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It's announcements like this that make me glad that I've transitioned away from Waves plugins and have supported a bunch of other, (primarily small) developers with great plugins and much better policies -- developers I feel much better about supporting. Waves, you get credit for lowering the prices for the industry and for having policies that have created a wealth of opportunities for other, more customer-focused developers (of course, that wasn’t Waves' intention, but that has been the outcome of their practices). They've unintentionally inspired greater competition in the marketplace with their less than upfront and customer-unfriendly practices; they've helped lower plugin prices throughout the industry with their always on $29 USD sales to the point where there are now plenty of good, simarly priced (at least during sales) alternatives to Waves plugins. They've even inspired some developers to offer benefits like free lifetime updates. During Waves subscription fiasco, some of their competitors were even bold enough to call out Waves, comparing their practices. So, it's unquestionable that Waves has had an impact just by embarking upon strategies many plugin users find less than desirable. I would say that they've squandered the opportunity the brand has had in the industry by putting profit motives too far ahead of customers' needs and wants. I really can't imagine a scenario where the Waves brand sees significant growth in the near future if the brand continues their existing strategies and tactics. Just look at threads at any forum when you see Waves mentioned to give you an idea of where their brand image is at today. So thanks, Waves, for doing these things to ensure that I will never need to buy another Waves plugin or bother purchasing WUP if one of my old Waves plugins stops working (with a few exceptions, like the Abbey Road line). I'll simply purchase a similar plugin from a developer with better practices and policies.

The more they try to make us subscribe the less willing I am to even buy from them 😐

Of course perpetual seat buyers get nothing. Typical Waves move.

F___ Waves with that ol bs! So, people who have spent thousands are not entitled to a second license, but subscribers to the service they keep trying to force on us do? I will use what I paid for, but will NEVER subscribe to this nonsense. This is pure okie doke.

I tried it today. I have not tried bx_masterdesk. I think the closest equivalent I have is IK Lurrsen Mastering Console, but even that is not apples to apples. I think Ozone has too many extra modules to be a fair comparison. Super easy to use. I think it gave satisfactory results for something so instant. Lurrsen gave me a warmer mix, and i preferred it, but that was largely due to coloration Hornet does not have. For the price, more than worth it

I think the comparison sheets are still around for everyone who wants to leave the ship.

Yes, you can upgrade, but... I just purchased this and am downloading the Essentials and the two pianos (3 GB, 3.5 GB and 40 GB!). I did have an upgrade option to the full version, but Melda can tell what you paid for it, so my upgrade price was 269 €. I have ZERO need for the full version. So, this was the bargain for MSoundFactory that I've been waiting for.

Well, I survived the three-hour tour. My daughter, who's far wealthier than me, had booked the boat for a private excursion so it actually went 4 hours. Our guide was knowledgeable and respectful of the whales, clearly an ecologically-sensitive preservationist in spite of his exploitive job. I still have reservations about following whales around. Now I know how movie stars feel when they're just trying to have lunch with a pack of paparazzi lurking about. There were several other whale-watching boats out there (I tried shouting that they couldn't look at them because we'd booked a private tour and those were OUR whales, but they apparently couldn't hear me), all tipping off the other boats as to which pods were where. Still, I'd rather see them swimming free than performing tricks at Sea World. (If you've never seen it, I highly recommend the fantastic documentary "Blackfish". But be forewarned: it's one of those documentaries that will leave you fuming.) We saw them play. We saw them fish. We did not get to see them mutilate any harbor seals, though. They seemed to be content with salmon. As would I. I have to admit, those Orcas are truly majestic. Boats have to stay some distance from them, but the animals have no such restrictions and often came right up to us. We saw a total of 12 of them in 3 different pods, including babies as well as elder giants. It was interesting enough to keep me from falling asleep, despite having only four hours' sleep the night before. I normally veg out on the Sunday after a late gig. I can't veg today, either, as today's chore is unloading the van and setting up for guitarist auditions tomorrow and Wednesday. On that front, we're hopeful because one of the candidates was enthusiastic enough to come to Saturday's gig. Now, if he'd only stuck around for the loadout and helped move gear, I'd have been inclined to offer him the job on the spot.

I searched for lots of libraries and discovered that they have zero "E.PIANO" ou "E.ORGAN" sounds since 2004/2006. This is crazy because E Pianos are what people love most about the DX7. I opened the rom banks 1 and 3 in DEXED and removed the dots from the presets names. Problem solved! DX7 rom1 (FM8).zip DX7 rom3 (FM8).zip rom1a (FM7).syx rom1b (FM7).syx rom3a (FM7).syx rom3b (FM7).syx

If you haven't already used it on a previous order, code emailWA gives a 25% discount.

