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Limited Time Launch Offer New! RX 10 is Here The smart solution for clear audio that helps restore, clean up, and improve recordings in post-production, music, and content creation. RX Elements - $99 RX Standard - $299 RX Advanced - $799 https://www.izotope.com/en/products/rx.html

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Probably info was posted prematurely. komplete 14 pre order is on sale at sweetwater. Includes Kontakt 7, Ozone 10, and some Brainworx plugins. https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Komp14R--native-instruments-komplete-14-standard-software-production-suite https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Komp14UupKR--native-instruments-komplete-14-ultimate-software-production-suite-upgrade-from-komplete-standard-8-14 Ultimate offering incase they take it down for jumping the announcement. Included Products: Platforms Komplete Kontrol Software Reaktor 6 Kontakt 7 Cinematic Action Strikes Action Strings 2 Ashlight Damage Emotive Strings Kinetic Metal Kinetic Toys Mallet Flux Mysteria Pharlight Piano Color Rise & Hit Sequis Straylight Thrill Synthesizers FM8 Form Kontour Massive Massive X Monark Oberhausen Playbox Razor Reaktor Prism Reaktor Spark Retro Machines Mk2 Rounds Skanner XT Super 8 TRK-01 Creative samplers Battery 4 Flesh Polyplex Play series 40s Very Own Drums 40s Very Own Keys Analog Dreams Butch Vig Drums Cloud Supply Deft Lines Empire Breaks Ethereal Earth Glaze Hybrid Keys Ignition Keys Lo-Fi Glow Melted Vibes Modular Icons Soul Sessions Drums and percussion Abbey Road 50s Drummer Abbey Road 60s Drummer Abbey Road 70s Drummer Abbey Road 80s Drummer Abbey Road Modern Drummer Abbey Road Vintage Drummer Drumlab Studio Drummer Spotlight series Balinese Gamelan Cuba East Asia India Middle East West Africa Acoustic pianos Alicia’s Keys Noire The Gentleman The Giant The Grandeur The Maverick Una Corda Electric pianos and organs George Duke Soul Treasures Scarbee A-200 Scarbee Clavinet/Pianet Scarbee Mark I Vintage Organs Guitar and bass Electric Mint Electric Sunburst Deluxe Electric Vintage Picked Acoustic Picked Nylon Prime Bass Scarbee Jay Bass Scarbee MM-Bass Scarbee MM-Bass Amped Scarbee Pre-Bass Scarbee Pre-Bass Amped Scarbee Rickenbacker Bass Strummed Acoustic Strummed Acoustic 2 Contemporary strings and horns Session Strings Pro 2 Session Horns Pro Classical instruments Brass Ensemble Brass Solo Percussion Stradivari Violin String Ensemble Woodwind Ensemble Woodwind Solo Creative effects Bite Choral Crispy Tuner Dirt Driver Flair Freak Guitar Rig 6 Pro LO-FI-AF Molekular Phasis The Finger The Mouth Studio effects Console N Enhanced EQ Limiter True Peak Passive EQ Raum RC 24 RC 48 Replika XT Solid Bus Comp Solid Dynamics Solid EQ Supercharger GT Transient Master Vari Comp VC 160 VC 2A VC 76 Mastering effects Ozone 10 Standard, from iZotope

I just keep them all installed. Keeps my VST count (street cred) high.

If it's now in closed alpha, then I guess that will be the open beta stage.

Where's the button for "I hate what you are saying even though you are probably right"?

For me it is the same as others said. I have Komplete 13 and I am happy with that huge stuff. As I am interested in real instruments this is a really poor release (disappointed). The only new product that's interesting to me is Electric Mint and that's not worth 200 bucks! I had expected some more of their old Softube FX included, but that's also not the case. The PA and iZotope products are not new for me, too! And what I really don't need are additional Play Series products, I have enough of them and almost never use them, because most of their sounds are poor IMO (also compared to their real synths).

