Craig N

5 hours ago, jngnz said:

I'm a Realphones user and was going to snarkily tell you to get better headphones, but I've checked out Can Opener now and it actually is really subtle. It doesn't seem to emulate speakers at all, but just the crosstalk from it. If you want the "oh wow, I'm sitting in front of speakers" experience, you should probably look at Realphones or SoundID.

Haha, well I'm glad you found it subtle too! I really expected the addition of crosstalk to be more noticeable. 

I have Realphones already, and I really dig it. I haven't been using it lately because of the CPU load on my aging machine, but I think I'll have to start using it again, because I immediately got a wow factor when comparing it to Canopener last night on my AKG 701s. 

Re better headphones I'm conscious the Realphones recommendations are that to get the best experience one should spend a bit more than the tier of headphones I already own (HD600s are my other goto) but I don't find it as easy to spend hundreds on headphones these days, and I'm pretty happy with the cans I currently have. 

What headphones do you use? 

Spent the day thinking I'd get home and demo Canopener then buy it, based on the positive feedback I had read about it online. But in the youtube video I checked out during my lunch break, I couldn't hear any difference between when it was enabled and when it was disabled.

Installed the demo. Still can't hear the difference. 

Not sure if it's just subtle stuff or if I'm just not cut out for mixing. 

According to this Facebook thread it might be a serial based protection. 

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0yvKXKizKKtsZtDFLDJcVEHxsSkn7Dq7Nkh2fvTkRyHFjhDVBxkvGcbpdHwkfpDzBl&id=207277397138

@D-Fused Sounds how long is this sale on for? 

Vouchers every month! 

Broke by June! 

1 hour ago, Vernon Barnes said:

I have more Mini Moog emulations than I can shake a stick at but Minimonsta has long been my favourite so I had to bite on this one and upgrade

Boy, is their website slow at the moment, not helped by a forgotten login and the need to reset the password it was over half an hour to complete the purchase.

There was an apology email from the team member at GForce who looks after the website. He mentioned an issue with a database loop. I've worked on projects where this kind of issue has brought websites to a halt during intense purchasing periods, so I have felt their pain. 

Sometimes it's not easy to rearchitect the code when the issue involves database calls made through an underlying framework library that simplifies things for the developer at the expense of obfuscating how the database is being queried.  It's especially not easy when you're trying to allow buyers to complete their purchases simultaneously while you try to investigate and fix the issue(s). 

50 minutes ago, RSMcGuitar said:

They are offering me Keysuite Bundle for $49.

That's $300 off. Not sure why I qualify.

 

It's only 51GB ?

It's possible you're being offered $49 off the (full) price of Keysuite Bundle. Maybe try adding the deal to your cart to check. I think everyone who gets this offer gets super excited then almost equally disappointed haha. 

12 minutes ago, abacab said:

I tried the version 1 demo, and then opted for the Cherry Audio Miniverse instead.

Did you compare Miniverse against anything more recent than version 1? That thing is showing its age. I can't say I ever felt inclined to use it after picking it up for free, but the V2 demo seems pretty capable. 

Just wondering if you had any thoughts about the Cherry Miniverse vs Softube Model 72, Synapse The Legend, or the UAD Minimoog perhaps? I haven't demoed the Miniverse yet. 

32 minutes ago, Spice3d said:

Tried the demo and this thing sounds wonderful. The cryptic message saying u can only use alpha presets in the demo means only the presets with the Greek alpha symbol next to the preset's star work. There must be a lot of interest cuz their site is getting slammed.

They gave version 1 away last year as a Sound Collective freebie, so that's a lot of prospective upgraders. Including me ?

3 hours ago, kitekrazy said:

Should have listened to this guy instead of feedback on 3 forums.

Are you saying you should have listened to Zo and bought Bassynth? That the advice to buy serum presets was poor? As someone who still thinks about buying Serum and is also contemplating Bassynth I'd be interested in your thoughts. 

Seems fair, people on the top tier of loyalty discount could be competing with Acustica for sales. 