Blue is still one of my fav vocal libs.

This is not looking like a bad deal. And since I recently purchased some more storage space.... this might be one to get. Recently I have been messing with MTurboComp and MTurboReverb and am very impressed with these two plugins. Just using the presets of these two plugins, I have found that they are extremely tweakable, and I can get almost anything out of them. So if MSF LE is anything like these, (and I suspect they are) this LE version maybe all I need.

I bought MSF LE from Plugin Boutique (2021: £40.80). At the time they had no mechanism for purchasing the upgrade through them, but since third party purchases need to be registered with Melda Production, I was able to get the upgrade pricing directly from Melda. From what I have seen, $39 for LE is an excellent price. UPDATE: See this page. It says "Can be upgraded to: MSoundFactory." Note: I just looked up my invoice. I upgraded during one of the 1/2 price sales and received a loyalty credit for LE on top of the 50% price.

youth & goudi - bass weapon

Many of us work on more than one computer and require license flexibility. Starting November 1, 2023, we will add a 2nd license for all active Waves Creative Access subscriptions—allowing subscribers to use their plugins on a separate computer without having to move licenses between devices. The 2nd license is for use by the owner of the main product license only (see terms & conditions). We will update you once the second licenses become available. All the best, The Waves Team

$69.99 with code CRCVA467 https://www.newegg.com/samsung-1tb-980-pro/p/N82E16820147825?Item=N82E16820147825

Until you lose it or it break it and I wonder if you don't have WUP if they would even reset for you (yes I'm sure you in particular have WUP) PA gives the same option with three USB sticks at a time.

Wait until they learn other companies offer up to 5 licenses or you can use the software in as many machines you want as long as you don't use them at the same time.

If it's midi data you can use CC 11 as well.

Offset Mode Sometimes having an extra volume envelope is handy, an empty FX Chain is one way, I like Blue Cat's free gain suite.

https://realitone.com/

Frank Zappa - Call Any Vegetable

Sorry you have been struggling with stuff. I have life interruptions too. One thing I like to do to get something going again is play. Just forget producing something and just play around with an instrument or vst or fx on something. Arps are playful. So my suggestion is to play! Hope you feel better soon.

Meldway is mighty fine at 40GB. Not perfect but pretty pretty perfect.

Ok, I'll play!

From the dev on https://community.vcvrack.com/t/vcv-rack-2-4-0-released/20372

Here's mine...

Rainbow - Catch The Rainbow Double pointer.

A bit of dark electro head-f*ckery Weapons of Bass Destruction - Electronic Confessions (Pi xl Remix)

And get Klevgand DAW LP free https://www.audiodeluxe.com/products/audio-plugins/moog-mf-102s-ring-modulator

The dot that causes problems is not in the filename but in the name of the preset that is inside the file. In Dexed it was similar but with a different character, I think it was "[".

Ace of Bass - All That She Wants

... and if you're an idiot like me, here's a video handy video on installing the patches here:

If you fancy some 4 operator Yamaha FM patches* try here: 4 OP H.Q. -THE ULTIMATE RESOURCE FOR YAMAHA'S 4 OPERATOR FM SYNTHESIZERS * showing my age there.

I hear Bapu celebrated last night with a couple of adult beverages... Metamucil and Ensure! 😁 For those of you that don’t want Alexa listening in on your conversation they are making a male version….it doesn’t listen to anything. Now that I have lived through a plague, I totally understand why Italian renaissance paintings are full of fat people lying on couches. Three thousand and twenty-seven years from now, life will either be really good or really bad. It’s 5050. In Ancient Rome there were four types of poisons. Poisons I, II and III would all kill you but Poison IV would make you really itchy. Just learned that a dentist who rents a space on the main floor of our building got arrested for selling drugs. Shows how wrong you can be about people. I’ve been going to him for years. Never knew he was a dentist. What’s the difference between a kleptomaniac and a literalist? The literalist takes things literally. The kleptomaniac takes things, literally.

$60 is cheapest I’ve ever seen it. Take advantage I use mine within komplete kontrol and all important knobs are mapped to my komplete keyboard which is really nice. It’s not nks but mapping was done right making it more fun.

