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I have received a reply from AAS regarding the change logs. They are as follows: Of particular note for all: Dropped support for 32-bit DAWs. Dropped support for Windows 7 (This did not surprised me) Note: not supported may not necessarily mean that it does not work - it just means if you contact AAS support, and you say you’re running Windows 7, their first answer will be to update to Windows 10. Chromaphone 3 v3.1.0 March 30, 2021 Added in this update • Apple Silicon (M1) compatibility. • Dropped support for Windows 7. • Dropped support for macOS 10.7, 10.8, 10.9 and 10.10. • Improved behaviour of Windows installer. Fixed in this update • Fixed possible crash in Logic Pro when removing plug-in from track. • The Scala file name wasn't always properly shown in the settings panel. • The master tuning frequency could fail to load properly in some DAWs. • When a project was loaded in a DAW, the current preset was always shown as "Edited" even if it was not. • When resizing the window, vertical alignment of text could be wrong. Lounge Lizard EP-4 v4.4.0 Added in this update • Apple Silicon (M1) compatibility. • Dropped support for 32-bit DAWs. • Dropped support for Windows 7. • Dropped support for macOS 10.7, 10.8, 10.9 and 10.10. • Improved behaviour of Windows installer. Fixed in this update • Fixed possible crash in Logic Pro when removing plug-in from track. Objeq Delay v1.3.0 Added in this update • Apple Silicon (M1) compatibility. • Dropped support for 32-bit DAWs. • Dropped support for Windows 7. • Dropped support for macOS 10.7, 10.8, 10.9 and 10.10. • Improved behaviour of Windows installer. Fixed in this update • Fixed possible crash in Logic Pro when removing plug-in from track. String Studio VS-3 v3.2.0 Added in this update • Apple Silicon (M1) compatibility. • Dropped support for Windows 7. • Dropped support for macOS 10.7, 10.8, 10.9 and 10.10. • Improved behaviour of Windows installer. Fixed in this update • Fixed possible crash in Logic Pro when removing plug-in from track. • The Scala file name wasn't always properly shown in the settings panel. Strum GS-2 v2.4.0 Added in this update • Apple Silicon (M1) compatibility. • Dropped support for 32-bit DAWs. • Dropped support for Windows 7. • Dropped support for macOS 10.7, 10.8, 10.9 and 10.10. • Improved behaviour of Windows installer. Fixed in this update • Fixed possible crash in Logic Pro when removing plug-in from track. Ultra Analog VA-3 v3.2.0 Added in this update • Apple Silicon (M1) compatibility. • Dropped support for Windows 7. • Dropped support for macOS 10.7, 10.8, 10.9 and 10.10. • Improved behaviour of Windows installer. Fixed in this update • Fixed possible crash in Logic Pro when removing plug-in from track. • The Scala file name wasn't always properly shown in the settings panel. • The master tuning frequency could fail to load properly in some DAWs.

Just a thought.... I like the added Subforums which in reality should have been done (and was lobbied for) from the beginning. However, wouldn't it have also made sense to move the Deals forum up with the Subforum big boys? Deals include both Hardware & Software and is one the most trafficked on the website IMHO. ....just a thought.

https://www.ikmultimedia.com/news/?id=AmpliTube5Phase2MESA Through May 2, we're keeping the party going to celebrate AmpliTube 5's rightful place as the King of Tone with free gear from AmpliTube MESA/Boogie and a new series of free VIP presets.* See instructions below on how to unlock your free MESA/Boogie Triple Rectifier head now and come back each week for details on the new artist presets to come. *MESA/Boogie head and all artist presets available through 5/2/21

Yes this filters out presets that have gear you do not own (or corresponding to however you have the Gear Selector set).

"Five pages without Larry" funny, I wrote this in my dear diary the other day

So there is a "way" to downgrade the AAS plugins. It's painful but it can be done and it does fix my crashing issue. Here's the steps: You have to uninstall each of the plugins. If you run the older installer it won't downgrade, so you must uninstall them first. Then go to https://www.applied-acoustics.com/dl/ and enter your serial number. The download page that comes up will have a link for "Show all Windows installers" If you click that it shows you all the version history of the plugin and has links to download each one. You can then download the previous version (From Jan 2021). Not really sure how to roll back the AAS Player just yet though. And yes this fixed my crash on exit issue.

Thus, as long as the current versions run, I will not update anymore! As I do not use Apple quirk, nor do I want to drop 32-bit/Windows 7 support, what would I win else than losing some precious time of my life? Especially with such odd installers that produce a lot of manual work to clean up the chaos! More and more I have the feeling that I should not update most of my plugins. It just generates a lot of work and mostly there are no real improvements for me!

ozone elements and spread freebie https://www.pluginboutique.com/products/7483--StayCreative-Plugin-Bundle-Ozone-Elements-Spread- add, apply coupon STAY CREATIVE "recalc" and it should go to zero.

