Christian Jones

^^^That's my Man of Sorrows.. I'm nothing compared to Him, nothing w/o Him. But He ain't helping me w/ these dealz. Nah, the dealz *are* the blessing.. in fact my dang cup runneth over w/ dealz *sigh*

My MF order arrived just a bit ago, so around 18 hours it took. I wasn't too worried about it; this was the advertised price/coupon and I paid it, so if it hadn't have gone through I'd have just gotten MF on the phone and worked it out lol. Anyway, MF *is* telling me now that the code is expired. I've just been using my phone. Perhaps try another browser like Larry said, quickly.. Ah I just got Reel ADT since I'm on this whole vintage trip right now (also just bought GForce M-Tron Pro and Streetly vol 3 - mellotron stuff), so I didn't go too crazy and I'm not even sure if I'd have cared so much if the order *didn't* go through, though if it hadn't I'd have still got MF on the phone anyway cuz, well that's just what I do lol.. cuz it ain't just about getting the product; it's about the game of the deal.. a game I'll not admit to how often I lose

Usually it's always metal this metal that, hardly ever any doom, especially funeral doom where the grooves are sometimes so slow you can make a sandwich between snares.

They got doom!

*sigh* deal fatigue.. I know.. poor me, poor me, pour me another

Still working at MF

Marker Track? There's that fiddly little workaround I linked to here, and kudos to the dude who came up w/ it .. but it's a pita really. The way it is now and has always been: tiny gray flags w/ tiny unreadable gray text that will actually superimpose over other markers' text if the markers are close to each other.. is anyone really even remotely satisfied w/ that? May not be the most important feature request ever but it is one that's been getting requested for yeeeerz, many. This pro daw needs a proper marker track.. anything would be an improvement over the current deal.

*yawns toothlessly at it*

The healer?

F'n lame

Word, Merry Christmas to you Piotr and everyone here.. really fun hanging out w/ you all here.. Hope you're all doing well, gettin some food, like the donut chicken fried steak I just saw them cook on tv.. Much love to you all 🎄🤙❤️😎

Larry.. just ran this on every track as well as my master bus and even at extreme settings it didn't do s#!t.. wtf bro?

This is beneath you Larry

Thanks John, will do. For anyone curious here's GForce's response re an M-Tron demo: "Hi Christian, I'm afraid that there is no user demo of M-Tron Pro, so the Try It button goes to the audio demos page. I honestly don't know why that desicion was made, but the site is under redevelopment at the moment to clean this sort of thing up, so hopefully that'll become clearer. There are currently no offers running on M-Tron Pro."

I don't believe the "try it" button there is functional https://www.gforcesoftware.com/products/m-tron-pro/demos

Here's a cool use of that mellotron violins sound, this one's pretty grimy.

Rad thanks, I have a bunch of free and a couple paid Mellotron vst but I haven't heard of that one and these I do collect so thanks. Actually, I'm chasing a "violins" sound that none of what I have currently replicate. I've got Wavesfactory, Hollows Son and some others, but the particular sound I'm after.. it's the "Mellotron Violins" patch in the Kontakt Factory Library. Quality-wise that patch isn't the greatest quality, but it's got that sound I'm after; that old record noir small violin ensemble sound. I'm looking for something that sounds just like it but better quality so I've been looking at M-Tron. Btw, I found this one too for Reaktor 5 if anyone else wanted it https://www.native-instruments.com/en/reaktor-community/reaktor-user-library/entry/show/6129/

Eh, I'll probably just quit screwing around and get M-Tron Pro since mellotron is all I really care about anyway.

I'm looking to maybe score a deal on a high(er) end strings library that doesn't have much if any reverb on them already. So probably no cinematic stuff. I'm looking for some violin et al ensembles that I can run through some saturationn etc to create my own Melotron type strings, really something w/ that old noir strings vibe is what I'm after w/ individual note articulations, not just chords like a lot of the Sonikinetic stuff does. I was looking at this Spitfire library https://www.spitfireaudio.com/shop/a-z/spitfire-studio-strings/ but I'm reading some feedback where some are saying that while they sound great, the recording level is too low and the power's just not there so idk. I'm researching but there's too much out there

Are Sonikinetic the only guys doing the noir angle? Anyone else worth looiknig into?

I got it almost instantly a couple days ago. What I'm wondering now is if I can acquire another one real quick so I can flip it as soon as it becomes a paid plug 🤣

I look at it this way ---> Often I shop to improve my mood.

Dang. But thanks for trying that out for me man. Idk, I do write doom rock/metal where I incorporate beauty and grime, so maybe I'll just try to embrace the noise. It's just that some of the notes in the Kontakt "Melotron Violins" (you're right; that's what it's called) are cleaner than others, and a precious few have some serious grime and when you hit those particular notes they tend to stand out. I suppose a work around especially when it's time to bounce the MIDI could be to use a second instance of the Melotron Violins just for the notes that are noisy (on my particular case it's just one note) and drop the tuning however many steps so that I can use one of the not-as-noisy notes instead and just drop it's pitch a step or whatever to the pitch of the desired note.

So I'm away for Christmas and can't demo anything now, but thought I'd maybe do a shot in the dark on this Waves BOGO offer and make one or both the Waves noise clean-up apps. In Komplete 10 Kontakt has in its factory library a really cool Melotron and I especially love the Melotron strings there.. but some of the notes in the "Melotron Strings" patch have some excessive noise, like hissy/crackly noise and I know some of that is par for the course and that's cool, but as not all of the notes have that issue I'd like to see about cleaning those particular notes that do up a bit. I'm looking at these below.. Anyone know which might be best for this? http://everyplugin.com/z-noise.html http://everyplugin.com/x-noise.html http://everyplugin.com/x-crackle.html

That's that dude from The Fluffer