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Blake Ewing wrote: ↑Jul 08, 2024 5:30 pm 112dB Mikron Cascade

I’ve always thought of it as a lighter version of Eventide Blackhole or Valhalla Shimmer, but maybe it’s more unique than that..?

Sounds really good!! Wish I used more upright bass in my music.

I agree about recording in LA, @ashermusic. But have you ever been in Lyndhurst Hall? It is a very special place that doesn’t quite sound like anything else. It is the one studio I think it actually makes sense to name drop when selling sample libraries. So I completely understand the rationale b ...

Jaap wrote: ↑May 18, 2024 12:23 pm A nice thing I like to use is to use the bias modulation option to sort of keysplit the keyboard or blend certain keyranges into eachother within a single preset.
With a bit of trickery you can even layout a sort of "multisample" preset with 4 samples (one per oscillator).

Nice one!!

I'm still attracted to the model of basic close mic set up, using fx for the room. So I'm going to be following this closely. CPU and real world experiences are particularly interesting to me. Real world experience; Alan Meyerson tend to leave the close mics out of the reverb sends, which aligns ...

I too make extensive use of the recent FLOW feature, a game changer for me, and I do have an ever growing Flow Folder as a musical scratchpad, collecting ideas and happy coincidences. Yeah, the flow feature is so great when noodling around, and you want to save stuff for later. Hardware synth ...

Oh, the arpeggiator is best in class too! Such a complete and mature synth. The guys at Spectrasonics have been at it for so long, and it shows!

Big fan of Omnisphere! I like to start from scratch with a sound source and go from there. One trick I particularly like is to trick Omnisphere into 4 round robins with user audio. Just put four samples on the timeline with the exact same spacing between start and end point, and modulate sample ...

Generally speaking they will sound better for detailed soloistic and virtuous passages, but not blend as well when for instance holding down a chord. At least that always seems to be the case with instruments recorded bone-dry compared to VIs recorded in a bigger room.

Curious about latency on these new ones that run natively. Latency has always been a deal breaker for me when it comes to the hardware based versions

Bought it, and it took me about 30 seconds to regret the purchase. Weird convoluted approach to sampling, and it didn’t sound good either.