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No limited copies this time, so plenty of time to get it.

Code worked for me via the redeem page with an existing account: https://www.groove3.com/redeem

Nice freebie. And doubly nice not to make us sweat. Thank you, Sonokinetic.

Thanks for posting. I'm really excited by this new Granular module. The Granular Synth I used before had a developer that went MIA, so this is a welcome treat to have in MSF. I just released a new video on it yesterday, where I show how to import your own audio and create a pad.

Dar it Larry, I really don't feel like creating another Goove3 account!! I have 45 already... 😆

It's our fault. Despite the warnings we hit too hard. Woe is us, the dwellers of the Cakewalk Forum.

e-book collection https://www.humblebundle.com/books/working-with-audio-from-taylor-francis-books?hmb_source=&hmb_medium=product_tile&hmb_campaign=mosaic_section_1_layout_index_3_layout_type_threes_tile_index_3_c_workingwithaudiofromtaylorfrancis_bookbundle

Since we're sharing good news. I got this fine fine message this morning.

I think I may finally capitulate at this price. (Maybe. Still determining if it has any potential application to songs I work on. Kind of dubious about that.)

The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star

That's how you know the holidays are coming -- the annual Sonokinetic 504 gateway timeout.

Balanciaga approves it ....

Thanks! I saw that feature. I was actually referring to a total UI makeover, similar to what Cakewalk did with the "Skylight" interface in Sonar X1. It's a deep program that has had continuous development and feature additions for years, and it works great. But I would still welcome some more intuitive workflow enhancements and a re-think on the many menus and dialogues. If I stay away from the program for a while, it takes a while to get up to speed again, like learning another DAW!

Took me a while, but I am beginning to find ways to integrate their stuff into my projects. It's almost always in full-on orchetral arrangements when I need instrument lines that are particularily nimble, or for passages that are fundamentally unsuited to being performed realistically by programmed multisamples. Sonokinetic's phrase libraries are really good at filling in those gaps, and I find them pretty easy to blend with other libraries. When they work, they really work, in that role. Worth having, at least for me. The deal today is for their Orchestral Strings multisample library, which I also have. It's pretty good, with lots of articulations and a nice sound, although I find that it's not really for quick or easy arrangements; in my view, it's a finishing library better suited for arrangements that are already worked out in a fair amount of detail. Also, I totally dislike their instrument interfaces, and the Orchestral Strings one is no different. Very stylish. But also annoying, and they require a bit more work to operate than I want to spend when I'm working on music. However, if you can deal with that then $99 is a really good deal for a full-featured and good-sounding set of orchestral strings.

The usual end of year sale just started with the release of the new Windows 2023 version. Look at the website for the different options: https://www.pgmusic.com Over 70 new features, including KV331 Audio’s SynthMaster player synth now built-in inside the program. Sale until December 31st 2022

Not a deal: Just had one of my tracks played on the radio tonight for the first time, so buzzing a little 🙂 Edit: Adding links (still semi reluctantly!) to the track on the various platforms after a few people requested to hear it 😊 https://linktr.ee/disorderlyconductor

$249 https://cinesamples.com/product/apocalyptica

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This was a great deal! There was a $50 off this bundle in my cart, plus the $25 holiday coupon, plus a $25 from my last purchase. 2 UAD plugins for $50 is almost PA territory

R.E.M. - Radio Song

The Clash - Capital Radio

Cool freebie. It works with the free K7 Player so no need to upgrade.

right, for a moment forgot that fact.. thanks! EDIT: on a second thought, upgrade to v7 is paid so I will end up with the Player anyway, right?

Little Lies - getting that fat layered vocal harmony has been my holy grail for years. That production is 90% Christine. The secret: start with having three great singers and nine tracks set aside for overdubs. And four more for keyboard/synth layers.

Like Flynn!

It's fun to use, and I actually find it most useful as an idea generator. Vivace's actual phrases don't often end up in any of my projects, but auditioning them usually provides food for thought and suggests arrangement ideas.

Vivace Legacy is an older library they don't actually even sell anymore. It's full orchestral phrases, textures and transitions, all very old-school soundtrack type stuff. It's pretty good, for what it is, but not hugely flexible in terms of its overall vibe and usefulness. Basically, if you're doing 70/80's full orchestral sci-fi scoring or something, then it's got a lot of useful bits and pieces. You can switch sections on and off, use different mic mixes, etc.

