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Hidden in plain sight, I guess, but I only discovered it today after using Cakewalk for 4+ years. A slip of the mouse and I had it. We all know about how you can sort plug-ins in the Browser by Manufacturer, Category, and Type (which means you see them sorted into VST3, VST2, and DXi folders, and then by manufacturer within those folders). Ever wanted to see them sorted by where they are in the Windows file system? Read on. All you have to do to see this is click on the "Plug-ins" tab at the top of the Browser, then whatever sort method it's set to, move your mouse to it and click. You'll see something like this: It's not sorting by manufacturer, it's showing where my .VST3 files are in the VST3 directory. As you can see, it winds up being a combination of folders that the manufacturers' installers created and then plug-ins that were installed at the root level of VST3 or whatever folder you use for VST2's. The possible use for this that I can see is plug-in organization: you can have folders for manufacturers and then categories (which Meldaproduction already does) or even put it the other way around. I supposed there's not much you can do with it that you can't do using plug-in manager, but who knows. It might be good for helping track down where a plug-in's DLL actually is. It uses the friendly names from inside the file rather than the filenames. Caveats: if you decide to try using this to organize plug-in lists, sometimes plug-ins don't like being moved from their original install location. Also, plug-ins that load via a unified shell, like Waves' or Presonus', will might not appear in this view. Note: this sorting view also switches in the FX rack and instrument menus.

I agree! I had a group for "Installers/Downloaders", and a group for DAW's, a Group for VI's, a Group for Utilities, etc... Now it's just one big mess of 6 pages that I have to navigate through to find what I'm after. VERY BAD!

Deep Purple - Hush

THEME: Geographical Places/Entities --Lake -> Lakes --Kingston & Everglades [DOUBLE!!] --Florida & Miami [DOUBLE!!] --Texas [US States] --California --Ohio --Arizona --New Mexico --Alabama --Denver & Alaska [DOUBLE!! (city & state)] --Arkansas --Colorado --Connecticut --Delaware --Georgia --Hawaii --Idaho --Illinois --Indiana --Iowa --California --Baltimore [California Musician & early city of residence] --Kansas --[New] Jersey --Montana --808 State [US States --> a different state / TOPIC CHANGED to Drum Machines --909 [drum machine] --303 [bass machine] --909 --Machine + Gun --Janie [a girl] + Gun --West End Girls [back to geographical places + girls: DOUBLE!!] 😉 --Homecoming Queen [a girl] + Gun --Gun --Need --Love + Hermann --Herman + World (a geographical place) + Girls + Love 😜

Available for Windows and Mac in VST/VST3, AU, AAX and CLAP formats. https://www.audiothing.net/effects/filterjam/

Simple Stems is a quick and easy way to decompose any audio into it’s constituent parts. The plugin uses the well established Spleeter algorithm by Deezer to deconstruct songs into 2, 4 or 5 stems. The results are stunning, though more complicated mixes and live recordings are not always perfectly decomposed. 49$, but free for a limited time https://www.stagecraftsoftware.com/products/simplestems/

$9 https://karanyisounds.com/product/synths-1-dx/

My site was down for 2 days thanks to a perfect storm of variables changing that disconnected my domain from my site. I am VERY SORRY for the inconvenience - this has never happened before and will not happen again I hope!! I do not recommend anybody doing business with GoDaddy. I'm still awaiting confirmation that I own my website from them! But anyway, miraculously we're back in business, so let's celebrate with a HUGE Summer Weekend Sale! 45% OFF most every library PLUS 6 BUNDLES are granted an additional 45% OFF! This doesn't happen often so grab these INSANE deals if they appeal to you! The 6 Bundles with 45% off their already 30% discounted prices: Rocky Mountain Duo Bundle - $37.95 (reg. $88) MegaMagic Violin, Viola and Cello "The Trio" - $54.45 (Reg $150) ALL 4 AIRWAVE Libraries for Omnisphere 2 - $70.95 (Reg $181) ALL 3 OmniPulse Libraries for Omnisphere 2 - $43.45 (Reg $117) ALL 3 BreakTweaker Libraries for BreakTweaker - $51.15 (Reg. $127) Infinity Bundle - 28 Libraries for Omnisphere 2 - $439.45 (Reg $1,174) This sale will end Monday Night at Midnight. Grab these NOW and SAVE BIG!! https://www.pluginguru.com/

For a bit of context (and frankly, pretty solid entertainment) on this particular product, there's a recent thread over at VI-C on the SM Cello: https://vi-control.net/community/threads/i-bought-soundmagic-cello-for-10-ama.127347/

Windows 10 users can use Classic Shell. I don't think it's being developed any more but it still works great. Set the Start Menu style to "Classic with two columns" to mimic the old Windows XP flyout menu style. Windows 11 users can use StartAllBack which offers similar functionality.

