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He’s OK. He’ll be back when he’s ready. I’ve been in touch, too. In the meantime, I suggest we check our winter coats for any loose change or bills we might have left in them. We’re gonna need the $$$ when the posts start flowing again.

Larry and I are in the same Facebook group and he's been prolifically posting on Facebook lately, so I know he's okay. I'm quite certain what occurred is that he was bothered by some of the interactions he had on a thread -- it wasn't really hardcore hostile or anything, but it was a rebuke and it seems rather clear that it bothered him. I suspect he's just taking a break, which I think isn't a bad idea. Hopefully, when he returns he'll see all of these posts and feel appreciated.

Just a little reminder:

Just updated from 8 to 9... and paid full price. A bit expensive for a 1 version upgrade, but I will say the Prophet was significantly improved. If you don't already have a high-end piano library/plugin, the Steinway piano is pretty decent. The new effects/modulation options are welcome. Looks like development for Pigments is crossing over into the other instruments. Next, I'd like to see the OB-Xa, Matrix 12, Mini, and Modular redone. 😃

Indeed. Larry’s a stand up guy and fully entitled to his views. There’s a reason why he posts them on FB and not here. Let’s leave it at that.

Larry come home!

This is what I was thinking. Based on his previous leaves of absense related to Family in KY. I'm expecting he went to help or deal with a situation. As usual, he is missed and the natives have grown restless. Hoping everything is ok though.

This one relates to a very nice conversation (PM) Larry and I once had. We acknowledged that we have very different worldviews, but we still like each other, have a shared love for music and have sent numerous encouraging PMs to one another. Larry wrote that he saw me and others here as family. So this is a special dedication to @cclarry.

IMO Larry is the soul of this forum. Hope he is not lost in politics!

Me too. My daughters who are in college now had friends of all different nationalities. We had a Birthday party and one of my wife's coworkers brought her daughters to the party and the coworker toward my wife, wow I can't believe there are more non-white people here then white people. My wife didn't know what to say to her. I always want to know what is on the inside of a person. That is what matters. Anyway I shall leave this conversation as this forum is about music/deals. Peace

Amen! Clarification: I am glad that things like politics are kept out of the forum. I am aware that I share political and social views with some forum members and I disagree with the political and social views of others. Yet, I appreciate and can respect their comments on music and related matters regardless of political preferences.

Very candidly, I sent Larry a PM here and I'm not certain about contacting him on Facebook as 90% of his posting is political and social worldview commentary, which isn't something I'm comfortable with. It does make me grateful we don't talk politics at this forum.

As Larry might say, "good luck with that". IK charges a $19.99 transfer fee on all license transfers. https://www.ikmultimedia.com/faq/index.php?id=44

Larry hope you're doing okay and it is perfectly okay to take some time off from forums. If you're down for health reasons know that you are in my prayer. Peace my good man

Come home.

