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  1. Typically both. Which is why we have such a roster already, it was really Orange who best realized (both literally and figuratively) that having their gear modeled is definitely beneficial and we were the choice to do so. MESA as well and they were very particular as well. Please note that while I'm sure it is unintentional, phrasing it like "allowing their name to be used" can sound quite insulting and is definitely inaccurate. We don't work with companies that just want to slap their name on something for a few bucks. We don't create the models we do by having a company say "we'll just send some schematics" either. It is always a partnership and the companies involved need to be fully involved and the pickier they are the better. We've been lucky with that last part, might say unlucky in some ways but the effort is worth it
    6 points
  2. …at an average investment of $199 to enter GB that is a total of $4.7M gross profit. 10% cut for members of this forum who worked hard to promote this GB puts us at a commission check of $47K. Peter, when should we expect the check?
    5 points
  3. That vid is good, but this is the one that sold me
    5 points
  4. Congratulations, you are experiencing the Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt that they want you to experience. If you aren't aware of the term, "FUD" is a common competitive marketing tactic, where one company siezes upon some aspect(s) or other(s) of a competitor's product and uses "weasel words" to try to get consumers to be afraid of trying it. They don't go as far as saying anything definite that will get them in trouble, but they'll say things like "it's anyone's guess whether it will work in your environment, whereas our product is guaranteed to." When of course the other company also has the same guarantee. Waves are brilliant in being the first consumer software company I've seen who spread FUD about their own products. Although they're by far not the first company to put people in fear of not upgrading or having a valid warranty (witness how much pressure there is when buying electronics to spring for the extended warranty), they're the first "shrink-wrap" software company I've seen do it. They are good at it, I've seen people in this forum getting way bent out of shape that the Waves stuff they bought was going to become "unsupported," as if that would make it suddenly stop working. The WUP is similar to the "extended warranties" that get pushed hard on you when you buy a laptop (or really anything electronic) from Target or Best Buy. I have fun with the poor salespersons at those stores by asking them, "now wait a minute, are you telling us this model isn't reliable as it is?" It's interesting to watch them shift gears. To your questions, I am 99.99% sure that the answers are "no," and "nothing." I'd feel safe guaranteeing you that they didn't open the code for every ancient effect all the way down to TrueVerb and SuperTap to fix imaginary issues with Windows 11. As others have mentioned, they'll be weaselly about it if you ask them, but really, a plug-in that runs inside a host that is straight up VERY much optimized for Windows 10 and 11 is going to be one of the safest bets. And as much as they want your WUP money, have we ever heard of a Waves plug-in that was broken by a Windows upgrade? Are other plug-in companies making a fuss about how they had to fix their stuff to be compatible with Windows 11? None of the ones I use have issued updates for Windows 11. They haven't even mentioned it. Meldaproduction, Plugin Alliance, WAProduction, Arturia, Softube, Eventide, IK Multimedia, Wavesfactory, none of them have implied that my plug-ins from them have or were going to have any issues with Windows 11. It's only the company that charges for bug fixes that's left it in question.😄 Microsoft have a lot invested in being the safe, stable, long-term solution for businesses. The do NOT want their OS to break existing software. I guarantee that there are plenty of enterprises out there who are still running lots and lots of Windows 7 systems because they get the task done and their budgets are allocated elsewhere. How many times have you had a plug-in stop working due to a version change or update of Windows? For me, it's "never, not once." It has sometimes been the case with me that an update of a DAW has broken compatibility with a plug-in (even with our beloved Cakewalk), and when that happens, maybe Waves will fix it or maybe they'll finger-point and say it's up to the DAW manufacturer to fix it. What you get for your WUP dollars is reassurance that you'll have whatever features may be added (scalable GUI's was one well-worth-it feature), and that the versions you have will be tested under the latest versions of the DAW's and OSes they test with. I think they also shoot you dupe licenses that are valid for as long as the WUP is, so if you have a secondary system, that might be a good deal. Waves themselves have a reason for even their "out-of-warranty" stuff not to break with newer versions of Windows: if that ever happened, and they said "tough luck," that would have the effect of making people less likely to invest in their products in the future. This might be balanced by selling more WUP, but maybe not. All this fuss makes it so that I've never purchased a Waves license in my life, although I did spring for WUP for a couple of freebies that I wanted to have scalable GUI's. The silly WavesHell thing, the inability to uninstall individual plug-ins, it adds up to "meh." As ecosystems go, give me Meldaproduction, iZotope, and Plugin Alliance. IK, too. None of them nickel-and-dime me, they get my money by making great products at fair prices and supporting them.
