jackson white

Hmmm, nobody has ever listed that fine venue in their classic hockey arena reverb pack. Seems like it would have been a natural for Echoes.

Agreed on all points above and piling on with the unwanted "ability" to "micro-select" a range in the timeline when merely intending to set the Now time. Just a casual observation, have not spent any time on detailed analysis, but does not appear that "range selection" is context aware of the timeline scale, It's less of an issue once the coffee starts to wear off.

@George D fwiw, I've been working through what sounds like a similar problem. I've always built my own PCs and am very comfortable with all aspects of fine tuning for audio performance. My current cfg had been running flawlessly for years but starting "acting up" around Mar 2021. This particular project was an older one that a client wanted to revisit and used to run just fine with absolutely no problems. The symptom was a serious degradation/smearing of sound quality on playback, like running the audio through a meat grinder (or putting your thumb on the reel for a tape machine). It would only happen for 10-30 secs and then somehow "recover'. Not sure how this compares to your "clicks and pops" but the performance monitor would go crazy when this happened, super erratic, cores jumping/spiking all over the place. This would also happen when opening a VST or the browser (i.e. to open a user manual, not to check on sports scores...) something that -never- used to happen. The project isn't super large, only a drum VST and a few amp sims in addition to std audio tracks with FX. I don't generally freeze these as I've never had to before SO... not thinking the project/VSTs itself is the problem. Additionally, the ability to run at low latency has been significantly compromised. Used to track just fine on the very same project down to 64 samples. Then only way I could get reasonable playback now was to raise it to 512, which is pretty useless for tracking. The major areas of focus were; 1. WIN 10 updates - Running WIN 10 Pro with updates disabled except for security updates. Always an issue, but I've got a good checklist and always managed to restore the changed settings quickly and easily when they happened, which was not often. Decided to update to the latest version (last update was over a year ago) to solve the problem. = Didn't help. 2. VST updates ? Possibly some update to an existing VST? - Couldn't pin it down on any in the project. They're all by reputable proven devs and run fine in other projects (and DAWs) with no issues reported for any of them. = no obvious suspects 3. Other SW updates (like other applications phoning home) - rechecked / reinstalled the native A/I drivers (they were always the latest update, but...) - I've added some new VSTs/suppliers with various means of authorization. Tried freezing those and disabling any service that looked like it might be trying to do something. - tried running the project completely off-line (Internet disconnected, actually boot cfg is off-line, have to manually go online) = no improvement 4. Checked my system services again. Ran Latency Mon and for the first time on this system, it would show some issue when running the project but w/o much of a clue as to a specific cause. The highest DPC counts were for the Kernel Mode Driver Framework Runtime. The second highest were for LatMon iteself... Multiple sessions were rather uneven and hard to pin down. FYI, no BT, WiFi, etc, active, only Window Defender running for when online, never been a problem in the past. ? Not sure where to go with this, still looking into it with no idea what changed, so the challenge is to hunt down what might have made it worse. 5. CxB changes/updates. - CxB has never been the problem (despite the number of outraged posters in this forum 🙂), but there have been a -lot- of changes and had me considering the possibility of some newer potential stability issues. Not that I have any insight into the development, but it is a very feature rich (=complex) program. NB This project has since crashed several times and flagged an issue with Cakewalk core. Doesn't mean it wasn't caused by some VST issue, but despite the best efforts of the Support team (they've been super responsive), no clear cause has been noted. > Worked through a matrix of Record/Playback IO buffer sizes, A/I buffer sizes and was able to confirm a few settings which helped, but mostly raising the A/I buffer. Changing the Record/Playback IO buffer sizes generally made it worse. = All changes were correlated with Performance Monitor specs during playback but they generally behaved as expected... > Tried various settings in the Initialization file. = Back to the original settings as none of the changes made much sense and generally only made things worse. ... In the course of working through this, it's started to behave a bit better, which makes it sound like a moving target, or maybe it just takes a few reboots for everything to settle down? I still have a problem project with repeatable symptoms at a specific spot in the playback, trying different states/cfgs to see what might expose the culprit. And also noting the issues are only with older projects so far (like 3-5 years old) being opened in this years version of CxB. FWIW, all of my newer projects are running fine atm, so I'm considering the possibility of some project specific corruption or as yet undiscovered backwards compatibility issue? Don't know that this does you any good but just hearing about something similar might help. I don't expect to find any answers here as I'm assuming it's something specific to my system, but stuff like this comes with the territory (infinite cfg possibilities + ongoing dev) I'll come back if something useful gets figured out.

