OutrageProductions

I'm with you there... some movie balances are great, others are absolutely horrendous. I think it comes from hiring music guys to mix the 5.1 without dialog experience, or else the dub stage is not Dolby calibrated (I had to re-cal a sound stage in Vancouver several years back cuz it was so out of whack).

Insider info from the RIAA and Grammy directorate have pushed for this because most of the streaming services are stomping down levels to where it alters the music in an unappreciated way. Cheers to the return of dynamic range!

Especially those that pile 15 plugins on each instrument channel in search of the elusive Valhalla. I can do an entire score with less than 6 effect plugins in entirety.

As someone who has been mixing music for albums and film for almost 50 years, if it passes muster for myself and a very few respected colleagues, it will definitely work for the vast majority of the target audience.

When you create post/reply in the toolbar at the top of the input form is an icon that looks like a chain link. You can highlight a word or phrase and embed it there. If you paste a link to a YT vid, scroll down just a bit and there will be a button that says <insert> (IIRC). Edit: Delete everything before the <https...> and after <dGH...> and try that.

It's easier if they are hosted somewhere that provides a link and a decent video engine... Like YT or Vimeo... and it doesn't eat into your maximum attachment UL limit on this forum.

Opinions are like A##holes, everyone has one, thinks they're entitled to proclaim it to the masses, and most of them stink thanks to YT. As an over-educated and practicing Electrical Engineer for over 40 years, I'll state these facts, which obviously only apply to the accurately emulated analog modeling algorithms, most of which one has to pay real money for: Beyond the EQ curve or compression ratio are factors that are captured from the analog circuitry that are meant to emulate things like Intermodulation distortion, Total Harmonic distortion, slew rate, hysteresis, and transformer ringing, among other stuff that gives a distinct difference (to well trained ears) between, for example, a Dbx 160x and a genuine Teletronix LA2. They actually sound different if done correctly as a plug-in, as they do in the hardware version. Does the "average" wannabe musician/recordist/content creator know the difference? No. Therefore, it matters to a very slim minority of modern engineers.

@Starship Krupa I believe that you have landed upon a perfect basis for a Masters Thesis in either mechanical engineering, music, or acoustics.

Google "RTFM"

You have most likely pressed the shortcut to turn off <snap to grid>.

Especially since I've never been enamored by the 'SEGA 8 bit' sound for which it was so renowned.

When that happens in my facility, I just hire different singers. 😁

I have a lot of respect for anyone that can approach what is very nearly 'stride' piano and nail it!

I saw the Eagles perform (unannounced & clandestine) in a little bar in Lyons, Colorado in the fall of 1975. I just stopped in for a few minutes on a road trip. They were singing for themselves then, although it may have been one of the last times doing so...

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/drums/abbey-road-vintage-drummer/equipment-details/ Scroll down to the equipment list... antique shells & calfskin heads, and they sound old. And my copyrights from the films that I score won't allow me to post samples, sorry.

NI has the Abbey Road Vintage drums, sampled with old skin heads & brushes. I use it often when doing 20's & 30's jazz tracks & Dixieland. I searched extensively in other libraries and nothing compares. Battery 3 had a great brush set circa 2005, but the kit was much newer and brighter.

Welcome to the party. I've been using PaulXStretch since it was in Beta in 2016. Wonderful tool.

Your lowest RTL (round trip latency) using the Realtek is 30 milliseconds. If you use the actual ASIO driver and your Focusrite for I/O, you should be able to get that RTL comfortably below 10 milliseconds. I use a Presonus I/O with ASIO drivers and have a RTL of 7.4ms without choking.

If one uses Windows audio for anything, yes, agreed. However... for decades, all my machines send system audio and apps through my ASIO devices exclusively.

Or even a couple of the much better Windows based DAWs that can cut/paste/replace & slip edit video directly in the DAW.

Windows 11: <Sound> control panel, [choose either] <Recording> or <Playback> tab, select desired Input/Output device, select <Properties> [new dialog opens for chosen device input/output], go to <Advanced> tab, chose desired channel/bit rate/sample freq.

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You might try looking in the manual for "Mix Scenes" and/or "Mix Recall".

You may want to look at the Amadeus Symphony Orchestra @ $149. Most of the common articulations, small footprint. I use it a lot to sketch in orchestration then revoice with my bigger better libraries.