Editing in the little blue window, the wave pool, is called "spectral filtering". The main idea with spectral filtering is that you can visually isolate only the frequencies in the waveform that you wish to be audible. The scribbling may not make much sense, but that is just an attempt at randomness hoping for "lucky accidents". Experimentation is rewarded! So you can easily select a portion of the audio spectrogram and only that part of the sound is instantly mapped across your keyboard. The whole idea for the Iris synth got started over 10 years ago when a dev (Dave Spiers - GForce Software) was playing around with an early version of iZotope RX audio editor that had the spectral filtering mode, and then imported the spectrally edited samples into several hardware samplers so that he could layer the results. Thus began the idea of bolting together several sampler modules in a software instrument ... details in the following interview:

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/specials/komplete/komplete-14/ UK update price from K13CE is £449 - but if you look at the new stuff get in K14CE it's really NOT very compelling. In fact pretty poor. I'm going to pass I think - maybe when it's 50% in 12 months ? release date 27th Sept.

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Here is a statement from developer of Absynth regarding removal from Komplete14. By the way I really like his Rhizomatic Plasmonic plug-in. It’s awesome. Highly recommended.

I also purchased the Everything bundle and have been given the RX 10 Standard as well. I assumed that I would be getting the advanced version. After reading the small print in the email that I received from iZotope, it basically says that I should receive the Advanced version. Here's what it says, "*If you bought RX 9 Standard you will receive RX 10 Standard FREE; If you bought RX 9 Advanced you will receive RX 10 Advanced FREE; If you bought RX Post Production Suite 6 you will receive RX Post Production Suite 7 FREE; If you bought iZotope Everything Bundle you will receive a FREE upgrade to RX 10 Advanced." Guess I'll have to hit up support and see if they can fix this.

I am on Komplete 13 Standard. Kontakt 7 is pretty much the only compelling thing for me. There are few extra instruments but mostly the Play series, nothing is grabbing my attention. I am on Ozone 9 Advanced so I will probably want to upgrade to 10 Advanced so I am not sure getting standard here would help me. It's an expensive upgrade if Kontakt is the only thing I really want. Probably going to sit it out and wait for a better deal.

The big news for me is Kontakt 7. If it is like previous reports, that will be an awesome step forward. Also, adding stuff from Plugin alliance and iZotope suggests the beginning of a new direction for the series. Otherwise it is the same as 2016, 2018, and 2020. A September announcement in an even-numbered year and the largest version (now CE) would include every previous official NI release since the previous version. Komplete 14 includes Ignition Keys, which just came out a few days ago. I think I called it pretty well here https://vi-control.net/community/threads/is-komplete-14-due-soon-if-so-what-will-be-the-new-libraries.129042/

You know what, I will give Iris another go when I have time. If it's so praised here, maybe I overlooked something.

Seems as though there was still a registry entry pointing to where the file had previously existed. The Cakewalk Plug-In Manager still showed a Melodyne entry in the VST3 Audio Effects (VST3) section in the list. When I selected it and clicked remove it told me about the registry entry and asked if I wanted to delete it. I clicked yes. I closed Cakewalk and reopened it and the update prompt was gone. I was unable to delete this question so I just added what I did. Maybe it will help someone else in the future.

Yeah, this is one of those things that after you have it dialed in how you want it, when you take it off you are left with something 'less' it must be put back for all to be well with the world. Now on to some cleaner tones, but I see no reason where the result will be any different after dialing in to suit. 👍👍👍

Pixies - Stormy Weather

Black Sabbath - Fairies Wear Boots

First time fully completing a song... Influences - Minus the Bear / Cursive / Mid 2000s emo Think I'll revisit mix after I get some more experience, but let me know what I should rework when I do! Thanks, let me know if you have a track I can check out.

I suspect NI could move a lot more KOMPLETE 13 users by being much more realistic on upgrade pricing £449 is a great deal if you are upgrading from KOMPLETE 8, Lots of new libraries and plugins included since then...... but for K13 users....very little useful new stuff IMO. NI do the same strategy every release so they must feel it's working for them, but this year, when money is tight, I think it might be ineffective.

