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Re: TLA 2021 Compressor issues

Is it making a horrible noise?
If not, just keep using it until it dies.
If/when it does, it'll be much easier to diagnose the problem..
by Adam InglisWed Oct 16, 2024 11:52 pm
Forum: Recording: Gear + Techniques Topic: TLA 2021 Compressor issues Replies: 42 Views: 1862

Re: Well I never. Learned a new trick about FM synthesis

Hmm, I'll have to try this on my DX7.
Can you post some links?
When you say "frequency envelope" you mean the standard envelope as it applies to the modulator operator, yes?
by Adam InglisTue Oct 08, 2024 11:41 pm
Forum: Keyboards + Synthesizers Topic: Well I never. Learned a new trick about FM synthesis Replies: 1 Views: 445

Re: How can I get Waves off my Mac?

Pull it up to the dunes, away from the tidal zone.
by Adam InglisMon Apr 01, 2024 1:49 pm
Forum: Mac Music Topic: How can I get Waves off my Mac? Replies: 10 Views: 689

Re: Roland TR-606 hum when LEDs are on ...

OK so just to clarify on the PSU requirements for the TR-606: the original Boss/Roland ACA supply was indeed an unregulated model which is mentioned in the 606 Owner's Manual. There was a later wall wart, the PSA240. This is a regulated 9V 200ma supply. Having had my 606 for nearly 30 years, I can ...
by Adam InglisTue Nov 14, 2023 10:34 am
Forum: Recording: Gear + Techniques Topic: Roland TR-606 hum when LEDs are on ... Replies: 31 Views: 1480

Re: Note tails when "re-amping"

OK, well this is embarrassing. Some IDIOT left a noise gate on the Cubase output channel for the DI track. I don't know who it was, but when I find them, heads will roll :::facepalm::: OK, switching the noise gate off, it's sounding much more as expected now. And you were right Wonks, it needed a ...
by Adam InglisTue May 30, 2023 5:55 am
Forum: Guitar Technology Topic: Note tails when "re-amping" Replies: 12 Views: 578

Re: Note tails when "re-amping"

Regardless of why you're getting these 'note tails', using the DI as a gate side-chain to the distorted track might give you a cleaner result. Thanks Elf, but I'm not sure I want a "cleaner" result... The note tails I'm talking about are when you have a decaying note in a high gain, highly ...
by Adam InglisMon May 29, 2023 10:36 am
Forum: Guitar Technology Topic: Note tails when "re-amping" Replies: 12 Views: 578

Re: Note tails when "re-amping"

How are you setting the output level from the MOTU line out? Are you making sure it’s the same level as the original guitar signal? Aah... great question. Actually that probably gets to the heart of the matter.. I'm not really sure how to set this level, I'm basically doing it by ear. But there d ...
by Adam InglisMon May 29, 2023 9:59 am
Forum: Guitar Technology Topic: Note tails when "re-amping" Replies: 12 Views: 578

Re: Note tails when "re-amping"

That seems quite a complex arrangement to me. But that's just because I like simple things. For example, I wouldn't know (if it were me) whether I was making my mental comparison of the dry signal reamped against 1) or 2) above. I'd need to know that - again, that's just me. There is also - as you ...
by Adam InglisMon May 29, 2023 9:26 am
Forum: Guitar Technology Topic: Note tails when "re-amping" Replies: 12 Views: 578

Re: Note tails when "re-amping"

After reading about the Sans Amp module, I think I understand a bit more about the direct recording chain and the XLR output direct sound, but the two recording chains into the mixer leave me a bit baffled. Are you going for a wet/dry/wet mix? Still need to know how the reamping is achieved. Well ...
by Adam InglisMon May 29, 2023 9:21 am
Forum: Guitar Technology Topic: Note tails when "re-amping" Replies: 12 Views: 578

Note tails when "re-amping"

I'm engineering and playing on a track that requires a fairly heavy rock guitar sound (not something I do a lot of) and after weeks of lacklustre results I'm realising what many others have found: it's difficult to judge the amount processing/distortion required for the final mix when you have your ...
by Adam InglisMon May 29, 2023 7:19 am
Forum: Guitar Technology Topic: Note tails when "re-amping" Replies: 12 Views: 578

Re: You know that studio doorstop you keep tripping over?

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTQqlyEHXrot7PHbyLq4XUWOOD8xkEToqI6LROV2mnIOtX49ZTB4k7H723n97buxMOuanBYKFPjl1uj8CJHpuYmgeqhLV7KuIw6ig7SpQpUKQKvNe2cfMLfW712ZNTZfU1Tes7wVepcoElQGSvYdddoXY7ODNSYXfturr8ScvxX_e9nbDxtCSvRoK1Vw/w640-h480/IMG_2575.jpeg Update: I couldn't convince ...
by Adam InglisFri Feb 17, 2023 12:21 am
Forum: Keyboards + Synthesizers Topic: You know that studio doorstop you keep tripping over? Replies: 25 Views: 1322

Re: Cubase - range editing weirdness

I've certainly used the Arranger track, although much later in the process. It's a fairly brutal decision-making process because it results in a new project with just those arrangement parts in it. Early on in the process I often have instrumental or vocal parts recorded, sort of lying around, where ...
by Adam InglisSat Jan 14, 2023 12:11 pm
Forum: Mac Music Topic: Cubase - range editing weirdness Replies: 8 Views: 424

Re: Strymon NightSky Testing Uncovered Something Unusual

I never edit my BigSky, I find the system and interface unbelievably cumbersome, it could have been done much more elegantly, with a more comprehensive screen, all those heavy pedal switches and each bank with only three presets, please. Are we talking about the same machine? Cos mine has 9 knobs ...
by Adam InglisSat Jan 14, 2023 11:56 am
Forum: Keyboards + Synthesizers Topic: Strymon NightSky Testing Uncovered Something Unusual Replies: 34 Views: 2853

