Soundwise

19 minutes ago, Joakim said:

I’m a good drummer, ok bass player and mediocre keyboard player but terrible guitar player and I love the session guitarist series. I can’t see anything negative  about having tools like this available for people like me.

I love Superior Drummer 3, and my (former) drummer - amazingly talented musician - hates it. Well, he still thinks it's an awesome software product, but he started getting so few studio recording calls that he had to quit playing drums for living and work in the office instead. Nothing negative, just a life story.

Maybe I'm amazed or maybe it's very sad, that people don't need to master real instruments any longer as they can simply draw and readjust rectangles in the dadgum piano roll.

I'm happy with Filmora, as it enables me to get same quality results faster and easier than Vegas Pro or Magix Movie Edit Pro.

2 hours ago, mibby said:

Rent-to-own needs to be the new standard for subscriptions...

Izotope is notorious for releasing major versions every year. Eventually this rent-to-own model becomes a subscription model.

FWIW, had I been a fan of iZotope plugins, running a professional studio, I wouldn't mind paying a monthly fee to keep my business and theirs afloat.

2 hours ago, mibby said:

It looks like you just need to be logged in. All of the amps are $29 when I'm browsing the website...

I see normal prices, logged in or out. What kind of sorcery do you use to turn them down?

56 minutes ago, antler said:

I know guitar tone is subjective, but can anyone recommend any good PA amps? I was thinking the Fuchs ones sound quite nice.

They are very nice indeed. Also, consider Engl E765 RT. My favorite PA ampsim so far.

8 hours ago, Olaf said:

My favorites - BusterSE, and G Comp.

Thanks, Olaf! I'll check that little buster against the big boys.

Overloud plugs, especially, GEM series, are top-notch. These guys know to code.

On 2/19/2021 at 10:42 PM, 53mph said:

It's Russian for Chevy Chase.

For Buttterworth.

2 hours ago, abacab said:

Why?

Drum notation is displayed in treble clef. Changing clef to the correct and even specifying that this is a drum track doesn't help.

If MIDI keyboard performance isn't quantized, notes that are slightly off the beat look funny and there is no setting to "quantize" the displayed notes.

Haven't checked TABs, because the "score" , although it looks beautiful, is not really useful.

2 hours ago, abacab said:

It is meant to integrate with Notion, which has more comprehensive scoring features. But with SO5 on it's own, it's really just an alternative view to the piano roll. Like in Cakewalk.

I understand that. Score editor is supposed to make piano roll data humanly readable. Both Cakewalk's and SO's viewers leave a lot to be desired in that area and are more like toys than tools.

Just demoed SO5. It's definitely not worth the upgrade price. Pretty much the same functionality as SO4. No jacket required No new bells and whistles have had any use in my mixing/recording workflow.

Channel monitoring is buggy as hell. I had to toggle its state between takes just to be able to hear what was recorded. For some reason the Tape style monitoring setting has no effect on its behavior.

Score view is a joke.

Recording to takes works fine, but why on Earth the last take is not selected automatically? Why do I have to hear all takes playing back simultaneously?

The only thing I liked is the mix scenes feature - it resets mixer settings instantly, smoothly, without any dropouts.  

Huge disappointment overall. I'm glad I demoed it first.

8 minutes ago, mibby said:

That's a pretty good price, but it was a TOTAL no-brainer $79 bucks around Xmas which is when I picked it up.  ?

 

Thanks, mibby! I wouldn't have missed that sale had I been able to walk and talk.

43 minutes ago, 53mph said:

I'm guessing all of us here use CbB, right?

Why do you need to buy another DAW? Isn't it overkill?

That's a good question! In my case, it's different workflows and sets of tools. Like Laravel vs Vue.js, for lack of a better example.

Doesn't get cheaper than this, does it? I guess it's time to upgrade.

1 hour ago, kevin H said:

One would think that after owning 30 tuners I would have perfect pitch but I think I need to get to 40 for that

Maybe you are too sharp because you're way past 11?

Nice metering and fresh looks! Me likes!

1 minute ago, 53mph said:

I meant Linux.....but I'm sure you knew that.

Did I? Of course not! One of the advantages of staying clean and sober is the ability to tell a penguin from a lynx. Just saying.

38 minutes ago, 53mph said:

No, this Lynx LYNX

Hmm...

I just googled 'lynx for coding'. Did you mean this? I still fail to see how lynx sprays, lynx online coding platform and studio time are related to what is being discussed.

I was genuinely interested when you mentioned Lynx in this thread. Now it seems it's a waste of time, just as you said.

10 minutes ago, 53mph said:

Lynx is great for coders who find great pleasure in coding for the sake of coding. For a musician, it's just a waste of valuable studio time.

What Lynx? This Lynx?

58 minutes ago, Shane_B. said:

I hear it's legal in the 3 southern states. Not the one I live in though. Nope.

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ID44 isnt' easy to configure for reamping and loopback. When it's set and starts working I tend to forget how it was done. I wish they had user presets, like Focusrite interfaces do. 

I have ID44 and was able to use it for reamping.

28 minutes ago, Brian Hunsaker said:

Now I haven't changed any settings in the "ID" software, which I think I may need to.

You surely do.

Try this first and let us know if it helps.

https://www.gearslutz.com/board/low-end-theory/1267458-reamp-audient-id44.html

Is this legal? Call the police!

1 hour ago, Esteban Villanova said:

Hi, I’m running AV Linux (newbie) and it’s working well so far. How do you install plugins from packages?

Noramlly, since it's a Debian based distribution, running "sudo apt install package_name" is the main approach, if the required program or utility exists in the repository. Depending on the package, you may need to use other installation methods, described somewhere in READMEs and/or HOWTOs.

But AVLinux used to have a utility to install software provided and supported by distro developers. Not sure if it's still there.

Linux is great for software development. I also use it for my University studies, online classes and web-surfing. For audio recording or video making even remotely close to professional quality one should use Windows or MacOS based machines. Linux audio production, while not completely impossible, is a major PITA.  I gave up on this many years ago.

7 hours ago, Maestro said:

Waveform looks good, functionally, but I really can't stand looking at it.

Sunshine looks good, functionally, but I really can't stand looking at it, either.

2 hours ago, Sander Verstraten said:

I'd love to try some music making under Linux. But since I am running a Roland Octacapture it's a no go.

Currently I use Linux platform way more frequently, than Windows 10 and all the awesome audio stuff I've paid for. Once in a while I need to quickly sketch my musical ideas or edit audio.  Waveform just makes my life easier. I don't fancy running a full-blown audio production on Linux. Not anymore.