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I feel like it’s been a bit quiet around here since the update.
I wanted to chime in and say that so far, I’m having a pretty good experience with LADD v.2, it’s stable and I’m not having any significant CPU issues despite running a riduncolously low buffer on my machine.
One of the presets I find myself pulling up quite often is actually the Hi Hats and Shakers. I think they sound crisp and cut through quite well. I do have to run them through some pretty aggressive Mastering compression to even out the levels (as I might have mentioned before, level discrepancy is probably my #1 issue with LADD).
As LADD nears its finished stage (I assume you guys are trying to release this before the holidays), as far as I’m concerned once the levels have been evened out a tad more and some of the instruments cleaned up a bit (mostly I would prefer if all instruments load up defaulting to C0 as the FX setting, and I personally would prefer if there aren’t any “gaps” on the keyboard which can lead me to press the key over and over wondering if I just can’t hear the actual sample), this puppy is ready for the masses.
I haven’t meticulously gone through sample by sample for each and every instrument (although I have for a number of them), and I haven’t encountered any glitches or other bugaboos. Lastly…sorry if I haven’t posted any feedback regarding the manual, I should really try to force myself to read it…but, as Andrew would say, I have an allergy to manuals.
Seriously, I think the tutorial videos are a much quicker and more efficient way to convey pretty much all of the information that the user needs to know. In recent years I have begun using VFX software and video plugins, and many of them don’t come with any printed documentation eschewing traditional manuals and instead relying on online tutorial videos to get the users up to speed.Anyway, those are my thoughts for this week.
(but yes, I will make an effort to read the manual as well)Thank you guys.
Now I can go back to my napping knowing that I’ll still meet my deadline without problems!
@Andrew K wrote:
Also, I think we will have a Morph Master Effects preset were you can dial in real-time a big low sub sound on any patch that has low frequncy content. Still thinking about that.
A big fat YES vote on that one from me!
I’m just going to post this comment, and you guys take it for what it’s worth:
I kinda sorta wish there was more subsonic energy / low end to some of the beefier hits.
There I said it! :o
Perhaps I’m a bit too biased toward rumbles and other things that shake up my studio, but on some of the instruments like the bass drums, low toms, frame drum and hits & booms I still find myself wanting to feel that subsonic pressure that I’m accustomed to with some of my other sounds, and I would undoubtedly reach for the SubBass plugin in Logic Pro to add some of that. It’s a subtle thing, but very desirable in today’s demand for floor-shaking “epic” sounding cues.
Then again…maybe it’s just me!
I’m on a roll here…
I am sure you guys will fix this, but IMHO all Instruments should default to the natural state when first loaded. Right now, not all instruments default to C0, which can be a bit confusing when loading up something that should sound “normal” like the Bass & Gran Loose BD ALL (No IR…) but which open defaulting to F0 which is a filtered effect.
Also, on that same instrument, there is a B2 key which doesn’t have any samples mapped to it. It might be intentional, but I would advise minimizing any instrument keys without any samples mapped to it as to avoid the frustrating result of having the end user press the key thinking that perhaps the sample has an incredible slow attack or is very soft, only to realize after a couple of minutes that the key doesn’t have any samples assigned to it….just a thought. :mrgreen:
On the instrument: Bass & Gran Casa (and sorry for the correction, but being Italian let me inform you that unless you mean Big House it should be Gran Cassa) Euro V2, I am definitely hearing some phasing going on, unless my ears are playing tricks on me. But just to be safe, you might consider double checking.
Thank you guys.
I would like to restate to take anything that I say at this stage with a huge grain of salt since it’s all extremely preliminary and some of these “issues” might not be issues at all once we actually begin using the library. My guess (hope) is that it will all seem quite intuitive once I actually get to play with the settings and start clicking on stuff.
Some of the functionality described appears to be either a tad redundant, or not necessarily the type of functions that would appear to be critical for the end user to have access to. For instance, having just watched Sebastian’s video on Loops, I found myself thinking that the Optimization button shouldn’t really be there at all, but should rather be an automatic function that happens behind the scenes. I can’t think of a reason why one wouldn’t always want to have the instrument optimized to its fullest extent.
The same could be said about the Smooth FX switching, why wouldn’t this be desirable at all times?
There are also some shortcuts which don’t seem to be standardized across all the pages. For instance, on the Mixer page, it would appear possible to Save a snapshot to one of the 8 available locations by Option-Clicking onto the desired location, yet this doesn’t appear to be possible on the Tuner page which requires the user to actually access the Save Preset drop down menu in order to save their tuning table.
In some cases, there are functions which I can see that you would like to be able to offer to the end user as a way to customize their experience, yet which might fall in the “too much of a good thing” category. An example of this is in the Key FX Setup Page with the option to change the color of the Key FX keyswitches (or even reverse the selected colors). While this is certainly a very nice customization option to offer to the end-user, in such an option-rich GUI, perhaps not having this choice might simplify the interface a bit. It also doesn’t appear to be an option available to the other key groups which could lead to some confusion.
I am sure there are some valid reasons for this behavior, but at this early stage, it causes some concern toward my ability to keep all of these functions and shortcuts straight in my brain (likely my personal shortcoming, no doubt).
I’ll say it once more, everything that I’m mentioning right now might not be valid once I actually start using LADD, but in the meantime I think I’m going to have some strange dreams tonight.
