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Ah, I guess I should have included the actual sample I was trying to work with rather than the "mix." Mostly LCV did a good enough job putting in the markers, once I told it how many beats were actually in the sample. I can't even repro the horrid result. Here it is in MP3 form: FGclipped (1).mp3

It's actually 2 tracks mixed down. The dialog sample was left intact. The thing that's making the jackhammer sound was once a 4-bar intro from an old Fleetwood Mac song. It was supposed to have no processing on it except for a pitch shift. "I get better results by (using a tool other than Loop Construction view)" is certainly a recurring theme in these comments.

I find this a very interesting development. I thought Thunderbolt interfaces were the future, due to performance. I wonder what's behind this shift. I think it's true that there are still many desktop/tower computers that have no Thunderbolt port (yet even my 2017 Dell notebook has a full Thunderbolt port), but there are precious few that don't have USB 3 ports. Does the difference between USB 2 and USB 3 really not make a difference from a latency standpoint? I'm still a Firewire guy, was planning on leapfrogging USB2 and going straight to Thunderbolt when the time came.

One of the voices of my generation, to be sure. His famous article for Maximum Rock 'n' Roll was a game-changer and is still required reading for anyone hoping to have a career as a recording artist. He wrote it in the immediate wake of Green Day getting signed while the major labels were hoovering up pop punk bands.

You don't have Baby Audio's? Collect 'em all.

It kinda does, doesn't it? It doesn't show up in any automation lane, nor can I adjust it at the left edge of the clip. Unless the smile means you're kidding, you'll be pleased to know that there are a number of plug-ins that can do that. MeldaProduction's MBassador is the first one that comes to mind. bx_subsynth is another. Unfiltered Audio's G8 is a gate that can put out a MIDI note when it triggers, and I've long thought about using it in that way, to augment an acoustic kick or snare with a hit from a softsynth. Even the magazineware G8CM can do it.

So I guess when I ask about using a Sonar feature and the replies are all about 3rd-party plug-ins and programs that do the job much better, it's safe to say that said feature is of little utility.😄 Well, that's good to know too. There's at least one good trick that it can do, which is continuously loop the clip while the user adjusts the pitch and length. It seems to me that at this point it could be repurposed more as an editor for a phrase sampler. Add a "reverse" button to it etc. Can anybody tell me what the spurious line across the clip is? You can see it in the image I posted.

So it's kind of a dusty feature that is now of questionable utility? If the alternative is Melodyne, though, yeesh. I get that it's the best tool for pitch correcting vocal performances or whatever, but it's been so user unfriendly to me every time I've ever tried to use it that I avoid it if I can. I'll roll the golden turds (as I call it) if I absolutely need to, but otherwise, no thanks. I've started a completely new project using the same samples and so far no Spurious Diagonal Lines have appeared and I can hit the spacebar without unleashing the miniature chainsaw. The pitch shifting from within the Loop Construction View seems to work well enough for my uses, although I still have to walk it in by ear. Since it's a guitar sample, I have A|A|S Strum Session on one track and just compare the chords in the sample to the ones I'm playing in Strum until they sound in tune. Seems like there should be a better way to analyze and re-pitch a slice of music in this day and age, but whatever. I guess people acquire their samples by buying them in already in-tune form or something.

I decided to give Cakewalk's Loop Construction View a try. It's not gone so well. It did at first, but then things went into the hay in a big way. I'm trying to use a 4 bar intro of an old rock song as my loop, and I've opened it in the Loop Construction View, hit the "Loop" button, set the correct number of beats, adjusted the pitch using that control. I dragged the loop onto an empty audio track, then opened the Loop Construction View and there it was. I It all looks fine and plays perfectly using the Loop Construction View's preview button, but when I engage Cakewalk's global Play it makes this horrendous plastic jackhammer sound like one of those old cheap aquarium pumps. I tried exporting the project and it did the same thing. Also, the fist part of the clip has one of those weird diagonal lines across it that Cakewalk sometimes puts on my audio clips for no apparent reason. I never know why they appear or how to make them go away, but they don't seem to hurt anything, so I've just written them off as a cosmetic thing. But I would kind of like to know if they mean anything, and if it's possible to make them go away, I would like to do that. While I'm asking here on the forum. We're Floating Inside the Cloud.flac Pretty trippy, eh? It's not how I want it to sound, obviously. As you can see, there are no FX on the track except for kHs Limiter. There are no FX on the Master bus, which is where I'm taking the export from. Please help me cure my project of Spurious Diagonal Line Syndrome as well as Cacophonous Aquarium Pump Syndrome.