Augmented Strings is actually not that much of a memory hog! For example, Augmented Strings + the displayed preset is only using 362 MB total. Augmented Strings is actually more of a synthesizer than sampler, so it's mostly CPU intensive. The installed sample library for the 300 presets is only a 2.5GB footprint. So in theory, you could run dozens of instances of Augmented Strings loaded into your DAW tracks, as long as they were not all playing in unison, or simultaneously! Here is the Augmented Strings library displayed by file/folder size on my sample drive. You can see that Arturia was very frugal with the sample sizes, unlike Soundpaint, LOL! 🤣

Already on our list for a future version!

Just fix the start menu they broke.

Simon & Garfunkel - A Hazy Shade of Winter

or make it songs everyone knows haha The Bangles - Hazy Shade of Winter

Billy Idol - Don't Need A Gun

east > west Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls

Phuture 303 - Computer Chips

The Doors - Alabama Song

Ohio · Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

The site seems to be back up and running, along with a 45% off sale this weekend!

I added up all the money I spent on free stuff, $0. Then I realized that I spent $$$ on disk drives to hold all that free stuff! Mad now!!! 😂

Yesterday afternoon my bass player called me up and said he had an extra ticket to a concert and did I want to go. I said "sure", even before I knew who the act was. It was at a favorite local venue, a 121-year-old 600-seat theater that's run mostly by community volunteers. I'd played there a couple times and knew that it was a good room, acoustically-speaking. Then he told me it was The Zombies. Right, I thought. Aren't those guys like 80 years old? And I was under the impression that the band's principle creative force, Rod Argent, had retired. But OK, I'd be up even for just a decent tribute band. On the way to the theater, I told my friend the story of the fake Zombies back in the day. It's a great story, google it. It's part of ZZ Top's origin story. Short version: two fake Zombies bands toured the US to exploit the real band's hits. The real Zombies had never toured America, having broken up before they had those hits, so nobody knew what they looked like. The promoter was such a hack that he didn't even bother having keyboards in the fake Zombies. So I was pleasantly surprised when they came onstage and there's Rod Argent and Colin Blunstone. The other three guys were clearly hired guns, but awesome players, especially the bassist. The five of them kicked *****, with extended jams on Hold Your Head High and She's Not There. It was a great performance, and I had the luxury of enjoying from 4th row center. Sadly, the FOH guy must have been one of those volunteers, because the sound was atrocious. I mean, really, really bad. I'd have given them a piece of my mind, had I actually paid for the ticket. Best part of the show was when Rod told extended anecdotes of their experiences at Abbey Road with Geoff Emerick as their engineer, using the Mellotron that the Beatles had left behind from recording Sgt. Pepper, making friends with a new intern named Alan Parsons.

You stupid woman.

Yeah, RX Connect is unnecessary. CbB can share a copy of a clip directly with any editor that accepts file names on the command line. This is done by extended the Tools section of the CbB Utilities menu. The information is stored in the registry. I wrote a tool to edit this part of the registry. In fact, it was in response to a discussion about RX Connect on the old forum. The Tools Editor is part of CbB Tools mentioned in this thread Here is my setup for RX9. Download the program. Put it anywhere on your PC. Run it Select Tools Editor Set Update Registry to Yes Enter the Required Entries. Double-clicking in Exe Path opens a file browser. Click Submit To use Run CbB Select a clip and run RX from the Utilities menu. After saving and closing RX, CbB will prompt to load the new clip.

I tried it several times with varying results but mostly good. Finally got to sort out what was going on between a snare and guitar track in the Live song Iris.

Well, if IK is true to form, the version that you get this will NOT qualify for upgrades.

Yes i think i have used rx connect to send a clip to be edited in rx and then sent the edited clip back to cakewalk. I will check out the steps i used and post later on edit post with steps : ok so here are the steps Right click on the clip – process effect – audio effects – RX 8 connect RX 8 connect opens – choose repair- ok RX 8 audio editor opens – do the editing – choose SEND BACK in upper right corner Message says waiting and to open RX connect again, so go back to the original clip in cakewalk and again do this - Right click on the clip – process effect – audio effects – RX 8 connect RX connect opens in cakewalk and says press process to commit changes, but there is no process button, press ok to commit to the changes and cakewalk will now have the newly edited clip replacing the original clip nothing intuitive about this process ! but i have used it successfully

In Windows 10, I had all my programs organized in groups on the main start screen page. Now there is no organization and it looks like an iPhone. All my standalone synths were well organized, now I have to dig in the all apps menu for them. Using search works, but in my mind takes away the benefit of a visual organization scheme.