Completely different development teams.

Nah, he escaped and drove down to Nashville and is trying out some new guitars ?

Sorry guys, Larry's gone. He's in Kentucky. He's listening to banjo music and squealing like a pig! ?

I saved enough money to go to Vegas! I'm not without those side effects though. ? Seriously, I hope he's okay. Rocky

Hopefully his family matters are getting sorted out.

Hatstand's flattener preset. This is a pro channel eq preset which you can use to check if your mix has any issues. It won't sound nice, I guarantee, but it will tell you whether your mix is close to having no eq problems. Stick this (temporarily) on your master bus or on an aux send going nowhere and whack a spectrum analyser on it. Your mix over the entire track should look something like this; i.e. close to flat across the spectrum. (let the whole mix play not just 30 seconds of it) This preset is based on several reference tracks both individually and together. It should highlight frequency issues pretty quickly. Whilst completely flat is an impossible dream, anything close to this using the preset should have it sounding darn good once you disable it. Extremely useful if you have deficiencies across the spectrum with your hearing but it is (as always) no substitute for feel, just a guide to where there might be over emphasis. Yes it will look weird ( you will no doubt be thinking wtf is this about) but it is the best I can do with four bands, but hopefully it will be a good sense check for you. As an added bonus, it will give you an idea what the different pro channel eq profiles do. This is based on the G type profile but switch to the other types such as S type, Pure and Hybrid to see the difference. (HINT: it wont be flat) Watch closely and you should hopefully see fundamentals , resonances, and harmonics. I used Izotope Insight but other analysers are available... save in Cakewalk Core>Cakewalk Content>Pro Channel presets (probably on your C drive) edit: for those of you that asked, without the preset enabled your mix should aim to look something like this, but it is much more difficult to spot anomalies as it is not a flat response curve. Any questions\comments let me know As Paul Young once sang "Wherever I lay my Hat, that's my Hatstand" Hatstands Flattener.pcp

All Applied acoustics instruments and effects have been updated. The current respective versions are now as follows: Chromaphone 3.............................................v3.1.0 Lounge Lizard EP-4........................................v4.4.0 Lounge Lizard Session 4................................v4.4.0 Objeq Delay....................................................v1.3.0 String Studio VS-3..........................................v3.2.0 Strum GS-2.....................................................v2.4.0 Strum Session 2............................................v2.4.0 Swatches (AAS Player, all sound packs).......v1.5.0 Ultra Analog Session 2.................................. v2.3.0 Ultra Analog VA-3............................................v3.2.0 Download links are all here: https://www.applied-acoustics.com/support/ If you own many of these, it might be easier to download and install the combined installer from your AAS products page (select Custom “All” installers) https://www.applied-acoustics.com/portal/products/ you will be asked for your AAS login credentials.

I am jealous of American musicians. They have really good prices for hard- and software. E.g. the Ampeg RB-112 is $399 in many U.S. shops, here in Sweden prices are $535 (foreign shops active in Sweden) up to about $650 in "real" Swedish shops/sites. This is only an example, it's with almost everything like that. And since the EU defined that all products bought via internet are taxed in the country of the buyer and since our mail company (almost federal) has decided a very high fee on imports it got less interesting to order things from abroad, even in the EU! Terrible! It reminds me absolutely of the Soviet Union!

That's five Larryless pages. I'm showing all sorts of body tremors, leg shaking and the like. Edith: yeah, yeah

Saw an episode of their show last week. They were at a restaurant in Hatch, New Mexico and a Mariachi band played Paranoid for them. Interesting. Unusual. Trippy.

Anarchy Comp is a versatile compressor suitable for use on any kind of sound, mix buss, or master buss. https://anarchyaudioworx.com/anarchy-comp/

Tascam TM-80 Studio Condenser Microphone @ B&H I've seen these "on sale" for $50. I haven't used them, so I can't really comment on the quality here. Incudes: Tascam TM-80 Studio Condenser Microphone Shockmount Mini Desk Stand 5.9' XLR Cable

