Brian Walton

6 hours ago, Tom B said:

There are a couple of free captures of a Trainwreck Express M25  by Tone Junkie.  Search for:  TJ Twreck Express   on ToneNet.

One of the captures uses a 4X12 Greenback cab. The tone leans toward a Marshall  with Greenbacks.  Haven't played a real Trainwreck and don't know if the sound is authentic. 

Edit: I listened to TJ YouTube video for this amp.  For my needs, I found the capture sounded a bit better with a slightly lowered input signal (using humbuckers).  It still has a nice grind.

The Express amp TJ has is a master volume amp and design Ken Fischer never actually made.  The design was made from things he came up with and made recently by the person building wrecks under the brand.  

Agree to grab the free ones and see what one thinks.  But I'd also note the above as it isn't a grail wreck or anything but it is pretty cool.

6 hours ago, Craig Fowler said:

Is it cheeky to ask if you have shared your captures on ToneNet? 🙂

I have not shared any of the Trainwreck captures.  The owner of the amp may look to sell them directly or see what a deal with the signature line would look like.  

The amp is far more rare than those dumbles in the signature pack.

24 minutes ago, TheSteven said:

I wish that they had some sound demos on their site but I guess the lack hasn't hurt their sales.

They put out videos for pretty much every pack they offer, just need to check youtube

https://www.youtube.com/c/ToneJunkieTV/videos

As for trying them out, I have all of them.  

The Marshall Astria and the Bad Cat 30 are arguably his best captures.   I'm a massive Trainwreck fan - so I'd grab that too as no-one else has a commercial pack of one.  That said, it doesn't hold a candle to some Trainwreck captures I've done - but it is also a different model and on-sale I'd say worth getting.

I'll also add that Amalgam Audio does really high quality work and I have about half of those (would have more but the cost really adds up 

23 minutes ago, Kirean said:

What kind of activation does Acon use? Any dirty practices one should be aware of?

They seem to be one of the good guys.  I have it installed on more of my computers than you can do any of the PA stuff - for example.

8 hours ago, mibby said:

Just an FYI - I bought these last time they were on sale at PA. And while they are decent, I can't find a way to update them nor do they qualify for an upgrade to the "real" version on the Acon Digital site. (Someone please correct me if I am wrong!)  But a very decent price for some decent tools!

I see this in my portal - also bought via PA previously:

18 minutes ago, PavlovsCat said:

The dev has a bit of a QC problem. Is it 150MB of disk space or 50MB (note the discrepancy between the system requirements and the Full vs Lite comparison chart)? 

I just can't see anyway to a decent, dynamic piano that's 150MB,  and especially not one that's 50MB.  The dev could have made his 4GB library smaller, but there's no way to keep it high quality and dynamic and still get to that small of a file size when you're only using sampling and not modeling. I think he should have done what SonicCouture did and took away some details,  but still kept it great quality. I'm not even going to bother downloading it when it's been reduced by that much. Beyond the tone of non. stretched samples it seems a waste of time. I also can't imagine someone even paying $19 for a 50MB piano library in 2023. Nope. Head over to SonicCouture or SoundPaint and get a detailed free piano for free. 

Haven't used this yet but I wouldn't be concerned about the size vs quality.  He was pretty clear that this isn't strictly sample based and thus why he didn't call out how many layers he was using even in the full product to get it down to a "reasonable" size.

The installer for AAS Lounge Lizard Player is pretty small and that sounds good enough.   

Large single instrument libraries are frankly annoying, and usually the result of many mic positions and things of that nature, not just dynamic layering.

3 hours ago, jfrommichigan said:

I haven't seen anything... any chance you could share a link, for us?

Much appreciated !

Thread will get locked for certain if such a thing was shared.

Just google it.  Took me 5 seconds to find it.

1 hour ago, Nick Blanc said:

I must say, I have pretty much no (zero) knowledge about graphic cards. I bought my PC during the graphic card shortages at the end of 2021 (due to crypto I think? And shortages due to covid), so the only thing I could get was an MSI GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GT LP. This is a card from 2017. 

It does all my multicam stuff easily in 1080p. Haven't tried 4K. My jam videos with all kind of additional graphics with a length of around 6-7 minutes, render in a couple of minutes.

But (and it's a huge Nicki Minaj but), I have absolutely no idea if I'm using the card at all, I could be rendering with my CPU (a pretty powerful i9 12900k). That's about my level of competence with graphic work. 😅 But I guess DaVinci goes for the dedicated graphics card as a default?

Well first of all your i9 alone outclasses the vast majority of computers in the wild.  Then adding a Video Card on top of that (which is still fairly modern) and you clearly meet the it should work spec.

The average person these days has a laptop (your machine will smoke many pretty expensive machines these days) so you are far from a normal use case.  Not even close.  

Davinci would run without your GPU with that kind of processor, but yes, Davinci should in theory be looking for the GPU when it was installed.

This has to be the best free thing they have ever given away.

