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Creativity often comes under certain circumstances.

It's easier to come up with ideas when you set specific rules or limitations. 

For example, in a song, you might limit yourself to using only two kinds of chords or a single synth.

Forcing yourself to work with something suboptimal or seemingly useless can be another approach. If it doesn’t seem good at first, you'll think about how to make it work with the tools available.

I have too many ideas to finish my songs...

GAS doesn't mean you have to spend your money.

I thought my GAS was cured but then I started to look for old abandoned free plugins....

the link is cart?

https://www.audiodeluxe.com/products/audio-plugins/harrison-fastrack

Wow, I didn't expect they would release windows version.

It doesn't support vst2 apparently but vst wrapper like Element by kush view might help if I ever wanted to use vst 2.

I bought uad 49 plugin bundle last year which included all the plugins at that time.

I assume new plugins are not added automatically so I need to buy new ones to use if they release them but it already covers what I need.

Luna can be a great DAW for recording and mixing, I guess. So for production I can use other DAW and can mix on Luna.

There's a plugin that converts DX plugins to VST so you could use it.

Here is an article about it

https://craiganderton.org/how-to-use-dx-plug-ins-with-vst-only-daws/

The tool is here

https://www.xlutop.com/buzz/zip/

13 hours ago, Ben di Gedig said:

Kick is sidechained into the second input, but the sidechain isn't having an effect, and isn't showing in the graphic.

The same kick is also sidechained to a compressor in my bass bus and that is showing the input signal.

What am I doing wrong?

I also haven't tried it so I'm just guessing it might be like other VST 3 plugins, such as TDR Nova which is also a dynamic EQ. They dont receive sidechain signals.

For TDR Nova (VST3), disabling 64 bit double precision engine on Cakewalk by bandlab, or using a vst wrapper such as Kush Element, are the ways to use the sidechain.

I always wanted this plugin simply because I want to collect all the prochannel modules.

$29 is the cheapest indeed.

Often time, a Japanese seller offers cheaper prices for Softube plugins, so when it was $39 on Softube website, the price on the sellers website was around $32.

Currently it doesn't offer any discounts...

https://www.musicecosystems.jp/shop/4589473712567-tsar-1r-reverb-12876?category=165&order=list_price+asc#attr=

9 minutes ago, Michael Docy said:

Q:  Anybody know if there are any better deals to be had on Studio One Pro upgrade?

I upgraded Studio One Pro from older version at Best Service.

The price is $91 there and I added X-phase by SSL which is $9 and then it exceeds $100 so I used the coupon and ended up $81 in total.

If X-Phase is an all pass filter,  then can you do the same thing with an EQ plugin with all pass filter? ?

Kirchhoff EQ has all pass filter and I have never tried phase alignment with all pass filter so I'm wondering it's fundamentally the same thing.

I want to have their comps but the cheapest price in the past was $14 apparently. 

Hmm..

Yes, it's set to 100%. I don't have any other monitor connected right now. (My environment is laptop)

I tried it on Sonar Platinum and the problem was there as well.

2 hours ago, Variorum said:

Ok... I think I figured out what's wrong.

I can duplicate what you're seeing by changing Windows scaling to 150%:

Open Windows Settings, go to System, and check Scale and layout... Set it to 100% and see if that fixes the problem.

Apparently, I need to fix an issue with the GUIs. They don't seem to work with any scale other than 100% ?

Ohh

I actually checked the setting when I checked the graphic. It was set to 100% so I thought it was okay. I checked it again now, it's indeed set to 100% ?

2 minutes ago, Variorum said:

I'm stumped...
It looks like there's an issue translating between screen and window coordinates. The components in your screen shot are off by a factor of 1.82 horizontally and vertically. The font is also different (sans serif) and about 1.82 times larger.

I guess I'd have to ask the standard questions: Are you running Windows 10 or 11? Any updates to your video drivers? Anybody else seeing this issue?

I'll keep poking around.

Thanks ??

It's been on Windows 10. It could be video driver related as my video driver has been actually suspicious but I'm not sure if there was any updates. I checked graphic settings (resolutions) and it seems okay.

I wonder why font is different, is it not properly loading the set font?

Some files are apparently automatically compressed by Windows but any files related to Cakewalk are uncompressed. If any files related to this might have been compressed and not loading the font?

Thanks for the great tools.

I have used these MIDI plugins in the past without problems.

