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Development is at pre-release 2 now. Changelogs and downloads can be found on the Reaper beta distribution site which is publicly available. I have removed the link to this site as the Cockos folks obviously do not want any links pointing there. (See Bapu's post below.) However, if you are feeling adventurous and want to install the pre-releases, just go here ... https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=22836 ... and follow the link in the first post. It might be a good idea to read the warnings, as pre-releases are not production-ready. Strange requirement for a public download location, but as I'm a nice guy, I am playing the game as they want me to.

One of my favorite ujam instruments. Really nice acoustic bass with patterns. Works very well with the acoustic guitars in the NI Session Guitarist Series.

So why the question...

I can confirm that gas prices for end customers in Germany are dropping now. A kWh generated from natural gas used to cost back in November 2021 about 0.12 cent, then in the summer of 2022 it surged to more than 0.26 cent just to drop back to 0.09 cent right now. One kWh of electric power used to cost 0.42 cent in my contract for 2022. Now my new contractual price for kWh is 0.32 cent. And the electricity in Germany is one of the most expensive in Europe. I see that in France EDF is charging about half of that for a kWh thanks to the nuclear power. While the electricity prices are pretty high because of moving from coal and nuclear to renewable power, the gas prices are very stable at the moment and the effect of Russian war in Ukraine on gas deliveries is nonexistent. On the other side fuel prices and increased demand for services and good after the lockdowns are over was what was driving the prices up. While we have almost no control on fuel prices, because Europe has insignificant sources of this commodity, the ECB has some means of regulating the demand of services and goods. And that’s the interest rates. So basically they’re reversing the inflation trend by increasing the key interest rates which makes it hard for people to spend money on services and goods like there’s no tomorrow, but that makes it also difficult for businesses to get a lifeline loans. Therefore businesses are trying to fill the gaps by increasing prices or decreasing the quality (as seen massively in grocery stores in Germany and maybe everywhere else too), because they know that while today it might be still possible to extract as much as possible from their customers, tomorrow it will be hardly the case. As a part of business ecosystem plugin and audio software developers know that and are profiting. The virtual goods are obviously unlimited in quantity, so developers loose really nothing from their deep “no-brainer” discounts, instead they’re getting more profits during times of recession. Without these profits right now they’re toast. And the price for the recession is once again paid by us - the customers and it’s up to us to stop spending money for what we don’t need. And back to PreSonus, what new do they have to offer for 5 more bucks a month?

I think White Tie doesn't have the talent to make something amazing. All of the suggestions people made about the new theme were simply brushed off repeatedly and we were told that he would simply do wha he wants. I said that his attitude was unacceptable towards paying customers and that any decent company would fire an employee like that. He proceded to delete my posts (he's the forum moderator). So yeah, Reaper is a company run by a guy who has NO aesthetic or moral sensibilities to see that the guy he hired is a talentless tyrant. I now use Bitwig.

Businesses struggling to stay alive during recession. They seem to have learned their lesson since the last financial crisis in 2008, but sadly they learned the wrong one. They want our money NOW, ASAP, as much money as possible. But the only thing that they get is customers leaving a sinking ship and less earnings. And on top of that the interests on loans are increasing. Good luck greedy entrepreneurs.

Bruno, to be honest I almost didn't try this software based on some of your comments. I have tried VR tools before and was never really satisfied. As I read your posts, whether you intended it or not, I understood them to be saying this is just another program using algos that are already out there that I have probably tried already. So I wasn't going to bother with it. Then Jeslan posted the examples. What sold me on it was the pristine reverb tails on the isolated vocals. No artifacts at all. None I could hear anyway. So I said if it can do that for the songs I want to use it on... I'm in! It worked. And it works well. The resulting instrumental track allowed a client to hear clearly the piano part she had never been able to hear. Isolated, without the vocals. The tracks I have tried it on all sound like the original (just a tad bit brighter to my ear when compared to the original.) I mean it sounds as if no vocals were ever recorded on the resulting instrumental track. The ability to send batches of files to the program is wonderful!! The ability to save settings is also a great benefit. This is a free program. Grab it while you can!! Use the MDX algo.

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The more I see this kind of news, the more I love my Fl Studio and its free updates for life! ??