Marc , if ya own the arturia , you can also import those ....try it , be sure then to go in option and change velocity to taste (i've found the full velocity setting s better than the DX7 one , i guess they tweaked it for arturia keyboard or some )

I was curious so I looked up prices: Fractal Axe FX III Turbo = $2500 3 EV-1 expression pedals = $420 FC-12 Foot Controller = $800 ========================= Total $3720, still that is a heck of lot easier than lugging around a 2 4x12 Marshall stack I imagine. I'll stick with this (since I don't even really play guitar) And for Bass, I'll stick with this. I've since sold my two VOX AC30's and my HUGE bass stack. Paired down to one 1x12 15w/1w guitar amp and an ACOUSTIC (RESEARCH) B50C combo for light in studio jamming. No more blast to the max.

@timboalogo - the additional MIDI IN/OUT ports are for transmitting control data, should you need it to be separate from the main MIDI port. For example, you can assign the transport controls to send MIDI CC messages on MIDI Port B (MIDI IN 2) , then use CbB's ACT Control Surface to map those messages to CbB's transport controls. If your MIDI track is set to only receive from MIDI IN 1, it won't record those messages to your MIDI track. Another example might be to assign the rotary controls to MIDI CC messages on MIDI Port C (MIDI IN 3), and use CbB's ACT Learn to assign them to plugin parameters.

Don't know if it helps you but from what I recalI most of the issues are on non-windows machines. Regardless, the dev keeps updating his plugins so I assume the issues will get ironed out eventually. I don't know if I'll use it (don't really use these type of plugins) but I bought it anyway. At $3 it's a cheap way to support the developer.

Compatible with the Kontakt Player https://www.straightaheadsamples.com/atomic-big-band

There's also OPS7 from chipsynth that can open syx'es. It's an interesting alternative to all these lovely synths mentioned in this thread. Might be worth downloading the trial and see if it will interpret presets from the hardware synths any better.

Like stated by Audioschmaudio , the whole bundle move is less expensive , you can then resale your single licences if i recall well...(not the one in bundle but those you mentionned ) To be honest , unless you like to create patches and do your sounddesign , analog lab is enougth for production stage when you use sounds as inspiration and starting points .... I checked some patches last day in FM8 and Arturia , and one thing i noticed specially when you put a good amount of reverb post synth is that on the same sysex file the arturia produces a small clik at start , so it's an enveloppe thing adressed by increasing just a little the attack time ... As far as i noticed , after tests , for factory originals i will use arturia maybe because they're alaready there (called Rom xxxx) (i saved each one , one by one in studio preset because even if you change veloicty settings , it's not global and changes with presets : so in studio one orgionals with my setting , arturia orignals with their settings) But for other banks provided upper , FM 8 will be used for fm duties simply because the simple view is ways fatsre to tweak globaliy envloppes ect .. an,d the cpu hit is x5 less !!! Wondering if opsix from Korg can import also that would be cool , FX in korg one are just top quality (not a fan of arturia , while fm8 inabiliy to choose routing is beyound reidicluous since they put choru /delay after the reverb !!!

Sorry for the OT again. Just grabbed a pack for the new Marshall Studio JTM ST20H from Jason Sadites it's pretty sweet and I'm not really a fan of Marshalls, even though I own a few. Downloaded and installed a demo from his site, played with it for 5 or so minutes and had to have it 😇 I had to get out of there because the Friedman pack was staring me down and my wallet started jumping around in my pocket. Like that will last long, anyway, back to normal scheduling.

This might help explain. https://legacy.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=3&help=Recording.38.html

Thanks @TheSteven ! I didn't know that it is possible to import sysx files into FM8. I just have loaded the factory presets (almost unchanged) that I had exported of my DX7II (bought in the 80s and I still have it). Many of the sounds are almost the same as the original, but there are some with pitch changes that sound completely awful in the FM8 (the pitch changes too much). I had noticed the same thing with Dexed some years ago, where I tried the patches the first time.

Which was? Guess I missed it too.

Those containers are actually pretty handy, they allow you to group intruments that may belong together but don't necessarily all go to the same buss. Take a Drum Folder for example, I use heavy drum bus compression for some styles so most of the tracks go to a drum bus but NYC compression can absoloutely wreck the hi hats and cymbals which are part of the same instrument. So they get routed elsewhere even though they live in the same folder. Then when it's time to send deliverables you can use those folders as a source for your stems regardless of the routing of the tracks inside. Not saying we shouldn't evolve the track folders to do more but to write them off as a mere space saving container is doing them a disservice.

I made a few tweaks to this (some colors, Transport buttons - didn't really feel the "minimal look" of this version so I've switched to something a bit more classic and changed the colors to match the skin, Performance module tweaked a little bit, skinned some PRV buttons). If anyone's interested, here's my version (named it 1.6 so it doesn't conflict with existing version). All credits to the original authors. AFUI 1.6 - BW Pro_2021-12.sth