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It should be stated that the other mods do a huge job of getting rid of spammers. I have only done it a couple of times when I'm here and they haven't been already removed. Please acknowledge that the mods do this day in and day out.

PluginsMonitor scans your plugins and checks for any potential malware or spyware behavior. This plugin doesn't generate or process sound but aids other plugins in functioning safely and optimally. Because of this, it's essential for any musician. Info: https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2023/08/17/pluginsmonitorfree/ Download: https://vst.saschart.com/audio_plugins_monitor_free_scanner_anti_malware_detector_firewall

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It's true. The reason you don't see much spam here is because it's usually gone within minutes of its posting. It is not an automated process. It's because we really hate spam. I am delighted when I get to stomp one, although that only happens when those in time zones to my East have gone to bed for the day. Fortunately for me, even wookies sleep sometimes.

And who's scanning the plugin that is scanning the other plugins? 😉

https://bertomaudio.com/eq-curve-analyzer.html EQ Curve Analyzer is an analyzer and signal generator plugin to see the frequency response (magnitude and phase) of any plugin or hardware Updated to Version 2.0

I took down a good 4 or 5 pages worth earlier in the day myself. I checked the posting time and they'd only been active for about 7 or 8 minutes, so it definitely doesn't take long to make a huge mess on the forums. I'll usually have the forum open on a second monitor while I'm working and catch them on their first or second post, and the spam filters usually work out that something is sus pretty fast and hides the threads from regular users, so we can get in and clean up the mess without it being horrible for everyone. I've been away from the machine for a while today so it looks like it's been keeping everyone on their toes! For anyone wondering, there are some pretty robust spam filters in place and we just added a bunch of terms to it, which definitely worked well... for a while. It's really like a game of whack-a-mole. Definitely report the spam if you see it, the mods are spread over a bunch of different time zones which helps when each of us are busy with work / life (every mod is a volunteer), and one of us will get onto it ASAP.

Platone Studio has released a trio of free plugins in the form of Flex Reverb, Delay Eleven, and DJ Filter. https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2023/08/17/platone-studio-plugins/

I got rid of them!

https://youtube.com/shorts/L_Vajf6iH-s?feature=share https://themarscitizen.com/plugins/ The Higgs Boson is a plugin created to be subtle and to be able to be used in any channel, be it audio tracks, auxiliary effects, master channel, etc For Windows and Mac

https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2023/08/17/witch-pig-ambient-axe/ http://witchpig.co.uk/instruments.html#anchor-ambient Witch Pig released Ambient Axe, a free guitar sample library for Native Instruments Kontakt. I never would’ve considered using a seven-string for ambient works, but Witch Pig proved me wrong. I generally pick up my seven-string for playing things in extremely low tunings, where my only thought is to chug on the lowest string.

Thanks. Purchased. Another plugin towards completing my TDR GE collection. One more to go.