Re: Cubase - range editing weirdness

So it's my brain that's weird and not Cubase. Phew! So how would a power user go about this for example:- there's several audio tracks, say drums, bass, keys whatever that make up Verse 1, that you want to copy to make up the basis of Verse 2, however following Verse 1 there's a chorus, but after ...
by Adam InglisFri Jan 13, 2023 11:36 pm
Forum: Mac Music Topic: Cubase - range editing weirdness Replies: 8 Views: 424

Cubase - range editing weirdness

I'm on Cubase 8.5 on El Cap (yes, and small dinosaurs have been seen in the studio at times) I'm not sure if I've changed a preference or whether it always did this, but it's driving me bonkers... Using the Range tool to select a segment of an audio part, Option-dragging this to another area of the ...
by Adam InglisWed Jan 11, 2023 12:44 am
Forum: Mac Music Topic: Cubase - range editing weirdness Replies: 8 Views: 424

Re: Strymon NightSky Testing Uncovered Something Unusual

You also can’t edit the pedal on the fly like the Eventide, you have to guess the settings and Send them to the pedal using the Nixie software. Er.. my BSky sits next to my mixer and gets edited in real time like crazy! I love it! Especially on the Magneto setting! And that one with the monks' ...
by Adam InglisSun Jan 08, 2023 2:56 am
Forum: Keyboards + Synthesizers Topic: Strymon NightSky Testing Uncovered Something Unusual Replies: 34 Views: 2853

Re: Recording changes in Midi Quest

I don't know about Logic, but I do this in Cubase. Sorry, bit hazy on how to set it up... you have to make sure that the midi channel you're using to control/automate MQ can't be construed by MQ to come from the actual synth, otherwise MQ will ignore it (avoiding a midi loop of some kind). Have you ...
by Adam InglisWed Dec 28, 2022 9:59 pm
Forum: Mac Music Topic: Recording changes in Midi Quest Replies: 1 Views: 251

Re: Strymon NightSky Testing Uncovered Something Unusual

With the High and Low cut wide open, I measured the frequency response with the 100% dry and then 100% wet signal - there is no reverb above 7-8khz. Ah ha! That's why they sound so good! Really, you don't want much happening above that anyway (except for ER as Wonks says), the money is in the mid ...
by Adam InglisTue Dec 27, 2022 11:50 pm
Forum: Keyboards + Synthesizers Topic: Strymon NightSky Testing Uncovered Something Unusual Replies: 34 Views: 2853

Re: You know that studio doorstop you keep tripping over?

A modern properly setup computer can do much lower latency, without jitter, and with higher polyphony too, than any hardware sampler. C’mon Tomás, you’re being far too sensible. You don’t mean to tell me that this fellow would be having nearly as much fun if he were using Kontakt, do you? ;-) https: ...
by Adam InglisTue Dec 13, 2022 10:32 am
Forum: Keyboards + Synthesizers Topic: You know that studio doorstop you keep tripping over? Replies: 25 Views: 1322

Re: You know that studio doorstop you keep tripping over?

rha wrote: Sat Dec 10, 2022 10:09 pm
Can buy in the uk, also:
https://github.com/PiSCSI/piscsi/wiki

Not too expensive!

Would be interesting to know if you try it.

These people sell it all as a unit
https://samplerzone.com/products/chicke ... scsi-drive

It's looking tempting but I need more hands on details!!
by Adam InglisSun Dec 11, 2022 2:52 am
Forum: Keyboards + Synthesizers Topic: You know that studio doorstop you keep tripping over? Replies: 25 Views: 1322

Re: You know that studio doorstop you keep tripping over?

I used a SCSI to memory card interface with one of my old samplers before I moved them on. It needed no Pi, or anything other than plugging in. This one sounds a bit of a faff, TBH. It also looks a lot of bulk to be hanging from a SCSI port. True, but nothing stopping you from hanging it off an ...
by Adam InglisSun Dec 11, 2022 2:48 am
Forum: Keyboards + Synthesizers Topic: You know that studio doorstop you keep tripping over? Replies: 25 Views: 1322

You know that studio doorstop you keep tripping over?

Having pulled out and fired up my old Akai S3000XL, once again I'm completely gobsmacked just how good these machines sound, especially on drums! This interesting piece of gear has just caught my attention, that would seem to have the potential to bring these old machines back into the modern studio ...
by Adam InglisSat Dec 10, 2022 12:13 am
Forum: Keyboards + Synthesizers Topic: You know that studio doorstop you keep tripping over? Replies: 25 Views: 1322

Re: Korg M1 waverex card to add PCM sounds (repost, original post no longer exists)

Interesting products. I see they're also proposing a similar system for the Roland R-8, which I've always hoped for! But the website is a bit thin on hard data. Anyone using one of these in anger? I assume there would need to be some software to ensure the samples are correctly formatted etc? I have ...
by Adam InglisMon Oct 11, 2021 3:04 am
Forum: Keyboards + Synthesizers Topic: Korg M1 waverex card to add PCM sounds (repost, original post no longer exists) Replies: 7 Views: 1299

Re: No right click on MacBook Air M1 with Reaper.

If you are a Mac user and never tried Mission Control, I urge you to watch this short MacMost.com video and start using it. Hope it helps. Wow! That was really helpful, thanks. Using Macs since the 90s and I've always got around using command ~ or command tab, and not paid much attention to those ...
by Adam InglisSun Oct 10, 2021 12:25 am
Forum: Mac Music Topic: No right click on MacBook Air M1 with Reaper. Replies: 11 Views: 1032