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  1. Waves Maxxvolume currently free to claim: https://www.waves.com/account/free-maxx-volume-mastering-com
  2. I picked up a 50" Samsung TV (QE50QN94A) on a refurb deal through eBay for £450 and it's been fantastic, I mount it on a floor stand behind my desk which means I can set it back a little, and it leaves my entire desk clear for anything else that I want. Honestly, other than my Mac it's been the best purchase for years. If you want to break out of the 60hz refresh rate I'd really recommend trying to find something that can do 120hz and look for 4:4:4 chroma subsampling as it makes the text so much better (It's not compressed) - that was why I went for that model, it ticked all the boxes and couldn't believe my luck when I found it cheap. Also, check that the Mac you buy can output 4k @ 120hz over HDMI as that will increase your flexibility in using TV as monitors (Needs to be HDMI 2.1). I think a lot of the M2's have this option now, my Macbook M1 Pro didn't - that was maxed to 4k @ 60hz on HDMI. If you want a good display that's going to last then it's well worth considering those factors (imo).
  3. My fear is opening a project in future and wondering where the hell I got that plugin from that's failing to load! So I document each one with a .txt file and a copy of the installer in the same folder! 🙂
  4. That's going direct through Yum Audio, the $0 offer is with pluginboutique so get it through them.
  5. Got Melodyne Assistant and surprised to learn about ARA not able to run in Logic native mode, yet. Hoping this gets fixed sooner than later.
  6. The M2 Air is a great machine. Getting back to your opening post I'd have that over the current 13" M1 Macbook pro by quite a margin, providing 256GB is enough for you, of course. That said, we've got a 2012 iMac sat in the dining room that's been used for 10 years for general use and god knows how many homework projects over the years - and that's still got 60GB left without any kind of maintenance or cleanup of the files.
  7. I believe the 14" is the best choice for a utility machine that's predominately used at home, there was some really good prices over black friday too, but guess they're all gone now. The bigger and better screen and speakers alone make them a much better machine for kids to use, and the base model comes with 16GB+512GB so you're just good out the gate for all tasks. Everything about it is quality. Once you start speccing up the smaller models the 14" becomes a no-brainer. As you're gaining the SD slot which is handy for school projects that involve photos and dedicated HDMI output exists too. But of course, all depends on finances and whether family members will want to be playing games on it (Fortnite/roblox etc.), whether it's going to be used on a fixed desk or on laps, or if any of them have a creative itch for audio/video/photos/design. Need to be thinking 5 years down the road and 256GB just isn't a smart investment (imo). If I was going for the 8gb/256gb models and then the Macbook Air would be my preference as you're getting excellent portability. The 13" macbook pro is more based of the old design I believe. I cant stress how great the screen and speakers are on the 14" models upwards though. Absolute joy to use.
  8. Short-term it does, but long-term you may be creating problems for yourself. Running with such plugins on a template will most likely reduce your dynamic range which isn't helpful when composing, let alone adding latency and CPU load to the project. I used to fall into this same trap and would get bass, drums, keys down and really struggle with getting vocals to sit nice and the bass to sound good. But that's because I was just running everything hot so early in the process by loading up my master bus, thinking it sounded better. For myself, A better approach is to concentrate on getting things right at source... i.e. focusing on obtaining the correct levels coming in, and look to apply EQ cuts on existing tracks to create space, rather than boosting/compressing new tracks above them. But to do this requires absolute belief (and experience) in the mixing process that follows, as that's where everything starts to pop and come together. I've had to force myself through the process many times as I find it very easy to fall into a rut of just creating new songs that never come close to completion, and forget that they don't always sound so good in this state. Sorry, this is probably a bit more philosophical than actually helping with your issues! 🙂
  9. Latency isn't necessarily a performance related issue, it's more than likely that you have a plugin in your project which is adding latency due to it's requirement to 'look ahead' at the audio stream to perform the correct job. Many limiters and maximiser plugins fall into this camp. It's worth toggling the low latency mode on and off and seeing which plugins are being disabled in your template to learn what the cause is. Mastering style linear phase EQ's can cause latency too. You should avoid any such mastering grade plugins in a live songwriting/composing template. Generally though, it sounds like you have some compatibility issues going on here, and should you take the same setup to a desktop machine the same problems are most likely to exist too.... Unless there was a problem at point of installing, of course. It may only be 1 or 2 issues that you have, and everything will be good. Solution is to find out what plugins are causing these errors and hopefully people can help you. As @fisherking says, check everything is up to date and be sure on what is running in a compatibility layer or not (i.e. rosetta vs native modes)
  10. Damn this looks fun! 🙂 Was offered a 5 month trial of Apple Music this week but declined as Spotify family user. But would make use of this over the festive season for sure. Hopefully it's not limited to only the new Apple TV 4k's though!
  11. Just returning to Mac thanks to a lovely 16" macbook via the costco black friday offers. And gotta say wow! how good is Logic now? And the new macbooks - wow, the speakers, built-in mic, silent - honestly, I could be sat in a forest and making music for 10 hours with this hardware, it's just mind blowing. Anyway, enough gushing... 🙂 I've been predominately using Cubase for past few years, which is all good on Windows machine, but on Mac i've found Logic 10.7.5 to be just incredible in comparison. Just so fluid, HiDPI just seems to work out the box. Not had to pay a penny for any updates since I last used it, Love it. The new MIDI FX option to play into the timeline is a really massive feature for me, i've noticed little issues like the smaller windows displaying when a plugin loads, but presumed there was some kind of bridging going on. I've already made a lot of use of the individual pedalboards too - I love how everything is scaleable when you stretch it - how long have the Logic plugins been like this? Track stacks have evolved brilliantly. Can't even have basic folders in Cubase that also route audio - it's very cumbersome by comparison. From my perspective, what a great update to jump in at!
  12. I'd imagine there's some custom tags within the .tiff file that Logic reads which is being lost when you save perhaps? i.e. defining the colour index for the colour mask. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/imageio/tiff_image_properties Had a quick play and if you swap names of two files they stay the same order in the icon selection dialog, so that would suggest it's reading the header information, but only tried it with effect_1 and effect_3. Should've done it with icons from different categories to see if they swapped really. There's always tonight! 🙂
  13. Yes, that would be my preferred method rather than all this side chaining messing around, I'd expose the wah in amplitube to be automated, i.e right click the wah and pick "Assign Automation - Param 1". (Not map to MIDI as per the other method) And then map whatever MIDI pedal to a macro control in Logic, then that macro control targets the "Param 1" assignment you just setup in Amplitube. That way you are left with a single clean guitar audio track with Amplitube as it's plugin, and automation controlling the Wah movements which makes for much easier editing afterwards. Latency applies across the project as a whole, but you only notice it when live monitoring. So the latency could be anywhere in your project. Normally it's plugins that need to "lookahead" at the audio coming in to them which cause higher latencies. i.e. Multi-compressors, limiters. So, Either disable plugins on channels that are causing such latency, or much easier, simply enable Low Latency Mode (LLC) mode when you wish to record. LLC will disable plugins over a certain threshold for you automatically:
  14. Nice work! I was thinking about getting a Push 2 and trying to get MCU emulation running on it via a standalone script - amazed no-one has done it yet. With the original Push, Native Kontrol made a PXT General script which i still use to this day, across many DAWs but my pads are quite unresponsive compared to the newer model. Did it take you long to learn how the Push 2 worked and implement this project?
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