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    DirektDSP makes Fuzzboy and Hot Potato Free and Open Source

    in Deals

    Posted

    14 minutes ago, satya said:

    https://direktdsp.com/

    We decided to make our plugins free and post the source code online to hopefully help the plugins grow and evolve, have forks made that improve it and help spread the plugins to more platforms.

    With the combined functionality of both these plugins, we're sure that you'll end up loving them and what they can do.

    Check out the reviews BedroomProducersBlog did here if you want some extra information on the two plugins.

    Go check both of our plugins out now and add even more creativity to your production arsenal for free.

    Nice attitude!

    I will check these out later today when my DAW is up!

    Thanks!

    MIDI signal filter

    in Instruments & Effects

    Posted · Edited by Keni

    10 hours ago, SloHand Solo said:

    I've got a four fader midi controller that sends constant midi messages regardless of whether the faders are moving or not.  Is there a filter or gate I can use to only record changes?

    I briefed through the thread a moment ago. I don’t know if this (or something like it) might help.

    Way back in the days where all instruments were a piece of gear separate from the pc.

    I still have a couple of these with all my stored hardware.

    JLCooper MIDI patchbay. If I remember correctly, they had 16 discrete MIDI inputs and 12(?) discrete outputs with a fully configurable combination of connections. It also had an extremely deep MIDI filtering system capable of very specific, complex combinations of what, & how was (might) to be filtered. And of course, something like 128 patches of different setups of all this. All 5pin DIN connectors as that was all that existed at that time.

    I don’t know if these are still available or not, but I’m betting there’s one or more companies out there making variations on this theme. Likely even some less comprehensive, but more focused on your needs?

     

    Hmmm. Just came to mind that someone probably has a MIDIdriver loop that offers complex MIDI filtering?

    Sorry for not having more specifics...

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    Connect An ADAT Hardware Expander To Your Audio Interface

    in Tutorials

    Posted

    Hi Gang!

     

     I’m new to this thread, but I’ve had such a setup running (still do) here using a Presonus Audiobox 1818VSL as primary interface and a very old device, a Soundscape (I forget the model #) 8 i/o interface. No preamps on this puppy only +6 lines so I gotta hit them hard enough (pro vs semi at -10). I have rarely used it this last decade but it runs clean.

    The VSL interface software makes this really simple as my adat connection simply shows as additional faders after the Presonus 8. Labeled as adat and grouped in general. Displayed in Cake in respective fashion. I found this an easy way to acquire 16 i/o.

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    Strange One! vSynth Output Losing Connection To Audio Input Track?

    in Cakewalk by BandLab

    Posted · Edited by Keni

    Strange occurences Suddenly Appear? I don't know if this is new to the current release, but I've never seen this before.

    Using Cherry Audio's CA2600 for a simple monophonic line. All was well. Track was frozen.

    I had need to unfreeze the track for some re-arrangement of the music clips.

    All was still fine. Everything played correctly.

    Then I began to freeze my tracks and coming to this synth in turn (last synth to freeze individually) after freezing, the audio track is empty! No sounds have been frozen. So I unfreeze and now discover that the synth is playing, but no sound is arriving at the vst's audio output.

    I re-traced all i/o and nothing has changed, but now the synth will not emit any sound?

    So I insert a new instance of same vst and copy the MIDI clips from the previous track, duplicate PC settings and fx rack plugins. Call the same patch and voila! It works!

    Until I freeze it??? Then it becomes empty once again and the routine can be repeated over again with the exact same responses....

     

    Anyone have any idea what's going on here? I've never had this with any synth. Not even previous uses of this vst!  What might have changed to make this one synth behave this way? only now? So at first I thought it's the new update.  I don't know, but this is a new situation for me here and the only thing changed is the update (and added Next but I doubt that relates)

    Thanks for your eyes... Sorry to pester anyone

     

    Edit:

    I see that if I add a new instance and copy all plugins/settings, then freeze, it freezes correctly, but if I unfreeze it and try to re-freeze it, the routine repeats... So I have a workaround for the moment, but something strange is going on here!

     

     

     

    Cymbal choke with key aftertouch events

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    Posted

    49 minutes ago, rin said:

    This makes no sense to me, lol.

    I don't know how to assign things to a key...unless you're talking about drum maps? In the drum map I don't see a way to have "KeyAft" events as the "In Note/Out Note".

    I also don't know how to do zero-velocity events in real time.

    I’m sorry I wasn’t clear.

    All drum software has sounds assigned to keys. You need/can not do that for the most part. But all products don’t map their' sounds to a specific standard. There are a few standard practices that many adhere to.

     

    You need to see if your product's manufacturer opted to add this.

    Others assign such to an articulation which requires a combination of one key to switch to articulations and another to describe which articulation.

     

    So either of these may be used in CbB.

    You can create or find an articulation created for your need. Then insert that event into any project via their articulation functions. A separate item to learn unto itself.

    The other method first described is an older method used before articulations were invented/added. It is simply the sound of the cymbal being played, choked. A sample which is tied to choke the cymbal just as hi hat successive event can.

    ...but the manufacturer has to offer one of these options and most do.

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    Cymbal choke with key aftertouch events

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    13 minutes ago, rin said:

    Yeah I'm trying to choke crash cymbals with a pinch of the pad, this is not hi-hat related. So if I understand right, the kit has to support aftertouch events, the DAW has too, and the VST plugin has too. Any recommendations on drum plugins that do support aftertouch? If I plug my kit into my BFD Player app the cymbal choke functions work.

