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Wow. That sounds pretty crazy, man. I LOVE PS's stuff.
 
Welp... I guess that'll be one more thing I'll have to pine over. lol




It may be that you'll still be able to get those BFD Eco to BFD2 boxed upgrade this time next year but I wouldn't want to be on it so I would advise upgrading as soon as you can. The PS kits are really something else and although not all in my style there are a couple that are in danger of becoming used on all my projects 
I'm working on an alternative Christmas song using one of them right now so when that's done I might post it on the songs forum.
 
Steve




They did something weird with our tax returns up here in Canada where the hydro/rent rebates get paid out monthly which will, in theory, jack up my monthly income a little bit. When that kicks in I should be golden. I mean I'll still be broke but I'll have a few extra bucks to toss at things like this again. I really don't need much else right now. Just the VRM Box, an upgrade for BFD and I'd like to get the Overloud MarkII Bass thingy. If the place I just moved from hadn't been all f*cked up all of that would have been bought and paid for by now and I'd have money to bank on top. Friggen' life, man. lulz
 
I would VERY much like to pick up some of the Izotope mastering tools as well but now that I know more about the effects in Sonar I can probably eke by for now because that stuff is expensive. Besides if something is THAT important and needs to be professionally released I'd probably hire Danny or someone who knows what the heck they are doing. I have access (or I used to... hopefully the contacts haven't gone cold) to some top of the industry engineers up here too who have always liked my stuff and offered their services for dirt cheap or even FREE. How I manage to impress people like that I'll never know. lol
 
X3 isn't looking all that useful to me for the price but IDK... I'm pretty ticked off about how X2 was handled but losing my upgrade path after all the money I've spent would be lame. We'll see if it lives up to the post release hype. The integrated Melodyne would be cool and the new Quad Curve is interesting but I'm just not sure it's enough and I'd have to relearn a bunch of editing skills due to the comping changes. The money and time may be better spent on a secondary DAW so I can expand my knowledge/experience and have something that would hopefully make up in places Sonar is sorely lacking.
 
Anyway... that has nothin to do with nothin' I guess. Just the constant grind to acquire tools that after extensive research I KNOW are appropriate for my personal needs.
 
Definitely post what you come up with. I am VERY happy to hear that PS is doing a bunch of the studio samples for FXpansion. Every... single... thing I've acquired from them has made my drum sequencing capabilities improve by huge factors and their service is impeccable. They did me a personal solid a while back that they absolutely didn't need to and probably lost money just catering to my broke ass. I don't forget that kind of thing... never mind they have the best drum samples out there IMO.
 
Cheers.

Just a FYI Beep, in the full BFD2, selecting "Mono All Inputs" from the synth properties page, it loads 32 mono tracks into Sonar.
 
Using this, I can load an 18 piece kit with every slot filled, 6 toms, 6 cymbals, 2 kicks, 2 snares and a couple of percussion pieces and I never run out of tracks or channels.
 
It's easy to separate all the different mic channels so you get separate tracks for Kick In, Kick Out, Kick Sub, Snare top, Snare Bottom etc
 
3 other tracks I convert to stereo and use these for the Overhead, Room & Amb 3, mic positions

Bristol_Jonesey
Just a FYI Beep, in the full BFD2, selecting "Mono All Inputs" from the synth properties page, it loads 32 mono tracks into Sonar.
 
Using this, I can load an 18 piece kit with every slot filled, 6 toms, 6 cymbals, 2 kicks, 2 snares and a couple of percussion pieces and I never run out of tracks or channels.
 
It's easy to separate all the different mic channels so you get separate tracks for Kick In, Kick Out, Kick Sub, Snare top, Snare Bottom etc
 
3 other tracks I convert to stereo and use these for the Overhead, Room & Amb 3, mic positions

Yeah, I didn't know the exact output count but I knew it was a HECKUVA a lot more than what I have now and would cover pretty much anything I need to do for drums. For some reason I had thought I had actually managed to get the kit in this project routed out piece by piece but I see now that I've got a lot of work to do to get the full kit.
 
Should be educational and interesting though even if it is annoying as heck. I'm also starting to realize why folks were griping about color options so much. It'd be nice if I could at least make the background color for my bus/track names reflect certain designations. As it is I'm having to use track icons which is... well, not as good.