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Use Google Chrome Press F12 - Select the "yellow" icon and do click in the main web page - Confirm that you have selected the html code in the image - Right click in the code selected and select "Delete Element" - And... all yours Update: I think that the direct link is https://ohmsweet.ohmforce.com/pages/legacy-quadfrohmage

https://www.ohmforce.com/plugins Some old-school gems in there! You need to be logged in to download.

https://www.izotope.com/en/products/downloads/nectar_elements.html https://www.pluginboutique.com/products/4554-Nectar-Elements Izotope Nectar Elements

https://www.synthmaster.com/index.aspx Currently all Synthmaster expansions are reduced to $6. Regardless if the regular price of the expansion pack is $19 or $39. On top of that you get 50% off if you buy five and use the code EXP5PACK or 60% off if you buy ten and apply the code EXP10PACK. And you get the SynthMaster 2 Player for free with those offers too, so you don't even need to own Synthmaster 2 to use its expansions. The player already comes with 2000 factory presets. Keep in mind that some expansion packs have more presets than others, so you might want to take that into consideration when selecting the expansion packs. It's usually the ones with a higher regular price that have 100+ presets. Since they're all $6 now, those are even a better bargain, if you like the presets of that expansion, that is. You can also buy the bundle, of course, but it wouldn't even be that much cheaper per expansion: The Synthmaster 2 expansion bundle has 38 expansions for $89, that makes it $2.34 per pack, whereas if you buy 10 you get them for $24 which is $2.4 per pack. The synths themselves are also on sale, but I've seen better prices for them. But $24 for 10 expansions - I believe that's rare.

Because they want you to subscribe for a year, not go month to month. That's why they raise the monthly rate.

And this, my dear friends, is subscriptions.

Hmmm. Monthly cost up 33% but annual change only @ 8%. I guess a play to keep the current subscribers on the bus? I assume the next version-up (7) for non-subbers will show some increase as well.

Sound good. Thanks. From the website: New in Metric AB version 1.4 Metric AB version 1.4 includes support for Apple's M1 and M2 chips in all major plugin formats including, AAX for Pro Tools, a resizable UI, GUI enhancements, usability upgrades, additional file compatibility, improved filters, better DAW compatibility, and numerous bug fixes. Key enhancements include new loudness match modes, a re-optimized graphics drawing system, enhanced filter accuracy, and expanded MIDI parameter availability.

That’s a miscalculation in my view. 1. When you buy any of these you get updates without any further charge. But that’s small compared to…. The big one! 2. The big one! All of these GEM plugins not only sound great. The most winning feature for all of them is low CPU usage. Which is a big deal! I’ve cross tested for example LA2As on the same track (well, duplicates of the same track) and on each track put different versions of LA2As. Waves, Softube, IK Multimedia, Native Instruments, UVI, Black Rooster and so on. Then looked at the CPU hit for each. They all differed (with some taking up considerable CPU). Overloud effects, including the LA2A, don’t even show a blip on CPU usage. Like nada. Same for the rest of them. Another example is the Overloud Tape. All the other suppliers use up a bunch of CPU. If a song already has a lot going on you might choose not to even use that vendor’s tape plug because it’s the last straw before the song starts to hang from lack of CPU. But not Overloud’s Tape. Not noticeable at all on CPU usage. And it sounds great. In terms of value, if you think of all the time you might spend wrangling with effects to choose the right ones not to cripple your songs by lack of CPU cycles - that can add up to a lot of wasted time (and time is money as they say) - using Overloud effects will save huge amounts of time when mixing because of not hitting CPU limits - and all the Overloud GEM plugs sound great. There - I said it - I fully endorse Overloud GEM effects. If you’re looking for a deal - look into them now while the sale goes on for a few more days. Free trials for all of them. Plenty of vids on YouTube demonstrating their sound capabilities. The real deal.

