Hey, guys. Is it just me or are there really not a lot of options for analog emulation summing mixers available? I've been using TbPro Audio's free one, which is descent but if there's an analog emulation out there, it'll be better for sure. The only two I know of are Universal Audio's Neve summer and Slate Digital's and UA's is exclusive to Apllo and their new DAW, Luna, so Pro Tools, Ableton, etc. won't support it. It feels like they did their homework, saw there aren't very many options for summers and used the lack to coherce people to use their DAW. I mean, it's free (for now), but who's going to dwitch their entire workflow just for the sake of a single plugin? Waves has one, but there's no mention of an emulation of any SPECIFIC hardware. So for people who want analog emulations and don't use UA Apollo, it looks like the only option is Slate Digital. Does anyone else know of one?

I am going to buy a new string library and would appreciate your experience and knowledge to help me make a proper choice. I am NOT looking for a massive cinematic orchestra. More a 14-piece section for performance of string arrangements as we hear them in productions from Nashville or as they were done with Sinatra back in the days and today on albums as the wonderful new country album with Paul Carack. Hoping you are willing to share some ideas!

What kind of Monitors do you use? Are you happy with them? What would you like to have?

Do you guys normally go for EQ boost or you prefer saturation (or band saturation) over Eq boost? what is a case you might wanna go for EQ boost instead of saturation ? I m not a mixing engineer I m a producer so I m asking to engineers here out of curiosity.

Hello everyone. Although I like this community, I usually don’t write due to my own shyness. 😅 I’m using Logic 10.4.5 on a mid-2012 Macbook pro, and Logic just constantly overloads. Making music is becoming hard to do when I can barely get through less than 2 seconds of audio. I have a good amount of empty storage space, as well, so it hopefully doesn’t have anything to do with that. Logic also has a frequent tendency to crash. Especially if I’ve downloaded a new plugin. I don’t have an excessively large plugin folder, but maybe it would help to get rid of some free plugins I’ve collected. I don’t use a lot of plugins in my mixes either. Even then, in my performance meter, all processing threads hit 100% fairly quickly. Also, in the performance meter, the processing thread bar furthest to the right is always bouncing around 50% even when nothing is playing back. Mac stats - Core i7 Intel - 16GB of RAM - 1TB SSD - OS Catalina - Mid-2012 I’ve been looking for answers for months. I’ve tried... - Freezing Tracks - Closing other applications - Leaving ReWire off - Increasing Processing threads to "8" - Setting Process buffer range to “Large" - Using Larger Buffer size for Mixing - Turning off WIFI - Turning Off Bluetooth - Bouncing MIDI to Audio before mixing I’m not sure what else to do. I’d appreciate any help. Thanks.