Matthew Sorrels

I can't help but feel I'm being hit in the face with a copyright infringement lawsuit from just looking at that page. A company named "Mimic Audio" selling music packs: Old Town Road Bad Guy I Don't Care Sunflower Beautiful People Godzilla SEÑORITA Dance Monkey And their product pages have links to the original rack on sound services even. While I'm sure they have some legal cover or at least think they do, I'm not so sure.

I quit installing the VST2 versions, the VST3 versions are good.

I was wrong, the pro channel presets has a last used section as well a the list of available. With Saturation Knob the two lists are small enough to be the same, making it look like everything is double. So yeah I think all the Softube Pro Channel plugins that I have other than Saturation Knob are broken: Active Equalizer, FET Compressor, Focusing Equalizer, Passive Equalizer, TSAR-1R Reverb. All the crashes are deep in the Softube plugins themselves. I'd bet only Softube can fix this.

My Saturation Knob works but the new Pro Channel presets for it seems to have two copies of the presets. Not sure that's Softube or not though? Could also be something specific to the early access version. All the rest of the Softube Pro Channel plugins either crash instantly or draw bad/missing UI and then crash later.

All the Softube Pro Channel modules look broken with this last update. ?

I bought it because it was the closest thing to Roland's R-Mix, which I kind of missed (the Cakewalk version). I understand the real R-Mix is part of the Roland cloud now but when they dropped the loyalty bonus my interest in that went out the window. F-Rex is like R-Mix but is missing a bunch of features to make it really awesome. It does have the basic R-Mix UI, but things like simple solo buttons aren't there. The window is always square (no round options) And the effects it includes are kind of weak. It has great potential but I have a hard time recommending it. A Japanese company with a name of "INTERNET Co, Ltd" should be the first clue. They haven't updated it in forever. I just checked with their activation center (how they manage the activation/install) and it tells me I have the most recent version. You don't even register with them, you can access the download with your serial number only. I think you can demo it: https://www2.ssw.co.jp/download/dl_trial_en.aspx?p=761 It's also part of their audio editing app Sound It!(It's included with the app). But the version included in the audio editing app can't be used outside of it. I checked with their support when I was looking at this years ago.

I updated my legacy using the Korg Software Pass app (which is kind of crappy the way it handles things). I don't think adding the Triton and ARP for $199 is a very good deal, but the new GUI's on the older ones is a very nice free update. If they lower the price on the Legacy update to $99 and I'd jump, till then, no.

This is the second Sugar Bytes product they have brought into the Composer Cloud (Aparillo was first I think).

There was a big debate on either VI or Gearslutz about if Phoenix did anything different/better if you had Nimbus. I think the answer they came to was yes, but it wasn't all that clear to me. So I passed on this the last time it was on sale. Maybe I should reconsider.

You can't use the Adobe sound files as part of a trademark (audio mark) and expect them to be exclusive. The sentence as read only entangles the "trademark rights" the "content file or derivative works thereof" means exactly that. You can't take these sounds, fiddle them and then claim a trademark right on them (either as shipped or a derivative). Adobe has no issue with normal sound file usage, these sound effects have been distributed with Audition for a very long time (and under a bunch of different licenses). I'm pretty sure Adobe couldn't sue any one for using them if they wanted to. Trademark rights are a totally different kind of thing than a copyright (just like patents aren't trademarks, and design patents aren't normal patents, but people blur them all together sometimes). And no I'm not a lawyer, but I have used the Adobe files in projects and will continue to do so. Though technically I may have paid for them a few times since I've bought Adobe products that included them on discs before the creative cloud and do have an active creative cloud sub. But I don't think that gives me any extra rights.

I got it free because of the Luanchpad X I have. It's kind of underwhleming and adds a new always running application to your Windows install that has no option to stop it from starting when you login. Had to remove it from the Run registry key. If you own ROLI hardware I might see it, but not for two (kind of simple) plugins.

Maybe control surfaces and ACT setups are stealing MIDI input before it makes it to the track? SONAR/Cakewalk has always had some strange things with Roland A800, see the mention on this page: https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=SONAR&language=3&help=ExternalDevices.15.html I'd strip out as much of that stuff (ACT/Control surface setups) as I could and try and get everything as plain as you can. Then see what you are getting.

Assuming you have the pedal going into a MIDI interface you have enabled as an input, I'd recommend running something like MIDI Ox http://www.midiox.com/ Might help you figure out where your MIDI input is going to/coming from and then make sure Cakewalk is configured to accept input from that MIDI device. There are lots of settings but if you line everything up you should be able to start an empty project, add a single MIDI track, arm it and record and see the sustain pedal up and down events.

Do you have Controller selected in the MIDI Playback & Recording panel?

I think (maybe) the plugins believe (wrongly) that one of the others is in solo mode. So they don't play any sounds unless they are also soloed. It might have something to do with number of cores and/or maybe how Cubase works with it. Can't tell for sure. Given past experience with hexachords though I suspect unless I can come up with a 100% reproducible version of it they will just ignore it. Still I have to admit I like some of the things it's generating.

