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I've got Focal Twin 6's. I'm not looking to change but I was looking those Kali's a couple days ago just out of curiosity and I thought the same thing. Good luck with your search.

The last person I want bragging about a product is the marketing manager...lol. I'm pretty surprised he didn't push harder.

Near 20 years ago, when I was searching for my perfect set of near-field monitors, I started on the lowest end of my budget with that I though might get the job done and got a demo pair from Vintage King. Sending back a couple sets of demo monitors is a lot less hassle than ending up with monitors that you don't love. And honestly, even if you can hear them in a local store, it's not the same as spending a couple weeks with them in your own space.

Byron's not wrong. Question though. Do you have any headphone bleed from background music or other sounds that you're doing the VO on? If so, that bleed will do funny stuff when you start messing with any pitch correction software. Especially when it mixes back in with the original background source material.

You heard it here first. Sonar will cost $200.

That's absolutely not what the engineer is doing. He's not shifting for latency....he's quickly building a loop so Paul can lay down the next part. If you're playing on time and you have to shift every single take because of latency, something is very wrong. That's not normal.

Cool. Step sequencing isn't my thing but I'm sure there are plenty of folks here who can help you with that. It may be helpful for me to add that you can chop, drag and paste the midi file in sections from within the tracks pane. I color code each section and move them around a lot. Gives me a visual representation of which part is where in time. Now...someone else here may be very familiar with the Arranger functions in Cakewalk. It's cool. Doesn't work for how I do things, but it sort of sounds like it might be useful for what you do. Good luck.

Rob - are you planning on manually entering these drum parts with a mouse, using a midi controller (keyboard), or are you going to be using an electronic drum kit? I know some people like step sequencing. I can't stand it precisely because it reminds me of using my old Boss DR-660. ? I picked up an Alesis Nitro kit a couple years ago and it changed everything about doing midi drums. So much easier to get ideas out that actually feel like my style.

Depends. Full band....is there bleed in everything? If so, you're toast. If there's not bleed, your solution to start with bass and drums is a good place to start. I don't envy you in this errand. Because you'll be aligning and time stretching till the cows come home...and still probably have something that's not quite right. When I was still doing full bands and it was THAT BAD I would pull the plug on the project, have a heart-to-heart with the band about coming back when they get tight and send them home with a refund. They'd either show up better or they'd go somewhere else.

Not sure what you're asking, specifically. Are you asking for help building a drum map? As far as drum velocity goes, I personally find it easier to adjust velocity after I've created parts. I just look at it as a secondary creative process. If I try to do them both at the same time (while manually entering notes instead of playing an electronic drum kit), I feel like it gets in the way of my creativity. I can largely ignore the dynamics while I'm creating - knowing I'm going to back to do that once all the parts are right. And adjusting velocity from the drum map view is way easier than adjusting it from the piano roll view.

There are 2 camps. One camp time-aligns it. You can choose to chop the OH mic tracks and time-align it. But where do you stop? The toms will also be in the OH. And so will the HH. One camp ignores it. I'm in this camp. EDIT: To clarify. I'm specifically talking about time-aligning OH and ROOM tracks. I don't.

Overthinking...perhaps. Have you checked out any of the Darkglass profiles? I just took a look...they're out there. And there are ridiculous VST profiles that come stock with the Kemper. I have a hard time thinking the Kemper wouldn't suffice in one way or the other.

EDIT. I misread what you were asking. Good luck with your search.

Not sure what compressor you're using, but for vocal, and if you're somewhat compressor illiterate, I would suggest the PC2A Lever module in your ProChannel. That's an LA-2A type compressor. REALLY easy to use. Mainly concern yourself with the peak reduction knob and a gain makeup knob. And its a classic compressor that you'll probably love the sound of on your vocal. You've been hearing it your whole life. Don't be shy with it. Heavy compression with it can sound really good on a vocal. You can even stack them in ProChannel and take a little off with each - the way someone earlier mentioned.

Thanks, Mark.

Then move along, chump.

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Meehhhh....I think you're overthinking it. I don't know anyone who moves overdubs like that. It's literally like telling your guitarist to stand on your head while he plays because 2.5 feet away is too far and you can hear the 2.5ms delay. Or 10 feet for that matter.

I knew the second you said it. Booooooo!

I can't even imagine having to adjusting things by hand due to latency. No way.

I've tracked bands with plugins starting back in about 2005 with a dual Xeon system running Server 2003. That machine was a beast for the time and REALLY allowed me to finally work the way I wanted. I certainly know the limitations. You just have to build a killer machine. And it's a lot easier to do today than it was back then. But even with a killer machine, those two plugins tell me to take a flying leap. ?

I get the visual thing, but I could get over that to a large degree. For me it continually comes down to long-standing workflow problems where I refuse to change - even if it's just a couple of things. Some things are too disruptive to accept when I don't have to. If I had to, I'd probably switch to Reaper or Cubase. But as they are, and continue to be, Sonar/Cakewalk wins as long as it still works on my machine. Because, among other problems, Reaper can't keep busses on top...and Cubase won't pass audio through a channel that's armed for recording - even if it's punch recording. When you grew up on a DAW that does those things, changing is settling for less.

I just switched to Win 11 and had to get latency under control again....bios and OS tweaks. Got it. But it sure is a reminder that a couple of the Soundtoys plugins I use are near impossible to use when tracking with a buffer under 256. Little AlterBoy & Little MicroShift are both latency machines.

I suppose that's scary if you don't like eating bodies.

Back in the day, I never treated any guitar like I was going to keep it forever. In the early 90's I'd drill holes in every guitar I had so I could attach Roland GK-2A pickups for the Roland GR-1 synth. I'm a little more conservative with those decisions these days. EDIT: I was wrong. Now I have a bunch of guitars that I'm keep forever that have holes drilled in them...lol. Meh...you live and you learn.