W.A Production have released InstaChord 2 featuring an array of upgrades. It’s available at the intro price of $26.70, increasing to $89.00 after the promotion. There’s also an upgrade option from version 1, available for only $15.00. We believe that creative expression should be simple, intuitive, and inspiring. When you’re making music, you need the right chords to set the tone and Instachord 2 delivers exactly what you called for… and fast! Having been blown away with the reception to the original Instachord that W.A W.A Production couldn’t resist developing that concept into a fully-fledged chord creator and mini-sequencer. Simple enough to be used by anyone, but with the power to make professional music, this dynamic MIDI processing plugin is the chord creation and sequencer tool that will take your music to the next level. Whether you’re a songwriter or producer, this ideas engine will help you speed up your workflow and creation process. Find the best progression and apply a single pattern to play all of them. Easily master some of the hardest chords, in any musical key and combination of notes and different voicings. Use this plugin to generate chord shapes, learn tricky harmonics and share your creations. NEW Pattern Editor After releasing Instachord, an oft-requested update was to gain more control over strums and chord playback. W.A Production took that note and ran with it, creating a brand new interface window, the Pattern Editor. Here you’ll create your own patterns and sequences, dragging notes around in the same way as your DAW. Produce soaring synth arpeggios, pounding piano chords, or delicate guitar riffs. You get full management over time signature, play mode, and velocity with creative editing controls for strum programming. NEW AI Generation Adapted from their popular Instacomposer plugin, this generative button will take the existing scale and spawn brand-new riffs based on complex algorithms and a touch of randomization. Always musical and inspirational, these new ideas can be tweaked in the same way as your own patterns so that they fit perfectly into your song. NEW Hold Modes Compared to the original Instachord, this new version has many more playback options for fretting and picking notes. 5 in total, covering different behavior for holding notes and toggling chords. Whatever the instrument you’re playing, there will be an authentic playback mode to suit. NEW Custom Chords Edit existing chords or create your own by selecting intervals between notes to make custom chords. Alternatively, play in notes with your MIDI keyboard to help Instachord 2 learn your favorite chord shapes. With over 60 chord shapes to choose from, you can explore inversions, voicings, augmentations, and extensions like never before, making your music sound more interesting and compelling. Choose your own chords from the extensive selection, or hit the Generator button to ask Instachord 2 for fascinating inspiration. Set up to 24 different chords and switch between them using the chord keys. Transpose the current chords to any other key you desire with a couple of clicks. There are ways to play chords and picks than ever before, now all fully customizable in the Pattern Editor. For example, a key can be assigned to strum the top 3 notes of the chord and another to play a riff on the other 3 notes. You can also play individual notes of the chord separately. So it’s possible to manually arpeggiate or strum chords. Newly integrated into the main playback keys, action keys can be set to transpose by octave or semitone, providing an easy way to move chords away whilst playing live. Instachord 2 is highly customizable and users can change many aspects to match their needs. Select your own UI size, type of playback, key configuration, and position. You can even lock the Chord and Action keys so that they don’t change whilst you experiment with more presets and settings. Although Instachord 2 allows to program chords and riffs with simplicity, it’s even easier to use the preset system to take care of things. You’ll never be stuck for ideas with loads of carefully designed presets for both chord sequences and patterns. Suitable for keys, guitars, synths, and many other types of instruments, these presets make ideal jumping-off points for your next song. InstaChord 2 is available to PC and Mac users (VST2, VST3, AU and AAX). https://www.waproduction.com/plugins/view/instachord-2

Fluffy Audio has dropped the latest in their "Rarities" series -- free forever, so far as I know: https://www.fluffyaudio.com/shop/khim/ From the description: Full Kontakt only, I'm afraid.

For any lovers of independent developer free synths (and drum machines and SF players), there's a whole set of them developed by Ronan Fed available here: https://ronanfed.rf.gd/plugins.html I get the impression (from the developer's/artist's YT channel) that at least some of the synths have been out for a while, but only recently advertised more widely (e.g., a recent addition to the KVR plugin list). They're not the poofiest poodles at the dog show, but the price is right and they could be worth a look. I noodled around with the Pneuma sub synth for a bit, and it's fairly nifty, with nice options and on-board effects, etc. Looks like VST3 and Windows-only, though.

Forum tip# 205: When a first time poster asks a question let one person reply. Even if the answer doesn’t help much watch and wait. If the poster then actually returns and seems engaged then toss in your 2 cents worth. There’s virtually 100’s of abandoned threads here some of them become 2 pages long.

@abacabI'll take your Ozzy and raise you a John, Paul, George and Ringo.

I already had the 1.0 stuff. and I agree there's the 12 which are overand above the base software whicj I assume is the "Studio" kit. Black Oyster*; Brit Custom; Bubinga*; Djentleman*; Extreme*; Grungy*; Jazzy; Metal; Plexi*; Reference*; Rock Custom*; Silver The *kits are now showing in the Product Manager as "Update" (in oramge on the right hand side of the window; the other kits show the normal green "Installed), but the "Update" link doesn't do anything. There also seem to be a new range of cymbals and hat available including a 2022 model in each.

We miss you Larry!

R.E.M. - Sweetness Follows:

Van Morrison - Sweet Thing

Devastating what’s happening in Kentucky. I hope his family is fine.

I'll waite until the page loads and I go through the purchase procedure. 🏃‍♂️

InstaChord 2 installation follow-up InstaChord 2 does not replace InstaChord 1 (different VST file names). It has its own Presets folder. If you purchased and installed any of the v1 preset packs (I have 3), you need to copy (if you're keeping v1 installed for existing projects) or move the preset folders to the v2 Presets folder. That folder, for me, is: C:\Users\johna\AppData\Roaming\WAProduction\Instachord 2\Presets Replace "johna" with your user name.

