Carl Ewing

Sorry to be rude - but can these posts be moved to another forum section? Forum topics should be about "deals" (and related audio / music software updates), and I keep seeing notifications about posts that are totally off topic. Why are these even being posted here?

Lol. Funny to hear that without sarcasm. This is EPIC GAMES they are talking about. Haha. Too bad about Bandcamp. Instead of focusing on creative marketing and promoting the artists on their platform, and improving the UI / UX of their platform (still insisting on only Paypal revenue payments....in 2022!), they will just partner with more corporations to get some of that sweet easy cash. Bandcamp continues on its path to irrelevancy along with Soundcloud.

Looks they added the entire Cableguys ShaperBox as default functionality. And midi integration and new logical editor looks very interesting. Can't wait to try this in a year when they fix all the bugs.

Didn't the US facilitate a coup in the Ukraine in 2014 that led to the events of today, partnering with literal neo Nazis in the Maidan coup? lol. And have since then risked sparking a horrific civil war by doing everything possible to inflame tensions with half the population + it's military superpower neighbor? So much for sovereignty. Lol. Always reminded why I left the West. The propaganda is nauseating. But hey, while Americans are suddenly compassionate about war victims, maybe they can stop financing the genocide in Yemen, and gtfo of Syria and stop bombing Somalia. But those people ain't white, so nobody cares I guess.

Can't think of any music software on my computer that gives me warnings "you don't own modules necessary to load this preset" when scrolling through presets, or has features locked off in the UI because I haven't purchased that feature. A plugin / instrument that does this won't be on my computer longer than a day. If I can't use something, I don't want to see it on the screen while I'm working...ever. Luckily, IK is one of the few devs that insist on this annoying AF marketing nonsense.

It's a business practice that helps clear out the clutter. Just uninstalled Mododrum (got in on group buy) . IK clearly aiming at casuals when you open an instrument and you're greeted with locked features that require additional purchase. Last thing I want to see when I own a product and working on deadline is to open / click on something and see "you don't own this feature", or see download timelocks on shit I need to install. Uninstalled Amplitube for this reason as well. Always feel bad for the engineers - who likely spend 1000s of hours making these products, only for some execs to turn it into a arcade game. Speaking of games, IK should make one. They got the business practices down pat.

Nothing exciting about installing a new Cubase version and becoming an unsuspecting beta tester. I wouldn't touch a new Cubase release with a 10-foot poll. Especially an update that complete revises their software protection. Will wait a year.

Awesome. Thanks for the info. Hopefully in the future they will allow users to determine min / max duration. Double checked my folders and it's mostly the longer "demo" or "preview" files that were excluded, which tend to be long stereo mixes showcasing the sample packs. And good to be reminded to delete those and save hard drive space!

It seems to be okay with my library. It's completed about 400GB of 1TB of samples, with 250,000 samples scanned so far. However, I have all my samples on the root drive, organized by genre across 30 folders. Cosmos won't allow adding the root drive letter, so I've added all 30 genre folders manually. And it's scanning each folder one by one (including subfolders), so perhaps that's why I'm having better luck. It has now taken 2 days of scanning to complete that 400GB. XO did my entire drive in about 2 hours. ;( It is definitely missing samples too. First folder that completed showed 500 less .wav files than are actually in that folder. Double checked with an explorer level .wav search, and it definitely skipped a whole bunch. If anyone discovers what it doesn't like (maybe 24-bit?) please post here.

Yep. I moved mine to external and next time I opened Cosmos it gave me a "relocate factory samples" prompt on the left side...or something to that effect. Was very easy. One annoying thing so far - if you add a bunch of user folders manually, it won't put them in alphabetical order. It will order them based on the order you added them. Hopefully that's remedied. Also, I don't feel the AI is as good at detecting instrument types as XO. Same with grouping similar sounds. There's a lot of stuff grouped together, like kicks or snares, where the nearest neighbor to the sound you choose isn't remotely similar. Could be an 808 sub kick next to a rock kick. It seems to just randomly put all the kicks in one place, but doesn't do a great job of organizing them. Perhaps it's organizing them by envelope and not tone, at least when grouping by 'instrument'. I'd be curious what the secondary grouping criteria is after 'instrument'. However - what is excellent it the grouping by "space". This is extremely handy, as it can be good way to separate out, for example, tight percussive sounds from big reverbed out percussion and hits. And then those are further separated by color (dark vs. light). Very, very handy.

6 years of resistance is pretty insane in computer terms. At a certain point people are just asking for trouble, and I'd prefer audio software developers not cater to people who clearly aren't taking the security or stability of their computer's seriously. Total waste of resources to cater to these 8 people.

