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Early access builds are always post beta testing so are relatively stable. However the main reason for the EA program is to get wider testing and feedback on any changes so that if necessary we can address them. That said regressions are always possible due to the huge differences in workflows. EA is intended for users who are interested in getting an early look at features and offering feedback. That said if you are risk averse or are in the middle of a production don't install EA builds. In case anyone isn't aware we make it really easy to roll back to the last release so its fairly risk free in any case. Thanks everyone for your enthusiasm and great feedback to help us make this an even better product.

I'm in the US and buy a ton of stuff from European online stores, like Plugin Boutique, etc. I like to use PayPal instead of giving them my credit card number. However, when I get the USD charge from PayPal, it's always been slightly higher than what I expected. Recently, I discovered that I could still use PayPal but have my bank convert to USD instead of PayPal. This saves me about 2%+. Not a whole lot but at the rate I buy stuff, it adds up! LOL All you have to do is click the "See currency options" link on the initial PayPal checkout window. Select the foreign currency box and then the blue Pay button. I've walked through the process on a blog post with screenshots. I gotta imagine there are others that might benefit from this tip. https://www.seriouslytrivial.com/2021/09/07/dont-let-paypal-translate-your-foreign-purchases/

I'm still in with the 21 for the price of 1 prediction. Now let's see how much I can kick the chum bucket and pick up some stragglers to get us there

You should be able to tell if an item is transferable by going to your IK Multimedia My Products page and clicking on the Serial/License button (if one exists) for the item. A popup will be displayed and if the item is transferable there will be a red Transfer button available to initiate the transfer. You do not have to buy a transfer license ahead of time to see the button.

FerricTDS mkII released FerricTDS mkII – the updated award winning Tape Dynamics Simulator New in version 2: Introducing operating level calibration for better gainstaging and output volume compensated processing Metering ballistics revised and aligned accordingly Updated tape compression algorithms increasing punch, adding 2nd order harmonic processing, less IMD Updated limiter algorithm featuring ADC style converter clipping All non-linearities are running at higher sampling frequencies internally Adding a sophisticated analog signal path emulation Available for Windows VST in 32 and 64bit as freeware https://varietyofsound.wordpress.com/downloads/

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25,000 JK. Let's see where we get this month especially if we see another mad rush near the end of the month.

Yes its primitive to discriminate on a product based on what users pay for it.

In case anyone's interested in some numbers to play with as we while away IK Group Buy Phase 2: Electric Amplitubaloo: We've just completed 20% of September -- 6 days, 144 hours or 12 12-hour periods. Here's how the last of those looks in terms of trends: As noted in the table, the August signup rate was around 17/hour overall, though there were two distinct periods -- the first 20 days or so, where the rate was around 14.5 per hour, and the "Race to 10k" at the end, where the rate averaged around 26.5 per hour. The bad news is that the September rate (Ovr Rate above) isn't in the same neighborhood, currently at around 11 signups/hour. That's boosted by two flurries of 20+ signups an hour over 12-hour periods, each coinciding with a mini-race to the next milestone level. Without those, the rate is closer to 8.5/hour in September. If you're the predicting kind, you could go a lot of ways from here: If the rate stays as it is, with similar ups and downs throughout the month, the pace is good for 18k. If the rate jumps back up to ~14/hour as in early August, the total should hit 20k. If the "bumps" should peter out or the pace slow further, ~8.5/hour the rest of the way would net just over 17k. If the bottom falls out and the worst 12-hour numbers (7/hr) become the norm, the counter would coast to 16k. If there's another feeding frenzy at the end of the month, you could perhaps add a thousand or two to your favorite number above. That seems to be the ballpark, based on September-so-far. Future mileage may obviously vary.

The plug-in menu highlight is a regression error. It should look like it does in 2021.06. Expect this to get addressed before the final release.

