Michael Fogarty

A chap is leaving Japan to return to the States and selling these almost new with stands and hi-end cables for $240 including shipping. I don't really "need "them as I have Dynaudio BM6a, Auratones, Yamaha HS50m and others for critical listening and Epos ES11, AAD hi-fi. Do they sound good? I have the JBL LSR305's (sold them) which were a little floppy but nice to track on as no fatigue. Has anybody heard and seen these Adam's? I'm not looking for comparisons as I don't need speakers. But I love speakers.

as mentioned in my post, he is a professional performer with no production skills.

hello. Have a friend who uses Sonar and he asks me here and there to make drum tracks for him for his work with mentally challenged kids. He is a professional performer but no production skills. I remember once when I did some kids songs a couple of years (or more) back there were media files -hip hop, latin, 8beat, etc I could access. I don't use those in my present station, but is there a way I could download those or even he as a Sonar user could download those? Sorry I can't be more of a help but I don't even know what they were called. There were some pretty nice energetic loops for kids that followed the tempo of your project that would be perfect for this pro bono work. Thanks everybody.

yes, its amazing isn't it. I set mine to time instead of amount of changes as I sometimes will track an event in event list and move it from 25 -70 one increment at at a time. Adds up quickly. edit: sorry, read the whole thread and it seems you may have other issues. Don't know how to delete a post.

Thank you John. Hi. Number 1 won’t work, as I mentioned in my post, my transport won’t be running so how can I record the midi data? Number 3, they ? don’t have the same VST instruments otherwise why I am going to this trouble. Number 2 I see. That is the purpose of that “enable midi out”. Thank you. Will this work - thought of this as I woke up. Send my midi out to his midi in to a track on his computer (no triggered VST ). Send the midi out of his interface to my computer and use it like an external module. Seems the simplest. Or am I missing something (probably.) Number 2 seems like a winner.

so, I am doing a session tomorrow and this is probably a simple answer but not getting my head around it. I am recording keys at a clients house. I want to trigger my sounds (VST) on my computer but he gets the midi data. My computers transport will not be running. But I will use midi out of my controller into midi in of Cakewalk. I will send him a stereo audio signal out in realtime. But how does he get the midi? If I send a midi out from my interface (Babyface) into his computer is that going to work? Will he get the data? Weird I can’t grasp this. Is midi thru what I am looking for?

I wish it were true. That is the set-up I am using. The only thing that could possibly be different is that the MOTU doesn't have the actual word "Toslink" as an option. You have either internal, optical, SPDIF, or LTC. I have chosen optical. The fact it also doesn't work with the Babyface caused the Asian Presonus rep (who gave me the unit) to think that even though it shows that the DP88 is in sync, it is a hardware problem and it isn't actually syncing. It is one of the early units. But, because I know you know your stuff (and I thought I did) I will try it again at a later date. Thanks for taking the time. This is my favorite line --"As long as everything is properly functional, it has to work."

Thanks for chiming in never got this working. Tried every possible combination. Presonus rep said the DP88 should be the master. Even tried using two cables, though you are not supposed to need to do that unless you are running at 192. Tried using the RME or the MOTU as the master. No go. Nothing worked. Ended up getting a DP 25 balanced connector.

hey. Lock tracks? Maybe that is what I should be looking up.

You know how you grab the bottom of a track and expand it to be smaller/ larger? For some reasons (and it only happens live and on my laptop) I try to grab that bottom line of the track to expand it and it won't grab. What setting is that? Does it lock? It never happens on the Busses.(why is busses not a word?)

yea, the ADHD plug probably has a hard time paying attention.

