Plugin section

[Tobes]

This is a new section for audio plugins, to help us stay in touch with new releases and any problems people may be having.


so please some-one start it off:smiley17:

[todd the kiwi]

</span> g'day ,two hundred or so people have read this post in four months and i'm the only one to reply:smiley3:

i think this is the appropriate thread for this request/observation/question... an

.APE plugin for Sound Forge 7</span>

anybody know if one exists ? i have the

.APE plugin for Adobe Audition</span>

i just much prefer SF7 .

any information on this would be really cool.



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[Tobes]

hello mate, welcome to the site, http://www.itstooloud.com/smileys/2thumbs.gifi cant say i have personally heard of .ape, but what does it do, maybe there is another way to do the same thing, is .ape a vst plugin?


and hey man whats the qcd player like, does it play movies?


anyway thanks for dropping by http://www.itstooloud.com/smileys/bigteeth.gif

[todd the kiwi]

.ape is a lossless audio compressor

(the best as far as i'm concerned)

QCD (as it is coined) is ALL GOOD man

yeah it plays video too

click the link in my last/first (heh heh) post and it goes to their home page...



monkeys audio home page</font> (http://www.monkeysaudio.com/)



i hope my sig works http://www.itstooloud.com/smileys/smiley5.gif

[todd the kiwi]

i have to mention why i need this thing &gt;

i am recording my vinyl into my computer

and considering .mp3 throws away 95%:smiley3:http://www.itstooloud.com/smileys/smiley18.gifhttp://www.itstooloud.com/smileys/smiley11.gif

of the music ,it makes sense to use a lossless encoder

rather than a lossy one . the records have to be recorded real time

and if i'm going to bother doing this at all i may as well keep most of it



but yeah head on over to the QCD</font> (http://beta.quinnware.com/index.php) site

for a primo little player...

and thanks for the welcome Tobes:smiley17:

[Tobes]

well if you dont mind not compressing them is wav no good for you, never heard of monkey audio before, if i wasnt so picky about what i install on my studio pc i would check it out, but there has to be some kind of loss in any compression i suppose.


when youve got some mix's saved with this format youll have to post a link so i can check out the sound quality.


cheers man, sorry i cant help any more, me personally i like to use .wma audio when i compresshttp://www.itstooloud.com/smileys/smiley10.gif

[todd the kiwi]

man i uncompressed an alice in chains album called DIRT from .ape and
it was 1 gig as a .wav so yeah .wav is too big i only have 120 gig hard
drive

and monkeys audio compressor is LOSSLESS man no loss at all audio wise.

i do have a sample in .ape ready to go it's an aphrodite tune called
music's hypnotising but the thing is huge man it's 11mb in mp3 and 200
as a .wav but in .ape it's 125http://www.itstooloud.com/smileys/smiley5.gif
monkeys front end is all good man i recommend it and i'm sure it won't
do any bad sh*t to your machine and if it does the guys email address
is in the help file that comes with it so ... go nuts mate . let me
know what you think of it .

tried QCD yet ?

[Tobes]

well that lossless plugin sounds a bit over the top for me, no hard feelings but once youve stuck that audio on a cd youve lost that sound you had anyway, so all my studio equiptment is running at a straight forward 16bit 44100htz, any quality higher than that i will just convert it down again, my mixing desk is digital so no matter how good a quality the sound, my mixing desk will be chuckiing the sound through the dac's.


i didnt actually install QCD not that it didnt look cool, but im on the tip if it aint broke why fix it, im sitting infront of my studio pc right now, i prefer the least amount of programs installed, this gives me maximum time inbetween intervals for formatting, but also keeps conflicts down to a minimum.


so you got any tunes we can listen too, and sorry to hear your on a 56k modem, you wont be able to enjoy all the good stuff we have here without broadbandso you better get on the phone and order that in http://www.itstooloud.com/webwiz/smileys/smiley19.gif


c u around matey

[todd the kiwi]

whoah mate it's not a plugin it's a separate entity altogether,

there is a plugin for qcd and winamp(5) though.

i'm soon to be getting this cool wireless connection from WOOSH</span> (http://www.woosh.com/UserInterface/Woosh/Static/Homepage/Home.aspx)

@ 250 k there will be no stopping me ha ha ha , cool.



