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Any opinions on how these compare to others like JamStix or even EzDrummer etc?

I took a quick listen on my laptop speakers, all I have in front of me right now, so I could be way off here. However, what I have found useful is to compare, both using my ears and using an analyzer tool, my sounds with those I want to attain. I have used Melda's MAnalyzer and Izotope Ozone EQ to compare an Isolated guitar track, or the beginning of a guitar intro, to my sound and compare the difference. This helps me find the frequencies that I am missing or have too much of. Most of the distorted guitars that I have analyzed in similar genres as you are mentioning are mostly a flat frequency response between about 100Hz and 4-5KHz. Just listening quickly to your guitar sound it isn't bad but it seems to lack some in the lower mids (200-800Hz) or have too much in the 1-2K area. Hopefully that is helpful.

Doesn't sound like your doing anything wrong. It could be a corrupt project. Can you try to create a new project and just re-create tracks to reproduce your side chain and see if it still happens? You can also contact tech support and send them your project to see if they can reproduce it.

Thanks for the suggestion. Do you have the standard or the Pro Version?

I have been looking for a good pop brass section. However this one is a bit too rich for me right now. Any suggestions on other similar ones at a bit lower price?

I listened to the demos when I saw the email. I thought they did not sound good. Very synthetic.

I have a LX88+ that I use with Studio one and it did integrate pretty good. However, There are drawbacks to Studio One controller support. For one there is no indication what console channels you are controlling. It also only supports absolute position for faders and pan. So if you switch channels and move a fader it will imediately jump to the fader location and not wait for the fader to reach its current value before moving it. Those are some things that I have found annoying.

The only suggestion I have is get a AMD (ATI) card. I had latency problems with my NVidia card that I could never get resolved. I installed a Radeon and the latency went away. You can find many video cards sufficient for a DAW for around $100. If you can find a fanless one even better.

Awesome review. Thanks Amicus717

I have been eying since I learned about it some years ago. Can someone explain how Albion One is different then just an orchestra library? Is it loop based or sample based or both? Is it mostly for film scoring or is it good as a general orchestration tool? Sorry, I have looked at some of the videos and read the marketing material but I still don't quite grasp what this is?

I don't have the Akai keyboard but a few months ago was comparing keyboards as well. I think you have to specify what you are going to do with the keyboard/controller. Are you just interested in the keyboard or do you care about the control aspects of it as well. The Komplete Kontrol series has some neat features if you use Kontakt heavily. If you are just trying to find a good keyboard for recording midi there are other options such as weighted keys etc. that may fit what you want better.

People have given you some good suggestions but I have one that others have maybe not mentioned. Have someone else mix your music or at least listen to it to give you feedback. If you really do have some hearing issues, many of us do, you will need someone else to help you judge any moves you make anyway.

I have often recorded in the same way you mention. However, I have never seen it overwrite a take in a lane. It will start to fill in empty gaps so that you don't get so many take lanes created.

This really sounds like a flakey hardware connection or problem with your interface. Maybe try to change what port your Quad Capture is plugged into (it is USB right?). Silent busses mean that they are not routed to an actual hardware output. When you get this message check your routing and see if your Quad Capture is showing up or if the project has reverted to some other audio output.

I can verify that the nVidia cards tend to have higher DPC latency then the Radeon cards. I swapped my nVidia GT card out with a Radeon and the DPC latency went down quite a bit.

I have had times where a track appears to stop working. In my particular case it always had to do with a pro channel module. If I turned off the pro-channel my track would sound again. If I started deleting modules until it sounded again it would usually come down to the console emulation modules or once it was the concrete limiter. Just a thought.

Could be some sort of input echo or you have the audio routed to two tracks or buses? Try opening a new project, insert an instance of SD3 and route the audio directly to your master out. Does that sound any different?

Make sure that when you export that you are exporting the whole mix from the master bus where everything goes to. Your comment about "bounce the tracks" is interesting because you don't have to bounce your tracks to export your mix. You can bounce them if you want to but that is separate from exporting your mix.

Yes, you can use Mackie Mode. Actually there is a sequence of keys to press and hold on the NanoKontrol to make it output Mackie mode. See the NanoKontrol manual/quickstart for that information. I would also recommend you get Azslows (http://www.azslow.com/index.php?action=downloads) controller since it opened up more options.

I like and use this one quite a bit

Could be just a corrupt project. I don't know of anything that would turn that feature off. If you upgrade there is s feature to click on a control and swipe and it will select the same control all the tracks.

Takes on a single track are not affected by "group tracks" commands. That has to do with grouping multiple tracks. Take lanes are meant to represent separate takes of the same track and therefore generally are not independent of each other. When you select a part of one take lane it is promoted to the track and the other takes are muted in that same area. If you move a split point on one take lane the others move with it because you are adjusting where the transition from one take to another happens. Although it is possible, generally you don't try to overlap audible parts of multiple takes on one track.

I finally got it to open in Studio One but I had to start a new project. I cannot try the MIDI import function with the "Free" version so I would have to buy it to try it? I did try adjusting all sorts of things, I don't think the learning curve is too steep it just doesn't quite behave like I was expecting.

Not that kind of freeze, I mean Studio One stops responding and I have to kill it. I did get it to work in Waveform so I was able to try it out. I watched all the videos and played around with it for a while last night. I like the idea but I am not convinced that it is any faster or better then using Superior Drummer and its midi files. I usually have to had modify stuff anyway to fit what I am doing. I was hoping the fills in Jamstix would be useful since I am not very good with coming up with unique and interesting fills. I tried playing around with the fills in a section for a while and was unable to get the brain to do a fill that I thought sounded very good. It just sounded like random hitting of drums. I tried all the "up, down, flat" etc. played with complexity and all the other options. Maybe I was expecting too much?

I would really like to try this seeing as I have been eyeing it for quite some time. I downloaded the free version, installed and tried to load it into Studio One and it just freezes Studio One. I also tried it in Waveform and it didn't even show up. I have an email support request in but have not heard back. Any ideas from those that have it. I have the x64 VST 2 version installed and scanned an all my hosts are 64 bit.