I love it when you talk that way.

this is working now thanks to Craig Anderton. Thank you Craig.

are we talking about about the same thing here? I thought I was completely understanding until I read this post. The thread is about the 64bit precision engine toggle being checked, different from the audio driver bit depth export options box where you can choose 16,24, etc. The 64 bit precision engine box is a toggle on and off switch just to the right of the Audio Driver bit depth up/down arrow pull down menu.

assuming you checked under the VST properties that it is not sending enable midi out. Also, did you try what I mentioned above. The place where there are double notes, try deleting the data and see if there were indeed two performances - this worked for me every time. How it got the two performances I don't know. Linking the tracks when copying wouldn't do that would it? After trying dedup, I looked up if there wer issues and it seems it doesn't work for most people.

in my case, I have double notes on the same track. Tried undup cal - doesn't work. So the reason this happens is that I had local control on by accident (cakewalk automatically shuts it off but I may have turned it on to practice on the controller)? How do you get rid of them outside of re-recording? In my case (edit) I opened the track lane and there was only one track so I thought it was ok. But I deleted it as a test and one remained. So I possibly copied over somehow? Interesting it doesn't go to another lane but doubles the lane that is there. One would never know. Anyway, I am good here but would love to avoid it happening in the future.

hello again. Could you expound on that a little or put a url? Very interested.

Yes, I have digital out of DP88 into digital in of interface and vice versa. I have the DP88 as the master as it seems that is suggested with these interfaces (RME Babyface/MOTU Ultralite MK4) as they have no clock? I tried with the interface as the master and no and exactly the same results. On the Motu I have complete silence with intermittent spikes (fills the .wav) and with the Babyface a constance light crackle. Anything else I can try? The DP88 has lovely pre-amps and wanting to recording organ with Leslie.

thank you. Will check it out.

Hey there. That is a real harp played in real time with no adjustments. She will be flattered you said less quantized. Guess her timing is pretty good.

Jim, I'm back. Trying to use my DP88 with my MOTU Ultralite Mk4 and setting it up like you, but getting pops. Upon further research, it seems the AVB MOTU units don't have word clock. Does that mean if I want to use it (or with my Babyface (not pro - the old one) I would have to set the DP88 to internal and the Interface (MOTU or Babyface) to sync? PS -tried it and it works. No pops. Amazing. PSS -tried it again and the pops are back. Hmm. PSSS - I need to be using two digital cables right? One for the MOTU out to the DP88 in and one from the DP88 out to the MOTU in? PSSSS -am going to try the Babyface now. Have found no solutions sfor the MOTU. PSSSST-the Babyface works. No outstanding Pops -spikes. But noisy floor.

disable all other audio devices and speakers in your system - be it NVIDIA Graphic Audio, Computer audio (Realtek) in Control Panel and do as John Vere above said. By computer speakers do you mean the ones inside your laptop, or desktop the one in your computer monitor? Or stand alone speakers? I know with my laptop I use my Babyface and if I take it downstairs to use for some reason I have to enable, disable. But its the way to go.

hi there. Yes, I said that. Sorry we are in different time zones (I live in Tokyo) so I couldn’t answer sooner. Good to hear you found the results you wanted. I suggest you send me the following: 1. A SMF (standard midi file) or .bun file of your project. As I am not offering to mix this, best is an .mp3 of the track rendered from 0 timeline, and a separate track of the vocal rendered from 0 timeline. The vocal should have no fx. (compression, eq., etc.) 2. A mix of the final song with the voice in it. That way I can see what we are aiming to improve. You have a demo of Studio? Interesting. I think Assistant is the sweet spot for pricing unless you are planning on tuning separate strings on a guitar or piano then you need to go up.

Hi. I really don't think anything compares with Melodyne and my vocals are the same. I can hear the sharpness and flatness and it ain't pretty. What I normally do is make a backup copy of the entire vocal track. Archive it. This is to have something to go back to and compare with if needed. Choose the suspicious phrase, I think Control R will open it in Melodyne. I can't remember is that is the default or I did it, but I think the default. Tune to your desire. You can render it, or as some of my clients are really worthy to be pitched and thankful for it I have many edits, so I just hit B which bounces it to track. I think you might lose a little bit of gain, but no sonic difference in quality. I got the Essentials one for free with Cakewalk (or maybe it was Sonar) but as it does not allow you to tweak the vibrato which makes a huge difference, I purchased the next up- Assistant? If you want a second opinion or to find out how good you (it) can sound, render me a stereo mix of the music and your voice separate and I will take a look at it. I am very careful what I spend these days, but I need Melodyne in my work flow.

been hearing a lot about these cans recently. Scared to look at the price. I have multiple sets of monitors but only one medium quality set of AKG cans. I’ll check them out.