MuLab & MUX Vst 5.5.2

[MuTools]

It would help if Mulab got better reviews. But reviewers are so used to those giant DAW's with all their features and fancy interfaces that they are spoiled and consider any DAW inferior that does not compete on that level. In reality Mulab is pretty good for most people except professional studios I assume. It sounds very good without my doing much, doesn't drown me in freakish features and thus force me to take decisions I don't understand, and it looks good by now, especially the DAW component.

And hopefully you and others will appreciate M6 even more.

The only thing I miss is being able to use the single outputs of my drum modules. But maybe I have just not figured out, yet, how to do that I have not really dealt with all the details, I might simply have missed something...

I'm amazed that i can't immediately find the answer in the docs / mutube. Will add that asap with M6. Short answer: Recommended way is to use a MUX that hosts the VST and there you'll see all the outputs of the VST and you can do with them whatever you want i.e. create a simple/complex submix in that MUX.

[fluffy_little_something]

OK, will try that

What I noticed is that Mulab causes regular CPU spikes in idle mode, as this screenshot shows:
https://app.box.com/s/xrfg11wl4lkseipp2zvp

The overall CPU load goes back and forth between 1 and 20% or so. In two cores it is much higher than that. As you can see there is not a single rack, track or whatever. As soon as I close Mulab the CPU load goes to 1% and stays there.
Is that normal?

[AndreasD]

The only thing I miss is being able to use the single outputs of my drum modules. But maybe I have just not figured out, yet, how to do that I have not really dealt with all the details, I might simply have missed something...

Will this help? It's made in the Session MUX/Modular Area

[AndreasD]

OK, will try that

What I noticed is that Mulab causes regular CPU spikes in idle mode, as this screenshot shows:
https://app.box.com/s/xrfg11wl4lkseipp2zvp

The overall CPU load goes back and forth between 1 and 20% or so. In two cores it is much higher than that. As you can see there is not a single rack, track or whatever. As soon as I close Mulab the CPU load goes to 1% and stays there.
Is that normal?

On my sytem cpu is totally flat and hovers at 0%.
Is there something coming from the ASIO driver/interface? Try to switch to MME Audio and see if things are the same.

[fluffy_little_something]

The only thing I miss is being able to use the single outputs of my drum modules. But maybe I have just not figured out, yet, how to do that I have not really dealt with all the details, I might simply have missed something...

Will this help? It's made in the Session MUX/Modular Area

Cool, yes, thank you. Looks pretty messy with those dozen or so racks for drums alone, but it works as intended

[fluffy_little_something]

My brother - also a bedroom producer, seems to run in the family - sent me his latest creation. So I thought let's import it in Mulab and modify it.
I added a track and pulled the mp3 file into it. Conversion/import worked flawlessly. However, once started, I could not stop the sample anymore, which unfortunately is as long as the song, 8 minutes How do you stop such a long sample from playing once playback has started?

[BlackWinny]

My brother - also a bedroom producer, seems to run in the family - sent me his latest creation. So I thought let's import it in Mulab and modify it.
I added a track and pulled the mp3 file into it. Conversion/import worked flawlessly. However, once started, I could not stop the sample anymore, which unfortunately is as long as the song, 8 minutes How do you stop such a long sample from playing once playback has started?

With the Task Manager...

I hope Jo has humour

[dakkra]

My brother - also a bedroom producer, seems to run in the family - sent me his latest creation. So I thought let's import it in Mulab and modify it.
I added a track and pulled the mp3 file into it. Conversion/import worked flawlessly. However, once started, I could not stop the sample anymore, which unfortunately is as long as the song, 8 minutes How do you stop such a long sample from playing once playback has started?

I assigned a shortcut sequence (ctrl+p) to run the panic feature. This ends all audio "generation" playback (synthesizers and samplers). This should do the trick until there is an "in engine" way to do this.

Chris

[MuTools]

Yes the panic function is the way. It's accessible via a shortcut, also via right-click on the play button.

Tip: I would convert the mp3 to a wav and import that as an audio file so it's streamed instead of played as a pitchable sample.
You can also convert it using MuLab:

Method 1:

1) Load it as a sample
2) Right-click that sample -> Save As
3) Then import that audio file into the composer

Mehod 2:

1) Do as you did before so there is a long part with a long note playing the long sample
2) Select that part ony
3) Session -> Export Composition As Audio File + Only selecteds = Yes + enable "Create New Part"

You can also use an external tool app to convert the mp3 to a wav of course.

Cheers!

[fluffy_little_something]

OK, thanks. I will not tell my brother that I felt like stopping his song via the panic feature

[pljones]

Just catching up... of course, you really want your brother to send over the track stems before they've been mashed down into an MP3, if you want to modify the track. Much more fun to be had that way

[MuTools]

In M6 there is a specific "Export Tracks" function for that which exports each track individually