Sure. I also remember that the people who came up with those UI's revised them to look better, to keep up with the times. The appearance of the tools I use to create audio and visuals is important. It affects the amount of enthusiasm I feel for using the tool and my mood while using the tool. This is true for instruments, software, etc. If I have to shield my eyes from a program that looks dated/ugly, I'm less likely to want to use it. I definitely don't mind functional UI's; my favorite plug-in house is Meldaproduction, but they have also made many changes over the past several years to their UI's, based on customer feedback. They're never rude about customer suggestions. If they don't like them, they dismiss them politely or just stay silent.

A bit of testing indicates that for the few items currently on sale (most Blendstruments, Aura Guitars, Berimbau, Ambient Guitar, Guitalele, possibly others), the 70% off stacks with the sale price. The Blendstruments are $10.50 in cart, for example, instead of $78 regular or $35 on sale. The "volume discount" in cart appears to be wacky, though. One or two on-sale Blendstruments in cart, e.g., are $10.50 each, but three or more are $21 each. Usually the 8Dio pricing glitches work in the more favorable direction, so tread carefully if you intend to go a little wild. Edited to add: Also Bazantar is under $20. Hmmm.

They're normal prices. 70% off prices can be seen in the cart.

Isn't Reaper skin-able.??? Besides, remember when we had to use interfaces that looked like this? ? In fact back in those days the whole OS would look like this too. Still got the job done. Just saying.

It is very unlikely that it is a general multiprocessing sync issue in the DAW. It has been extensively tested over decades and if there was even a tiny bug there there would be thousands of users running into it. The more common problem is with plugins. Do the same test completely disabling or removing all plugins and use that as a process of elimination. You can export audio and choose to not include plugins. Definitely eliminate hardware UAD plugins in your test. Though less common there may also be a disk throughput issue leading to inability to cache data in time. Some samplers have been known to have issues like this.

My DVA Fifty, 2 x 10" combo (is a channel switcher and reverb) retailed at $3499. I would (reluctantly) build one at that price, but only because I have a couple of cabinets and chassis laying around somewhere. Couldn't get "rich" if I was busting out one, even two every week. Hand wired amps are a "labor of love"; I don't ❤️ the beech no mo. I'd rather spend time in the studio... t

And this, my dear friends, is subscriptions.

Use credit card...it goes straight to pay and never asks for a card...

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Thanks for the kind words everyone! We really appreciate it.

This subject was done to death all those years ago. I'm not sure how a disinterested party bringing up a subject which leaves nobody happy is being helpful. Please lock it now.

Crazy. I just realized that as an owner of Synthmaster 1 + 2 I could use the Upgrade to the Everything Bundle for $99 and with the coupon code YMLP10OFF I could even reduce it to $79.20. Holymoly. $79.20 for 52 expansions plus an upcoming new version of the synth and apparently also all future expansions, that's not bad, I would say.

Exactly. Nothing like first trying to survive a 20-30 foot drop only to have to run out of the way of a fully engulfed blimp falling on top of you! SMH... ?

Glad to know I am not the only one appreciating how good this tool really is. The creator completely deserves a donation, that's for sure. I must say I felt the compulsion to post here and give my two cents because to be honest, the thread was being completely unfair about the actual quality this tool really offers and specially misleading about how useful and interesting it actually can be for the users of this specific forum.

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Troubleshooting by the process of elimination is "voodoo"? In the absence of access to the source code, it's one of the few avenues available for an end user to investigate. The "binary" approach I outlined is just a way of speeding up the elimination process in a big project. If the problem is truly involving thread sync, and isn't involving any specific plugin(s), this approach might not help, but it seems to me you're making a lot of assumptions about the root cause of the problem that are not justified by the evidence. I'll be interested to see what the Bakers find.

