• Cubase MIDI Remote Templates for NI Maschine

    Cubase MIDI Remote Templates for NI Maschine

    Cubase MIDI Remote templates for several Native Instruments Maschine Controllers originally inspired and created by Jef Gibbons for a YouTube video in the spring of 2022.

  • The 40 Year History of Davincy Resolve

    A great video recalling the the 40 year history of Davincy Resolve told in 40 minutes by Alex Jordan:

  • VST Automation vs. MIDI

    Interacting with the plugins via VST automation allows for a generally superior experience. A couple of advantages that stand out: Especially the bi-directional communication matters for automated faders and displaying current plugin settings on the hardware controller. Many great plugins only receive midi control messages, but do not send them. But they will receive AND […]

  • Virus Synths becoming Vintage Synths

    There’s an interesting blog post about the future (or not) of the Virus TI – also as a consequence of the end of the line of the core DSP chip. In many ways I look at my Virus TI as a vintage synth by now. No expectations of further improvements (after well over a decade […]

  • Mac or PC ?

    I’m using MacOS, Windows and Linux pretty much on a daily basis for different parts of my computing needs. This post lists some of the very high level likes and dislikes of each platform relative to my own use. — I’m not trying to convert anyone to switch away from their chosen platform(s). Each platform […]

  • Novation Nocturn with Standalone PluginGuru Unify on Win10

    Novation Nocturn with Standalone PluginGuru Unify on Win10

    The Novation Nocturn is one of quite a few discontinued midi controllers, that still work fine on my Windows 10 system (x64 version 20H2) – and it can be made to work just fine with the Unify standalone software. — I’ve created this post in response to a question by a fellow Unify user in […]

  • Recording my guitar tracks in surround sound?

    Recording my guitar tracks in surround sound?

    I really like how my current guitar amplifier setup sounds. Now I want to simultaneously record from that setup at different stages of the audio chain.

  • PluginGuru Unify with NI Komplete Kontrol Mk2

    PluginGuru Unify with NI Komplete Kontrol Mk2

    Unify is a very interesting software instrument (it can act as a host and as a plugin) developed by Shane Dunne in partnership with John “Skippy” Lehmkuhl (PluginGuru). One of the newer features (still labeled as “advanced and experimental”) makes it easier to configure a midi hardware controller’s knobs and buttons to remotely control the […]

  • Trim Silence from Audio Sample Files in Bulk or Batch Mode

    I found it surprisingly difficult to find a quick and easy way to trim silence in bulk or batch mode from a large number of audio files. While there’s some GUI software that facilitates trimming, a superb option for manipulating video and sound files is called FFmpeg. It’s free, open source and cross platform. However, […]

  • Extracting NKI sample metadata for use in PlugInGuru Unify Guru Sampler

    Preamble UPDATE 2021-07-06: This post may be outdated, since today’s release of the new Creator Tools for Kontakt could make this a lot easier (accessing the file system from Lua is supposedly improved). I’ll need to test and validate the potentially much shorter process. The following post only makes sense if You have licensed copies […]