I connected remotely with a client to help him install some new plugins on his system. He wanted to replicate the vocal distortion sound from this YouTube tutorial: Once we had created the first preset, I showed my client how we could use Logic’s Aux… Read More »Building Custom Vocal Distortion Presets in Logic Pro X
Connected remotely with a client to help him sort out some problems on his studio Mac. We needed to do a few tidying-up jobs across a number of support sessions to get his Logic system working correctly, but one error which I found interesting was… Read More »Evolve Mutations Sample Library Missing in Kontakt – Solved
This was a bug with Pro Tools/Waves that I found and solved as part of a much bigger project involving rebuilding a wiped Mac Pro for a studio in South London. One of the things I needed to do for that job was to redownload… Read More »Waves Central v10 Plugins Not Showing in Pro Tools – Solved
Connected remotely with a client to help him with issues related to using Splice samples in FL Studio. He was running FL Studio as his DAW and using Splice as a library to find loops and samples. The Splice Bridge VST plugin was connecting the… Read More »FL Studio Project missing samples imported from Splice – Solved
This is an article about the difficult process Paul from Audio Support faced when trying to save a 2010 Mac Pro with a corrupted hard disk. In August 2023 I was contacted by Aaron Harry at Basstone Studios in Clapham, South London. He was having… Read More »Restoring a 2010 Mac Pro
I received the above message by email and replied to the client. We confirmed his technical support requirements and made arrangements for our remote support session the next day. Control Surface Setup Once we connected on the phone and via Anydesk I could look at… Read More »Mackie Controller and Extenders not Recognised by Cubase
Remote connection Connected remotely with a new client from South West London who had found my service via Google. He needed help with an installation of Cubase Artist 9 that was crashing on launch with the message “Initializing: Scanning VST3 Plugins”. He had been in… Read More »Cubase Artist 9 stuck at Initializing: Scanning VST3 Plugins
A client was having a problem recording his Behringer Odyssey synth into Cubase. The Odyssey was connected to his Focusrite Scarlett 18i20 but only very faint sound could be heard on the input channel. I asked my client to run a few tests. First we… Read More »Very low signal from Behringer Odyssey Synthesiser
Remote support Connected with a new client in England who was having a problem with playback in Logic Pro. Logic loaded correctly but when the client pressed the Play button on the transport bar the playhead of Logic got stuck at the beginning of the… Read More »Logic Pro playhead stuck at beginning of song
Connected with a client in Hampshire, England who I have been regularly connecting with to help with his Ableton setup. He had a question regarding pitch bend data on his soft synths and how Ableton displays the values. Understanding the pitch bend range Pitch bend… Read More »Working With Pitch Bend Data in Ableton