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[Bear-Faced Cow]

A single search filter would be ambiguous. We would probably need a couple of search filters. One to indicate major, minor, diminished, etc. The other filter would be more for the model type. Not all Minor scales (eg., Dorian) are sad, and not all major scales (eg., Lydian) are happy-go-lucky.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

The key signature is just that… A key signature. It is nothing more than a set of rules within a musical staff. All you were doing from going from G to Em is changing the relative representation and not the tonal centre. Aside from the fact that your supposed progression is more correct for a major Phrygian/Harmonic Minor mode than in an aeolian/natural minor mode, a progression of G major is still correct. Changing your tonal centre is what the circle of fifths is for.

you are also looking at the key signatures rather myopically, since there are 7 different tonal centres within a key. Starting a song in D, for example, does not mean that the key signature is D. Whether you have represented the key signature in G or E minor has no bearing on that D tonal centre.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

• This post was modified 5 years ago by Bear-Faced Cow.

[Bear-Faced Cow]

I wouldn’t bother with the gate or hi-pass in the case of SD3. I would use the envelope palette in the kit piece properties. Done right with the release curve and time, you can get a more natural taper of the ring, which in the context of a song is what counts perceptually. You can also simulate other muted effects with the envelope.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

• This post was modified 5 years ago by Bear-Faced Cow.

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[Bear-Faced Cow]

Did you remove all of the preferences and databases? There’s a chance one of them could be corrupt.

Forcing an AU re-install can be done simply by removing the AU itself. If it’s not installing after that, then you have some sort of permissions/file system issue.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

Try going into the Plug-In manager and doing a Reset and Revalidate of SD3 from there. I’ve seen corner cases with other AUs in that they crashed AUVal just due to the sheer number of AUs it was validating. Doing them individually often fixed that.

Considering that the majority of the entire music industry has not caught up to BS, I’d definitely say that the upgrade to it was premature.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

It’s not a Logic thing. It’s a plug-in spec thing. Most DAWs will instantiate a plug-in on a single core and that is what they are allocated to so as to properly allocate a more balanced CPU time to other plug-ins. Otherwise you will deal with latency and performance issues, especially when starting to add 3rd party plug-ins into the mix.

Within a DAW, SD3 is best set to single core.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

I think we’re losing sight of the fact that we’re dealing with a library that has already been recorded with the heads tuned to the shells. When the pitch is adjusted, you are adjusting every aspect and are really not changing the relationship between the head and the shells. You’re not simply raising and lowering the pitch of the head.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

Considering that you are tuning the drums in context of the song, the song itself is defining the relative pitch as well as your starting point. That’s how you are determining if it will fit in.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

There’s an AudioUnitCache folder in ~/Library/Caches

Delete it and rescan.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

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Thanked by: David Porter

[Bear-Faced Cow]

I’d say no to tape more because tape rolls off the high end, which would narrow everything down to a specific tonality, which may make it a bit more of an effort to sit in certain mixes. Tonality (and to some degree compression in the form of saturation) is already defined by the board (such as the Helios 69) to achieve a certain tonality that the producer used in their genre.

Frankly, I care more to see who the next legendary producer/engineer Toontrack works with to produce their libraries. Guys like Eddie Kramer & Bob Rock were the producers I grew up with (mind you, I grew up listening to Bob Rock playing in the Payola$ with Paul Hyde) and would very much like to see more libraries from producers that defined music like they did. If only Toontrack had a chance to work with the late great Andy Johns… that library would have been just as epic as Eddie Kramer. That’s the only library that keeps me hanging on to BFD. Considering that we lost some very notable legends in the past few years, I’m hoping Toontrack creates a legacy of the remaining ones before we lose them, like they did with Al Schmidt. The price of the libraries are a bargain for the feeling of working close to them inside their studio environment.

I say the same goes for many of the drummers out there for the MIDI packs.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

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Thanked by: Scott

[Bear-Faced Cow]

No, it’s tuning. In many cases you’re working in relative terms of the song and you’re tuning the drum to fit into that song. That’s not noodling. Noodling it more akin to blindly setting something to see if it will work.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

Your AU cache is probably corrupt. Delete your AU Cache and Let Logic rescan all AU’s.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

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Thanked by: David Porter

[Bear-Faced Cow]

I doubt a reinstall is necessary. Try trashing the prefs first. You’ll find them in here:

~/Library/Preferences

(~ = your Home directory)

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

Like I said already, quick swipe comping is only for audio in Logic. With MIDI, all you can do with a take folder is cut it up and select the MIDI in that cut up piece. Scott’s method is more or less the horizontal version of this using the various tracks.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

• This post was modified 5 years ago by Bear-Faced Cow.

[Bear-Faced Cow]

You can select the Auto-Load button in the Search for Instrument window. Only caveat to remember is that it does what it’s name implies after you close the window. However, you can go through the entire gamut of instruments in short order.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

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