Shane_B.

And not one mention of Gloss.

I'll grab my bicycle and be on my way . . .

1 hour ago, bitflipper said:

Perfect timing, I thought. My old RTX960 could barely keep up with Fallout 4, so I made plans to upgrade.

Bethesda games are the only ones I play. What is it with buggy stuff from that area?  Must be the dirty water and the Jet. Hah! 

I've recently had some unexpected mandatory down time and wanted to try Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas, Fallout 4, and Skyrim modded on a PC but it didn't happen. The GT1060 is the lowest card that will handle a respectable framerate at 1080p but I just can't bring myself to pay $300 + for a 5 year old used card.

I currently have a PS4 Pro just for playing Fallout 4 and Skyrim but mods are extremely limited due to Sony's no external asset and no external script policy. Plus even the PS4Pro can barely maintain 24fps in Fallout 4, especially the downtown area. Basically you get God mode, a couple cheap tricks, and some new area's made from in game assets, but that's it on the PS4.

Another thing that really bothers me about this is you can buy pre-made gaming rigs for not much more than the cards alone are going for. It's not right.

I just read that Nvidia is making chips to mine with now so the video card market stabilizes. That may have been in the link abacab posted, not sure, but I just happened to see it on my cell news feed this morning.

The transient tamer reminds me of Paul's Noise Harvester he developed many many years ago. I love tinkering with this kind of thing. I'll look up Craig's idea and give it a try. There has to be a way you can simply make a box to house Craig's tamer in and use it as a line device.
 

On 2/15/2021 at 7:16 PM, slartabartfast said:

A synchronization license is required whenever you are creating a video that uses someone else's musical composition. So if you make your own video or license someone else's video, and yourself perform someone else's song composition to act as part of the sound track, you need the original composer to provide you with a synchronization license to use the music composition. Otherwise you are infringing the composition (music and/or lyrics) rights of the composer of the music that you are recording. I you are the author of the song you are performing, then you, as the author, have rights to synchronize it, perform it, record it, rearrange it or create a derivative work (change music or lyrics) as part of your author's copyright. So, yes, everything posted to YouTube needs synchronization rights.  If you use any part of someone else's  video you need a license from the creator of the video to use his video, both as the video itself and as a derivative work because you have altered it by adding your audio, but that is not a synchronization right. If you use a recording of someone else's performance of a song that you authored, then you do not have to license the composition rights as a sync license, but you need a license to use the actual audio data of that recording, the master recording rights. So if you film your own video and use a few seconds of a pop record as background you do not need a license to publish the video but you do need a license from the authors of the words and music (synchronization rights) and another license to use the actual audio recording/phonorecord (master recording rights). Who owns the master rights depends on how the contract was set up prior to making the audio recording, but typically ends up in the hands of the recording company that released the song. It frequently happens that a performer does not own master rights to their own recording of their own composition and so cannot use  or  fully benefit from their own originally recorded voice performing their own composition without getting a license from the owner. Taylor Swift is notoriously facing this issue. 

To get to the farther end of reasons that music videos are copyright hell, consider that even if you film the video yourself, you may still have obstacles clearing the images in your video. The creator of a work of art has the sole right to create derivative works of that creation. When you photograph a piece of art (whether a single original or one of a licensed million copies) that photograph may be considered a derivative work of the original. So a picture of a smurf doll in your video might require permission from the owner of the smurf design copyright. Such issues rarely matter in cheap to free videos, but when big money is at stake it may. A potter friend of mine made a ceramic spoon rest that appeared just incidentally sitting on a stove in a scene in a major movie, and the producers contacted her for permission to use it in this way. 

https://www.easysonglicensing.com/pages/help/articles/music-licensing/what-is-a-synchronization-license.aspx

Sorry, for some reason I missed your reply the other day.

Thanks for making that clear (ish) :). 

I can't make heads or tails out of any of it. There are an awful lot of people on YouTube making video covers. There is no way they are contacting everyone and getting permission. It's frustrating. I used a still picture of a fireplace in a bunch of Christmas songs I did. Some of them got flagged others didn't. Simon & Garfunkel songs don't get flagged but The Avett Brothers do. Which one has most people heard of? None of it makes sense, to me. Those examples I gave are all covers I've done and posted on YouTube as private. None of my S&G stuff gets flagged, but Avett Bro's do. And how can they tell me I can make public and monetize a vid of me playing the lead to Hotel California. None of it makes sense. I'm just going to go on like business as usual until they take my private channel down. 

10 hours ago, craigb said:

1 - We're in a known part of an astronomical cycle (part of the 25,800 year Grand Cycle) that naturally causes temperatures to temporarily increase.

2 - Within the Grand Cycle are four smaller cycles which mark the times that entire civilizations typically get wiped out (every 6,450 years).

3 - When the water temperatures in the ocean rise to a certain degree, the flow between the Atlantic and Artic oceans stop.

4 - When the flow between the Atlantic and Artic oceans stop, we enter the next ice age (NOT some extended hot green-house!).