Wow, this thing is impressive! Very convincing, and a surprising range of sounds possible. 

Didn't take long to decide to buy this, especially when I realised I had 86 rewards points in my account. Total outlay only $19 after cashing in 50 rewards points for a $50 off voucher. 

I think they're going to announce the end of WUP!

Waves is going to become cool again. 

8 hours ago, Last Call said:

$39.5 here! nice... still can't buy it yet, lol. 

When I click upgrade and then add the promo code to the cart, it shows what the upgrade discount is based on at the top. Mine says "Volume 5 (upgrade from Marshall Plexi)". 

I also own Amp Room, Drawmer S73, TSAR-1R and Tube Delay. I get the uninspiring $349.50 upgrade price. May I ask what it says your upgrade is from, to be offered $39.50?

I noticed that UVI String Machines 2 has samples of the Streichfett amongst the collection. Since my Streichfett demo period has expired, I can't compare them directly.

Considering the launch discount was 33 Euro my suggestion is wait for a sale. Often when JRR adds a product it's because a sale is coming up. 

I demoed it at launch and it sounds pretty good but I thought I was good for strings with Gforce Virtual String Machine. 

But apparently I wasn't because then I bought the XILS string machine bundle, and after buying UVI Vintage Vault  I discovered its string machine library is far superior to Gforce's, to my ears anyway. So once again I think I'm good for string machines. 

I'll probably still buy this when it goes on sale if it comes back down to $33 ish. Who doesn't love string synths! 

Being an SE product it's a cut down version, the full Mixbox has 70 modules where this one has 24.

I do have a decent case with fans but you're right I need to re thermal paste it, and probably the cooler which is stock. My problem is that it seems any money spent would be better spent on a new machine ?

So maybe I'll just clean the heatsink fins out instead. 

37 minutes ago, Brian Walton said:

Lots of factors you didn't include....

Number of tracks?

Latency settings / buffer settings?

What constitutes too many plugins?  

I can cause a modern computer to fail at 44.1 16bit with a bunch of vsts and effects while trying to run a bunch of low latency real time tracks such as amp sims and using high CPU effects.

 

I can also run 192 without problems for a stereo recording and high buffer settings on the same machine.

Well recently it was a song I was working on with about 10 tracks all using VST synths or Kontakt libraries (not recorded audio), and on top of that I added KSHMR Chain to every track with three plugins running on each, U-He Satin, TBProAudio GSatPlus, and FrontDAW. Buffer was probably 1024 samples at 96khz. I didn't realise it was running at 96khz so I was surprised when I realised it was overheating, thinking it was running at 48khz. 

I'm assuming we're probably still 10 years away from being able to run everything at 192khz with a bunch of tracks and plugins and not have performance issues. 

33 minutes ago, kitekrazy said:

Part of me thought he was joking.   If he said also using ASIO4ALL then it would be.

I wasn't joking. I notice a worthwhile difference in sound quality at 96khz so I wonder whether there'd be a further improvement at 192khz, plus it'd pretty much eliminate aliasing. So when I see an interface advertising 192khz I wonder is anyone using it already and if so, can they actually run it at 192khz when making music ITB or is it really only useful for recording at 192 khz. 

On 2/12/2023 at 8:51 AM, kitekrazy said:

 I'm too stupid to figure out how to use it anyway

Wrong forum ?

My aging i7 4790k overheats and BSODs if I accidentally leave it on 96khz when adding too many plugins, is anyone using 192khz successfully on a modern machine without running into performance issues? 

Wow! 

I am genuinely shocked, but upon reflection I am also pleased by this announcement. In contrast to earlier seeing creatively bankrupt companies join forces to cross-market rather than innovate or support their existing products, here we have a company with the most user-friendly stance in the market (free lifetime upgrades!) acquiring a company with some of the most creatively inspiring products and soundware in the market. 

Welcome back Larry! Looking forward to hearing about your trip. Hope you had a great time! 

4 hours ago, Zo said:

any better cpu hit perf ? 

Yeah do what I do and use another synth ?