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I think Lukas owns the Studio One Toolbox site, and being a developer, he put a lot of handy tools there that are not available specifically within S1 (he just coded other tools people might find useful, like pulling track templates from other project files). Even the main page is a drag/drop interface to convert Cubase Expression Maps/Patch Scripts or Cakewalk Instrument Definition Files into S1 "Sound Variations" (which are beefed up "Articulation Maps"). He also has 400 tutorial videos linked on that site binned into applicable categories, which speeds up searching for things as an alternative to blindly YTing for answers.

^^^^ It is important to point this out, but it is also in the bold text at the top of the link in the OP in gory detail (for all DAWs). Unfortunately, folks who first came online with CbB do not qualify for a cross-grade, but S1 Artist is given away with a lot of PreSonus products.

It has been so long now that I cannot remember for sure, but didn't the demo "reset" annually so you can try things out once per year?

This is highly dependent on the original track and how it was mixed. Frequency overlaps between instruments can cause phasing issues (i.e., parts of stems end up in other stems), so if you (slightly) modify those and remix they can become transparent. However, if you remove a track entirely, that phasing will persist, and may not be usable even with more surgery. When you say "fairly dense," that is where you may find the limitations of un-mixing stems in short order. Almost every plugin that does this (and has additional repair tools) has a fully functional demo available (RX Standard/Advanced or SpectraLayers Pro), so if this is a one-off situation, you could demo one of those and see how it works for you with that specific track, and at least get that work done with the demo alone.

This is not technically a split (hence the confusion), but a lot of which method you are using depends on how far you need to zoom to see what you are doing. When that zoom makes the region larger than the track view, splits tend to be faster; but if the entire region is in view, ripple delete can be the faster method.

There is an option in Preferences for the which side of the split is selected by default. I forget what that defaults to but mine is set to left, so you can only hit the delete key every second split that way (split start, split end of silence, hit delete key). Also, bear in mind that there is a Process->Remove Silence that you may want to check out... you can set dB level/duration/tails for editing a track and it will remove all of those sections in one quick pass. It works very well for dialogue editing when you have only one track and no worry for alignment to other tracks.

The browser is text-searchable, so that will work most of the time, and a simple sort by vendor/type often gets the rest. I have a feeling that this will fall by the wayside for you over time. Getting caught up in organizing just ends up being a time sink for me.

+1 Unfortunately, the performance monitor doesn't deep dive into every plugin to look like this (I didn't embed the image because it is large and is from S1P), but something to bear in mind is that not all VSTis are created equal. Depending on how libraries are streamed and the complexity of the VSTi itself (about all of them have internal FX you cannot shut off via CbB), one or more of them can easily be giving you a nice latency hit that you are not able to see with the performance monitor itself. If you have shut off all FX in CbB (so you got busses too), then I would focus on VSTis... Look at disk usage in Windows Performance monitoring (this will also add another CPU hit, so be mindful of this, but can help to see). As CbB is the host, it will hide which VSTis are causing it, but will let you know if it is a streaming issue. Look for VSTis with internal FX that "could have" any look ahead associated with them on their audio processing. Many VSTis do have an internal FX bypass function, so rather than troubleshoot via freezing, you should also be able to bypass internal FX via that method. If there is a consistent point where the dropouts occur (especially if it is one instrument becomes "active" each time in the same place) that is a good place to focus. Before starting troubleshooting, be sure to save it as a new project first. *IF* you are lucky and it is isolated, deleting tracks (or ones associated to suspect VSTis) can help narrow down the root cause.

You got a wee bit more than just that though. It wasn't till I saw a Dolby Atmos VST in the deals forum a few months back that I realized there even was such a thing. That is baked into 6.5 (and you got a bunch of other goodies too... you just don't know it yet).

Silly me! In reality, since this is not specifically music-related and I am not an expert on the subject (or their product), that was intentional. I figured if typing 5 characters ("Fotor") was a struggle, then typing 3000 characters (2 pages of coherent text) would go far beyond their capabilities to use what I had mentioned in the OP. Finding 3000 characters of coherent text on an internet forum is a rarity as it is.

The image generator only has aspect ratios (1:1, 4:3, 3:4, 16:9, and 9:16) as selectable options, not pixel size. I have been only working with 1:1 so far, and it makes them 2048x2048. I suspect you could resize a 16:9 down if you wanted a perfect 1920x1080, but if using the image for something like a desktop image, Windows will automatically scale it and use a 16:9 image "as is." The 5 free credits for just making an account is still in place, so you can test that out... beware here... the AI image generator defaults to 2 images at a time (in the lower left), so if you are working with those 5 freebies, I suggest setting that to only 1 image per generation cycle. Again, be very descriptive on what you want to see, or the generator will just randomly assume "something" for what you left out. A lot of their editing tools are free (same tools available in many programs), so I have been focused on bringing those into Painter and repainting/modifying them.

The only feature that hasn't been added yet that I missed from SONAR was the ability to use a wav editor from inside S1P (I put that request in 5 years ago now). However, there are VSTs out that can do that functionality, so it "sorta" went away if you have one of those. The transition to S1P itself is best done to work a simple project start to finish to get acquainted with the GUI (the wheres, whats, and hows). Being a "one-page" default layout, there is a lot of keyboard shortcut activity involved to get speed proficiency, but there are also a lot of unassigned shortcuts for rather nifty features.

Have you considered a hardware VHS->DVD recorder as an intermediate step? I am not sure how easy those are to find anymore but left one sitting on a shelf just in case I would ever need it. Sheesh... I just looked them up and they are 3x the price they once were! That is nuts.

