John, just got the Keeley pedal in. Had about an hour with it. Thanks man!! Really, thanks!! I'll go into it more later. Gotta get to work. But man!! Found the missing puzzle in my live rig!!

Grem,
 
Good news and one hell of a pedal. Has all the ambience of the Ross with extra controls and rock solid.
 
Bummer to hear that Cool Edit Pro isn't working in Win 7. Last of the product line to have a simple serial number to register. Audition 1.5 was about the useful end of the original vision after Adobe bought out Syntrillium and shut them down..  Syntrillium also made really cool screen savers. Kaliedoscope was advanced for the time and was a real rush in retrospect. Still got it around here somewhere on a 3.5 floppy.
 
John
 

Guys,
 
Checking back in with some tests of the free Reaper ReaFIR plugin for Sonar, pressing it for purposes way beyond current technology and what it was originally designed for.
 
Less than stellar results for live application, sorry to report...
 
Problems real time are what I feared regarding latency. I t takes a lot of processing power resulting in excessive delay time for live use.
 
Second problem I anticipated also regarding dynamic noise fluctuations using the likes of compressors. There is no stable noise floor with a compressor, so a static picture of what is causing the noise doesn't apply. Even if the computer could process in real time, the profile is fluctuating. Leads to either overkill subtraction taking out frequencies from the music or backing off enough to let the music through, but suffering the latency.
 
Don't work live unfortunately. Maybe our grand kids or later will have an option somewhere out there. It ain't possible now.
 
As far as a static noise background, after the fact, hum, hiss, something not right on a track... This is a Godsend to Sonar users. We have no capacity in our realm to do anything otherwise, unless we fork out hundreds of dollars to Adobe to import wav files back and forth to clean them up..
 
Don't have to go broke, because we have been offered state of the art noise reduction capability for free. Adobe, eat my shorts...Posting the link again. Free to download, integrates into Sonar without coming out of the closet and relying on the "R" word...
 
http://www.reaper.fm/reaplugs/
 
Damn cool, is it not?
 
John
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

I'll be downloading this and trying it. I've been playing around with setups for micing my acoustic with condensers and my room has a lot of noise so....thanks for the link.

You're welcome Clint.
 
The plugin works quite well for taking out room noise. You select a portion of a track that is without music and where the noise floor shows through. The start of a track is always good if you have some silence before the instruments begin. Select the area and tell ReaFIR to subtract the profile of that section throughout the rest of the track. Adobe used to require 2 seconds at least of baseline noise to analyze and build the profile.
 
Important not to have anything else going on in the selection becausae ReaFIR will factor that in also.
 
Cool things are getting a graphic layout of the complex noise problem. Also a tip that the control key and mouse allow you to raise or lower the gain of the extraction. In extreme settings or extreme noise, it's impossible to not lose some musical frequencies that coincide with the noise..

Hey Guys,
 
Back to Revalver III, missing the love somewhere. I'm not getting it.
 
Great deal for $30. Some cool effects. Like the noise gate.
 
Having trouble dialing in a credible evolving overdrive even with all the cabs, preamps, amps.
 
Metallic shrill square wave shred as close as the mouse, but try to tone it down and things fall apart. Maybe it wasn't meant for Scuffham type gradients.
 
Reminder (subjective) that outside of HeadCase, or S-Gear, one of the finest and dirt simple overdrive units on the planet is a freebie (after a couple hoops) from P&M. They got a suite of 40 plugs, the VIP collection. Subjective again, there are less than 10 boxes in the  suite that are to die for. You can get the whole suite for several hundred dollars but end up with a lot of stuff you will never use. They are all simple digital stomp box format with a few knobs.
 
Think the offer is still up. Do a like on Facebook and they send you a link to download and register one stomp.
 
Get California Tone, American Tweed, the British thing. Set up freeware Vitamin C compressor from Distorque before the unit. If you got any ideas how to get better than this, please educate me...
 
John
 
http://distorqueaudio.com/plugins/vitamin-c.html
 
http://www.plugandmix.com/free_plugin-994/