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20 minutes ago, Starship Krupa said:

So now I'm one of those mythical guys (and we're always guys😂) on a forum somewhere who tried testing it. And my "conclusion" is that objective tests are next to impossible. Which is kind of as it should be. When we're trying out other music tools, we're certainly not objective. We noodle around and listen, we claim that blue guitars with gold hardware are ugly, etc.

When you focus on specific instances at a given time, you can listen over and over and over and speak of some different things each time. But that's often the problem. If I play you the same thing twice and you listen for two different things, you'll remember two different things. This isn't hallucination, this isn't deception. This is how our brains work. The problem is, if you expect a difference, you're gonna listen for different things and you'll hear different things even if you have the same stimulus. And this is one of the really important points of doing any kind of auditory testing. If you listen for something differently for different features, you'll remember different things. That because you extracted a little piece out of that sea of data. And if you have a reason to assume things are different, you're likely to listen to differently, you're likely to focus on different things and you're likely to remember different things. Or maybe if you convinced yourself everything sounds the same, you'll steer yourself that way.

Whenever you do auditory testing, or any test for auditory stimuli, it must have a falsifiable design. Meaning you have to actually be able to tell if there's something you actually detected or if there's something you consciously or subconsciously steered yourself into noticing. You have to be able to test that. What that basically means is you have to do a blind test because, if you know what the two things are, your brain is gonna use that information. Doesn't matter how smart you are, how trained you are, who you are...There hasn't been an example of someone who can avoid it. It's just life.

For reference, only the Behringer interfaces with HD in their model name have their own ASIO drivers. You'll need ASIO4ALL for the others. See if you can change to a UMC202HD. It seems to be only slightly more expensive than the UM22.

I'm also curious because I have more or less the same issue, but in a different place.

Sample rate conversion is also extremely slow as well in comparison to other DAWs which seem to be able to either do all tracks at once or do them in sequence only presenting them once they're all done. CbB does one track at a time and taking a few seconds for each. A single multi track session which needs to be converted might take several minutes to happen depending on the number of tracks it has. Either things which should be extremely fast, like converting a 44.1 to a 48k fine of the same type takes the same amount of time as converting from a different format.

Oh look, they're trying everything they can to not lose users by implementing a feature which should've been already there since the beginning!

That leaves me with one v9 plugin I'll have to install manually.

I found the song hard to listen at low volumes, but that's more a flaw of the genre in question than everything.

On 3/15/2023 at 2:33 PM, SuperFreq said:

Guitarists, whether they know it or not, often use a type of Just tuning which preserves the 4th. If you tune your guitar by ear, matching the 4th of each string to the next open string, there you go. But my plan is to tune an entire piano this way.

If you tune your guitar by ear, it will often be a few cents flat. Tune using harmonics and it will be more flat.

Ctrl+End, then add marker to indicate the end.

Oh boy. He's actually doing free advertising for Waves without noticing... Especially considering they pulled back on the subscription only aspect and a good portion of people watching at a later stage will have no idea about the context of the video.

I did think about installing the Waves plugins I have but I gave up after remembering 6 plugins will cost me 10 GB of disk space.

11 minutes ago, Starship Krupa said:

I'm working backward, trying to figure out why I heard a difference.

But then you'll never know for sure if the difference you hear actually exists or you've never noticed it before changing one variable. Auditory memory is pretty fragile and things like expectation bias and placebo effect are pretty effective at misleading people. It's that famous thing we've all done at least once: taking a mix then tweaking, say, a snare to perfection only to discover the EQ was bypassed the whole time or you were tweaking a different track and being sure your actually heard a change at what you thought you were tweaking. There are even talks at a "producer channel strip," which is something set up by the mix engineer so the producer can adjust his levels of satisfaction, even though said channel strip is not connected to anything.

5 hours ago, abacab said:

I noticed the BJAM is a sampled Fender Strat. That is probably another guitar to avoid if you are doing metal.

"I may get some hate for this, but Stratocasters are probably one of the worst choices for metal, unless of course you're buying Jim Root's signature guitar. Even then, that guitar is not made like a typical Fender Stratocaster. Most Fender Strats have three single coil pickups, which are almost always more subtle and bluesy than humbuckers, and aren't made to handle a ton of gain.

