Alan Tubbs

I haven’t had a problem with original warm. Or the tone beast. Perhaps you can check against your standard interface pre? If the Warm is the problem I would complain to them. The are (were) very responsive and used to go out of their way to be helpful.

You can’t repackage the sounds themselves but you can publish the music produced. The answer is yes.

Get at least a 2 inputs. A 2 x 4 config is really the minimum that allows the use of outboard, which is great and allows stereo work. I've liked a lot of tascam units they are solid. Roland worked reliably too in my experience. FYI, these days I use motu with a Neumann m48. Great clean capture and replication.

I don’t know anything about the daw bandlab s sounds. The forum deals with CbB and the new Sonar. And I don’t know where this question should be asked. Does Bandlab the DAW have a help section? I would ask there.

You doing used mics? AKG 414s start about $1000 at Sweetwater.

The microtech gefell m930 is hopefully cheaper and a great mic. the original Neumann factory was moved across the Elbe river to what would become east Germany because of the allied bombing. Microtech still makes the m7 capsule,for example and their m930 is a best in class for about @$1000 for instruments and solid vox. It sounds great on about everything. The Austrian audio oc818 are akg guys who started a new company. A good replacement unit and a little cheaper.

All bets are off with os changes and CbB. I’ve lost plenty of software when they had updated versions MS. Of course that has been a while so I would think CbB will work for years.

It looks like things are getting clearer. @ $150 a year or @15 per month for the nu sonar and all of Bandlab stuff. Or continue to use CbB for free until ms changes something vital and fails to work. Now all bandlab has to do is add a perpetual license to the options and leave nu sonar operable once the lease period ends. there are plenty of users willing to shell out $150 to $180 to keep Bandlab rolling for another year.

You have a delay between pressing a note and the sounding of your guitar against the rest of the recorded music? That is latency caused by your soft synth’s processing. The delay can be shortened but usually not eliminated . Read up on latency and work arounds.

I guess I need to dig out my Plasma cd if Bandlab doesn’t give me more free DAWs and puppies! I look as the situation like NI’s methodology. You don’t have to necessarily upgrade every damn year but some new stuff is nice to get. I don’t like subscriptions and I like to own my software. But I just can’t fathom the mindset of some that think they shouldn’t have to pay anything to keep sonar running. You get what you pay for and we’ve now enjoyed what… 7 years of free use and updates. That is a lot of entertainment or work for naught i hope Sonar sells a version that is cheap enough to buy for any user or afford a monthly lease or whatever. I don’t even mind paying the extra freight if I get a more inclusive product if that helps other users. But I find it irrational to think Bandlab will fund your new personal DAW for free.

Some manufacturers allow the use of separate units to aggrate the Windows drivers but this is special case. Don’t depend on it working, however. Look up your hardware interface to see if this is possible.

I believe one needs bandlab to use sonar by Bandlab but I never used it. What is the problem?

Yea, I got mine years ago for 4 or 5/hundred dollars. Great deal. You get transformer coupling which adds a different patina than your standard interface pre. and a neat package for guitarist or singer songwriter.

Massive X is a good and different bass makers.

Are they all on the same midi channel? I’ve done that more than once.

Thanks. I knew it was somewhere under organs.

I wonder when I’ll get an update to plasma by cakewalk, the early looper program. From the beginning of the century. Got it free in one of those English music rags with a cd and then upgraded it so I could do more than 4 or 8 tracks. It would do acidified files before Sonar did, or at least home studio (my next upgrade!). if cakewalk isn’t going to update P5 maybe they could make my old copy of Plasma work today. What did I do with that CD?

Dim pro and rapture Pro are still relavent and have some great presets I still use. I forget if it is rapture or dim that has the “jimmy…” preset which is a go to for organs. There are also plenty of “effects” and evolving drones and legiti-esque orchestra sounds. Good stuff. My minimoog is older yet still makes sounds I use.

Freezing soft synths solves many of these problems. Then you are dealing with all audio.

So we have our official answer to how long cbc? As long as it takes, I guess. Users need to take cakewalk at its word that it ain’t coming for your DAW - yet. And you’ll get warning so you can find another free DAW.

The original Minimoog D is a mono synth, unless the new ones are different.

Compression is only a tool that when used properly can help even out the volume of tracks, busses and complete songs. It can also provide tone, like the 1176 or la2a style comps. It isn’t always necessary but helps, especially in popular music to balance out many tracks. when recording acoustical signals I almost always use a little compression going in.Not much but enough to thicken up the sound, by which I mean lowering the peaks and spikes in relation to the quieter sections (having a transformer in line also helps with this). That signal often gets a second dose of digital compression after vol automation. And most busses get a little more compression that helps, as referenced above, with glue. A little compresssion, applied serially at each step, can provide a strong, solid signal that holds its own among other tracks without extraneous or distracting bouncing of instruments. Even if you don’t have an analog compressor on the front you can still use digital for track and busses. Cakewalk comes with three very usable comps. The 1176 style comp I find good for rock and roll compression, almost like a light switch going on and off. The Opto style comes in useful for lead stuff like vocals and guitars, holding and swelling the instrument out front but in a subtle way. Finally the “buss” comp is my favorite and works well for glue. Ps Another reason that samples and loops sound good in our own productions is that the samples are already comped and eq to fit songs.

Re: the u 87 is a FET (solid state) version of the U 67. Same capsule etc. the original U 87 is called just that. It was quickly superseded by the U 87 Ai. The original unit is preferred by some for tone, but it is down -3dB compared to the Ai. The Warm unit is based on the original unit and needs a good pre to get the most out of it. I find the Warm unit good. It can sound (like the Neumann) strange in isolation but is usually good or great in the context of the production.

I’ve got the Warm 47 and it is pretty good vox mix. The 251 is better still, esp for vocals, tho that is what I’ve heard from others, not from use (tho one studio I’ve used us to have one and it was great on female vox). Chad at signal arts tricks them out as well as makes his own mics. He used to be with warm and helped design their 47. That would be a $1000 solution or so. I’ve been meaning to send in my 47. He has over your budget 47s and 250s he makes but under your budget FET 47 etc. another great all around eq in your price range is the microtech m930. It is made by the Neumann 2nd factory set up during wwii when Berlin was problematic. The ruskies overran it and east Germany continued to make mics with the original m 7 capsule. The m930 uses their modern make. It looks like a baby Neumann but has a big sound. What you put in comes out so much change and I haven’t found anything it doesn’t work on, including vocals. another story is most studios used small diaphragm mics for vocals back in the day, but people walked off with them. They couldn’t do that with 47s etc. and Ive used the small oktava mc 012 for primarily female vox. Works great and is another all rounder for most instruments.

To get to the secret decoder page go to other links home cakewalk. It will lead to a page which has the two “new” DAWs info. Click and read and you’ll have all the information available to those of us outside of Cakewalk authorized folk. hint: the free version of CbB will go away at some unspecified point in the future. Then you have to pay for your daw like regular shlubs, not the special customers you are now. ? @