Starship Krupa

60p without the code! Act now.

You can remove any company's .aax files if you don't use Pro Tools (and if you decide to check out Pro Tools at some point, just run the installers again). As far as removing different versions of Waves plug-ins, I tend to be the most hands-off with them because they hide so much of the process from the user, and they use those shells and all that. Are all your Waves plug-ins WUPped into the newest versions? 'cause mine aren't, one's on 10, a couple more on 11, and the rest on 12. I'm pretty sure that due to that situation, I need to keep all of those older version WavesHells around. I know they keep other folders around in their program directory for older plug-ins, but I just leave them alone.

Cakewalk has the ability to use external programs for audio export that do leverage GPU power (it would be nice if that would work for internal bounces as well). You just have to find one and do the configuration (maybe worth the time and effort, maybe not). Rest assured that your rocket sled video card is helping. Even with only 2-D images on screen, the faster the video memory the better.

I usually switch them off if they're just room emulations because I have a room reverb plug-in that I like much better than the ones that come with software instruments and because I like to use the technique of sending most instruments/subs to a single instance. It helps me to create that aural sculpture where the ear hears it like everything being in one space (I won't say"room," because most of the time I don't imagine an actual room, just a space where all the elements could be). In this case, integrated room reverb can pile up and sound confusing and soupy. Sometimes, though, character reverbs are part of the patch, this is often the case when using A|A|S sound packs in their Player. Those huge ambient sounds use long, dense reverb as an integral part of the preset. So: mostly the first way, but sometimes the other, depending on the sound. If the instrument is a sampled or emulated piano, organ, strings, wind, brass, drums, or other physical instrument, I turn it off. If it's a "sound not heard in the real world," then it depends. As always, the final answer is "whatever best helps you get the sound you're trying to get." Listen with your eyes closed. Get a mental picture.

I'm not 100% sure it's possible by just copying the files, but if it were, you'd need to go into C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\ and copy the whole Studio Instruments folder and its contents to a folder on the other system that Reaper scans for VST's. Never tried it but it should get all the bitmaps and samples over.

Welcome home to Cakesville. Your best hope is probably going to be to copy the list of FX that are missing from a project and replace them with ones with similar functionality. There are many good bread-and-butter FX that come with Cakewalk by BandLab, and the www is a cornucopia of good freeware ones. The one from the '20's may even sound better than the 2002 ones.

When releasing a custom theme for use by others, is it considered okay to "swipe" images from others' themes that are in active development? Is it necessary to acknowledge it in the Properties, or does it depend on the amount of swiping? For example, my current custom theme, which I would like to release into the wild soon, swipes @Colin Nicholls most excellent "Plug-In Tree Icons." This is an easily identifiable swipe due to the special icon for VST3's in it. I really like the image, it has manila-colored folders for another thing. The spot-it-in-an-instant VST3 icons make it easier to avoid using duplicate VST2's. I see the "based on" reference, used when someone starts from someone else's theme, but mine starts right at Tungsten, with a couple of image swipes from Colin and @Matthew White.

I'd like to suggest some additions: On p. 51, for Console view / Modules / Sends/Patch / Open Insert Send Menu, Console view / Modules / Sends/Patch / Scroll Sends Down, and Console view / Modules / Sends/Patch / Scroll Sends Up, there are no hot pink highlights in the image. I'd like to see that added. Also, these images seem to be used for the similar functions in the Console FX Bin, and if that's the case, a cross-reference to indicate it would be nice.

Reminder that during the sale, if you don't yet have a Meldaproduction account you can upgrade the FreeFXBundle to the pro versions for about $11. Sign up for the newsletter (credit 10 euros) and use a referral code (mine is MELDA1923165) (another 10% off). The only time the FreeFXBundle upgrade goes on sale is during these seasonal 50% off sales. 37 plug-ins, some of them I consider to be best in their class and worth multiple what the upgrade costs by themselves. (Hidden benefit: when collaborating, make use of the FreeFX; your collaborators don't need the upgraded versions to be able to load them)

That is a conundrum. I think if you're into multiple lid positions, go for "deeply sampled." When using a grand piano in a mix with half a dozen other instruments, lid position flexibility can really help a track stand out. But, as I always tell myself, get 'em both, they're free!

Apologies for pitching a license in a freeware thread, but I'm bumping this one because they're once again doing the 50% off everything sale. If you're a new use a referral code (ask someone else who doesn't have the Everything Bundle?), for the 10% off. They'll get a small vig. Hot rod your pile of 37 plug-ins and give a little to a manufacturer who was a pioneer of the free loss-leader marketing model years before it became SOP.

I went there and signed up for their rewards program and newsletter and received reward points good for about $7. So I decided I'd use it to grab an A|A|S soundpack in order to qualify for Solids. I had to go through a process of converting the points to money, at which point I got a pop-under at the bottom saying that before I could use it on a purchase, I would need to email their support and let them know what currency I was using. Apparently their currency converter is broken. That was Friday, so I'm still waiting for their support to clock in Monday morning GMT. So far, they don't stack up too well to PB in the convenience department, but it seems like they are trying to carry brands (more "upscale") that PB either doesn't carry or doesn't feature (I think PB is happy to get $20-$30 a week from people like me buying multiple heavily discounted Glitchmachines, W.A. Production and iZotope products). Connoisseur vs. addict market.

What I really need is more compressors. Something that is "designed for [x] but can also sound amazing on [y or z]." I want something that's only limited by my imagination, or, better still, the sky. Something that can make sounds both sit correctly and pop in a mix. For adding just the right satiny sheen to a vocal track and adding excitement to a thumping dance track. Lord Chris Algae uses it on every channel, but mostly bypassed. If I can't get that I want a plug-in that emulates a tape machine of some kind and has a UI so faithful to the vintage units of yesteryear that I'll need to buy a new video card to be able to display it. In software instruments, I need more 75 Gig grand pianos sampled from instruments in remote religious enclaves, or maybe something that'll give me a faithful, no, really this time, faithful Rhodes which also includes the most generic chorus and reverb algorithms they can source from a 30-year-old college textbook. It must also have a "Wurlitzer," where the word "Wurlitzer" means "the same sound as the Rhodes, but EQ'd to be a little more nasal-y."

Note: just now, after installing a single A|A|S sound pack, I went around and deleted a total of 15 instances of the A|A|S player plug-in in various locations and formats that are unused on my system. Total 2.7M. This is pretty ridiculous.

I just did a bit more digging and it looks like everyone who's getting this message on trying to set up a wi-fi adapter has some sort of VPN set up. The fix seems to be disabling the VPN. https://www.partitionwizard.com/clone-disk/windows-is-still-setting-up-the-class-configuration-for-this-device.html

It may need an explicit driver download. Couldn't hurt: https://www.asus.com/us/Networking/USB-AC53-Nano/HelpDesk_Download/ Whoops, you did already download the drivers. Sorry. What does the funny icon look like?

BA has a tendency to balk and tell you you need to update it before you can proceed, then when you let it update, the update fails and you must visit bandlab.com to download the latest one and install it. Tedious. At least it does have a progress monitor (I think). Most of them don't.

Hmm, yeah, I kinda love Pluginboutique as it is, so I hope they stay hands-off.

Well, I did say flattER response. I, too, believe that anything that goes between the air and the eardrum is going to affect the frequency response. I should have put quotes around "high fidelity." However, as I said, I've personally experienced increasingly better response from these things over the years. It's not a joke, it's (for me at least) empirical. Playing and listening with these vs. the foam stoppers is better (for me). I don't play or attend shows to have it sound like it's coming from the next room. Maybe they'll never sound like pulling the fader down, but in matters of technology, I don't say "never." It used to be considered futile to attempt to emulate audio hardware with computer code, but not so much any more. Actually, those look kinda like the Earos I'm going to be trying. You are my hero! ? The hitch in even this strategy (seldom been successful for me) is that it's hard to turn drums down. Yes, the drummer can hit more softly, play with rods, but it does affect the feel and energy. And these days, I'm most often the drummer.

I'm getting some weirdness where the checkout page says that I need to confirm that my stated billing country and actual location match. I click on my IP address and it shows a Google map of my town, but also pops a message saying that the map has an issue. I'll try again, but do I really need a Voxengo SPAN-alike when I already have Voxengo SPAN?

I'm 100% with you on that. One wonders how some people obtain plug-ins if they are so adverse to connecting to the internet. Having said that, while grumbling about the need to download and/or use a download manager to get the software is olde tyme, complaints about the bugginess and unfriendliness of a given download manager are entirely fair game. The Bandlab Assistant, which is not developed by the same team as Cakewalk, has not been the smoothest ride. Having said that, the slowness or unreliability of downloads via a manager may in some/most cases not have anything to do with the download manager itself, but rather the servers on the other end. There's no guarantee that a "direct" download would be any faster or more reliable.

Are you suggesting that a resolution for the OP's issue may be found in that page?

Starting with my first set of audiologist-fitted Etymotics 30 years ago, I've been searching for the best flatter-response earplugs. The Etymotics were an improvement over those squishy foam logs you'd wear to a shooting range, but not by that much for me. But since I'd like to keep my hearing as long as possible, I wore them at gigs and shows. I don't know if I'm more sensitive to response curves than most (I have my thoughts about that), but nothing I've tried has actually lived up to the advertising hype, they never sound like just turning down the volume, always have a big rolloff above 2K or so. About 6 years ago, when I took up drums, I went looking again and found Earasers, which I got at Guitar Center for $35. After swapping them for the small instead of medium size, they were an improvement. I wore them at a Winter NAMM Show and playing drums, and they were good at stopping loud sounds, but still not perfect as far as roll-off. An unfortunate lapse of having my act together resulted in their taking a trip through the washer and dryer, and they've never been quite the same. This year Santa is supposed to be bringing me a set of Earos Ones, and we'll see how they compare. My hope is that every few years sees an improvement in technology and these things get great reviews and look like they have a good convenience factor. Next birthday I will be 60, and I suppose I am glad to have whatever hearing I have left after all the years playing in rock bands and now drums. Any wisdom/experience from the Coffee House? Brands and types that sound true? I know that active in-ear monitors have been a thing every since Sinead O-Connor's famous ear-slapping-and-grimacing pantomime on the Grammys 30-some years ago, but I have no need for such fancy things (I don't think I do, anyway).

You didn't mention whether you were looking for something you can use in the DAW or on your phone or what, but as luck would have it, I have both covered. Meldaproduction's MTuner is a VST that does this, even polyphonically and with MIDI out. It's also part of their MFreeFX Bundle, which is free to use with the restriction that you can't use their preset system to save your tunings, although you can just use the DAW's. If you spring for the Free-to-Pro bundle upgrade, it unlocks that feature. The bundle comes with 36 other very useful plug-ins, some of them I consider best-in-class at any price. Wait for one of their 50% off everything sales, and If you're a first time buyer you can sign up for their newsletter and get 10 euro off, and use someone's referral code (mine is MELDA1923165) to get another 20% off and wind up with the license for about $12. In smartphonelandia, Fender Tune is my favorite, has many alternate tunings built in, and I just got a popup telling me that all I had to do was sign in to my Fender.com account and they would unlock the Pro features, which include, again, storing your own tunings.

Have you been contributing to the delinquency of Am?