Fundamentally, yes. But there have been some changes in that area. Since they're not big front-facing features, we sometimes forget about them. They're things that we think of as always having been there, because in most cases, they should have always been there. A couple of differences I can think of offhand are the (important) fact that Cakewalk now scans the system's VST3 folder under all circumstances (it doesn't have to be explicitly listed in the VST scan paths), and the flyout menus for adding plug-ins are much improved. Also, when you replace a synth, the new synth's UI is displayed. VST management (like forced re-scans and sandboxing options) has migrated from Plug-In Manager to Properties (although Plug-In Manager still works). Even something as mundane as adding or replacing a plug-in....it's improved in Cakewalk. Someday, I hope, we'll get the oft-requested "Replace Effect" command. 😄 BandLab has now been developing and publishing Cakewalk by BandLab longer than Gibson owned Cakewalk, Inc. As far as I can tell, BandLab has done more with Cakewalk than Gibson did with SONAR in terms of development.

@PavlovsCat Peter please send him a message via fb telling him that he has all our love and support no matter what his decision will be like. It would be cool that we somehow let him know, what an awesome person he is! To us here! Thanks man!❤

Seems all note names are black even on black notes. This makes it impossible to see them on medium to dark notes. They only turn white when selecting a note. Can we have contrasting note name colors so they can be seen by all?

Doesn't Larry have friends or family in eastern Kentucky? If he is down there he may be stuck. They are having flooding problems. One place supposedly had 12 inches of rain in one hour.

Agreed, I miss him....not sure my wallet does 🤪

Spinning up some old hard drives I found this collab I did keyboardist with Thomas Trotter 20 years ago. I wrote the song around his motif, it didn't have a defined time signature hence the title. The project is long gone so this mix is what's left. I made quick background vid for it this morning to use on YT. Hope you enjoy it. -c

Not necessarily. I've absorbed some physical modeling by osmosis just from playing around with AAS Chromophone, and KORG Prophecy. But you can pin a geek tag on me for mentioning "osmosis".

Correct SE - my mistake.

Just 2 days left, and I found it at Best Service for $107.00 https://shop.bestservice.com/bitwig_studio_12_month_upgrade_plan.html

Wonderful song. I was sort of surprised by the 3/4 time at first but it works very well. I remember a while ago you had some problems staying on pitch. I think that was you. Here your voice sounds really good. 1:22 Seemed like something changed, like mono to stereo? -Bjorn

U2 - I Will Follow

Yes, it is. They take up less disk space, use less memory, load waaay faster, and sometimes are capable of things their sampled equivalents are not. The problem is that modelled instruments just haven't achieved the same level of realism yet. While lots of users say they can't distinguish between Pianoteq and a sampled piano, anyone who plays piano as their primary instrument can easily tell the difference - but only when soloed or way up front in a mix. So for most people and most applications, the modelled alternative is workable. Personally, I'll stick with Keyscape and endure its excruciating load times because it sounds incredible. It's slow because they didn't use any of the usual tricks for minimizing memory usage, e.g. every note is sampled, so no stretching. I have the full suite of modelled instruments from Audio Modeling. They load in the blink of an eye, take up a tiny fraction of the memory and disk space that a Kontakt library would, are expressive and can sound quite good in the right context. But naked, they often sound a bit "synthy". I still like them because they can do things a sampled instrument cannot, such as programmable glissando and vibrato speeds. But as Jim notes above, the speed of the drive itself is consistent, regardless of the library. Perceived slowness is a function of how much data is being loaded into memory on startup. That's why I suggested that phrase libraries might be inherently slower to load because the size of their individual samples is larger, or maybe it always loads the complete sample set. I cannot test this hypothesis myself, as I have no phrase libraries here to look at.

the Norwegian navy have barcodes on the side of their ships so that when they return to port they can Scandinavian

Yes it is!! Didn't even think to look for the upgrade offer there!! Thank you Yan!

I got the Izotope verb.

Mark, Good song and performance. Definitely push that classical guitar forward in the mix as others have mentioned. Seems like you have pushed it up somewhat from a mix I heard the other day but could come up a bit more. Some subtle ping pong delay may help it stand out a bit more in the mix. Regards

like how i reduced the song titles? 😘

Bob marley - Talkin Blues

The Flaming Lips - Talkin' 'Bout The Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues