Starship Krupa

The strategy is to buy whatever individual pieces come up in deep discount (or freebie) sales. I posted my referral code around and got muchos creditos (especially at VI-Control, those cats are not afraid to spend money). Unfortunately, the places I posted told me to stop, but not before I had leveled up to MComplete. I didn't even post my code with the main intent of grubbing credits, I wanted to help other people get the cool discounts. I would have done the same thing even if there were no referral credits in it for me. Apparently that approach results in good will.

Craig Anderton addressed this question a week ago: https://blog.presonus.com/2023/12/15/why-i-dont-use-compressors-anymore/ I don't quite agree with everything he says, but he does at least mention that compression on buses, including the master bus, can really help "glue" a mix together. Try messing with something like bx_masterdesk Classic that you can get for free at PluginAlliance. Put it on your master bus and try a few presets.

Like looking for reasons not to take your horse and buggy out on a modern freeway: how many do you need?

With REAPER you don't get a chance to meet them because they'll be too busy setting it up and customizing it to leave the house. I can only speak for S1 Artist, but as with any of the DAW's I have installed over the years (Mixcraft, Ableton Live, Waveform, REAPER, Music Maker), I've only ever had one issue with a DAW installation interfering with another. And it doesn't apply to S1. Products by Steinberg (and sometimes MAGIX) just love to install their own rebranded ASIO4ALL WASAPI-to-ASIO wrapper, which will then show up as an available driver in the other programs. Fortunately, it's easily removed, and as I said, it's only Steinberg and MAGIX who I have seen doing it. ASIO4ALL is pretty useless if your program supports WASAPI Exclusive. It seems to cause trouble for some Cakewalk users who have tried using it, although it never bothered my system when I used it in programs that don't support WASAPI (c'mon Ableton, get with the program, well, driver as the case may be), or even when I tried it with Cakewalk.

I don't believe you've ever seen me do it. Unless you consider my reaction to their announcement of adding a cell-based workflow a couple of years ago, "Avid upholds their reputation for innovation." Don't worry, I'll get mine if the day ever comes that Sonar starts shipping with a bundled sampler (I mean again, did they stop because they thought that using samples to make music didn't have a future?). Avid kinda lead with their chin what with the way they treat their userbase, the heavy pressure to subscribe and so forth. It's hard to find a PT lover who also likes the company that sells it. I've found that with a DAW, it's good to be able to see eye-to-eye for the most part with the people in charge of making it. Otherwise, too frustrating. As for the software itself, my contact with it has been slight. It looks like they've done some good work on prettying up the UI recently. The new dark theme looks great, the color scheme reminds me of one of my own Cakewalk themes (Racing Green).

This came from left field for me. Never heard anything by Lil' Yachty before. Seems like he started hanging out with Tame Impala and got into psychedelic rock (the first track on his most recent album sounds like Dark Side of the Moon-era Pink Floyd, I kid you not). This song played over the credits of a movie I saw on Netflix and tickled my ears with its cool production and Tame Impala-esque drumming: My only issue with the song is that it's 2:30. It really needs the current ending to be a break and then come back into a chorus before it ends. It's too good ear candy not to be at least 4:00.

The only advantage would be if you have a lot of tracks and they really do the "Distribute your music to major music platforms" thing without somehow revoking it. I mean, once your stuff is in iTunes and Spotify and whatnot, is it possible for them to pull it after 3 days?

I'm not looking for reasons to do so, so feel free to keep them to yourself, but I'd find it very difficult to even find any reason to criticize Mike if someone asked me. He's done a TON to help the CbB user community, and if he has truly quit, his work stands and will be of great help to Sonar users in the future. If touting or using a DAW other than my main one (I also have a license for S1 Artist and think it's stiff competition for Sonar) bothered me, I'd be bothered by a LOT of people (including myself). ? I don't think there's a "bad" DAW on the market. They're all great. Some of them lend themselves better to certain genres of music or styles of music production, but they all seem to do what they do very well, and even afford at least the ability to do things outside their specialty.

Not a great idea there. If you snag Cakewalk by BandLab while it's still free, you'll have everything in SONAR Platinum plus 5+ years of bug fixes and new features. As a free upgrade.

I think I get what you're trying to go for. You're not eschewing a whole frequency range, you're staying away from the instruments that traditionally put energy up there. Big fan of Peter's back in the day. Yes, if you eschew cymbals in a rock song, it may sound like something is "missing." Our ears are tuned to like high frequency transient sounds, as the ability to hear such helped humans survive in the wild. Listening for the footsteps of predators and the like. That's what our hearing evolved (or was designed, if you like) to pay attention to. Deep Ambient, which is designed to fade into the background, eschews spiky transients for this reason. One answer to this is to focus on emphasizing transients from the instruments you are using. They give the ear something to grab on to, and Security has lots of great processing of transients. Do a Google search for "transient shaping" and give it a shot. I have dedicated plug-ins for it, and I use it when I'm cleaning up phone-recorded jams, one of my favorite tasks. It makes instruments pop out of the otherwise muddy non-mix. It can also push otherwise spiky sounds more into the background. Check out EDM, which often uses no cymbals and manages to be exciting nonetheless. They use synth sounds and glitch processing to put information into the attention zone. David Tipper, Telefon Tel Aviv....

This. If you go over to the Instruments and Effects forum, there is a topic on Favorite Freeware Instruments, where I bet you can find free 64-bit substitutes for whatever you're using. If not, you can post there what you're using now and see if we can find you good substitutes. REAPER is known for being a DAW that plays very well with challenging plug-ins, but they are the Achilles heel of any host.

