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11 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

Can you elaborate? I only know enough to create practical tests.

Joseph Fourier passed away in 1830. What did he come up with that ensured that in the future, multiple teams of programmers would all independently design and implement algorithms that mix streams of digital stereo audio together so as to produce exactly the same results?

The companies that have claimed in their marketing literature to have improved the sound of their DAWs' audio engine (as MAGIX, Acoustica, and Ableton have all done in the past decade), were they lying?

Please educate me. I'd love to learn more.

What Fourier claimed in 1821 (any function, whether continuous or discontinous, can be expanded into a series of sines) is applied in the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem, which is the backbone of digital audio. Technology Connections has a video which explains the theorem very well.

But the point here is there's no new revolutionary way to convert and treat digital sound and it hasn't been for several decades already and it's likely your test has some variant you haven't controlled yet which renders you different sounds from different DAWs. What manufacturers claim as "improved sound" could be several things, including marketing BS. While you might get slightly different results which could be measured depending on circumstance, those are irrelevant if they're outside of the audible spectrum or too low in the noise floor. After all, music is a form of media made to be listened to and if you can't hear the difference, fundamentally there's no difference at all.

9 hours ago, OutrageProductions said:

I can tell you that, all other parameters being equal, no two convolutions will come out EXACTLY mathematically identical, even though the auditory stimulus is subjectively the same

This most likely happens because computers are not capable of properly dealing with floating point numbers and have to approximate the result.

On 4/27/2023 at 10:53 AM, John Vere said:

Funny. 2. Features I have never used.  Which is part of equation for which DAW is right for you.  

And this is the reason Ardour/Mixbus is stuck in the past when it comes to other DAWs. That's the response the lead developer always gives when said feature is not something he uses or can find a use for and doesn't implement it because of that.

1 hour ago, Starship Krupa said:

That would require too wide a variety of people coming up with the same solutions to too wide a set of problems for me to believe it were even possible

Only one person came up with the solution and everyone uses that solution. That person was Joseph Fourier.

I tested the plugin in Audacity and it opens fine there.

The best option to adding music to a video is editing it first, then rendering a proxy and using the DAW of your choice to add audio to it. Hopefully that DAW has video support.

One way I found of managing plugins is to make separate layouts for the bundled ones. One layout only has the Cakewalk stock plugins, another only has IK plugins and so on. Since you can easily change layouts from the menu as well, you have a little better control over a large set of them.

1 hour ago, dubdisciple said:

I was looking at products that are free.

Waveform has a free version.

How does it measure against the similar products that exist in the market like Isone, Nx, DearVR and the other two I forgot the name?

EDIT - So far, attempting to load this plugin crashes Cakewalk for me.

REAPER, Waveform and Bitwig all have native Linux versions. Fairlight is more made for audio post production for video. It doesn't do MIDI for starters, you can't create empty channels, the way you edit audio stuff in there is cumbersome.

Maybe IK will also have your tonex tone downloads expire after 180 days like all the stuff that shouldn't have that feature...

9 minutes ago, Alan Tubbs said:

There is also a chance that phantom power can ruin older ribbons mics.  And I don’t know if it has been mentioned but many if not most ribbons t need a lot of gain.  If all you have is a 55 dB gain preamp your vocals may be low in vol.  

You also have to take care and make sure your mic cables are wired correctly, as phantom power could still get to the mic if it's not wired correctly. While Royer says their mics are not affected much by phantom power, they still recommend it to be off for mics which don't need it, like the R-121

After some strange coincidence, this happened.

On 4/23/2023 at 7:00 PM, Olaf said:

Ditto. I my experience, fast scale players, as a general rule, can't write squat. And the problem with practicing scales and riffs to no end is that you automatically form a reflex to revert back to them, instead of writing/playing/imagining lines. That's why I personally avoid, and that's part of the reason. In honesty, I kind of avoid practicing, in general - what am I saying, I avoid it altogether - so I'm not fast at all - and don't miss it at all, except when I listen to Mike Oldfield, Eric Johnson, and John Petrucci, maybe Tony MacAlpine, in his early days - those are some of the very few guys i find can make music while playing fast, and not just play whatever, fast - so they actually make me want to be able to do that, instead of just ignoring them, which is the default mode for most.

