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8 hours ago, Triangleman said:

When I have a couple hours I'll get it set up on my newer lenovo yoga on windoze with Bandlab Cakewalk and use my pixel phone USB-C to USB-C cable.  And I'll get something midi plugged in because I'm curious about that feel too.

Let us know how it goes.

Nice, thanks for posting.

1 hour ago, kitekrazy said:

And it's still USB 2.  It would be interesting what kind of buffer size one can run with stuff like Serum and Spire.  Usually something in this price range does not run well under 512 samples.  I doubt you would get the low latency of a Babyface or the mk4. 

The specs for the M4 say

Computer I/O - 1 x USB-C (compatible with USB Type A) 2.0 audio class compliant

USB-C 2.0 FWIW

With Win 7 end of life coming up I plan on moving over to win 10 and getting a new interface. I need 4 in 4 out so the M-4 may work. Will have to see how the asio drivers are for win 10.

CA-2A or equivalent before or after. I normally use TH-U and the bass super tube vr or bassface. I recently got the SVT 1 for AT, but haven't had the time to try it.  

Here's an example of the TH-U Bassface.

https://sites.google.com/site/phoenixtaiji/music/content/GoldenHour.mp3

2 hours ago, Vernon Barnes said:

 Think they are nice effects on synths. So far I have only tested them on synth but they can add some intresting things to mono synths in particular. I have not tried them on vocals so I can't comment.

I use the quadravox on synths and guitars and like it. I just upgraded to the  octavox, but haven't had a chance to play with it.

I don't have any problems; works just like any other amp sim - no special setup needed. I know there are a number of people using it with CbB. Have you already authorized it? IKM has a separate authorization manager.

The LA-2A is the classic HW. There are a lot of vst emulations. I have the PC version, Wave's, and IKM's. If you don't already have the PC version I think you're out of luck. IKM's is part of TRacks. TRacks is nice if you like VC64 since it has a suite. You can set up a chain of processors like VC64 which is nice. The base is TRacks 5, but then you need to add some more compressors - the white 2A, vintage tube, and bus compressor or just buy the white 2A if you don't want the suite.

Also Overloud has just released emulations of the LA-2A and LA-3A - Zo has done a review recently.

7 hours ago, Peter - IK Multimedia said:

Working on it!  I'm still trying my best to get Rockman and ADA MP-1 into AmpliTube pronto, though, as a priority.

Sweet, I still have an ADA MP-1 in a rack.

1 hour ago, Christian Jones said:

Scuffham is fine and is still one of the top tier despite the lack of updating (though isn't there supposed to be an update that's something like 2+ years in the making?), so if you're happy w/ it but want to see about improving things from there I'd spend your money on a good character front end - not just a great transparent DI box, but one w/ vibe and color that be dialed back. 

Yeah, I thought last year about this time Mike said he was going to update all the SW that is used to build s-gear to current releases. I'm guessing that's not an easy task. No new features in that. That is supposed to be followed by a release 3.0. I'm not holding my breath.

I dug around a bit. It's an OTA feedback design. OTAs increase low signals and decrease high signals and that explains why the DC was noisy.  If I understand correctly it tries to ride the threshold. The M102 Dyna Comp has an attack time of 5ms and a release time of 1 sec. The maximum compression is 36 db. The controls are output - make up gain and sensitivity. If you try a VCA type design (PC76-U or PC4K-S [SSL type]) try the threshold at 0  and use the ratio as sensitivity.  

For chicken pickin try a ratio of 12 to 20 and a fairly high make up gain.

2 hours ago, Marshall said:

I have used Scuffham S Gear for many years - are there any new amp sims that have come out in the last year or two that may give me anything that good old S Gear doesn’t? 

Historically, I always felt S Gear was the best of the bunch, and I still love it, but perhaps technology has moved on? 

Interested in your views! 

I think Amplitube and TH-U have caught up. I like Fender and AT has the Fender 1 & 2 collections so you get a lot of amps to choose from. I like the Hendrix and Mesa Boogie collections as well. I like some of the Brunetti amps in TH-U and a few others.