My mysterious parts don't play bug gets stranger all the time. I have one Cubase project when I load will only play the arp or the melody but not both, unless you solo them (using the Solo button inside the plugin, not Cubase's solo). I have another Cubase project that only plays the chords instrument, unless you solo the parts. But when starting fresh and adding all four without changing anything, everything plays together. I've seen this parts going silent unless soloed a few times now so it must be something I'm doing while using the plugins. The strange thing is that once it is like that, I can't seem to get it to go back to working. It's stuck.

I just loaded all four modules in Cubase 10.5, doesn't seem very high a load for me, but also not very multithreaded. I'm definitely not seeing crazy CPU loads though. Maybe 10% overall average(with all 4 playing) and one core around the 50% mark . But this is the full version, maybe it's something about the demo? I'm also not seeing any crashes with the most recent release. I let it play for hundreds of measures and tweaked and adjust parameters on all four modules without even a blip. Only odd thing I noticed is only the Melody or the Arp will sound if you have all four plugins loaded, you have to solo all four instruments separately if you actually want both the melody and the arp to play at the same time. OK maybe that's a crazy thing to want, but it was kind of annoying realizing the arp wasn't playing. I never really noticed regular Orb Composer being very CPU intensive either. Neither of them actually generate MIDI on the fly or something. Orb Producer does have its synth instrument but it doesn't seem very CPU heavy.

I picked it up (with the coupon from having Cinematic Guitar Infinity). I starting trying to use it and found it's not so usable for pretty much any normal guitar part (rhythm or lead). The presets do sound nice and there are a bunch of guitars but none of them are extremely multi-sampled/playable. I kept replacing it with Orange Tree guitars and moving the Guitar Fury to another track/part. These sounds/samples would have been better with Sample Logic's normal Kontakt instrument with four parts. Which may be what Cinematic Guitars Motion is -- which I was offered a discount on while checking out (not sure $199 while buying a $100 product is a "discount" but whatever). No regrets, but I can see this coming to APD at a much better price. Or maybe some sort of bundle (this plus Cinematic Guitars Motion for $100 would seem reasonable to me). I like Sample Logic's stuff but using it is a lot harder than it looks.

I have those same two Fender picks he shows. That was it. ?

I think you should do do a plain save (pick patch only) not a batch resave. Otherwise the edits to the MIDI automation won't be saved. The hidden remove button because of screen issues can be a big problem. But I'm only guessing on why the sounds would get cut off. Filter cutoffs on MIDI controls often cause Kontakt instruments to go silent. It could be something else too. The single instruments don't have the arp and aren't really nearly as cool as the dual with the arp.

Yeah I can't fix the country on my Falkemedia account either and because I used PayPal it didn't seem to credit it to my Falkemedia account at all. But I did receive an email when you follow the link it had a download the PDF button, but it required being logged out of my Falkemedia account to access it. It was very confusing (and not in English). Also strange the PDF invoices they sent me today show I paid 7% VAT (which is the right amount for PA sales tax) and they adjusted the price of the product so that with the 7% VAT tax it still came to 1.99 euros. Which seems kind of flaky to me.

Bring up the MIDI automation panel, select the assigned one (a few of the instruments seem to have assigned CC 0 which is bank select and may actually be the more likely problem CC, but honestly all of them are kind of suspect). If you select the assignment down below you'll see the settings, there is a remove button. This might help:

I really should have tried Chrome but I'm always scared that using translate on actual web pages while ordering will mess something up. Beat is actually a nice magazine with some great bonus content. Well sometimes at least. And now I think you can actually get it without having to deal with shipping and bank transfers (unlike way back in 2015 when I had to subscribe to the print version and pay with TransferWise because they didn't take credit cards). I lived in Germany as a young child but sadly didn't really learn much, if any, German. Google Translate's camera mode on phones is pretty amazing to let you read printed magazines though.

While it's kind of tricky if you don't speak German you can get the digital version of the latest issue of Beat magazine here: https://www.falkemedia-shop.de/sound/beat/beat-05/2020?number= (be sure to pick the digital version) you can pay with Paypal, came to like $2.24 US with all the fees. Then once you download the magazine PDF (use Google Translate to help with the translation of pages so you can figure out how to get the PDF, it's kind of tricky) you can then go to two websites to download the DVD content and to the Beat serial center where you have to answer a question by providing a word on pages in the magazine (again Google Translate is your friend). The serial center will email you the codes and/or passwords you need. You get a link to AAS with a code that lets you choose 2 soundpacks (I am/was missing exactly 2 -- Masala 2 and Tropical Jam which it let me pick). You can also get a IK Multimedia code for T-RackS ONE (which I already had) and some passwords for the files from the DVD content. The DVD content includes the BE versions of Xhun Little One, Geist Lite, Thorn Solo and some Zampler Eternal Drones. Some other demo stuff too. Nothing I cared much about though. Not a bad deal really and unlike in the past you can pay with Paypal and can do it with an all digital download. You just have to figure out the German webpages for registering and accessing. Link to Google Translate: https://translate.google.com/ You can copy and paste text into it to get a translation. For the magazine itself I used the Google Translate app on my phone and it's camera to translate. The serial center is http://www.serialcenter.de and the DVD download URL is http://www.bit.ly/BeatDL173

It looks like most of the instruments have MIDI CC channels assigned to filter cutoff automation. Running it stand alone you may still be sending MIDI messages. Reload the instrument fresh (to get the right filter settings) then go to the Automation page in Kontakt and remove the assigns. Then re-save the instrument.