jerrydf

I quite liked GOP5 for a basic quick start and overall background orchestra.  So much so that I went for their Jazz and Big Band set.

However - warning - as you proceed down this road its quite likely that you'll be tempted to augment the orchestra with better individual instruments costing as much as GOP itself. I did.  The main issue I had with GOP5 was that the solo violin sounded a bit synthy.  So I went for EastWest solo diamond, and also Embertone (plus a selection of folky fiddles from all round the place). 

Otherwise GOP is very usable and sounds good.

jdf

Interesting, thanks Grem

How does it compare to Toneboosters' Isone + Morphit?

25 minutes ago, Mesh said:

Confucius say: Good things no cheap, cheap things no good.

So, did Confucius go for the electric fiddle too?

So I went for the Electric Violin. It's an Ok toy for £21.  Wouldn't pay any more for it though. 

5 hours ago, mcmd said:

Picked up O8A for $84 🙂

Me too

For me that's ...

99USD minus JRR discount = 84USD to go from O8S -> O8A

... that's very nearly £3000 thanks to likelihood of no-deal Brexit

jdf

Totally agree about the Klanghem stuff.  Also don't forget the TDR free plugins.  In both cases I soon upgraded to the full versions.

jdf

It stated three products were updated, but it seems to be mainly the United Pop kit pack being updated.

jdf

21 minutes ago, ZincT said:

Does anyone know what happens if you have some Steinberg software that uses the soft e-licenser and then buy Cubase Pro and an e-licenser USB dongle?

Do you have to transfer all soft e-licenses to the USB dongle or do the two things happily co-exist?

The USB e-licenser dongle is the one thing putting me off going to Pro as my USB ports are all used up so I would have to add another USB hub.

Mine seem to coexist. Never had a problem dongle-wise. ('ll regret those words, I'm sure)

jdf

1 hour ago, Tezza said:

You guys are all on version 10 right?

Yes, rock solid

Thanks for the heads up, Larry.

Mine's all still there, but I hope Steinberg are on top of this.

jdf

They're announcing a new product for the UK - BreXLN

Ho ho!

What day is it tomorrow?

If so I hope there's an easy and reasonable backwards compatibility with AD2 content.

Yes, great sng and arrangement.  I agree the vocals could be up front a bit more - it's a good voice - don't lose it!  But the guitar work is also good, nice riffs.

jdf

Nice clean production and playing, great job!

Great post, thanks Bob.

2 hours ago, Craig Anderton said:

Maybe this is the article you mean...

That's the one. Thanks Craig. Very interesting tempo graphs.

Jerry

Quite often its a fairly simple case of playing in a drum/rhythm track and recording a demo track onto it (guitar, singing, whatever you want to do) and messing around with the tempo until it sounds right.

Sometimes I'll step away from the DAW, imagine the piece in my head and then use tap-tempo into an app on my phone (Metronome Beats Pro on Android is a good app for this).

It's very easy to select one tempo throughout the song, and not vary it. However, the tempo of a song/tune may vary for effect as the piece is played. Craig Anderton did a good article on this some time ago (anyone have the link?)  The choruses may speed up a few bpn, then slow for the verse, etc.

I've used Frame Drums by Audio Thing -

https://www.audiothing.net/instruments/frame-drums/

- these are good.

I just picked up the RedRoom Audio Bluegrass fiddle.  They're doing a deal if you pick up that plus their Celtic fiddle you get their bodhrans and bones for free. I didn't take that route (I have an armoury of fiddles now, one more celtic job would be extravagent for me).

jdf

12 hours ago, Soundwise said:

I suggest you try the ToneBoosters Reverb 4. It sounds awesome! 

Totally agree. My main go to has been Valhalla VV, however I'm turning more to TB Reverb 4. 

All of TB's stuff is excellent and Jeroen is a top developer with a lot of industry experience.

In terms of missing something .. there's a lot of space on the screen between messages, you have to scroll a lot before the next comment.  It's not like the friendly crowded bar of the old place.  Is that it?