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Although you can get it free through the local libraries, etc. I still opted to buy the 12 month through APD a little while ago. A few really good magazines went under and given these guys offer freebies each month I like supporting them. Hopefully they don't go the same way. Now I just need to get around to reading them all!

Thanks Nigel, they are both very interesting toys, I do hate how you have close to resize the GUI everytime I use them, I have twin 32 UHD 4K monitors. But all his synths are the same.

Based on that definition which is quite strict, then yes, it might require that (I'm still to install it, but I assume you're correct). But the email / account doesn't have to cost you any money, so it's a lot different to being able to walk into a shop and say here's my email address and just get a guitar, or something for free and not have to part with actual currency, or finance it. A number of us probably already have at least one other of Streaky's plugins, so in that sense it's not requiring anything extra, so I'd say then it could be seen as free. For the record, I prefer no account either, no installers and simple copy/paste of a key/serial at most, but these days a lot of companies are moving away from that. Still some absolute gems that don't though luckily.

Robots.

Are you right-clicking a video on YouTube and selecting Copy embed code? If yes, don't do that. Better ways have been posted here on how to post a link to an online video. I use the Share button to copy the video URL because it's simple, elegant, and gives you an option as to where the video will start playing. When pasting the video URL you will have the option of whether or not the video is displayed on the page or just as a link that has to be clicked to go to the web page the video is on. https://youtu.be/9F69etVKuUs?si=nXLlTDzoDS0yuMn3

How do you get AI to use your analog devices? Asking for a friend... 😜

Go to the video on YouTube. Hit the Share button and copy the link. Paste link here.

I've always loved Steven Wright!

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As someone who has been mixing music for albums and film for almost 50 years, if it passes muster for myself and a very few respected colleagues, it will definitely work for the vast majority of the target audience.

Through Dec 3rd

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More importantly, does your audience know? Or care?

Thanks Chaps. I'll have a look at them.

My price for owning it already is only $99. Oh Arturia..... (Still one of my favorite devs)

I have to admit I have never been a fan of Cakewalk's Studio Instruments. If you're using the paid version of Sonar you have Session Drummer, which, IMO, is much superior in every way to the SI Drums. Some free drum plugins I have used and think are also much superior to the SI drums are the Steven Slate SSD 5.5 Drums BFD Player MT Power Drum Kit MODO DRUM CS 1.5 and other IK Multimedia free products If you are looking for something different any of those are a good place to start, but I'd check out Session Drummer first. It's actually 'Session Drummer 3' but shows up as Session Drummer.

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Thanks for the listen. I agree with you. I actually had to remove a lot of the SI Drums (which is normal but this particular loop had a lot of bells and whistles) and pare them down to what's in the song.

Thanks! 👍

Sounds good to me. I do think the snare and kick are a bit monotonous, though. I like to use the Velocity>Randomize or CSHumanize MIDI effects to keep percussion instruments from sounding mechanical, when I don't manually do it in the Piano Roll. The MIDI effect Velocity is included with Sonar but CSHumanize is a third party plugin that has to be downloaded separately. When used judiciously it can be very effective in adding human-like randomness in a MIDI track. I will post a link to it below if you, or anyone else, wants to check it out. CSHumanize MidiFX Plugin

"Metronomically" 🥳 ...I'm giving u props just for using that word in a sentence. Bravo Larry 👏

Thanks so much Timbo. I did mix most of the bass parts about a decibel or so high as their timing is crucial to the interplay with the acoustic guitar and other instruments. The riff the ag plays doesn't stay off beat. It kind of moves around the beats, I think.

Hey Larry, What a cool song! Bass is a touch forward for my tastes, otherwise the mix sounds fine. I'm hearing something similar to what Wookie said, it sounded like the song was going to be off beat, then it wasn't. Timbo