RapidComposer now for only $119, Melodya and MIDI Mutator for $29, Syne for $53! RapidComposer full edition orders receive a free Melodya and MIDI Mutator license. If you have a lot of MIDI files and are on Windows, don't sleep on their Fyler media manager. It will actually audition MIDI files. I think it's only $23. http://musicdevelopments.com

I made it home, just in time. So we'll see what happens. My dentist kept going on and on and on talking. I thought he was going to give me the entire history of plaque through the ages. Somehow I got out of there.

The original poster is on this forum too. I love it when Cakewalk is attacked for how many bugs but take a look at Reaper too and count how many bugs over the past four years have been addressed. The best part of CbB has been the stability of the software now. I always loved using Sonar but I constantly would save, save, save. I feel the same way about CorelDraw software. I showed my wife some simple things to do with it for this holiday season but told her that the save icon or control-S is your friend

Last year the freebies were on the 4th and the 8th.

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It's good to see that MDrummer got a lot of love.

One thing that blew me away when I first bought BiaB Ultra was Options | Preferences. Holy smokes. What's a newbie to make of all of that? I just hoped the defaults would work for me and never went back to it. Even the MIDI and audio setup was bewildering. REAPER suffers from the same DOS-based history, a great program with overwhelming menus, and a UI I could never get to look and work in a way I was happy with. When SPlat went splat, I went back to Studio One Pro. I actually started with Studio One, but moved to SONAR because of this forum. The PreSonus forum was, is and will likely continue to be of little or no use or interest. Like every other DAW/music production software out there, Studio One isn't perfect, but I get on with it really well, so that's where I've stayed. And that's what I compare BiaB against, UI-wise. Two completely different universes. Where are the Guardians of the UI Galaxy when you need them? 🤣

Common guys if you're creating a post for something include a link. https://www.audiothing.net/plugins/ Also LiquidSonics Reverberate 3 is currently on sale for $49 till Dec 11. They both appear competitive in terms of features.

Melda 16.02 changes New MSoundFactory Added new GranularSampler.module. MTurboAmp Added new amps (Ceres, Liber) and pedals (Blues OD, Keba fuzz) MDrummer Added 4 utility buses to MDrummer’s mixer useful for mixing acoustic drums. MDrummer Added Master track to MDrummer’s mixer. Available only in MDrummer1out version. Arpeggiator allows selecting multiple octave shifts per step. MDrummer Added LoudnessAnalyzer module to MDrummer. MDrummer Derandomize cymbal selection by Auto Crash feature when Random Loops are disabled. MDrummer Prevent the randomly chosen loops from repeating. MDrummer Added drag & drop feature for effects in Mdrummer mixer effect pipeline. Minor improvements and fixes Added “Expression” value mode to multiparameters, which lets you produce custom units using mathematical expressions. MUtility Added more operators and improved documentation for all “mathematical expression” fields (e.g. MTurboFilter and MUtility) [MTurboFilter] Added new Drive parameter for additional operations with filters - i.e dry/wet. [MTurboFilter] Added new Hysteresis, Shaper, EZShaper, Compander, Feedback, Bit reducer and Sample rate reducer modules. MSoundFactory Pitch-bend range now defaults to 48 semitones to comply with MPE. Most plugins now contain the global Menu button for easier access to the Downloader and the “Detach device” feature. MConvolutionMB Added “Supply missing channels” option, useful to disable on surround/ambisonics processing. Randomizer multiparameters (and triggers in general) can be now triggered from other MPs, modulators etc. MAutoAlign Added support for showing used groups in plugin group list. MTurboDelay Added info to individual devices and possibility to store presets for each device. MMultiAnalyzer MMultiAnalyzer now displays number of duplicates to ease work with multiple projects at the same time. Downloader now displays version number for each installed product. The updates are still installed automatically upon startup. Added “High-resolution automation for Logic” option for AU plugins on Mac, which could solve the horrific automation resolution problem in Logic. It is dangerous, so use it at your own risk. MSuperLooper Added drag & drop feature for loops to DAW, or other tracks. MSaturator MWaveShaper Added gain reduction meter to plugins: MSaturator, MSaturatorMB, MWaveShaper, MWaveShaperMB MAutoAlign Added plugin toolbar featuring WAV rendering for example. Fixes Fix MDrummer MDrummer could freeze when playing rhythms and clicking drums at the same time. Fix MTurboEQ Passive device modified the sound even with “zero” settings, which after further investigation wasn’t correct. Fix Equalizers could crash in ambisonics channel mode. Fix Uninstaller could produce “Cannot delete registry key” error message. Fix MSuperLooper MSuperLooper could crash when mangling with track Input and Output values. Fix Using global modulators driven by feedback could lead to problems if the buffer sizes were changing or if MIDI (or other) events have been intercepted. Fix Plugins could freeze when changing multiparameter mode in some extreme circumstances. Fix Multiline edits did not properly understand Mac newlines. Fix Preset backup didn’t work properly with the new format. Fix MSoundFactory Changing advanced sample modulation state may have not update the processing until project reload. Fix Group based phase sync between modules & modulators didn’t work. Fix MDrummer MDrummer opened inside another plugin could freeze when loading drumsets for example. Fix MDrummer MDrummer’s Load archive feature could freeze. Fix MSoundFactory NoiseGenerator could produce incorrect level for pink noise & stairs for a first note when global oversampling was used.

