Steve
Thanks for going through my quite long message. I apologize for not
realizing that this list was samplitude only, can you guys give me a little
slack because of my situation? Please please? Lol.
To answer your questions.
Yes the mixer is analog.
Didn't really want to upgrade to windows 10 if I can help it since I am
familuar with how this mixer/soundcard/recording works and only wanted to
change keyboard/sound.
I'll see what sales I can find on drives/ram. Wonder if I can get sighted
assistance to perhaps mirror my system drive over to a new one and not have
to reinstall everything? The discs are around here somewhere if I had to
but what a pain!
Forgot to mention that jaws is upgraded to 18 so I'm all good there.
Integra 7 is out, was pretty expensive anyway. I suppose once you select a
bank using the definition file, it wouldn't automatically load it? Sounds
like no from what you said. Disappointed that the patches aren't from the
real expansion cards, always wanted the srx06 complete orchestra and srx09
world ones.
Once I find out if sonar works, it would be great to just buy the
CakeTalking upgrade and stay with it. But as mentioned, if I had to switch
for accessibility reasons I would.
Thanks again
Jay
Integra 7 is out do to the fact that not all banks/patches can be accessed
by default and must be loaded via front panel. I figured that might be the
case but somehow thought that maybe the instrument definition would trigger
the loading once you selected a particular bank. Thanks for that
information though, was looking forward to a real srx06 complete orchestra
card, oh well.
Forgot to mention that I am upgraded to jaws18 so that's all good there.
-----Original Message-----
From: vipaudioaccess-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:vipaudioaccess-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Matzura
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 11:06 AM
To: vipaudioaccess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vipaudioaccess] Re: Advice on new studio equipment after years of
being away
Jay,
First off, welcome to the list. This list is primarily focused on a
specific DAW, called Samplitude, to which JAWS users have gotten
access just last July. However, before I start off on my Samplitude
biggot rant (ha ha), I'll make a couple comments on what you wrote,
interspersing my responses with your initial post.
On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 09:50:10 -0600, you wrote:
I used cakewalk sonar with CakeTalking through my graduate degree inbeen
electronic performance/composition and it worked incredibly well. Before
putting my items in storage in 2012, I was using a motif xs 6 which has
sold.
I still have and hope to be able to use the following.
: Mackie 1402-VLZ mixer
A delta soundcard, don't remember model number but it has 2 ins and 2 outs.
Roland USB 3x3 midi interface
My desktop purchased in January 2011 currently has:
Windows 7 pro 64 bit
Intel Quad core 3.0GHZ processor
8GB ram
SoundBlaster soundcard
Delta soundcard
500GB system hard drive
2TB storage hard drive
cd/dvd drive.
Jaws and related programs were installed in February 2011. So I think that
would be jaws 11, sonar 8.5.3, dimension pro/rapture full versions and
CakeTalking released in 2009? I know there is a CakeTalking upgrade from
2013 but not sure if I would need it.
So a keyboard. The Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol s61 intrigues mefile,
greatly because of the accessibility recently added. I am very comfortable
however with just using hardware, loading in the instrument definition
mapping ports and accessing all banks/presets. I tried dimension pro for akomplete
while, sort of got the hang of it but I just didn't feel comfortable with
it. I will reconsider my stance now however because of the accessibility
and amount of sounds included in komplete ultimate if upgraded from
select. Hopefully I can try komplete select first.
I will also be purchasing the Motif Rack XS both for its keyboard presets
but mostly to load sounds in to user banks to play with a Yamaha WX5 Wind
Controller both live and for recording in to compositions.
I was also looking at the Roland Integra 7 for wind controller as well as
the large amount of ready to go sounds, especially the built in SRX
expansion cards for orchestral arrangements.
hopefully soon have someone look at the machine with me to determine what
upgrades it can handle. I was thinking maybe 16GB ram but definitely 2
512GB solid state drives, one for system, one for software libraries.
Second is komplete accessibility and usage. Will this work in sonar? Ifso
that would be ideal since I can also use any hardware modules I want. CanI
for example just be focused on a track, choose or edit a preset all on the
keyboard and just start recording?
Third is looking at Reaper and Samplitude with OSARA/NVDA and samplitude
jaws scripts. I would be willing to learn a new DAW in order to use
komplete as effectively as possible, forgot half of the sonar commands
anyway. I was reading however that they don't play nice with hardware,
samplitude doesn't appear to have an equivalent of sonars instrument
definition files.
A bonus! I also have a MacBook pro laptop but not sure about using it.
Guess I should stick with windows.
This will be happening in the next year or 2 so maybe desktop drive prices
will go down.
So I've rambled on long enough, thanks for those who have read this far.
Any opinions or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. In reading
previous archived posts on this list, there is an incredible amount of
knowledge and experience here which is why I am asking for your assistance.
Thanks for your time.