Okay, in case anyone else gets their Hybrid 3 installation messed up by the new installer, I figured out what was up with the presets "lacking something," even after I restored them to the test system. The installer also deleted my Program Files(86)\AIR Music Technology\Content folder, which contains the wavetables, phrases, and part-presets.hybrid files. After I copied those back from my other system, everything worked fine with both the old VST2 and the new VST3 versions of the synth. My recommendation is either wait for them to fix the beta installer or be aware that some of the resources may get deleted/moved from your current installation. Also, at least at this point, the feature we've been waiting/begging for, the scalable UI, is not present, at least not at this time. It looks and acts just like the last VST2 version. So unless you dig software testing (which I do), don't bother. It looks like the new version is also going to use iLok, so the only reason to grab the update would be if you're going VST3-only. I guess that makes it only relevant to Cubase and Apple Silicon users. More news as it develops....

DANGER! I installed the beta, VST3 only, and it deleted all of the factory presets in the ProgramFiles(86) folder. This resulted in the synth only finding some of the expansion presets I've bought, and my user-created ones. No sweat at my house, I just copied the preset folder from my laptop, but beware. Their traditional lameness in regard to installers is in full force.

Thanks, but I'll wait for bx_glue True Peak and bx_glue Pro. And/or bx_glue Class A that has neon green instead of neon pink accents. I'm a bit surprised that they didn't withhold the multiband feature in order to be able to offer bx_glue MB in 6 months. Heck, maybe someday we'll even see this version released as bx_glue Classic as part of their freebie bundle. 🙄 I guess this stuff keeps the subscribers happy....at least they still have Unfiltered Audio to squeeze out something truly unique every year or so.

Assuming that they expose the amount of shift as an automatable parameter, try automating it and see what happens. To access track automation, just click on the automation lane icon at the lower left of the track header. You'll be able to select what parameter(s) you wish to automate. Give it a ramp and see what happens. If it zippers, then you'll need to find another pitcher. Let us know how it goes....

I woke up to this email today from InMusic/AIR: "We've been listening to you and know how much you've missed using our classic plugins. It's time to bring them back, better than ever, and we need your help to make it happen. Be among the first to experience the Apple Silicon and VST3 versions of our classic plugins." Followed by a link that took me to a registration page that referred to it as an "open beta," and requested my name and email address. The email also features an image of a sheaf of their instrument plug-ins, including my faves Hybrid 3, XPand!2, Vacuum Pro and Boom. The ones I mentioned are not just my favorite AIR synths, they're my favorite synths PERIOD. And I'm not a total bottom feeder when it comes to soft synths, I have Chromaphone 3, Ultra Analog VA-3, and MASSIVE, among others, and Hybrid 3 and XPand!2 are still my best go-to's for inspiration (Hybrid's arpeggiator system is freakin ferocious). I am cautiously optimistic about this development (no pun). In the past couple of years they released new synths that obviously leveraged some of the classics' underlying code, and while they're nice enough, they're basically cut down versions. But it indicates that AIR have at least hired some developers, and that they do good work. Too many good plug-ins have fallen by the wayside during the transition to VST3 and Apple Silicon, so the fact that they're putting attention to these is good news. At least there will be these upcoming releases to update the dusty code. They don't mention the #1 requested feature since the last major updates, which is a resizable UI. That has been screamed about so often on KVR that if they don't include it, people will be calling for boycotts of InMusic's entire product line.😄Nor do they mention whether there will be any bug bounties that result in free licenses for people who submit unique showstoppers. It would also be nice to get a modernized skin for Hybrid 3; the current brushed aluminum one is starting to look a bit dated. Of course I expect the subscription fear brigade to check in with assertions that this is a harbinger of subscription-only pricing to come.😄 But seriously, none of AIR's recent releases has been offered under that licensing model. And given AIR's history of decades between updates, there would be few takers. I signed up, and when I know more, so will you....

