Bruno de Souza Lino

1 minute ago, Paul P said:

Who needs experience.   For 50$ I can mix like Al.

 

I'm pretty sure Al doesn't use his own plugin, just like Andrew Scheps also doesn't use his Omni Channel and CLA doesn't use his MixHub.

On 5/7/2023 at 11:14 AM, PhonoBrainer said:

Is now a good time to mention John Fogerty being sued for allegedly stealing from himself?

As you may know, he won, but had to go all the way to the Supreme Court to recoup legal fees.  https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/27501/time-john-fogerty-was-sued-ripping-john-fogerty

So money left his left pocket then went back to the right one?

18 hours ago, Eusebio Rufian-Zilbermann said:

(phoenixverb?)

https://www.izotope.com/en/shop/exponential-audio-phoenixverb.html

On 5/4/2023 at 6:53 PM, dubdisciple said:

When Melda tries to make more graphical interfaces they are actually worse. The utilitarian interfaces were not the most user friendly, but the intern art is not significantly  more user friendly and plain ugly. With that said, it is a mild price to pay imo for the bang you get for the buck.  In terms of pure value, l think only IK comes close to Melda in terms of  matching a balance to Waves selection and quality for the price.  I got over pretty but irrelevant graphics when the wow factor of the cables moving in Reason 1 worse off.

This is an old issue some developers have, which is thinking User Interfaces are just a beauty tack on top of functionality. Then you either end with the worst skeumorphic abominations to mankind (Like Butch Vig Vocals) or interfaces that only make sense and are intuitive to the person that created them (Like Ardour/Harrison).

2 hours ago, msmcleod said:

"Entire Mix" is the source category - which means, as you say, it's grabbing audio from the hardware outputs.

This is totally separate from what you're actually sending to the entire mix.

What I'm actually sending to the entire mix is something I've done already...When I mixed the track. And that's what comes out of the hardware outputs.

Next thing you'll tell me is you actually have to do another mix using what you selected at the export window.

Can we return to the old audio export thing where it just worked and didn't introduce extra hurdles that make no sense?

3 hours ago, msmcleod said:

It's not a bug.  The export dialog is selection based.

To export everything you either need to:

1. Select everything; or
2. Select nothing ( CTRL + SHIFT + A  selects nothing )

The OP's screenshot shows "Track 10 Drums" selected, so none of the unselected tracks will be exported.  Also, as Track 10 is a MIDI track, no audio will be exported unless it's corresponding audio track is also selected.

The difference between selecting everything or selecting nothing is subtle:

Selection:
1.  A selection specifies both tracks and a start time/duration.  If you save this as an export task, then the task won't pick up any new tracks or change in duration (assuming you've chosen Range = Selection).
2.  When choosing Tracks or "Tracks Through Entire Mix", all tracks will be exported at the same length, i.e. the length of the selection.

No selection:
1.  No selection implies all tracks.  If you create an export task, any new tracks will automatically be picked up.
2.  No selection + Range = Entire Project will always export everything for the whole project duration
3.  When choosing Tracks or "Tracks Through Entire Mix", each track will be exported at its own specific duration.

It makes no sense for the "Entire Mix" preset to require you to select which tracks have to be exported or to select none at all, especially considering it's grabbing audio from the hardware outputs.

I experienced this bug as well. Apparently, if you don't select all tracks before opening the export window, the mp3 export doesn't work.

I mean, maybe one could get someone like Dan Worrall to make a video about it or something?

On 5/5/2023 at 3:42 AM, Niky Serrano said:

macOS is missing... 😢

Usually people that do plugins for Mac have Macs as their development machines. You can't create AU plugins anywhere else.

There's not much info about, videos or otherwise. By videos, I mean stuff done by people which aren't the person who created the plugin. I was also under the impression that the only people who know how LUFS work are the EBU and the people that develop meters that display it.

10 hours ago, Notes_Norton said:

I think I'll copyright a song that consists of 32 bars of rests for every instrument in a full orchestra, followed by one sixteenth note on a snare drum. The rests will consist of whole rests, down to 64th notes, plain and dotted, and also include various triplet rests.

Except you'd be sued for copying 31 bars of John Cage's 4'33"

Could we have posts close automatically once nobody has responded to them after some period like a month or a year?

Why are we responding to a thread from 2019?

On 4/19/2022 at 10:40 AM, abacab said:

OK, wow I had never seen that! Not mentioned in the manual. Running Voltage Core here, so many modules that I have not even tried yet, LOL!

It's in the module comparison (Mini Plugin Host). That module is only available for Core and you can't purchase it for any other version. It doesn't even show on the store.

Waves does their plugins like that because that's how ProTools has its tracks. As per usual, they're still stuck in 1995, where plugins had to be specifically built to be either mono, stereo or convert mono to stereo as separate processes. There's only a single dll of each plugin though. They just appear like that because of Waves witchcraft.

51 minutes ago, OutrageProductions said:

You guys both have something funky running in the background. Have you fed the  processor gerbils lately?

Here on my machine, I just did the same operation as @Bruno de Souza Lino mentioned on a 48k/24bit stereo Wav file from 2:27 to 4:54 (twice as long), and it took 3.27 seconds to complete.

Interestingly enough, on the exact SAME mix printed as an MP3 at 192k and imported into CW in a 48k/24 session, the same process took 4.02 seconds to stretch 200%.

Apparently, the funky thing running in the background only affects Cakewalk? Doing this operation in REAPER is instantaneous. I just apply it and it happens.

1 hour ago, sjoens said:

There may also be other background processes going on affecting the slow down.

In my case, I wanted a single clip to be played at half the speed, so I used "Process-Length" and set that to 200%. On a 4 minute mono track, that took about 5 minutes to happen. Then I go on Reaper, with the exact same clip, open its properties, set the playback rate to half and as soon as I confirm it, it's done. No mixing down of audio or progress bar.

1 hour ago, kitekrazy said:

What's holding Melda back is lack of how to videos.  Every plugin looks like a rocket science. 

 

Meanwhile I think T-Racks are often ignored.

It's not that we ignore T-Racks. Much like every IK Multimedia product, our interest in it only lasts 180 seconds. After that, IK has to pay us 20 bucks to have 180 seconds more.

4 hours ago, abacab said:

From what I can see, IK has recently stepped up with a clever new marketing tool called "V2".

IK takes an existing product, adds content but no new features, and it becomes V2. Of course, that's destined for confusion until Peter clarifies all the details...

And probably makes it some essential feature from it require a download in 180 days or you have to pay ransom to have it back.

I had to change the length of some tracks for a project and the slow behavior was worse. Then I went to Reaper and doing the exact same thing is instantaneous, even on all tracks at once.

I tested running the plugin under a different wrapper inside Cakewalk (Waves Studio Rack and Element) and it opens.

Well, that feature works and I only had to download the v9 apps to get SuperTap to work. Granted....It still screws up with Cakewalk's auto scan and you have to disable it to not have WavesShell scanned every time you open it.

It's great how companies are not happy with versioning their products with numbers to the point they need to have two different versions. I wonder if we'll get a T-Racks 5 v2 mkII or something.

One of the primary issues with Melda plugins is you have to read manuals even for the stuff which should be straight forward. All plugins have controls with different names than you'd see somewhere else and there's extra stuff you can click and see no effect yet it leeks like it's doing something.

There's also some annoying UI quirks, like not being able to type numerical values using your keyboard, every single thing that could be condensed into a single interface always seems to open a popup with even more settings you didn't even know existed and so on.

Sure these plugins are powerful and full of features but your stuff is only as useful as how easily others can learn it.

Then they release T-Racks 6 later for cheaper.