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  1. Yes, If I followed your instructions in the other thread correctly (and they worked so I think I did), then these two images are showing both approaches. Thank you

     

    I also have Scaler and use Solution 1 for that, so I really don't know why I wasn't making the leap today to get that working,. 

  2. Above was you solution 2

    I had another go at you solution 1, which was how I was trying to do it originally. And I got that working too. (Solution 1 I used the MFX and Solution 2 I used the Standard VST, but they might work both ways, but I'm done messing about). I think I actually had this working last Saturday, but wit the standalone option I started to think I had used that or was going mad. Today I think I just didn't try the second mid track

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    Thanks again

     

  3. I have Fluid Chords, its a pitch bennding chord player for MPE synths. I can load it as a a synth and from with the plugin I can either use the internal synth, or it will scan for MPE synths and picks up Strobe and Vital. These play, but they are not on their own midi track, but being hosted by the app. There is no midi out option. I have Hydrasynth which has an MPE and I can use this with Fluid Chords in Standalone.

    I've contacted the company (Pitch innovations) tech support and they say to run it as an MFX.

    How do I get this to show in the MFX, I only see Cakewalks MFX in a midi channel/

     

    Thanks

  4. Is the a process that can convert CC64 into note length in Cakewalk. I can't see how, but on another forum someone is saying this funtion has been in sequencers for ages, and is useful for cutting down MIDI data. I said it's not in my sequencer without naming it, and he named several sequencers included cakewalk as having this function. 

    Seems a simple idea om the face of it, but I can't see how cakewalk would select which event to to translate into a note lengtgh, assuming the process would set a range that 0 and 127 would be in ticks or something.

    My pedal is just an on/off, so I assume he has a more expressive pedal. 

  5. Shimmer Shake Strike

    XLN Mallets

    XLN XO

    Melodyne upgraded from Studio 4 to 5

    Scaler 2.5

     

    And this from Thomann, But it won't arrive for 6 weeks

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    I also ordered these, but they weren't in the sales, just on my wish list for the year

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    This is due i stock 17th December, hence the whole delivery taking 6 weeks

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  6. I stepped away from computer music for almost 2 years, focused on instruments and, even braved a couple of open mic nights  to sing and play guitar (even though i am far from thinking of of my self a as singer). Got my new computer fixed and went into Black Friday with 2  aims. Get the last AD2 kit I  wanted (mallets because I like acoustics sounds with my electronic) and to upgrade  melodyne Studio because chords tracks and all the functions are something I really want Cakewalk to have, and seem melodyne incorporate just seemed a major plus for creativity. 

    I didn't want to buy any instruments or FX, I have enough, but things to help the workflow and creativity would fit my goals

    But first I picked up was shimmer shaker strike, which although an instrument, is one that compliments my go to percussion and being able to create a quick realistic percussion vibe felt a creative choice.

    Then I grabbed Scaler. I use a midi Chords plugin, but Scaler 2.5 looks to encourage interesting progressions and would fit with Melodyne chord tracks (and hopefully Cakewalks when it gets there)

    XLN's XO was a spur of the moment decision, but I like step sequencers and if it's process can take me down some different avenues, then it's fits my aim, for creative plugs (no Instruments/FX)

     

    I did look at upgrading my Applied Acoustics collection, and my TH3, but they're fine. I can come back to these in the future if I really feel the need. 

     

    The complete curve ball (if you'll allow me to borrow the expression) was seeing a 15% off something I didn't know existed, but for much more expensive versions. I've wanted a midi vibraphone for decades but they are like 4 grand. But this one isn't, and I due to make an order wit Thomann for 2 synths shortly, so the shipping is split (if they don't up the shipping that is). I'm still on the fence, it's pushing my budget, but I think it comes off sale tomorrow, so I'll have to pull the trigger soon if I will

     

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  7. 7 hours ago, Esteban Villanova said:

    I don’t need these I don’t need these I don’t need these I don’t need these I don’t need these I don’t need these I don’t need these I don’t need these I don’t need these...

    Why am I still here, why am I even looking. I've hit my targets this year, got some extras, I'm good. Wasted time looking at upgrading TH3 to THU yesterday, but TH3 is fine. Instead of using what I've just purchased. Now I'm looking at Tokyo Dawn, I know I like these, I knw they are good. but I have these covered. by other plugs

     

    Itchy time of year and buying doesn't scratch for long. 

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  8. 7 hours ago, Fleer said:

    Would have loved a WX at the time. Pity they don’t make them anymore. 

