I can see that now". Let's buy a headphones amplifier, as I've read quite a lot on forums and on product reviews. So I bought... THE SCHIIT! A Heresy (it could've been the Magni 3+ but that's a different story). Ok, so, since I don't live in the best country (ok my country is the best but don't tell anyone, yours is very close... but mostly because you got everything and more at your fingertips, at least it's how I see it) it took more than a month to arrive (due to fkcing bureoucracy, not that my country is so far away from yours), in the meantime, maybe 15 days in of being shipped, I bought a used Modi 2 usb (not the latest version). This thing is a DAC!

    This DAC solved my issue 90%, I'd say 99%... sound wasn't harsh anymore (mostly), YOUTUBE didn't sound like shit anymore (and it's not that they compress your sound, I download videos I like and play them on the VLC player... they sound louder, so I don't think they touch your sound, but withing a browser for some reason sounds with lower volume).

    So the Heresy arrives, and plug it in, then send the RCA outputs to my Yamaha receiver, which powers up my Yamaha NS 244's... guess what guys?

    I spent 4 hours STRAIGHT listening to music NON STOP, it sounded so great even my mother came to me at some point, not to complain (I had it quite loud, and I played some songs she really liked) and said to me "I feel something great is coming because this sounds so good, it really does make you feel very good (because it sounds so good)" or something like that (she mentioned angels and what not, even if Metallica was playing, lol).

    Also, if you remember... I fkcing hated the Beyerdynamic DT 990 for being VERY FKCING BRIGHT AND HARSH!
    Well guess what I am using right now for daily "drivers"?
    It wasn't the canners, it was the fkcing source!!!! They don't sound fkcing bright or harsh, they sound great now... sigh... 

    So, you see my problem now is ... I can't fkcing record using the Schiit Modi, since it's just a DAC...  

    My question is then to you guys: FORGET ABOUT anything the Babyface Pro has (outputs, inputs, drivers, Totalmix, whatever) except one thing and one thing only:

    How does your stuff sound through the headphones output (and line outs)?  And Youtube stuff (that you know should sound great)?

    Because at the end of the day, this has been my issue all along, and again, I don't know why people dont' talk about this stuff: 

    What you hear or how you hear it is the MOST IMPORTANT THING (if it sounds like sht it doesn't matter if it has the "best converters or preamps in the world", I don't know how any logical situation when you can say that when the headphones output (and or line outputs) sounds like shit).

    Even the Audient had this "96 KHZ Test (Intermodulation Distortion)". It's on Youtube (the issue explained).

    Does the Babyface Pro pass the Intermodulation Distortion test?

    I hope you can answer this easy question. Does it sound GREAT.

    (Added comment: With the Modi 2 finally I could hear the reverbs going, how long they lasted, if they were implemented well or not so well, lots of details came alive,
    even if it still doesn't sound 100% silky it's very close I can enjoy music again. EZdrummer doesn't sound like shit anymore too, now sounds amazing. Stuff has now punch, bass is alive, not overwhelming but you can finally tell it's there, doing it's function, as a great mix should have: balance. There were songs where I didn't really understand what the bass was doing, or anything really, and the Modi fixed this. Now I can understand better the singers because it seems transients/consonants are not lost and muddy).

    So many things to say, sorry, I had to let it out.

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    RME Babyface Pro

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    I sold my pos of the Audient id44, should I get this? Some videos show this is amazing. I can get the FS version at Thomann for the same price.

     

    (Sorry King, I feel pretty strong about my vies on the Audient)

    Toontrack Post Rock EZX and Doom Core MIDI

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    Just now, cclarry said:

    No , sorry...don't have that one...

    I am missing these ones, not interested on them all, but what do you have then :P

     

    Action!
    American
    Big Band
    Big Rock Drums
    Custom Shop
    Dark Matter
    Death Metal
    Drums Of Destruction (not looking forward to this one)
    Hard Rock
    Jazz
    Kicks & Snares
    Nashville*
    Number 1 Hits
    Pop Punk
    Rock Solid
    UK Pop
    Vintage Rock*

    What VST2 plugins work better than their VST3 counter parts?

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    28 minutes ago, Piotr said:

    Sure, we can do many things manually and by ourselves, Carlos ;)

    But  - call me lazy and spoiled guy - I believe I have computer to do work instead of me not forcing me to do anything instead of it ;)

    So every workflow issue, lazy design I consider as not-finished-job by creators (or job bad done ;) 

    No matter it is related to plugin, OS, DAW, WWW browser or whatever...  :)

    We love smilies 😂🤣😅

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    SSD 5

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    Free edition is worth it, coz it's  free. But here if you don't find the cymbals amazing (they aren't) there is no use in buying full edition.

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    SSD 5

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    Just now, Soundwise said:

    The UX is a disaster. Yes, I'm aware of this. Other than that, do you think SSD can compete with Toontrack Drummers?

    No. Straight to the point.

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    Expontential Audio Phoenix Verb

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    38 minutes ago, Matthew Sorrels said:

    Using iLok without a dongle means that if anything happens to your computer hardware (hard drive/motherboard failure) or even some OS upgrades you will lose all your iLok licenses.  And the only way to get them back is to go to each company that issued them and get them to give you another license -- iLok can't help you.  And companies don't have to help you either (though most will).

    With a dongle, with or without the zerotime insurance, you can send it back to iLok and they will repair/replace it.  It might cost (not sure exactly the terms) and take a while but the companies don't have to get involved.  If it's lost or stolen though you're out of luck.  Physical dongles don't break all that often, unlike hard drives/computers and as long as you still have it, you'll get your licenses back.  With machine licenses that's not true.

    iLok using the machine licensing may be a time bomb just waiting to go off.

     

    What about ilok Cloud? I noticed I have 2 to 3 available activations (total) for each license.
    If I place my licenses in the ilok Cloud, would they be available everywhere if I logged in with my ilok account?

    Still, what I meant is not whether they could get lost, just that the ilok software didn't feel like a hindrance to my system (like using too much power or cpu).
    It feels so smooth.

    Expontential Audio Phoenix Verb

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    3 hours ago, antler said:

    I kinda wish iZotope would release a version of these so that they'd work without the iLok software (and just go through the iZotope portal). Mind you, it's giving me reason not to give into GAS. (I know - it doesn't require a dongle; i just don't want to install a driver-level copy-protection service)

    Honest to god is not a big deal, you should really try it. I don't feel it's a hindrance to my system or anything at all.
    I've got quite some stuff that uses ilok, no issues so far at all.

    What I will never use is a dongle (so I only "use" Cubase Elements, lol).

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