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It is unfortunate and almost remarkable how much press came out over this, but what I found most interesting was the dirty laundry that got aired. There is a simple reason that titanium is not used in pressure-vessel design... sure it can handle incredible pressures, but only a few times before it begins to propagate microscopic cracks and lose its depth rating. The CEO bragging about cutting corners and blowing off the deep submergence community made me rather irate when I read them. An adage used in the submarine force that my first boss quoted often was, "The stupid shall be punished," but it is rather horrific for that punishment to befall others.

The issue with collecting IRs is the same as with collecting samples, you can have thousands of them and take hours to sort through anything. In many respects, the capability of the IR loader/reverb you are using is much more important than the IR file itself (just listen to a few IR files solo sometime and it will show how much the IR is doing versus the reverb algorithm). That said, LINE 6 has several threads on free IRs with links; but if I was going to limit myself to only one set, "God's Cab" from Wilkinson Audio would be the one I would recommend. I have used that set more often than not and is loaded into my hardware, but everything I use it in also has the ability to tweak the crap out of the reverb generated.

I am not sure how long it takes for them to get a trail version available, but planning to wait to run that. There are a few posts already complaining about older CPU performance and some of the algorithms, so I actually want to run this on real (not cherry-picked) material before buying.

Thanks for the direct feedback Robin! We don't get that in here too often anymore.

Not having ever used Reason, does this truly mean "run" or "install"?

A couple things with the Chord Track in S1 that seem to get misconstrued at times: 1) It uses the same functionality as Melodyne (and Melodyne can be leveraged to achieve this today), but I did check when it was first released and it is baked into S1 (no Melodyne was required to make it function in S1). 2) The chord track allows for adjustment of both audio and MIDI material after recording, which makes it a nice composition tool in that regard (especially if doing something like using loops that sound cool but are in the wrong key). The tempo and chord tracks combined will let one drag/drop material almost willy-nilly and make them conform to the tempo and chord structure of the piece but also allow them to be changed after the fact from those two track guides.

This update looks to be pretty significant. I am a little disappointed that they didn't demonstrate the unmix components specifically, but a few of the operations they did were done by that (pulling the drum track apart). The processing time in 9 is significant when working with master tracks as it is. I certainly have enough material to stress test this guy on once the demo is available. Also makes me curious if they have a free 9 to 10 upgrade window for the folks that have been asking about this.

A lot of the paid versions are MB if they have a single-band counterpart (in many of those cases the single-band is in the free bundle). Just to make sure, SpectraLayers is a Steinberg product, not Melda. I wasn't sure why you had mentioned that one.

This one is rather interesting. 65% off bundles makes this the cheapest I have ever seen even with all of the things added since I got mine years ago. A first-time buyer could jump in with a massive savings (referral code and the $10 off for email signup). Folks should start posting their referral codes!

Cakewalk used to be almost across the street from there and the only course I ever saw offered for Cakewalk wasn't free. @jesse g The music theory course was pretty basic but did have some interesting content. The instructor looks the same, so not sure if is the same video files (I took that 10 years ago now). There was a similar one in name offered from a Scottish school that was rather hard core. I forget which company offered that one though (Coursera sounds familiar).

I have never been a fan of laptops, but they do serve a purpose for portability/field work. Getting too carried away on upgrading one can become cost-prohibitive to be sure. Since they are crammed so tight, the components are at a thermal disadvantage right away. As you do video work, a desktop even a couple or more gens out of "bleeding edge" is going to pack a lot more bang for the buck and be more useful longer. I am glad you were able to return the card without issues. Unless you "need" better graphics, it might be something to forget about on that HP and focus for its eventual replacement.

The blinks/beeps are codes that the BIOS is giving you. Need to check the manual to see what those mean for certain. It is possible that the new card is actually bad (don't rule this out since you swapped the old back in and it works), but also that it is not compatible with HP... probably what the BIOS codes are telling you. Some laptops have VERY proprietary architectures in them (HP, DELL, and that lot), so research that particular machine for more info. A guy at work wanted to upgrade RAM in an HP and it was a no dice venture because the original RAM was actually soldered in (no socket)... profile was so thin that the other "socket" couldn't take anything anyway. Same machine also had an epic fail from running Iobit's Driver Booster... the drivers on that machine were required to be HP or they didn't work.

Unfortunately, Overloud removed the free TH3 packs from there website (though THU has more free than TH3 ever had). You may try contacting Overloud and see if you can get the old TH3 ones (their support has always been good for me). This site has a TH3 archive, BUT it looks like most are custom presets... take those guys with a massive grain of salt, since they tend to be inundated with FX. A Google for TH3 preset sites may help, but if custom so much depends on who made them. However... If new, Byron's advice is spot on... more is often destructive. In any FX chain you want to KNOW what the signal is out of one FX/component that is feeding the next, and internal to a VSTi this may not always be obvious. Time-based FX (chorus, delays, reverbs) should almost always be at the end of the chain (simple reason is you do not want to apply FX to the tail, but a tail to the output). A basic approach is clean up signal, compress if needed, amplify and FX chain. Also, a great learning tool is to take a pre-made chain, then do extremes on controls (minimum/maximum) one at a time to see how they affect the sound. Some of the presets that came with TH3 are fine to start with, and is easy to swap out components to see the changes that result. Be judicious with use and know what each component is doing (to the next one)... simple chains are best to start with. Amp sims also have a tendency to create unrealistic harmonics, so a LPF on the signal set to 8KHz (+/-) before it goes into anything (the clean up the signal step) will keep you from passing that into the final output.

