Yes. I get this with my SynthEdit creations (and some others) from time to time. Mostly on first open. I close the VST Window and re-open. Usually, that works (always with my SE devices). If it doesn't I take it that plugin and Reason are not keen on each other and let it go. A lot of older generati...

Hi Selig happy to have you here discussing the gizzards of your gizmo. If I had to choose V3 or C-EQ, I would be tempted by the wheeee!-fulness of V3 and compression options but probably get C-EQ for better integration with Reason, its ability to saturate per band (pointy as you say) and a more over...

Hi Benedict, Yeah it's pretty much that. I'd like to be able to have control over what people are looking at and minimise the amount of words on screen. Working with people with various disabilities means people would struggle reading from large blocks of text or may have trouble interpreting what ...

Did you read the whole thread? ;-) Also, while I don't love all that fella's mixes personally, he is not silly, he would know what the plugin was doing as fast as I did. Therefore logic says (if he didn't and I think he did but I am not going back to listen again) he did try more than you mis-indica...

Now you're gettin' why I don't see the need to buy 78 trillion VST (esp the ones that pretend to be A.I.) ;-) Yes, a series of Sweepers set as Filters (each with that dandy Drive knob) will effectively deliver some of the same sort of result. Except Sweeper doesn't have a Bell shape. However also un...

Yes I have seeing this came up once before and I set about using it as an example of how to synthesize a passable working version of almost anything you hear.

https://benedictroffmarsh.com/2015/08/1 ... n-patches/

I lasted a few minutes until I got bored. While it is a pretty fast way to get sequences started, it seems more like a bit of a trap (note the small T but honestly I think they have the same meaning :-O ) Nothing against it but not if I need to pay for it (even Rewards what I would rather put to Alg...

Ooh, that is a fine-sounding Bass. The guitars are pretty darned good too. Still a bit odd but impressive nonetheless.

Fair enough. I am aware that this can be a result of "approach" as I have no interest in, or truck with, Trackspacer and the like either.

Most singers I have recorded have come in with a printed lyric sheet that they can then make notations to as we work and decide on changes. I assumed that was considered and dismissed - maybe, seeing this is under the MusicBocs tag, you want to avoid changes and attendant confusion at this point? :-)

Aah Selig's ColoringEQ: Despite what clearly everyone (incl me) thinks, these are not exactly the same sort of thing. Happy for Selig to advise with his insider knowledge. C-EQ separates each band (like a multiband compressor) and therefore each EQ band has separate saturation - leaving the other ba...

The only solution I could think of in Reason is to use something like VidPlay VST, make a video with the lyrics as needed, play that in Reason and use one of the HDMI etc outs to a display for the singer. A bit roundabout seeing you need to make that video too so that adds more software and time - w...

The fact that when I gave Soothe2 and Spliff specific things that did need solving, they didn't do as well as I could with normal tools, using either Stock, Preset, or Custom settings is what put me off. Not only was it not a time saver but it was not a problem solver. I wouldn't have kept it even i...

This is what Groups and Forms are really for.

Maybe you can explain the Why behind the drive to be sending your work off for Mastering. Tell me that Story:

Without fully understanding how things work under the hood, I can't give a total ironclad answer. BUT... There is a difference in what is happening: The real joy in this approach is that each of the filters used in Volcano3 brings a bit of saturation so you are not working with 1x EQ into 1x Saturat...

story (I like to think of it as the core "feeling" which the song tries to emphasize through all its different elements) That is as good a definition of Story or Narrative as I have ever seen. :clap: If you are happy with what Ozone does, why not run with that? If your mix is showing your "Story" w...

I found a video from a decent mix engineer who concluded exactly what I had already come to myself: It is a solution to a problem that I did not have and am not sure really exists (outside perhaps of engineers who don't: know how, or want to do this work by hand, or saw the marketing and felt they ...

This may interest some of you as a look into making a mix. I am ONLY using Fab Filter Vocano3 for ALL EQ, Saturation & Compression, incl Masters. It makes for an interesting result. The first part of video is review stuff so I have set the video to start from the Mix part: https://youtu.be/KCE3Bx3s-...

This is so easy to do..ozone 9, load track up, click assistant, apply suggested settings and collect money but then you'd also have to have no morals. This is exactly the FIberr/Upjerk mindset. Except they either use a Crack, say they use Ozone then use a cardboard box, or worse use the default too...

By "Gutting" a sound I meant that the sparkle leaves. Looking at the Spectrum in the VST and the Spectrum in the F2 window, it seems that what is happening is: the signal is taken in sliced up into bands using FFT, IIR, or similar (this is not that kind of technical discussion) and then every band t...

Aah, you just want the dinosaur to wake up.

From experience, (EMU Emax I, Opcode Vision DSP, AXS, Dreamstation, Synoptic Probe...) they never come back.
It is for you to move on and find new partners in your work.
Normally they are better (or at least as good) in their own ways.

As for Genres, any decent Mix or Mastering Engineer is not all about one genre. Bob Ludwig Mastered records from everyone. If he did a Public Enemy record it would have been as good as a Jackson Browne record. Just find the right person, not a skillset. This is a good point and I was wondering if a...

If you mean Multitimbral, that rather fell out of favor with it being easier for most people to use an instance of a VST per sound. Tone 2 Elektra has a 4-part thing. Sonic Cat (Luxonix) Purity (altho maybe not as apparently a synth on the surface) is big on layering (or multitimbrality). Kontakt do...

I had Soothe2 on my list of plugins to review for HigherHz. I was interested to see what the hype was but at the same time very dubious because: 1. So far I have not heard any positive use of it (or Reso) where I don't just feel like it "gutted" or un-funned the sounds. 2. I tried the oekseound de-c...

I was asking for a Synth Edit style ability to make working GUIs that meant the Combi could stay closed. Like you, I think RS delivered rather well on that. While a new synth like Spire or Diva can indeed seem fun, in the moment, making Combi II devices that I can drag in like a Rack native RE combi...