    No. Not necessarily.

    It needs to have a method of doing this.

    The most popular/common is to have actual sample/event assigned to a specific key. So I would scour the manufacturer’s keymap. It’s easy to miss finding on many maps. I myself constantly lose my place in Superior Drummer’s map which I find I don’t like it’s organization, but you get used to it with time.

     

    Often a workaround for most drum software can be to insert a zero-velocity event where desired. Not always effective. Depending on re-trigger settings, one can turn off the previous when overlapped as discussed fir typical high hat setups.

    Some Discord With Next Beta

    in Cakewalk by BandLab

    Posted · Edited by Keni

    1 hour ago, Glenn Stanton said:

    my kids (adults now) use it on their PC and then call me to complain about how much disk time, memory and CPU are being used since it's also trying to act as a sharing service etc. so definitely not good on a PC unless that's all you do on a PC ? 

    Very sad!

    I remember long ago making the same decision about not adding iTunes to a pc! I have iTunes on my apple gear only!

    A bit of a pain for transference of music due to apples proprietary manner of controlling media... but not bad once setup. I share a mac/windows machine and simply boot to mac, then laod songs from the pc partition into itunes... Easy now!

     

    How do we do that to discord? Any way to get it to echo to simple browser or some such?

     

    Then again, as I'm not a beta tester for Next (Applied but didn't get the call) there's a chance I may never need it anyway as I fully expect I will be buying/installing Sonar immediately upon release but Next? Maybe check it out somewhere down the road if the price is right?

     

     

     

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    Some Discord With Next Beta

    in Cakewalk by BandLab

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Glenn Stanton said:

    and as a note: do not install discord on your PC, it takes over your system and is very hard to get rid of without a wipe and re-install of the OS and your apps... the discord web version is fine, and is designed for a younger crowd anyways... ? 

    Thanks for the word Glenn!

    I doubt I would, but now I know I won’t.

    I've had discord on my iPad for many years where it causes no issues. Especially none related o any music gear!

    A friend insisted I needed it for more secure communication only to drop it shortly after I got it. Then Cakewalk used it to handle their iPad app communication. It sits there getting updated periodically gut I don’t remember when I last opened it!

    Some Discord With Next Beta

    in Cakewalk by BandLab

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Noel Borthwick said:

    No it isn't. There is a lot more beneath the surface and more to come of course. 

    What you are reacting to is similar theming and branding that we following for our apps to look consistent. 

    I didn't mean to belittle it... I was only commenting on the appearance. Not toy or child-like as the OP had posted, but similar in appearance to the browser...

    I think I saw something I wasn't supposed to. There was a post a bit earlier (days) that showed the manual and I dared to browse it's contents. I didn't really check too many details as I didn't know the legitimacy of the doc I was seeing though it's content seemed too much for a joke...

     

    It seems to offer plenty of power, though I don't think it's for me...

     

    I am very happy with Cakewalk/Sonar and always have been. Yes, I have my wishes & complaints, but overall there's not a better DAW in the world for ME!

     

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    FREE IK Miroslav Philharmonik 2 CE

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    Posted

    39 minutes ago, User 905133 said:

    When I first got MP2, I wanted dry audio so I could add my own FX.  It seemed that every factory preset had an omnipresent reverb. In my experience, the ConvoRoom was sider was up by default for R1 [Return 1]. 

    I had to slide the MIX window all the way to the right to find where the returns were. 

     

    Interesting. I'm sure to learn more about this as I begin using the software...

    FREE IK Miroslav Philharmonik 2 CE

    in Deals

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Patrick Wichrowski said:

    No problems here. But I always use the old Authorization Manager after installation to avoid samples not loading in Sample Tank. Also I install with Administrator privileges.

    Thanks Patrick...

     

    What was needed here ws to install the previous version 2.0.5 which installed fine, then updated it to 2.0.6 which is now installed and working fine!

     

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    FREE IK Miroslav Philharmonik 2 CE

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    Posted

    37 minutes ago, kitekrazy said:

    No. You can move the sounds to other drives and have the player locate them.  I find the Miroslav Player easier to use than Sampletank.  Sampletank browser is such a mess.

    Yeah, that was my impression as well. I still have a boxed copy if the original SampleTank from back in the floppy disk days! I find stuff all over the place inside SampleTank and constantly changing windows

    FREE IK Miroslav Philharmonik 2 CE

    in Deals

    Posted

    Yeah Baby!

    Got it working at last!

     

    Thanks for the cool software and the assistance getting it working.

    Reverting back to version 2.0.5 did the trick... Something it doesn't like in .6

    I'm impressed so far. With all the complaining of how old and lo-fi (comparitive) this set is, I'm finding it quite elegant. I don't do a lot of orchestra but I'm sure these will be a big help!

     

     

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    FREE IK Miroslav Philharmonik 2 CE

    in Deals

    Posted

    41 minutes ago, Peter - IK Multimedia said:

    You don't need SampleTank installed, it will create the ST directory structure it needs (it is an ST3-era/based library).  More information is in this FAQ:  https://www.ikmultimedia.com/faq/index.php?id=1135

    This is getting painful Peter...

    What have I done wrong? Miroslav is installed and authorized, but the Cakewalk VST Scanner continues to fail when it hits this app. Claiming something about vpa files not loading and some kind of controller error?

     

    I just installed SampleTank once again but that didn't fix anything either.

    What am I missing? Why won't Miroslav load? Very typical windows 10 setup. All else is working fine including SampleTank...

     

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