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I would never dream of competing with His Majesty Larry, but I have done a Black Friday post on VI:Control for the past three years. I categorize all the deals by type and put them into alphabetical order. I think that I have had the most comprehensive and organized list of BF music software deals on the web--but this year I am going to add a LOT more stuff. It's pretty much all I do in November. https://vi-control.net/community/threads/tiger-the-frogs-alphabetical-list-of-november-2020-sales.100595/ But Larry ALWAYS gets the deals fastest and I only do this once a year. I have no idea how he does it all the time. When I get to December, I need deals rehab. Wait....

I think, even if we did all that, we still won't be able to post the deals even before the vendors post them. That's what Larry used to do. Lol

Somewhere in Kentucky a man just felt a strange tingling in his spine and shuddered............

https://rekkerd.org/deals-deals-deals/ --- Removed reddit link. Looks like @Batwaffel beat me to it by a minute. ?

https://vi-control.net/community/forums/deals-deals-deals.138/

I hear on the Kentucky forums, there is a new horse trader in town called Cowboy Larry. He is moaning about the new Equine Annual Subscription model replacing outright purchases.

Let's start with KVR's deal topic in their Bargain Center forum: https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=262151&start=17880

Yes, they were aware and have fixed it. i have successfully updated now. J

Most of the fixes you see (and there have been thousands) have come as a direct result of users submitting crash dumps or project files with demonstrable issues. Its the only way for software to improve. Bugs wont fix themselves unfortunately

May as well throw my hat in here. I run https://www.reddit.com/r/AudioProductionDeals/

http://www.dontcrack.com/

Wow.. that's a LONG sale!

My handheld device is pink and wrinkly.

You may as well install Platinum since you own it. There are several bundled plugins that will be useful to you. You can skip installing content that you dont need. The basic installation won't occupy any significant disk space.

Hi Everybody, This is a track off of my just recently completed album "The Westerly Sessions Volume VIII". As always, any comments and critiques are welcome, and thanks for listening. Here it is: https://www.soundclick.com/music/songInfo.cfm?songID=14263418

https://facebook.com/groups/plugindeals/ Big group I think over 40k members now so a lot of deals get posted but it's public, so I don't like to participate on it. I've even seen the odd deal posted there by the great King Larry ?

Blasphemy I say heheh this guy has some good deals posted sometimes: https://www.audiopluginguy.com

Check out the video I posted earlier in this thread. He briefly covers having the tool suggest a similar groove.

just an opinion/observation here, but the challenge of maintaining a PC based DAW seems to require a fairly high degree of competency to manage; 1. a wide open computing platform (best bang for the buck, mostly reliable, but with a greater range of potential issues than a closed system) 2. running on an O/S with a well documented tendency to shoot the user in the foot on a regular basis with unvetted and poorly scheduled updates 3. trying to keep up with demanding realtime processing via 3rd party audio interfaces with varying degrees of driver quality 4. using a very full featured DAW with options on options for configuration and workflow (nice but... ime with the potential to generate dependencies on dependencies given a creative user base with a wide range of personal preferences. There's a school of thought that believes limiting options improves reliability/stability. The general focus on stability/improved feature set of CxB releases since Bandlab tends to support that philosophy. In addition, the workflow enhancements have enabled such a high degree of productivity I feel I'm outstripping either the hardware or the DAWs ability to keep up (speed comping is a great example). 5. loading said DAW with a host of 3rd party (= unvetted) VSTs that may or may not be compliant with a standard. (understood it's documented, but implementation seems to have some loose ends?) Cakewalk has been super wrt to sorting these out, with both highly reputable devs as well as a few newer less well known ones. FWIW, this forum has been more helpful than any other resource for sorting out issues, but still spending more time than desired on troubleshooting. Been thinking about documenting a "Dropout Diary" to distill known good remedial actions into a disciplined checklist, if for no better reason than to stay focused for the next time. ... There are times/situations when tracking to tape seems more productive. ?

Noted this with tempo maps. Had a client wanting to revist sides from several years ago. The old tempo maps were updated with a set of "jumps" which I ended up deleting in order to put in a slope. The projects have been stable once reworked to align with the new features. The update is a much appreciated improvement.

He's gotta pay for his thingy shaped rocket somehow, right?

You must be the only one here that hasn't. ?

It's probably still growing somewhere.

Typical.

Sorry, not a pun but I saw this on Reddit and it was just too funny not to share. It's amazing how music can take you to another place. I was in a café, they put on BTS. Now I am in a different café.

Yes this is exactly what I was talking about. This isn't the same one I used years ago. It appears that one closed down. This one is by Best Service and they seem to have all their products on there. I'm impressed that they even have some competitors products there, like Ivory pianos and Vienna Instruments. They plan on adding more. This is a new website service in it's public beta phase. This is very good I hope we see more of this in the future.

"X1 has been the most successful SONAR launch ever" I'll just leave that there ?

Foreign Affair - Manhattan Transfer

Yes. For the most part, you can freely mix 'n match VST2 and VST3 plugins. Even if it's the same plugin, e.g. Omnisphere.

nicely done mate:jack c.

thanks mate:jack c.

For a guitar and a mic input, you would do very well with a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2. The 2 inputs will easily accommodate both at the same time, or you could get by with the Scarlett Solo if you only intend to track one at a time. The Focusrite ASIO drivers get reasonably low latency for this price range. Your laptop should be more than fine for that use. If you also add a new MIDI keyboard, those typically connect with MIDI over USB, so no need to worry about MIDI ports.

