Mark Morgon-Shaw

I've had my Stream Deck for quite a while now but I set it up with my own commands, I didn't know there was a company selling dedicated plugins - it looks quite clever. When I first set mine up I added things like all the transport controls etc but for me I didn't find it that useful to control things I could easily access with the mouse and keyboard in the end. It was just easier to hit the spacebar. However I use it all the time for things that are a little more hidden away that I use quite ofte.. Eg. I have one button to open my Audio interface driver so I can adjust latency A macro that closes the Browser and the Inspector and sets Cakewalk to full screen A couple of Cal routines set to their own button like Humanize A few buttons to use in the Track View , one opens the Scale Velocity dialog , another 2 transpose the selected clip up or down an Octave which is about 6 key presses in one button so it is quite a time saver. I also set one up to bounce the selected clip to audio which I find pretty handy. The cool thing about these devices is how flexible they are and they're generic unlike a dedicated DAW controller so I can use it for other Apps as well Hope you enjoy using it.

Seems to work okay for me in a current project However...... I have been having different issue so I wonder if it's related In theory I should be able to select those two upper most automation nodes and Ctrl-Drag that line between the two points up and down. But it always seems to " let go " of the right hand node , and I end up with this instead It always used to work fine but at some point it's gone a bit strange. I thought it might be me but if there are other known issues then perhaps it's related.

It's a perfectly valid attitude, very few musicians can wrap their head around the concept. Even fewer can actually come up with the goods consistently. But relating back to the OP , when there's deadlines involved and you have to pump out a lot of music in a variety of genres you don't get the luxury of waiting for your muse to grab you. Creativity is like a muscle and the more you work it the easier it becomes, a lot of it is to do with overcoming resistance and procrastination. I don't think it's especially age related , maybe the end result is different at different stages of life but I make more music now than I ever did in my teens / 20s / 30s

It would make much more sense to me if the two were independant

Another +1 for Izotope RX I have Waves de-clicker which can sometimes work but RX is a whole different level

I don't think it is ASIO, if you watch this video ( FA-06 / FA-07 / FA-08 all seem to share the same driver ) he installs it on SPLAT and it looks as though it's just a class compliant generic driver.

I use the baby of the range the ID4....can't say I have had any issues like you have mentioned..not sure if they use a common driver ? Have made a screengrab. This is the one I use and I can go as low as 32 samples buffer if I don't want to run hardly any plugins - 128 is where I normally start but I use lots of plugins so I generally end up at 1024 near the end of the mix process. This the resplendence Latencymon result after playing a track with about 25 tracks and 35 plugins Mine is a desktop PC with a Ryzen 3900x - hopefully that gives you something you can compare against to see if anything is different.

So basically you have :- Vamp 3 - Amp Sim which it says comes with a UCA222 USB audio interface for stereo I/O and direct (zero-latency) monitoring - this ships with ASIO4ALL because Behringer use it instead of writing their own drivers on their budget products R8 - Mulitrack Recorder which also works as an ASIO interface Roland FA-07 - Workstation keyboard with Multitrack recorder and USB connection ( not ASIO AFAIK ) I think the first thing you should do is install the latest ASIO driver for the Zoom and get it working and use it as your main interface and mixer etc. The Roland is mainly for midi I assume so that can just stay as the controller keyboard over USB. The Vamp 3 is using the cheap UCA222 to get it's audio into the PC and it's only got ASIO4ALL so I would ditch that little interface and hook the Vamp up to the R8 and go in that way.

Don't forget to process it through Drip......2 clicks and it's perfect !

Per Project Audio Files ( they used to be kept in a centralised folder back in the day )

With Library music generally you don't "sell" it to them ( unless you're Hans Zimmer or someone ), you usually write an album's worth of themed material ( i..e Sports Hip Hop Vol III ) and offer it to them gratis and IF it's of sufficient quality and something they they think their clients could use they will sign it to their catalog. Obviously there are thousands of musicians trying to get in as well so it's quite competitive. Should your music get used by their Clients I.e. in a TV show, with most deals you get half and they get half of the royalties share. There are many variations but that's the most common scenario in a nutshell.

