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Are these from Ikea?

"Brother Louie" - Stories

A primer on how to use a wah pedal...

hint: you must be wearing platform shoes for the full effect...

Cool...I WAS missing something basic. Thanks for the assist!!

My observation after a mixing and mastering session last night: For a more or less normal song for this vocalist demo (Piano and keys, no drums) , I seem to hover at about 35% utilization - nothing too exotic other than Capital Chambers - some 1176s (non-legacy), Legacy Fairchild,  the LA-3A, Studer tape emulator and Brainworx masterdesk .   My 6th grade math education tells me that could have probably gotten away with a quad card, so the 8 core is just a lot of head room - maybe I am just used to using them sparingly now from the solo card. When I get some stuff with drums going I maybe might  crack that 50%

Happy as hell with the results.  Given that a Quad core is only about $150 cheaper than I paid for this one, and I have but one slot available, Still pleased the next day with no twinge of buyers remorse.

"NO STAIRWAY!!"

So, Having recently jumped into the UA  digital ecosphere with at least one foot...I want to be able to apply automation against some of the control knobs.   First use case is a reverb swell in one track. I know I can get most of the effect I am after by fading between a dry and wet track, but it would actually just be easier to just automate the level knob on the plugin for this instance.  When I enable automation write on the plugin (since the button is there) I don't get the red boxes around the individual settings I want to automate, and therefore my knob twiddling is not recorded or played back.

Am I missing something basic or is this impossible?

"Rio Grande" - Dave Alvin

New card. 

Also, I just noticed they extended the half year sale through the 6th...

Yeah,  Amazon seller Altomusic. 

Box and product was indistinguishable from a shiny new one.  Shrink wrap intact. Just got the card installed, fired up, registered and Plugins enabled.. With only 1x PCIe slot left I had to pull the solo card out to put in the octo, but no drama or pain from UA in registering my plugin library to the new card.  

I guess the solo card will just go back in its static bag and box for now. Probably will either resell it or maybe put it into another DAW PC I am slapping together for a friend...

Fedex man just dropped it off. As I said initially, it was advertised as "B stock" I know what that means when it comes to Amps and Guitars and Carburetors , but not so much with something that just fits inside a computer.

The card arrived brand new, still in shrink wrap.  Still cannot see what makes this particular unit "B stock"... Rolling up my sleeves to install it shortly.

9 hours ago, Øyvind Skald said:

Can we get Sonar as it is for Linux, with all all drivers, Vsts and all working?

I would switch in a second.....

Might be smarter to make sure the Windows version continues to work first. 

13 hours ago, DeeringAmps said:

UAD is my least often used suite of plugs. I had high hopes for the the '55 Deluxe, but its just ok...

I honestly can't remember what I paid for it (I should look that up, but it might depress me...).
I'm sure I'm in it well over $899 with all the additional plugs (I never use...).

Mostly this was a flippant response to NSFW's post.
But in my universe everything has a "no-brainer" buy and sell dollar figure (I should say, almost everything).

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Well, had you listed it, I would have bought it (and saved the sales tax). There's a dearth of used cards in the market right now, which I think is attributed to the sale. Throw in some desirable plugins and, and as you say...it's a "no brainer".

But I'm good now.

Looking forward to it's arrival...Juggling plugins and freezing tracks with a solo card is not the greatest experience..

"Streets of Bakersfield" - Dwight Yoakam w/ Buck Owens

"Rocket Queen" - Guns n Roses

"Jet"   Wings

What do you call a dog with wings?

Linda McCartney

Supertramp - Breakfast in America

"The Enemy Guns" - Devotchka

 I thought "Staff View" was the photo of the employees from the last office party.

"Sexy and Seventeen" The Stray Cats...

Of course, now she's wrinkly and 57...

  If you didn't get a SSO account  you can try emailing support@bandlab.com (A completely different company). They were able to pull up a list of all my licenses so I could reinstall.

DON'T UNINSTALL YOUR OLD SONAR!!

An uninstaller will delete the .vst files you will want to preserve because CbB ships with a minimal amount of .VSTs.

Start by Going to https://bandlab.com

Sign up, get an acount.

Install Bandlab assistant from the Download Page.

Once it is installed, Open it and log in. Tab on right is for Apps.  Link to Download CbB is at the bottom. Click it.

It's a big chunk o' data, so it may take a while to pull down the full installer depending on your location and bandwidth.

After that, it is just a "Follow the prompts" install.  A lot like being married, just agree with everything it asks you  (Unless you have a custom location for any of the associated files)

Lets facew it...They have half the money and all the ...female lady parts.

7 hours ago, Tezza said:

DXO photolab is another one to look at. I use an older version, DXO 11. It's not much of an image editor and neither is it a lightroom type replacement (although the newer version might be better) but what it does do is fantastic. If you work with RAW and just want to polish photos, it's the best tool for that I've found by a long shot. It will also work with other file types. Lens correction, noise reduction, extracting detail from RAW, HDR, seems to be its strong points.

Actually what I called DX/NIK is properly the DXO suite, which used to be called NIK collection. Been using that stuff for quite a while and it’s very good.

No Argument.  If I didn't use the software commercially it would have been a waste of money to even spring for the perpetual CS6...but I knew I'd still be using it for more than the three years that the break even point vs the subscription model expense. At the time I had never even heard of Capture One so Photoshop and Illustrator were pretty much "Must Have", and I use most of the rest of the Creative Suite too.

Truth be told, Photoshop plays second fiddle to Capture One for most things "Photo" for the last few years around here and muscle memory is  probably my biggest driver in always reaching for Photoshop for raster editing. If I need to crank out something fast (and I almost always do), I'm not trying to figure out which brush does what and how well it does it and how to work it.  .  As an example,  yesterday I had to shoot out some retouched images for an artist l am doing a lot of work with (She's competing for a Maxim Magazine cover and I shot most of her book).  Zit removal, nipple hiding  and minor touch ups  etc were  probably less than a minute per image in Photoshop. All the rest (color correction,  cropping etc) happens in Capture One and with batch processing its a few minutes for the session. Metadata and Digimark and even integration with online proofing gallery all are part of the batch process in C1 so the combination works well for high volume production.  I don't typically do a ton of filters outside of a few favorite recipes in DX/NIK collection

I actually hadn't even looked at Affinity so don't know what I am missing I guess. So far as PSP and the Gimp, I know enough to know I don't personally want to bother learning them any more than I have. If someone else has a workflow that is PSP to CorelDraw to ...I dunno...whatever, it's great if it suits your needs and its a tool that stays out of your way.