Whaaaaat ? Kenny

Thanks for the heads up on the Free version of Halion VST3. I have Cubase 7 Elements and it came with a Older SE version, this one might be an update so I thought I'd follow through. I also thought this might be a good replacement for TTS-1 because it too is a GM player. OK- you gotta register, no big deal this is expected from some freebies. I'm already registered but Steinberg didn't like my password so had to go through all that BS which seems like every time I log in to my account. It took a long time to download due to large library. ( which doesn't seems to exist?) WARNING- On install it has the list of items to be installed and one of them is that pesky Steinberg Generic ASIO driver. Knowing this is a real nasty takeover of my ASIO system for Cakewalk I did the smart thing and unchecked this. Otherwise it becomes your Timing master in Sync and Caching, not a good thing. If you only have on board audio then you will have to install this as there will be no other choices. It won't work in stand alone with on board sound cards without that stupid driver. Now first thing you have to do is activate it. This is were Steinberg sort of sucks big time. Years ago I got so fed up with the software licenser I had to fork over $35 for a USB dongle. The good thing is it sort of work 99% of the time and I can move between computers easily. Ya, 99% of the time, today was that 1% day. Took 15 minutes to get that working and I managed to add the license to the manager. I opened the stand alone version and this is were I found out I couldn't use it with on board audio. I don't use an ASIO interface on this computer right now because I don't record, just edit and TRY NEW VST's. I then open Cakewalk and had to add the Halion sub folder to the scan path to get it scanned. The scan took about 3 minutes. But there it was, So I opened a GM midi file to test and inserted it and deleted TTS_1. This seemed to work except the Halion had no sounds loaded. Digging around it seems there's nothing? All the menus are empty. I used the default pathways ( there was no choices) There's a Library Manager I opened and it said there are no licensed Libraries found? I looked in all likely locations and found no libraries. And it is odd that it doesn't warn you or something when it loads? OK that's my 2 hours wasted on a VST. This is basically one of those pointless exercises in frustration EVERY step of the way. So Welcome to Steinberg folks- enjoy the ride. I got off at the last stop. Oh, this is #1 reason I never switched over to Cubase when Cakewalk died. I do use Wave Lab a Lot but I am slowly finding other ways to do those tasks- for free- and more intuitive software that doesn't drive you nuts.

Kenny

I will have a look through them. Thank you.

No need to be sorry just wondered where came from and thanks for pointing out I was considering but hadn't made a decision and didn't knoq today potentially last day maybe I'd better make my mind up

Thanks IK!

Yes, this feature showed up in v5 Not sure about presets, but if you are just looking for creating a rack of owned gear it is easy now.

Makes no difference to me. The sections I look at are all bookmarked and I never even look at the forums menu page.

Thanks guys guess I'll ignore till they fix it. Roy

Info here: https://www.vsl.co.at/en/News/2021-04_Special_Editions

I believe he mentioned he would be gone around three weeks before he left.

We all know where to find it. I rather have it still be here then be gone!

I have the $50 voucher. If I had the $75, sure, I’d get it. But even at $49 it’s too much of a stretch. Next year it will be $29 as a regular sale item.

Just bagged this for the deal minus $75 voucher they sent me 2 minutes before. The stars must have been aligned.

Looks like there are a couple of Line 6 Helix Native licenses being resold for $150 on the Line 6 forum... https://line6.com/support/topic/45810-anybody-have-a-helix-native-license-for-sale/page/3/?tab=comments#comment-376812 You may have to sign up to access forum. Note that a Helix Native license becomes NFR on transfer, so if you one buy it's your's forever.

Bill has become... comfortably numb? ??

More testing of Acustica's Sienna headphone mixing software this afternoon with a pop/rock tune from 2004, used only my spot checking cans ATH-M30's..removed all the plugins & started from scratch.. Used a bit of eq & brickwall limiter on the master.

A ProChannel Delay from Valhalla would be nice. Their interface design approach might scale well enough to make it worth considering... FWIW, I make this suggestion every time I buy something from them.

King Lar has his sources for Deals. He shares them with us peasants

That just doesn't even seem right....I didn't think 5 pages worth of deals had been posted in that kind of time frame. It is been slim pickings over all with a few good ones thrown in.

Thanks everyone! I'm so sorry for the very late reply, been having a rough time of late. Your comments have inspred me and cheered me up too.

Please do not attach any of the following emoticons/reputation points to this post: That way, I won't miss it when this fred gets incinerated. Thanks for caring.

As a public service, I'll post a link to my A|A|S wiping tutorial. On my systems, The number of of AAS Player locations in its various unnecessary forms is in the teens. I do the cleanup after installs of any of these products, I have a folder on my desktop with shortcuts to each of the folders so that I can clean them out.

Pretty sure you can't stop their installer from it's crazy extra copies. I just do a search and delete all the extras. And yes it does stick things in the non-x86 Program Files too. I think their installer(s) are kind of junk (I don't have ProTools, I don't want AAX plugins, ever). But that doesn't have anything to do with the crazy crashing problem.

Brilliant! I just came back from hard work of cleaning my drives from AAS plugins spammed all over the place (and even twice in my main Vstplugins folder!) and need a shower now. If it's a some OSX maintenance update I simply don't wanna go back there to clean all that stuff again. Please keep us posted .

Definitely try it if you are into Chill/Ambient music

For anyone that doesn't have either versions. You can buy the upgrade to full version and get session for FREE! Making it $49 for the full thing since they give session version free with every purchase! ;D