DAW v DAW 7.2 - Cubase
Next up in the latency/jitter testing is Cubase!
If you don't understand what this is, please read the introduction post (This article is being updated if/when changes are made!).
Other parts in this series:
DAW v DAW 7.2 - Waveform
Next up in the latency/jitter testing is Waveform!
If you don't understand what this is, please read the introduction post (This article is being updated if/when changes are made!).
Other parts in this series:
DAW v DAW 7.2 - Reaper
Next up in the latency/jitter testing is Reaper!
If you don't understand what this is, please read the introduction post (This article is being updated if/when changes are made!).
Other parts in this series:
DAW v DAW 7.2 - Logic
Next up in the latency/jitter testing is Logic!
If you don't understand what this is, please read the introduction post (This article is being updated if/when changes are made!).
Other parts in this series:
DAW v DAW 7.2 - DP
Next up in the latency/jitter testing is Digital Performer!
If you don't understand what this is, please read the introduction post (This article is being updated if/when changes are made!).
Other parts in this series:
DAW v DAW 7.2 - Ardour
Next up in the latency/jitter testing is Ardour!
If you don't understand what this is, please read the introduction post (This article is being updated if/when changes are made!).
Other parts in this series:
DAW v DAW 7.2 - Mixbus
Next up in the latency/jitter testing is Mixbus!
If you don't understand what this is, please read the introduction post (This article is being updated if/when changes are made!).
IMPORTANT - Read an updated post, with Mixbus 7 and repeated tests for Mixbus 6
Other parts in this series:
DAW v DAW 7.2 - Bitwig
Next up in the latency/jitter testing is Bitwig!
If you don't understand what this is, please read the introduction post (This article is being updated if/when changes are made!).
This article cost me $143 to update my Bitwig license for another year.
Other parts in this series:
DAW v DAW 7.2 - FLStudio
Next up in the latency/jitter testing is FLStudio!
If you don't understand what this is, please read the introduction post (This article is being updated if/when changes are made!).
Other parts in this series:
DAW v DAW 7.2 - Live
Next up in the latency/jitter testing is Live!
If you don't understand what this is, please read the introduction post (This article is being updated if/when changes are made!).
Other parts in this series:
DAW v DAW 7.2 - Pro Tools
First up in the latency/jitter testing is Pro Tools!
If you don't understand what this is, please read the introduction post (This article is being updated if/when changes are made!).
Daw v Daw 7.2 update, again...
This is the first part of DAW v DAW 7.2. If you haven't read part 1, then I encourage you to do so.
In this article I'll be:
- Explaining what is being tested
- Explaining why this is a multi-part article.
- Discussing the test procedure.
- Requesting feedback
Other parts in this series:
String Harmonic Calculator
<label class="harmonics-field">
<span>Fretted fret</span>
<select id="harmonics-fretted-fret"></select>
<small>0 = open string</small>
</label>
<label class="harmonics-field">
<span>Natural harmonic</span>
<select id="harmonics-selection"></select>
<small>node pattern</small>
</label>
<label class="harmonics-field">
<span>Pluck position</span>
<input id="harmonics-pluck" type="range" min="5" max="45" step="1" value="22">
<small><span id="harmonics-pluck-value">22%</span> from bridge</small>
</label>
Fretboard
<section class="harmonics-panel harmonics-spectrum-panel">
<div class="harmonics-panel-header">
<div>
<h3>Spectral graph</h3>
<p>
Approximate relative amplitudes. Open-string view shows a simple plucked-string rolloff.
Natural-harmonic view suppresses non-matching modes and shows surviving partials.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="harmonics-summary-grid harmonics-summary-grid-inline">
<div class="harmonics-summary-copy">
<p id="harmonics-summary">Generated natural harmonic layout.</p>
</div>
<dl class="harmonics-stats harmonics-stats-compact" id="harmonics-stats"></dl>
</div>
<div class="harmonics-spectrum-wrap">
<svg id="harmonics-spectrum" viewBox="0 0 1200 380" aria-label="Harmonic spectrum graph"></svg>
</div>
</section>
Node details
Node positions
Node locations relative to the shortened speaking length.
Full harmonic table
Harmonic table
First 16 harmonics with pitch, cents, and modeled amplitude.
| Harmonic | Freq | Pitch | Cents | Amp | Present |
|---|
IT ONLY WORKS ON MOBILE IN LANDSCAPE
I was working on a transcribing a song and arranging for electric bass. I needed to know some harmonics and all of the charts out there suck.
