Amberwolf

BTW, a useful effect in some circumstances is to use Pre instead of Post for the send from your tracks to the wet-only reverb bus. That way you can send a different level of reverb vs the track level, so you could even have a reverb-only section, where there is zero dry signal, only wet signal, such as for some ethereal washed out sound in a break in the song. Doing it this way means that if you automate the track levels you *also* have to automate the send levels the same way, since they're no longer modulated by the main volume fader itself, but it is worth the extra effort if you do this kind of thing a fair bit. Otherwise it's easier to set the send to Post so that it "follows" your main fader and the wet sound tracks the level of the dry sound automagically.

@husker Depends. Some of them are one, some are the other, and some of the instruments have their samples as wave files so tehy're easy to use either way. For instance, Rituals is all wav files, as is Sonikscape, Shockwave. Old broken piano is Kontakt, with all the samples as wavs both as "design" and "raw". Alert is kontakt, again with wav type samples, as is Raw Cello FX., Trumpet FX, etc. Etc. If you want to know what a specific library is, then if I have it I can look at mine. I have about half their catalog from a big sale like this last year or the year before, I think it was about half the current full-catalog price. If they had an "upgrade" sale that let me get the rest of the stuff for the difference, I might do that. If you need foley, or textural sounds, etc., their stuff is certainly interesting. I can't compare it to others', but I've used them in several tracks so far. I know i used several things from Volta in No Bigger Than The Space Of Time (a "big" sounding multipart "scifi" type piece), and from several libraries including Old broken Piano and Trumpet FX in Aftermath of Sunlight and it's sequel Pre-Cast Shadows (both experimental soundscapes). I've used some stuff (don't recall which libraries) in the Drywater, Mars series (a group of tracks for an imaginary scifi series) as tiny sounds here and there, and in Even If I Could Tell You (an imaginary concert track for a band something like Depeche Mode). (EDIT: apparently I already posted examples previously, and didn't scroll up to see that. 😊 )

Ah, yes, that old "I'm sure my speakers had cones a minute ago" feeling...

Artifact (Drywater, Mars Part 7) Something ancient is found in the sands...and it doesn't like that, and our heroes get stuck with fixing the problem. https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/artifact-drywater-mars-part-7

I just use the mute button on the dry when using it as a send / aux effect in it's own bus (instead of in the track itself). Then I leave the wet set at 0dB, and use the volume of that bus (if it'sthe only effect on it) to set the level of the reverb (or even to automate the amount). If I use the early reflections at all, I'll set that one relative to the wet by experiment to see how it sounds in the"thinnest" part of the mix, where the least stuff is going on. If that screws up things (feels busy) in more active parts I'll automate ER to damp it out for those sections. FWIW, the Sonitus plugs have a number of presets already setup for this use, so if you are using any of the built in presets, just pick the ones that says "aux" and it will already only be 100% wet.

Don't send the reverb back to the orignal track or bus. Send the reverb in parallel (just the wet signal, no dry) to the master bus (or whatever mixdown-busing you use before that). So your structure would have your various tracks going to their various type-buses, and each track or bus would have it's send to this reverb bus. The reverb bus *and* the other buses all then feed your mixdown or master bus, etc. That said, if your mix is exactly the way you want it, it doesn't matter what's "wrong" with the way the buses are setup, etc. If it sounds like you want, it's done.

I'm not sure if it's a bug, but I have wished for a keybinding for NDME to deal with this specific set of issues, because I "never" (almost) want to destructively edit the clips except in the cases like you're describing, where I "always" want to do it *but* only to the portion that is "overlapping" between the original material and the pasted-in material (which there isn't a neat quick easy way to do, it requires some other steps...but being able to momentarily disable NDME during these specific operations without having to dig into options menus twice every time would be helpful).

Does it work correctly in Sonar, either the free tier or subscription? (If you're not using that, I think you might have the wrong website. This one is for Sonar and Cakewalk products... )

Myself, I cannot really play, so I mess with the timing of things I record until they sound like I want them to (or until I give up in frustration). If there is an audio clip of something I already have (or can find) with the timing I want, I'll use the audiosnap to extract it's timing to a midi file, or use an existing midi fiel if I have one, and apply that timing to the clip I want to fix. That sometimes does the job, or gets me close enough to finish it.

Thanks to both of you for listening! Any other feedback, technical or otherwise, on any of the tracks?

In the MIDI options, is "Notes" one of hte checked items? (it is possible to setup global options to not record them, so that one could record just CC data, etc., if desired, though I have never used this option)

In the main track view, is there a clip actually recorded on the track? (asuming not, from the second image in you rfirst pst) Are there any punch in points set? (data recorded outside those may not be saved)

What MIDI interface are you using between it and the computer? How long are the cables?

I might be misunderstanding you, or the OP, but AFAICT the OP wants to put all the takes into the first track in sequence because they werent' making takes on purpose, they were recording a single continuous performance but accidentally had it in a mode where it looped and did takes on that section instead. I still don't know what they meant by the parts I asked about above, though.

AFAIK that "circle" is your windows busy cursor. If you want a different one, you'd change that within windows itself, in the pointers section of the mouse control panel. (the version with the arrow mouse cursor and the blue ring is the wait cursor).

I don't understand what "the old" is, or "this one", or what you mean by "has them all connected"?

They are completely different UIs, and some functionality is either different or doesn't exist anymore. There's a thread around here somewhere about them that shows some of those differences.

AFAICR, the Sonitus plugins were DX, not VST. (at least, the ones on my ancient SONAR, and SPlat, are). If yours are installed but not showing up, you'd probably have to manually re-register them using regsvr32. Or, if you are using a 64 bit version of the program, and the plugs are 32bit, maybe that could cause them to not show up. I dont' know a workaround for that other than using a 32bit version of the program or a 64 bit version of the plugins.

Apparently so--a quick google on your phrase finds the RA manual which says this:

Not here. We don't bother with all that confusing mess.

FWIW, it is often helpful to experimentation to use automation to play with various ideas, as being much faster to shape and reshape curves and nodes than to do any of the direct methods of editing velocities, individually or en-masse. This is how I use automation for most of my purposes (sometimes later baking it into a rendered version, sometimes leaving it as is, depending on further edits needed or the end-usage of the results).

Shame that it can't--would be interesting to hear it's results vs the other solutions (I use the Jam Origin MIDI Guitar software for this kind of thing).

I dug out the cd set, it's from 2001 (did not realize I'd had it that long!). Looks like I was mistaken; the cover art style is so similar between what I have and what the ones in the Ancient Bundle look like, I made an assumptive connection in my miswired brain. (EDIT: at the end of the booklet it actually does say QL was part of East West, so I guess that's why it looks so similar). It was Quantum Leap Products Rare Instruments for Gigastudio, and appears to be the actual library rather than a demo, though it's still just partial ranges, perhaps that's just all the viable sample range of each particular instrument. It includes Far East, Middle East & India, and Europe. I think the biggest instrument on it is a whopping 148mb....but even so, theyre very nice. I can only imagine their libraries have gotten better over the years as space has become less of a consideration.

You could use a velocity-scaling plugin, and reassign the copied volume (CC7, etc) to it's appropriate parameter. Unfortunatley the cakewalk velocity MFX isn't automatable. I cant remember if Variorum's MFX are automatable (the "compressor" modifies velocity, so it should be able to do what you're after if it is). I think there's one by NiallMoody for velocity scaling, but don't recall if it's automatable. Might be others.

Not many big guys like that named Annabelle....