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John Nelson

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  1. So far, users have to wrap our heads around,

    1. The announcement was made, what, nine months ago?  It's uncommon to say the least for a rollout to take this along. Especially since....

    2. There really are no feature updates. Just a HiDPI update and some bug fixes, which is expected from any product.

    3. There has been zero clarity as to how much the thing will sell for and how it will be paid.  The "pssst, over here" Bandlab sneak peek thing is lame. Sorry, it just is.  Someone who subscribes to Bandlab just for the Sonar access might end up paying twice one the real pricing is rolled out.  This is the weirdest, softest rollout of any software I have ever seen, bar none.

    4. And Bandlab...some legacy Cakewalk Plugins and Virtual Instruments aren't really worth much of anything in 2024. Session Drummer?  Concrete Limiter? C'mon man.

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  2. 1 hour ago, hockeyjx said:

    Your "standard" alternate tunings (say Dropped-D or DADGAD aren't a problem, but I'm tuning some strings UP and some down. And I don't want to twist the neck of a valuable guitar messing around, I want cheaper acoustics to do that(acoustic is primarily how I write/record these days) . If I lock in on something, I'll have the guitar setup to handle the tuning ...which I have two like that now.

    Transpose the desired tuning down a step then capo as required ....

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  3. On 7/13/2023 at 1:22 PM, bitflipper said:

    I just got home from an unavoidable trip along the absolute worst highway in my state. I keep looking for a sign saying "all morons must use I-405". It's got to exist somewhere, because that road is clearly a magnet for them. The thought of all those idiots having to deal with the Z axis is terrifying, since they haven't figured out the X dimension yet.

    Cakewalk should invest in a billboard on that stretch. They'd reach a lot of users.

    Right by the big guy statue that used to hold a golf club. Now the Porsche track....

  4. I had a Fed Ex delivery from Sweetwater, some high hat cymbals. The box was mighty light in weight and sure enough, when I opened it up, therecwere no cymbals, just packing stuff and oh yeah, the candy.

    The box had been sliced open and crudely re-taped shut. Sweetwater sent another set, which made it here. They requested an investigation....

  5. The Bricasti IRs are floating around out there.  Last I saw they were at Samplecity.

    I have to shout out to Jim Roseberry for his Reverb Tools IRs that he compiled.

    Lots of nice stereo Tc, Lexi etc.

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  6. My specs are in my signature.

    My workflow is generally to export my mix as a wave file and drop that into a fresh project with Lurssen (and any other mastering plugs) on the master bus.

    Trying to combine mixing and mastering in one project is not best practice.

    That said, I am able to use Lurssen in a combined project without crackles.  At 258 to 512 samples, depending on conplexity of the mix.

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  7. The forced assignment of ins and outs as stereo pairs, with "friendly names" workaround is clunky.

    The explanation given IIRC was that the code "evolved" a certain way and that was that.

    There are other things I could probably come up with but again, the code hasn't been written from scratch in eons.

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  8. 4 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

    Absolutely agree. Which is why, when I put up my rendered files, I gave them arbitrary names. The remaining issue now is, ironically, that this doesn't do me any good, because I know what my naming system is. Maybe I'll look around, there must be some software that allows double blind testing of audio files to be done by the computer.

    Maybe MCompare? I'll check and see.

    Speaking of tests, Rick Beato famously set up a test to "prove" that even trained listeners like his studio assistants couldn't hear the difference between lossless audio and MP3's at various bit rates (I may not be remembering this exactly). Great idea. The conclusion that he came to is that they couldn't tell the difference.

    But IMO, the test was useless. He was doing it using a web browser, from another site on the web. Why is that useless? Because web browsers have their own CODEC's for processing audio, and then after that, the audio goes through the OS' mixer. This is similar to running your DAW using the MME driver. An OS' mixer does all sorts of resampling and crap due to having to manage so many different audio streams. That's one of the reasons we use ASIO or WASAPI Exclusive. WASAPI Exclusive bypasses the Windows mixer.

    Resampling algorithms are not created equal. There is objective proof of this on the SRC comparisons website that nobody ever seems to check out when I post the link. They tested a variety of audio programs' sample rate converters using sines and impulses. The results show some of them throwing off harmonics, ringing, all kinds of crap. I'm not going to bother posting the link, because when I do, nobody ever comments about having checked it out.

    I'd like to be clear, BTW, that I really, really don't want there to be any sonic difference between DAW's. So when I happened to hear a difference, it caught my attention.

    https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/3-Studio-Tools/72-Utility/5360-4U-BlindTest

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  9. 17 hours ago, Lynn Wilson said:

    Go into My Computer>insert disk in drive>right click on drive>choose open>when it opens you can drag and drop individual files (songs) into CW.  You may have to shut off auto-play.

    I think you need to rip the track, no? I use Windows'?media player but most players have the rip function.

  10. I play acoustic drums, and use them for my recordings. I used to have a Roland v-drum kit and used it in tandem with BFD 1, 2 and 3.  I was happy with the overall experience.

    I will say, when fxpansion sold them to inmusic there were speedbumps relating to the transition, new authorizations etc. My sense of things is that fxpansion was a better company to deal with.

    I used Toontrack's Drum Kit from Hell wayyy back on the day, when the tech overall was in its infancy. At that time, BFD  was a step up. 

    In summary, BFD3 is a good product but the support side of things is maybe uncertain.

     

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