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Singers are getting worse, they need to raise prices to compensate.

I'm not wishing to sound like an excited 10 year old but Please, Please, Pretty Please with A Cherry on Top, add support for animated .png images, you don't even have to update the two themes included with Cakewalk, just add support for users to add them to Themes via the editor and for them to work in Cakewalk. I'm not sure if any other DAW even uses animated png images in it's UI and it would be handy and cool to make certain buttons like Mute, Solo and Record flash or fade. Check out the Track View/Console View 'Record' button I made..... https://imgur.com/tlLyQmq Now, would that not be so cool and maybe useful for a few particular and important buttons??

Call in the man with the expert ear:

Seems like fun, but pretty expensive for a loop engine. Even a good one.

Car Mechanic Simulator 2018 and A Game of Thrones: The Board Game Digital Edition, free until June 30th. https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/car-mechanic-simulator-2018 https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/a-game-of-thrones-5858a3

Over $10,000 raised! Continuing on our tradition of spring giving, we decided to again hold a Donation Sale in May 2022. This year, along with you, our most excellent customers, we managed to raise $10,463 for UNICEF and Save The Children to aid the children caught in Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Thank you so much!

Best mag in da biz! (Boom. I beat him)

Got the Motion Engines of Brass and Strings. Pretty good.

GAS is definitely more expensive these days hahha

Man, the plugin collective used to be soooo freakin' awesome. It was part of the reason I bought a Focusrite audio interface!

The option to show/hide controllers in the clips view will be available in the next main release. The controllers will also be drawn slightly darker with the notes appearing on top at their current colour, so the notes will be far more visible.

Almost two years have passed, so I think it’s about time to bump this feature request. I know that the animated png format is not officially approved by the PNG development group, but it has been supported by Chrome, Firefox and Edge for years so who cares? It's a de facto standard. Just have a look at this example. Wouldn’t it be cool to make it possible to have a theme with e.g. an animated Mute button, like they have in Logic? And no, I don’t think that it necessarily should be part of the default themes Mercury and Tungsten as some users might object to the animation. But add code to CbB so that user themes containing animated png files can be properly rendered. What you see below is just that - an animated png. If you agree, please show your support in the OP.

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This one is about the regrets we all have throughout life and the prospect of working through them. Enjoy! "Lost on the Breeze"

Man Makes Noise's summer sale is here! -40% of everything with the code MIDSOMMAR. Sale runs until the 23.7.2022 so head over to https://www.manmakesnoise.com/

Some great stuff in there.

You misunderstood...she said that YOU need to be IN TENTS!

The new Grunge Teams content is free for SampleTron 2 owners, if that's not clear. It's a bit different than a typical expected Mellotron type of sound (the soundtrack is all from the new set except the drums) but cool nonetheless.

Best Service and Plugin Boutique are the current cheapest places (excluding the use of coupon codes etc.). https://musicsoftwaredeals.com/price-history/MTurboAmp-by-MeldaProduction-39430/

No Master No Class

Transfers are also NOT eligible. New purchases only, or if you got a "Freebie" that someone else actually purchased but never registered.

Thats pretty crazy when you think about it. $20 to transfer a license. It's almost as if IKM don't want you to resell their license for less than they can sell it to someone. 😂

I read some confusion in this thread between Lo-Fi Glow and Neon. This thread title was about the Native Instruments free Lo-Fi Glow offer, available now until October 6th. You redeem the code at NI and install it with Native Access. Lo-Fi Glow is a Kontakt Player library that also comes with Komplete 13, and is 575 MB in size. It's got some interesting sounds and effects in it. Also discussed here was the previous, now expired offer from Plug-in Collective, that was for a Neon Library that uses the Capsule plug-in. Neon is a 743 MB library that only plays in the Capsule plug-in. No sub required for this library.

I love that Schadenfreude has no one-word equivalent in English (or French for that matter).

This is so very well crafted; so big 👍's. Caused some "introspection" here, and I suspect will for most who listen. t so this is where I intrude and offer what I hope will be taken as constructive crits. Meter, to me, is just as important as melody and lyric. so some suggestions you should take with a grain of salt... "and go on our own way" "You, were from an age when you couldn’t say" if I was producing, these are some minor changes, I think, would make the lyric "flow" a bit better. As I said above "very well crafted", so again, take it with a grain of salt...

Usually when a Cakewalk sfz engine synth (DimPro, Rapture, Studio Instruments...) goes silent, the cause is unexpected MIDI data in the track. The easiest fix is enable "Do not intercept NRPNs" in plug-in properties

Yeah! You can buy a gallon of gas!

Soundtoys 5 Collection for $235 at Thomann https://www.thomannmusic.com/soundtoys_soundtoys_5.htm

yup.last few freebies have been pretty "meh"

Runt the Kilohearts installer to update

It's only been SEVEN years since v5!

That doesn't strike a chord with me.. I suspect their sales may be a little flat as a result and I don't think it's the sharpest of business ideas.. they may need to fine tune that 🤭

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I just picked my freebies. 180 days to download.

How can I be sure it's a real Handpan?

