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The Line6 Monkey absorbs yet another blow. Dang.zed wrote:My heart tells me that I MUST have that guitar. I just went and tried it again, and it is beyond spectacular. The baritone setting is so ultra cool... it sounds great in Telecaster and Humbucker modes in particular. So many really delicious sounds you can get out of that baby. Sorry Monkey Man... but I think I will have to take back the Variax.
There is a dude on a German forum who has put up a mirror, search the topic on KVR and you will find.emulatorloo wrote:HeadMaster wrote:Go download that Yellowtools freebieI still can't get the sample content to download correctly -- impossible to get in, and once I did I got a corrupted file twice after 8 hrs of downloading -- their server is having a real hard time.
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Indeed we have! But the Beatles, and their legacy, have remained in our hearts the whole time.Frodo wrote:Wow-- found this thread on page 4!! We've been slacking off, we have!!
I have been salivating with the thought of this plugin. Unfortunately, the AU version has been on a backburner for some time, awaiting a programmer to take it on, so there is still no AU beta version available. But I read an Abbey Road post from just over a month ago where they said they hired a new programmer who will be specifically dealing with AU issues. Hopefully we will be able to try it out sometime over the course of the Fall.Frodo wrote:So, today I get a message that there is news from Abbey Road Plugins... There is a new Mastering Pak, but currently it's only in TDM and RTAS. The bundle includes the Tone Control and Filter modules from the TG12410 mastering console.
Yeah, me too. If the EQ is as good as the Limiter it will be really easy to spice up the tracks and give them some of that magical Abbey Road sheen we imagine in our heads.Frodo wrote:How I long for these unique plugins as a British bundle apart from the UAD series of classic plugins. Such totally different sound.
In fact I have learned a little bit about that, as well. The next update is right around the corner, and it has been suggested that the DP issues have been addressed. Hopefully we'll be able to check it out over the next few days.Frodo wrote:I'm also keeping my ears open for more info on Fab Four updates where DP is concerned-- as well as info regarding DP updates. I'm hoping the next PLAY engine release will conquer some of the anomalies in DP that are just not cropping up elsewhere-- standalone or in other DAWs.
Crikey!Frodo wrote:Local hobbit acquires two new guitars:
Epiphone Casino Elitist, tobacco suburst finish
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Rickenbacker 330 Fireglo finish, akin to (but not identical to) those in the photos. It fits somewhere between Harrison's 360-12 and Lennon's 325 backup models:
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I have downloaded it, but have not played with it too much yet... But right off the bat you will notice some great improvements... nothing new really... but the plugin works in DP much the way we expected with its initial release. It is MUCH more CPU efficient, and it no longer does those crazy GUI things, with menus disappearing, etc. My first impression is that it is behaving well in DP... although it appears that they still haven't added the pitch bend feature which I have been craving so that I could try out the sounds with my MIDI guitar.Frodo wrote:1.0.020 is now available for downloading... Zed-- do you have any specifics or a noteworthy heads up to share with how the new PLAY engine version is working with DP?
You know what, Mr Monkey? Life is too short. If you've been dreaming about having one of these delicious guitars for 28 years then it is high time that you treated yourself. It'll cost you a few shiney pennies, but you will love playing with it for years to come. You don't have to abstain from everything, you know!monkey man wrote:I dream about havin' a guitar for 28 years, and the hobbit just hobbles out and buys... two.
Agreed, Zed.zed wrote:You know what, Mr Monkey? Life is too short. If you've been dreaming about having one of these delicious guitars for 28 years then it is high time that you treated yourself. It'll cost you a few shiney pennies, but you will love playing with it for years to come. You don't have to abstain from everything, you know!monkey man wrote:I dream about havin' a guitar for 28 years, and the hobbit just hobbles out and buys... two.
Well, I wouldn't say I just "hobbied out" for this-- it was many years in the making. I've peeked into guitar shops my entire life wishing and coveting until it was too excrutiating an experience to endure. February, 1964 revealed Paul's Hofner as an iconic instrument (I was born a lefty, but how/why I was forced to right-handedness is a long, sad, politically incorrect story I'll withhold for now). I was convinced that I wanted to play bass. But later, "A Hard Day's Night" was on network television-- (you remember network television, don't you? That was well before the days of You Tube, TiVo and the VCR).zed wrote:You know what, Mr Monkey? Life is too short. If you've been dreaming about having one of these delicious guitars for 28 years then it is high time that you treated yourself. It'll cost you a few shiney pennies, but you will love playing with it for years to come. You don't have to abstain from everything, you know!monkey man wrote:I dream about havin' a guitar for 28 years, and the hobbit just hobbles out and buys... two.
The only difference, I read, is that there was a problem with sample looping in v.1.0.20 which was presumably fixed in .021. But they haven't updated the instruments to include loops, so I don't see that it makes much difference until the sample libraries are updated again.Frodo wrote:As of October 10th, PLAY update 1.0.021 is now up.
Hey, Zed-- any insights on this one? This is the second update in within the past couple of days-- both Windows and Mac are listed under this update version. I'm downloading it now-- never did get around to installing 1.0.020. I'll check any notes posted, but if you're already using .021 I'm all ears for any DP compatibility warnings if you have any.
Yay! Brilliant, Hobby.Frodo wrote:43 years, Nicky. 43 agonizing years. Mind, the piano has been very good to me in all that time and has been central to my survival as a musician. But for over two-score years the burning and itching had only one effective prescription. This very week, I was finally healed.
Replacing strings is going to be a lot easier than replacing RAM or hard drives... and a LOT more fun, too!
Two-hour rockumentary originally aired in two parts: 2 June 07, 16 June 07 on BBC Radio 2:The project was conceived when Emerick was approached by musician/activist Bob Geldof, who thought it would be a great idea to produce a radio documentary and a TV documentary for the BBC of Emerick re-recording Sgt. Pepper's using some of today••™s top artists and the original equipment.
In the new collection, the original 13 tracks are covered by artists including Bryan Adams, Razorlight, Athlete, Kaiser Chiefs, Magic Numbers, Jamie Cullum, Oasis, Travis, The Zutones, The Stereophonics and The Libertines.
For the recordings, Emerick assembled much of the original equipment used on The Beatles••™ album, including two of the original Studer 1-inch 4-track tape recorders and two of the original EMI mixing consoles provided by Mark Knopfler and Lenny Kravitz. Additionally, Emerick borrowed essential vintage AKG microphone models from the AKG Museum in Vienna, Austria. Richard Lush, who assisted Emerick on the original 1967 recording, joined Emerick as assistant engineer on this project, along with Richard Cooper from Knopfler••™s British Grove Studios.
With the exception of Oasis••™ recording of "Within You Without You," which was recorded at Abbey Road Studios, the entire album was recorded at British Grove Studios in Chiswick, England, which is home to one of the original EMI mixing desks. Emerick recorded to 4-track tape and mixed in mono....