Two years later I get around to finishing this one. I used a lot of delay fx with NI Replika and uHe ColourCopy. Thanks for listening/commenting. -Bjorn

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https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2023/07/25/ultimate-vocal-remover/ https://github.com/Anjok07/ultimatevocalremovergui/releases/tag/v5.5.0 UVR isn’t a plugin. It is a piece of software. However, it does run on Windows, Mac, and Linux

When opening MIDI files, normally a single instance of TTS-1 is created along with a standard MIDI track for each of the MIDI tracks within the MIDI file. If this is a type 0 file, a track will be created for each MIDI channel. Note that these are normal MIDI tracks - not instrument tracks. Opening a MIDI file (vs importing one), will also import any tempo changes, markers etc. The first step is to insert your MODO bass as an instrument track, then go to the bass MIDI track and set its output to point to your MODO bass. The easiest place to set the output is via the track inspector. At this point, I'd normally clean things up by selecting all the MIDI clips in the original bass track, SHIFT + drag the MIDI clips from the original bass track onto the MODO bass track, and delete the original bass track. You can repeat this process for all your other tracks. Importing MIDI files into an existing project will not bring in any tempo/markers etc (the reasoning being, that you've got an existing project and you want to keep your project's tempo/markers as is). Also, type 0 files will not be split up into separate tracks for each channel, and will be inserted into the target MIDI track as is.

Thanks PC, very helpful! I really like Skybox Audio as a developer too - I have the acoustic piano libraries which are outstandingly good, even taken as 'straight' pianos. I think I'm in the same boat you describe re your preferences; my ideal would be for the electric pack to combine the Rhodes with the 145b! I'm more of a Rhodes guy than a Wurli one, but I love the 'juiciness' of a nice Wurli!

I got all excited by the email seeing $42 each by the electric keys...then realized it meant it was $84 for the Rhodes and Wurli pack. Which is more than reasonable, but I wanted my bargain!

Sweet Mother of Jesus!!!! ?

Agree, nice song and good playing! I like the dramatic change up near the end, very Elton kind of thing. I could imagine this worked up with a full band arrangement.

You have a truly astonishing background! Please forgive my musiciansplaining ?. I went back and watched/listened to a couple of your CBBTV videos and your voice is GREAT. It gave me an opportunity to hear your vocals as recorded. So I gotta question, even more now: why are you applying Melodyne to such a beautiful instrument? Your raw takes I would consider "perfect" if they happened in my studio. I have the same astonished feeling I get when beautiful women of my acquaintance mention that they want to get "work" done: why would you pay someone to take a knife to one of the prettiest faces I've seen? Human voices do vary a little in pitch. IMO, at least, that tiny variation is something that our ears like. It makes a sound more interesting if it varies a little from "perfect." But in matters of taste, I suppose. You must be of the opinion that music like you want to make needs to have vocals that are as perfectly in tune as technique and technology can make them, and if that's the sound you're going for, I'll leave you to it. One last suggestion: maybe you've hit the point where Melodyne is unable to improve upon what you already have.

Stars are for the Sheriffs, the bullets are what they use to keep us in line? ?

I have been experiencing either the audio engine crash or a full crash to desktop with some projects when using Spitfire Audio - BBCSO. I have now found the cause so am posting in case anyone else is also having an issue. I previously posted about this in the this in the 202.11 feedback thread as it started happening after the update and I incorrectly thought it was something to do with the update. I have automation for expression and dynamics and have found that the crash was being caused by automation points being on top of each other or directly in line vertically as in the image below. In the former case you could not tell that there were two points until you dragged one and found there was another directly under it. I assume this happed while dragging clips around, once the points are separated there are no longer any crashes.

Currently the best coupon code for the producer bundle seems to be PRODUCER30. It gives you a 30€ discount.

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

Is that you ctaigb?

Ross, Very nice listen, distinct moods throughout the sections that would play well for a soundtrack. Like it very much, good playing, good piano tone as well. Regards

nice.add some strings here and there.jack c

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

Same with Apple silicon compatibility. Luckily I sold my Ohm bundle a while ago.

And no update fee. PA have an upside here.

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

Hi Ross, this is a nice piece , I like it. Rik

Or TS 4.5, like they did with version 3.

Super simple. There is already the option to have tracks follow the bus color. I'd like a follow track folder color. That's all. Not super important, but would be nice and is hopefully low hanging fruit. I don't always set everything logically to go through the same bus. For example, in this case, I have both FX, FX HALL, and FX OUT going to the FX bus, but the track folders hold different variations of sound source. So this would be handy Cheers!