So should I do two XLR to TRS cables balanced or unbalanced into my interface? Whenever you can use balanced cables, use them. Your audio will thank you for it. Indeed it will - when using unbalanced audio cables you can minimise the amount of external interference getting in by carefully routing ...

One reason for my cynicism is that Audient seem to be clearly trumpeting their discrete op amp Class-A preamps https://audient.com/technology/mic-pre-technology/ yet the pictures here https://khronscave.blogspot.com/2021/02/66-audient-id22-teardown.html quite clearly show 5532 ICs behind the mic ...

Glad you're sorted Arpadsr! 8-) With larger sysex files, buffer sizes and particularly the delay between each one does become more important. My reliable MIDIOX settings for both the Korg M1 & Wavestation are: Input buffers: 512 bytes, 64 off Outut buffers: 512 bytes, 64 off Delay between buffers ...

(Bet you wish you'd never asked, Martin ! :lol: Not at all Ian! I asked my question because there seem to be a lot of dither options available to us nowadays, including both more traditional flat and noise-shaped options, plus various more mathematical constructs such as Dark from Chris Johnson of ...

Check the blue buttons at the top. You get triggering on positive edges or falling edges, variable sensitivity, variable timebase and single shot. If you would like more then, being a JS effect, you can always add extra features yourself. Yes, I found those, but have spent a lot of time over the ...

Depending on your current needs and choice of interface you might be able to ditch the mixer entirely, which is worth considering to potentially simplify and shorten the recording chain. +1 on this approach - when I abandoned my mixer many years ago I was frankly amazed at how much cleaner my ...

Reaper users have a reasonably good oscilloscope built in. Do we! and where is it? and here's me just about to go and buy something. :thumbup: I didn't know either, but I've just found the JS: Oscilloscope Meter plugin Seems a bit basic though, unless I've missed some controls. Having said that, I ...

The trouble I have is "who is AI?" music isn’t about just music, it's about who made it, their lifestyle, the whole package, and I certainly connect all those things if I like something, and often I like the person more than the music. I resonate with this, and it's one of the main reasons I love b ...

Drew Stephenson wrote: ↑Tue Apr 29, 2025 8:54 pm Maybe not for games though, as there are added complexities for how game sounds have to work based on player activity.

Ironically, I suspect that AI could well be used sensibly to generate different variations of musical beds to mimic changes in gameplay based on player activity.

Yes, I set up a three-depth system last week, and got very good results, being able to place everything close, mid or distant within the same space. Previously I just employed two reverbs - one for a small room which was mostly early reflections, and the other a hall for more distant stuff, but this ...

Who is claiming AI purports to generate great art, note I distinguish between 'generate' and 'create' simply because AI can "generate images indistinguishable" does not mean it haas created anything, that is the whole thing about Art, it is the creative element about it, which makes it great, the ...

For me, AI generated art and music have no value. I’m sure AI art generation is now able to generate images indistinguishable from masterpieces by the great artists, but to me they are worthless. Great art is about communicating, or evoking, something profound about the human condition. Without the ...

fortunagd wrote: ↑Mon Apr 28, 2025 9:21 pm We are a group creating a AI-driven platform for music generation, to empower music creators and connect them to global monetization opportunities.

Well you lost any potential support from me with that single sentence

It does look like good value Dave, especially if you need coverage up to 10MHz, although for basic audio purposes I still use the freeware Visual Analyser PC software utility for my oscilloscope and spectrum analyser requirements: https://www.sillanumsoft.org/prod01.htm It does everything I need to ...

Hi cbg342, and welcome to the SOS Forums! 8-) Now my first thought was that is was a bit cheeky to post on the forum for a world-renowned music technology magazine like Sound On Sound magazine ;) However, that was before I went off and had a read of your 'Zine', which is not only a fascinating read ...

I liked the vid because Milton himself is giving an entertaining performance Yes, he did. He's clearly very passionate about Hendrix and I'll be subscribing to his channel, so thanks for posting it and introducing his stuff to me. I'm sure he's as passionate about everything he turns his attention ...

Folderol wrote: ↑Mon Apr 28, 2025 5:46 pm My workshop is the last one of the event just before the closing ceremony.

Wow - you've got top billing then Will

Well done on flying the flag for Yoshimi Pi

Wow, that looks like a great gig

Whether or not Thunderbolt and outperform USB seems asmot entirely dependent on the efficiency of its drivers. Have a look at this very recent YouTube video measuring the round trip latency of eight different USB 2.0 interfaces running at 48kHz sample rate with a 128-sample buffer size: https ...

To be honest, more often than not if I create any presets while working with plugins within Reaper, I save them using Reaper's own preset system rather than any specific to the plugin, and then periodically back this up to another drive. On my PC I can find these presets at: C:\Users\Martin\AppData ...

I have friends (and one son) who play classical music professionally and most of them couldn't improvise their way out of a wet paper bag or busk a standard or pop tune. I know these guys can be creative, they all compose some brilliant music but it seems to be that, for them, 'if it ain't written ...

I agree about RME - when I lasted upgraded my audio interface I was well pleased both with the sound and driver performance of my Fireface UC - RME really do offer top notch USB 2.0 performance due to them writing their own driver software rather than relying on generic versions written by another ...

Ah, that IS another worry, especially now that the folder for 'user presets' seems to be buried in a different locations for each and every VST/VSTi. Where I've spent time creating my presets I do tend to periodically track down their location and copy them to a separate 'Software Presets' folder on ...

Yes, Bob Fripp is an interesting case, and I LURVE his guitar work! However, to me he gets his expression not from finger-bent notes and whammy bar excursions (that style is superbly catered for by Adrian Belew from 'Discipline' onwards), but via the intricate and somewhat unique way he puts his ...