But now the GUI is broken for any of these MIDI plugins. (Original Cakewalk MIDI plugins are fine)

Does anyone knows why this happens and how to fix it?  

I tried TDR Nova free again and the external sidechain doesn't work under 64 bit double precision on.

The work around is to turn off 64 bit double precision.

But here is another work around that worked as I tried without changing 64 bit DP setting.

I simply used a VST wrapper plugin called Element by Kush view, which has been free.

Some plugins that doesn't work well on cakewalk actually work when you use a wrapper like that.

I tried but I couldn't register. So I couldn't download it.

Also I don't speak Spanish.

Their Chinese price is a bit cheaper. I purchased Kirchhoff EQ on their Taobao website back then without any problem.

12 minutes ago, Magic Russ said:

I'm not normally one to be an enabler here, but if you can get it for $29 and you think it sounds better, why not?

 

 

Because maybe I also wanna get infinistrip..! and to be honest our currency has gotten really cheap against USD so $29 means like $50 to me these days.

But as you gave me that comment, you also think this one sounds really good right?

I don't have UAD fet but I do have IK, PSP Fet, Purple 77, and sofube FET.  I already have so many...

I have posted something about FET comp before actually,

PSP sounded most transparent so I won't be buying other fet.

Oh wait but I actually might wanna buy another one with more character, okay imma buy Purple 77, it's the best one that has a strong character amongst inexpensive ones.

And then for Softube Fet, I just thought I should buy it because it was cheap and I wanted to collect prochannel plugin.

And now, Overloud comp 76. well this one is great. And usually Overloud products are expensive so I didn't usually pay attention to them but now it's cheaper and I liked it...making me feel I should buy this..

$29 is a rare price for Overload and I'm demoing it...

This one sounds really good. To my ears this one sounds more natural than others...?

But I already have too many FET comps...

I had something similar when I bounced tracks with some plugin FX. It happened when oversampling option was on in Cakewalk.

1 hour ago, Lord Tim said:

Try this:

Export both versions, then load them into any DAW of your choice, Put one on Track 1, the other on Track 2, starting at exactly the same spot. Then flip the phase on one of the tracks.

Things like modulation and some convolution reverbs aside, which will change each mix no matter what, if any difference is well under -100dB then it's practically identical and you know it's your brain playing tricks on you.

Thanks, these randers didn't cancel out at all properly because there are modulation and also vst instruments in the project don't cancel out at all between any.  

Now, I tried blind tests multiple times with various combinations of 3 single core and 3 multi core renders. While there are differences as they don't cancel out and I sometimes preferred one over others on a certain section, while I pick different one on other sections.

I wasn't always picking single core versions among 3 tracks.

So, probably it was a wrong assumption that single core versions sound more natural.  I liked a certain sections of a certain version which happened to be single core versions when I was initially comparing them yesterday.

I might be experiencing something similar as well.

When I export my mixes, I often sense something's not quite right, like a change in the sound or a harshness.

This mainly happened on larger projects, and I started to notice it about a year ago, though I wasn't sure.

Just yesterday, I exported a WAV file for a project with many plugins, and again, the exported file didn't sound right.

And then I tried both multi-core and single-core settings for my exports multiple times and compared them.

The single-core versions sounded natural to me.

The harshness I could hear from multi-core rendered versions could be internal errors or something.

While this could be just my perception as the difference seems to be very subtle, I try the single-core setting.

I thought these were priced at 29 cents..

It's a great deal if you don't have Cosmos, Magnetic, and Echoes.

But I have these three. I kinda want their pultec and motown but I don't know for others...

I'm probably not gonna buy them but I want them and it's their greatest deal ever...

I tried monthly voucher and dynamic discount.

The monthly voucher didn't work. Dynamic discount worked for 75+ offers starting at $5.99 but not for other ones.

Maybe you can test what it actually does to the file by using really pure sine wave, like recording 64bit wave file of a very pure (64bit) sine wave with a tool like BL sine, then load the file with ARA and do nothing and bounce it to 64 bit file and then check how much noise it adds by using SPAN with widest range setting.

And then you can also bounce the original 64bit sine wave file to 32bit and 24bit without any process and then compare them with the noise level.

I haven't installed Melodyne on my computer and also I'm away from my computer so I can't check it by myself right now.

I guess it is possible that Melodyne or the DAW secretly converts the file...