Magic Russ

I recently got a few Sick Noise instruments in a bundle. There were a few good sounds but they were only mapped over a limited range, which drastically limited their utility for me.

I just did the V Collection update from 9 to 11. There's quite a bit to unpack, but... I'm finding a lot of inspiration in Pure LoFi Acid sounds better than I was expecting. The Augmented series sounds pretty good with a lot of potential. They seem to still be pretty resource intensive. I'm not sure the others don't fill a need that isn't already covered.

Was it seriously ever worth the list price?

As a reminder to ReMatrix owners, when you purchased ReMatrix they gave you a 20% discount code which is applicable to all future purchases of ReMatrix libraries. Don't forget to use it.

Their algorithm is weird. It will give you upgrades based on what you have but will ignore that you have the latest version. For example I have FX Collection 3 and I upgraded to 5. It will give me a price to upgrade to version 5 based on the fact that I have version 3 and ignore that I already have version 5.

It's more of a redundancy, like invited guest, true fact, etc.

The Sick Noise Instruments libraries are a bit frustrating to say the least. First, the zip files have directories that are so ridiculously long named that I have problems extracting them. Then there are the instruments that are only mapped over a small range of the keyboard. Nobody would believe me if I told them they had pad instruments that were only mapped over one octave, so I attached that below. Then there are a few instruments which are mapped starting at C0, when my 61 key controller starts at C1. These libraries actually have some good sounds in them but the limited range makes them a whole lot less useful than they could be.

The question will be asked as long as the desire remains unfulfilled.

Is there any source code available for either of these two projects or at least documentation of the CWP format? I would love to be able to come up with something that could combine the features of both.

As another example, I had a few tracks using Abbey Road Drums and Scarbee Rick Bass where the tracks were simply named AR Drums and Bass, with no other Kontakt instruments. Project scope could not find those because it was searching by track names and not instruments names.

This works nicely. Now I realized I have a lot of tracks with Alchemy I am going to want to bounce in case I have problems installing it when I replace my current DAW machine.

Thank you, I'll give it a try later.

What I am looking for is something that will scan all files in my Cakewalk Projects/Sonar directory, and output a list of what instruments are used in each project. Nothing too complex.

I've used projectscope before, but it does not do a good job of finding instruments. It only seems to find instruments if they are in the effects rack (either used as effects or set up in the old school method.

If you want to Trash your sound, there are better plugins. If you want to get a vintage (dare I say retro) color with degradation that comes from using older media formats, this is the one.