When I first installed this, it threw up an error code and exited. Since you got it to work in Studio Pro, I tried it again. It worked for me this time, which might have had something to do with the minor update from v1.0.0 to v1.0.1. Whatever works, right? The non-existant documentation left me poking around to find the note range (G3 to F5). Two octaves, but I can’t use my 25-key Minilab because it’s Cn to Cn+2, so I have to use my 61-key NI S61 Mk3. At least the price was right. Most of the April 1st releases are not usable, just funny (or not). This one could be usable. Maybe in a quartet with a banjo, accordion and bagpipes. 
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Yeah, I discussed with Peter Gorges from UJAM about this. They fixed the issue within two days.
It works perfectly on my AKAI MPK. Can’t you just change the octave on the keyboard? Mine has a shortcut and I can play kindergarten tunes and gangsta rap “great” now.
The only issue for me is that “mistakes” are not random, as they use fixed samples. That makes it hard to play a tune that is not obviously sample based. I hope to find a work around (resample the tune with working notes, for example)
I will never do a track with banjo, but since the Weird Al Yankovic movie I can totally relate to accordion … and bagpipes were ALWAYS cool, come on. Anything from Scotland is cool per definition!
If I find a plugin for that, I will definitely do something with that 
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I can change the octave, but the keyboard still maps to Cn → Cn+2. If I set it to C3 → C5, I can’t play the highest notes. If I set it to C4 → C6, I can’t play the lowest notes. A 37-key controller would be perfect. Sure, I could toggle the octave back and forth if I’m doing single note entry into the piano roll, but that’s kind of a pain.
So, I have you to thank for the software fix. 
Especially if you’re wearing a kilt on a cold, windy day up in the Highlands. 
Except for this one!
The original by Arthur “Guitar Boogie” Smith.
OK, one more classic version.
That’s all the banjos for today, folks!
Hahaha - no, UJAM did that all by themselves
But I might be the only one that complained, don’t know why. This plugin is for the cool kids, no??!
Ah, thanks for the idea! This is really great for a video clip to a song, in fact. Thank God for the pixelation effect in my video editor.
Now I need to find a bag pipe plugin…
Here’s a good free one that runs on the free Splice Instrument player (used to be Spitfire LABS).
Uillean Pipes for Splice Instrument
EDIT: So far, I’m underwhelmed by the transition from Spitfire LABS to Splice INSTRUMENT. It found all of my many free LABS instruments, but successfully loaded precisely 0% of them. Still f’ing around with it. When I select an instrument on their website and click on Download, it takes me to a page to download the Splice app, which I already have installed. So, still f’ing around with that, too.
EDIT 2: Ignore all of the above. I just uninstalled all of the free Spitfire LABS and paid Spitfire Originals that I had. Splice gets an f’ing F. So, the search for a bagpipes VSTi continues.
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Ok, next track!
For that I need some child vocals. As I will not find any parents that will lend me their kids for creating the vocals to my tracks, for whatever reason, I use this process:
- create a female vocal track with Revoicer. It’s only spoken words (for presentations), and my license does not include German kid voices, so
- I use MAutoPitch to change to a higher pitch. It does not sound right though and I wish there were alternatives to create a better kids vocals from adult voices.
- To remove the robotic AI character I use the free version of Resing. It’s ideal for my purposes, but also not perfect.
Is there a better low cost way that will not involve creating my own kids, waiting for 9 months until they are born and then another few years until they have the right voice for my purpose?
No problem! I completely fell in love with the BeautyFlute plugin. I’m not gonna use it on all tracks from now on (well, still undecided), but for my current use case it’s ideal!
I think that the flute has exactly the silliness I’m looking for (in life), and it goes very very well with bass guitar and hiphop…
Believe it or not, I do not think there is a best practice for making fake kids
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The Beautyflute Pro inspired song turns out to be a very fun project. I really like what the song is becoming.
But: I’m still failing with making kid’s vocals from “adult” female vocals.
Tomorrow my girlfriend and here friend will do a very drunk recording session, and I’m still lost how to avoid the “chipmunk” effect when changing their voices to kids. >
I tried several plugins, but they all fail at the higher pitch I need. I am sooooo close though! Frustrating, really!
I know, I know, @howard answer to all issues is Melodyne.
My Essential version fails too, unfortunately. And the next version is simply too expensive for a one time thing.
It only makes sense if I would sing too on future tracks. But I was a great singer until my voice broke … now my voice cannot be fixed by ANY software 
So Melodyne ist still no option…
Help!!!
There’s always Vocaloid
Grab a cutesy anime voicebank for it.
Not free though. Not even close.
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Hahahaha!
I will go for Graillon and ask my chicks to “sing” with a throat voice. I hope they can do that when they’re absolutely drunk!
Another question - I have for different bass lines in a track (“dumm dumm”, “go up”, “go down”, “Psychic TV”) . They all use the same instrument and presets, but each has its own instrument assigned currently, so when I change something, I need to fumble each bass track individually. That’s sh#te!
I want to organize my project visually, so I can see where I put which bass line (to understand the “story” that the bass tells) - but be able to change instrument settings, effects etc globally for all these tracks.
So: everything in one go!
Studio One pro offers:
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Folders: gives me the visual overview, but I cannot assign an instrument or effects to folders
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Groups: couldn’t find a way to assign an instrument or effects to a group, though it seems logical to me that this should work. What else could be the function of a group (in contrast to a folder)?
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Instrument bus. WTF? What is that? It must be alien technology
I hope you understand?!
For overall effects you want an instrument bus. Just put all the tracks on the bus and do all your effects, compression and level settings there. You can also often do this equivalently with daw specific methods like track groups or folders.
For sharing instrument settings, save the synth patch (or a clone of it) and when you save it on one instrument you can reload it on the others.
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Couldn’t get that to work, but I solved it differently.
What I did:
- Group my bass tracks in a folder. It’s just the MIDI notes, so no instrument or effects. By the way: this folder and its tracks is NOT shown in the console (= mixer). That’s ok, less clutter that can confuse me even more.
- Create an empty instrument track (= no MIDI notes) with the instrument and the effects. This appears in the console, and I can manipulate it as my little heart desires.
- Set “out” on the bass tracks (with midi NOTES) within the folder to the empty instrument track. Now I can hear the bass lines via the empty track.
I don’t know if this is the most efficient way, but it does exactly what I want:
- have a visual overview of all bass clips
- Control the instrument and effects globally
Does that make sense too?
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Sure, it worked
I’m working an a track that needs some guitar for the “pogo” part.
Currently, I just took the bass guitar part, transposed it up and assigned a (free) guitar instrument plugin to it, as well as some Amplitube effects. It did improve the pogo, but I would like that part to have more “energy”.
Questions:
- what are good/cheap guitar instrument plugins? If possible, “dry” (without effects) - so I can change the tone myself.
- Are there guitar instrument plugins that automatically play chords to single notes? Again, I just replicate a simple bass line, but I want to enhance the sound using chords.
no
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More seriously I think a lot of people just use samples and sample packs for this. The last couple times I did it I either used a synth using a guitar sample oscillator, or simply used a guitar.