    5 points
  5. October 12, 2021 - IK Multimedia is pleased to announce the T-RackS TASCAM Tape Collection, a collection of AAX, VST and AU plug-ins for mixing and mastering. The new T-RackS TASCAM Tape Collection draws upon the strengths of four meticulously restored TASCAM analog recording systems long recognized for their glorious tone and other audible hallmarks. Developed with IK's award-winning modeling technology and in direct collaboration with TASCAM themselves, the result of this coordinated effort allows musicians to introduce the warmth and classic characteristics of some of the finest analog recorders into today's digital recordings—ultimately delivering the best of both worlds. Officially certified models The TASCAM Tape Collection offers 4 iconic analog tape machines: The TEAC A-6100 MKII, an upgraded version of the original mastering recorder first released in 1973 and still much sought-after today for adding tape warmth and color to recordings. The TEAC A-3340S, released in the early '70s, is the deck behind many famous song demos, and even whole albums made by some of the most influential rock bands ever. The TASCAM 388, released in 1985, combines an 8-channel mixing console and an 8-track tape machine in one. Hugely successful, and still fetching high prices today, the 388 is revered for its warm and evocative sound. The cassette-tape-based TASCAM PORTA ONE MINISTUDIO from 1984 was TASCAM's best-selling PORTASTUDIO, introducing thousands of musicians to the joys of home recording. Even today, the PORTA ONE remains popular for creating "lo-fi" sounds, creative experiments and even live performance. A true collaboration From the onset of this project, IK Multimedia and TASCAM agreed that the goal was to create authentic TEAC and TASCAM tape tone. To that end, TASCAM selected the specific unit of each model, each fully rebuilt and meticulously calibrated. And for even greater accuracy, TASCAM provided information about the analog tape these systems were biased for. Davide Barbi, IK Multimedia's Chief Technology Officer, commented on the new T-RackS TASCAM Tape Collection, "Since the onset of digital recording, musicians and engineers have been wanting an easy, seamless way to introduce the unique tonal characteristics of analog sound into the contemporary DAW environment. Our new T-RackS TASCAM Tape Collection does just that—with the accuracy, warmth, and subtle idiosyncrasies that made analog so special to begin with. Together with TASCAM, we have created a special set of tools that, I believe, have the ability to inject a new level of authenticity and vibrancy into a wide range of music and other recording efforts." Comprehensive controls Each TASCAM tape machine module offers common controls such as input and output levels, selectable input and reproduction audio paths, and a carefully chosen selection of recommended and classic tape formulations—each with its own unique sonic character. A physically modeled alignment section lets users go beyond the regular audio alignment of the machines to experiment with the effect of different bias levels, recording levels to tape, and recording and playback EQs. Additionally, IK Multimedia's modeling team has included two popular features from IK's Tape Machine collection. The Transport Modeling function accurately reproduces the small inaccuracies of the tape position in front of the head for incredible life-like performance, while True Stereo operation provides a perfect recreation of the stereo image effect produced by subtle differences that inevitably exist between the left and right channels on an analog machine. The T-RackS TASCAM Tape Collection offers two ways to work: as a stand-alone AAX, VST2/3 and Audio Units plug-in, or inside the T-RackS 5 shell. Use these together with any of the other 48 T-RackS processors to mix and master faster than ever—creating a powerful, lightning-fast workflow. Pricing and availability The T-RackS TASCAM Tape Collection is available for purchase from the IK Multimedia online store and from IK authorized dealers worldwide at a special limited-time introductory price of $/€129.99* (reg. $/€199.99). The four included individual TASCAM tape machines can also be purchased separately for a limited-time introductory price of $/€79.99* (reg. $/€99.99). For more information, please visit: www.ikmultimedia.com/tascam
    4 points
  6. Actually, AudioDamage still sells the RatShack reverb... And it's great for what it is intended to do, not everything is meant to be pristine, sometimes lo-fi tools are fun too
    4 points
  7. Great idea, but not to burst anyone's bubble, but the resale demand for IK products may be low for the foreseeable future, since this group buy very likely saturated the resale market. So let's do the math so far... As of today there are 23,437 participants who will receive 23 free products each. That's 537,051 IK products that people will not be planning to buy, either new or used. Supply vs. demand. Econ 101.
