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https://dawbench.libsyn.com/episode-34-the-art-of-analog-modeling-ii-cherry-audio-reviving-analog-legends

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Hosted by Vin Curigliano of AAVIM Technology, I am joined by guest co-host Pete Brown of Microsoft, and special guests Dan Goldstein (CTO) and Mitchell Sigman (Lead Designer) @ Cherry Audio.

We discuss Dan and Mitchell's history with music and technology, their shared passion for early synths and computers, and how their paths merged at Cherry Audio. We discuss Dan's early coding career at Sonic Foundry, his initial explorations with analog physical modeling, and how that set the foundations for later developments explored at Cherry Audio. We cover Mitchell's adventures in live performance and touring with some major artists and discuss his time in tech journalism and authoring.

We dive into and explore the catalogue of classic vintage instruments that have been modeled, how the original instruments have been sourced, the impressive array of instruments the guys have in their respective collections, and share some stories of our mutual and collective passion for classic and iconic instruments.

We also cover the ongoing drive and philosophy for the company and the products, community feedback and interaction, and much, much more

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1 minute ago, pwallie said:

Mary Hopkin - Those Were The Days

Holey Moley!   In all these decades I never knew what she looked like, but back in the day I loved this song! Great voice on a great song!! Just found her website.

3 minutes ago, Promidi said:

After logging on to Arturia, I was offered it for $US59.00.  Probably because I have FX Collection 4

At this time I do not intent purchasing - I have enough tape emulation vsts.

With only three Arturia FX, I also got $59.  I thought others with a full FX Collection would have been down to $29.   

23 minutes ago, Sock Monkey said:

Of note is I don’t have the product centre as I really don’t see what it is used for??   

It will often let us know when there are updates and will sometimes let us install the new versions from the CPC depending on the circumstances. To me having one place to look for new versions and to trigger installations is better than having to do that for several products individually.  

5 hours ago, sjoens said:

Background scan times vary even with same project.  But sometimes the Toast message will hang with "Scanning..." and never change.

Don't know if it's a scan issue or Toast issue.

Do the entries in the most recent scan in Vstscan.log give any clues as to what plugin might be causing the hang? 

Let's open this up a crack: Do some Types of Food for Thought help or hinder Life Goals, or is it more dependent on the ingredients used, whether or not you are a slave to a recipe or a DIYer based on what others have done with similar ingredients, "proper" combinations and presentations, and preferences, sensitivities, and allergies?

For me it's not how big a person's refrigerator, stove/oven, pots and pans, cooking tools, etc. are, it's how they use the ingredients, methods, etc. For me theory unlocks potential, options, choices; theory is not a set of rules to be adhered to as if created by a devine super power.

Not knocking people who prefer to follow; just saying it's a matter of personal preferences. Sometimes following a recipe can be very quick and rewarding--esp. if you have all the ingredients on hand.

I find it very handy.  I can read the lists, read the threads I am interested in, and then just mark everything read so the next time, I just get new stuff in my list.  Works well if there are some people on my ignore list posting a lot of stuff I don't want to read to see who they are picking fights with.

I dealt with this a few years ago when I added audio to midi projects. I found Tempo seemed to control midi / soft synths but audio used its own tempo.  Someone pointed out I needed to use audio clips that did sync to Tempo.  Not sure if that's the problem you are describing. Is the original audio file a Groove Clip?  If so, it sounds like you have a different issue than I faced.

Since the correct answer never works on the first or second time (it's an AI trick to get us to move the mouse and click inside a frame as some sadistic but probably money making exercise in futility)I have a personal method for dealing with those fraudulent captchas:  I randomly click all around and sooner or later click on the "Verify" button.  Most of the times I get another unsolvable puzzle.  Every so often it seems like the AI catches on to my random moving and clicking and either just lets me escape further punishment or it gives me a puzzle that only requires one or two clicks in blatantly obvious places.  I give in and so does the AI.  It's sort of like a stalemate.

