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Every once in awhile, I miss some Waves plugin that I used to use. TransX and RBass were once favorites. But they'd routinely stop working because Waves would abruptly decide that my license was no longer valid (e.g. after computer repairs), and the last time that happened I just decided I didn't need Waves anymore. They are more concerned with piracy than with their paying customers. Sorry, but that teenage pirate who wasn't ever going to give you any money anyway isn't my problem.

I like playing around with this plugin. Most of the mics I have aren't on the list (and I wish they'd add more) but I find it interesting as an effect by choosing random-ish mics and switching out the sound. If I didn't have it in T-RackS Max, I'd buy it at this price.

Well, I’ve been keeping several serials of the same plug-in to register when needed so I don’t have to WUP them. This latest move from Waves, apart from being less than legal, is the final nail on their coffin. WOOOOOOPIEEEEEEE. Bye-bye, Waves.

Literally every last one of them had an update today.

The Fall - Lost In Music

The lyrics view is primarily used for adding lyrics to Karaoke MIDI files. IMO it's not really suitable as a prompter. This is how I do lyrics prompting using Melda's free MNotepad and automation:

Van Halen - Loss of Control

Rush - Subdivisions

joy division - she's lost control

nik turner - out of control

Change the track interleave to stereo.

Aside from my Waves Abbey Road Collection and Scheps Omni Channel, I could probably live without Waves. I like Cosmos/CR8 but I don't do all that much with loops & samples, so probably wouldn't miss that if it ever stopped working. But honestly, the Waves tool that I reach for most often is Scheps Omni Channel. That is handy to have in the toolbox...

David Bowie - No Control:

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Have you seen my resume?

Just so's you guys know, I've already applied for the position of wannabe slacker with no discernable talent, so don't waste your time submitting your applications. I have you beat all ends up.

Yep, IK's infamous charging of customers if they don't download sample libraries within several months of a purchase. I'd put it up there as bad -- although not as bad -- customer disloyalty practices as Toontrack forcing Superior Drummer 2.0 customers to upgrade within Toontrack's timeline or forever be excluded from receiving upgrade pricing again. Other than that really bad policy, I like IK. I love Toontrack products, but I find that past decision incredibly customer disloyal and after years, they still haven't changed course and you can find ToonTrack customers -- not just me -- still posting about it years later. I own the much less expensive ezDrummer and they never tried the same tactic for that as their flagship product.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE5Y1Fgnm1A The last two songs of the day will be given feedback by Warren Huart for one by Ken "Zargg" Nilsen (In Vain), and the final song will be by Citizen Regen (@Zargg, @bitflipper and me; Death Spiral). You can replay it and or advance to the last two songs if you like.

I just emailed them yesterday about being able to specify a VST3 folder of my choice and they responded in about an hour and solved my problem. So whatever the reason is for hiring it doesn't seem to be effecting their tech/customer support. They're still a great company!

Either they lost half their team, or they are planning something!

Nembrini Audio MP1 Pro Guitar Amplifier plugin is based on a ADA MP1* preamplifier. Nembrini Audio MP1 Pro features a Tri-State Voicing selection that allows you to choose between Distortion Tube, Clean Tube, or Solid State virtual circuits. $29 intro price https://www.nembriniaudio.com/collections/guitar-amplifier/products/mp1-pro-programmable-tube-guitar-amplifier

laurie anderson - o superman

sfa -the man don't give a *****

An acid house classic which a friend described as "sounding like their machines have broken". Hardfloor - Lost In The Silverbox

The most authentic way would probably be audio to MIDI conversion by dragging the guitar audio clip to a MIDI track playing a harp patch (assuming you have Melodyne installed - CbB relies on this to do the conversion). Another alternative is to pick lightly around 10th to 12th fret on an electric guitar, using the neck pickup. It'll sound more round and harp-like there. It won't be exact but it'll be closer than if you picked on a more traditional place, like between the pickups.

Yeah, but with a retail price of $50 you have to basically be new to the game otherwise there isn't much at that buy in tier. Would be different if it was a $100+ plugin

There you go again, Kenny, giving useful advice in the Coffee House. Careful, such behavior could catch on. And then where would we be?

#1 ~ #10 .... "it sucks" Closing statement, "It's excellent." They're kinda sending mixed signals there. Lol.

