I have to have everything within reach, like a cockpit, my studio is a horseshoe shape, and "everything" has to be in there, I really can’t get my head around these studios that have everything all over the place, like effects racks on the floor so you have to kneel down squint and operate something ...

Sounds like peaks distorting, just flatten them out, limit or compress, don’t know if Audacity has volume editing envelopes like Reaper, but that’s what you need, just go through and reduce the spikes.

Been listening to Just Be, started out and drew me in, but then the drums came in, not a reflection on you, it’s just my drumaphobic nature.
It would have been good to think of a more unpredictable way to develope it, the sounds underpinning it sound great.

I solved this problem using two ART CLEANBoxPro Pro/Consumer level converters between my Allen & Heath GL2400 Mixer and my Dangerous Compressor patched into the master bus inserts. Works flawlessly. And as I recall it was Hugh who suggested it! So did I, balanced mixer outs to my Quad 405, and, it ...

Thats the thing with modular. NObody ever finishes music it's just bits and bobs :P Guilty of that myself with mine It’s got to the point where the time I spend rearranging, trying to think of starting points, and just not using it at all, has made me take it out of the studio altogether. Modular i ...

I’d go the vintage desk route, the number if amazing old desks in good order I see these days going for little money is incredible, something like a Midas Venice, or a Soundcraft 24 easily found for under 2k GBP.

Get Reaper, and just dive in with a few good sample packs, Spitfire Audio for example.

Bob is right, I think you’re trying to do too much here, and your expectations are way too high given your current resources. What form do your compositions take? if they are orchestral in nature you will never get the results you expect with a keyboard, you may with a decent sample library but even ...

adrian_k wrote: ↑Sun Mar 29, 2026 7:45 am There is a learning curve

Honestly, I’m useless with anything like this, if I can use it in half an hour anyone can, it’s the best most easiest music software on the planet, period.

Ben Asaro wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2026 3:46 pm

Arpangel wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2026 2:54 pm
Do you think you’d buy one? the Hydrasynth.
I’ve yet to check one out.

I would want to compare the desktop version to the Novation Peak, which is the other poly synth very high on my Want list.

A friend bought a Summit, it’s become the centre of his world.

Got to experience both the OpSix and the Hydrasynth last night. They Hydrasynth totally blew me away. Probably blasphemy to say this, but it reminds me of a modern take on VAST. Super cool! I don't know if other synth meets are like the one in NYC, but I'm finding it's a constant and powerful ...

Funny how that happens.... :shifty: Hi Hugh, or is that Hugh High? :) Yesterday I went out and left the doors to the house open, just drove passed them and didn’t notice, I almost flushed my pants down the toilet and tried to put the loo roll on, so something as complicated as computer audio doesn’t ...

My DX7 had a serial number just over 1000. I think I may have been pretty much the first person down in New Zealand to acquire one. Couple of years ago I was in Oxford and dropped into the sadly now defunct PMT. They had received a DX7 as a trade in. Someone had fitted a handle to the case and it ...

Maybe they just didn't like you... :lol: I’ve bought lots of things from them, if we’re talking about not liking anyone, I didn’t like the guys attitude, it was very off-hand, and very abrupt, all I asked was can I have one, and his attitude was like a high end car salesman that thinks you’ve got no ...

I don't know what was going on with your RME preamps but I'd be very surprised if they were really as bad as you say. There are loads of people who have no issues with RME, so it serves no purpose to go on about my experiences, and every piece of audio equipment has it’s "characteristics" that we e ...

……….. traditional console software ………… Just a passing thought, if you want to save screen real estate, you can operate the console software from any MIDI controller (I use a cheap as chips Akai MIDImix to operate the console in the Apollo). Bob Bob, I’ve been looking at those, are they easy to set ...

When the Korg 2600FS came out I phoned Andertons straightaway to put one on pre-order, expecting to pay a deposit, the guy said we want full payment up front, I said what? no way, he said "that’s the way we do things" I said this is the way I do things, and put the phone down.

Sam Spoons wrote: ↑Fri Mar 27, 2026 9:50 am Surely the link switch would link the channels regardless of where the inputs came from?

This TL 2021 is so confusing, and I’m not sure if it’s behaving erratically, it’s been a total pain lately.

It’s a toss up between that and the Audient ID48, I like the ergonomics of the SSL, but the performance of the ID48 is probably better, Midi connections aren’t an issue really, I just found a Midi interface here I didn’t even know I had!

Decided to buy the SSL18. Put prejudices aside, it just seems like it ticks all the boxes for me, no gaudy colour scheme, solid build, knobs, traditional console software (important) and the paper spec's are excellent, lots of flat lines everywhere. Nice meters, a very useful talk-back feature, DC ...

The mic pre's on my old rme fireface 400 weren't great, grainy and a bit thin sounding, I wonder if it was an older rme model you heard and didn't like. My new rme has much much better mic pre's to my ear, they're just clean, clear and quiet. I bought my UCX in 2013, is that considered old? thats ...

I couldn't help wondering - and I appreciate this is somewhat off-topic, but hey, it's Friday - how Arpangel feels about some of the more 'off the wall' designs recently Manufacturers have one goal, and that’s to keep cash flow moving. We don’t "need" any of this stuff, and none of it is innovative ...

Combination of link switch and not understanding the status of the inserts, I’ve always preferred feeding compressors from channel outputs, it can give side effects if you change levels though.

You might feel Toni that it would be a good idea for SoS to do a "shootout" of a gang of interfaces at a range of prices and facilities? That they don't do this I would suggest it might be due to cost and the sheer logistics of getting firms all to supply products at the same time for test. Dave ...

I would try the mic amps in the SSL, and compare them with the A&H, but ultimately I’d like to use the mixer, what I’m more concerned with is the overall sound quality of the converters and monitoring section. Yep, that's why I noted the SSL's line inputs bypass the unit's preamps so your A&H pre ...