I am sure 100% the most difficult thing to do in music is to create a catchy tune. Start to finish. You accomplished that. Gratz 1000 fold. 🥰

Thanks; good advice. I actually saw a music book bundle probably less than year ago. It was one that had far more sociology and other academic-oriented books than this one. Not sure if that's the one you got. Given my academic background, that bundle might have been better for me than this one. I did actually check the sample pdfs in this one and the other one. In both collections I looked at, the quality of the content varied. Addendum: The Foley Grail, Website. Info about the book; not the text from the book; includes supplementary materials (several clips from videos not included in the bundled book version). From the pdf in the bundle: "Accompanying the book are online resources featuring video demonstrations of Foley artists at work, video tutorials of specific Foley techniques, lectures from the author, and more." You can see some of those at the Website. No need to answer questions about what words are on any of the pages from the book! 🙂

It appears so . . . , Zo, and thank God for that, one can only take so much ugly. I haven't checked them all as yet, but I did check those that you mentioned above, and can confirm that their ugly has been contained to the regular old small sized windows.

Hold.. The Pretenders - Hold A Candle To This:

I'm not sure if Trinity Drums is great or not, or if it's something I'd use, but buying it from BestService, I selected the FREE Universal Sound Pack and picked an AAS expansion of my choice, so Trinity Drums and an AAS expansion pack for $10, seems quite good deal.

I talked seductively to mine and it wouldn't even answer me. Must be a woman🙄

True...

https://www.trustpilot.com/review/pluginfox.com I haven't bought from them, but they've been around for a few years and they're getting mostly good reviews. I don't see any reason to avoid buying from them.

The guy you are referring to, is the dev of VC64 not VX64, which was an inhouse developement.

A fearless amalgam. Thanks for posting your synth and sound sources list as well. Any sound source can go together with any other, if you use them all creatively, extremely creatively, as you have here. I applaud your frontier spirit. cheers, -Tom

How that never happened to you in Sonar is a mystery to me. Cutting and pasting audio has always caused this if you're not cutting at a zero crossing as @Lord Timsuggested. His solution is one. Here's another solution that I prefer. I do ton of cutting and pasting audio while I'm noodling with ideas in the very beginning of a song, so I hear this "clicking" fairly often. I set up a custom button in the tool bar (I called it Fade All) which triggers the Fade Selected Clips function. I have it set up to linear fade 1ms on the front and 1ms on the back of each clip. I can just lasso all the clips and click "Fade All". Literally, I can lasso every audio clip in the project and click this button. Takes a split second, and every clip on the clips pane is faded front and back in a way that you'll never hear it. But it definitely fixes the cuts that are made at a non-zero point. If you set up the Fade Selected Clips function to "Only Show if pressing SHIFT", it just does it with a single button click. No need to click ok.

If you prefer, download the Eventide Anthology installer and use the pick list in the installer to select which plug-ins to install. The current Anthology installer contains all of the current Eventide plug-ins.