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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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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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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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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…
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My Midi Controller Checklist
A subjective and evolving list of things I look for in a midi controller. To the best of my knowledge no such controller meets all of the items on the wish list. But some are quite a bit closer than others. In the future I may document how some controllers fare against this list. Overall…