I'm watching the scan update this .sqlite file in real time - increasing in size as the scan progresses: C:\Users\[user]\AppData\Local\Waves Audio\Waves Plugin Server\cosmos.sqlite And you'll see this file... C:\Users\[user]\AppData\Local\Waves Audio\Waves Plugin Server\cosmos.sqlite-journal ...appear and disappear as it's writing the data. I think backing up the cosmos-sqlite file is probably important. Although I'm not sure if it's connected / syncing with a cloud file as well. And judging by how much is currently scanned and how big my sample drive is, I'm guessing the sqlite file will be a decent size after scanning a TB of samples / loops. Currently 50mb and not even 5% done. It scans sloooooow. XO was 100x faster than this.

I think using the Waves sampler combined with Cosmos would obviously make this work much better. But with Cosmos on its own it's taking the best parts of XO but making it an external app that isn't connected to Cubase at all...which trying it yesterday just became a pita. Going to pick up this $10 sampler and see if it streamlines the process. Having said all that - I think Native Instruments could monopolize this XO / Cosmos market by adding similar sample management to Battery or Maschine.

Ya - nothing more useful than a sample manager that you can't use inside your DAW where you use your samples. This thing is basically useless without the sampler. And having used it for a couple hours, it absolutely is not better than MediaBay. Except maybe the XO style sample explorer, which is something I thought I'd use XO a lot for, but haven't touched it much since I installed it. Mainly because it's only benefit is sample organizing, and why would I want to load a VST to look for samples when I have Mediabay - that is better integrated into Cubase, and my sample libraries are already organized at the folder level? Although I would like a "sounds alike" feature in MediaBay.

Kombinat DVA is one of my favorite digital distortions. That think is nasty. Actually prefer it over Kombinat Tri which was is its successor. And Panstation 1 is a great freebie.

I once read / heard an interview where they said they wouldn't enable pitch bend on their instruments - like their Labs Peel Guitar - because it made the samples sound bad. I really dislike, but it is endlessly hilarious how much they love themselves at the expense of functional products, that are often vastly inferior to their competitors. Unfortunately, learned that lesson the hard way...with Albion II and III coincidently.

Here's a product we don't think is worth selling or supporting anymore. Give us $225 for it!

Also Reverse for $10. https://www.adsrsounds.com/product/software/initial-audio-reverse/ Always handy to have around.

Yes to both for me. Price is $69 for me as well. I'm guessing that sale comes around pretty often, so no problem waiting.

$10?? Nothing matters anymore.

Beats Opus Strings which is 500GB.

Hmmm. Hmmmmmmmm.

Ya agreed. The only exception for this is gaming, since most game development is on PC. But illustrators / graphics designers are usually on Mac, just the development is PC side. I will likely move to MBP this year, as I'm getting tired of problems on laptop PC (my 8th laptop) while my colleagues breeze along without having to tweak a single thing on 6 year old models. Desktop will always be Windows though. Will never go to the dark side. Although I am somewhat curious how those new MBP's hold up against my desktop system. If it can handle as much as people say - and some of those specs are insane - I may try experimenting with it as main studio system. I just don't believe it's that powerful until I see it myself.

Would need actual data on that. In my experience, most (professional) creative types are still mostly on Mac. It's rare for me to work with a graphic designer or tv editor or music producer that is on PC these days. That's across a dozen cities, many many studios and people constantly coming in and out of offices on various projects. What I see the most are Mac Book Pros as the main machine. I see people working on desktops less and less. This is going to become more so with the M1 Max MPBs. FYI - I'm a Windows user, and am most definitely in the minority. I could see Windows being more popular with hobbyists / amateurs. There's probably 100 million hobby creatives using Windows machines. But for people with creative careers, I mostly see Mac.

If you run an Intel chip - check the BIOS too. There's sometimes a bunch of oddly named stuff that messed with the CPU speed / timing. At least on OEM machines, Intel has stuff like Speed-step and C-states that will cause all kinds of latency problems when it's cycling through power states. Probably not as much an issue on custom built machines, but there are still a lot of BIOS options that mess with power states. And basically, anytime the computer is shuffling through these (on network card / wifi, CPU, GPU, memory, drives) it will likely trip up real time performance. Apple are incredibly good at dealing with this. Their machines run like a calm river. Windows is more like a bouncy castle. And ya - when I first got this laptop I could barely run 5 tracks without it throwing a fit. Was about to return it when I stumbled on the power tweaks.