Based on how many times I see people repeating this piece of Steinberg ad copy, I'd say that it's one of the biggest misconceptions about the VST3 spec. The VST3 spec doesn't require or guarantee that this feature will be implemented in any given VST3 plug-in, and so far, I've seen exactly one plug-in manufacturer implement this feature (Meldaproduction), and they also have the same feature in their VST2 versions. The same much-repeated Steinberg blurb also trumpets that the VST3 spec now supports sidechaining, when I think we all know that sidechaining was possible for years with VST2's even though it wasn't part of the spec. I think the only plug-in maker who use the VST3-native sidechain feature are Waves. The VST3 spec is just that, a specification. There's no magic hand that comes out of the sky and forces developers to implement all the features that are outlined in the spec. And since even now many developers still ship their products in both VST2 and VST3, the code used to build both versions doesn't implement the "advanced" VST3 features. Since I actually have plug-ins that do the silence=sleep thing, I have to say that during mixing, it makes little difference. Plug-ins generally only eat resources when they're processing audio. Check Cakewalk's Performance meter. You can throw on 12 instances of iZotope Neutron and as long as you don't hit Play, the Performance meter will show that few resources will be eaten up. Hit Play, and that's when you better have a rocket sled computer, or dropouts happen. So the thing about it being something great that plug-ins go to sleep when they're not processing audio is kinda snake oil. Maybe @Byron Dickens could weigh in on this? 🤣 I will humbly suggest that if it's your own vocals that regularly "need" Melodyne, yes, learn how to sing in tune. It's not a mysterious innate talent (even I can do it). Your singing voice is an instrument, and the way to get better with any instrument is...practice (duh). Put Cakewalk into loop record mode and sing a verse 5 times in a row over your instrumental track. Then play back each take. Listen for where you're not hitting the notes and take a mental note. Sing the bad notes a few times in tune to wear a groove in what being in tune sounds like. Let your voice rest for a spell, drink some water, then repeat until you get diminishing returns. Do this for a few days (doesn't even have to be in a row) and you'll find substantial improvement. You'll get to the point where subsequent takes will be so on pitch that you can have a choir of Rexes all singing in unison. Melodyne, IMO, is for fixing performances that you don't have control over, like tracks brought in by other people, and/or singers that want to sound professional without doing the work it takes to learn to sing in tune. It's much better if you don't have to fix anything in the first place. As I said, I'm able to do it, and I've never had a voice lesson in my life. I just used the method I suggested (stumbled on it, actually) and it worked a treat. Part of what you're doing is teaching your brain how to hear a note and then direct your voice to create that note. Our brains love learning new ways to better control our bodies and will happily comply, working the problem even when you're not actually practicing. It's actually great fun. Once you're comfortable with hitting the notes, your voice will relax and you'll get performances with better feel. If this doesn't work, then re-record the lines where you missed the note(s) and comp. It takes much less time than farting around with Melodyne, and there's no concern about unwanted artifacts and such.

Sorry for the unexplained absence! Our power went out for 3 days - up until late Friday night, and when it came back on, the Internet did not! I left for Memphis on Saturday morning (still no internet) at 5 am. Here are some pics from the trip, and I just got home at 1:30 am this morning! https://www.facebook.com/cclarry122700/posts/pfbid0StQ4s6Re6gFduuyL3P1FLxKUNKZE8VF2N4LYVwJ3ZAbMdqBfwZNKrZz183is6ewrl

This plugin will be offered for $39 instead of the normal $129 from today until August 17th, 2023. https://audioplugin.deals/product/virtual-bassist-mellow-by-ujam/

They do offer several at no cost as well. Its worth bringing up Analog Lab and selecting the "Free" option to see what is available. There are some great sounds there.

The stars mean "you contributed to this thread". The bullets, if you click them, takes you to your first unread post. I think.

Yip - Im getting a few more soundbanks while this 50% sale is on. These 4:

Every time there is an acquisition, the bean counters on the buying side need to see growth. For a main product with updates every 2 years for less than a year subscription, it may get more foul going forward for the version releases. A lot of these subscriptions I simply take as acknowledgement that a product is mature and reached the point of diminishing returns.

