Vernon Barnes

The mastering engineer says in this latest email.

I had a couple of tracks played on an Internet radio station. At certain points there was a sharp decrease in volume. I have consulted a pro mastering engineer I know and he does not see anything untoward with my master with respect to dynamic range. He thinks my TP values are about 0.5 dB louder than he would reccomend. We think a AGC is being triggered in sections that are loud and bass heavy. It seems the AGC is most sensitive to bass. The songs were matched to the reference track after using isotope's tonal ballance control and I am happy with the masters when played on range of systems in different invironments. Any suggestions would be welcome. I am going to make a rough master of the worst effected song with the bass cut back for the guy at the Internet radio station to test.

First public airing tonight on the Indibox show on Belter Radio between 6 and 8 PM UK time. https://www.belter-radio.com/ A little bit of nepotism was used getting this "air time" but one need all the help one can get.

Finally I have completed a project almost as long in the making as Sampletank 3. I am planning on releasing a EP on Bandcamp later this month. "The Slyboots Incident" by Red Over Red. Red Over Red is myself, Andy Long on bass and Chris Edwards on Vocals. We are joined by Gina Ellen on Vocals, Emily Dolan Davies on drums and James Alden Lawrence on Guitar. I am totally prepared to crash and burn. Watch this space.

Syntronic sounds fantastic, some of the best "straight out of the box" synth sounds around. But browsing those sounds is a PITA not least because of the long load times. It could do with a NKS type system of audio previews. Also if you are a real tweaker each preset is tied to an initial sampled oscillator(s) so if you want to change from a pulse to a sawtooth wave for example it's back to the drawing board.

That is interesting. I will have to look into that. It seems to be the best way to implement a tape emulation across a mix without eating CPU.

The update was not on my installation center yesterday, but its there today along with updates for several Opus Edition libraries.

Yep. I picked it up for $35 and used it in a mix almost immediately in place of Waves Abbey Road Chambers that wasn't quite doing what I wanted on the vocals. I think it will become a firm favourite.

Minimonsta remains my favorite Mini Moog emulation. NI's and Softubes are probably more accurate but I have had Minimonsta for years and always come back to it.

Samples as opposed to an emulation so it will be limited compared to VirtualCZ.

An update, I decided to try the Brit Console on a couple of mixed I was finalising. I liked what it did and I am keeping it in there. The effect is subtle but it dose add some "glue" for want of a better word. The most noticeable effect was a greatly increased export time, probably twice that of the export with out the effect.

Just confirming that these are included in Sphere. I have installed them but not tried them yet. I am hope to give them a spin over the next few days and I will report back.

I am assuming these will be included in my Sphere sub. I will be checking later.

£85 for me from Time and Space for the regular Komplete update, the deal is not showing on NIs site yet but I doubt the download will be much cheaper. I am not convinced the extra content will do more than eat up hard disc space. There are some nice to haves but nothing compelling for me.

I think I have a few of these from WAY BACK in the day on CD somewhere.

I qualified and bought it in a moment of weakness, but it does look like it could get quite a bit of use here.

Darn, this is very, very tempting.

Any one bit yet? At around 500mb per kit ( uncompressed WAV?) they are low footprint, even less you compress in Kontakt, so not expecting lots of round robins and velocity layers but they still could be useful.

I love the Crimson flute, it's already found its way on to a track I am working on.

Have you got the Hollow Sun Newtron Bombs for Kontakt. I like the simpler one from their Prog pack. Just samples with the minimum of added features, raw and powerful. Their later one has a lot more features and fx but I still like the guts of the original.

Kontakt library rather than VSTi. Full Kontakt required. €44.50 until 24th June.

I am getting tight on disk space, so 10GB, while not huge is significant and this is not compelling enough given my extensive other options. By the time I get a new DAW, this my reach a tempting price point.

It looks like it checks free space on drive C and won't run if if it below a threshold even if you are installing on a different drive. I cleared out some temp files and moved a few things and it worked.

I don't have the full collection and the PS-20 is the one that's missing, so that won't get me off the hook. The Korg collection MonoPoly is the one that gets used here, I love it.

I wonder if it is based on the Voltage Modular MS20 modules. Very likely I would think. The filter and oscillators are nice.