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Building a new “boring” Windows DAW (2023)
Why “boring”? Because I wasn’t looking to get to the very bleeding edge of current possibilities, not only because things get disproportionately expensive when you buy at the very top end, but also because I wanted to achieve high operational stability with minimal hardware and software incompatibility issues.
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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Cubase Generic Remote doesn’t Accept Change
Recently I’ve been deep diving into midi hardware control in Cubase 10.5 on Windows 10 Pro (1809). This often meant having other applications open, like Midi OX and the Native Instruments Controller Editor – in addition to running things like LoopMidi in the the background. With all of that complexity, at times it seemed that…
