Vernon Barnes

Shirley the description of super looper is wrong!

Big Big Train announced today that they have recruited Alberto Bravin, formerly with PFM as lead vocalist following the tragic death of David Longdon in November 2021. It looks like September's European tour will now go ahead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtgDiTQOxV4&t=1s

I succumbed a few weeks back. I started feeling a bit rough on Sunday, a Lateral flow home test was negative on Monday when I certainly had many of the symptoms and felt pretty bad. It was Wednesday before I had a positive test and Friday of the next week before I had my first negative test. I am still suffering headaches, earache's and fatigue. The whole household went down with it, even my super fit 23 year old grandson was bad for a few days. I know several people that say with Omnicron its often a few days from symptoms appearing to a lateral flow test showing positive. I had the initial two Vaccine shots and a more recent booster. Good luck.

Ah, that's where I got confused looking at the comparison chart. The mini LFO is good for most basic modulation. The LFO can be voltage controlled and has more waveforms. In the higher bundles there is also the super LFO with a wide range wave shaping features.

A good place to start and see if you like the modular environment. It seems to be lacking a LFO? Core is a big upgrade adding a lot of capabilities including polyphony. There are a lot of third party modules, none particularly expensive and some free. Don't overlook the possibilities of using as a multi fx unit.

I do find the audio previews useful for the Wavestation and M1 in particular.

There is always this. https://freelancesoundlabs.com/index.php/downloads/komplete-kontrol-vst-packs/itemlist/category/120-korg Freelance soundlabs NKS packs are pretty good, the prices are in Australian dollars so not as expensive as they first appear. Jason is also quite customer focused and open to comments and suggestions.

A very nice freebie.

I must not commit a TOS violation.

In the settings one can turn the animations off. I have not tested to see what effect this has on resources, but it would seem like a good thing to do if you are having issues. Another concern is it seems to dump all the sample content to the C drive, I did not see any option to choose a location. (correct me if I am wrong.) This could become an issue for a lot of people if there are more product in this range. It does sound good!

I installed the update before creating the Tonenet account. Amplitude would not connect to Tonenet, so I reinstalled Amplitube and everything worked.

This is a really nice synth. Absolutely no buyers remorse with this one!

This Twitter thread is relevant.

Bandcamp is great with lots of options. I have sold a few copies and made a very modest amount of money but you can of course charge nothing or do it pay as what you want. You get a bunch of codes so you can give away downloads, good for reviewers or family. If you have sold some copies they give you more free download codes. You can add extras to the download, like PDF liner notes etc. and making a decent looking page for an album is quite easy, including adding lyrics. You also retain control of what can be streamed and how many times it can be streamed without a purchase. Normally they take a modest percentage of the sale but they have monthly "Bandcamp Fridays" where they waive their fees. The hardest part is promotion and directing people to your music.

Pretty much the best Rhodes library I have come across.

The folk EZKeys sounds like it might be useful.

NKS! Excelent.

I suppose the real value here is learning how to program rather than creating a specific sound. Once you understand how the sounds are created its often quicker to create a patch from scratch for the sound in your head than scroll through thousands of presets looking for something close.

There are always modules for Voltage Modular on sale at Cherry Audio. The challenge is deciding what modules will be useful to you. This one is a real keeper. https://store.cherryaudio.com/modules/cm22x-distortion Currently $8.50 (I am not sure what the full price is). I have made some great sounds using it like a wave shaper on a oscillator and modulating the five controllable parameters with different envelopes. Its possible to create some interesting, harmonically evolving tones. Of course its also possible to patch it to effect external sources and my initial experiments with virtual guitars are very promising. Requires Voltage Modular.

However each of the emulations has their own unique extra features which make them different. I have several Minimoog emulations (Artutia, NI, Softube) but use Minimonsta the most.

Seems to be a big emphasis on the accompaniments in the blurb which isn't a selling point for me. I am pretty happy with pro and use it a lot. I have all the expansions so I think it would take a decent upgrade discount to tempt me. Let's see what transpires.

I am mostly using Studio One 5 now. I use the Sphere subscription so I have Notion as well and like the integration. I do miss the pro channel though. I think Cakewalk is a lot better for MIDI though. If it had a chord track I would use it a lot more.

I have nothing against subs, I have Presonus Sphere, EW Composer Cloud, and Roland Cloud ( core), all of which are working out well for me and give good value, but this a bit underwhelming. I think its aimed at new customers, I don't see anything to tempt owners of the latest version of complete.

It's a good question. I don't see an obvious use FOR ME, but I do use EZkeys and the Studio One chord track as a compositional aids. I have scalar but have not used it in anger. I also have a large wall chart of scales and chords above my keyboard which is very useful.

I think the existing presets will only be updated in the "full" versions of Syntronic 2 so you will not see the new edit page for existing presets. (Someone correct me if I am wrong) The edit page adds a lot of functionality like a modulation matrix and the ability to change waveform in a patch. All my Syntronic 2 Max content was installed to my E: drive where all my other IK sample content lives.