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Pink Floyd - Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun

Laura Branigan - Self Control

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Let February 2, 2023 be known as the day Fleer fell out of sweet, wonderful, blissful love with Waves. I knew it couldn't last! I pretty much stopped buying Waves last year after purchasing Cosmos/CR8 and using it once. I think the only way they could get me again is maybe for a few Abbey Road plugins (I love the ADT plugin, IMO, nothing I have comes close and I have 4 other double tracking plugins). What has made the Waves $29/39 always on sales less attractive to me is that competitors like Softube and Plugin Alliance also sell excellent plugins without an Update Plan and the Waves marketing that goes along with it. A bunch of you guys, including Abacab and Fleer, have posted praise of plugins from developers like Softube and the ones at Plugin Alliance that I've researched, purchased and am now a fan of (still waiting on Fab Filter to have a $29/39 sale -- kidding, I realize that's never going to happen). But I feel like I've moved on from Waves.

That's what I suspect is at least part of their logic, but this is a really poor tactic to address that problem, IMO. I'm in complete agreement with attempts to crack down on individuals who scam the system by use of multiple free email accounts to grab free serials during giveaways in order to sell them later. But they could address that problem a lot better without negatively impacting legit folks like someone who had Waves pluguns bundled with some hardware device or DAW. As this thread reveals, it doesn't send a great message to their customers. WUP has already led to me rarely buying Waves plugins anymore. On the upside, Waves has had a major impact on lowering effects pricing in the industry. So thanks for that Waves.

I haven’t had any problems with Omnisphere. Could you tell us what your computer specs and sound card are. That might help.

Once you register it the WUP thing starts - they know there is a good percentage of people they will trap into a WUP payment once registered. It cuts down on resale of serial numbers - once registered there is basically no chance of you reselling that code as it becomes worthless between wup and transfer fees They may not be actually changing anything other than putting in that line in the sand on the back end with serials that were previously sent out.

Lords of Acid - Take Control

Well, I wasn't making an exhaustive list of bad customer disloyalty practice by brands, just the IK one people were discussing and another really notable bad disloyalty decision by another company (Toontrack). Toontrack's decision certainly was a product marketing/sales strategy. The company attempted to push customers into buying within their timeframe or threatened their customers they would never offer them upgrade pricing for the product (Superior Drummer) again. That strategy has nothing to do with distribution channels or the form of distribution (physical product vs download). My guess is that their to marketing or sales manager was trying to bring in revenue in the short term -- perhaps they had to keep the lights on and pay salaries and thought this high pressure tactic would result in generating revenue very quickly. That's what I suspect. Otherwise, even most small brands would never engage in that kind of tactic -- it's too alienating to the customer base and unhappy customers are sure to tell other customers -- as has been the case. Again, look at ezDrummer. Toontrack never engaged in a similar tactic. It's in the realm of bad marketing strategy and bad customer loyalty. A company completely controls these policies/practices. Toontrack could have reversed course on that decision at any point, but they haven't. My guess is, if their top marketing officer is looking to boost revenue when they introduce SD4, they'll re-introduce upgrade pricing OR if they hire a new head of marketing, it's an easy win to reverse that decision and promote it, if there's a significant amount of former customers who stopped buying SD upgrades since SD3 came out. It's an easy target marketing campaign (you target the SD2 buyers that never upgraded; it's a campaign they could even do tomorrow if they wanted).

Maybe Addictive Drums 3 around the corner... glad Larry doesn't hear that or I could get a slap in the back of my head 🤣 I know Larry would be proud of me if I moved on to Toontrack stuff, but... maybe Addictive Drums 3 around the corner

The "Proximity" knob is very cool. The ability to mimic how close the vocal sounds to the mic is great for fattening a vocal that is just too thin has saved me the time of retracking many times!

If you're looking for a more pop background vocal (not solo), you should consider Orchestral Tools LA Sessions. It has the usual ohs, uhs, ahs, ehs, and some nice swells and scoops. I prefer it to the Eastwest library. I love the sound. https://www.orchestraltools.com/store/collections/la-sessions Check out the demos under the "Instruments" tab. You can buy the Female Soul Ensemble and Male Soul Ensemble separately. They are each 34 euros and run in the free Sine Player. OT sometimes puts up a deal--I bought both of them that way.

Things like this make me wonder how the person who drew it managed to finish it.

These would be my thoughts on it: The characteristics of an instrument are mostly about the transients. This is what happens if you => play the strings exactly in the middle between their attachments incl capo. => try to get a transient shaper (e.g. TS64) and play around with it. Have fun 😉 PS:

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i have it but have never really used it. this would be a great thing to get at this price if they had a group buy going on.

The first on that came to mind. I knew I could count on you!

Like Young - Andre Previn With words added by Buddy Greco Some old "cool school" jazz.