While violin and fiddle are the same basic instrument, there are many variables. Folk fiddler's sometimes use a different bridge with a flatter arc to play double stops and often use steel strings while some old school classical players might use gut strings. Both also use synthetic strings. Different string arrangements are sometimes used in folk fiddle. Folk fiddlers tend to spend less on their instruments. While this isn't a given it's pretty common for a weekend player to play an intermediate instrument. Rolling around in bars and under pavilions at picnics in the rain isn't where you want to take a nice instrument or bow. These instruments often use lesser quality construction and lower quality woods. This can sometimes result in a less refined or tuned sound. Less projection and uneven playing across all strings. Low end beginner instruments from 200.00 to maybe 600.00. Intermediate instruments from 600 to as high as 5000.00. Classical players are demanded to have only the better instruments for their technique which often involves higher positions on the neck. 2nd, 3rd,4th and 5th positions. Folk fiddlers mostly play in 1st position and sometimes go to higher occasionally. Classical players often live on those higher positions. I practice at 2nd and 3rd positions. For anyone mocking up music for a fiddler this is something to keep in mind. To be accurate I would keep fiddle tunes on 1st and 2nd position. No higher. Classical players buy violins beginning in the 10,000 dollar range for an instrument with large full time orchestra players 20-30,000 dollars for a violin is not uncommon. Getting above those prices the buyer is often paying for collector value as opposed to player value or both. I have 5 violins. I only have one decent violin that cast me 3000 dollars. I have a couple that are in the 1500.00 range too. The 3K violin also has a 400.00 bow. Advantages of the better violins are more responsiveness, better sound, made of better materials,they stay in tune better, they often project a little better with less effort. You can tell a BIG difference between most low end violins and the better ones. So to answer that question in a nutshell aside from all of the variables I mentioned. Classically trained violinists generally play on much better instruments than the average folk fiddler. You can tell the difference in the sound. Classical players who also play gigs usually have a 2nd instrument for those gigs, probably something closer to mine. Here's a video of Kevin Burke playing in the Sligo tradition.

It's also worth checking out UJAM Virtual Guitarist Silk. It's similar in a lot of ways. I like the different voicings setting in NI Picked Nylon (especially the "As Played" option), but then again the bass note feature on VG Silk is very useful and intuitive.

I agree with you. I like the look, but the lack of readability ruins it. If the highlight goes dark, the text has to turn bright (only when highlighted)...

Yeah, this is the sad tale of a musician who didn't have the chops to elegantly finish his performance... Edit: He always really wanted to be a guitarist but could never master his axe...

My 6th custom Cakewalk theme has shipped: Racing Green fans, I introduce to you another one along the same lines, a truly dark theme except blue in the places where Racing Green is green. Like Racing Green, selected clip backgrounds are black for greater event visibility. Midnight Blue:

Best Audio And MIDI Software: KVR Readers' Choice Awards 2021. (and or other software, depending on your preferences)

Looking forward to seeing you today around 4:00 PM EST, featuring a few piano libraries and some other news:

I lost my speedos and I'm sure I should not have shown up in my birthday suit.

It's all good. I didn't appreciate how you handled it at first but I understand that I was gone for 4 months and never said a word. Trust me, I returned everyday to check back incase anyone had a fix but no one ever did and I never got the chance to say anything because I was so busy. I do think that the issue is that they weren't uncompressed or unzipped or extracted or whatever it's called because the "audio" samples seem to working fine in terms of drag and drop. The sound is indeed coming through from these files which is a good sign. So I think that the whole problem is that maybe, POSSIBLY, I should just extract the files. And as for the sampler a.k.a. Komplete Kontrol. I wound up downloading it and now I have a new plugin / interface thing that I can mess around with. I found out that Komplete Kontrol has a Synthwave pack that I must try out because I need this for my new song I'm making. Anywho, the problem seems solved and I ended up with a crap ton of files to extract, and a new plugin. So now I have tons of sorting to do but I thank you for helping me out and the same goes for everyone else. If something goes wrong, I'll come back here and this time I won't leave you hanging.

I voted for Cakewalk in Favorite Audio Software and Favorite DAW, because as we know from the tinfoil hat brigade, Cakewalk isn't REALLY freeware, because you have to register an account at Bandlab and connect to the Internet every 6 months blah blah blah. 😄 But yeah, excluding free software from the DAW categories, and "ghettoizing" other categories by having separate (but equal) ones for freeware is lame. I just ignored the guidelines. If they get lots of votes for freeware in other categories, even if they don't report them, it at least sends a message. Which may be that users of freeware don't bother to read the rules. 😏

Always preferred BFD for sound quality, BUT they've tried to implement some sort of mandatory online authorization with the relaunch via InMusic. IME it's been a complete mess, with random driveby deauthorizations of *everything* I've owned for years. Can't recommend it until they've sorted this out with a user/customer focused update. FYI, a couple of the original FXpansion crew are full time on damage control, but this has been going on since April, and it's InMusic, which does not have a track record of investing in product improvement. Great sounds/feature set for "realistic" drums, and yes, the user interface could benefit just as greatly from a major overhaul. Would love to see it happen.

Here is the list updated and in order of guess: GroverKen 14 Brian Lawler 15 Fleer 16 Larry 17 telecode 101 17 InstrEd 17 husker 18 Marc Cormier 18 Doug Rintoul 19 kevin H 20 Peter 21 Bapu 21 Eusebio Rufian-Zilbermann 24 Me 24 Edit: these are number of freebies! Add one to get the X number for the price of one total!