2 hours ago, Kurre said:

I'm now slowing down my click time when i run into a captcha because it proved to be the speed in which i clicked items and buttons that was the problem.

Maybe it's not speed or accuracy but something random.

Update:  I wrote the above but decided not to post it.  A while later, I got a super simple puzzle--a fire hydrant that occupied 4 and only 4 squares with no part of the hydrant in any adjacent cells and nothing out of focus that might remotely have been a hydrant.  I did my random clicking and unclicking but then left just the 4 cells clicked before choosing Verify.  The AI must have been annoyed at me (maybe it had read my unposted reply?) because it gave me a different puzzle to try just to annoy me.  Disgusted, I clicked Skip which I assumed meant it would give me another puzzle.  But instead the AI tossed in the towel and let me through!!!!!

I think it's good to pick the brains of others who use the nanoKontrol  to identify possible options and how to implement them. I benefited from AZ's software (AZ Controller) to help me out with some tasks with my nanoKontrol. For other tasks, I use the nanoKontrol differently.  So I agree that you need to decide what works best for you and under what circumstances.

You might have a newer edition of the nanoKontrol than the one I have. If so, my comments might not apply. With that in mind here goes:

11 hours ago, Pablo Jones said:

. . .the one thing that always pops up is that I see people using the Korg software to enter CC's into the NanoKontrol and then I also see them going into DAW software to "Learn" controls.

What is the difference between the 2 operations and when will you use the one or the other?

When I used to use it more frequently, I generally used the KORG software (1) to set up / edit assignments for the buttons, knobs and sliders, (2) to backup the settings on my PC, and (3) to load different sets of settings for different purposes.  For controlling parameters in soft synths I would generally map the nanoKontrol's CCs I had previously setup to the parameters in the plug-ins. In essence, the nanoKontrol just adds more sliders, knobs, and buttons to what I have done for years with keyboard controllers.

For some purposes I might have a scene setup to use some CCs that duplicate the control of parameters on both the nanoKontrol and on my USB keyboard while the nanoKontrol will will also control different parameters. Personal preference:  I generally use CCs I have used for decades; next I will use CCs assigned by manufacturers (software synth defaults) if they don't conflict with ones I have used for years; next I will get out either paper and pencil (or a spreadsheet) to add mappings in new / untested ways as needed. 

Different software synths and FX have different ways of setting up CC / parameter mapping.  For some I really like how the system is setup in the software. When I create sounds in software synths I  generally use a standalone version. Again, personal preference.  So I map any new CCs I need using the synth's midi learn / remote control system.  So, I really don't want a DAW to learn the CCs for its own purposes.

But depending on your needs / preferences, you (or anyone else) might have equally valid reasons for mapping CCs primarily or exclusively in a DAW.

I hope this adds some insights in addition to AZ's explanation of possible ways to use CCs. 

Are you interested in organ sounds or do you need the full slate of either GM/GS sounds? If your goal is simply to be able to hear organ sounds at home, I would think there might be other plug-ins which have organ sounds that might meet your needs. 

4 hours ago, Mr. Torture said:

Yeah, I searched and all content in that folder is gone.

I assume by this you mean you used a utility to search your system for all *.cwp files?

2 minutes ago, Sock Monkey said:

I just edited my post to ask that. Thanks But I just opened it yesterday and there was no notification?? 

Glad you found it worked for you. I would agree: changes / improvements to features such as the Tempo Track really ought to be listed in the Release Notes if they aren't!

9 hours ago, msmcleod said:

Next has a tempo track, and internally has a tempo map.

Adding a MIDI file to a blank project will import the tempo map from the MIDI file.

6 minutes ago, Sock Monkey said:

Since when? 
I have dragged plenty of midi files into Next. I’ll try again later but seems I always did this before I started a project. 

@Sock Monkey Perhaps you need to update Next to the current version?

