Squinty wrote:Bias FX standard is currently free on the Positive Grid website. It's only for one day, so be quick.
I've been learning Rust in Peace by Megadeth. I can play the individual rhythm parts at full speed but I always stuff up the end and forget where I am. More practice needed.
Cool, I've had the light version for ages. It's a good virtual amp.
Similar to Ampeg or GuitarRig.
Edit: Yeah I had the "lite" version which was a few FX and I think no amp controls, only some presets or similar. In a deal with Focusrite. Which had an amazing scheme for ages for free VSTs etc. I bought that interface in 2010 and have had literally over 10 years worth of plugins and instruments. Just added the standard version to my account.
For quiet production, with my neighbour being a bit sensitive, it is helpful. As all my production gear is in a room that shares a wall with them (only choice besides the bedroom which obviously has its own issues). Even if it's often cleaner and easier to transport projects using the Amp device in Ableton (which is built by SoftTube). I can find opening old projects with loads of unlicensed or uninstalled VSTs to be a real pain so I've been thinking about not doing that and only using my SSL plugs that are built around my control surface.
I originally got BIAS AMP FX 1 and 2 Lite versions via Focusrite. I've just logged in to my account to snoop around and yet again now there's some £45 AI-driven balancer/EQ plugin going 100% discounted for registering an audio interface I bought 13 years ago. That's mad.
https://collective.focusrite.com/products/fast-balancerPretty solid hardware, shame mine (Focusrite Sapphire Pro 40 firewire which I currently have in a rack) only works up to a specific version of Windows 10 but it does work and was bulletproof on OSX too. If I only used Reaper or another DAW I'd be well happy. I bought Ableton Suite 2 years ago though and that's still going with updates. WIsh I had more time to use it all but I stayed up until about 2am making some hardstyle techno on my Digitakt the other day which was a blast. Finally getting the hang of it and LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER. I can get totally overwhelmed with options in a DAW. Ableton helps a lot for this but just end up listening back to endlessly 8 track recordings and dicking around with half finished things.
Whereas on 100% hardware you can really focus on just a small groove, idea or pattern sequence and with the built in sampler and really good compressor/effects it's an awesome little box. I do miss a live band, even if sometimes it just sounded gooseberry fool, and a mixer goinginto a digital recorder (we used WAV/FLAC on an iRiver thingy and as dadgy as it was it worked well. I then started 8 tracking direct outs from a mixer into a tiny PC I made that size of a DVD player using an M-Audio Delta 1010LT with a massive CRT plugged on top. It worked
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Gear like Elektron's is pricey but I will get some of that into production and it's a great live performance tool. I spend so much time in a software environment with a mouse clicking away (graphic design work) I just don't want to do that for music escapes. I wish I could afford more studio outbound and digital tracking hardware. Sometimes I just feel allergic to computers. Even a tape based setup would be cool... And I might be able to do that, if only tape weren't so strawberry floating expensive. So I was looking at some digital WAV recorders you could then burn to a CD - no computer anywhere.
But really you should just use a small mobile recorder or a tablet these days, much cheaper.