A less than .5% failure rate in power supplies, then? I hoped it was the power supply. They are one of the most stressed components in a PC.

Drumsynth has a scalable UI, for one. I have it, as well as Boom and DrumSynth 500 and I like them (got them for $10 a few years ago). I like Boom for its ease of getting meat-and-potatoes old school drum machine sounds, but its UI is suffering from tininess. DS500 has a larger UI, so not as much of an issue. Still, not scalable, which may become an issue in the future unless someone figures out how to scale legacy plug-ins. I got the WAP freebie (qualified via the xPand!2 Multivation presets bundle, which is surprising me with how good it is, it's got monster Synthwave sounds) and haven't been able to spend enough time with it to say for sure whether it can replace Boom. It seems to have the DrumSynth 500 engine with a new UI and more capable mixer. As such, the note mapping is not strictly GM, which always p's me o, because why, it just makes it harder to try different drum synths with the same MIDI track. Given that I use Cakewalk, with its....idiosyncratic drum map situation, this makes it something of a pain to use as a quick go-to. So, bottom line, it's a replacement for DS500, not Boom. If you need a cool old school drum box, Boom sounds excellent (typical of AIR in that regard) and comes with a ton of useful internal patterns that may be keyswitched. With my aging eyeballs, it's kinda small. Looks fine on my 40" monitor, but can't imagine it at 4K. All of them may be downloaded and trialed, so I suggest doing that before you buy.

And nothing I said was intended to be critical of Mike. Very much the opposite, I think that he and his videos are great and I sympathize with his situation, both healthwise and professionally. I hope he gives Sonar a chance once it's on the market because he brings so much. His Cakewalk vs. S1 videos are of service to the Cakewalk community because they emphasize what's at stake and how BandLab can't count on every CbB user to happily shell out for Sonar. The program will no longer be playing in the "best free DAW" leagues. It's trying to make a comeback in the "best DAW for the money" leagues. The competition have not been resting during Cakewalk's free period. Studio One Artist is now a $99 license (free if you buy a PreSonus interface) and supports VST plug-ins.

Matrix View was never removed. It's still there in Cakewalk by BandLab. Well, at least anyone who was/is using SONAR Platinum and installs Cakewalk by BandLab is still able to use all of those plug-ins. Some of the old SONAR Platinum plug-ins are shown in the teaser screenshots of Sonar, so it looks like you may get your wish there. ? One of the earliest features/fixes in Cakewalk by BandLab was "sandboxing" for plug-in scans, did that not solve the problem for you? You are using Cakewalk by BandLab, I hope. It sounds from your post that you might not be. The new Sonar will have all of the dozens of features and thousands of bug fixes that Cakewalk by BandLab has gotten in the past 6 years, minus Theme Editor (although some kind of return to theme editing has been hinted at). As far as an integrated sampler, such a thing is one of, if not the most-requested features that has yet to be delivered. You'll find a topic about that in the Feedback Loop section, which is the best place to post what you would like to see in newer versions of the product.

In addition to the chorus/ADT effect, it sounds like he's also employing some slap echo. Slap echo (or slapback) is a delay of 40-100mS, sometimes slightly panned opposite the original signal. Listen to "Instant Karma" for a more extreme example of slapback. Back when it was first used, it was created by using the delay caused by the distance between a tape recorder's recording and playback heads. In record mode, if you took the signal live from the play head, it would be delayed by about 70mS (depending on the design of the deck and tape speed). If you then fed that back into the sound that was being recorded, it would produce an echo. The first dedicated echo effect units were specially-built tape machines with heads that could be moved to change the delay time, and included built-in mixing circuits to provide feedback. Elvis Presley's early recordings famously employed it. Stan Freberg made a parody of "Heartbreak Hotel" that revolved specifically around (over)use of the effect:

Which suggests to me that the term "forum jerk" could be applied to the path of a discussion that goes off-topic. Heavy meta.

The fact that disabling all FX cures the symptom is a clue. I'll go with what others have said about trying enabling and disabling individual plug-ins to see if you can find one that is triggering the behavior. And it might not be just one, I've had it happen where it was two specific plug-ins in a specific order that caused trouble.

Ain't meanin' to be a jerk Just wanna know if it worked Got them single post blues again... .... Oh, mama, did their problem really end? Are they stuck inside of Cakewalk with the one post blues again?

Check your Ripple Edit.

I'm still investigating that. Just installing it in Ultra Analog's own user banks folder didn't result in it showing up in Player, but I haven't tried finessing it yet. Not holding out a lot of hope; A|A|S are pretty good at locking their stuff down to only do what they want it to do.

The A|A|S Ultra Analog pack is excellent. Really good retro arps and basses. It also eschews the usual A|A|S tendency to load up their presets with FX.

Perhaps so, but it may have exacerbated it.?

I think that the Sonar announcement maybe hit Mike kinda hard. He's built a career (or at least a revenue stream) out of his CbB tutorials based on it being a great FREE DAW. He's also been doing tutorials for Studio One, but if you look at the number of views he gets on his Studio One videos vs. the ones for CbB there's no contest. He invested a lot of work in building up his set of tutorials. Now he seems to think that the best way he can serve his audience is by helping them transition to a different DAW.

Cherry Audio have a holiday gift for all, Synthesizer Expander Module. ...."a free emulation of the classic Oberheim® self‑contained synthesizer module of the same name." It's a monophonic monster, should be great for classic leads and basses. It's a faithful recreation, so only one built-in effect, phaser. So it will require external FX to sound like modern synths.