About a year ago I needed more channels for a recording project (I had an MOTU 4pre with 4 analog preamps and needed 8). I was able to borrow a Behringer 1820 from a friend for the project. The Behringer performed admirably. Preamps sounded identical to the MOTU's and had the same low latency.

Not a huge grab, but I was curious. Global|Menus/View Menu Text determines the color of the description text at the bottom of the plug-in browser:

This error is because you are running Win 7 which is an out of date and unsupported OS and you are missing updates to TLS protocols. Read this thread for a solution. I meant "Browse BandLab Projects" sorry. Its also referred to as the bandlab library view.

That sounds plenty enough in terms of ram and cpu to function as a DAW and to get "low" latency for using guitar amp sims or to plug in a midi keyboard. Some Dell laptops have problems with low latency for some reason, best to check yours out by doing a google search for latency and ASIO driver compatibility of your laptop. It sounds like a newer model, would it have a USB-C port. If it does, there are a new bunch of excellent interfaces that can pair with that. The one limitation you may be up against if you end up using samples, loops and for greater multitrack recording stability is the single hard drive which is a common limitation of laptops. This is unlikely to affect the performance that you will get from the amp sim. You should be able to record ok but it is recommended that you have at least one other hard drive to hold your projects and to record to. Best to give it a go as is, see how it goes, You can download guitar rig player for free to test it all out. I am a fan of audio interfaces that have a DSP chip and FX chip, you don't need to worry about latency if you are recording vocals or any audio source and there is also a cab sim to use a guitar with no latency. Generally, you have to plug in these sorts of interfaces to the wall but that has changed now with the Steinberg USB-C interfaces which provide you with this functionality running off bus power. I would take a while to look at all the options available, You don't really know how your computer will perform latency wise until you try it. Latency is the time it takes from when you play the guitar to when you hear it, there can be a delay which might be not an issue, tolerable or really annoying. I personally don't like it, but my computer is not that powerful, it's not an issue for me because i have a UR44 which has the DSP and FX chip.

Hey awesome Cakewalk peeps! Here is my latest song, "Precious Time". Critiques are welcome. Best regards! Rex

Also to consider: not all interfaces have Midi connectors. If you intend to use an older keyboard that only has the 5 pins connectors (no Midi over USB), you may not be happy with the cheaper interfaces. For example, the Scarlett 2i2 does not have Midi connections. The 4i4 or the previous generation 2i4 do. Although I am a guitar player, I have an old Midi keyboard I use as controller. I settled on the 2i4 a few years ago.

One thing I would add about choosing an interface, is think about what you might need in the next 2-3 years. I'm not saying spend a fortune on a 32 in / 32 output interface, but think about scenarios where: You might want to record more than just one or two channels Will you always be using VST effects, or will you be reamping via a real amp in the future, or might want to use external effects processing? So for example, something like the Scarlett 2i2 is a great interface, but you've only got 2 ins and 2 outs... and the 2 outs will invariably be connected to your monitors. The Scarlett 4i4 gives you 4 inputs and 4 outputs for an extra 30% - 40% of the cost. In general, you can't use more than one interface at once ( due to technical restrictions with ASIO / wordclock sync issues ), so if you do have to upgrade your interface your old interface will be redundant. One exception to this rule is interfaces that have an ADAT input. If you buy an ADAT converter, this will give an ADAT equipped interface an extra 8 inputs. The Scarlett 18i20 / 18i8 both have ADAT inputs. They're not cheap interfaces, but in saying that the Behringer UMC1820 essentially has the same feature set as the Scarlett 18i20 - i.e. 18 inputs (8 analog, 2 SPDIF, 8 via ADAT), 20 outputs (10 analog, 2 SPDIF, 8 via ADAT) - but is the same price as the Scarlett 4i4... although it's arguable that the Scarlett preamps are superior. Anyhow, all I'm saying is you might want to consider getting something slightly more than what you need now to save money in the future.

And to expand on this comment, I will add that MODO Bass sounds great, but doesn't have any songwriting or player assists. EZBass has a plethora of songwriting assists and multiple ways to get your music into it and create bass parts that work with your music, as a composer or producer. And the ujam Virtual Bassist has a focus on being the bass player, with included styles and 1,000+ phrases. VB 2.0 includes both a player mode and an instrument mode. The phrases in VB 2.0 can be dragged into your DAW track, retaining the key info that your currently selected pattern is currently being played with. So I cannot see much overlap between these 3 products... I would say that they are complementary.

I really like my Line 6 JTV-69 for it's modeling & alt-tuning capabilities and the included pups aren't too bad either.

Any interface with a female 1/4 input will likely work and (as mentioned) the Focusrite Scarlett is an affordable good quality one. As mentioned, computer processing speed undermining latency is important. I just went Thunderbolt (available on laptop?) and am very happy I have vintage Marshalls, Fenders, Gibson amps, but I just finished an LP using only S-Gear Scuffman software for guitar sounds. I love it! You can listen to David Gale "Down in Smoke" album to hear both clean, crunch and heavily distorted sounds. By the way, you will find support on this Forum to be terrific....very helpful. Take it from me, some who knows very little about such matters.... good luck,

That should be plenty fast enough for low latency operation.

Sweet price.

One for Plug-In Property Page, should you wish to include it. For Preset Name drop-down menu, the first cell in the image is its standard state, the second is what's displayed after the user double clicks on it to change the preset name. It persists until the preset is saved. Whatever color you use for both cells should have good contrast with View Menu Text.

There was a YouTube video recently comparing EZbass and ujam Virtual Bassist v2. That would be a different struggle. I have MODO Bass, and that's not the same at all. What you could do is record/edit your MIDI parts from either EZbass, or ujam Virtual Bassist v2, and then play the part back with a custom MODO bass.