Just an FYI, although the demo mode of the full version has limitations, I was able to play with the parameters with the Advanced panel. That helped me decide that it was worth contacting support about the deal. Fortunately, they came through for me and I am glad I took them up on the offer. I like to drive synth parameters in Voltage Modular and I was pleased to see Arturia makes all the parameters available directly to VM's Plug-In Host module (much like in CbB's automation, I assume). This makes it much easier than plug-ins from other companies where CCs/Parameters need to be assigned in the plug-in first. Not sure this makes a different to you, but for some it might also be a plus. For example, I only have the demo version of Augmented Voices, but I can see, hear, and test (1) about 300 presets and (2) all parameters under Advanced. No need to assign the CCs within the plug-in first. BTW, I have an older PC and I have not found Augmented Strings (full) and Augmented Voices (demo) to be CPU hogs as compared with other plug-ins.

Good excuse to post some nice hip action (for the umpteenth time): All About That Bass - Postmodern Jukebox

... and to anyone that has an older PC that can't even upgrade to 11, let alone 12!

The Skids - A Woman In Winter

Tori Amos - Winter

Good thing you added another after "Hush." I was afraid someone would make the theme 4-letter words.

Sorry to say, PC,, but IMO they are. Although I particularly appreciate the Advanced tab, allowing for ADSR tweaking (especially the attack portion of string samples).

Topic is now classic Roland TR machines ... Daft Punk - Revolution 909

Ha! But you use Pigments more too!

Got the serial as well. Aside from not being able to assign an ASIO driver, I'm rather impressed with this. Here are two quick examples of the splits in 2 (43 seconds: Full, Vox, Track) & 5 (52 seconds: Full, Vocal, Drums, Bass, Piano, Other). Blessed Assurance Consume Me EDIT: I've used iZotope Music Balance some which certainly gives you more options but for what it does, Simple Stems is aptly named for the quick and easy split.

Not sure about the TH-U as I have the full package and don't use the "Essentials", but LostIn70s plugins are free to use (donations are accepted) and don't expire.

I'm really impressed with V3 and the new drive. It doesn't seem like a big addition but it definitely adds what was missing for me before. Even with just a slight bump, it brings everything to life. I used SGear a lot in the past and then kinda abandoned it for a long time. Bought the upgrade last year on a whim, kinda liked it for a while, and then it went away again so I was happy to see the V3 upgrade was free for me. AmpRoom with the Marshall upgrades is still king for me but this has certainly jumped up in the rankings based on a few hours with it.

Check 'em out here https://www.spitfireaudio.com/offers/

You would be surprised how many younger artists use Arturia. Hip-Hop and UK Drill artists love it. Also great for modern R&B and Lo-fi. Any genre that has the need for creating retro sounding samples they are better than most. Omnisphere is still king in the genres I named, but Arturia has a respectable showing. Not trying to sell you on them, but it might be worth a look. I too use Pigments more than the others. It just works

We’re writing to let you know that we’ve just released Lounge Lizard EP-4 v4.4.2. PLEASE NOTE—This update is recommended for all users on all platforms. Best regards, The AAS team Fixes * Fixed audible click when switching between some presets. * Fixed VST3 plug-in editor resize in Acoustica Mixcraft. * VST3 could show the wrong version number in the Finder. * When working with VST3 parameter automation, some DAWs showed random characters in the parameter value.

Strum GS-2 has also been updated. It's now at v2.4.2 See: https://www.applied-acoustics.com/support/ to list the version numbers of all AAS synths Log in here https://www.applied-acoustics.com/portal/products/ to download a single installer for all of your AAS products