    4 points
  8. Hey, I like that. FUD of WUP. Woopfud.
    4 points
  9. Hey Cakewalk peeps! Here is a new song. Hope you like it! Lots of love, Red
    3 points
  10. I can't see any benefits in using obsolete 1930's vacuum tube technology either. Or the thousands-year-old technology of making sounds by blowing through a cylinder or rubbing tensioned strings together or plucking them. Oh, wait.....
    3 points
  11. Nope - next is the RadioShack Answering Machine, vintage cassette recording at it's best!
    3 points
  12. First, since everybody is asking - no the brand-new TASCAM Collection nor its individual processors are part of the group nor are they planned to be. However, not only are they at intro pricing, but if you have (purchased, not GB or otherwise freebie) T-RackS 5/Deluxe/MAX, TS2/3, or 5+ (purchased, not GB or otherwise freebie) T-RackS processors you will have an autoapplied 30% coupon so you don't have to use your JamPoints - or you may not have any left after the group buy! Second, those calculations are way off though I wish they were right and that I was getting that kind of bonus because of them Alas, that's not the case though we're happy the group buy is going well.
    3 points
  13. Some folks worry about updates getting forced upon them, others worry about not being able to get updates. 😲
    3 points
  14. I'm all for inspiration tools, and lowering the theory bar for entry. I get how not every knows what the I, II, III, etc. chords mean; I'm not sure replacing roman numerals with shapes in different orientations is that much more helpful though.
    3 points
  15. I got so tired of WUP and the constant version changes and all of the Waves shells that go with them that I gave up on Waves and the dozens of their plugins I had licenses for, and did not install them on my new DAW. Being Waves-free isn't quite as good as being ex-wife-free (I moved to France), but it's close.
    3 points
  16. Batman: It's been a long day Alfred, please fill the bathtub. Alfred: But Master Bruce, what is a Htub? 😊
    2 points
  17. An original instrumental song.
    2 points
  18. Now, I'm gonna test the Porta One this way. Get a digitized version of one of my Porta One (I still have it). Then use IZOTOPE RX-8 Advanced to clean it up to a new copy. Then run the cleaned up copy through the IKM Porta One VST. Then null test the two. I'll get me coat.
    2 points
  19. IKMz juzt wantz me to buyz morez of their productz. BRB (goez and countz Jambpointz)
    2 points
  20. Yes, no problem! The older install versions are available in "My Products" at the IK website. Just click on the "past releases" button to access them.
    2 points
  21. Hi everyone, Josh from W. A. Production here! Appreciate all the positive discussion here! I came across this forum and saw there were a few things I could help clear up, and have done so in no particular order, below: There is in fact quite a bit of AI in this plugin, and we will be updating our manual to include more details about how it works. The countdown indicator in the bottom-left is a limitation of the demo version. You are limited to 10 generated melodies. It is not intended to freeze the DAW once you hit the limit, and if it is doing so, I apologize. There have been no reports of this happening in the full version. We are hoping to improve visibility/text size in a future update. We have already released an update that fixes the MIDI drag problem some users were having (1.0.1) The chord track will not generate a new pattern unless you hit "generate new progression". This is because the other tracks (bass, melody, etc.) are built around the chord progression (even if no chord progression is visibly generated) Liquid Notes and some other tools were indeed acquired by us. However, it seems those talking about it did not see (or remember) the latest update that was sent to all Liquid Notes users several months ago. I have pasted it below. These updated tools are still in process and were delayed due to Covid and some other factors. I know this is mostly Cakewalk users, but I am hearing some people discussing setup in other DAWs. We have instructional videos for most DAWs here. If anyone would like to send me instructions or a video showing routing with Cakewalk, that would be great, as we do not typically test on Cakewalk and are not Cakewalk users ourselves. My email is josh@waproduction.com VFX Color Mapper is the easiest way to set up FL Studio, as per our instructional video. VFX Color Mapper comes with FL Studio natively... I hope this helps those of you who had questions/trouble! - Josh -- Previously sent Liquid Notes email: Hello, You are receiving this email because of one or both of the following reasons: - You bought Liquid Notes software from Re-Compose in the past. - You own Liquid Notes software and opened an account with WA Production because of