Magic Russ

I don't often get far enough to worry about mastering, but Lurssen feels like cheating. And I don't think there is a need for another delay, but then again it seems like people are releasing LA-2A compressors every day too.

I like the BT Prism and Monark presets, and most of the Battery kits are useable. I don't like the way NI does their expansion kits, though. All content goes to D:\Native Instruments\{Expansion Name}. It works if you are using Komplete Kontrol or Maschine, but with Battery or Reaktor, you need to either copy the content to user directories or navigate to the content directory every time.

NI has put together a donationware pack of samples and presets, available here: https://www.native-instruments.com/en/specials/2020/community-drive/ Content contributed by artists such as Sia, BT, Kimbra, Junkie XL, Richard Devine, and others. ADDITIONAL DETAILS COMMUNITY DRIVE includes: 12 MASCHINE kits, 10 BATTERY kits, 14 Logic DMD kits, 14 Ableton kits, 11 MASSIVE presets, 27 MONARK presets, 10 PRISM presets, 10 SKANNER XT presets, 74 loops, 268 total samples. Includes 104 drum samples: 6 claps, 6 cymbals, 14 hi hats, 33 kicks, 10 toms, 38 snares, and 8 percussion samples. Installer size: 451 MB Software Loops and Samples work in any DAW MASCHINE content requires the latest version of the MASCHINE software. Additionally: Please update to the latest versions of BATTERY 4, MASSIVE, MONARK, REAKTOR PRISM and REAKTOR 6 or the REAKTOR 6 PLAYER

In the meantime, there's always KVR's Bargain Center.

It's a '57 Champ. I thought that those two models came out before the Fender Collections came out, but they both have patches which contain effects from the Fender 1 collection.

Uncle E posted on the guitar forum yesterday at KVR, so he's ok even if his site isn't.

I'm really skeptical about Guitar Rig 6. Guitar Rig 5 came out in 2011 (?) and the added amp models weren't competitive even back then. I've seen a lot of references to job postings at NI over the years which mention GR, but not a lot of deliverables.

I hope nobody downvotes me for saying I use Songsmith on occasion. I've found a lot of the Rigid libraries inspirational. They seem to find good ways to combine sounds and patterns. I was recently going through old projects and found a lot of them started with sequences from Absynth or Rapture.

Wampler Pinnacle + Fender Princeton is one of my favorite combos.

Plugins like AAS Strum GS2 are great because a couple of random notes on the keyboard can give you a chord progression you might not otherwise have come up with. EZ Keys as well. Contests, particularly remix contests, are also great because they force you to come up with ideas that are not obvious.

I ended up going with the Funky Cat library for Strum. I don't love it but it might have some potential and it was on sale and I probably would have bought it anyway. That aside, I was playing with the rack recently. I think the biggest use I will get out of it is the MIDI Out device.

I believe the word you are looking for is "vintage". However, it does come with a MIDI Out device. You can create an instrument track with the Reason Rack where the MIDI Output device is loaded. Once you have done that, you can set any number of other instrument tracks to use the Rack's midi output as an input. This will allow you to play multiple synths simultaneously.

While I was getting around to getting a MIDI loopback.... Plugin Boutique is giving away Reason Lite with any purchase. This comes with a VST3 rack plugin which has a MIDI output device. This works perfectly so far.

MXR Chorus is what I use most from that package.

Cakewalk typically won't let you have one midi track be the input for multiple synths. However, if you have an instrument which generates midi out, multiple synths can use this generated midi as an output. I have been able to do this with both Jamstix and EZ Keys. What I would like to find is a VST instrument which would basically just pass midi through. That way I could use that as a sort of MIDI patch point, and be able to play multiple instruments with one MIDI track. Does anyone have any recommendations for such a thing?

It's not bad but I think I spent more time going through hoops to get it than I will spend playing it.

VST3 version has issues. VST 2.4 is ok.

Regularly $129 https://www.scuffhamamps.com/product/s-gear

Ooh you'll wait a long time...

Funny you should mention that. Their library had a cool prepared piano sound that became the basis of a track that I should finish.

Saw it listed in S-Gear forum. I haven't had a chance to try it yet but their Cranked AC plugin was pretty good (although 32 bit only).

They have a pretty good support team for a product that's supposedly not developed any more.

https://www.wamplerpedals.com/wampler-digital-downloads/ Includes 3 VST3 effects: Dimension Envelope Filter UVibe

For anyone who is on the fence, the sale has been extended through June 1.

It turns out I must have bumped the knob on my interface. I normally have it set around 2:00, but saw that it was set to 3:00. Turning back to 2:00 fixed the problem. However, when I was getting the clipping the input meters on Revalver were reading somewhere in the middle and not showing how hot my input was.