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Guy Rowland wrote: ↑Sep 11, 2024 4:27 pm On sale this week for $199. Any positive experiences out there?

If I say what I think Nick Phoenix will hear about it and come here berate as a traitor looking for revenge against EW

For all the good he accomplished, I believe that the blame for this lies firmly on Steve Jobs. Steve declares that EVERYBODY could be a good photographer, or film maker, or composer, or artist or (fill in the blanks) if they were only given affordable tools that weren't too difficult to learn to use...

In his autobiography “Anyone Who Had A Heart” Burt Bacharach said that he never really appreciated how great Hal David’s lyrics were until much later. He just treated them as syllables to sing his notes.

He regretted it later.

Bad Monkey on Apple TV is a lot of fun. The dialogue is smart and funny and Vince Vaughn is terrific.

Btw, if you need a stage piano for live use, you really should check out Dexibell. They rival or exceed Nords, in my opinion.

https://www.indiginus.com/real-rotor-organ Sounds really good, Kontakt version and Decent Sampler for iPad and iPhone use. Also, over the years I have asked Tracy to provide me with SF2s of some so I can use them on my two Dexibell Vivo Stage Pianos and now with this he has included them. They shoul...

No SWAM for me but yes, CSW and V-Winds saxes and brass. And I am only really doing original songs and cues these days, which I don't think of a mock ups since they will be the final version for most of the parts. I also still use and enjoy the Fluffy Audio woodwinds a lot. They are very soulful.

I will say this. I remember going to see “Lord Of Yhe Dance” and there was a girl who played electric violin and as you Brits would say,, Guy, it sounded bloody marvelous:)

Please pardon the OT, not sure it’s worth a thread: I had the hardware LA-2A on a PCI-e card for years and it was my favorite compressor. There seems to be some warmth missing in the Native version (which I now have.) It could be my imagination, it could be a different mic, dunno. Before I removed ...

Ah, the Connect doesn’t bother me, I just close it. While I don’t miss the latency of the UAD-2 Quad, there are a handful of the plugins I would really miss, like the Capitol Chambers, Ampex ATR, Manley Massive Passive, Lexicon 224, and their compressors. They aren’t necessarily better than others b...

The Century Tube channel, native version, is free for a short while.

Early days for me with it, but my initial impression is that I won’t use it on everything, but certain things it will come in handy for.

I just got it as well. As those of you who know me know, I don't play guitar, not a lick, but I often get comments on how realistic the guitars sound on my recordings and Pettinhouse guitars are among the most frequently employed. This update made a very good library even better.

I use my Apple wired ear buds with my iPhone while walking with Milo. That's about all I use them for.

Logic calls it’s one’s Studio Strings, Big Fella.

Jay, do you ever do this when there's no beats/bar grid ie on a dumb WAV? If so, how do you manually find / select / audition the loop points? Since all the audio I edit is either in a song or a picture cue there is always a temporal reference for me if I simply draw over the section with the Marqu...

Believe it or not, Logic Pro has good Disco Strings, with multiple articulations in an Articulation set.

In Logic Pro I simply select the bars/beats/division/ticks. or minutes/seconds/frames and press the key command for Set Locators by Selection to create a Cycle, move the playhead to the desired position and then the key command for Copy Section from Locators. Or if I want it to repeat, select the ba...

Many years ago, I got to chat with Don McLean when we were on the same telethon. He said that when the record company told them they were releasing “Vincent” as a single, he told them they were crazy, that nobody would understand he was talking about Van Gogh and his famous painting or would know ne...

If I needed to get closer to a real Vox Continental than I can get with the Logic Pro Vintage Organ, which I don't, I would just get this.
https://www.acousticsamples.net/super2

Well, as a lifetime singer-songwriter for me it definitely varies depending on the song and the genre.

Inflator is not really an exciter, is it? I think of it more as a bicycle pump for audio. To be used gently. The plugin lost some of its lustre when people discovered, a few years ago, that they could get close — some even claim: spot on — with any old waveshaper, but I still like it. I also like t...

Thanks, Geoff.

I just did something I normally would not do in buying this. Why? Because of nostalgia. In the mid '60's I bought and played a Wurlitzer 140B for several years. It was problematic at times. It was a bit noisy. If you broke a reed and bought a replacement, it would be out of tune, so you would either...

It was ever thus. My grandmother could not understand why my mother got so excited about Sinatra, "that skinny Italian kid" when Bing Crosby, well he was a REAL singer. My father, a drummer, couldn't understand why I was so excited by The Beatles and other British Invasion groups. He thoug...

I am finally starting to sort out my ambivalence to sampled guitar. First - without the physical feedback it is difficult for me to create a decent track, this inspite of the fact that a lot of these libraries sound better than my instruments. (talk about depressing!) But mostly, the sounds themsel...