Re-Compose’s customer transfer campaign. Regrettably, Liquid Notes has reached the end of its lifecycle. The software has an eventful history. Originally, it was only a by-product of research in the field of generative music around a complex music engine. We found that the chord logic we developed in that wider context was powerful and unique enough to be turned into a useful tool for music producers. However, we did not anticipate how laborious it would become to implement a plug-in with multi-track MIDI communication across various DAWs on several, constantly evolving operating systems. Being a research-driven team, we decided to use Java, which added an extra layer of instability to the process. Overall, it was actually a fun ride to figure out how to overcome various technical obstacles. Last year, we made a final attempt to upgrade the installer and revive Liquid Notes so that existing customers could make it work on the latest operating systems. It did not go as planned. The effort turned out to be enormous, as the inner workings of the program are extremely intricate. Plus, unfortunately, we got hit hard by the Covid pandemic, which temporarily froze all further development in midstream. Long story short, we ran out of breath. The cost-benefit analysis turned out unfavorable. So eventually, we decided to discontinue the product and have its sales stopped by the end of 2020. However, we are in the process of restarting the MIDI/chord line afresh. A new team is already busy with the design and realization of MIDI utilities that will incorporate some of the fundamental aspects of Liquid Notes, which will be rolled out over the course of this year by our partner WA Production. We will be mainly catering to a crowd producing EDM genres and thinking in looped structures. But then that was our original plan right from the beginning of Re-Compose. As a courtesy to you, our valued customers who have accompanied us on our way, we are offering you our first MIDI utilities incorporating logic parts from Liquid Notes for free. You will be informed when they are available. If you want to benefit from this offer and have not yet signed up at WA Production, it is still time. Please visit this link. We wish you a happy, healthy and successful New Year! Stefan Oertl (Re-Compose), Roman Trachta (WA Production)
    2 points
  22. Of course, I am now down one serial number for both drums and keys.
    2 points
  23. This was a proposed remedy in a similar thread linked above. It does not fix this problem. BandLab knows about the problem and reproduced it.
    2 points
  24. That SunSet thing is ridiculously usable! I bought it already when it was on sale at its release. No regrets whatsoever.
    2 points
  25. Okay, there are some companies that deliver plugins that initially need some fixing (no careful development? 😉). But as far as I can see with the plugins I have (a lot!): Those ones that have not been updated for a long time are very stable and resource- friendly, whereas the other ones (recently really! updated) often tend to eat a lot of resources and often introduce new bugs! Thus you can count me to the first kind of folks! 😆
    2 points
  26. Kinda like they did when Gibson killed SONAR, huh?
    2 points
  27. Bogus is the extra goodie you get 🤣
    2 points
  28. I do a lot of editing and mixing on my office computer which is in a spare bedroom right of the main living area. I have a nice small set of Mackie CR4 powered monitors and I’m certainly not bothering my family even with the door open. I shut the door and I’m making less noise than the fridge. I put the headphones on for loud. It’s an age old engineering trick to turn down as low as possible and see what you are still hearing. Good monitoring both speakers and phones are paramount to mixing. Room treatment is also critical but is not as important at lower levels. You can also use your eyes to analyze a mix. I use Span, You lean loudness meter and the pro channels fly out of the Quadcurve EQ. You can “see” which frequencies are miss behaving Drop a reference track into a project and solo it. Compare what it “looks” like to your music. But regardless a audio interface is a good investment for audio playback as it will give you the proper connectivity for your audio devices. And level control of headphones and speakers if you get some.
    2 points
  29. Meet a few of the folks that own and work at Sunset and collaborated with IK to bring the sound to the product:
    2 points
  30. You can do it in Amplitube itself. Click on the icon below the three lines until you see an x in a circle (like above) and it will only show the gear you do not own.
    2 points
  31. 2 points
  32. Great products ruined by poor licensing.
    2 points
  33. They tried to make me go to WUP, but I said "no, no, no" ... He's tried to make me go to WUP, but I won't go, go, go...
