🧵 So at 128 samples, my virtual #bass rig in #Carla #PluginHost does work without xruns. It's not bad. Actually it's quite some fun with the plugins in the screenshot. And it's free.

I did a lot of switching back and forth now, but unfortunately… it's really hard to beat a pedal board full of #tcElectronics. One of the most underestimated pedals is the analog #DarkMatter #overdrive by tc.

As most people have a birthday each year, so do I, and there's a product that seems to be the product for me and my birthday. They recently lowered the price, now it's sold out everywhere: The #tcPlethora x5. Digital beast with complete patches of 5 digital tc FX stored each, and gazillions of virtual pedals available… https://www.thomann.de/de/tc_electronic_plethora_x5.htm

But as usual, when doing these kinds of experiments, I forget to make music.

So perhaps things should just remain the way they are, plus some #AuidioDamage #AD061 #Descent #GranularDelay… the wonderful thing that had started the virtual bass rig journey: https://makertube.net/w/hMwaXVNb1mTMGMv28yDvwU

🧵 So, it turns out that TS-M1N1 by #GuitarML, which is apparently a sophisticated clone of the legendary TS-9 Tubescreamer pedal, does a pretty tubescreamer-like distortion.

https://guitarml.com/#products

However, on my studio PC is an old Xeon W-2140B which has a rather weak single-core performance and at 64 samples buffer, this clicks into plenty of xruns with this overdrive. (This machine has lots of multi-core power, but single core…)

Actually I am experimenting with a re-creation of my #bass #FX pedal board in #Carla #PluginHost.

So far I found an okayish #Guitarix Chorus (the old TAL 60 Chorus has too much latency), using my favorite reverb as Impulse Response, some Gate/EQ from LSP, and TAL Dub-X delay.

I don't know yet if this endeavor makes sense to me.

My motivation basically is the #VCVrack argument… being able to switch complete setups including all the patching.

However, compared to a bunch of pedals by tc Electronic, any computer, no matter which OS and plugins, is a vulnerable thing.