Vernon Barnes

Looks like Waves does not want my money. Secure connection failed when trying to make payment. If I recall correctly this happened the last time I tried to but through them directly. I usually go through a third party but was going to use my voucher.

Worse than I thought then. The voucher is not quite as useless as NI's vouchers but its close unless you want to make a very big purchase.

I think my WUP voucher is still valid. I will have to check, the voucher only gives you a 40% (?) discount so there was not much I wanted to buy, but this looks intresting if I can get it for around $16.

Mmmmm. My Black Friday deals so far have been two freebies but this is tempting.

I was expecting this around now but it looks like the release has slipped to January. http://www.soundsonline.com/hollywood-orchestra-opus-edition Also it looks regular composer cloud subscribers like me only get one mic position but that will do me and save a fair bit of disc space. The plus subscription is double the cost.

This issue has be solved in the 2020.11 update one. Thanks to Jonathan and team for a speedy resolution.

You can. Recording MIDI conventionally on the MIDI track created when you insert Komplete Kontrol is something I do all the time with my S61 keyboard and it works like any other VSTi. So I assume you mean recording MIDI from the Komplete Kontrol arpeggiator / chord functions etc. Its not a function I use often but I just tried it. When you insert Komplete Kontrol make sure you have MIDI out enabled. Create another MIDI track and for its input select Komplete Kontrol1 (not Komplete Control -1) All the MIDI from the arpeggiator, scale and chord function will be routed here and can be recorded and routed where ever you want. I think the extra track is always going to be necessary as you don't want the noted created by the arpeggiator being fed back into the arpeggiator and creating even more notes. If you want to use the same instrument you could turn off the arpeggiator and route the new tracks MIDI to Komplete Kontrol. It could be a little bit less clunky and any improvement would be welcome. I will have to check and see how Studio One implements this.

I seldom turn it off completely in Superior Drummer but I may play with the levels or turn it off on one channel if I want a more processed sound for that drum. Thanks for the video link I will look later. I think working with the real drums will have a positive knock on when working with virtual drums.

This is enlightening and enjoyable. I have drum stems from 17 channels not too dissimilar to what you would get in Superior Drummer. Of course the big difference is the bleed, you can't just turn it down of turn it off. Having used Superior Drummer does give a good insight in how to start setting up buses and give some pointers to FX options. I think I should check Groove 3 and Creative Sauce to see if they have any useful videos for further pointers.

Before the pandemic struck. I am really regret not getting to a couple in January & February as I did not fancy long, midnight winter drives, Oh well. This was a Small club in Totnes (England) upstairs for a pub. The Shusss at the beginning is great if you had been there. During the support act there was appalling behavior bu a small group in the audience who had to be ejected. She stamped her authority and reminded as few careless talkers they were there for the music. Not the highest quality video, given how dark it was its amazing they got anything at all.

I expect they get an awful lot of practice!

The last track I exported last night threw up an error message. This looks like it may be project specific as I have exported successfully from another project today. I have PM's you a link to the project and mini-dumps.

Thanks for the reply Jonathan. So far it has just been the one project, I have not tried anything else yet as I need to get something finished I will look tomorrow and send you a copy of the project.

I was hoping it may have been a setting but its looking suspiciously like crash to desktop. I notice that dispite the project having been saved before the export it does not appear in the start screen recent files. The export dialog also reverts to MP3 rather than the WAV 44.1 24bit setting I changed it to. No error messages appear. I am trying to get everything exported tonight with constant project reloads so I wont be able to do much troubleshooting until tomorrow.

Since installing the latest update 2020.11 ever time I export audio from CbB the program closes (crashes?) when the export is complete. I am wondering if there is a setting somewher that I have missed causing this or if there is a bug. The exported files seem to complete.

Their license system is probably the worst. I got all mine on a USB stick now, seems to be the best way. But when before I retired managed around 50 licenses of software with a $7500 price tag protected by a USB dongle. in around 10 years we lost 2, and we were mobalising and demobalising operations all over the world and shipping them frequently, so I don't buy the USB sticks are easily lost if you take a little care. Their support quickly helped me recover my licenses when I had disabled a port without using the once a year "get out of jail free card".

I suspect resistance is going to be futile!

I have yet to try it out but on the strength of this video I think the implementation is better than Studio One's articulation lanes. Of course the articulation lane in conjunction with the chord track is pretty powerful. Let's hope Bandlab implement a chord track soon, now we have articulation maps the chord track is now the only feature that would make me choose Studio One when working with MIDI.

The note leveler and the sibilance functions are very useful as they function differently to traditional compressors and de-essers, They can be used on small sections at a time for surgical corrections. You may still need to compress and/or de-ess later but the settings can be a lot less aggressive. I have yet to use the chord function but it looks like it could be very useful, particularly in Studio One where I believe it can use S1's chord track. (now - when will CbB have a chord track?)

Well, despite reservations I went ahead and upgraded. I after an hour or two of noodling agree with Reid that their are a awful lot of great sounds to be had. All in all I think I will like it better than Syntronic which is similar in concept. Load times are an order of magnitude faster which is a big help on a preset based product such as this. The editing options are not as great as those in Syntronic but the inclusion of the sub oscillator section is a useful addition when editing sounds. In the sub oscillator section you can change waveforms while keeping the envelope and filter setting unchanged. I find the lack of this ability frustrating in Syntronic. Browsing is always a frustration in synths where in many case patch names are abstract or cryptic. If you have a clear idea of what you want sometimes its faster to dial in a patch from scratch than to audition countless presets. The upside is you can accidentally find inspiration in an unexpected sound. UVI's browser is as good as most and a different ways of organizing the menus helps.

Getting a bad gateway error message on the link, and when I find the site in Google. I suspect a lot of people are interested!

I think there have been a couple of threads on this before. It's a very nice freebie and owners of the original hardware chipped in favourable comments.

I just realized the version I have is version 1 which makes the upgrade more attractive, the interface seems to have been improved. The question of how much I would use it still remains. There is a couple of days to ponder.

Version 2 is good, but, like Syntronic, I have never used it in anger so I doubt if I will upgrade. I tend to gravitate to GForce, Arturia, Synthmaster or Waves (particularly Codex) for my synth sounds. I also use Softube and Cherry's modular if I want to get more creative. Probably what I am saying is I have far too many synths?

Do you want to use a synth to emulate a bass guitar or do you want synth bass? For bass guitar you really want something that emulates different articulations (sustain, mute, hammer on, slide etc) and work them into the part. With synth bass getting variation is a big help. Opening the filter on accented notes can help as can using a combination of legato and staccato notes.