Bruno de Souza Lino

Eventually, we'll evolve that format to "Guess the Beatles Song with nothing."

3 hours ago, Chris Boshuizen said:

To your point on exporting iterations of selected tracks, a "selected tracks" options would be fine too. One thing, perhaps unique to Cakewalk, is that this interface is trying to let us pick source material, routing, and destination files. It's complicated, for sure. But part of the complication is that the default source is wherever you made a selection 20 minutes ago and weren't even thinking about any more. That is the hidden complication that makes this a bug, not a feature in my mind. 

And all these options are there. Really, they are. You can export a selection of tracks, busses and so on. Cakewalk is the only DAW in existence at the moment where an export preset called "Entire Mix" means something that's different from the mental model everyone has in their of what that means.

"Entire Mix" should give you whatever comes out of the hardware outputs the way you have it set up in your project without you having to select or do anything to make it happen. Anything different from that is not the entire mix.

In case it works, you could probably also use Avid Control, but functionality is limited.

Drum Replacer had a feature which allows you to convert the trigger points to MIDI by dragging the audio clip to an instrument or MIDI track...Which also happens to be the exact same method you use to convert audio to MIDI using Melodyne. Problem is, when you have Drum Replacer as a region FX and do the method described to convert the trigger points to MIDI, it also converts audio to MIDI right after and there's no apparent way to stop it. While thatight produce the expected result, it takes twice the amount of time because Melodyne had to analyze the audio to do it's thing.

Is there a way to prevent Melodyne from doing that's whilst still retaining it's audio to MIDI functionality?

2 hours ago, Promidi said:

Can it be assumed that you have a OpengGL 2.0 compatible GPU and that the plugin is activated in your iLok account.

I have a GT 710 and a RX 550 (Both support OpenGL 4.6). At first, the plugin was activated automatically using iLok Cloud. I then switched to local activation thinking it was that. No dice.

3 hours ago, Promidi said:

Have you tried the VST2 version?

Not really. After some time thinking this would be one of those plugins I can't use for one reason or another (Like MODO Drum, which requires AVX instructions), I emailed Pulsar and they pointed me towards an utility which allows to change how the plugin is rendered. Changing to software rendering solved the issue, but for some reason, the plugin is only trying to render on the GT710, which is not my primary graphics card (I only use it for CUDA).

How it measures against the now defunct Linplug SaxLab 2? (Linplug went out of business in 2018)

In other words, the promo will end when we get enough profit. If it's still on, people are catching onto the scheme too quicky.

2 hours ago, MrFigg said:

Last time it was free I tried and tried but couldn't get it.

I tried this time and it said my account had been deleted so I tried to open a new account but it said my email had already been used. Then I opened a new account with a different email address and got through using the link above. So...yes. Got it.

I guess the thing is country based? I asked the person to do it and also did it myself with another email I have to test it and nothing. I stopped using the plugin because the UI would often get blurry (the same kind of blurry you get on IK's MixBox when you're not running the plugin on a 4k display) and was very unresponsive and cluttered.

44 minutes ago, MarcL said:

By the way, it maybe also a performance aspect if all 100 plugins used in a project access the internet (to check version ...) when I open the project! Is this the future? It is like Windows (I don't know about Mac!) that needs all the power on my laptop if I start it and the internet is on! That's crazy, you are not the master of your own hardware anymore!

I feel that but with Waves plugins. Their anti-piracy scheme involves launching a server instance for each plugin version you have and have them constantly running and doing whatever on the background. That can slow down your whole system.

And it's a brand new channel as well. Oldest video is from 3 weeks ago.

I spoke with someone trying to get a copy of that and, did someone manage to successfully do it? Guy has tried several times and never receives the email with the redeem code.

At least you got a response. I emailed the local Steinberg distributor about an issue I'm having with them not sending me an access code for the latest version of Wavelab LE (they have to as this is not a product which is available for purchase and only comes bundled with select hardware) like they've done with Cubase LE. The only thing I got back was a customer satisfaction survey. Reason Studios completely ignored my email after I requested a download link they made disappear for a product I have a license for.

2 hours ago, Keni said:

Ha! Wouldn't that be fun!

It also doubles as a heater, since each CPU dissipates around 300W of heat.

3 hours ago, kperry said:

Monster Cable would sue.

I think the last time they tried suing another company, they got their asses handed to them by the owner of Blue Jeans Cable, which used to be a patent attorney.

http://www.bluejeanscable.com/legal/mcp/

1 minute ago, Keni said:

Whew! Monster Machines! Wouldn't that be fun to DAW!

