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I just got a 2nd gen Focusrite Scarlett solo and I've had a couple issues since installing the drivers. I can't get my speakers to work (just plugged straight into the PC's audio no weird sound card or DAC or whatever) since installing them, even if I switch back to them in the sound settings.Tried it with the Scarlett plugged in, unplugged, restarting the PC with both of those options, etc. Also the first time turning my PC on since installing it bluescreened and the error message had the word focusrite in it so I'm assuming it had something to do with that. I'm hoping that was just a one time thing but the speakers not working isn't going away and I'm having a hard time finding people with similar issues elsewhere. Am I missing any obvious solutions?
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Mar 13, 2020 02:38
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That's a bummer if they just have crappy drivers, I figured they're so ubiquitous that they must be fairly plug and play but maybe not. Yeah I downloaded them from focusrite. Sorry if it was confusing, the speakers are plugged into the 3.5mm audio jack on the back of the PC (not the focusrite or any other external amp type thing). They're Creative T3300 speakers, which was like the cheapest possible 2 speaker+sub woofer set they had when I got them 4 years ago. I'm aware they will be awful for any sort of actual recording/mixing but not having to use headphones when just loving around in bias fx2 would be nice. FE literally as I was finishing up typing this I got the "you just unplugged a device from the audio jack" message, unplugged and replugged them back in, and now they work?? Problem solved I guess good job team
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Mar 15, 2020 02:31
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The scarlett solo doesn't have a plain 3.5 mm jack on the back it's got the left/right line inputs. There is a headphone jack on the front of it but the way I would have to arrange stuff to get my speakers to plug into the front would be kind of a pain in the rear end, if I redo the way all my computer stuff is laid out it might get easier though
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Mar 15, 2020 03:07
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Yeah the adapter sounds like a good idea, when it comes to audio stuff I never really know what can get converted to what and still work right. Even though the speakers are working now they have cut in and out several times.
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Mar 15, 2020 07:36
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Cough to cover up the noise of the pedals
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Mar 24, 2020 17:58
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What would people recommend as babby's first beat making app? I wanna try making some drum beats but am pretty inept at using music making software. Not looking to make anything complicated literally just like a 5 piece drum kit that I can sequence would be great. I tried looking at iPad apps but it was hard to tell what was more intuitive for a beginner without just being a dumb 'hit button makes full bar of default trance beat' stuff
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Mar 28, 2020 19:19
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The drumbit app looks like a nice place to start, patterning 2 also has a really intuitive looking UI so maybe once I'm able to go back to work I'll spring for that (not that $20 is a bank breaker anyways). I fooled around with the free version of korg gadget but never did any beat type stuff so maybe I'll try that too Whale Cancer posted:I can stretch it a bit. I was trying to avoid Mac as all my plugins are VST and I don't have AU plugins for some of them. This is a very broad recommendation but I feel like a Dell XPS (wow the price really came down on those in the past couple years) or Lenovo Ideapad would probably work well for that since you can spec them out really well for not a ton of money and people like them a lot for other productivity minded stuff. They have options for Ryzen 5's in addition to an intel i5 or i7 but I have no clue if AMD does better or worse with music stuff than intel OK is right though I feel like almost everything other than die hard apple haters will say to get a macbook for music stuff. I'd be lying if i said the trouble I've had with my interface drivers didn't make me want to look into getting a mac mini or something down the line if i end up doing more digital music stuff
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Mar 28, 2020 21:16
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There’s this bundle on reverb with a presonus atom and a set of akg k240’s for $160, if I was in the market for that price point of both of those items(have been looking at ~$100 midi pad controllers that work with PC and iOS and considering getting a pair of headphones with more accurate sound than the cheap ones I have now) is it a good deal? https://reverb.com/item/23472565-presonus-atom-akg-k-240-studio-headphones
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Jul 19, 2020 18:24
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My only insight is that the drivers for my focusrite Scarlett were horrendous on the two windows 10 machines I used it on and I don't think I would recommend it
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Aug 13, 2020 02:50
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Behringer is pretty good at cheap clones of things I say playing my $19 ts808 clone
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Jan 12, 2021 07:09
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Puppy Galaxy posted:does anyone use an ipad with a midi controller in a live setting? I may need to go beyond my usual sound palate of Nord Electro patches for a gig pretty soon and I'm trying to figure out the most economical way of doing it. I've used a laptop with Logic in the past, and could go that route again, but I hate bringing my laptop to gigs. Also I have a newer iPad Air with just a USB C port, so I'm guessing I'd need some sort of ridiculous chain of splitters and dongles to plug in a USB keyboard, power the iPad, and get sound out of it ... poo poo, is it even possible? I have seen a handful of (fd videos of) people use iPads running bias amp/fx with a midi controller and guitar for live stuff in churches or whatever and it seemed to work well
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Apr 19, 2021 03:21
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I really wanted to buy Logic but they wouldn't let me cause my Mac mini is too old so I got reaper instead
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Aug 17, 2021 02:34
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My second gen focusrite bluescreened every PC I've used it on like 1-3 times after downloading the drivers, or if I accidentally unplugged it while the PC was on it would cause issues I'm only a fan of Apples tablets but I have an old beater Mac mini for music stuff cause it's so much less hassle, and also let me keep my music stuff in a different area from my PC
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Sep 9, 2021 17:53
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Help I’m dumb, I finally got a set of real studio monitors (very cheap used Presonus Erie 3.5’s), according to the internet these prefer TRS cables but the only outputs on my scarlet solo are RCA. Is using TRS to RCA the way to go, like better than just plain RCA both ways?
