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15 minutes ago, InstrEd said:

Hmmm. Pork Pie I never heard of such a thing. Must not be made in my neck of the woods

But Everything taste better with ICE CREAM!

WHAT! You've never heard of Pork Pie!

You know what pork is, I hope.

And you know what a pie is.

Put pork in that pie and there you have it... Pork Pie.

Not usually eaten with ice cream, by the way.

4 minutes ago, paulo said:

Gotta do something while you're endlessly waiting, right?

Haha! Yeah, you got it

doing my head in... Biggest faff so far is the Native Instruments stuff. They have their "Native Access" application, so all should be good... But it ain't and for some reason it wants to put some library stuff in the C:\Users\Public\Documents folder, except there isn't a folder with that name and Windows 10 is not allowing Native Access to create it. Might be something to do with the new ransomware protection and I tried adding Native Access to the list of allowed applications, but that didn't work. After a bit of poking around in Native Access I found that you could specify a different path, and that worked.

More I think about it, must be something to do with the new Windows security stuff because I've never had trouble with NI stuff previously.

Anyway, I've at least now got to the point where all my NI stuff is installed and I'm now working my way through checking everything is licensed and works.

Just now, InstrEd said:

I hope you had ice cream with the pie................

Ice cream? With pork pie?

Never tried that... I'll get back to you...

made me LOL, it did

2 minutes ago, InstrEd said:

Seriously it looks killer.  Enjoy

Thanks

1 minute ago, InstrEd said:

You tell me...............................

Haha! Oh, them pies... I ate 'em

That i9 CPU just ain't getting warm yet... Got to give it some welly at some point over the next few days...

5 minutes ago, InstrEd said:

why are your pies by the computer😂 

what pies?

Just now, ØSkald said:

you can put your screen on the floor?

Haha! No! It'll have to do peeping above the top of my monitor

I might see if I can raise it another couple of inches so I can see the glowing logo on my graphics card. I've set the RGB so that it goes from green to red as the GPU temperature rises

4 minutes ago, ØSkald said:

Love it...

Thanks mate

I've not really had a chance to put it through its paces yet. I installed my favourite FPS last night but as too tired to play it, but it looked good, compared to the settings I have to use on my laptop. Once I've installed all my music software I'll take a break and kill a few peeps online

Just now, paulo said:

but the mix is definitely lacking something

A bit of "air," perhaps?

yeah... funny that

Korg ARP Odyssey, MS-20 and Polysix all installed, licensed and tested.

iZotope Iris 2 and Ozone Imager installed, licensed and tested.

1 minute ago, James G said:

The point is, The Bapu can play Am, with one note...

I suppose that is what I was trying to say. I mean, you don't play chords on a base guitar, right

(I'll get me coat)

Hands up who didn't make a rubber band instrument of some sort

Image-Line Drumaxx installed, licensed and tested. Do not like the licensing method of this one which requires you to "merge" a registry key file, but it works...

FabFilter stuff installed and licensed okay. FabFilter now has a "bundle" style installer, which is nice, and I just selected the products that I owned. Licensing is a manual process of cutting and pasting licensing text into a dialog box.

I have BFD Eco... Was good for the price. I was able to install the software but there are no kits and after an hour of faffing around I have given up. The product is no longer supported by PXpansion and I'm not that interested in upgrading to BFD3.

Thanks again @scook 

I'll have a look at that.

Just finished installing, licensing and testing my Arturia instruments and effect. I currently own ARP 2600 V3, Buchla Easel V, CS-80 V3, Jup-8 V3, Mini V3, Modular V3, Prophet V3, SEM V2 and Mini Filter. Installing and licensing is quite easy using Arturia's Software Centre but it did seem to take a long time, and there was an "IPersist" error, although that didn't seem to affect theinstalled software at all.

Onwards and upwards, as they say!

11 minutes ago, scook said:

Double check were AAS installs dlls. In the past, I have seen it duplicate files putting them in the manufacturer folder under the VST folder and in the root of the VST folder. Not a big deal but one copy of the of binaries is enough.

Thanks, @scook 

I just checked and, yes, they are all over the place.

Normally, if an instrument or effect is available in VST3 then I don't bother installing the other formats. But with the A|A|S installer you do not appear to get the option, so I just let it do its thing. Then in my DAW (currently only installed REAPER for now) I only use VST3. I know that SONAR/Cakewalk is a bit slicker when it comes to managing plugins and VST3 versions are automatically used when available.

Anyway, the A|A|S DLL files can be found here:-

C:\Program Files\Applied Acoustics Systems\VST Plug-ins

and here:-

C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\VstPlugins

which I do not understand at all because I haven't even installed Cakewalk yet and was surprised to see a Cakewalk folder in the Program Files.

For the size they take up I could leave them where they are, but then again, knowing I will never use the DLL VST2 plugs, I should really get shut.

Good thing about VST3 stuff is, everything is chucked into the same folder and you don't have to faff around in your DAW adding different folders.

cheers

andy

6 minutes ago, paulo said:

I've tried to record several cover versions and never managed to get it right.

I think that you did, and you simply don't realise.

Listen again, what do you hear?

Seeing as I am currently bringing my new workstation up to speed I thought I would document how I get on with re-installing all my virtual instruments and effect as well as some of my other editing software like Sound Forge.

When I bought my MS Surface Pro last year I started a spreadsheet on my Google drive with all my instruments and effects. So I will be adding a column for my new workstation so that I can keep track of where I am up to.

First up is all of my A|A|S stuff which includes Chromaphone 2, String Studio VS-2, Strum GS-2, Ultra Analog VA-2 and Objeq Delay.

A|A|S now have a single installer for all the products you own. I've not used this before and I am happy to report that installation and licensing of all my products when ahead without a hitch.

Next up, Arturia... Be right back...

Stuck it at the back of my computer desk... Not sure about the aesthetic but it works for the cables...

Haha!

Well, besides the M.2 NVMe drive, which contains the OS, I opted for a cheap and cheerful Samsung 1TB QVO drive, despite its bad write-ups.

Perhaps I should have a look at removing those hard drive bays

Doesn't seem to get warm enough to keep my pies warm...