It's all cool. Easy-to-use and inspiration have their places too. And for the rest of the time, there'll always be PhasePlant, Avenger, F'em, Hyperion, Biotek, Iris, and more...

I like to think if it as giving all those me first, me first, standing in line waiting for the store to open at 00:01 on release day types exactly what they deserve.

It was the first email that I received from them earlier this morning. Here's a link to the online version of what was in the email. http://m.news.izotope.com/rest/head/mirrorPage/@LHoILiLWEpyRjoXgqb__wJtdkiKxQ0F9PJqgjvB8DTlpPr2IxV43MU0BX8BnBqyV_-4-pviVUZvm2PZ7A6gidXpdnPbTXaFYzPtw8NwFz5gzjIKX.html?deliveryName=2022.09.07RX10andOzone10LaunchRXLaunch_Fulfillment_EMAIL However, I just received another email from them this afternoon, and the small print now says this ,"*If you bought iZotope Everything Bundle from June 1 to August 3, 2022, you will receive a FREE upgrade to RX 10 Standard as part of your license for Music Production Suite 5 Universal Edition." Here's the link for that one. http://m.news.izotope.com/rest/head/mirrorPage/@ojdn2KskHvNm0BnHk6fHb_UJvl90RYAIhxuLeBucsf1aMh9l2FFPtP48i-V3fcEUDknlfCQbZ8dCIzLzePsRXyvsiEsuAVJuJf5-8Hp1VqxMxDa0.html?deliveryName=2022.09.07RX10andOzone10LaunchRXLaunch_FulfillmentEBRedo_EMAIL This is such a trash move on their part. They should have stated this upfront, unless they did and I missed it somehow. UPDATE! Okay, so I went back and found the email that originally spoke about the free upgrades, and it was in reference to the Music Production Suite 5 Universal Edition and not the Everything bundle. So I guess that technically the upgrade for RX would be for the Standard version in this case and not Advanced. So as was mentioned in the email, those that bought it in between June 1st and August 3rd will receive the upgrade based upon MPS5 and not the Everything bundle. Okay, I guess I stand corrected on this matter.

Completely agree, but Iris was a little too heavy for my CPU when I tried it last. Might give it another go at some point too.

I will be in if the GUI is resizable. Otherwise I will skip...

That's the coolest post I've seen all day, @daveiv. I mean, I think it's completely fine for you to not like this synth or anything else -- we're all individuals with our own tastes and that's great (I've always been a bit of a non,-conformist, so I especially love seeing those with differing views than the rest of the group step up to voice those views). Just because some other folks like it doesn't mean you should feel you have to like it too (why does that remind me of peer pressure among kids, -- you know, like, "Come on Dave, just have one. Everyone else at school is doing it..."), . But I think it's great to see an open mind with your willing to give something a second try after seeing how other folks here like it (me included). Now maybe when you try it again you will like it and maybe you won't like it. Either way, it's great that you kept an open mind and have decided to give it a second after seeing how much others like it. I'd be interested in seeing your thoughts after giving it a second try, regardless of whether you like it or not. Please share the results with us.

Like anyone would be surprised. Isn't that the normal way software is released these days?

Agreed.

https://youtu.be/FK0HRDOoDC0 September 6, 2022 New Update - StudioRack v14.2.52.174 can now host non-Waves VST3 plugins from any manufacturer. Now you can create and save complete chains, assign plugins to macros, turn any plugin into a multiband tool, and create instant parallel chain splits, with all your Waves plugins as well as your non-Waves VST3 plugins.

This 3rd party plugin capability is apparently a game changer! I have successfully tried several mega FX plugins in Studiorack 14 and they loaded OK. Such as Kilohearts Snap Heap, NI Guitar Rig 6, IK MixBox, IK Amplitube 5 (not all running concurrently). But you can now set up these types of plugins in a single FX chain of your choice, along with the addition of other FX plugins as needed, and save them in one preset! Of course you could setup any plugins and route them as needed in most DAW projects, but these Studiorack presets would be portable between any projects or DAW that you have Studiorack plugin installed in, and accessible with just a click. And when using Studio One, the Studiorack seems to be load balanced and well behaved with several plugins active, as I do not see a single CPU core doing all of the work.