Already had it, but this is one of the only plugins they make that I've actually used on projects before.  Most of the others never seem to get used.

On 12/3/2023 at 7:41 AM, Nick Blanc said:

Let me weigh in on the Davinci Resolve thing. I use it for all my (multicam) jam videos. As said before in this topic, it might seem daunting but you really don't need a lot of functions/pages. Drop all your media in...Media. Go to Edit for...editing (skip the cut page). Whatever you do, skip the fusion page, there be dragons there (well, I use it for greenscreen correcting which is pretty easy once you know what tool you need). Use you daw for audio and import it. Color is for....color, just doomscrool through all the LUT's you want. Export is pretty easy. 

The most advanced thing I do is syncing 3 camera angles and that literally takes 3 seconds because it's a baked in function in Resolve. I bought an additional graphics pack for $49 with which I'm sure I'm set for life.

I'll also weigh in that Davinci resolve is powerful (and pretty easy to learn) - but it is also far from efficient.  It needs a modern CPU/Graphics card to do any sort of multi-cam work.

It won't even run at all on older machines with single videos.  Out of all the video editors I've used, Davinci is the most particular about the hardware it needs to see to run properly.

2 hours ago, dumbquestions said:

This is a very far cry since we’re on a cakewalk forum (haven’t had the best exp with ik support), but has anyone out there (on a mac) with mojave 10.14 or lower been able to run tonex? I’m currently on that OS, so seeing that the minimum system requirement listed at 10.15, this would be the only thing keeping me from considering this sale. I have amplitube 5 which runs perfectly, but not sure if anyone knows whether it’s at least able to run the necessities of Tonex on a machine as old as mine. I’ll live if not but it is one of those questions I keep coming back to

Download the free CS version, you should grab that anyway.  If you buy the full version it simply unlocks, no separate installer, etc.

3 hours ago, telecode 101 said:

 

I am a heavy Amplitube 5 user. I also tried using ToneX the CS version to get an idea of what it is. I still feel they are different products. ToneX is for capturing or playing captures. Amplitube is emulation of legendary gear to be used in the digital DAW domain. Using the ToneX capture within Amplitube is interesting but does not render  Amplitube obsolete. I still see they are two totally different products.

They are two different products, but honestly I find that the amp modeling itself does render the IKM amp obsolete as long as you have good captures of the gear you want.   

Per you quote, TONEX can be a capture of legendary gear to be used in the digital DAW domain and it is a far more accurate representation of that gear.  However, it can only capture Amps, CABs, MIC, and Dirt (not the time and modulation effects).  If you ran the CS version you might not have a grasp on just how much better it can be than AT5 in terms of quality.  

And I'll be a bit blunt about it, AT5 doesn't really have much "grail" gear in the AMP dept.  With Tonex we have Dumble, Trainwreck, Two-Rock, Matchless,  60s era Marshalls, Fender, Vox.  Most of the stuff in AT5 I could grab at Guitar Center.

1 hour ago, kitekrazy said:

So is Tone X gonna make Amplitube irrelevant now?

If you have Tonex you can run it as an Amp in AT 5.

ToneX gives you realistic amps (and dirt pedals) and has some reverb, comp, and noise gate.  If you are a straight into amp player it is all you need.  If you are an effects junkie you can run other effects before and after if using as a vst, but not in standalone mode.  

Owning both basically gives you the at effects plus the superior Tonex amps 

I basically don't run AT5 after getting ToneX as I have better effects and Tonex gives me better amps.

10 hours ago, smallstonefan said:

Fractal knows a thing or two about IRs.

This might be of interest to you... (it's now free)

https://www.fractalaudio.com/cab-lab-4/

Good loader, but also sorely missing a powerful EQ system to allow you far more flexibly in creating an IR.  Thus less of an all in one solution than it could have been.

Also note (as one might expect) the positioning graphics only work for proprietary paid packs.  So no simulation/eq manipulation for standard IRs.

That said, I certainly recommend something like this to start (just like Melda's free Convolution plugin) before buying something.

7 minutes ago, e-cue said:

I've been disappointed by many an IR loader.  Some there are sonic issue, some stability, etc....  

I copped this based on the mention here (and the aIR one), and I have been able to get some good sounds out of it, and it is packed with a nice wallop of features but....  in the list tab, once I have an IR loaded, is there anyway to bypass the IR on that channel?  Seems like clicking the icon in the upper left of each IR should do this, but it kills the whole channel.  I can disable it, which then means if its the only IR loaded, I have to enable one of the blank channels to hear audio, otherwise I have to bypass the plug in altogether.  Or I can unload the IR and just have to remember which one I loaded and reload it later if desired.  The reason I’d want to do this is to hear what’s being done on the channel without hearing the IR.  It would also be one mouse click to bypass for quick a/bing vs 2 mouse clicks at different locations.  Also when you solo and mute on the same audio channel- audio still plays (bug?).  Am I missing something here?  

