Vernon Barnes

For sound design, both as a synth and as effects Cherry Audio's voltage modular can really take you in different directions, lots for options and add on but start with the free Nucleus version. https://cherryaudio.com/voltage-modular And for getting compositions going Orange Tree Samples Evolution series of guitars is good. Use a preset strumming pattern or create your own and feed it with chords. https://www.orangetreesamples.com/products You just missed the group buy but if you do the "Surveys for slices" you can get a discount.

Doh! - I have just realised it was the Version 10 update i skipped and I am still on 9.5 (shows how much I use it). The upgrade is £ 82. Think I will sleep on it.

I hardly ever use Cubase. I am wondering if I should upgrade and work at learning it a bit harder. I am very happy with Cakewalk and the way it's going at the moment, but Cubase has some nice features.

I just grabbed my Mind Control, as Orange slices are a % discount there was little point in using them on this purchase. While I was there I did joined the surveys for slices program and got over a hundred slices for answering some simple questions, worth doing!

It does look similar. Bandcamp is well established I don't know how that would affect the likelihood of sales. In any case it will be down to how well you can promote and publicize. I would be inclined to be on both unless terms and conditions dictate otherwise. I was considering putting my current project (E.P.) on Bandcamp when its finished for the hell of it and the remote possibility I may recover something towards the costs. That is a few months off yet so i will be watching this closely.

I have been using Google's Play Music as a player on my Android phone. It's only saving grace being an easy sync with iTunes on my PC. Now they are discontinuing it and moving to YouTube music who's main objective seems to be getting you to sign up for their streaming service and advertising random things I might like. (But probably won't) I hate the way Amazon, Apple, Google etc. try to push their streaming services on you. So I bit the bullet yesterday and solved the cryptic puzzle of how to delete the downloaded Play content, installed VLC player and spent a few hours dragging music across from the PC. It seems to be a lot better, if less seamless solution. Next step will be to add an SD card so I take advantage of the lossless formats for albums downloaded from Bandcamp.

Mmm - I may have spoken too soon in saying its easy to resolve, this time its proving more tricky to sort out. I may be doing something daft. I will try tomorrow and if that fails contact support.

The only issue I have with Addictive Drums is the periodic loss of authorization and the subsequent "wrong computer" error message. This is I believe triggered by window updates. Its not a big job to go into online installer and rectify it but I should really not be happening and it does not inspire confidence. I am not sure of the frequency of the problem these days as I usually use Superior Drummer of BFD3 both of which I prefer. Addictive drums is a good solution however if you like you drums a little more "mix ready".

The pro for using 5 is you have a potentially bigger market. People still on 5 will not be able to use a library developed in 6. The downside is you will not be able to use any new features, so I would say it a matter of how important those new features are to the library. If they are not needed I would say go with 5. I have purchased libraries where the developer has provided NKIs for two versions, effectively giving the buyer a less featured library if they only had the earlier version.

Pretty hard to pick the funniest answer here. On a serious note Red Over Red has been suggested elsewhere and I rather like it, so it's the current leading contender.

This video has proved very useful as I attempt vocal comping for the first time.

Yes it is, and has been for some time. Spaces II is my goto convolution reverb.

Well all that left for me is Mind Control and I signed up for that.

I just transpose it to the range of the keyswitches. I got the idea from a Jordan Rudess demo where he was using one.

The other thing that gets me is I would like a synth action keyboard with more than 61 keys. This, for me, is mainly because a lot of Kontakt instruments have keyswitches and getting the full range of the instrument and the keyswitches available at the same time is often not possible. Keyboard manufactures seem to work on the assumption that only piano players would want more than 61 keys. I have a AKAI mini keyboard on top my NI S61 to get access to keyswitches.

Yes, something like the NKS sound preview would be a big improvement. I have about half of this already but 9 times out of 10 I go with Arturia, GForce of Korg Legacy synths.

I was going to post this, but as usual Larry was there long before me. I do like the look of this. It seems it would be a quick way of creating some interesting parts. The demos certainly sound good. Temptation level medium to high.

I have had Composer Cloud for a while. It gets a fair bit of use and something fro it appears on most tracks. One thing I have found is I use the libraries I would not have considered buying a lot more than the ones I thought I wanted. There is some inspiring stuff in there.

That Juno 106 is brilliant. The ARP2600 is good too but it takes a bit of getting used to.

It's worth picking up as either an instrument or an effect. But be warned, if you get comfortable with modular enviroment you will want to buy more modules. The good news is they are not that expensive.

They are setting up in competition with Cclarry.

Quick load is your friend. It's actually easier than searching the libraries tab as you can create folders and sub-folders and group instruments in a way that makes sense to you.

The vintage voice bundle is nice. The Juno 160 emulation in particular is as good a many a VSTi costing more. Plus you have the added patching options in the modular environment. I am tempted by the vintage bundle for $19

I think its worth looking at Bandcamp. https://bandcamp.com/artists I don't have personal experience with the artist functions but I think they are pretty much the fairest when it comes to charges etc. I buy quite a bit of music through Bandcamp and I like the opportunity to download in different formats including MP3 FLAC and WAV. You get to set what is effectively a minimum price which can be as low as zero. The customer can elect to pay more and I understand many do. So it could be a good way of making your music available if you are not too concerned about making money. That's the easy bit. Publicity is the bugbear particularly if you ar

I quite like that, I have been half considering Beam Ends. (while is part of a ship the phrase On one beam ends = in a bad situation)