This is the key imho. Racking up a reference track or two in a DAW to compare with your existing mix can be pretty helpful. Something like Metric A|B works very well.

As noted elsewhere, it can be useful on drum busses. ... Just wondering when they'll come out with the "perfect recreation" of a "complete authentic" experience with a "vintage" master bus version featuring an "award winning" mix down matrix that only allows first generation signal degradation of "exquisitely modeled tape warmth and color" for the original number of tracks, and applies additional layers of "glorious tone and other audible hallmarks" for successive iterations that exceed the original track count. Wouldn't it be awesome to emulate the "unique sonic character ... behind many famous song demos, and even whole albums made by some of the most influential rock bands ever" by selecting the order in which your tracks are bounced to inject a new level of authenticity and vibrancy into a wide range of music and other recording efforts." They could launch this with a contest to mix down the tracks for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Or give this a look.

... slap an instance on every track of a 20-40 tracks Made me laugh. Wasn't the Porta One a 4 track?

my observation as well, wondering how you access these built in fx, noting it's both WIN/OS, assuming some standalone app? and if this new 'platform' is capable of supporting a greater variety of fx options in the future. probably too much to ask for...

Took a look to see what it might take to integrate as a preamp option with an existing audio interface = audio outs only.

Pay full price for SD3 core and one SDX, get one SDX for free.

wondering if Keith Richards can say this...

Drum samples are mapped to MIDI note velocity values. Different values will trigger different samples. It should not matter what creates the MIDI velocity value (mouse, drum trigger, controller, etc.).

An example of both @ 5'30"

The feature set for Modula looks interesting. Just sold an SPX90 to a guitar player for that specific program (Symphonic).

From Deals | 50% off BFD and Expansions ... cut down a recent project to create a custom template for how a basic kit in BFD3 could be used with CxB. NOTES: > use case: basic acoustic kit and rolling your own MIDI grooves > assumes the latest version of BFD3 > most, if not all kit pieces should be from the BFD3 Core Library (not confirmed) > the direct kit pieces and OH, Room, Ambient, Master Out channels in the BFD mixer are routed to discrete channels in CxB. > the FX in BFD might be used to get a kit sound for the "tracking" stage but in general, all mixing done in CxB > general approach: get a basic kit sound using OH/Room/Ambient channels, then add/mix in direct channels and fine tune with additional ambient channels thru Ambient or Master Out. BFD supports additional auxes if it helps organize things. > the original project used a parallel drum buss for compression/harmonic distortion. Left in the sends and aux for that. > MIDI channels are broken out per a preferred workflow. A CxB drum map and BFD keymap are included for the BFD preset with a screenshot of the PRV. FILES: CxB template: > copy CxB BFD3 template.cwt to your CxB Project Templates dir CxB drum map: > copy SM BFD3 5Cym 4Tom 4Perc.map to your CxB Drum Maps dir BFD preset: > copy SM Baseline.bfd3 and SM Baseline.png (file icon) to your BFD user preset dir (i.e. Documents | BFD Drums | BFD3 | Presets) BFD kit: (Not sure this is needed, included in case it is.) > copy SM Baseline.bfd3kit and SM Baseline.png (file icon) to your BFD user preset dir (i.e. Documents | BFD Drums | BFD3 | Kits) BFD keymap: > copy SM 5Cym 4Tom 4Perc.bfd3map and SM 5Cym 4Tom 4Perc.png (file icon) to your user keymap dir (i.e. Documents | BFD Drums | BFD3 | Maps) NB. These all work with my current ecosystem, but were not tested anywhere else. CxB BFD3 template.zip