5 - Excessive CO2 happens at the end of the warming cycle, it does not cause the warming.

And yet, they want to tax us to death to stop it. Gotta love those mitten wearing, no, I hadn't better.

2 hours ago, Bruno de Souza Lino said:

And how can the bass tell the difference?

I know you asked Jim, but I have one of those Fender passive style basses he's talking about. I'm pretty sure he means the pickups. They are not active like EMG's that take a battery. The lesser expensive ones just doesn't have the oomph to drive a DI Box. Probably a combination of the lighter body and pickups. I've never played it through an amp but I imagine I would have a similar experience. When I'm not being lazy I always run mine through the Hi-Z Instrument input on my tube mic pre, out to my tube compressor, and in to my DAW. Fret noise is my biggest enemy. No matter how hard I try when I fret I always get a clacking sound. I love playing bass, hate recording it.

I have a Made In Indonesia Fender PJ Bass. I'm right handed but I play left handed so my choices are very limited. It was the best feeling neck I ever found on a bass so I pretty much had to get it. My brother has an old Ibanez bass with active pickups and that thing is heavy and thunderous. I used to record with it even though he plays RH. Played it backwards. Uhg. Not easy on a bass. I actually learned how to play guitar with the high E on top. He bought me a LH guitar for Christmas one year so I'd stop messing with his and I had to relearn how to play, but it was quick.

It's about time. This whole crypto thing has sent PC part prices skyrocketing.

This should have been done from Day 1. Or at the very least, Day 2.

5 year old GT1060's are going for that much used.

Glad I waited it out. Of course, 30 days after it's released someone will release an unofficial firmware update for it to unlock it.

Another thing to keep in mind is when you are checking out samples of strings and piano and any real instrument, what you hear isn't necessarily what you want in your mix. Don't disregard something free that may not sound very good solo until you try it in a mix. You can pay a lot of money for great sounding sample libraries only to EQ and Compress the living daylights out of them to sound right in a mix with other instruments, but when solo'd they sound bad at that point.

CbB comes with an excellent starting base. It includes Studio Instruments: Electric Piano, Strings, Bass, and Drums as well as TTS-1 which bitflipper already mentioned.

Also, there is a set of FX VST's called PX-64 Percussion Strip, VX-64 Vocal Strip, and TL64 Tube Leveler. They are disabled by default. You have to go in to your plugin setup screen in CbB and enable them. You can really manipulate your samples and anything with those and get some excellent results, especially drums and vocals. There are a lot of youtube vids about them. You'll also see Boost 11. IIRC it's a 32bit version but the 64bit version is already enabled by default so don't enable it.

99% of what I do I use SI Strings, SI Bass, and TTS-1, and a ton of free synth's. There is more free stuff out there than you can shake a stick at. https://plugins4free.com/ is a good site. Sonic Anomaly makes some really good free mastering and FX VST's. Their website seems to be gone but you can still get their VST's here. Here is a good free piano put out by The University of Iowa of all places.

Another suggestion is, create a folder named FreeVSTs or something like that and put your free stuff there to keep it separate. Makes it easier to backup too. You can give each one it's own subfolder. Most of the free stuff from sites like Plugin's 4 Free come without an installer and just a .dll file and you simply put it where you want and rescan for VST's at startup. It helps keep track of things and if you have one that crashes you can easily get rid of it. Kontakt Player is different, it embeds itself everywhere. You can get a few cool free things for it, but there's equal and better by random people out there.

All I have is a cheap MII Fender j/p bass. A lot of times I'll end up converting what I play to midi and use samples because no matter what strings I put on it or how careful I play I always get a clacking sound from the strings hitting the frets and it really stands out in the mix. When I do use what I have recorded I use a free VST called Bassprofessor MarkII. Their website is gone but you can still download it here for now. They made several good plugin's. It's a shame they're gone.

If anyone's interested to hear a sample of my analog adventure I just added a hardware master test to the thread of a song I posted in the song forum. It's pretty significant comparatively. I did remix it too I didn't just run the original master through the hardware. Here's a link. You don't have to comment or anything unless you want to. Not plugging the post, just showing a comparison.

I did a lot of testing and reading a long time ago and found that Soundcloud converts songs better at a specific RMS and Peak level. It still seems to be the case. I forgot and mastered the original post to K14 iirc but I did the remaster to -18 RMS/-6 Peak which seems to be roughly K20. That seems to be the sweet spot. The volume is significantly different between the two so use caution if you listen to both. 👍🏻

3 hours ago, Bapu said:

BobF is/was from MO. He's moved on to Reaper (IIRC) after the Gibson debacle.

Bob died!? Oh my God!

9 minutes ago, craigb said:

A LONG time ago, there was a poster available...

 That used to be in your sig didn't it? 😄

22 minutes ago, Soundwise said:

Is this legal? Call the police!

I hear it's legal in the 3 southern states. Not the one I live in though. Nope.