I thought the word was going to be Talent. A music teacher told me once that the successful artists have at least 2 of 3 attributes. Talent, Ambition and Knowledge. The ones who have all 3 are lucky. At first I thought this was wrong but then you think of an artist you might run into. Like the dude that will buy expensive gear and talk about gear forever, and read all the magazines and can tell you just about anything about every hit record and who played on it. They are always trying to put together a band and book gigs, but there's just something missing when they play. Talent. Or the person who has lots of Talent and Knowledge but you can't get them off the couch, No ambition. You can go a long way with lots of Ambition and a little Talent. ( Taylor Swift?) I'm very similar to Tim in my approach to vocals. What I'm seeing for me is I just turned 70 so as I age the components needed to sing are wearing out. I defiantly cannot hear like I used to and my voice is not as smooth as when I was 50. I will re sing the same song I recorded 25 years ago and it's like a different person. But it is what it is, and I'm not trying to compete with anybody or score a record deal. I just want to enjoy the process without technology getting in my way. I'm real happy to be in a place with my set up that works without fuss. It is defiantly worth the time and effort to get the Hardware and software under your absolute control and leave that part of it behind you and start making music. I try and not overuse Melodyne and have slowly learned how to use the other tools it offers like aptitude and timing more than the pitching tools. So now I can just be loose when I sing and not obsess about perfecting the track. Ultimately I like to get out in the real world and sing my songs live a dozen times or more before I commit to tape. Writing a song , recording a backing track and then singing the song cold will never work well for me. The singing has to take on a life of it's own, you might completely re phrase everything and choose a different melody even. It all happens when you get out there and belt it out in front of real people. And I'll end with saying , don't obsess about unimportant stuff like bit depth. It's not a deciding factor in making great recordings.

It's actually a bundle that consists of 43 packs. One shots, loops, MIDI patterns. Tons of them. So it's like a quarter Euro per pack now. What I like about some of them is that they've categorised the drum loops/MIDI patterns into song sections like intro, chorus, break. Great help for a noob like me who has no clue how a drummer would play certain song sections.

Congratulations to the winners. 👏 We needed a high-quality free shimmer reverb effect. https://www.kvraudio.com/the-kvr-developer-challenge-2023---winners-announced

Quarterflash - Harden My Heart:

And no update fee. PA have an upside here.

oops! Ninja'd Heart Of Gold - Neil Young

Four Sticks – Led Zeppelin

https://eoinodowd.gumroad.com/l/layerengine Layer engine is a granular engine standalone vst3 for windows 10/11 and linux distros

$94 at Plugin Boutique https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/1-Instruments/4-Synth/3187-Reveal-Sound-Spire-Synth?nosto=frontpage-nosto-1

Just to add to this... practice here is really the key. In my experience, there are two things that affect your tuning: 1. Weak muscles, making it difficult for you to control/sustain your tuning. 2. An untrained ear for tuning when singing. I was very ill a few years ago and required a pretty aggressive course of steroids which weakened pretty much every muscle in my body (seriously there are muscles in places you didn't know you have). My ability to sing in tune was pretty much destroyed. I don't sing that much nowadays, so it is getting better over time slowly, but the more those muscles get used, the easier it is to hold my tuning. Oh, and singing standing up is way easier than sitting down. Investing in a singing course, or at least doing some decent warm-up exercises is well worth it. These work for me: 1. Start with the lowest note you can sing and gently hum 5 notes of a scale up and down. 2. Now start on the next lowest note and gently hum 5 notes of a scale up and down. 3. Repeat until you get to the highest note you can sing comfortably - don't strain to sing too high, but do allow yourself to naturally transition into falsetto. 4. Repeat steps 1 - 3, using "N" sounds, then rolling "R" sounds (like you're doing a machine gun sound) 5. Finally, repeat steps 1-3 using "B" sounds - kind of like blowing a raspberry with your lips flapping. Gently hold your teeth together, and put your forefinger and thumb around the sides of your mouth to stabilise your lips while they flap about. The vibration of this final exercise on your vocal chords will massage them and slowly extend your upper range. It'll also relax your vocal chords making it way easier to sing afterwards. As far as actually singing in tune in the first place, here's a tip - sing with a pitch correction plugin on and set the mix so you can here both the treated and untreated version of your voice. Over a few weeks or months, you'll automatically correct yourself. I noticed a similar phenomena when using the rasp effect on my TC Helicon VoicePrism: singing with the rasp effect on caused my voice to automatically produce the rasp itself without me thinking about it.

Are they any better than the factory presets? I found like maybe 7 usable ones out of 2000 or so.

The advantage of the full bundle is that it includes future expansions

Wonder if they decided the cost of converting to VST3 was not worth the expense/hassle.

