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[Rewind]

this deal popped up and I have a question if someone knows (the manual link is not working)

I might be tempted by the 90 minutes midi capture how does it work? does it capture the whole midi on the system or is it per track setup in DAW? for example, I always forget to record midi from rytm but I also don’t want to setup midi tracks for every rytm track, can this thing capture everything in separate midi tracks or I have to setup midi tracks and put instance of this thing on each track?

check out the FaQ answer to the question ’ My Daw has midi capture, why do I need rewind?’

that’s good to know that you don’t need a DAW for it but not really answering my question, can’t understand if it’s recording all of the channels separately or merges everything into one track, I do wish it would record into separate tracks so I could use them for my TouchDesigner videos as modulators, can’t access the manual for some reason, the link doesn’t work…

I just got an email response from the Dev, I quoted your question.

answer

thanks for your email.

Rewind captures midi per device.

If you run it in standalone mode you can capture all devices together and later drill down which one you want.

If you run it as a vst you can place it on each track in your daw no problem.

I think you can do what you want, but it saves midi per device, not midi track.

My advice: give it a go and see if it works for you, if not we will refund you no problem!

Hope this helps,

Dennis

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thanks! he’d be better fixing that manual link :wink: think I’ll pass, if I’d want to setup per-track I would just record in DAW, I don’t really need “history” just wanted to capture both audio and midi easily.

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you should send him a note about the manual, I don’t know them but he responded pretty quickly from their onsite contact sheet

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I also have a question…

How much latency does this inject into the driver stream? It should be small, but seems it can’t be zero to have an additional driver layer.

(Update, 6/28)
I got a reply from support, zero latency:

I’ve managed to find the manual through search engine, no mention of latency, I imagine unless you’re monitoring through the app there should be no latency, there’s a mention in FAQ that they install their own driver, which probably taps the audio without causing latency, but it’s only my imagination, this could introduce latency

for anyone interested, link to the manual

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anyone here can chime in with reference plugins recommendations? there’s ongoing sale on PA and I was thinking picking up Metric AB for $30 but have no experience with any of them so wondering if it’s any good or maybe there’s a better alternative out there?

nvm, took a look around and couldn’t find something else extraordinary so I got it, gonna give referencing a chance :slight_smile:

You won’t regret it. I haven’t found anything as easy as Metric AB.

I love it because I can create different looping sections of multiple references (although I try to stick with just one reference at a time).

Then the options for listening to just the bass, mids, highs, left, right, mids, or sides, plus viewing dynamics on the loudest sections, are great.

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yeah I’m already liking it, really easy to use indeed and very comprehensive comparison features, now I need to figure out which tracks I want to use for reference and what’s important and what’s not… so, is there any significant difference between loading uncompressed/compressed reference? I imagine if I set the resolutions to octave or 1/3 octave it shouldn’t matter, just wondering in general if it’s worth getting the wavs for all the references I wanna try or I can just resample a compressed audio and use it?

I was taught always to use uncompressed. Lossless formats are okay of course.

Otherwise, you will see reduced high frequencies and less on the sides of most compressed formats.

got it, thanks! will start gathering some uncompressed versions.

oh my… :smiley:

looking for another opinion, I’m after an “all in one window” metering/analyzer software, really tired of opening million different plugins with different ui which confuses me a lot, so far I can see two that looks good - iZotope Insight and SPL HawkEye, just wondering if anyone used both and have opinion which worked better/worse and why…
in general I’m leaning toward HawkEye because it looks a bit less gimmicky then the Insight with all the 3d spectogram and “intelligent metering” whatever that means, but not ruling out Insight if someone has some clear advantages over the HawkEye…


update: trialed the HawkEye for some time, didn’t like it too much, some meters are nice but didn’t like the overall color scheme/ui.


with the Steinberg sale going on decided to tryout the Wavelab, reeeealy liking the workflow for post processing, I do wonder what am I going to really miss if I get the Elements vs Pro, so far the Analysis, Loudness meter and the Playback Processing are the ones I noticed, the other features like 96k, track limitations or other metadata/ddp suff not that important for me, so just debating myself if the things I liked in Pro worth the extra $200…
would love to hear from Wavelab users that can shed some personal thoughts about the two…

Looking for some recommendations for a best bang for your buck software synth/suite that will offer me a wide variety of instruments/sounds. I recently bought a SP404MK2 and have been looking for more things to sample into it. Drums are easy, lots of sample packs for those. But would be nice to find more melodic things to sample in.

Model 77 launched by Softube.

Strymon released this bundle today:

I am floored by this pricing. Valhalla level pricing!

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V Collection by Arturia if you want the most diversity and good quality.

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anyone knows what’s the lowest price Softube did on Weiss bundle or DS1-mk3/EQ1/Deess individually?

Kick 3 is out, ~$100 ain’t cheap but some really cool features like analyze kick from audio snippets, eq, fx, limiter and so on.

https://www.sonicacademy.com/products/kick-3