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This beats October's National Sarcasm Month by a long shot.

Thread closed by OP until October 2020, contingent upon whether or not significant sarcasm remains in the world by that date.

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I have three: the one I use, the broken one that's still in the rack because it looks cooler than a panel blank, and the other broken one on the floor that's propping up an amplifier.

Are you sure about that? I've got 20 years' worth of advertising that says otherwise.

^^^ Scott is underselling himself here...I've seen a couple of his tutorials and not only are they well done, the lessons are applicable to many genres, not just metal. They might be a little more advanced than what the OP is looking for, though.

Everybody's allowed a screwup once in awhile, Wibbles. We gave you Hendrix, you gave us Johnny Rotten. We sent over the Dixie Chicks and got Spice Girls in return. Or was that in response to the Backstreet Boys? Whatever, the musical trade balance averages out in the long term. Even if we tend to keep your best musicians here once they've become successful (apologies to Canada, Ireland, Germany, Sweden and France too). I think we're done with Gary Numan, though; you can have him back if you like. We're keeping Knopfler, though.

I recently installed B3-X with no issues. At least, not with the installation. That was on 10/1/2019, so it would have been with the old scanner (current one is dated 10/25/19).

Hey, he sent his expensive car already. With a crash test dummy at the wheel. What more do you want?

^^^ This. It's a hard pill to swallow, but everybody has to eventually accept that presets are just for synthesizers - not for track fx or mastering. Even if you have, say, a favorite reverb preset it will almost always need to be tweaked to fit the need. The path to mixing and mastering nirvana is learning how plugins work. Lots of study, trial and error, and in the case of mastering, objective measurements. Sorry, there's no viable shortcut to the process. Limit the number of plugins you use: one EQ, one compressor, one reverb, and then learn everything you can about them. The good news is that most online tutorials are applicable to any DAW, as the principles are the same for all. No need to search out Cakewalk-specific tutorials, unless you're looking for advice on plugin that's specific to Cakewalk such as the Sonitus suite. There are a great many folks posting YouTube videos on the subject, from home recording enthusiasts to professional engineers to music software vendors such as iZotope. You don't need to use a vendor's products to get value from their instructional videos, because again, the principles are universal. Just don't get sucked into the advertising message that you need those products to make a good mix. You really don't.

That would have been funnier 3 years ago. Now it seems within the realm of possibility.

Just wait until Elon Musk starts shooting paying passengers into space. Which wealthy pop stars would you like to see buy a ticket? I'd pitch in a couple bucks to help Kanye West score a seat.

It's not bad. Pleasant-sounding. But also nonessential, being just a delay combined with a chorus. My first thought while using it was that there must be at least a dozen other ways to accomplish this using effects that everyone would already have. Now, if you're looking for something truly innovative, check out the overlooked Moodal effect. It's definitely a niche product, appealing to that small overlap between users who enjoy extreme sound-mangling and nerds who have the patience to figure it out. It's so out there that even its author struggles to describe what it does. As did I.

Use code 5YEARS for the discount. Good through the 31st of October. These are some unusual effects. The real winner is the delay plugin, tkdelay. It's my go-to delay for vocals. And I've got a LOT of delays to choose from.

My go-to shakers, tambourines and other hand percussion is Shimmer Shake Strike from In Session Audio. $79 at the moment for the expanded version. It's a Kontakt instrument, but does not require full Kontakt, just the free player.

So...you're going for the sisig and lumpia, then.

It's not the only synth that prefers to live on drive C:, e.g. Dimension Pro and Rapture. Fortunately, any synth can be relocated to another drive by creating a symbolic link. Google "mklink" if you don't know how to do that. All my sample-based synths live on drive E:, including all the Cakewalk content, Superior Drummer, Kontakt libs - and Xpand!2. That's how I found it today after reading the above posts; because everything's on one drive, I just had to type "DIR Xp* /s" and there it was.

Thanks, I totally forgot I even had Xpand!2. Haven't used it since 2016. I should probably get reacquainted with it. It's good to occasionally take an inventory and pull up something you haven't used in a long while. I did that this morning with Lounge Lizard. I can't remember the last time I used it in a project, maybe never. Turned out it perfectly filled the part I was hearing in my head. As for multi-timbral synths, that depends on what you mean by the term. Technically, it just means a synth that can play multiple instruments at once. That definition applies to Kontakt, so I guess that's my favorite multi-timbral synth. But if you mean one synth to do it all, then there's really only one in my software collection, the TTS-1, and it mostly just gets used for scratch and click tracks. (I suppose my Kronos counts as an all-purpose synth, but that's hardware.) I used to be a fan of SampleTank 2 because of its enormous library, but didn't like its successor at all and don't even have it installed anymore. That was the last one I bought, and honestly, I wouldn't even consider buying another general-purpose bread-n-butter synth today. A Swiss Army knife is great to have, but I wouldn't want to build a house with it.

I've been going to the Philippines for, jeez, it'll be 28 years next February when I go again. In all that time I have only been scammed once, and those rascals took me for all of $1. I was being taken up river to a waterfall. We stopped halfway and there were people selling barbecued chicken on a stick. One of them suggested I buy some for my boatmen, which I thought was reasonable given how hard they were working (parts of the river were shallow, requiring them to get out and pull the boat over rapids). When they thought I wasn't looking, he handed the kabob back to the vendor, who put it back on the fire to resell. Obviously a regular scam they'd pulled on many a tourist. I was out 50 pesos, a whole buck. I have lost more than that in the washing machine. I have friends there who bring me vegetables from their garden as gifts. I've tried paying them for it, but eventually realized that I was insulting them by offering to do so. One neighbor hand-built me a bamboo couch. That time I did insist on giving him money, because it was obviously a lot of work, and bamboo is valuable in those parts. He refused to take any payment. A few days later he came by and I jammed the equivalent of ten bucks into his shirt pocket, over his protestations. That was a week's wages for him and I should have felt bad flaunting my wealth like that, but I am selfish that way.

As anyone who has tried to build a diffusor can tell you, anything small enough to fit into your studio won't do anything for low frequencies. Here's what a low-frequency diffusor looks like.

With Vegas, you really don't need the CW video features for anything - other than being able to edit your audio in a familiar environment. Of course, Vegas doesn't do everything CW does (i.e. no MIDI) but it does cover everything you're likely to need within the context of editing audio to fit video. (Caveat: I am not a Vegas expert.)

I can't believe CH denizens continue to extend an already lengthy and pointless thread. An unusual departure.

You're going to be in a very rural area, so you might have to travel hours (everywhere you go takes hours) to find a bar with a live band. However, it's a very musical country. At the very least, expect to do some karaoke. Don't be shy when invited to do so - it really doesn't matter if you do it well or not, they'll love you for participating. What I'd suggest is working in a couple days in Manila on your way back home. Staying in Manila eases the anxiety of catching your flight on time (believe me, you do NOT want to miss your flight), and it's the best place to find music of any genre, from folk to prog to metal. Have a great trip!

More power to ya, Joshua. Make music first, then worry about buttons and flashy lights. Don't know why you're running the 32-bit version of SONAR, though. It would be completely painless to switch to the 64-bit version, and that'd open up a lot of sample libraries that just don't fit into the 32-bit memory space. Also know that Cakewalk by Bandlab can be installed alongside SONAR 8.5 and will open all your 8.5 projects. You could go ahead and throw it on your machine, play with it at your leisure, and maybe discover some nifty features you like. Of which there are many.