Amberwolf

Are any of the envelopes (automation) you can add for it in the track for the preset / program? If so, then you can just use the envelope to do this. Does the plugin accept MIDI controls? Is one of those for preset/program? If so, you can send it a MIDI command from a track that feeds it's MIDI input port/channel.

I liiike this one! I can hear some other things that could go on in it... (some vocalizations, a few other things I'm not sure of yet). Would you mind if I played around with it by recording the SC into my system and adding some bits? Not sure how I could get it to you afterward, but we could figure that out, if you're up for it.

Thanks! Which version did you listen to? Were you listening to the original version with a "beat" thru almost the entire thing, https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/gareki or the alternate version that only has that in a few places? https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/gareki-ii-alternate-version-cinematic-feel

It's just not as sweet as the baby ruth theme song.

Maybe the board they sell only has one connector on it?

Yeah, I typically have a couple of dozen multibandeq's in a project, a dozen eq's, several delays, several reverbs, and may have other stuff in there too. Tha'ts just for the sonitus plugins.... some of the projects have a lot more eqs to notch out bits of some tracks to make room for other track sounds...

Thanks! What images? (trying to learn how to give the ones I intend...) Which version did you listen to? Were you listening to the original version with a "beat" thru almost the entire thing, https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/gareki or the alternate version that only has that in a few places? https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/gareki-ii-alternate-version-cinematic-feel

Or puppies. artists concept from my Being Still cover art, based on former realities: I like your repurposing of the fireplace.

@Wookie: I sympathize greatly with you. I don't know if any of this helps, but... My dogs (all rescues, usually big ones, so many I have lost count; the last decade's worth from the SaintBernardRescue of Arizona) are my family, my "kids" as it were. I have lost so many dogs over the decades but it always hurts just as much each time, sometimes even more because I feel the loss of the others on top of the latest one(s), which happens more as time goes on. For now I still have JellyBeanThePerfectlyNormalSchmoo(ButAVeryStrangeDog) but who knows how long she'll be around (she takes antisieizuire meds 3x daily, but they don't know what causes her seizures; been almost year since they started and they're under control but...you never know with this stuff). (Becasue I don't know how mcuh I have left in me to handle this, I've been designing Snuggles The Wolf as a robotic companion that "wont' die", but I doubt I'll get that done before *I* do). The last ones I lost were Kirin in May of 2021 and then Yogi in June; I was knocked so far off axis that I was forced to go on leave from work for half a year to recover. Kirin was my special one, attached to me all the time, and I to her. I've only had a few that were truly that close, but she was the closest even of those. Yogi had been with me since about a yearish after I had lost my entire previous set of four in a housefire (one of whom was another super-close one), and it was like someoone had just cut my life off there, after having just lost Kirin.

If you really need clips to always bounce to the full measure, etc., you can stick a controller event of a type / number that you know none of your synths/etc respond to (or that you know you want set that way anyway) at the tick(s) where you require the clip to start/end, so that no matter where the notes are relative to the measure boundaries, the clips will line up there. Just make sure you select the CC events with the notes when you bounce.

What differences are there, mechanically, between the RME and the Audient? Are they both metal cases all-round? Or plastic? Or parts of each? Do they both use external "wallwart" type adapters, or does either have an internal supply that has a direct-connect AC cord? Or does either use a "brick" that has cords at both ends (one to wall, one to device)? Does either one use ground pins on their adapters? Or just two-blade types? Does the Audient have a built-in microphone? (perhaps for self-room-eq'ing, like an old 80s car amp I have around here by Gerhardt does) Or does it have some form of automatic level control or compander that automatically turns up the gain on all mic (etc) inputs when there's no signal so it can hear 'tiny" noises, and just turns that back down when an intended sound is actually being input.? If the problem you were hearing/seeing in the audio was induced electrical noise, you wouldn't hear actual drive spinning noise--the only way you can get that is an audio pickup of some kind. If it's the motor drive noise isn't from an audible source but is instead elecrical noise from the motors, it would be still be unusual for it to be picked up by the audio interface; there is a fair bit of shielding in the drive itself to prevent this from getting out, so whatever picks it up would have to be ungrounded/unshielded at some crucial point somewhere, and I wouldn't expect that with an interface. It might be possible for a ground-loop to induce noise in a signal. That might happen if the audient's case is also it's analog ground, *and* the computer's case is also it's ground...maybe. If that's the case then isolating either one's casing from the rack metal would interrupt that. If the noise is magnetic-field induced (highly unlikely); copper plate between the two things will help negate that. Does the problem happen when there are no cables plugged into any of the Audient's audio connections (just powered on and connected to the computer and whatever power supply it has)? What happens if you run the Audient's power adapter off a different circuit breaker than the computer?

