Christian Jones

Yeah, I've been buying a lot of s#!t lately. I was supposed to be saving for a Novation SL MkIII @ $700, but that'll have to wait a couple more months as I can't stop dipping into the savings and buying s#!t. I'm not not buying junk or superfluous stuff, just my priorities got changed around and I needed a second octave pedal. Yes, a second one lol.

Carlos, when you can, download and demo the Brainworx Diezel VH4 and tell me what you think. Igor made that amp too.

Damn that reminds me, his 80% off sale ends on Sunday... I was gonna let that skate by as I forgot since I've buying other s#!t too like the ehx micro pog I just got. I'll probably get Nembrini's PSA-1 emu. Have you tried a hardware PSA-1 before? I own one, and I wonder how close the software version is to it

Are there any "pristine" Tron samples? Maybe relatively pristine 😛 lol but yeah I have this and the Tron samples here are especially grimy = cool. I've got just about ever Kontakt Tron including this below which is also free: http://www.leisureland.us/audio/MellotronSamples/MellotronSamples.htm

Thanks man I'll try this in a bit. Sounds like I haven't been using the right command for this

French brotha in da house, right on. I'll peep those videos, I see a lot of cool stuff there. Carlos implied that you had a video of you playing guitar through Amplitube..

And.. where they at? Where that link at?

Whose videos? Zo got videos?

Well it's not that I don't know how to do that, it's that when I *do* insert a new meter it changes the rest of the song from that insert point on to that new meter you just inserted. So say if I've got a 3-minute song going and I retroactively go back and make a meter change somewhere in the intro - and if down the line of the song I've got all kinds of mixed meters, what I do to the intro is going to change the entire song from that point on to that new meter I just inserted in the intro, and thus would undo all those mixed meters. I'd then have to go down the whole song and reinsert those odd meters and then change it back after that, reinsert another odd meter, change it back after that etc. Am I missing something?

And, some time in 2020, we can in all likelihood add Kazrog back to the short list of the best. Shane told me on YouTube that, though it was initially slated for 2019, his new set of next gen Kazrog amps will be available some time in 2020. He said the competition amongst the higher end amp sims is so good right now that he needs to make sure that what he turns out is *really* special, and he *promised* I wouldn't be disappointed. But until then..

At first glance many of these amp sims may appear to be on the same level with one another quality-wise. But the real test that sets them apart is when you start cranking the gain close to and up to max or even just to 2 or 3 o'clock and listening to the upper frequency break up - you'll often hear what should be a smooth break up be laced w/ digital artifacts, and the more you crank the gain, even before it starts to break up there's often fizziness. You can really observe this when monitoring through headphones where the listening environment is especially critical. This is where Nembrini's Marshall smokes the likes of Amplitube and BIAS FX for me. Nembrini's Marshall actually opens up on *default* w/ the gain maxed out.. it's as if Igor wanted to impress upon you immediately that his amp doesn't suffer from these artifacts, and it doesn't. I'm not a fan of amp suites anymore; I don't like something with a bunch of mediocre stuff and maybe a couple decent things amongst it, but that's just me. And you know what I always say.. if my tone has to be reduced to code then it absolutely must be the best gat dang code there is, and afaic right now that's Igor Nembrini and Brainworx, which is *also* Nembrini, and Neural DSP.

Not to hijack but just a quick side comment.. Markers are another issue and always have been afaic in Cakewalk. The text is too small and hard to read and if you have markers within proximity of each other the text of one marker will actually superimpose on the text of another marker. So I've been using this other method I picked up on a YouTube tutorial where you use the first track and a silent midi note to give you a clip graphic to manipulate/split into color-coded marker sections. It's kind of a pita honestly but way more effective. But yeah, let's have a disable feature for this "S" thing, that'd be cool.

I think it's a throwing a wrench into the way a man is used to working and having to negotiate a slight learning curve real quick when trying to do something the same way he's used to being able to do it regardless of whether or not the new way would be more efficient and productive once you get the hang of it.. we're creatures of habit - we're Men! and we like our steak and potato, not this impossible whopper nonsense 😡🤘

Yeah that'd cut down on the busy work too

Right, but what if I've got a song that's got a bunch of measures w/ intro, verse, chorus, verse etc and I later decide I want to change the 2nd measure of the intro to a different meter.. doing so will change/undo the entire song from that point on.. Is there no way to prevent that in that scenario? I could've have sworn some time ago I was able to just highlight on the ruler the measures I wanted to do this for and only those measures were affected

Lol. Yeah I got a song going that's like 4/4, 3/4, 4/4, 3/4, 4/4 - and this goes on for a while. Is there really no way to highlight just a measure and change only *its* meter? If you're just starting out building the song you'll manually map it, but if after you've built the song w/ a bunch of measures and you want to go back and change just measure two e.g. then doing so will change the entire project from that point on..

