Bapu

I hope to inherit his pics collection.

There's software for that now.

It's the industry standard, doanchyaknow.

Yo Ho Ho and bottle of Rum?

Pffft, I pretty much can't hear cymbals in a full mix.  Generally I can hear the cymbals in a full solo'd drum bus mix fairly well. If I send my collaborators a mix where I can really hear the cymbals the way I like I'm sure you can imagine what they say. "Turn the frackin' cymbals down!!!!"

Did some online tests and it appears I really start to lose it 6KHz and above. So I really rely on my ability to just barely hear the cymbals in a solo'd drum bus mix and I am usually not told very bad things about the cymbals in a mix.

15 minutes ago, synthmeister said:

deal seems dead.

Almost any MF (Musicians Friend) post by Lars is a Deal of The Day or a Deal of The Hour. The OP was on Saturday. Gotta be quick. ? 

Although I still like Ivory II and the Italian Grand, lately I've been enamored with Waves' Rhapsody Piano and/or Wavesfactory Mercury. 

Freddie Lives!

16 minutes ago, bitflipper said:

Gotta add, though, that despite having maybe 40 piano libraries in my collection, I have finally come around to believe that the future of piano VIs is not conventional sample libraries, but rather physical modeling. I was a skeptic for a long time, and for good reason. But today we are this close to modeled pianos that are indistinguishable from a high-end sample library - but only take up a few hundred megabytes, load in an eye blink and have 5-10x the velocity layers. 

Yup.

21 hours ago, Josh Wolfer said:

I think the title says enough, but in case it doesn't....

Drum maps are almost unusable. They're extremely cumbersome and should be completely revamped. In a dream world, this is how I'd want it to work:
 

• In the Track, I can define whether or not the midi track is for percussion (drum map) or for standard midi notes (standard piano roll)
• If Drum Map is chosen, I can double click on the PRV note to rename it to whatever sound is triggered (IE: Kick out, Kick in, snare top, so forth)
• Multiple out assignment: I want to trigger multiple percussion instruments simultaneously and should be able to say that map note X triggers both output NoteX+instrument1 and noteY+instrument2
  • This is for layering percussion that should be triggered together. 

These are the core items. I'm not even sure what else. I was excited when I just thought about drum maps and after trying to set it up, in its current form, it's not even worth my time. 

Yeah, for years (like 15 at least for me) we've been asking for a better Drum Mapping system. Ent seen it yet.

On 6/6/2020 at 12:08 PM, Wibbles said:

This might come in handy to prevent the spread of the virus:

Daryk, Wibbles suggested this.

On 6/2/2020 at 5:37 AM, Wookiee said:

Some nice playing on this, mix is dense but things cut through OK.

Yes Wookie, I've been told I'm dense before.

Thanks for the listen.

2 minutes ago, daryl1968 said:

Which one is and which one is me (in your dreams)?

Wait... I already know the answer to that one.

12 hours ago, StudioNSFW said:

Like I said to her one night "You're not supposed to actually blow on it..."

That sucks.

One other caution from my experience. ProTools on Windows is a dog when you start getting up to large amounts of FXs. 

ProTools on Windows is not as efficient as on a Mac.

My Win 10 Pro Machine is  32 GB of DDR3 RAM & 3.4GHz i7 2600K 3.4 Quad Core

My 2014 MacBook Pro is 16GB 1600 Mhz DDR3 RAM & 2GHz i7 Quad Core

I have a tutorial project that will drop the audio engine after about 30 seconds of play in PT on Win 10. The whole song will play on the MacBook Pro. Maybe the Mac VSTs are more solid? IDK. 

Also, PT will does allow  buffers over 1024. It tells you you're out of RAM and try switching to Native VSTs. Huh?

Oh yeah, I have ProTools Native not HD.

My Dad worked for Snap On Tools once upon a time.

2 minutes ago, James Foxall said:

I appreciate your perspective, thanks!

I consider myself an expert on Sonar and I've used Cakewalk software since the mid 90s. I only left during the sale debacle which led me to Studio One. I found Studio One to be far more stable than Sonar was, and the integration with Faderport 16 is top notch. I still have a special place in my heart for Sonar and I defend it has having many innovative features before any competitors. I pull up old projects in it, but I don't use it for new ones.

Ditto.

I only use CbB to create a tracking shell with markers, tempo and time signature data for a few of my die-hard CbB collaborators and send along a tracking WAV or stems as needed.

James,

I don't use Pro-Tools but I own a perpetual license. What I do with it thus far is export stems from (*cough* cough*) Studio One and import them into Pro-Tools and can send that session to my friend who is a Pro-Tools only guy. He's a live mixer and wants to learn record production. His live rig is 99% of the time an AVID desk so he can play around with mixes while on the road.

The other thing I do is use when a tutorial offers the session in Pro-Tool format I can really study it.

Gotta agree with @StudioNSFW that unless you want to open a for hire studio owning a copy may keep an adament "you user ProTools right?" client.

2 minutes ago, craigb said:

I'm guessing that requires permission from the Lovely Lady, ya? ?

Request filled out in 3-Part long form, mebee.

Saw what was left of them (Graeme, Justin, John) quite few years back here in town. They had a few young bucks to bolster them a bit. An E-Drummer and a young woman on keyboards and flute. Graeme just tapped the drums, almost like he didn't want to be there. He did introduce his grandkids in the audience. 

4 minutes ago, synkrotron said:

Sorry, Ed, it was only open to people with the first name of "Craig" and only for a very, very short window.

You will have to wait for a similar "Ed" based deal.

Are you saying I need to take the blue pill, then?

Naught.

The old juan is rusting to bits.

50 minutes ago, craigb said:

  Well, the jokes on you Budsk!  I just bought both, AND, because Beach said I could "Name My Price" I bought it for £-100! ??

Actually, upon thinking about it, I've got some gear I want, so I might just buy Beach again for £-10,000 this time! ?

Is that 'deal' still on?

I like the more solid nature of the characters in the circular vs the transparency nature in the straight version.

But both logos are excellent IMO.