Interesting--I ran MPluginManager yesterday just to see if I was up-to-date, but I looked quickly.  Nothing jumped out to say, "Here's a new instrument you can download and install." For all I know maybe it was there yesterday.  I know I didn't scroll down past Dream Machines.  In fact, I didn't even notice that the scroll bar location was not at the bottom.  In either case, I found it today now that I knew to look for it. Thanks for the heads up!

Also, "Bah bah black sheep . . . "

10 hours ago, craigb said:

Can't decide between Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and the Alphabet Song... 

50 minutes ago, happy816 said:

我的英语不好，只能通过翻译软件来表达自己。意思可能不是那么准确。我希望贵公司能理解。谢谢！

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My English is not good, I can only express myself through translation software. The meaning may not be so accurate. I hope your company can understand. Thank you!

4 hours ago, Byron Dickens said:

You worked for two hours without saving?

Bet you won't do that again.

I learned this lesson once when I had worked on a conference paper in a word processing program called SpeedScript.  I hadn't saved in several hours.  As I said, I learned this lesson once. No need to relearn it; once was enough!  In fact, even though that was around 4 decades ago, just thinking about it, in my mind's eye I can see the room I was working in, where I was sitting, typing, the paper I was working on, how I had index cards and printouts of the ideas I wanted to pull together into the paper, etc.  I don't remember my exact stream of words, but I remember the feeling of having lost several hours of ongoing writing and editing and the futility of trying to reconstruct the version I had just before it crashed.

JMO: It's a very valuable lesson to learn early.  

BTW, nowadays I have an automatic reminder in my brain thanks to that incident. "You haven't saved in a while; better save it right now!!!"

I didn't know it at the time, but I have come to think of the incident as a blessing.

In addition to the older Cakewalk by Bandlab Reference Guide, see also the newer online help system.

There's an article on Using the Plug-in Manager on the Cakewalk Sonar page. 

PS: These are part of the How Can We Help? support help system.

Oh--if you prefer the online legacy documentation, there's an index there.

7 hours ago, Ashay Arekar said:

Is it included in the Total Studio Max or Tonex Max ?

This is a good question. From what I have seen as a consumer, once IK come out with products, the contents of those specific versions are fixed--new products that come out after are not added.  I have seen in recent years, some V. 2 products that have been expanded to include new products.

I don't use Tonex, so I defer to those who do to clarify if the Tonex line follows the pattern I've seen.

I tend to use the Versions tab and the compare button to tell me what a product includes or not.  Also, since I am more interested in synths, I made a spreadsheet (updated often) for IK's synths and libraries.  So, when they came out with Sampletank 4 Max V.2 I added those in a column so I could track what I had based on earlier Total Studio bundles and other IK synth purchases.

"Consumers of the World, Unite!" 

3 hours ago, Samuel Telson said:

. . . my question is the instrument definition file only containing factory sounds and drumkits from yamaha. But i want to add my user expansion sounds to instrument definition file. So i can choose the expansion bank and patch from each individual midi track. 

Not sure if you are talking about are set, optional user expansions. If so, see if someone has created instrument definition files for them.  If not or if you are talking about user presets you have created, you can edit the the instrument definition in a simple editor like Notepad. (I know there's a built-in tool, but I found editing hundreds of presets easier to enter by editing the file.)  Also, maybe someone has written a patch librarian that creates instrument files from the presets currently in the gear.

I am not sure about Yamahas, I mostly created my own for E-Mus (Proteus/Command Stations and Ultra Samplers). 

15 minutes ago, Sal Sorice said:

I agree - the new "scrolling" FX Bin should be an option - not the default. Was this scrolling thing a popular Feature Request?? I'd like to hear from the Bakers what the rationale was behind this,

To clarify my point, I wasn't saying scrolling is a bad idea. I don't think personal choices like this need to be an either/or thing. For example, in one Workspace I might want the largest FX Bin size possible; for another Workspace I might want small FX Bins. For the latter, scrolling would be not only helpful, but essential.