JMO: I find the comments in the Deals section are helpful for making consumer decisions (to buy, or not to buy) when fellow forum members help me to understand what products offer, how they can be used, features they have or don't have compared to other similar products, specific drawbacks users have had, specific genres of music that might match what a product offers, etc.

The B-52's - Love Shack (see, i can read)

1) Thanks for the compliment. That's Fizzy Pickle 2) TBH I rarely use libraries in a final product. If I use one in a demo, I'll replace it with live playing. Given the variety of basses I have I can pretty much get what sound I'm looking for.

I’m pretty happy with what I've got. As I’m not going to buy mostly the same libraries over and over again, I’ll be waiting a fair number of releases before I’m even going to consider an upgrade. NI wants me to pay €499 for an upgrade from K12U CE to K14U CE, which to me is pretty ridiculous; Brainworx stuff I don't really care for and when it's time for me to upgrade my MPS 3.1 I'll turn to iZotope directly.

Man, you’re so right. Those bass mutes are delicious.

You can easily click for a free 2nd license. I did, and now have 2 of them in my account. This still uses the Waves shell, and as far as I know there is no way around that with Waves plugins.

A very similar story here. Of course, every instrument's value is subject to our personal taste, but for me, who bought this synth a couple of years ago, $10USD for a synth of this quality is a no-brainer. To David, it's completely reasonable that you have a different opinion, but to Doug's point, it would be more valuable to get your thoughts on why you have such a strong dislike of the synth. Do you dislike the patches, how it runs, etc.? I'd suggest that anyone even mildly interested should check out the videos and audio demos. If you like what you hear, it's a good quality synth and Izotope makes very good plugins and has solid support in my experience. I've been a customer many years and would recommend them.

Orbital - Desert Storm

Sonic Youth - Dirty Boots

Wow, I love the track! Great job on the songwriting, playing and vocals! I'm also am a fan of Minus The Bear. Kudos. So many folks here post music where the playing is pretty good, but also nailing the songwriting and vocals, that's rare (I was once a good musician, but never had a very good voice, so I certainly don't have the whole package like you -- I'm completely envious!). You've got it all. Nothing but respect. I'm going to follow you on SoundCloud. If you were playing a show locally, I would absolutely want to go see it with a song like this. Keep it up. Also, how am I only the first person to give that excellent track a like??? Come on guys. Mike is super talented. Give him the likes his talent deserves!!!

Frank Zappa - My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama:

A friend of mine used to sing loudly "sa ba do" to Metallica's Sad but true until we told him (after a while). I've probably done this myself without knowing it when I was younger. I stopped shouting in public (for a while) when I got older.

Johnny "Guitar" Watson - A real mother for ya

My dad used to play a (Carpenters?) song when I was a kid that to me went.... Jam ball eye goldfish pie fill a gum boat.

Oof.... this is the first update to Komplete Standard in years where I don't see anything that's worth the money for me. As someone who doesn't make dance/EDM/hip-hop, Komplete has always been dominated by things I'll never use, but the things I do use made it worthwhile - Guitar Rig, Absynth, Massive, Retro Machines, the various pianos, etc. I don't see anything in that vein this time. Throwing in Ozone will be a nice touch for many people but I already own Ozone 8 and I'll probably get a better deal on an update direct from Izotope, especially if I also want updates to Neutron, Nectar, etc.

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/samplers/kontakt-7/ COMING IN OCTOBER 2022 For 20 years, KONTAKT has been the backbone of countless film scores and pop hits, as well as thousands of incredible instruments from NI and your favorite NKS developers alike. Now, with a new HiDPI browsing experience, an overhauled Factory Library, new creative effects, and under-the-hood audio improvements, the next evolution is nearly here. KONTAKT 7 will launch in October 2022 and is included with KOMPLETE 14 STANDARD and above.