On the other hand, my favorite guitar players are Dave Gilmour, The Edge, Tony Iommi, B. B. King, so on. People who wrote music on guitar, not just played fast, to no apparent outcome .

It's important to note two things IMO:

- Music is primarily a form of entertainment.

- People are not defined by the knowledge they have, but what they do with said knowledge.

1 hour ago, Keni said:

Interesting... I've not had any such problems. Regardless of my distaste for their business decisions and authorizations etc. their plugins seem to work well here. Waveshell? Yeah, I see the versions scan and always wonder why they take longer than almost my whole scan time for each one, but then they become gone... So I'm thinking there might be some other situation that's adding to the mix?

 

You have 3 times the amount of cpu threads and 8 times the amount of RAM. There's your reason.

On 4/25/2023 at 2:12 AM, craigb said:

Whoa!   You had a subwoofer that could cook and clean??!  Impressive!!! 😮

Maybe Kali will come up with one of those soon.

And I did decide to install some Waves plugins to check a few things and now I see why I vowed to never use them. Not only is the installation process still confusing if you're not upgraded to the latest version of them where everything can be done at a click of a few buttons through Waves Central, simply loading WavesShell and having it running makes Cakewalk behave weird and freeze randoomly, on top of making my whole computer slower.  And it becomes worse if you decide to load some of the older plugins, as they take several seconds to open and may cause Cakewalk to stop responding to the point you can't even end the task.

Ribbon mics are no better or worse than regular diaphragm mics. They're just a different way of picking up sounds. Most of them are figure 8 only and they have one glaring disadvantage: air pressure directed towards them could potentially destroy the ribbon element, which is very thin and delicate.

1 minute ago, Grem said:

I don't remember that at all.

You don't remember they going subscription? That happened in 2015 when they were under Gibson.

One can only hope this update is not something like adding all the plugins and effects people have been asking for... But you have to subscribe to some sort of Bandlab guff to have access to it. Don't look at me like that. Cakewalk was perhaps the first company to adopt a subscription model before Adobe started the whole trend.

Both have things going for them and are in the same price range. But ProQ3 has two interesting things which makes it better:

- Listen mode, which creates an EQ curve based on audio fed into it.

- It doesn't require a CPU with SSE 4.1 instructions, which means it will run on more hardware.

10 hours ago, El Diablo said:

Plus, with the scare they was going to do a full subscription based, I'm afraid up upgrade anything based on they could later try that again?

They don't have to try that again. They didn't remove subscriptions. They just readded perpetual after external pressure.

7 hours ago, sjoens said:

It could be a project glitch. Does it happen in other projects or just this one?

I'm pretty sure it always happens but we never noticed because we tend to never look at the transport module, especially if we know the keyboard shortcuts to move around.

Without knowing more about your system and which plugins you're using, it's hard to take educated guesses as to what it could be. It could be anything from a quirky plugin to some hardware failure that started to show up.

While I can't say I haven't experienced this bug before, it seems to be more an edge case that would be hard to pin point. Depending on what you're doing, you can hold control after and it will still do the thing. It works for moving clips, but you have to do it before you start moving the clip, otherwise it just moves the clip you're holding.

On 4/25/2023 at 10:36 AM, John Vere said:

This is why a person should use the DAW that works for you .  Each will have certain features unique to only that DAW. 
Cakewalk can’t always do what Pro Tools can do and in probably more ways Pro Tools can’t always do what Cakewalk can do.  
Actually for me Pro Tools is a DAW I like second best and I found it user friendly unlike the rest of them. So why not just use it?  It’s very good at Audio projects but Cakewalk has it beat for using midi tracks ( for me anyway) 

Except that feature is not unique to ProTools. If we work that logic backwards, you'd be told to jump ship a few years ago if you suggested ProTools should have folder tracks or Plug-in Delay Compensation.