    Yeah, I don't get it. Expressive midi devises are more popular than ever, lots of software and sample libraries responds to breath controllers by default. 

     

    I don't know why Yamaha dropped out of the game. The new Akai I think is the nicest shape they've done, but I still prefer the look and levers of the Yamaha. A USB version seems like a now brainer right now. 

  9. I went with JRR yesterday and upgraded Studio from 4-5, I had a look at the posts from last November and it seemed you could do various upgrades, but the Studio 4-5 wasn't one of them. 

    Went into the BF with XLN Mallets and Melodyne 4-5 Studio Upgrade as my only key purchases. So I'm pretty content now, although I did grade Shimmer Shake Strick,  XLN XO and Scaler

    Having chord tracks in Melodyne really appeals to me, and in the past it was a feature request for Sonar I made and supported. Now I have Scaler too, I'm really hoping this trend for chord and key info being built in, in music production is picked up by bandlab. And would tie everything to together nicely. 

    As the silabance and breath control in Melodyne is based of non harmonic sounds, I'm hoping with will tackle other noizes from instruments, such as string and finger noise, as well as my breathing on flute. 

     

     

  10. 16 minutes ago, PavlovsCat said:

    Hahaha! After listening to a demo that sounded a lot like Damien Rice, I regret using Damien Rice as an example. I really meant more of the hard hits a rock drummer does when playing with brushes that are very much unlike the way a brushes are used in jazz (writing that as a drummer). The Damien Rice like demo does sound very nice, it's still using brushes very gently, like you would use in a jazz context. But wait, I see you have a picture of Animal as your avitar-- are you a drummer too? Also, now I wish I chose Animal instead of Felix the Cat! Hahaha. I'm actually kinda serious. 

    When I posted up a few threads back about messaging XLN to do a mallets kit, there was another suggestion I made but I couldn't remember what it was. Hot rods kit, an unplugged kit for acoustic rock. 

     

    EDIT:Sorry missed your last point. Just a bog Jim Henson Fan Would love to play the drums, but Bass is my main focus now, if by focus I mean in a myopic way. 

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  11. I don't know EZ drummer. I don't understand the concept of a hip hop kit though. Were 4 decaeds into hip hop, so I don't know what it would sound like. The Hip Hop I like would easily be covered by the vintage kits that already come. But the more modern stuff, isn't that's whats XO is all about.  

     

    Reggae is a fair point. I'm not big on reggae, but it's big enough a genre to have kit recorded in say Studio One 

     

     

     

  12. Just now, PavlovsCat said:

    All of this, of course, is completely subjective. They're really not lacking much. If you find what you like, you're set. 

    Personally, I think AD2 lacks a kit played with brushes that would be more suited for acoustic rock (think Damien Rice). They have a jazz brushes library which sounds very nice, but doesn't quite fit the way a drummer uses brushes with rock. 

    Again, completely subjective, but AD2 has very processed sounding drums -- which can be a benefit (i.e., their drums are ready to go in a mix), but I simply like (okay, love) the samples and processing of Toontrack's kits much better. They just sound richer, fuller, more full bodied and often tuned more like the way I tune my drums. But SD3 is more than 3x the cost of AD2 and the kits are a lot more expensive. So that is also a consideration. 

    I'm kind of with you with the brush kit, which is why I messaged them about making an alternative snare as a nitpicker.  There are a number of articulations on the brush snare below the kick drum. So it would have made a worth while kit piece to buy.   And helped the brush kit move away from a Jazz sound to a folk sound. Although it's not so bad at that. 'Welcome Home' Demo https://www.xlnaudio.com/products/addictive_drums_2/adpak/modern_jazz_brushes

     

  13. 6 minutes ago, Zo said:

    Electronic (more variety)

    LoFi 

    Dry stuff but not specially vintage

    Apart from the machines they sampled, What machines would you ad for variety.

    Any kit can be made LoFi. They go into studios to record kits in their ambiance.  LoFi is what happens to a kit after. It's kind of the point of the RC-20. 

    All the kits can be made dry, by pulling off the room and overhead spill. The dry kit had a dampened kit in a absorbent studio. 

     

    I'm not really getting you here. 

  14. Out of interest, what kits are they really lacking?

     

    I actually sent them an email about a mallets kit about a year before. I also asked for another Kit piece  with a brushed snare as an alternative and to compliment the brush. As they didn't do any other kits of interest from me to pick up the mallets as a part of a custom kit, it took me 4 years (this week) to finally buy the mallet kit I harassed them for.   

     

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