Hey gang-
Is the Vintage Channel missing in X3 or am I stupid or both?
cheers
 
WSS

Vintage Channel was removed in X3, along with a number of other things like R-Mix, V-Vocal, Cakewalk Analyst, etc.
 
You're not stupid, Steve.
 
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Craig was saying that some of the older missing plugs are available on the X3 installation if you use the custom install feature to retrieve them. However I may have misunderstood.
 
It will still be retrievable by doing a custom install of the earlier releases that contained it. They left it out because it is 32bit and I guess they were trying to cut down on conflicts.

Thank you gentlemen! Well I still have x2 producer sealed in its box. I guess I don't really need the vintage Channel what with all the other stuff that's in there, just curious. I wonder does anyone think R Mix would be worth the effort to custom install? I never did like V vocal...
WSS

I think R-mix is worth it.  basic install of X2 does not take up that much space.  V-vocal is even worth keeping if you have not upgraded to Melodyne Editor. Essential is superior to V-vocal in most ways but V-vocal does have a few tricks not available in the Essential version of Melodyne.  I think the channel strip that comes with the blue tube bundle is an adequate replacement for VC but does not sound quite the same.

Vintage Channel is an extremely unique plug in due to the crazy routing section and various other stuff. There are quite a few things it can do that the new plugs cannot. Craig has mentioned this and some of the things he does in the X1 Advanced vids aren't really possible with the new stuff or at least not without some very elaborate setup. If you have X1 unboxed it came with that as well or you could just redownload whatever version you need to access it from your account (if it's not there because you bought a retail copy I think support will send you download links). Also you could see if it is included in the custom install section of X3 as I mentioned earlier.
 
As far as R-Mix I think that is a very useful plug and definitely worth installing. It's one of the main reasons I bought X2. Unless of course you have a fancier plug like Izotope RX or something but even then I don't think even that has the creative possibilities in R-Mix via automating the square/circle thingie/faders.

Rmix is great for removing bleed from live recordings, for me its been a god send on removing unwanted noise on room mic recordings of multi tracked Live drums.

markyzno
Rmix is great for removing bleed from live recordings, for me its been a god send on removing unwanted noise on room mic recordings of multi tracked Live drums.

Pretty much the same purposes I use it for.  As stated , it's not in the class of RX3 but I have come to rely on it since I often have to record sound in less than desirable areas

Hmmm. Can R Mix isolate remove and paste by itself say a vocal line from a stereo mix for processing alone?
Is it similar to the Sony plug called spectral something or other? I have SF pro but did not purchase the spectral thing when they offered it.

Thanks!

(And I do have Melodyne editor even though its a little hinky......)
WSS

markyzno
Rmix is great for removing bleed from live recordings, for me its been a god send on removing unwanted noise on room mic recordings of multi tracked Live drums.

Indeed. Snag what you want, scrap the rest. It's a lot easier when you can actually SEE the bad noise vs the good noise as opposed to endless fiddling around with (traditional) EQs, gates and comps.