Her'es a previous thread about this that mayhave other useful info

Thanks! Were you listening to the original version with a "beat" thru almost the entire thing, https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/gareki or the alternate version that only has that in a few places? https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/gareki-ii-alternate-version-cinematic-feel I don't have separate threads for them because I didn't want to pollute the forum after getting feedback on another one that i was posting too many versions and it was likely to keep me from getting feedback.

FWIW, the most common cause I've seen wiht anyintermittent issue is a connector or wire failure, in decades of fixing things of all kinds--if it's got wires in it, they're usually the cause. usually at the contact itself--either the wire is not correclty crimped into it or it was crimped so hard it broke the conductiors at the back of the cotnatc, or the contact is spread so the open side doesn't fully mate with the pin side, or the side that's soldered to the board is not soldered correclty or at all. Sometiems the wire is borken somewhere alontg the length, usually at the back of a connector or at the board connection point, or at the entrance / exit of whatever casing the wire pases thru. it's not usually a copmlete break, just the conductor inside, and the isnluation looks good but sometiems has some physical difference to working wire.s

There was a time when SCSI was the only way to get the speeds of both drive access / seek time and data transfer rates to/from the computer, but the last couple decades has seen that rapidly fade. The decade-plus-old 1TB spinny-type SATA drive in my equal-age laptop works faster, far quieter, lower power, and around an eighth the physical size of the 100gb? (maybe it was only 10gb?) 10,000rpm SCSI spinny drive that a friend of mine spent a fortune on to get a video editing system able to actually stream the data realtime...which it could just barely do. I don't know what modern SCSI drives can do, relative to the SSDs or even spinny SATA drives of today, but the one I have with the 16gb of ram I've got in the ancient laptop lets me use enough audio clips and audioloop tracks to do the stuff on my bandcamp site without problems in playback, while also sometiems recording more tracks with the mic or guitar. Not sure if this article is helpful, but it has some comparisons and explantions that include scsi https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/ssd-vs-nvme

Although you may have the same number of cat fights going thru either one... /end OTness

I usually have to keep mine below zero for that to happen.

That way you can sonify it like they do with some astronomical data?

I've used the trackview PRV for so long that I dont' recall if you can do this in the actual PRV, (EDIT: yes, you can) but if you are in track view and choose to view the midi track as PRV instead of clips, then you can hover over each note at the top edge toward the middle/right-ish end of it, and get a cursor that looks a little like a batery level icon. Click and drag there and it changes the velocity and shows you the vertical bar while it's happening. If youw ant to also see all velocities at the same time youc an also turn that on in the same area where all the track controls are, on mine it is a button that looks a little like a series of velocity or controller vertical bars in a curve. That control is also in the top left corner of PRV in my version.

i liked son of blob better....but that was at a drivein and the weather was nice, so i might be remembering more of the feelin of that than the movie

No, no we didn't.

At least you get "chicken" in your results. That doesn't always happen.