 

I should also note that there is a 8.2 second limit on the IR’s it can load, so it really is designed for cabinet work.  

Am I missing something other than Cab, Mic, Acoustic, Reverb IRs?

Very rare to see even large space IR captures above 8seconds.  In my mind that means it support every type of IR other than the pretty esoteric.  

I love reverb but 8 seconds is a very long time and most going beyond that will be in the algorithm world not the IR world 

5 minutes ago, RSMcGuitar said:

For me, ToneX is the best solution for in the box playing. You can load custom IRs. You can use both amp and cab, no amp just cab, or just amp. Feels great in my hands.

ETA: The custom loading of cabinet IRs is a bit cumbersome in ToneX at the moment, if you are trying to load a bunch in. I suspect they will update to allow multiple IRs being added at once.

I'm a massive ToneX fan

Own two of the pedals, axe I/o, etc.

But the custom IR loading / preview is pretty awful.  Maybe even the worst system I've tried.

I find myself using another  loader to preview to figure out which one to selectively import into Tonex.

On 11/29/2023 at 10:34 AM, Jacques Boileau said:

As far as isolating vocals, I took a listen to their demo and there is a lot of artifacts. At least to my taste and compared to Supertone Clear (Goyo Beta). I feel Clear gives much better results at isolating vocals. 

I did some A/B with both apps.  Highly dependent on the source for the results.  

(using production of both apps).

Acon does have more artificats than I expected over all.  And is also painfully missing a Guitar algo.

Two pretty different tools to have in the box though.  IMO.

55 minutes ago, El Diablo said:

So, the UI, even after 10 years, isn't resizable?

Nope, not even a little bit.    

23 minutes ago, El Diablo said:

I'm waiting for the Elysia Alpha Compressor christmas sale price.

I'm waiting for them to update the UI so it isn't super tiny.  Sounds good but rarely use it because the controls are so small.

Surprised the Studio Rats new profiles were not included in this update/notification.  They have a few news ones on the site and that they did videos for.

43 minutes ago, jngnz said:

I missed BF100 a few times but yesterday they sent out an email advertisting "CYBER94" and so on. Reacted immediately, tried CYBER100  and it worked. So I got basically everything they make for free.

I don't know why they're doing this, because from now on the price I'm willing to pay for their products will forever be ZERO and they're pissing off all the customers that actually paid real money to buy this stuff. I'm not an expert, but it seems like an extremely bad marketing strategy without any benefit but a few happy people who probably won't become paying customers.

I've been doing this monthly since they released the first TONEX pack.  I've never been able to grab a 100 off, but did get 90+ a couple times and I've also bought at lower tiers.

I think you will find outside of this promo grabbing 100% off isn't going to be easy - and certainly will waste a fair bit of your time to do so - and in attempting to you will be revising the site over and over again.

Paying top dollar is certainly deterred, but even though I own it all today (ToneX, IR packs) they release stuff every month and I'll grab that too when I'm able to get 80% and better and there are likely enough of us in that same boat given how quickly the 80%+ discounts go in non BlackFriday weeks.

Edit - just a few min ago they released another amp, I certainly wouldn't mind picking up.  And all the codes are used up as far as I can tell.

35 minutes ago, telecode 101 said:

hmm.. do i need this ? i was always curious about all those alias plugin guys and what they are up to.

$23 to tell you all your plugins sound the same and you wasted thousands of dollars.  😁

I've avoided buying something like this because I tend to think there is more to plugins than EQ curves, etc.  And aliasing is pretty over-rated.  If it is bad enough for you to hear it that is fine for me to avoid the plugin, but I don't need some nerd plugin telling me not to use something that even I can't hear something might be aliasing.  

6 hours ago, whoisp said:

It probably will not work after 12months or something anyway, few windows updates and then boom becuase they are not supporting the free version and it will not be available for download 

So once it stops working, that is it..... you will then have to take your pick of what software you get regarding one off costs or monthly plan etc the whole industry is going this way due to plugin support etc 

There are 10 year old versions of Cakewalk that people still use....Windows breaking stuff usually isn't the problem historically.

34 minutes ago, jbl4311 said:

Any good acoustic instruments in MSoundFactoryLE, other than the pianos?  Drums? I'm already well covered for synth sounds.

Right now, not so much in terms of samled acoustic instruments but the point of Melda is the constant updates and additions.  

I tend to guess this massive guitar and bass project he has going has some possibility of making it inside, if he doesn't make it a separate vst.

7 minutes ago, audioschmaudio said:

Crazy.

I checked it and it worked. So I added a few items. But now it says that it's no longer valid.

I like the message:

I don't even know what it is that they sell. I see, they're add-on packs for AMP sims that I don't own anyway.

I've mentioned this before elsewhere.  The top tier codes last seconds to minutes usually (some of these have lasted for a bit longer because they are releasing more).   Until you actually submit - the codes are "up for grabs" and by the time I go through MFA on paypal I've missed out multiple times when the codes applied to start with.