Yeah, it adds up for sure. I have a philosophical opinion to share, though. Something I remind myself of when I mentally total up what I've spent on plug-ins to go with the FREEWARE DAW I use (which comes with its own set of mixing plug-ins) 😄. I was the guy who started the Freeware FX and Instrument topics, and know that there's plenty of really great free stuff out there that I don't need to wait for a "deal" on. (Although I haven't found a freeware reverb that can touch the paid ones I have). I'm not trying to encourage anyone to buy shiny trinkets that they don't need, no way nohow. But we shouldn't trip too hard on spending money over time. The thing is, if the pastime brings you happiness....most interests and luxuries come with costs that freakin' add up. Golfer: buy clubs, shoes, gloves. Recurring costs: tees, balls, and green fees. Play at your local muni course twice a month, even at senior (60+) or off hours rates, that comes to $100 a month. Times 12, $1200 a year. Fancy courses or places where you're not a resident? $1500-2000? Woodworker: buy table saw, miter saw, chisels, planes, router, router table, etc. I can attest to this hobby also resulting in trinkets one is initially excited about but seldom if ever uses because who can keep track of all those gadgets and you finally get good enough where they're superfluous. Then you have to buy decent wood and fasteners if you want to make anything. I work mostly with birch plywood, which goes for roughly $75-100 a sheet, depending on thickness and quality. If you work in hardwood, fuggedaboudit. Recurring costs: sandpaper, finishing supplies (decent finishes are spendy), bits, blades. Like to maintain fitness? Access to a good gym, and at home have various dumbbells, exercise mats, etc. How many gym memberships and exercise goodies go un(der)used? Like to watch TV? How much did your set cost? How long did you have the last one before you decided it was too small or too low resolution? Even if you're frugal like me and have no cable package, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+ add up to about $40 a month, and how much for the broadband internet service to deliver them? A cable package with 200 channels? You can only watch one thing at a time, so most people probably only regularly watch fewer than 10 of them. Go to the movies twice a month on bargain night, get a large popcorn and a drink, and you've spent $500 on that per year. Concert tickets? Don't get me started. Enjoy having a bite in a restaurant with friends? Just grabbing a burger? The other day I went out to Five Guys with a friend/former bandmate and got one sandwich, a small drink (they're refillable, so frugal boy orders the small cup), and large fries for the two of us. $18. Go to a nice restaurant and order two glasses of wine once a month to enhance your romantic relationship? Yikes! Go out to a bar with your mates and have 2 beers? Premium beers? Add it up. Sports fan? How much do tickets for games cost where you live? SF Giants baseball tickets go for around $20 for upper box. 49ers tickets? $50 for the way high seats. IndyCar? $30 for race day in Long Beach. Formula 1? In Austin, $550 for a race day pass 😲. Like to sew? Good sewing machine. Needles, thread, fabric, patterns, buttons, trim. Like to cook? Good chef's knife, any number of other gadgets, fancy spices, fancy olive oil, fresh organically grown locally farmed ingredients. Guitar strings, picks, cables, tubes, drumsticks, drum heads, moongels, cool tuning gadgets. Musicians' iPhone apps. How many did I buy last year? All of these things are luxuries. I get 60 channels of TV over the air. I can eat and exercise at home (jumping rope is said to be one of the most effective aerobic exercises), make wooden objects out of pallets using a handsaw. We all like getting shiny toys to augment our interests. It's a dopamine rush. It probably goes back to tribal hunter-gatherer times where the one with the most tools survived. Getting a new gadget inspires us to try it out, and often enough I come up with a new idea or two. Every time I get a new plug-in, I spend at least an hour test driving it, and spending an hour in the play zone is actually good for coming up with new song ideas. I have half a dozen songs in folders named things like "Objeq Delay Testing." Or seeing how it performs on older, unfinished material. It tricks me into the play zone, which is the best place to be for creating. Maybe it's kinda silly to buy a new W.A. Production or Waves multi-widget when you're a good enough mix engineer get the same results (or better) with the freeware Dead Duck (or Meldaproduction, ob. mention) FX collection, but if you do anyway, and it made you happy for an hour or two, how much would you have spent on a burger and a movie? It's fun to chase down these deals and see how much we can get for relatively little. Does Larry get paid for it? Yeah, in enjoyment and the respect of people who benefit from his efforts. Do I feel cool when I manage be the first to share a deal? Heck yeah I do. tl/dr: Thanks to getting cheapie and freebie deals, I have some of the best audio production software in the industry. I have peace of mind that the tools I'm using will not hold me back, I only have to build skill in using them. Elysia mpressor and alpha master (total outlay $35). kHs Slice and Carve EQ's (both free). MAutoDynamicEQ ($20). Exponential Nimbus and R4 reverbs ($10 each). T-Racks VC-670 (free). Objeq, Sigmund, and Sandman Pro delays (total outlay $14). T-Racks Quad Compressor (free). Those are desert island processors, and let's see, total outlay....$89. That's less than or equal to two rounds of golf, or a sheet and a half of cheap birch plywood, or a new set of heads for my Slingerlands, or 10 pairs of Vic Firths, or one decent used Zildjian, or 4 good cables, or a year's worth of sanitation supplies for my hot tub, or 7 months of Netflix, or one really nice restaurant meal for two, or four "wagon wheel" pizzas.