    2 points
  34. Been a while since I've done a solo piano piece. A little bit of blues and boogie. Hope you enjoy. Jeff
    1 point
  35. Are you using any Workspaces? Unless you configure used workspaces not to, those Workspaces will load their own specific Keyboard shortcuts. I use Workspaces and many custom Keyboard shortcuts. However, I have configured the Workspaces I use, not to load Keyboard shortcuts from those Workspaces (Done in “Manage Workspaces”)
    1 point
  36. Depends on style , for LoFi hip hop it was and is a classic as the SP 404 , Emu sp 1200 ect ....
    1 point
  37. I'm going to add to this - again for the possible help it may be to future newbies - and I'm going to do it despite being embarrassed at having worked out what (at least part of) the problem was. Brief re-cap..... First project ever on CW. Lots of pops and clicks. Tried lots of stuff (see above). Cured it mostly. (Ditching ASIO4ALL seemed to have the greatest effect.) But still got pops and clicks sometimes. Noticed, over time, that it seemed to happen only on that first project. Thought it must be one of the VSTs or something. Took them all out. Still happened. And, what's worse, I started to anticipate when it would happen, because it always happened in the same place. (Hands up those who are ahead of me.) This is what I'd done.... I'd recorded two audio tracks of 'real'guitars. Because it was my first digital project, and because I'm used to working with tape, whenever I'd made a mistake, I'd just dropped in using Autopunch. Not in a new lane - just on the track, as you would on tape. And I'd made a lot of mistakes - because I wasn't used to being my own engineer, and I was stressed using the DAW. I ended up with very many clips of audio guitar on each of the two tracks. So a lot of the pops I was hearing were 'unblended' joins between clips. All that noise wasn't latency. It was ignorance. ....ah, well, there. I've owned up. I feel cleansed.
    1 point
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  39. 200 Gear Credits are available in the store at a discount, so you can buy them at a discount + 30% off with Jam Points. >>> https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/index.php?R=INIT&FV=all-credits-family-related-products&CV=Other Filter&PSEL=allcredits Then make your purchase in the Custom Shop with Gear Credits.
    1 point
  40. It took a second :D Thanx Notes ♫
    1 point
  41. Make sure you read threads about buying gear points to purchase AT5 (and jam points you might have). If you have enough Jam Points it can bring the $200 tier down to $112 with this method.
    1 point
  42. Yeah, but she uses a Mac. Pfft.
    1 point
  43. I drag and drop my entire folders which may contain 10 to 25 projects into backup drives both internal and external. I date them as such. “ Originals October 2021 backup “. Those are albums I’m working on for myself or clients. I also copy those to my second computer. There is a minimum of 4 copies available and often many more dates. Storage is cheap . My favourite method is for my backing tracks which I have slowly eliminated all audio tracks by converting them to midi. Those I save to one drive as CWP files. I have over 200 of them but if there’s no audio the files are small. They are then stored in multi locations at once. I also saved them as midi files. Midi is future proof and definitely what I have spent the majority of my time on. So I think everyone should save their projects as midi if they contain a lot of midi tracks
    1 point
  44. Bernard is also one of my fav drummers along with Chuck Rainey for bassists. Both play so in the pocket.
    1 point
  45. The instrument track is different because there's actually two tracks involved. Basically what happens when you freeze an audio track, is that it takes a backup copy of the current audio clips and replaces it with the frozen audio. Any insert time operation is then performed on the frozen audio, but the backup copy remains intact. When you unfreeze, the backup copy is restored. Instrument tracks have two tracks - an audio track, and a MIDI track. When an instrument track isn't frozen, it has an empty audio track and you see the MIDI track part in the clips view. When you freeze a MIDI instrument, all it does is bounce it down, fill the audio track up with the frozen audio, and show the Audio track part in the clips view. When you unfreeze, the frozen audio is replaced by the original audio (i.e. nothing), and it goes back to showing the MIDI track part. As the MIDI part isn't a backup copy, it's still affected by insert time.
    1 point
  46. We pitched this cover song for a trailer trailer opportunity and although it made the short list, we didn't get gig so I'm able to share. CBB used for the whole thing with various Kontakt Libraries etc.
    1 point
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