So I started writing a thing to generate a chart of all harmonics and their nearest equal temperament equivalents... There's a story here, but above is a working chart. It is also a 'site feature' now.
Press on for the story...
PDF and more
This week I've been working on PDFs for every post, which is a request I've received fairly frequently.
I'll explain basically how it works and where you can use it.
This also provides a "Reader" version of each page with no navigation or distractions. I'll try to improve the reader pages over time. These are fully static, not dynamic, so they are easily acquired and displayed through various means.
There's also been a few significant adjustments to then DAW Chart.
Open Source
AdmiralBumbleBee.com is now Open Source!
Click through for your questions answered.
Whats up
I'm STILL waiting on some of my electronics equipment to come back... it's been a month now for "a day".
Meanwhile, just a short update on life in general, along with some site updates.
PLEASE READ - If you subscribe via Patreon or RSS and don't like these update (and/or personal) posts, that's OK! Let me know and if there's a decent response then I can make sure they don't appear in the RSS feed and/or patreon.
If you do enjoy this type of post, let me know and I'll keep you up to date on my progress.
Changing Rotosound PSD Bass Strings - Part 1?
I loaned out some of my electronics equipment to my mad scientist, likely-soon-to-be-blown-up-or-blind, brother. So we're taking a dive into a topic I've not seen properly covered anywhere else on the net: Installing Rotosound PSD Strings
Installing some bass (or acoustic!) guitar strings might not seem exciting, but these are unique strings with a tricky installation procedure.
So let's get these strings on... BUT DO NOT REMOVE YOUR OLD STRINGS YET!
Daw V Daw progress
Quick update! I'm working hard on the next DAW v DAW article (Part 7.2), but it's been labour intensive.
What I've done so far for the next DAW v DAW:
- VST/AU Event Logging and Timing Plugin - provided by the author of the fun and unique Cadmium
- Latency Measurement Hardware - Hardware MIDI->Hardware Audio true latency measurements. This has taken a while to make sure that the hardware is putting out accurate results.
- Hardware generates a MIDI message and measures time till audio impulse.
- After a lot of testing and fiddling with assembly, I believe I have this accurate within about .2µs. Total overkill, but why not?
- (Image above is screencap from oscilloscope while I was testing.)
- Hardware generates a MIDI message and measures time till audio impulse.
- Article scaffolding - Outline and concept
- DAW Installation - Not sure if you're aware, but installing and setting up 10 DAWs in Windows and making sure they behave properly IS A PAIN and a time sink.
- Discussion - I took time to discuss the topic with a number of "advanced" users of the DAWs to get some ideas of what they experience and what they'd like tested.
Site Updates:
Updates July 2020
It's time for the monthly site update post.
SHILL - I have been quite impressed with apUnmask since it came out. You can do some disgusting (fun) things with it, but with moderate settings it does a great job of bringing out detail in almost any signal.
I've known the author for a long time, but I don't make any money if you buy it. I truly think it's one of the most innovative VST effect plugins released this century (though the idea isn't purely novel!). I won't be reviewing it since I don't believe I can be particularly objective about it, but I will shill here in this update post.
End shill.
Changes will be listed here as I've started doing, however I'd suggest clicking through for more. The last DAW v DAW was interesting! I made some mistakes on a few levels, but still managed to come to a (not the!) correct conclusion.
I expected to have the next part in the series done today, but there's more work to do...
Site updates and more DAW v DAW info if you click on through.
DAW v DAW - Part 7.1: Studio One 5 Live Jitter
THIS HAS BEEN FIXED IN STUDIO ONE 5.1!!
Studio One 5 is out! just came out!
This would be an exciting day, if they managed to fix one of the many technical issues with their product compared to the rest of the market, which they didn't.
Let's look at one of the most irritating and long standing audible, and testable problems with Studio One: MIDI Input Jitter.
This is part one of a multi-part article. A full comparison of other DAWs will follow this article. This article is an explanation of the phenomenon using Studio One 5 as the demonstration software.
IMPORTANT
There is an on going discussion where there are variances in test results. Those that agree with what's presented here, have the same behaviour but different values, and those that disagree entirely.
Please check out that discussion for more information, sample projects and further discussion.
