Spektral in Cubase (interesting article about the use in Cubase)
https://espace-cubase.org/anglais/page.php?page=avissdPresentation, installation and running the software.
Spektral Delay is bundled in a box which contains the software installation CD (for Mac and PC, and for all the versions: VST Plug-in, DirectX Plug-in, and stand alone version), the manual and the documents concerning the registration (those who have the Internet will do it online, which takes less than five minutes).
Il faut bien l?admettre, le manuel, même s?il est bien traduit, a très peu d?intérêt. Il se limite à un catalogage des fonctions du logiciel. Aucun tutoriel de mise en route. Les explications pour l?installation sont réduites à leur strict minimum. Par exemple, on y parle d?un répertoire NI-SPEKTRAL DELAY DEMO, où sont supposés se trouver des programmes et des samples de « démarrage rapide » : ce répertoire n?existe pas ! De même, aucune explication n?est donnée quant à l?utilisation du soft en mode plug-in (insert ou send ?). Il semblerait que NI (Native Instruments, que nous nommerons ainsi à partir de maintenant) aient jugé que leur programme était réservé aux initiés en raison de sa complexité. Je ne sais pas? mais quand-même. Les manuels sont souvent rédigés par des ingénieurs et pas par des musiciens, il serait temps de penser un peu à eux. Un petit tutoriel en ligne aurait été sympathique pour illustrer les fonctions énumérées dans le manuel. En revanche, pour ceux qui sont habitués à ce type de soft, il y aura moins besoin du manuel.
Once this (little) bad surprise is gone, we introduce the CD in the CD-Rom driver, double click on the Setup.exe file, and the software will install without any problem. By choosing ?Custom Installation? you can, if you want it, install only the Plug-In version (VST or DX), or only the Stan Alone version, or both. Once the installation is complete, when you first launch the program, an activation key is asked. Here, no need to call or to go on the Internet to get the number, you just have to give the one which is on the box and in the manual: this is a good point for NI. You will be asked, from time to time, to insert the original CD and to recompose the activation code. You just have to get these elements near you. You cannot copy the CD (don?t ask me if the system is sure, I did not try). On the naked face of the CD are two little holes that forbid the copy.
For this test, I installed every version of the software, knowing that the sequencer is Cubase VST 5.1 under XP. We will see further that the stand alone version has its advantages, especially for those who create samples.
During the first uses, my computer crashed many times! In the plug-in mode, the fact of clicking on a program in SD simply closed Cubase! So I visited the NI site on the Internet. After having entered my personal information and my serial number, I could download the 1.5 update, with an re-written audio engine, much more steady. You will also get access to a special SD forum on the NI site. To be noted: after the update, it is impossible to uninstall the software in a classical way. The installation logs are overwritten by the update. So you will have to uninstall it in the old way, cleaning all by yourself (system and registry? thanks for newbies!)
To configure the software (choice of the audio soundcard driver, MIDI options?), you will have to open the Stand Alone version. This part is relatively well documented, so no trouble.
Concerning the CPU consumption, this is very reasonable. In plug-in mode, about 8% on the CPU gauge in Cubase. In stand alone mode, Windows XP gives me 4% of the CPU used. More than correct, given the power of the stuff ;o) The computer used for this test is a Celeron II Tualatin over clocked to 1450 MHz, with 512 Mo RAM and two hard drives 7200 rpm (one for the system and one audio).
Here we are, now SD offers two options : plug-in or stand alone.
I'm having difficulties letting spektral delay appear in ableton live 4 & bias peak 2.5
Anybody more succesfull on live 3 ?
I might try it in Logic & Cubase vst ...
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p.s.
it appeared finally in cubase VST 32 but
i got this infamous rewire.vll or .cll something error (in windows topics
they call it ::: rewire dll hell ::: :-/ e.g. between acid & reason )
& powerbook freezes & started getting very hot,
hard reset even , corrupted my graphics ... glitches all over my screen
made me think of macbook pro 2011 AMD GPU 'hell'
where GPU was a ticking bomb before you got glitches & the only way to
be able to use the mbp was killing the external gpu & enforcing the internal
intel gpu to boot
http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?topic=1521.0
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