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Oh! Vsts for Reason. Had to happen at some point! Or call em rack expansions, but that's what vsts are, right?

The mid-centric eq cuts on drums...isn't that more of a pragmatic consideration because you'll get a shitload of mids with all the power chords? I can see how all the suggestions are helpful in creating classic metal sounds (the common denominator is probably thrash). But hey, why not use a more groovy, balanced drum sound for once, like black sabbath's, or something? But i guess that'd automatically make it hard rock/blues these days

Just got it, wow, what a wealth of formats. I hope the dev keeps tuning it. Listening to monty on the run right now....the sid emu isn't so hot for one. But the direct access to some databases was just what i was looking for, thanks! Lol, Unreal ][.s3m on #1 of modizer charts. Big fucking surprise!

Cool. I don't suppose there is a feature to download files from dropbox? As of now, i have no PC to use itunes, lol. Goddamn iOS console scheme

GPO is really cheap as a download these days innit? Sound is meh, but it's quite playable and the patches load fast and stuff. From what i've heard, you.can do alright sounding things with it if you play to the library's strengths. That can be said for a lot of products though, right? ;d It's like, you could probably compose an equally strong/stronger orchestral library out of free stuff found all over the net, but GPO saves you the hassle of finding all that and setting it up.

I have a mini, and i'm getting buffer underruns with some combinations of 3 or even just 2 apps. Like MS-20 and multitrack daw. It works well with some, but the whole plug and play experience feels a bit dampened for me when i can't use a few of my apps in simple setups. Not saying it's unusable, but it's probably the one music related app that benefits the most from a better processor. Ipad 4 does have twice the power of a mini, so... Tbh i don't care too much, the sequencers are all so modest in cpu use. I found audiobus interesting because it sort of brings the vst paradigm to tablets, but i actually prefer working in closed systems for the most part. As soon as beatmaker has audiobus support, i might use it sometimes if i really really want the input from another app. Can't see myself switching between apps all the time. Btw, your last name sounds way more polish than mine, wow.

Well, if hobo is maxing both his ram and cpu he shouldn't be surprised about the crackling. Bridging 64bit plugins should help the CPU (utilise multicore support), while disk streaming should free up RAM at the expense of CPU. Maxing out both at the same time is rare in my experience, because usually, my projects are either more sample heavy or have more live processing (synths). I guess you could push it by putting loads and loads of vst effects over the samples. One more thing: adjust latency if stuff starts crackling. You cannot run a project that is fully taxing your system at 7ms latency or so.

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Lol, Joe has jaw cancer. Pretty close

Very entertaining. Bit of a Satch vibe in some the soloing, no? Maybe it's just me. Some of the real fast bits also sound paul gilberty. Whole thing feels like a 5 minute tune. Chock full of stuff. Good wurk

The wav channels make me cum so hard!!

Np. Btw, i remember using sampletank with 2gb and getting along just fine. It's made to run on DAWs from a decade ago, and the RAM footprint mirrors that. Philharmonic in the sampletank engine is a different beast. The individual sounds are much larger. Truth be told, selling that library with a non-disk streaming rompler was a bit of a crap move. Wouldn't matter that much if you could use your 8gb. I was under the impression that the 4gb limit is set in stone and that the bridging only helps with multicore support, but i'm possibly wrong. If you can get all your RAM to work for FL/bridged plugins, you should be fine. Also, determine if the crackling happens just with bridging, just with 64bit plugins, just with the 4gb FL exe. Change one parameter at a time and see what causes it...

Sampletank for one doesn't have disk streaming. It means that just a small portion of the samples is loaded into the RAM and the rest is streamed from your hd. It frees up RAM and eats CPU. When you largely work with samples and loads of them, it's always preferable.

Check how many of your sampler/rompler plugins have disk streaming. With FL's ram restrictions, it's a bit of a necessity with large sample banks.

Sweet! Coincidentally, it's Sunday 11 AM, and i just elevated my THC level. Rdy for takeoff :3

It keeps flipping it over for me when i view it as a downgraded jpeg on a messageboard? Dat sum stronk software. For the record: (Don't tell me that one is reversed as well, lol)

Ipad, that's what i was thinking. But that doesn't make sense, lol. Even if i took it upside down, it should look upside down for me as well when i'm looking at it in the browser. Or even in the pic folder of the ipad. Actually, the gyroscope thing should make any upside down pics impossible in the first place. I'm baffled. If this was a consistent gravitational anomaly (or retard mistake on my part), then i should see you guy's studios upside down, right? ;d So the remaining logical conclusion is... 666NUMBER OF THE BEAST666

...wha? Screencaps pls. Sure isn't for me. That'd be weird.

Does head rush refer to the slight blurryness? Apropos head, it sort of looks like a face if you accept the x-station (the silver 2 octave thing) as a nose. Or you could interpret that as the mouth and end up with a flatter, smirkier face. Or is that actually what you mean by head rush, lol?

Current setup, iPad missing from the pic (the only thing i can do photos with) I really like how non-crammed it all became without the PC, but i wonder how i'll fit it in if i have a working one again. Not sure if i want to go back to dual monitor on this desk. Btw This is what the thread looked like after i posted.

Well, the bagpipes in kontakt are alright, but you'd probably know that if you had it. It's not a sampled sound you come across very often...never had a great bagpipe soundfont or anything. Of course you can find a few free or cheap patches across the web, but most of those would most likely be in...kontakt format There's this older vsti named knagalis...i dunno if i'd recommend it, but i remember the bagpipes being...well, bagpipes. The trial version should be enough to sample from. http://nusofting.liqihsynth.com/acousticmodels.html

Being a good composer/arranger probably is about making that groupthink come alive in your head, treating every instrument as sort of a sentient player, or character. What style of sequencing is closest to a live jam? I'm not sure, but it probably has to do with the aforementioned initial broader brush strokes, as well as an ability to work a bit here and a bit there. I sometimes notice how i like to get lost in sequencing and extending very specific bits of a track. That may result in something unexpectedly cool or in a complete dead end. Sometimes you just come up with a bit you fall in love with, but the more you work on it in a vacuum, the more it loses touch with the rest of the track. The bass player in my head is like that. He's really obsessed with poseresque slapbass stunts, much to the dismay of the rest of the band.

I'd buy the audiobook version and listen on headphones while falling asleep. Spoken japanese always makes me relax.

I just wouldn't buy a boring chart-ridden book on the subject. If there was a book titled "Hiroki Kikuta: My 101 Secrets of Midi Orchestration", i'd buy that. Either make it exciting or trial & error all the way. I just wouldn't read it. YMMV, peace out XD

Entropy is a great word in that context. I really enjoy using the MPC style pads that a lot of ipad apps feature. One way to come up with patterns on them is to put on 16th or 1/32 quantising and just go apeshit with the hihats or whatever. If your rhythm is very off, you'll simply get something more syncopated. It might sound awesome right away, or i might want to change a few notes or record again, but it beats clicking everything into the piano roll. With rhythm, you don't have to consider parameters like dissonance. It's either straight or more out there, or barely recognisable. Just give any variation a try. Let entropy creep into the process and then filtrate the whole mess to your liking. I always found harmonies way more daunting as far as experimentation goes. Rhythmic development comes relatively easy to me once i have something i can build it around.