🤪

Sorry to hear that Bill. Hope the power doesn't go out again tonight. 🤞🏻

I heard they are doing rolling outages all across the midwest grid because people are using too much power to stay warm. Repair guy is coming tomorrow morning to look at my stove that blew up when the power went out here last week. I had to plow the road and my driveway so they can get in tomorrow morning  and it was -17F when I started. My outside temp thingy said it warmed up to 8F when I was done. Took me 3 hours. 🥶 This weather is crazy.

5 minutes ago, Bapu said:

I want a hover car but we ain't getting that either.

A Cakewalk hover car? Yeah, nothing could go wrong there except maybe go crash in the loudspeaker. 🚗🔊🚑

I hear Sonar Producer 8 is on sale though at Musicians Fiend. I mean, Friend. 

Holy! I would think that would be illegal to sell wouldn't it?

1 hour ago, craigb said:

I'll definitely check this out later!  Sounds like it's right up Andy's (Synkrotron's) alley too.

Hey...  Where IS Andy anyway??! 🤔

I was going to say we're frozen and can't move. It's -17F here right now. But I think I'm getting him mixed up with BobF. He was from MO. I don't remember. I got hit in the head by a 12 ton bus. My memory ain't what it used to be.

Back on track, @aidan ... this is interesting. I'll check it out. As soon as I thaw. 🥶

1 hour ago, mkerl said:

Presonus sells VSTs of other  producers, but their own intruments are presence core instruments and that's it. And yes, I know Sonar isn't open software and cubase isn't.  But they have / had own instruments that are VSTs. I didn't know about Presonus Hub, thanks for that.

I don't complain, I just explained why I use other srewdrivers than S1

Pro Channel did the same thing though. And they were stripped down versions of full blown VST's. I do agree with you that it's not a good idea to do that. I was very disappointed when I first started using S1Pro and found out the VST were locked to it. On the other hand, they were pretty crappy until version 5 just came out. They really updated all of their VST's. My biggest criticism of them is they are excellent at telling you about the things they want you to know and even better at avoiding certain things they don't want you to know.

For example, in a subforum here I was talking about how it took me 4 days to set up routing external hardware on my Presonus interface. What it boiled down to is you have to disable their virtual mixer and only use the inputs that have gain control knobs with the built in mic pre's. That's not in any manual anywhere or in any of their setup video's that I could find. What that means is, all those extra inputs I paid for are rendered useless in my setup because I wanted to set up all of my external mastering and processing hardware so it's always on and ready to go. You can easily route external hardware through S1 via a special VST they include with it that compensates for latency. Nobody that responded to me on their forum knew that either. In that regard they are very bad. They make great equipment and software but you are kind of on your own setting it up and figuring it out. And their forum is all but dead. CbB has the most helpful user group I've ever seen. Always has.

20 minutes ago, mkerl said:

No, I don't have.

May be I'll do, when I've got some more time left. CbB and Cubase are both stable on my system, so there is no need to change.

There is one thing I don't like with Presonus: Most if not all of their instruments are not VST, you can only use them in S1. They are building their own, exclusive planet, while I can use for example zta3 in other DAWs, or Steinberg Halion SE as a starter for different instruments outside Cubase. I prefer to use my  instruments in all of the DAWs I use. It would be great to use Groove Agent in CbB too, but ok, it's not a perfect world . . . . 

You can use most of their VST's in any DAW just not their synth. You have to install an add-on called Presonus Hub to do it.

That said, there are plenty of things that came with Sonar that were locked to Sonar. Not everything was usable outside of it. CbB just doesn't include those any more.

And like you said, just use something else and stop complaining. Go use a different screwdriver.

3 minutes ago, abacab said:

That release is a couple of years old. Have you tried the latest update? 😉

I'm still using 3.5.6.46910. I skipped 4 and just signed up for Sphere for a month and started using 5 last week. It has some new really nice features compared to 3.5.

I will say one thing has changed that I don't like that goes way back. When booting up it used to take less than 3 seconds from the time I clicked the S1 icon till I got to the start page. Something happened a long time ago during the early days of 3 and now it hangs for about 10 seconds or so when it hits the Melodyne loading part. I contacted both parties and neither knows why. They say it shouldn't happen. I've even done a fresh install of my system to fix it thinking something got corrupted and nope. Something changed and that's just how it is now on my system. Others have checked for me and are not experiencing that. So there is one problem that kind of stinks.

3 hours ago, mkerl said:

My Copy of S1 (pro 3.6) locked up several times.

Interesting. Seeing how the Studio One Professional 3 release only went up to version 3.5.

😁

35 minutes ago, Bapu said:

I bought a commercial NAS (Buffalo). I just point my Acronis to a specific NAS location (mapped drive on the DAW, and my www surfer machine).

Thanks. I'm thinking they don't have an OS at all actually. I know the RAID part is set up in BIOS and you can format them with a bootable USB thumb drive. I bet that's what it is. I'll look on youtube once I find new adblockers. They figured out how to defeat the ones I use and it's near impossible to watch youtube now. Uhg.