Yeah I was messing w/ it that way just now and it's cool I guess if/when you want it, but it should be able to be turned off.

For a mixed meter project that might have some 4/4 and some 3/4, how do I insert a meter change on just measure two for example w/o it changing the entire project from that point on? Like if I want measure one to be 4/4 and then measure two to be 3/4, right now when I do it using the "Set Measure/Beat at Now" command it changes it for the entire project from that point on. How can I confine the meter change to just one or more select measures?

Me as well, it really f's w/ my workflow, and I would also like to be able to disable it. I don't want to have to deselect everything; not only is that an extra gesture I'd have to perform in order to do something unrelated, but maybe there's something selected that I want to remain selected and we shouldn't have to deselect anything just to be able to do what we're trying to do here. This "S" thing is relatively new too.. What's its function exactly?

Right on. I was turned on to the Nembrini by HASR https://honestampsimreviews.com/author/honestampsimreviews/ - good resource, it's generally one guy's opinion but it's a good and learned opinion and a ton of amp sim reviews all in one place.

I tried last night to replicate your problem and was unable to. In CbB, when I load BIAS into a track I get the dual output meters in BIAS no matter if it's a single or dual amp rig or wether I have the input on the track assigned to mono or stereo - never just that single meter on BIAS as shown in your photo. You don't need to switch daws over this. I have no idea what's going on but here's what I'd do: Load up a clean new session and a single track for testing purposes in case something is corrupt in that session (it happens). Then, before loading up BIAS, load up another amp sim - any sim that you can use to verify a mono/stereo output from, a free sim or demo and verify that that sim is outputting in both mono and stereo. You may even test a soft synth to further verify proper stereo output functionality in this session. If the test sim is working correctly then delete or disable it and load BIAS and verify its output. If BIAS is still behaving that way then that would at least suggest it's the plugin for sure and not a corrupt session so I'd try reinstalling BIAS at that point. And try emailing Positive Grid and tell them what's happening. In my experience they respond in a day or two. A less likely problem is that you have some unique bug w/ BIAS and how it's interacting in your particular situation. I personally have a situation like that with BIAS FX 1 and 2, where it will delete an audio take I just recorded even after I watched the waveform get drawn, when I stop recording the waveform will just vanish, and and not everybody has this problem though a few others have reported it and the Cakewalk staff have confirmed it, but not everyone can replicate it. But hopefully you don't have some messed up unique situation like that and maybe you have just a bad install. If after all of this and it's still not working.. I have no idea man.. I'd contact Positive Grid soon. Well just for the heck of it I'd also have a look at the plugin properties on the BIAS plug under the vst2 button and see what boxes are/aren't checked.

There you go man. I'm thinking of getting the psa1000 - just to get something lol. I own a hardware psa-1 and there's nothing out there like it.

The track that you have BIAS loaded on, have you assigned the input of that track to a stereo input for your audio interface?

BIAS FX 2 is not only still self-deleting an audio take right after I record it and watch it get drawn, but it's doing it just by virtue of having BIAS FX 2's octaver pedal on an aux track. Previously Noel et al here had confirmed that BIAS (FX1 and FX2) was hijacking the wave file after recording when it was loaded in a track template, but today it's happening in a track I created on the fly - and actually BIAS isn't even on the track but rather on an aux track that the audio track is being sent to. When I deleted BIAS FX 2 from that aux track then things immediately started functioning normally. Dude, I'm hating this software with a real passionate hate. I've always hated it actually, because this problem or some iteration of it has always existed for me. Recently I snapped and contacted Positive Grid and asked for a refund despite having purchased it a year ago. They refused but as a consolation upgraded me the BIAS FX 2 for free, and I *still* think they owe me dearly for making me think I was going nuts for a year, having witnessed countless deleted takes and questioning myself as to whether I actually pressed record or pressed play when I *knew* I pressed record lol. YMMV as with anything else but no, I really *hate* the software I don't mind telling you. /end of ran.. no, this was a legit gripe lol Here's a video I just made of it happening. When I deleted BIAS out of the aux track down there the problem went away. https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code=XZGrULkZEsYdBO62LzfE8sXFf1yD8XPydM1V

Yeah, Positive Grid upgraded me to BIAS FX 2 from FX1 for free due to some s#!t that went down and even the free upgrade wasn't a good deal. I really hate this software.