Alan Tubbs

22 hours ago, Rain said:

Tap and hold the icon. When they start wobbling, drag it to the page of your choice.

That being said, the process isn't as smooth as it could be.

Nope.  The screen doesn’t skip to the next page of apps.  

22 hours ago, Rain said:

Tap and hold the icon. When they start wobbling, drag it to the page of your choice.

That being said, the process isn't as smooth as it could be.

I loved my windows phone.  For phone use (?), calendar, and music.

I have an apple phone which is clunky and kludgey and unintuitive.  Hell, my kid can’t figure out  how to do stuff on it.  For example,  How do you move an icon from one screen to the next app page?

to paraphrase Orwell, it would take an computer engineer to so badly design an app.

however, the rest of the family is part of Apple world.  I can’t get tickets from the wife’s Ticketmaster account, so I’m not sure why I went with it.

My channel strip is a Rupert Neve Design Portico II.  Get it just about right during capture and there is less question about mucking around with the mix.  Usually all it takes is some polishing.  Maybe a little eq, and I still use the cakewalk’s la2a to final fit the vox into the mix.

 Usually everything goes thru the Portico II unless I have multiple recordings during a session.  I don’t have a drum room at home so I usually don’t multi track a lot.

2nd the Novation.  I have the 49 keyboard.  The knobs are useful.

Yea, Mixcraft is a good, cheap alternative for Sonar.  It looks feels and works like Sonar and earlier iterations of cakewalk’s Daw.

Glad Some can get it to work. I would never recommend it, tho.

22 hours ago, murat k. said:

Actually the topic is about FL Studio ASIO vs WASAPI now. But thanks for sharing your thoughts. 🙂

Not according to the title which asks about asio4all.  I just gave my opinion having used it 10+ years ago and moved on.  I have enough problems in life without fixing bad drivers instead of making music.  It is like winding your own strings I in order to play guitar.

Start your track levels at -6dB.  The more tracks you have the more each individual needs to be lowered as a starting point.

Asio4all wasn’t any good 10 years ago and I haven’t heard a good thing about it in the last 10 years.  Everybody who has used it has moved on.  If your interface didn’t come with custom drivers and the generic drivers don’t get the job done, why would a another layer of cludge work?

Keep the master level at -.3 dB otherwise mp3s will distort during the rendering process.

Soundpure has the dual unit for $950 with rebate.  Running now.  A great deal.  The warm units have a nice pre that is thick.  
I thought the single unit was a good deal at $900.  Getting a stereo unit for less than a grand is a great deal.

Most people buy their music as mp3s these days.  Doesn’t mean that is the best format or better than CDs (or two inch tape).

cakewalk is the odd child, the major DAW that is windows only.  Many music makers are Mac centric.  Why test your vst in a limited market and rewrite code for what are mostly non professionals on Windows?
 

and I cannot think of any vst I’ve bought that didn’t work exclusively on cakewalk. 

This is where a hardware compressor/limiter helps.  I generally record thru a RND Portico II channel.  The compressor gets fast.  Not 1176 fast but enough to damp vocal pushes.  A gentle slope afterwards.  That works to firm up most signals but not so much that there is nothing to work on in the box.  An 1176 will still be able to light switch on/off the envelope or the slow changes wrought by an optical limiter.

As I understand it the chip shortage killed the mk 5 and needed a lot of them.  I was hoping to review it but instead they are offering the 6 now.

I’ll return to this thread after I run some first tests with it.  If and when I get it.  I have high hopes.

Sonitus compressor.  The graphs and knees show you just what is going on with the volumes.

NI charges 3rd parties (say Heavyocity) a fee so that their libraries run on Kontakt free.  That is part of why they are expensive.  Free libraries run on the paid version.  your best solution is waiting for the the twice a a year sell by NI and get the paid version.  Or buy their hardware if you need a keyboard:  they come with the cheap version of komplete.  Spending $200 to get the most used sampler isn’t outrageous, unless you don’t want or can’t to make the investment.  But Kontakt comes with plenty of instruments and more free ones are out there.  I use it on every project.

Latter better synths or effects shouldn’t overwrite older ones.  If you don’t mind re inserting the newer plugs into older projects you can delete the free ones.  But is shouldnt come to that. 

if you need a sampler, it is the best bet.  The other synths etc are good and Komplete covers most forms of synthesis except they’ve recently dropped FM.  But for my money Arturia’s Pigment covers the other forms of synthesis in one synth and I picked it up for $100 a couple of months ago.  But NI is a great long term investment.  It took a few years for me to splurge on Komplete, but once you are in their universe it is relatively cheap to upgrade.  Every other year I upgrade Komplete for $100-200.  It includes a lot of effects too, the whole range.  You can do complete projects with only the cheapest version of Komplete.   NI also has certain Libraries for Kontakt for soundtrack underbed production that I always pick up.  It isn’t terribly expensive long term when done over years.

 

If you registered it you should have it under your account.

Great bit of software that was simple to use.  At that time I thought cake should have invested in it, adding on sonar features, eventually. But they crabbed on p5 to sonar, instead,

No.  I use it mainly as a keyboard.   Sorry.  I’ll look into your integration when I get some time.  Eight knobs gone to waste.

I’ve been happy with my Native instruments  A49  control keyboard.  The cheaper, non lite version.  8 knobs and a nice keyboard feel.  49 keys is a minimum.  Less than $200 when I got mine.  Good quality.  I had a Novation 25 and keys went dead.  Doesn’t mean they all do but just passing that along.  They fixed it when I wrote directly to them.  But I had to send the unit to Austin.

Too bad.  I don’t use drum synths that much, but AD pretty good.

Doesn’t Cake still come with addictive drums?  That is what you need.  I never really know what is still included with Cake.

The ns systems (ns 10s etc.) were designed as proper pro monitors including their accompanying amps.  But they got sold as bookshelf speakers for the home.  Didn’t harm the sound.  
 

I put four on the ceiling of a small live theater for sound and they worked fine, even for the bass (this was in the analog days and LPs were limited in the bass).  It was for theater, not a disco.

I was going mention the 500 series but I haven’t kept up with those releases.  I do know that Rupert Neve has a 500 series of his 1073 but you are talking 2 grand.

good hunting.

I replaced a 45 year old matched Yamaha monitor (for my ns 500 10 inch speakers) with a used hafler p1500 transnova.  I was used to the relaxed mode my system had reached but the hafler with the ns 500s is a lot more forward, a bit different in the high end (the ns 500s have beryllium (sounds like elvish  gem) tweeters.  A bit more strident, which is not something totally bad, since it can point out problems.  But like everything else musical, the harder and longer you listen the more you hear.