Don't usually see BETA's released, but maybe the massive numbers of MDrummer users on Bitwig played into it? I can hold off for an official release.

Yeah, that patch isn't a perfect match, and the tones gain gain frequency separation during the cressendo. I am not familiar with either synth, but looks like 3 oscillators with pronounced harmonics and a frequency delta between them. You can look at the mp3 with a spectral analyzer to see what I mean (posted a quick screenshot of that mp3 file below). The original looks very similar but is hard to isolate with everything going on.

Someone posted an nsmp (Nord Sample Editor) file and mp3 of it on this forum (only post with a file attached). What he did is 3-octave sweep (C3-C6) with a healthy (+/- half-step) vibrato on the end. What is interesting about that mp3 is there are very discrete harmonics (15 tones total) in his oscillator setup. The Arturia V may be the best bet to replicate with, but I do not own that (Arturia gets mentioned a lot for Minimoog sounds). NI Reaktor's Monark is also one mentioned in this list, but I just opened that for the first time and editing is not quite intuitive to me.

I have RX 9 Advanced and RX 10 Standard installed. I simply like SpectraLayers GUI better, but there was also a thread with a CbB bug to be aware of that I responded to. I use Studio One now, and one feature is to tear apart files and drag/drop resulting tracks into a DAW for further work. This is an ARA feature and works fine with Studio One, but when that bug was reported I verified it did not work in CbB. I am not sure if that was fixed. IIRC, both RX and SpectaLayers have fully functional demos, so testing them on a something you know well will let you get a pretty good feel of things. The DAW integration I took for granted, so be sure to check that too. Overall it seems they are monitoring/mimicking each other, so workflow seems to separate the two.

SpectraLayers Pro is probably best described as an alternative to RX Standard/Advanced; some features are slightly different but overall are comparable. @Grem had asked about that a while back, and the unmix stems/components feature is most used by me. RX Standard has that feature to the stems level and I posted about that in Grem's thread. I have a friend who has a lot of old 4-track work, so most of my use has been to tear those apart for retracking/remixing, or to simply expedite creation of covers of commercial tracks. The repair features get used off and on, but that is more dependent on what I am doing at the time.

If you are keeping Alicia's Keys, then you probably have all you need as is. Another thing to consider is your download speed and data limits if applicable. Not everyone has stupid fast/unlimited internet, so trying and deleting massive libraries can be more painful than updating a drive. An external (or even internal if have space) HDD can help in those situations as well.

I never thought about this before, but it seems that only the text is counting as far as a unique identifier. Internal to the DAW, it needs to differentiate clips, so automatically adds a number to things that are identical. Even though there are numbers in yours which should fit this requirement, it seems that only "talk" is being seen (maybe the _ (rather than a space) has something to do with this, but not sure). As John mentioned, a very good practice to get in the habit of is using descriptive track/buss names (and even the note field) immediately on creating tracks/busses. Whenever you open something you have long forgotten about what was in it, this will help you navigate the project without needing to decrypt your own work to understand what is going on. In the moment this doesn't seem critical, but for anything complex that you may touch again "one day," you will appreciate it.

I was commenting on the no A/C in Bit's car, more to keep him from getting raped by a mechanic there.

I clicked on unread posts and had to check the thread title! I'll bite... almost all A/C issues are seal leakage, and if not an R-12 system you can charge them yourself. The 20oz cans with a gauge are preferred and follow the instructions. Check the system specs (most likely R-134) before purchase to make sure it matches. Takes 10 minutes. That said... IF it loses pressure in a few days, then take it in (a seal is truly bad); but more often than not, this is not the case.

Damn, I am in the boonies here in MD, so had to look this up. New ordinance (2021) stipulates if "'household noise' can be heard by another residential property more than 50' from source" between 10PM and 6AM. No dB spec and is up to law enforcement to interpret. The funny part is no restriction outside those hours... so if someone complains about me grunting while taking a dump at midnight, I can PROMPTLY wake them up at 6:01AM

LOL... when I pulled up the forum on my phone earlier today I went immediately into display settings to try to see what was wrong! Lowering contrast isn't good for readability. I didn't know what was up till I spotted this thread.

Unfortunately, they don't... The 6-month activation is embedded, so with the new SONAR release they can either force purchase or let CbB shift to DEMO mode on you. Not sure about features new to CbB that would prevent opening in older SONAR versions (AUX tracks/patch points was one but was in later X3 versions). Without an "official" path forward, I would recommend preparing accordingly (stem offloads at a minimum, just in case).