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Free choices from group buys are eligible now. Something I and a couple others here really pushed for and got the team to implement. For example, those who own T-RackS Sunset Sound Studio Reverb qualify for the 9.99 upgrade (vs 49.99) MixBox Sunset Sound modules. Do they get it right every time? No. But I also now take part in a regular meeting with the lead of the team that sets up the eligibility and the reminders are not so gentle any more so I hope this gets squared away to be right each time, every time, from the go.

You should really buy this on their site for the same price and support the developer: https://pulsar.audio/mu

OTS and Greg are Great people \m/ and we at www.amplesound.net are just working differently...? we'll try to be quicker for the winter sale.

Just one more..

So how many "the only synth You'll ever need" are out there?

Just a thought for next year. You may want to time your summer sale BEFORE the Orange Tree Samples group buy. Just saying...

As long as they're buying the drinks.

Deal: 50% off "Phase Plant" by Kilohearts Value: €199 Discount: 50% Price: €99 Grab the deal now on http://www.VSTBuzz.com Phase Plant is a multi-award-winning, semi-modular softsynth developed for music producers and sound designers. With a unique combination of top-quality processing, creative freedom, and an intuitive workflow you will be creating amazing patches in no time! Get Kilohearts Essentials free when you create your Kilohearts account! Grab the deal now on http://www.VSTBuzz.com!

$69 https://audioplugin.deals/scorpio-by-artistry-audio

You'd be a LOT richer if you broke out in hives every time you bought a plug-in! ?

Bioscape and Lunaris are amazing. Lunaris 2.0 is imminent as well.

Such a down-to-earth guy. And for a guitarist, very attuned to things like instrument balance and separation. He approaches a live mix like he's in the studio. Great quote I'll no doubt use: "you always have that 6th gear but you don't live there" (talking about playing quieter to combat overly-reverberant rooms).

You should either read the documentation articles about PVR or watch the many tutorial videos on the topic. That’s how we all learned how to use advanced features of Cakewalk. The hard way is to blindly poke at buttons. Go to the tutorials here https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/forum/35-tutorials/ I have my ow series as well https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/topic/36057-cakewalk-2022-owners-manual-tutorials/

Agree that they are great! Just meant that many shoppers might have already exceeded their summer plugin budgets due to that group buy and 60% off on guitar bundles, LOL!!! I own Ample and OTS products! Great quality stuff!

Sparks > Fireworks.. Elvis Costello - Indoor Fireworks:

Thanks Mark, So I already had the full version and unlocked it. That's interesting. I have a fair number of strings libraries and against some of them, this rocks. There are some patches in here I would need to dial in with other libraries. IOW, lots of useful patches I think will fit in a mix probably untouched. Even though this is a "synth" strings library, it competes well with sampled strings libraries all depending on what a person is doing. For me, I think I can simply slot in a bunch of these with no tweaking. The process makes more sense to me when I consider Arturia's building legacy of modeled instruments. This stands somewhere in between. A good instrument with a small footprint. Hard to go wrong there.

€99 /$99 is the lowest price it ever gets to: https://musicsoftwaredeals.com/price-history/Phase-Plant-by-Kilohearts-1989/

I guess it's better than "Face Plant"!

Their legacy plugins became free. They still have current updated plugins they sell.

My budget is much happier with waiting, LOL ?