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[Tobes]

hehe http://www.itstooloud.com/smileys/smiley10.gifim on a 600k and about to up it to 2mb cant wait,,,,,, http://www.itstooloud.com/smileys/smiley36.gifguess how much it is here in the uk for 2mb connection £37.99 a month



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is that cheap or expensive in new zealand http://www.itstooloud.com/smileys/smiley25.gif

[todd the kiwi]

for 600k that's quite good BUT is that 'all up' or do you have to pay
for the landline and your isp ? i'm digging this forum too man
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[Tobes]

no worries man, 600k thats just for my internet my phone is on amother line, im with ntl, they use coaxial cable, just waiting for them to up the speed or i will move company's, theres some viceos price wars in england with the companys, we must have 50 companys offering broadband, from what i saw its cheaper here than it is in america, but then i think they all get fibre optics which will go sh*t loads quicker than here http://www.itstooloud.com/smileys/smiley19.gif


they always have it bigger and better dont they, you heard of ultrawide band, its 100 times quicker than the fastest lines you can use today, its the future of the internet, and in ten years everyone will have it.


cant wait for that, streaming DVD's would be cool.

[todd the kiwi]

dang! i replied to this last night :smiley3: it didn't root?

i think i said something about not needing to go to the movies if we
had streaming dvds and my mate in the u.s of a pays like $30us per
month for 600 k , wicked aye.

he gets a bit pissed at me when he's downloading from my ftp because the transfer rate is 4kb/s max ha ha ha ...

[Kenny Dee]

hehe http://www.itstooloud.com/smileys/smiley10.gifim on a 600k and about to up it to 2mb cant wait,,,,,,





All i wanna say is........T1 line....hehehehe http://www.itstooloud.com/smileys/giveme.gif

[puralocha]

http://www.itstooloud.com/smileys/goodnbad.gif


i've got 56k .... http://www.itstooloud.com/smileys/work0002.gif

but the horses at my farm are amazing
and my view of the andes is .....

but where the hell is my satellite T 222 5 gigabytes per second ? ? 2004 no?

damn ...

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[SYNKRONIZE]

56k here &amp; its pants takes about 10years to d/load a single mp3


one day il get that broadband connection


!!!!!!!!!!!! prices r lookin good nowadays so hopefully the swap will b soon !!!!cant wait to get d/loadin dj mixes&amp; get on the ftp sites


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[Tobes]

mate check out bulldog you can get 2mb for £37.99 a month, f**king good deal man.

[DJBloodline]

i just much prefer SF7 .

[todd the kiwi]

woo hoo ! i now have 250 k wireless conection , nice


http://www.itstooloud.com/smileys/goodnbad.gif these emoticons are so classic heh heh http://www.itstooloud.com/smileys/bad001.gif



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[djstory]

u can get 3mb here for 45 USD but where can i check out this ape thing i got adobe audition also (frickin already got v1.05 out the ba**ards) yeah i only go above 16 bit 44100k when im live recording. Edited by: djstory

[flexoffset]

How about use the flac or shn (shorten) audio file compressors.

They are non-lossy and for those who can't stand what mp3 does to audio.

FLAC seems to be what most everybody is using. It's probably not as
small as an MP3 but it is certainly smaller than the WAV file it
compresses.



http://flac.sourceforge.net/

http://research.umbc.edu/~hamilton/shnfaq.html


Edited by: flexoffset

[puralocha]

hello everyone !



well, let's give some activity to this thread !!!



how about the livecut ....



http://mdsp.smartelectronix.com/



there's loads of other great stuff there .... but the livecut is a more recent one ....