If all else fails, you can always go the Epyc route. They're slowly pushing towards 128 cores. Their highest SKU atm has 96 cores/192 threads, but if you want more cores, you can get the 84 core version and run two of them on a dual socket board. Granted each CPU is over 10 grand...

Just now, Glenn Stanton said:

weird given they tend to work closely with the CPU folks... i think the difference with physical CPU vs single CPU - multiple CPU are complex multi-buss beasts to share IO, memory, scheduling etc. across physically separated sub-components. whereas, a single CPU with (say 64-cores 🙂 ) is still everything under one roof. so it's likely the consumer OS (which i believe is hamstrung restricted by the software deliberately...) should be able to consume it. the next choke point is the RAM allocation per core. i think most times, 1GB / core is a bare minimum nowadays. probably best to have 4GB / core if you can afford it.

It's important to note Intel had the PC and CPU market on stranglehold for 20+ years with their bribing schemes and such. AMD is the one pushing those high core count CPUs. If Intel was still on monopoly, you'd be using the same quad core CPUs forever with minor tweaks here and there.

Well, since I can't tilt by head 90 degrees, I can't listen to the demos.

(Why they even bothered to flip the play buttons when everything else is still in the same orientation...)

The only difference between this and the standard version of BIAS FX 2 (which I have), are these:
 

Factory Presets: 24. Standard has 70.
Amps: 15. Standard has 30.
Effects: 22. Standard has 43.
Guitar Match Targets: 2. Standard has 4.

Both versions don't support Automation, MIDI and you can't load your own IRs. You need the Professional or Elite versions for that.  It might be an interesting one to try. In certain aspects, it's better than the free version of Amplitube 5. It has more bass amps, has the acoustic sim pedal and apparently, you have all cabinet models on all versions, even for amps you don't have, whilst Amplitube has that annoying cabinet linking thing that requires you to have a licensed for both the amp and the cabinet that matches it, as it doesn't look for the closest cabinet you have even when you have it set up to only show the stuff you have licenses for.

One thing I'm a bit suspicious is why BIAS is asking for your phone number. I thought companies stopped with this following the whole GDPR thing from a few years ago.

EDIT - I reinstalled it and yes, you get all cabinets on any version, even the demo.

This plugin requires a CPU with AVX instructions to work. I won't be able to test it myself, but I'd say that has to be the best example of "User Interface is only a beauty tack on top of functionality" type of deal. I can't even make sense of how the signal path goes and I'm still not sure even after reading the manual.

8 hours ago, kitekrazy said:

Usually IK support is great.  Of course there is Peter but he's not here that much.

He will only be here more frequently when he has to market IK guff. That's his position in the company after all.

14 hours ago, Glenn Stanton said:

i think once you get beyond a certain number of cores and/or physical CPU, the Windows 10 etc start to get a bit weird. and if you're running a server type machine with mutiple Zeon CPU + NUMA channels and beyond, you might need to look at the Windows Server OS. i seem to recall someone a while ago had posted on a site about 6 18-core Zeon with 512GB RAM on a older server with Windows Server 2012 R2 OS and was running SONAR ok. 

For the Threadripper 3990X (64-cores,  128-threads), there's Windows Pro for Workstations. I suppose Microsoft wasn't expecting consumer grade high core count cpus to hit the market so soon.

2 hours ago, kevin H said:

Jordan wore his black and red air Jordan’s when he won his third ring.  I wore my air Jordan’s when I beat my cousin at basketball same summer and didn’t make the team same year.  So clearly it’s the shoes that matter most

For Andrew Scheps, it's confirmed t he only time you'll see him using his plugin is when he has to talk about it for videos and such, as his plugin is simply a replica of a Pro Tools template he created and has been using for decades.

5 hours ago, Andres Medina said:

mmm... couldn't produce the spin up - 

Once stopped after a spin out, I get no audio from the plugin...

My bad. I'm confusing it with Arturia's TAPE Mello-Fi, which also has a tape stop button, but it allows to adjust the ramp up time from playing the tape back from a stop.

Tried reinstalling, rebooting after install...Nothing.

What could be tested, if someone has a 32+ core CPU is if Cakewalk sets thread affinity correctly. That was an issue with Windows a few years ago and high core count cpus would perform slower.

1 hour ago, Andres Medina said:

unless you turn the button off again.

But then you'll have spin up as well.