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Here's an articulation map for Indiginus' newest library, The Fiddle. I've got maps for several other Indiginus instruments if anyone's interested. The Fiddle.artmap

Lots of great recordings made with just a kick mic and a single overhead, for that matter. Listen to Hendrix's first album, e.g. Manic Depression. The kick is a little subdued by modern standards, but the snare is snappy and the rides are crisp. Gotta have a good room for such an approach, though.

You're right. I looked it up, and indeed the original was licensed by Sir Paul himself, who was a fan of Luc Besson. It's just been sliced and diced, looped and sweetened. It was the first time a Beatles song was ever licensed for an ad.

Wonderful! I could listen to - even pay for - a whole album of that kind of stuff. Reminds me of the impact that the cover of the Beatles' "Because" had in the trailer for Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. Too bad the movie wasn't as good as the trailer.

I was once fortunate to sit next to a hearing expert on a flight, who I'd noticed was using an SPL meter to measure noise levels on the plane. A professor and researcher from the University of Washington, he was very happy to talk about his specialty. One cruel factoid I learned that day was that audio professionals lose their hearing faster than the general population. Another discouraging observation was that teenagers in the US today have the ears of 50-year-olds 60 years ago. It's projected that hearing impairment will become a global epidemic when those teens are over 50. A more encouraging lesson was that "age-related" hearing loss is not age-related at all. Hearing tests were given to some remote Amazonian tribes, people never subjected to the everyday noise of urban life. There, 80-year-olds had the hearing acuity of a 10-year-old. It's too late for me, but those of you still young enough to do something about it - protect your ears!

Yes, they are modeled after the LA-2A, so they're going to be similar, not only to each other but also to other faithful models of that compressor (e.g. IKM's White 2A Leveling Amplifier). Personally, I prefer the VST version, but only because I like the tidiness of the fx bin and being able to see at a glance what plugins are in play. Until Mark mentioned it above, I'd never even thought about CA-2A's sidechain input being a differentiator. It's just never occurred to me to sidechain an optical compressor.

The company name is "Indiginus", not "indigenous". It's a pun on "in digital". It does not imply that the samples have been co-opted from some ancient Inuit tradition. Note that he's wisely never released a library of snowmobile sounds, thus avoiding any potential controversy.

In practical terms of audible fidelity, it doesn't really matter whether you use it or not. Leave it on if doubling your memory usage isn't an issue and you just feel better knowing that any cumulative math imprecision is going to be buried so far below the noise floor that it can never matter. But I can think of no real-world use-case where it would be a necessity. Sure, you can go off into the weeds with the math and convince yourself there's a benefit, and an abstract case can be made that there truly is. But I'd challenge anyone to actually discern a difference in a blind A/B test. It's certainly easy enough to test for yourself: just export the exact same mix with it on and again with it off, then ask someone to randomly select one and then the other while you listen.

You're gonna be pleased that all your old SONAR projects will open in CbB just fine (as long as plugin paths haven't changed) everything you learned about SONAR still applies, so there'll be very little you'll have to figure out if you don't uninstall X3, you'll still have all the SONAR extras (e.g. Addictive Drums, R-Mix, Rapture) CbB is more stable than X1 through X3 - Noel drives the bus now, not marketing geeks there are lots of useful new features since BandLab took over (e.g. arranger view, articulation maps) John is still here

I don't know, either. It's always bugged me that the Focusrite UI would confidently display the Windows default sample rate of 96 KHz even while I was playing back a 44.1 KHz project with no other applications open. So this morning I took John's advice and changed the Windows default to 44.1. It probably won't make a lick of difference, but at least Mix Control will stop mocking me.

Unless the domain is registered to GoDaddy or one of the smaller services that offer a so-called "private registration" option. This feature exists solely to obfuscate the domain's true ownership by listing GoDaddy as the domain owner rather than the actual customer. Sketchy internet entrepreneurs love this service. But outside the EU users have to pay extra to keep their information hidden, so legit website creators in North America usually don't bother. So if whois shows an actual business or person's name instead of GoDaddy.com, that's an indication they may be legit. Or just dumb crooks.

They are functionally one and the same. At least, that's what IKM contends. Of course, Sampletank is not nearly as tweak-able as Kontakt, so if you're one of those types that likes to go under the hood and tweak instruments, you may find a few things that Kontakt lets you do that Sampletank does not.

Got it my hot little hands. Looks like bedtime may have to be pushed back tonight.

Interesting. Hundreds of us use Focusrite interfaces, but nobody's reported this before. Doesn't mean you don't have a problem, just that it may be specific to your system. Could the distortion actually be a too-low buffer size? CW doesn't mess with that, afaik, so I'm just guessing. Are you using ASIO or WASAPI?

Renaxxance is far and away my most-used Indiginus library. But if you've already got NI's Picked Nylon that would be a somewhat redundant. But hey, if you're not a guitar player you really can't have too many guitar libs, can you? Or strings. Or pianos. Or percussion. Or...sheesh, it's never-ending. I already need to buy another disk drive, both of my 1TB sample drives are nearly full.

I've always assumed it was just to highlight the icon that your mouse cursor is over. Just like the buttons change color when you hover over them, but you can't do that with an image, so you draw a border around it instead.

Nice tune, Reid. Very nice indeed. I love The STEEL, it's one of my favorites. abacab, if you like that one, check out Delta Blues. It's a tossup as to which one I like better. The latter is especially nice through an amp sim. I've tried to talk Tracy into doing a fretless bass, or any bass with slides. He was resistant, saying the market is already saturated with basses. But imagine a nice-sounding bass that could do glissandos like these can...mmm.

Ah, yes. The discount code should have been a tip-off that Craig's making a couple bucks from this. I don't mind, though. Craig's never going to steer you to junk.

$59 intro price

Anyone who thinks they couldn't possibly need a bluegrass fiddle, watch this. It's not my genre, but gosh-dangit, I think I could do something with this.

Yup, that's kind of guy he is. Plus it seems unlikely that a fake site would be promoting his new album.

Worst-case scenario is a full mix with a lot of accidental subsonic content. If you don't EQ that out before compression, you'll be left scratching your head wondering why your mix sounds so lifeless. Fortunately, mastering compressors usually have a HPF in the sidechain for just that situation, so even then EQing first isn't always necessary.

Very much in the spirit of the coffee house tradition. I don't mean online forums, but actual coffee houses like the ones that sprang up in Paris after the introduction of gaslights. Just imagine a bunch of Parisian intellectuals hopped up on caffeine, talking all night. I doubt they spent the entire time staying on topic. And before anyone asks, no, I am not old enough to actually remember that time. Plus I don't speak French.

I, too, am skeptical that music can save the world. After all, the world will still be here after humanity has left it. But I am certain that when music disappears, humanity will not be far behind.

No. I played Wumpus, Colossal Cave and Lunar Lander. Not on a Teletype, but a GE Terminet, which was to a Teletype what an electric typewriter was to a manual typewriter. You're really challenging my memory cells here.