Their tone is not percussive or saturated, and they don't tend to mix well with high levels of distortion. Instead, think bluesy overdrive and "breakup" instead of heavy power chords and searing highs. 

There are plenty of far better options."

https://www.guitarchalk.com/are-fender-strats-metal/

Apparently the memo hasn't reached Yngwie Malmsteen yet.

Did you try opening the project in Safe Mode? Hold Shift whilst opening the project in question.

Essentially, you only want to change what's being tested, which are the DAWs. Everything else has to be exactly the same.

52 minutes ago, Klaus said:

Use Ctrl+Enter to add another line.

Doesn't help that Ctrl+Enter does the same function as just Enter in other places, whilst Shift+Enter (which is the shortcut to add a line break in essentially everything else) is not mapped to anything.

If you need comprehensive notes for a track, the Melda MNotepad plugin is your best solution for that. The Inspector notes only allow you to write one continuous string of text without multiple lines and the same goes for the Take Notes as well. Don't expect a complete text editor experience from the plugin though. You also have to click on the right keyboard icon to type text into the plugin, as even clicking on "give all keystrokes to plugin" will still trigger keyboard shortcuts.

The first thing to fix in this test would be the patch you're using. Tracks 2 and 3 don't have the initial "stab" 1 and 4 have, which means they're not the same sound for effects of comparison. That will potentially bias some into thinking these two sound different, even if they don't. Even if the patch has some variance to it, all sequences have to start at the exact same point and end at the exact same point, otherwise you're not comparing the same thing.

6 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

My Hewlett-Packard (analog, still has a calibration tag from Apple's R&D lab)) signal generator and Tektronix 465 (the apex of analog 'scopes, IMO) oscilloscope seem to generate and display pretty clean ones. 🤷‍♂️

(if a unit under test on my bench were putting out a "square" wave that looked like that, I'd be looking for where the ringing was coming from)

Square waves in any oscilloscope are also made of sine waves by the way. The 456 doesn't have enough bandwidth to display what you're seeing in MOscilloscope. Or the square wave it generates doesn't.

1 hour ago, Starship Krupa said:

Anyone care to enlighten me as to why I see what looks like ringing?

That's how square waves are done in practice. It's impossible to create a perfectly sharp square wave as it would require infinite bandwidth. Even if you could do it digitally, that would be how a speaker would reproduce it once it came out of it, as it's physically impossible for a speaker to instantly move from one position to another.

I would personally steer clear of gaming laptops or anything gamer, especially if you want reliability and stability on the long run. I'd probably look for a used business or workstation model. They're usually built to be repairable and have to last at least 5 years. Many of the models have interchangeable parts and you can sometimes even upgrade things like the cpu depending on the model.

18 hours ago, Nick Blanc said:

If it was the other way around (video as the centerpiece) I think I would go the route of rendering out the video and using my DAW to match the music to the video. But that also depends of course. I did an unboxing short recently and I just made a generic upbeat tune which I put under the video in Resolve.

The only time I did both was in a video I'll probably never release. It was both edited and the song composed in REAPER. Editing video in REAPER falls into the same category as using Fairlight as a DAW. You can do it, but you're driving a nail into the wall using a scewdriver.

14 minutes ago, abacab said:

The Solo impulses should run fine in the CbB ProChannel version of REmatrix Solo.

Yes, but they're the exact same IRs, so it wouldn't make sense to use them there.

1 hour ago, Keni said:

That's the Presonus website, yes?

 

Here.

https://www.overloud.com/downloads/presets

Well, there's also de Blackstar Studios one, which you'll find in the Donwloads section under REmatrix.

On 4/28/2023 at 5:43 PM, Starship Krupa said:

Yes! How could 6 different development teams all make the same decisions as to how to mix audio files together? To render them?

Because they're not inventing a mixer. They're copying how it behaves. Anything different than that is not a mixer, but something else.

But can you load the Rematrix solo impulses in the player? Where are they stored?

8 hours ago, craigb said:

All I know is that the guys I've been sitting in with are using Ableton and it confuses me to see all of the labels for things on the opposite side than what Cakewalk uses! 😮

Technically, Waveform also fits that criteria, as 99% of the channel strip is on the right side.

Wait until you see some of stock pictures Voxengo puts in their site.