I've not heard anything that generates "AI" music..i.e chords, melodies etc that I've felt compelled to use. I've tried things like Cthulu by Xfer , I have a license for the Captain Plugins which seemed like a good idea at the time but after intial experiments found it wasn't that much use to me, but they have a drum - bass and melody plugin as well. Every time there is a an update to AIVA I give it a try to see where it's at but it's not there yet although it's certainly better at creating something semi-listenable than instacomposer. I'm sure there's one or two more I've come across in a simiar vein. The best things I have found are plugins like EZbass where you're providing the harmonic structure to the plugin and then it's using real performance data from an actual musician to generate the part.

The parts it creates are pretty basic and uninteresting , I didn't hear one single pattern I would want to keep and work up into a full track

OK I just watched it , sounds pretty lame to me.

My little Audient interface that was about £150 is way better than my original Tascam interface that was 3x more expensive back in the day, and PC to run it all on was £1k instead of £2k back then and DAW that was £500 is now free ! With all the free plugins as well now you can put a decent system together for a fraction of what you could when I put my first home studio together.

Yeah I remember you, I was a member 2016-2018 ...things have taken off since then so I'm not now but I still post there

Sucker ! ...not really, I hope you got a good deal on it. It does look useful, I have have to make all sorts of genres quite quickly for the TV stuff I make so anything that helps is worth a look. I do already have XO though which fulfills a similar void. Edit: PS. Did you used to be on the Taxi forums ? I recognize the name from somewhere

Audio interfaces are so cheap now I don't know why anyone would bother not getting a decent asio one.

I would say no. But it's true when we are younger we are different people, with possibly more time and energy, less aversion to risk and without the musical baggage we may carry in later life. So I think it's normal that bands and artists do their best work in the early years. There's also the novelty factor, a new fresh sound in the 80's is dated now and some bands have sell by dates or can't evolve. They are often expected to stay in the same stylistic lane for the rest of their careers or risk alienating their fanbase so it's harder to re-invent yourself later into a career and stay relevant. Personally I have been vastly more creative in the past 5-6 years than the previous 45. This is because I got into music licensing and started writing music in many different genres for TV music library briefs. I was mainly writing a handful of electronic/rock/pop songs each year ( think New Order-esque ) but now I write 100 tracks each year and I've had music on TV in many different genres , most of which I'd never attempted prior to 2015. These are all the genres I've had on TV: Electronica -EDM - Pop - Tension - Trailer - Hip Hop - Rock -Orchestral - Acoustic - Hybrid Percussion - Funk - Dubstep - Seasonal/Xmas -Indie Plus a few more that haven't been used yet ! So no I don't think we get less creative as we get older but as we grow up, we get wives/husbands, girlfriends/boyfriends, families and other more pressing responsibilities the creative part of life can take a back seat.

To be honest it looks reasonably good but the way they market products is so scammy I would never entertain buying their stuff. Edit - I just read that it's $300 ... lol..they're kidding right ? Just get XO for half the price instead

Enjoying the update. Any chance of having some sort of progress indicator now we can do these automated exports ? This is a screenshot whilst exporting a bunch of Folders. Also we don't seem to have the little cancel button like on a regular export so I am not sure how we stop it if we've messed up. ?

If you can use the old export module you can use the new one. This came up when I opened a recent project... I'm not sure how you are getting stuck but just type the name in for what you want the export to be called, and choose Wav or MP3 or whatever..just like the old system

Yeah much better when the OS uses Core Audio unlike Windows. Back in the day I mixed on the go with an Echo Indigo PCMCIA card ..circa 2003 / 4 Asio drivers were great as was the audio quailty

Yes - you need a dedicated audio interface if you don't have one. If you have one then you need the proper drivers for it instead of Asio4All. ( make sure it doesn't use Asio4All as it's driver like the Behringer UMC22 )