The routing can get complex, for sure, but the purpose is to specifically monitor (echo) an input signal so you can hear it while recording/tracking. When there is already data in the track it is no longer required. Where it is most useful is to help with gain adjustments, etc., prior to and when actually recording as well as letting you listen to VSTis while noodling around with presets (without needing to arm the track).

From that link check your preferences quick: "The Off position on a current MIDI track is only available if you disable the Always Echo Current MIDI Track option in Edit > Preferences > MIDI - Playback and Recording." That should be ON by default, and may be off by accident. That is required to monitor the input to a channel through a VSTi, and should automatically be on if the track is in focus to prevent what you were experiencing.

Maybe it is the fallback for when "drowning in reverb" isn't quite enough? Then if the vocoder still cannot cut it, they can always fall back to Stutter Edit.

I wanted to point this deal out since there are many here who also work with visual media. I have been chipping away on rebuilding visual media and ran into the problem that I can edit the crap out of things, but finding a suitable base image is a royal pain (and hard to tell if those images are free or not). I had tried out Fotor last year, but they work on a "credit" system for image generation (1 credit per image) and they gave me 5 just for making a free account. Two ways to get credits are to either buy them outright or upgrade the membership plan. I just happened to try that again yesterday and there is a holiday sale going on, so wanted to point that out for folks. Although they have promo codes out, do not use those on the membership upgrades, since they are less than the default savings sale on their site and get overridden if you use them. I think credits carry over for up to 5 months (but they do expire if not used). The route of buying credits alone, you can use the promo codes on, but it is actually cheaper to upgrade to Pro + straight up ($5.25/month with yearly subscription, with 300 credits per month) rather than try to juggle other options. Definitely read through things on their site for different plans/options/features if interested... I was solely focused on image generation, but they offer a lot of different capabilities. A few things of note (I am pretty sure the free credits for just making an account still exists) specific to raw AI generation from text: If doing a text-based description, be sure to fill up the description with as much detail as possible or the AI just randomly assigns it. Silly things like length of hair, color of objects, setting, time of day, etc. are all important. I "think" the free version was limited to 1000 characters, but the upgrade is 3000 characters. Faces generated (I have only done 10 thus far), have been similar enough that I am wondering if their "AI" is actually using 3D pre-made character models. I will figure this out more as time goes on, but this is worth noting.

Not a lot of the really cheap ones stand out as unique in either design or application, but three of the ones 59% off set stand out (all three have a pretty heavy focus on removing frequency collisions): MCharacter, which is a unique timbre-tweaking tool best suited for monophonic material. MStereoSpread, which is fairly unique in its processing that will always collapses to mono without issues. MSpectralDynamics, which @El Diablo had asked about in the Soothe2 thread a while back; that is now $89, so less than half of the cost of Soothe2.

Ack, that just re-affirms my perception that BandLab is more of a social media wannabe. There is nothing in that ad about (quality) production at all.

This window may actually time well with the potential CbB de-activation phase after release, so I wouldn't get too worked up with it. Also bear in mind that a lot of vendors bent over backwards to accommodate SONAR users when Gibson yanked the rug out from under us. Most are aware and watching for what happens Next (pun intended), so I would expect sales to accommodate any potential "CbB refugee" situation in the coming year.

Quick followup on this guy... there is no option to control undo history in the app (it is app controlled), but from the manual: "The number of undo steps depends on your computer's memory. The maximum number of undo steps is set to 30." The "Undo History" count causes significant performance issues in media-related programs, so I went hunting for that just to check, but that app itself will remove undo history count based on your computer's RAM availability. So this is actually not an issue.... the memory requirements of the app are fairly low (4GB (16GB recommended), and a graphics card with 1GB (2GB recommended)), so the app dynamically keeps things "within bounds" for your specific machine by lowering your undo history automatically. The structures feature is by far becoming my favorite new one. Watercolor is my nemesis, and I have a bunch of very old pencil drawings I have played with over the years with paints (I have been fine with paints that don't "just run"). With the ability to embed a drawing into the canvas with structures, watercolors just "paint themselves" now. In the digital world you can cheat SO much... I kept laughing because the "eraser tool" isn't available to anyone doing real watercolors, but is a handy crutch for people like me.

The above video was linked in the Rebelle 7 manual (go figure, since it is from version 5), but there is a new feature video out. I have not tried some of them yet, but the new version has better tracking of paper/paint height which will allow embedding "structure" into the paper itself from another image (roughly the 5-10 minute section of the video below). New feature marker list for the video below are (I bold-faced the more impressive new features features): 0:00 Introduction 0:25 Metallic Materials 2:53 Color Panel 3:18 Metallic Materials Demonstration 4:45 Improved Art Surfaces 7:59 Structures 11:43 Fill and Gradient Tool 12:25 Improved Ruler Tool 13:40 Filter Layers 14:43 New in Brush Creator 16:14 Redesigned Wet and Dry Media 19:20 User Interface Updates

Yeah, I'll be dead before Studio Six 9 comes out.

+1 to the above, a big advantage to the console is capturing automation far more easily than you can in track view, but it requires some real estate to work with both open. Another option to consider if low on real estate is to open and undock the Navigator to give you quick access to the timeline visually. A big part of things is playing around and finding what you feel most comfortable with, but there are pros/cons to all views.

Or you could buy an SM7B foam windscreen separately and stick it on the end. Then just tailor the video so no one can see the rest of the mic!