Yeah, the SW is by MS. There are several ways that game controllers can work, for the original 15-pin dsub type. Some of the SW's had both digital and analog signals, so that the force-feedback could know what to do and when--the analog stuff has no way to get data from the PC to the GC, those analog pins are input only on the PC side. So it uses the serial data line that was in those connectors for MIDI port use. Cheap gameports on the PCs may not even have the serial lines implemented, just the analog ins, so FF GCs don't work on them as they should. But the midi-joystick programs should. USB stuff...well, that's all USB, so it just does whatever they chose to do over the USB cable and spec. Some use the standard "game controller" driver (kinda like the "class midi driver" or the "class usb driver" or whatever, so ther'es no specific driver from the GC maker. Some use a separate driver for advanced functions or programming the buttons, triggers, etc., calibrating it, and so on. But for the purposes of using a GC to modulate MIDI fucntions, it doesn't really matter. The analog functions are all that matter to most of the conversion drivers/software, they dont' (none I've seen so far) provide any data out to the GC, so they dont' use FF or whatever on them to tell the user anything. So they don't use the MIDI / serial lines on the port. In fact most of the time you could use both an old 15-pin midi port adapter *and* a GC, by using a Y-splitter. And these days, it's all USB anwyay. As long as it's USB and uses the class driver it'll probably work fine with midi stuff. if it uses it's own dedicated river it depends on how they wrote it and what it presents to the program side. yeah, that's a problem with various versions of the serial data lines hacked onto the gampeort 15pin type. i have several different "cable" type midid cables that plug into those, some by reveal, some by no-name, one by creative, etc. All of them appear to direclty ground the shield *and pin 2* of the din to the shell of the db15 and to the ground pins of the db15, which makes for excellent ground loop proglmes. fwiw, the cheap usb midi cables do the same thing sometimes. But some fo them, like the advanced gravis box-cable i have for the db15 does correctly optoisolate and wire and ground all the right bits, so it actualy works where it's supposed to without causing grief. Thankfully we don't have to deal with that anymore, what with ssds and better cooling solutions, more efficient cpus, etc. in the 90s I remember spending weeks designing building and implementing the quietest computer system i could, taking out all fans, repalcint g with just one much much larger diamter much mcuh slower fan that moved the same air as all those others, but pulled it thru the cmputer from an external duct, with baffles and guides from the case air intakes to all the hot stuff. wWorked great for years; the next one that replaced it didn't need nearly as much of that, but i did the same thing there. nowaday i use an old laptop that is nearly silent even with the spnny type of hdd in it, evne when the fan ramps up cuz im' knockign the cpu with ltos of synths and plugs. but i have a stakc of old hp server racks that sound like concorde on afterburners just truning on, and get louder from there...so i'll have to do the quieting on those to use them for much of anything (one for cad stuff / 3d printing / modelling, one for a daw, one for coding / behavioral ai on a robot project someday, etc). i redesign stuff all the time to use it the way i need it to work, and have to work around shitty design decisions all the time. wish i could do that for software, but at least electrical and mecahncilal i can do, at least hwne my body and mind work well enough to manage it.

I don't have a link to a specific one; I am not certain which one I used back when I tried it out...might've been "joy to midi", was probably this one based on the UI appearance https://www.fergonez.net/softwares/fjoymidi I think I was using an old sidewinder that had analog 15pin on the actual cable, and came with an adatper from that to usb that iw as using on the system itself? This google search finds several, some of which are hardware and some of which are software, and some are both. https://www.google.com/search?q=joystick+for+MIDI I think this one is probably more specific to using an exsting USB joystick as a MDII source https://www.google.com/search?q=USB+Joystick+MIDI+Driver but there appear to be less useful results in it. Google used to be a lot better at finding the thing you actually asked, but for a while now it tries to "understand" what you ask and find things it thinks are a match...which doesn't work nearly as well as just literally ashowing the results you asked for. It doesn't even honor boolean or inclusive exclusive requests much of the time. This one should be better https://www.google.com/search?q=USB+Joystick-to-MIDI+Driver

This one