There are a couple plugins that you can use for mastering, but there are better ones available. Under ProChannel the two compressors can be used both for light compression and for limiting and you can use the QuadCurve EQ. Currently I like the Fairchild 670 compressor for mastering. Both IKMs and Waves seem pretty good. I like dedicated limiters when I master. I like waves L3Multimaximzer and I just picked up IKMs Stealth Limiter, but haven't used it yet. I'm not that good at mastering, but thought I'd get the discussion started.

6 hours ago, musical said:

Heads up that Arc system 2.5 is available on Amazon US for $99 ***WITH THE MICROPHONE!!!***

https://www.amazon.com/IK-Multimedia-correction-measurement-microphone/dp/B0741D3PD4

This gives a value of €199.99 in the group buy [corrected].

With shippping and duties to the UK, the cost is about $125, so much, much cheaper than the €201.29 the IK shop charges with shipping or the £173.53 on Amazon UK.

Even better if you live in the US. 

I couldn't resist.

I couldn't resist either. When they extended the GB I got ARC 2.5 on Amazon. I've tested it on my PA system. What a difference. I'm interested to see how that effects amp sims - I've obviously been fighting room acoustics when working with the PA.

19 hours ago, Billy86 said:

The user folders are your project folders with all the files and associated audio?

No, that's a windows folder. My DAW is on win 7 and if you look at the C: drive there is a folder called Users. I have a hard link there to my HDD. The users folders setup under windows go there, downloads, Music, Pictures, and so on. I usually download SW updates to my computer so they are there. Installers for audio SW.

Audio project folders are on the SDD so audio files are on the SDD.

I have the OS and all audio programs and samples on an SDD. The user folders are on an HDD. 

I thought I'd download it and give it a try. Does it work in real time? I have Pitchmap which they say works in real time, but it seems to have significant latency.

3 hours ago, Grem said:

Do not overlook the EQ 73, 81, PA, and PB. These EQ's give a nice smoothness to a distorted guitar in my opinion. Don't over do it, but a little really adds a nice touch. Turn the input up and adjust output accordingly.

And don't discount those Quad plugins. Overlooked workhorses IMHO.

I almost forgot to mention the 670 comp. I love that thing on a bass guitar. Just gives it an old school richness.

Last but not in the least, the one that got me going on old school EQ's, the EQP-1A Program EQ is perhaps my favorite sounding Pultec emulation I have. And I got quite a few.

 

To be honest, there is not a dud in the bunch of modules for T-Racks.

I got into T-RackS on this round. I got T-Racks 5 and the 670 comp and EQP-1A. I like the 670 on the master bus as well as clean and crunch guitar. I like the EQP-1A on guitar as well.

23 minutes ago, cclarry said:

If it shows half off in your cart I would jump...
It shows full price for me, even logged in

I got it on Monday - it was half price in the cart and now I'm in the group buy as well.

7 hours ago, Grem said:

@rsinger I am very happy with the Leslie for Amplitube. Really great sounding. 

If you have the Fulltone OCD pedal, try it in front of the Leslie amp with the drive turned down in the OCD. 

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

Very cool. I was happy with the Fender 2 collection for 1/2 price, now I have Amplitube 4 and the Fulltone collection to boot. I think I'll also get Amplitube Leslie.

There's an emulation of the Roland Space Echo I like that I use as well. It's in the user library.

Thanks for posting. I picked up the Fender 2 collection and like that.

I use some for live work for ambient music. There is a delay or reverb that has a diffuse setting that I like to use with loopers, but I've replaced that with Blackhole. 

8 hours ago, msmcleod said:

I have the same issue. And here's the real kicker... once you've got more than one of the same plugin, bang goes the cap on your WUP.

Waves wanted more than £1000 for my WUP.

Wow, I don't keep up to date so I wasn't aware of that. That's even worse. I have compressors, channel strips, exciters, and EQs and they all sounded good when I bought them so I'm not concerned with updating them. Synths and amp sims and Cakewalk I keep up to date.