The original Massive became the de facto industry standard soft synth at the time (2007). But NI unwisely decided to replace it with a completely new synth called Massive X rather than improving the old one, and that disillusioned a lot of loyal Massive fans. No backwards compatibility... Not a very smart move by NI. 🙄 https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/native-instruments-massive

Well, IMO the documentary really drives this point home in the interviews with the musicians who, unlike you and Craig and I, aren't from California. I'm thinking of Bruce and Elton here. Springsteen created anthems that captured the cultural zeitgeist of New Jersey. I had never been to New Jersey when Born To Run came out, but it resonated with me. A taste of another world. And it occurred to me while listening to him speak about The Beach Boys that maybe he decided to do for his childhood home what Brian (and the lyricists he worked with) had done for Southern California. I was born in San Diego and spent my childhood in Los Angeles until my family moved away in the early 70's. We moved to Mississippi. I pined like crazy for Los Angeles throughout my adolescence, which was when I really got into The Beach Boys. They were a lifeline to me during my exile. So it wasn't so culturally critical to me while I was actually living in Southern California, but it sure was after I left. Another thing: one of my favorite painters is Norman Rockwell, who is often dismissed as a kitsch artist. However, I watched a PBS documentary on his life which touched on his wife's struggles with mental illness/alcoholism. Those quaint New England village scenes? Some of that came from the fact that the family moved to Stockbridge, MA to be near the Austen Riggs psychiatric center. This was so that she could be an outpatient there instead of an inpatient. And it clicked for me: yes, there's an underlying wistfulness in his paintings. He was painting life as he wanted it to be, not as it actually was for him. Brian's work was similar: he never had the idyllic California adolescence depicted in the early music. Rather he grew up with a horribly abusive father, who beat him so badly that it ruined his hearing in one ear. Whacked him upside the head with a 2x4. So there's a wistfulness and longing buried in the music (which he wrote, usually leaving the lyrics to others). When exiled from CA, that wistfulness started to resonate hard with me. Not for going into deeply here, but at the time, I was having my own troubles with alcoholic/rageoholic parents. And I'm in no way suggesting that it's necessary to know these things about these people to appreciate their work. The opposite, actually. It just answered the question for me why this stuff that appeared as such fluff on the surface resonated so much. I mean, my taste in music includes things like Steve Roach, Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, The Stooges, and The Dead Kennedys. That stuff is a little easier to understand why I would like it: it's dark and angsty. Yada yada, anyway, it's also my opinion that with great art, it's built in that it's not going to connect with everyone. It won't because how can anything that resonates so much resonate with everyone? My own examples of music that a lot of people whose tastes I respect love and that I just don't care for are The Jesus and Mary Chain and Captain Beefheart. Try as I might. But isn't that as it should be? Art communicates and evokes emotions. Let me tell you that especially among my musician friends, it's blasphemous to admit that I don't just love the snot out of JAMC and Captain Beefheart. They are sure that there's something in it that I just haven't gotten yet, but maybe I am getting it and just can't relate to the emotions being conveyed. Listening to anything Frank Zappa did after the 60's, for me it's like being stuck at a party with some arrogant dick who's sure he's smarter than everyone else in the room and wants to let the world know. And sure enough, in interviews and recollections, he comes off as an arrogant dick who's sure he's smarter than everyone else in the room. I can blow hot air all day long about how great The Beach Boys music is to me, and maybe something I say will cause you to reconsider and find something in it, but also maybe you do get it and it just isn't for you. Maybe I can ease confusion about why people go on about it. But I can certainly understand if it sounds like a lot of superficial fluff and peddles a California fantasy world that's too obviously lovable.

I'll just leave this here ;^)

Must be that chip shortage 😂

A machine fit for a king.

I still have the AKAI Advance 25. VIP sounded like a good idea, but yeah, it didn't last long. Still a nice keyboard, though.

I don't know if this is a good thing or bad thing

Right, but as Larry confirmed, you cannot enter the T-RackS group buy with an IKM freebie, which was the expressed purpose for acquiring the IKM T-RackS freebie. For the group buy, you would still have to purchase, or I suppose transfer, a qualifying license. It's fine if you just want a freebie IKM license for your kit, but that freebie is normally going to run you $19.99 because of the transfer fee. Unless somebody was holding onto an IKM redemption code from a 3rd party deal that hasn't been registered to any account yet. But those are pretty rare.

I like it, although I would want an option to disable it too. -- Scott R. Garrigus - http://www.garrigus.com * Cakewalk SONAR Video Tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/user/ScottGarrigus?sub_confirmation=1 * Author of the Cakewalk Sonar and Sony Sound Forge Power book series: http://www.garrigus.com/ * Publisher of the DigiFreq music recording newsletter: http://www.digifreq.com/ * Publisher of the NewTechReview consumer tech newsletter: http://www.newtechreview.com/

Nobody's clapping for that price.

Changes: # Added new 3 band compressor mode "Broadcast" # Fixed Compressor Leveler mode # Fixed Equal Loudness Pad # Fixed a graphical issue https://www.tokyodawn.net/tdr-limiter6-ge/

As a reminder, I recommend deauthorizing certain software as even if you clone the O/S drive, some authorisation tools will recognise that the hardware has changed and you will no longer be authorised. This is an issue for licences that have to be deauthorised on the hardware they are licensed to rather than from any system. iLok is one that have this clause I think and you can lose an activation unless you go back and do it on the original hardware/OS. (I was beaten to it).

Dirk... is that... you... ? 🤣

👍👍👍 Couldn't agree more https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/trchiccarelli/ and https://www.overloud.com/products/voice

Same here.