Sidney Earl Goodroe

There must be someone out there!!!

Hi, guys And gals. I have been working on a project of my own and I am using 7 or 8 vstis, oodles of console emulation, and your average number of eqs and compressors. As well as audio tracks along with them. Also about 7 vox tracks and a couple of guitar tracks. I have been able to get my latency down to 96 samples in ASIO!!!! My question is simple. I am not experiencing any problems and have not the first crackle or pop during playback. I have noticed in the new feature analysis window after the song is over it reports 5 late buffers. Yet I am not hearing any artifacts whatsoever!! This brings to mind, how many buffers lost is acceptable and why do I not experience any trouble from these lost buffers? If someone could explain this I would love to hear it!!!!

Could you give me the email address for Waldorf support? I can't get any luck with their message system.

Welcome to the latency wars!! Look in Preferences and locate the slider to adjust latency. There is a button there to access the control panel for your audio drivers. You will spend a little time finding a setting that will get rid of those pesky crackles. The most aggravating process is having to cycle back and forth between setting the driver, applying the change, close the window! Doesn't work!!! Reopen the driver window and try again!!! Just because its crackling doesn't mean the magic setting couldn't be lower. There is a lot of trial and error here because you have no audio while the latency is being adjusted. Also, if you're using a semi pro to pro interface Cakewalk plays better with ASIO drivers. This should get you started! Happy troubleshooting and good luck!!!

I ordered the free Waldorf the first day it was offered. I finally figured out how to get to the cart and submitted the code. I set up an account and have been waiting almost a full week for my verification email!!! How do I contact support at Waldorf? This seems very convoluted for a free plugin!!!!

I am a stone cold fanatic about the use of dynamics in music. Most of my compositions are chock full of them. While my songs are mainly classic rock, jazz, blues, ballads, etc., I have found it helps immensely. Otherwise, the mastering I do for my clients is another story! They just want it body slammed to the nth degree. I do encourage anyone to at least give it an honest try. There is tons of info and some good freebie plugins for K-style mastering for anyone out there. Thanks for asking.

Just curious! I have found myself relying on K-14 and wondered how many would pound me for doing so. (Visions of the old Karloff Frankenstein scene where the villagers are chasing him down the road with torches and pitchforks!!!!!!?

Still gets a lot of use even after the release of collection 2!!!

Just my opinion, you will be much better off learning to master yourself. It does take dedication to be a great mastering engineer but much voodoo has been spread across the industry that scares most of us to death about how difficult it is!! If you have a good eq, compressor and or limiter, and a decent pair of monitors, you can do the job!! Online mastering can deliver a master but I trust my judgment and ears more than an online computer algorithm to deliver what I want to hear. Just remember that online services have their own levels they prefer to use. Make sure you find out their limits and master to that and you will probably be much happier!!!

I have used Notion and Cakewalk for a long, long time and been very happy. I wish Cake bakers would have figured out a way to purchase Notion when it was sold off a while ago. To think that they might have been able to incorporate Notion into Cakewalk to replace the sad notation feature it has limped along with for all this time.

Thanks, guys!

I looked for the regular version update and couldn't find one. I like the regular version enough to keep updating it. Otherwise, I would have to pay the full price which is a considerable bit higher than what I pay to upgrade. The midi is still far from where it needs to be and with NO notation I just can't invest in 32c.

Is there any update for the regular version of Mixbus 5 to 6 or is this only 32c?

Should locate the folder in Edit-Preferences-File-Folder Locations.

Smasher will run on the Ilok License Manager! I made the mistake of choosing the cloud option when I installed and went back and set it for the computer license. It's a keeper as far as aggressive compression goes!!!

I must say that loading these older EZX kits in Superior 3 for use with all those great built in fx, really makes those kits come alive!!!

Finally got 140 activated!!!! Is it worth the wait? Hands down, YES!!!! Don't miss this one, kids!!

Downloaded the installer and manual. Followed the instructions to do the offline registration. Got the plug registered in my account but still no luck with getting the plug fully registered on the computer. Sounds good in demo mode and dead easy to operate!! Just hope the website doesn't blow up before I can get this thing running!!!

If my recollection is correct, I believe Zeta had a memory leak issue that the update took care of.

Raum finally showed up this morning!! First impression, it was worth the wait. I did have to move the .dll file from the Native Instruments folder to my Cakewalk VST plugins folder and scan but it seems to be a keeper. Thanks, NI!!!

While it would be a dream come true to just press a button and out comes a perfect master everytime, it now at best is a hit and miss debacle! Nothing, IMO, will take the place of a good old analog human being using the oldest tool known to man, his ears!!!! Mastering audio tracks has wrongly been enshrouded with a mystique that scares people to death!!! There are tons of online tutorial programs and YouTube is overflowing with tips and tricks to get you started. When it comes down to it, there's only 5 things that you need. 1- Know the sound of the room you work in. Play your favorite songs over and over to train your hearing in that space. 2- Choose reference tracks that are along the same lines as your project sonically. 3- A thorough understanding of EQ. Especially the one you are using!! 4- A thorough understanding of Compression! 5- And last but not least, a good limiter!!! Not to over simplify things, these tools are really the core of any world class mastering engineer to the little guy sitting in his bedroom studio banging out songs. I won't go into the process because I already mentioned material above. Try several different ways and find a workflow that works for you. The results will be far better and more consistent than any automated service can deliver once you learn the ropes!!! Just my opinion!!

Mono instruments are ones that can only play one note at a time. Example, a sax, a flute, a trumpet, a singer, a trombone, a French horn. Any track that has single notes as opposed to chords. For instance, if you recorded background vox of three singers singing in harmony in to one mic to one track, you couldn't use the Izotope doubler because it doesn't understand the difference of the cluster of notes. BUT, if the singers recorded their harmony parts on separate tracks and the mics were fairly well isolated or the vox were recorded one part at a time, the Izotope will work like a charm because it can only understand one note at a time. Hope that helped!

The Izotope doubler only works on mono tracks! Doesn't play well with polyphonic notes!

Love the TX16Wx!!! Pretty steep learning curve on the GUI but good YouTube videos to get you started.

There is a very nice upright in the free library for the free Kontakt Player!