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#22,181
steubig said:
26987613[/URL], member: 17475"]cool. glad it worked out.

for me it made the most sense.

i think they need to work out some bugs. it’s software, it happens.
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You upgraded from what version?
What particular bugs are you referring to?
I want the new “comp” feature, would make tracking drums WAY easier.
16 tracks is a pain in the @$$ to do multiple takes in live 9.
Stems everywhere makes the session view easy to screw up.
Ableton is cool, but clearly not the best for multitrack recording of bands and such.
Imo, ime, ymmv …..
 
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#22,189
ugly_bassplayer said:
You upgraded from what version?
What particular bugs are you referring to?
I want the new “comp” feature, would make tracking drums WAY easier.
16 tracks is a pain in the @$$ to do multiple takes in live 9.
Stems everywhere makes the session view easy to screw up.
Ableton is cool, but clearly not the best for multitrack recording of bands and such.
Imo, ime, ymmv …..
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pretty sure i went from 9 to 11, but i’d have to look at my old laptop.

and don’t think 11 would run on my old laptop anyway.

it feels like i have to remind it where the spitfire plugins are. i noticed it after they did an auto update recently.
 
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#22,190
steubig said:
pretty sure i went from 9 to 11, but i’d have to look at my old laptop.

and don’t think 11 would run on my old laptop anyway.

it feels like i have to remind it where the spitfire plugins are. i noticed it after they did an auto update recently.
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thanks for the reminder, i’ll have ti double check my computer specs but I think i’ll sit this one out.
lazy, cheap……probably both.
:)
 
#22,192
ugly_bassplayer said:
I’m never paying 3000$ for a laptop.
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Cheap guy here :::raises hand:::
My studio is still built around a ~20-year-old Mac running OSX Panther and MOTU Digital Performer version 4 (they're up to 11 now). When I started getting a lot of work doing remote recording sessions, I briefly entertained getting a Mac laptop..."briefly" in this case meaning something measurable in nanoseconds.
Instead I got the cheapest Windows laptop I could find and a Tascam USB audio interface that came with a free (!) copy of Cubase LE.
I do all my remote recording in Cubase, then bring the laptop back home, transfer the raw audio files to the Mac, and do all the editing/overdubbing/mixing in DP.
So the cheap laptop/DAW is purely a "capture" mechanism; I barely know my way around it, just enough to add/arm/record tracks, and maybe playback.

otoh my Mom recently bought one of those swanky $3k Macbooks, and I gotta admit it is super sexy. But... nah.
 
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#22,193
Bob_Ross said:
26988270[/URL], member: 234523"]Cheap guy here :::raises hand:::
My studio is still built around a ~20-year-old Mac running OSX Panther and MOTU Digital Performer version 4 (they're up to 11 now). When I started getting a lot of work doing remote recording sessions, I briefly entertained getting a Mac laptop..."briefly" in this case meaning something measurable in nanoseconds.
Instead I got the cheapest Windows laptop I could find and a Tascam USB audio interface that came with a free (!) copy of Cubase LE.
I do all my remote recording in Cubase, then bring the laptop back home, transfer the raw audio files to the Mac, and do all the editing/overdubbing/mixing in DP.
So the cheap laptop/DAW is purely a "capture" mechanism; I barely know my way around it, just enough to add/arm/record tracks, and maybe playback.

otoh my Mom recently bought one of those swanky $3k Macbooks, and I gotta admit it is super sexy. But... nah.
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I use an old 2009 MacBook Pro (I got for free :) )with the FireWire connector, since my 2626 is freakin FireWire and runs on practically nothing else.
It’s on a really old OS leopard or something like that since they stopped making the drivers for it years ago.
It’s never connected to the interwebs or wifi.
I do the sessions on that CrapBook then dump the entire session into my “less crappy” PC with Live 9 to mix etc…

But practically all my solo stuff was recorded with my portable tascam 4 track on the L-R out of my mixer, then dumped into the computer.

Easy is gooooood


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I’m not buying anything and need to be punished with a couple of hours of Charlie Parker lines in all 12 keys.
 
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#22,195
monsterthompson said:


Dang. I might find one of these under the tree this year.
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it does seems pretty good. nice price.

five12 (the numerology/vector sequencer people) are coming iut with a quad lfo/function generator/envelope module that has my attention. if each lfo can have its own bpm and not require being clocked to a master, i’m probably going to go with it.
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steubig said:
it does seems pretty good. nice price.

five12 (the numerology/vector sequencer people) are coming iut with a quad lfo/function generator/envelope module that has my attention. if each lfo can have its own bpm and not require being clocked to a master, i’m probably going to go with it.
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That is the one that has my eye. I didn’t think I would be interested…but I am.
 
#22,198
Rearranged the rack today. Moved the Zoia to a less prominent spot. I wanted to have things set to be more “knob turning” and experimental. I’m almost tempted to move the Zoia and Erica Sequencer to a dedicated 1x84 skiff for when I want to “plan” pieces, and keep the Bloom in the 2x84 rack for spacing out.

I’m thinking I might flip the Erica Delay module again. It’s pretty wide and I could go to a smaller Noise Engineering Versio module.

Anyone have tips on running reverse delay sounds that don’t click at the cutoff? I’d probably reverse more things but I often hear the dry note attack as a click when the reverse delay sound comes to the end of the wet delay line. I’m more sure if that’s the nature of reverse or if I can work on a technique to compensate.
 
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monsterthompson said:
26994184[/URL], member: 131803"]Rearranged the rack today. Moved the Zoia to a less prominent spot. I wanted to have things set to be more “knob turning” and experimental. I’m almost tempted to move the Zoia and Erica Sequencer to a dedicated 1x84 skiff for when I want to “plan” pieces, and keep the Bloom in the 2x84 rack for spacing out.

I’m thinking I might flip the Erica Delay module again. It’s pretty wide and I could go to a smaller Noise Engineering Versio module.

Anyone have tips on running reverse delay sounds that don’t click at the cutoff? I’d probably reverse more things but I often hear the dry note attack as a click when the reverse delay sound comes to the end of the wet delay line. I’m more sure if that’s the nature of reverse or if I can work on a technique to compensate.
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reverse delay
In what form?
Pedal, modular, Pluggin, hardware, other?
Any examples of said “clicking”?
 

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