This link is much easier https://www.izotope.com/en/products/downloads/nectar_elements.html

@satyabrata satapathy Thanks for posting this. Wonderful software!! @Jeslan You were right. Night and day difference!! I am a happy camper!!

Finally got a chance to listen to these examples on my Studio monitors. Wow, big difference for sure. I am d/l and installing the software. If it works as good as these examples, I will be sending a donation.

Mrs. Notes and I have been in this duo since 1985. Well, she was the future Mrs. Notes back then. If the timing is right, I'll announce that, and add that the only group that has been together longer, is The Rolling Stones. After the chuckles die down, I'll add, “And we still have all the original members.” Until COVID, we were never out of work, and now that the emergency is in the rearview mirror, we are back full time. There are compromises with a duo. I make my own backing tracks, so there is never the surprises you get with other musicians. On the other hand, there is none of the drama either. Mrs. Notes and I have very strong work ethics and do what needs to be done for our clients to make money and be happy, even if it means skipping breaks, playing long, or learning customer favorite songs. We try to do a better job than our competition and we charge a little more for that. We have over 600 songs, most of them are here https://www.nortonmusic.com/cats/songlist.html There are a few I haven't added, like ones buried in medleys. We wouldn't want a customer to look, request the song, and here it instrumentally in a 10 or 15 minute medley designed to be played for a dinner set. Notes ♫

Ah, I see. JULY50 works for me too.

That’s probably why they changed the name to ‘+’

I Still regret missing the deal last year of UVI PX V8 at 19 , do you think it s coming back anytime ?

For several years I have been using a floating control bar. I have it just with the modules I use most, so it's not too long. Super easy to slide around, even onto Monitor 2 temporarily and then back. I first did this when I was marking up some oral history tapes, then used it for some staff input/editing projects. It soon became like second nature to move it around as needed. I could never go back to a docked, full width control bar. This might or might not work for you; depends on your individual needs/workflows and whether or not you feel comfortable with moving it around on your desktop. Just mentioning it as another option.

Well, I can't prove it now, but I do remember feeling disappointed that my soon-to-expire points were still there after the purchase (and have since expired), and another pool of points was deducted from. I don't know; maybe it was a glitch, or there was some special circumstance - water under the bridge, and all that...

Nice keyboard rig! Nord Stage 3 and Kronos are two of the very best available. Spider keyboard stand is also great. My home rig has Nord Stage 4 (bottom) and Wave-2 (top) on a Spider stand. Only use the Stage 4 live (no top tier). It can take some time/doing... but if you can get to the point where you're hiring commercial sound/lights, it's a tremendous relief (mentally and physically). In Central OH, commercial sound/lights (with good engineer) is $300-$350. If you're typically charging say $800, that may seem impossible... but here's the thing: Without commercial sound/lights, an $800 band sounds/looks like an $800 band. With commercial sound/lights, you look and sound like a more expensive band. You ARE that $1100-$1200 a night band. Quality commercial sound/lights pay for themselves. Taking it even further, get the guitar and bass player to go with a DI rig. No carrying heavy amps... and no 100w tube-amps blasting on stage. Our guitar player uses a POD Go. Nobody misses his Marshall half-stack. No one questions his "tone". Bass player is using an Ampeg Scrambler (pedal preamp). This way, each player is responsible for his/her gear. Simple load-in and load-out... With adequate monitors... you'll never miss the amps. If you play festivals, the crews/engineers will love you. You can get on/off stage in literally 10 minutes... and without having a coronary. 🤪 We all have day-jobs (careers)... so the gigs really aren't about money. But, it's pretty nice to play a gig where you walk away with decent pay. We wanted to have NYE off this year. One venue kept asking us to book it... so we threw out a high figure (hoping they'd say no). They agreed (facepalm emoji). Don't limit your possibilities.

Almost all modern Audio Interfaces are set at 24 bit. I see you have a Zoom. It is possible it is set at 16 bit. So as he said there’s no reason to record at 32 bit and possibly only very high end interfaces are capable of it. Cakewalk uses 32 bit for rendering as that eliminates any errors in the number crunching. Melodyne uses a totally different rendering system and it will be 24 bit.

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