Royal Yaksman

My strategy is to panic, freeze up, stay frozen until BF is over and not part with a single cent... Uuuhhh... Neeerrghhhhh... Stupid still working limbs reaching for wallet, I said FREEEEEEEEEZE!

I bought a synth the other day and had not even checked it out yet. This fact suddenly hits me. So I load up the synth in Cubase and whilst I am at I figure I should check out my newly upgraded Octavox. I add Octavox to the audio insert of the synth and then leave the room to make a coffee. Upon returning, I am half chatting to a friend on messenger, half reading emails and had almost completely forgotten what I was originally doing. I see the Cubase icon and remember, "Oh that's right. I was gonna test out that synth!" So I pull up Cubase and push a few keys in the PRV editor (this makes the chord options take up most of the display in the inspector, so I can no longer see the inserts tab.) The synth makes a bit of a strange noise, but I figure it is just the default tone. I open the synth's browser and select the first pad preset, figuring I will push a few of the chord pads in Cubase to really hear how this thing sounds. Whilst it was an interesting tone that met my ears, it was a little weird. Not my cup of tea. So onto the next preset. Push a chord pad. Hmmm, this one is weird too. Next preset. It is kind of funky but still almost sounds out of tune. Next preset. Errff what the hell is wrong with this thing?!! Did I accidentally hit the master pitch?... Nope it's at 0. So there I am scratching my head for like 20 minutes, thinking this new synth is a POS. I was even about to google whether that synth has any known tuning problems in DAWs. But instead it turned out I am just a moron and Octavox can definitely make some weird sounds...?

Same here. It took about three days for Izotope to respond. And as for Groove 3, I too waited for that $79 renewal offer and it never came. All they offered was the standard sale pricing of $99.

MPS 3 was released on the 3rd of October, so the 7th of August should be within the 2 months grace period.

You might not believe this, to be honest even I can't fully wrap my head around the fact that I actually found something useful on Gearslutz. But yeah, a guy on there was saying the grace period is 2 months. So I took a shot and contacted Izotope support. I received the following message in response to asking if the grace period was two months: "From: Alexis (iZotope) Hello, Thanks for reaching out to us, I will be more than happy to help you. The answer is yes! I am happy to share with you a Serial Number to activate a copy of the Music Production Suite 3 at no cost!"

My account was only showing the standard loyalty upgrade and whilst I almost hit purchase on the upgrade to MPS 3. I held off because I was a bit miffed that I had only just got MPS 2.1 about two months ago. Well I'm glad I didn't pull the trigger, because guess who fell into the free upgrade grace period?... THIS GUY! ?

Glad you got it working in the end! But wow I'm a little surprised at the rigmarole as Corel programs have always worked for me on my systems.

It all ran smoothly here and I am running Windows 10 as well. I would recommend running the installs with administrator privileges.

The point of me posting that video has nothing to do with cool. Quite frankly I thought the whole thing was ridiculously unnecessary. Though I am sure even the artist is aware of that. But I posted it because there is no way in hell the sound in your room could even come close to the wind on that lake and yet he got a fairly clean signal. I know that you did not specifically request technique tips. But for sure whilst you can compress on the way in, there will be less you can do with the captured audio in the mixing process as a result. Lastly, you say that you do not aim to clip, but are intent on continuing to employ a practice that you know will result in clipping?...?

I would just like to say that if Andrew Huang can record vocals on a frozen windy lake, that there has to be a better solution than aiming to clip and letting an analog compressor munch up the peaks. (11:42 shows the signal from the vocal mic.)

Like others have said, it would be better to record at lower levels. I realise you said that this causes issues during mixing in regards to room noise. For that I would recommend investing in something like Izotope's RX7 or Steinberg's Spectral Layers 6. Both products will allow you to isolate room noise from the vocals. Although note that often entirely removing room noise does not sound as natural as simply lowering the amplitude of the extraneous/problematic sounds.

Whilst I agree to some extent, I also think that they (NI) have been caught napping. They certainly were leaders. But to be completely honest, I feel that they are now just another company that makes sounds. If they really want to keep their spot in the scheme of all things, by all that is deal like, they need to innovate and push the envelope like it is the oxygen they need to continue breathing!

Fixed.

The big question is which instrument or lineup is about to go the way of Kore?

It's like a company that makes 62 billion different instruments might have spread themselves thin or something? And of course the answer is to become thinner...? Also is it just me or does that article read like "subscription imminent!"

1. Industrial strength girdles are mandatory. 2. Whilst a thumb wrap might not be possible, the option to sling a moob over to fret a sloppy note or two is not inconceivable. 3. Legend says the upper strings are so large that if they aren't being actively played, they are muted by gravity. 4. Insurance company refused to cover deliberately giving themselves carpal tunnel syndrome. 5. We have an accord!

I am kinda hoping the subscription will fail and then they can drop the voucher charade and just sell all their plugs for $4! I own about 20 PA plugs or so, all purchased on sale. I have demoed quite a few of the range and even though some are pretty good. There is honestly nothing in their entire range that I would be prepared to part with $100 for. But there is a few I would shell out $4 fo... No wait! After the whole "keeping the lights on" thing, I've looked deep into my heart and am prepared to make it a full $4.99 a plug!?

And just to be clear, I wouldn't pay $149 for a hardware flanger, let alone a plugin flanger! If I need whooshing noises that bad, I'll just make them with my mouth...

They have gone so far off the reservation that they might not even be on this planet anymore?

^I wanted to post this to ask this question: $149 for a f@#$in' plugin flanger??? WTF?!!

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Instagram was having issues loading photos and Presonus took the opportunity to troll.

A project deleting bug?!! How does that even happen??? Stick a fork in them, they're done! ?

I was wondering that myself? I also have Shreddage Abyss which is 4.28GB and it can do everything Bass Fingers can, plus Abyss sounds better with fast playing as it has palm muting and staccato mode. Though the amp and effects in the Waves products are probably a little better. The 15GB left me pondering if perhaps not all of the library content is available to us in playback at the moment. Maybe there is an update looming that will unlock features, additional tones and bass models not currently available in this version? Otherwise it is a lot of drive space in comparison to competitors.