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Today I stumbled upon a great freeware VST-plugin: Preamp Emulator. It is basically a tube preamp emulator that creates that warm and rich sound that you expect from a tube amplifier. I was very impressed with what this little plugin accomplished and will probably use it a lot in my projects.
Go to the developers web site to download and try it out.
]]>Note that this technique is only working on non-wrapped text. It is also obsolete in some newer browsers with zoom capability.
First I’ll demonstrate the common way to vertically align text. Then I’ll show you how to do it my way.
Let’s start out with some html. This is a simple example with an unordered list that we’ll use as a menu:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Example</title>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
</style>
</head>
<body>
<ul id="menu">
<li><a href="#">Menuitem 1</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Menuitem 2</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Menuitem 3</a></li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
We’ll then apply some basic CSS to add some basic formatting and make the menu horizontal, have a background color and a height:
* { margin: 0; padding: 0; }
body {
font: 76%/175% Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif;
background: #fff;
}
#menu {
background: #222;
height: 30px;
overflow: hidden;
}
#menu a {
float: left;
color: #eee;
padding: 0 10px;
line-height: 30px;
}
Setting the line-height on #menu a to the same value as the height on #menu is a quite common way to vertically align text. So far the menu looks like this (there is also a live example):
But this is what happens if we increase the font size to 125% in Firefox:
The text is vertically misaligned. Not so neat. Let’s fix it by changing our CSS a bit:
#menu a {
float: left;
color: #eee;
padding: 14px 10px 15px;
height: 1px;
line-height: 1px;
}
As you can see, I changed the line-height and height to 1px and “substituted” them for some padding on the top and bottom. Now the vertical alignment is fixed even if you increase the font size (see live example 2).
]]>Well, after spending some time searching on Google and cubase.net I found a solution: Open the VST Instruments panel by pressing F11 and load your VST instrument. Press the icon I’ve marked with a red border in the image below and choose “Activate All Outputs” and you’re done.
Pretty simple, but the new GUI in Cubase 4 has a bit too low contrast I think, and makes such small icons easy to miss. Overall I think Steinberg could work a bit more on the usability. The GUI is slick and looks nice, but I want more tooltips! Cubase is of course a quite complex application with a wide user base so Steinberg’s GUI designers must have a hard time adding features while not breaking conventions.
Note that the new “Instrument track” is limited to one stereo output, so if you want multiple outputs, you’ll have to do it the old way (i.e. create a midi track and choose your VST instrument as output).
]]>Not so much postprocessing done on this, just some editing in Camera Raw and levels adjustments.
]]>Updated – I moved the pole off center
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