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I am still sticking to 17.. lots of time left.. and i think there will be a mad dash at the end again, @Peter - IK Multimedia kick the spam bucket a bit.. 🙂

Put me in at 16 to cover the void between 15 and 17

All of my Time & Tone Plugins were updated. Don't know if that's across the board or not... Run Softube Central to Update

$19 at Plugin Boutique https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/1-Instruments/55-Kontakt-Instrument/6611-Octamorph-FE

Tried again just now (after it failing last time). I didn't clear any cache since last time, or do anything differently. I had to log back in, added to cart, and it took me to the promised land of checkout. If I dig it, I'll likely cop the "Bite Harder" version.

Thanks, got it for NoN only after signing up to newsletter you should then see the price "NoN" on the website The discount in the cart was €1000, LOL... such a deal 🤗 we're lucky! 🤣

Similar here. Added to bag while not logged. Logged in after checkout with full price. Opened a second "bag" in another browse tab. Now price is $0

I suspect it's just that their commerce server is overloaded due to the initial rush. I got the blank screen when I tried to go to my cart for checkout. If prior purchase or some other condition had not been met, I should think I would get an error message. I mean, a €1210.00 processor for free?? Imagine the fortunes we shall all make once the giveaway is finished and we flip our licenses on KVR.

I'd caution against generalizing based on your observations. All you've determined is that your computer can handle the miniscule overhead of upsampling a specific compressor, in your specific project with your specific plugins. This is far more about the plugin's efficiency than that of Cakewalk, since nearly all the extra processing that upsampling incurs happens within the plugin. It'll be running exactly the same instructions under Cakewalk as it would under Reaper or Studio One. Yes, being able to upsample individual plugins is indeed a great feature worthy of bragging about in the marketplace, but I doubt any knowledgeable DAW user is going to jump ship based on that feature alone. This discussion is meaningless without talking about aliasing. Aliasing is not only relevant, in the context of compression it's literally the only reason oversampling is ever prescribed. If you have no audible aliasing, you don't need oversampling to begin with. If you don't need 2x you likewise don't need 4x or 6x.

You can use Track templates instead

Yes a matrix cell has a full copy of the underlying data stream. While the base data type is similar, clips in tracks are more complex than data in matrix cel’s, hence its not trivial to share data directly across tracks. Editing operations are different etc.

Interesting, but if I was going to be spending $ in that range I'd go for the the LinnStrument

Maybe on the Cover of the Rolling Stone? Or not, but it sure couldn't hurt.. 🙏🏼☮

Finally belatedly pulled the trigger on the book, and within 5 minutes, mind blown. This is from someone who has been using Cakewalk almost daily for 3 1/2 years. I'd love to see an update or addendum with the Arranger Track and Articulation Maps. @Craig Anderton 's book is a great resource. It started as a collection of posts on the old forum. There are more tips that came after the original SONAR book still on the old forum site http://forum.cakewalk.com/Friday39s-Tip-of-the-Week-167-Behold-Dual-Mono-Becomes-Stereo-m3074655.aspx

Having tried the demo a while back I wouldn't want this if it was free.

Regarding the "secrets" of the console emulator and what it does internally, I have no clue lol. We purchased the technology many years ago for the prochannel. Only the original dev would know the technical details of circuit emulation are typically a closely guarded secret. I personally think there is some degree of snake oil in all this analog emulation stuff but I'm no expert on analog consoles

I didn't know much about BFD but I got caught up today. They've changed hands a couple times - not a good sign. And the buggy and convoluted authorization is a big turn off. Long thread of complaints on the BFD forum and no software update since June. Think I'm gonna pass on this one.

Yes, it's the full blown Amp 5 minus all the "expansions" per se...and yes, you could do that. If it's on your "Freebie" List I'd take it, as technically you can't Upgrade from the Amp 5 that came with the Axe I/O

Got to meet Roger Linn at GearFest a few years back... and he demo'd the LinnStrument. It's an amazingly expressive controller.

https://www.antarestech.com/auto-key-mobile/ curently only available for IOS (android coming soon) but it’s free to use to detect key. If you own Antares auto-tune plugins it can sync with your desktop/laptop and send the key information to your plug-in which is pretty cool.

Yes all bounce operations including bounce to clip will use the same buffer setting since it is global. This week we are adding the buffer size choice to the bounce dialog as well so it can be changed from there as well.

Yes

I purchased my 2nd Group Buy entry today and I was just installing all the new software. Something that I want to give thanks for is the IK Installation Manager. It has worked really well and it makes a tremendous difference in the installation and authorization process compared to how cumbersome it used to be a couple of years ago

Yep, the Export Menu isn't bad but I was referring to the FX Plugin menus that had changed to a dark background very briefly in the first of the latest EA updates but has since been changed back to white in the second latest EA update as it was confirmed a bug, was the best bug I've ever seen and the only bug I didn't want fixed lol.