John Bradley

Haven't had any in months. And the last time I did, I paid full price!

The dangers of opining on things you've never wanted to do. 😏

Value-wise, I rely on the tooltip that shows up when you drag the nodes. As far as I know, there's no equivalent to the Event Inspector where you can directly type a value.

What I'd like is the ability to select 1 or more control points and move them up or down by "a small value" (say 0.1db for volume automation, 1% for pan, etc.) via some key binding. Don't need the ability to move points left and right, though I wouldn't object if that came along for the ride. As it stands, unless I vertically maximize the given track/lane - which is annoying to do, especially if working on multiple tracks simultaneously - it requires pixel level precision with the mouse, and even then the minimum step size is dependant on the height of the track (typically 0.4db on my screen). It'd be nice to select the points, loop playback, and just hit some ctrl-num-8 or whatever to tweak the mix of that section without getting fiddly with the mouse.

I took that as "I bought Carbon at full price not that long ago, and now they're giving it away for free." Which, if the case, would annoy me as well.

Like when his friends and acquaintances must have told him early on "Stick to the songwriting, Bob. The singing, y'know, it's not really your thing..."

"Looks like you're gonna need a bigger cat..."

Hmm... I've only got the one DAW, and I've got to believe it's one of the ones Larry would have tried. 😄

Thinking maybe I don't need a free copy of Carbon after all. The whole process sounds more than a little annoying for a thing I'm unlikely to ever use, beyond the initial dick-around-with-and-then-forget-about stage.

Thanks for the advice. Both solutions look like they'll do the trick nicely. Gonna play with that Notemapper thing first, as that looks like it could solve several other problems I didn't know I had! And the CAL approach appeals to my past life as a C programmer, two careers ago...

So, the cover tracks I produce often serve a dual purpose: standalone hunks of music for my own amusement, and backing tracks/teaching tool for my band. (Which granted, hasn't been an issue for 6 months, and may never be again, but I'm an optimist. Or possibly an optometrist.) Currently, I use Session Drummer 3 for nearly everything. I'd like to use Addictive Drums or the freebie version of SSD or whatever; something with more hi-hat and snare articulation, at least for some 'real drummer' songs. BUT, for the purposes of programming my real-life drummer and/or producing notation, I'd also like a way to flatten such complicated MIDI down to standard GM MIDI drums (e.g., all the snare hits become note #38, all the various types of closed-hat hits become #42). Anyone know how to do that automatically? Note that I don't care how good or bad the resulting midi sounds, it's for looking at, not listening to.

Thanks... and having now watched a couple videos on it, I can see why. I'd rather keep 37GB of hard drive space empty.

FWIW, here's my list of potential pickups to get Carbon (already have Trash 2). If you've played with any of them, let me know what you think. Strike 2 by AIR Music Technology - $49 TDR Nova GE by Tokyo Dawn Labs - $36 Mini Grand by AIR Music Technology - $5 W.A. Production Mutant Bundle - $6.90 Vocal Cleaner by W.A. Production - $7.90 W.A. Production Make It Loud Bundle - $9.91 I'd like a better druminator than Session Drummer 3, particularly one that has a few levels of high-hat closedness. Have Addictive Drums 2, but it annoys me. Need to watch some vids or d/l the demo to see if Strike 2 does what I want. TDR Nova GE - Got the freebie version of Nova and like it. Could see getting the real version. And Mini Grand and the various WA Production things might be of some use. Don't really need another piano, but $5, y'know. Was reasonably impressed with WA's Babylon synth, though I picked up ther Venom fx thing for cheap and have never used it, so who knows. Still, the prices are so low it doesn't really matter. Though I should probably save some of them for future "get the free giveaway" purchases!

Automation. Mute the track / cut the volume, or if it's a single effect producing the tail you could also bypass the effect or adjust it's wet/dry param if it has one.

Arturia upgrade pricing always leaves something to be desired. As far as I know, they never offered the 'good' price ($99) to upgrade from (synth) Collection 6 to Collection 7, and even that'd be debatable given what's in 7. Similarly, I bought "3 filters..." and "3 delays..." when they were released, but they never offered an acceptable deal to go from those to FX Collection. (Admittedly, the only part of FXC I'd have wanted was the reverbs. Compressors, I'm drowning in, and preamps... too cork-sniffery for my needs. So that lowers the relative value of same quite a bit from my perspective.) Still, I'd have thrown money at them if they'd made me a deal.

As opposed to the ones that don't? 😀 Anyway, unless Zalman offers those particular fans as a replacement item, you're pretty much gonna be replacing the whole assembly. Personally, I'd recommend similar designs - such as the Deepcool Gammaxx 400 - that use standard rectangular 120mm fans, for cheap & easy replacement down the line when (not if!) the bearings start to fail. Also, unless you're overclocking or some such, a single 120mm fan on the CPU should be more than adequate. And quieter (and cheaper!) than a dual-fan cooler.

All I want to know is, Why Isn't Waves Berzerk Open Source? They could be doing anything in there! <runs screaming in the opposite direction>

Yeah, I could see that, I guess. I'm not a keyboard player (work exclusively in the PRV), so I don't even record keyboard, let alone long, multi-preset performances, On the other hand, I do play guitar, and I don't do tonal changes mid-track, either. Maybe after recording I'll automate an effect bypass or level (i.e. wah, or delay), but going from rhythm to lead (even in a 'never more than one guitar playing at any given moment' arrangement) - that gets done as two separate tracks.

Perhaps I'm coming at this from an entirely different direction, but I'm not sure why anyone would want to send bank and preset numbers to a VSTi. Live performance? I vastly prefer the VSTi's I have (e.g. all the Arturia stuff) that present the presets as a single huge searchable library, rather than arbitrarily breaking them up into 32 or 128 entry 'banks' or 'cards' or 'ROMs' (e.g. the KORG stuff). Though I suppose I could see a point to having the ability to pick favorites from the library and have them as a 'quick access list' sort of thing. But for what I'm doing at least, I've never wanted to change presets on a VSTi mid track. If I need two different sounds from the same synth, I'd do two instances on two separate tracks. The EQ and other mixing-foo for one preset would almost certainly not be correct for a different preset. Sure, one could automate changes to the EQ and other FX when the preset changes, but I think it'd be easier just to go the "two separate instances" route and not have to do any of that.

It's what gives the sound that "special sauce". Also, it'd be even better with 2 or 3 Yumbuckers.

I just see some annoyed guy buffing out the butt-smudges on his expensive musical furniture.

I think it's keen. Except the headstock, which is out-of-proportion and just plain fugly.

Ouch. Way to twist the knife, man! 😜

Irritating that going to Music Production Bundle 3 is a $299 upgrade (70% off) from any version of Ozone, but also a $299 upgrade (only 40% off) from O8N2. You can probably guess what I own. I might have considered it at $199, and would've probably lept at $150 (70% off). Then again, I suppose they're saving me a pile of money. Can't imagine there's anything earth-shattering in O9, Nectar 3, et al that I can't already do with what I've got.

Fair 'nuff. Was worth a shot.