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Nov 8, 2021 04:17
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Basic rear end mixing question cause I’m very new to it and am recording a rock song; is there a best practice starting point for eq when I am high passing guitars/low passing bass so they don’t step on each other’s toes? Should I not think too hard and just move blips around until it sounds good or is there like an obvious “start at 500hz and move up from there” I should know Also do people have favorite tape machine or similar plugins? I’m using the free spitfire labs drums vst and it works good for my simple needs but is pretty dry so I think a bit of compression/distortion could be nice
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Mar 31, 2023 09:20
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I assume mixing is way more complex than it maybe is and I am snobby about guitar sound so I spent a lot of time adjusting the tone on the guitars and bass before recording so they are very different sonically, I've got two telecasters playing rhythm through a Vox style preamp (super bright punchy) with one panned hard left and one panned hard right. The bass is a gretsch with tapewounds so very little high end which was hard to achieve cause I only have guitar amps to use(used an orange terror stamp funnily enough). Lead guitar is a dano with a wah pedal on the whole track so it shrieks past everything else easily. Kick drum, toms, and snare are the only thing on the dead center, cymbals are like 20% to the right and bass/lead guitar are 20% opposite sides from each other. It's good to know I can trust my ears, I am not used to having to care about anything beyond guitar. This song is extra hard cause the rhythm part is a lot of unpleasant, dissonant chords so it kinda sounds like something's wrong even when it sounds exactly how it's supposed to. I guess I should also listen to it on a few more sound systems too, the lack of a sub on my monitors sounds very limiting.
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Mar 31, 2023 21:39
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Well listening to it on headphones (I have those cheapish akg's people always recommend for broke audio people) definitely revealed a lot of weirdness that did not come through on my monitors, and I did end up mostly just tweaking the volume on everything. I'm so glad I kept the crash cymbals on a separate track cause most things are only +/- 2 db from where I recorded them but for some reason those had to go down -7.5 to not just jam themselves on top of everything else. The only eq I've done so far was on the bass I brought down the highs a bit and I boosted the low mids a little cause it sounded good. It's gonna be really embarrassing if I actually post the song anywhere on here cause it's an exhausting song to listen to in the first place and this will all seem kinda pointless on such an ear fatiguing bit. Like if I spent a week building a birdhouse but then everyone found out I only built it cause I needed something to throw through a plate glass window
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Apr 3, 2023 09:30
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Can someone recommend a free reverb plugin that works in reaper? I'm not picky due to free but the 3 I've downloaded this week either don't work/open or have some kind of horrible crackling (Black rooster gold plate reverb sounds good but is just a crackling mess when it's on)
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Apr 28, 2023 22:07
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NonzeroCircle posted:I've always had issues with Black Rooster stuff, it just doesn't seem to like whatever PC i run it on, either crackles or crashes regardless of buffer size or anything else (Cubase user, but haven't tried any of theirs since C10 due to these issues) I'm just too stupid to know how to fix stuff when it doesn't work. Like 50% of the reason I have a MacBook was cause I wanted to get more into music production and had a horrible time with software and drivers on my PC, so anytime something's fiddly enough I can't get it working on there either I kinda move on. Like I said the gold plate reverb does sound good, at least what I can hear of it behind the wall of crackling. I'll try loving with the buffer which I realize I have not actually done before
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Apr 29, 2023 02:40
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Downloaded supermassive and oh my gently caress was that so much less painful than the last three verbs I tried, thank you for saving my many minutes of frustration. The centaurius setting is working out well for me.
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Apr 30, 2023 00:16
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Yeah I often bemoan that DAWs and music software in general feel 15 years behind art/design software in terms of ease of use and stuff. I spent some time studying UI/UX design this year and that only made it worse lol
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Apr 30, 2023 17:41
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Hey, so I am still a new tiny baby. I am getting close to having a full track finished in reaper, I have one more guitar track to record... the file size is like 12gb. I didn't realize that till I went to copy a backup to my external hd and it was taking long. Is that as ridiculous as it seems? Is there some setting that having it too high like doubles the file size?? It's only like 3 something minutes and 7 tracks. Is that just how life is until it's finished and been exported/compressed?
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Aug 7, 2023 03:39
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Nah I don't save multiple takes, I am a simpleton so I just record, listen, delete if not right, etc. I'll try doing Reaper's version of the clean up project thing, unsure how similar it is to logic's but I've got it backed up and dont have any unused full bits in the file
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Aug 7, 2023 16:12
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Get reaper an shop around for free vst's, you won't really know what suits your work flow best until you try a few things. For doing drums I tried buying a normal akai sample pad and it sucked, I tried just sequencing it all on the piano midi thing and it sucked, then I finally got one of those big alesis sample pads and some drum sticks and it finally felt decent and wasn't miserable to do. Using what feels intuitive to you is important and you gotta try some stuff to make that happen. You know how to play guitar which is literally the most versatile instrument ever made, if you had an electric guitar and an audio interface you could do almost anything if you were motivated enough Or be like me and spend 5 years slowly aquiring a whole rack of instruments before you record anything. It's worked well for me but ymmv
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Jan 27, 2024 04:18
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Need a VCA compressor plugin to be used with guitar based music, what is the best one that's not super expensive?? Free is also good but if a paid one just works better with less loving around I'd take that instead
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Feb 16, 2024 06:40
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I am shopping for good drum samples to put on my Alesis sample pad and get option paralysis easily, what are the best ones to get?? Like decently real sounding acoustic kits or ones that are like crunchy sounding in a fun way. Will be paired with guitar oriented rock ish music
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May 1, 2024 01:20
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