As indicated in my signature, I recently leveled up a touch in terms of computer hardware. Although a veteran of much Frankenclone assembly/upgrade in the 90's (my first XT was parts from a BBS' donations pile), I hadn't built a PC from parts in 20 years due to a series of nice Gateway and Dell hand-me-downs. But I just did one and it went really well. I had a computer case containing a friend's bricked system sitting around for about a year. He gave it to me because it would only stay on for about 15 minutes before crashing. i5 system, Intel motherboard, 4G of RAM, I found out that it was waaaaay behind on BIOS updating. Got the newest BIOS and it bricked it. Hard. No recovery, not with jumpers, nothing. Gone. Cheapo case it is, the sides are about the same gauge as a soup can. But it came with a built-in card reader and an optical drive. Thinking I would extract the Ivy Bridge i5 from it and stick it in a new motherboard as an upgrade to my #2 (shop) computer, I started looking on CL and eBay, and as it turns out, Ivy Bridge motherboards without CPU run in the $50+ range, which I thought was too much to spend to end up with a computer with the technology of a decade ago. But every once in a while, there seemed to be a pretty good deal on a later motherboard, usually with processor, sometimes RAM sometimes not. These I guess would be gamers upgrading. So I started to research how many generations further I'd have to go to get some features I wanted, like an NVMe M.2 slot, while still having a PCI slot for my Firewire card. Eventually, a guy listed an ASUS motherboard with i7 6700 and 32G of RAM for $200. Hey-ya, that would be a nice upgrade from my Dell Optiplex with its i7 3770 and 16G of RAM. I had had to get a PCIe-to-NVMe adaptor to be able to use an NVMe SSD with the Dell, and then had to install a bootloader on a USB stick to allow booting from it. This was eventually cured with a BIOS hack I found on the web (yeah, I'm a tough guy, I hacked my BIOS with a hex editor to add a feature Dell had left out). A 3-generation jump in Intel technology, and a move from Dell's notoriously locked-down BIOS to an ASUS extreme gaming platform seemed worth the effort and relatively nominal cost. About that, I sent the seller email and he didn't respond for a week. When he did, he offered to knock $20 off the price. Sold! When I got down to the Starbuck's in Sunnyvale to meet him, he threw in what he said was a 250G NVMe SSD with Windows Pro already installed. Nice! I asked him whether he was selling any other old components, and he offered up a 1TB SanDisk Ultra II for $40. When I got the board home, I inspected the NVMe SSD and found that he had instead installed a 500G one! Oboy, this made things a lot easier. I could just build an entirely new system using this board and the case, plus an extra power supply I had around. With no downtime of getting plug-in licenses off of the Dell, etc. Cool. Speaking of cool, one goal of this build was to get it as quiet as possible using better fans (if necessary) and sound-deadening treatment in the case. I had some roofing tar tape left over from giving my car the silent treatment, so why not apply it to this flimsy case? Here are some of the components prior to assembly/installation: I put the roofing tape on the sides, top, and bottom, basically anywhere I could fit it. This was a cheap case, but it was small in height and the panels slid off and on securely, and balky covers is usually the most annoying thing about cheap PC cases. The fans turned out to be of surprisingly decent quality and pedigree. Not a bad build. I think the brand was SuperMicro's house brand. Too bad it died of something as silly as getting too far behind on BIOS updates. Everything went in just fine, I attached all the wires to the fans, card reader, case wiring harness, got it all snug. Figured I could just use the onboard HDMI output for first boot and checking the OS installation. Contrary to my superstition, I firmly attached both case sides before the first boot. I just had a hunch and went with it, and lo and behold, I plugged it in and turned it on and: Well whaddaya know. This is the first time this has ever happened. A clone build booting on the first try, no weird beeps or anything. It enumerated all the hardware and went straight into the Windows welcome. Turns out it was a not-yet-licensed installation of Win 10 Pro, and the guy had gone through and removed all installed Microsoft software, including Microsoft Store, making it impossible to download and install store apps. Not everything Microsoft installs is cruft like crappy games, for heaven's sake. So a Windows 10 DVD was made, and, oh, did I mention that the old case had a product sticker for Vista Pro? Indeed it did, and when I gave the Windows 10 installer the product key, it accepted it, and now I'm running Windows 10 Pro. Another goodie salvaged from the old system. Make note of that: the current Windows 10 installer will accept product keys from earlier versions of Windows, even though this was originally an OEM build and I used a newer motherboard. Whatever, I'm certainly fine with that. I know how to enable several Windows features that are by default disabled in Home, but there are others, like Remote Access, which turned out to be very handy indeed, as we shall see in Part 2 (The Winnowing of the plug-ins) of this tale, which is really the part that should be interesting to DAW users. That will be the tale of how things went (and are going) with moving my main production from one system to another. It's the software side of the story.

Norway I got back from Sweden and Norway a couple of weeks ago with thousands of pictures and videos of fjords and villages and churches etc etc. I was going to jump in and make a music video from my Norway images, but I came down with Covid a day after I returned. Until a couple of days ago I felt like crap - coughing and nausea and fever, but the worst was a sore throat that discouraged eating and drinking. And yeah, I'm fully vaccinated but I think I got the newer variant that manages to get by the vaccine. Hope you're all doing okay. -Bjorn

Some folks were asking about music for TV, here are some of my tracks and which shows they are in. All made in Cakewalk , I seem to be one of the few in a sea of mostly Logic Pro users but I refuse to use Apple gear on principle ( crazy pricing , non upgradable/repairable etc ) but I can make just as good music as they do in my beloved Cakewalk

I'm not saying it's you https://www.soundclick.com/music/songInfo.cfm?songID=14446755

Yoo stoopid penguin. Nah, you’re good.

Up to 55% off https://www.skyboxaudio.com/

I break out in hives if I hold a rabbit. ?

Those bunnies are making me sad... I like bunnies and we had some around here until a couple of years ago when they all gathered for the winter about half-a-mile away in one neighborhood. The people there freaked out and called in Hawkers to cull the herd. (WTF??!) Haven't seen one for the last two years because of that (though I expect the survivors are busy making more, ya?). ? + ? = ??????????????????... Etc.! ?

My friends would play it, but called it Brown Eyed Ho...

Cherry Audio Mercury-4 Update to 1.50 available at Cherry Audio log in. (7/15/22)

It is my primary synth now. I often find myself using it for everything. Most of my bass even comes from it these days

Quick Draw McGraw!

One of my personal favorites is Luftkraft for Diva. Marvelous Kraftwerk sounding presets.

Pigments is one of the best, IMO!!!

Just a reminder that this sale is still on! For example Luftrum Bioscape, a 4.5 GB cinematic Kontakt Player library based on field recordings and found sounds, that normally sells for $159, is only $95.40 with the code, a discount of -$63.60. Drag & Drop your own samples and field recordings. Not obvious in the video, but there are actually 4 sample slots in the GUI. [A + B] & [C + D]. There is a button in the middle that toggles between them. All 4 slots are played at once, unless they are empty or disabled. https://www.luftrum.com/bioscape/

Cherry Bomb - The Runaways

I added a few more tips that may help to get the most expressive performances for your compositions. (see above post)

There's always "just one more"!!! ???

Installed!

I'm just cracking up from reading this sentence! ?

Fireball XL5 theme

That's Andrew stinking up the palace, not granny's putrefied corpse.

Those look like crock interfaces to me.

India > South Africa.. MDC - South Africa Is Free:

Got this at Loot about 3 weeks ago (even bigger discount!) If you like BOC this is ideal.

I dont need to market my music. I have decided I am going to just make art music that no one wants to listen to. that way i dont need to worry about this marketing stuff. ?