Hmmm. I would imagine that since you're doing a soundtrack for an entire performance, you're rendering the whole thing as one long audio file? How about using track automation? Automate the pitch shift at the track level, not as clip automation. Do you have a pitch shifter plug-in? My favorite is kHs Pitch from the Kilohearts Essentials collection, which is a very useful bundle of free FX. I've never tried to automate a smooth pitch shift with it, though, only shifted entire clips by a static amount. It's not the only one in town, just my personal favorite.

Yeah, well, even though I think of myself as pretty good with words, sometimes my brain kicks into pattern-recognition mode at the expense of context. When I was in my late teens I heard a couple of college students talking about how they were going to apply for student visas and for a couple of minutes I pondered how that worked: was the bank targeting college kids as being good credit risks? Was MasterCard doing the same thing? More recently I was frustrated by not being able to find a good emulation of a spring reverb. It took me years to find one that I thought was worth spending money on (Wavesfactory won the contest), but before I found it, every year March-May my eye would get distracted by Plugin Boutique's deal page with all of these effects companies having "spring sales."

I guess you could say that I'm one of the original Dummies, 'cause I owned a copy of DOS For Dummies. Also Windows For Dummies which soon followed. I was doing telephone tech support (remember that?) for Addstor, makers of SuperStor, a DOS disk compression utility (competitor to Stacker). These books REALLY helped in that position. Too many people are put off by the "For Dummies" title, but I've found that it's helpful to admit that I don't know enough about whatever it is that I'm trying to learn about, and those titles somehow help me cop to it. As Heath Row aptly pointed out, I like to seem smart (don't we all?), and referring to a Dummies book takes me down a peg. In the first book, Dan Gookin used a "skip around and find what you need" style of organization that's way useful. 30 years later, I've bought books on many other topics. Not all of them are as good as DOS For Dummies, but shoot, for a buck a piece, there's GOT to be something I can use. And it's under the "price of a large pizza" threshold. Make spaghetti instead of ordering a large pizza and it's paid for.😁

So I guess in your opinion, no DAW developer has brains. It's not you, it's every DAW ever created.

Whoa. $95 for the budget solutions. $295 for the dee-luxe. Sidewidener 2 looks better all the time.

You referring to this one or the CM version? It looks like the Boz branding is gone from v. 2. So many stereoizers (iZotope's isn't half bad), but the only one I have that can touch Sidewidener CM is Polyverse/Infected Mushroom Wider 2.

Tempting despite the plethora of stereoizers I already have. The original version, which was a Computer Music giveaway, is really the best one I've ever used for taking a mono phone recording and polishing it up. Looks like you can sign up for their newsletter and get another 10% off. $17.10 Hmm, an update to the best-in-type plug-in I've ever used for less than the price of a large pizza?

Peter @PavlovsCat has attempted to do just that. I'm not sure where to find his list at the moment. He was maintaining it in the Deals subforum. There are way too many great free instruments that aren't in this topic just because nobody has gotten around to posting them. Even in just the 5 years since we started the topic (and its sister topic about freeware FX), there's been such an explosion in the area of loss leader plug-ins that I don't have enough time to try them much less post about them. At some point, I hope to get another song into a releaseable state....

If you want to keep using your Behringer mixer as an interface, I'd suggest trying WASAPI Exclusive. It looks like the only step you're missing is that you need to choose an input on the track itself, before you arm for recording. The issue with the Behringer mixer is that while it's good at being a mixer, it's not great at being an audio interface due to the lack of a true ASIO driver. 2-input interfaces with ASIO drivers may be had for as little as $70 new, much less to get a used one on Craig's List.

Sorry, I haven't tried the instruments. I got free-reed instruments confused with reed instruments being offered for free. Have you tried this (found in the concertina.net forum)?: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KZ1EPAueS-xBiBLDeMVfa3Fvno85UHHg?usp=sharing It needs an .SF2 player, but those are plentiful.

It looks like you're running a plug-in called Tonocracy and it's crashing in Cakewalk Next.