At least I got kings Approval 😎

The EZkeys 2 Chord Library is also updated to 1.0.1 Release notes for EZkeys 2.0.2 2023-08-15 EZkeys 2.0.2 is now available to download using the Product Manager or from the ‘My Products’ area in your Toontrack account. Please note that version 2.0.2 is required for the support of EZkeys sound expansions (EKXs) released from this point forward (Q3 2023). CHANGES General If the EZkeys 2 core library is not installed, there is now an entry for it in the library menu anyway, under a separate header. Selecting it shows a dialog with a possibility to rescan for the library in case it gets installed while EZkeys 2 is running. “Open Settings” has been added to the library menu. Song Track Notes that are automatically added because of chord changes are now humanized. “Replace MIDI” and inserting new chord markers can now move syncopations. Whenever chords are automatically added for a MIDI performance and the analysis finds a single long chord, it now adds a chord marker on every bar (or on a syncopation near the bar). Suggest Chords Whenever the Suggest Chords view is open and a selection on the song track makes Suggest Chords actually show chords, the song track items that are not part of the selection are dimmed. Grooves Tab In the Options menu in Grooves, there is now an option to exclude empty bars (without notes and CC) at the beginning and/or the end of grooves in User MIDI and linked folders. Changing velocity now shows +/- on tooltip values to better emphasize that these values are relative and not absolute. Grid Editor In the pedal editor, there is now an option to merge blocks and another one to extend a block to the next chord. The default keyboard shortcuts for zooming in/out vertically on Mac now use alt/option instead of shift (with plus and minus). Bandmate Grid lines have been added to the background of the tracks. With an audio file loaded and “Drums” selected, changing the key signature will now transpose the chords and the output MIDI. The “Skip All” has been removed from Bandmate’s missing-file dialog since only one input file is supported. Settings A specific MIDI channel for MIDI input can now be selected. BUG FIXES General In Studio One on Mac with the “graphics hardware acceleration” option enabled, the EZkeys 2 GUI should no longer be slow and choppy. In Logic Pro on Apple silicon Macs, MIDI Out should no longer cause crashes. Changing presets or libraries with Program Change / Bank Select MIDI was very slow and would sometimes give unexpected results. Changing presets while playing could in some cases cause a crash. The MIDI Learn settings are now preserved when a library preset is loaded. Cancelling “Save MIDI Learn Preset” would sometimes cause a crash. Drag and drop is now properly disabled whenever a modal dialog is open. Importing an EZkeys 1 project would create an extra undo event. “dimb9” has been changed to “dim b9” in chord displays. Song Track The song track should now be better at finding the correct chords in user MIDI. Adding user MIDI to the track could incorrectly split some of its notes. Recording MIDI in existing blocks on the track could cause chords outside of affected parts to get reanalyzed. Pedal values/curves were not imported properly from EZkeys 1 projects. “Select Containing Folder in Grooves” would not work on song track MIDI from imported EZkeys 1 projects. An ongoing Amount calculation will now get aborted by Replace MIDI, editing in Grid Editor and other ways of manipulating the MIDI. Starting and stopping playback would cancel Amount and cause the knob/value to flicker. Merging blocks could unnecessarily extend the resulting block. Drawing MIDI blocks with the Pencil Tool under chords now adds new notes where there are chord changes as well as on bars. Using “Replace MIDI” on certain user MIDI files could create silence when the MIDI got duplicated due to the track selection being longer than the file. Edit Chord View Clicking the info sign for “Adjust Notes to Scale” no longer toggles the function. “Adjust Notes to Scale” can now split a note that stretches over several chords. In some cases, changing chords would play a preview of wrong notes. Suggest Chords Changing the chord selection from Suggest Chords now properly updates song track components (Edit Play Style, etc.) In many time signatures, Suggest Chords would never change the chord rhythm after bar 16. Grooves Tab Scanning for new sound libraries in the missing-library dialog no longer rebuilds the MIDI database (but looks for new MIDI libraries to add). Adding a linked folder called “User MIDI” could cause the actual User MIDI folder to stop working properly. Loading a project containing filter selections now properly grays out MIDI library folders that should be grayed out. Adding user MIDI files containing no notes no longer causes the intensity values to become broken. Grooves in User MIDI were not always transposed correctly when dragged to the song track. While “Show Web Shop MIDI” is being activated, it is no longer possible to mark/unmark grooves as favorite, because that could cause a crash. The “Show MIDI Files from Subfolders” option was not remembered between sessions. Pressing Cancel in the Tap2Find view would render the Tap2Find drop zone preview silent. Grid Editor “Remove Overlaps” can now adjust notes that are not selected as well. “Remove Overlaps” could cause some notes to get zero length. Merging notes could make the MIDI unsorted, which would cause playback to behave strangely. A note that had been merged with another note could be split again by dragging it. CC values where not shown correctly in all cases depending on how the MIDI files got loaded to the song track. Copy-dragging notes could make wrong notes get selected afterwards. Copy-dragging blocks in the pedal editor did not work well. Pasting in the pedal editor now selects the newly inserted block(s) and deselects the others. It is now possible to undo a change of the Highlight Keys scale/mode. Highlight Keys should no longer become activated when the key signature on the song track is changed. Dragging notes and then pressing alt on Windows or alt+cmd on Mac before releasing the mouse button would create extra invalid notes that could cause crashes. Auto-scroll in the Grid Editor would not work after marquee selection had been used. Bandmate Bandmate could fail to open a dialog after an audio file import followed by a preset/library change, which in turn could lead to crashes. Trying to scroll horizontally in the grooves list using trackpad or shift+wheel would inadvertently cause the tracks to scroll. Resetting a chord to original in the Bandmate track could cause other chords to get their inversions changed. Chord detection of both MIDI and audio is now improved and more stable. Chords from audio and MIDI are now more stable when track contents are moved. Inserting short syncopated chords could sometimes render them uneditable. Fixed a visual bug where borders of audio blocks would look thicker than those of MIDI blocks. Tempo and time signature controls are no longer disabled when there is no output MIDI. Having a source that generated no search results lead to these controls being disabled, so it was not possible to change tempo and/or time signature to try to find results that way.

I'm done with this one; no feedback needed, necessarily, but darn I'm proud of this one! I wrote this in 1972! Played it with my high school rock band "Sunstone." Now we're recording again for the first time and we FINALLY did this one!

https://algonaut.audio/atlas-purchase/ $49 I don't know for how long.

It's at the top of the topic list:

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Yeah, just one or two is generally fine - it's usually between 1 and 5 accounts doing the work, usually just the one but we do get waves where there's a big batch one after another that makes it hard catching them all. But if we get an alert that something is up, I know I'll go through and just do a check overall of the moderation queue and any posts that the forum software has hidden by default. I actually do agree that there should be some kind of forum gatekeeper, and probably some more robust deletion tools, but it's a balancing act - how do we stop the spammers without making hard for legit new users to get on and ask questions without them getting annoyed, flipping a desk and threatening to "GO TO ABLETON!!!!!!11!!" The forum update did add a lot more useful tools for this though. Ultimately that's up to the admins, as mods we have the power to clean up spam, ban spammers, and the usual mod things like keep the peace and keep the forum clean and running well, and I've personally passed on a few suggestions regarding this stuff. In the meantime, cheers for the reports, guys. Like I said, sometimes this catches us when we're off working or eating or just between timezones and can take a while to sort out, but we'll get onto it as soon as we see it.

The cow alone is worth the price. Installed!

I do report them, but (1) the report button is now hidden and many other users might not know where it has been moved to, (2) it is not spam (unwanted legitimate marketing), (3) the posts are a sign that somewhere there is someone either knowingly or unknowingly running malicious code, and JMO (4a) there should be a category for this ("malevolent post," "potential domain or site attack," or something like that) and (4b) considering that this is probably the # 1 usage of the report button, it should be the default. If I am the first one to report 10-25 posts, make my job easier!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This bundle will be available for only $35 instead of the normal $105 from today and ends on August 30th, 2023. This bundle requires the paid version of Kontakt 5.8.1. It will not work with the free Kontakt player. https://audioplugin.deals/product/veevum-morph-synth-mod-tron-bundle-by-audiofier/

You also only get two years of updates, so if you're not subscribed, or paying WUP again for the plugins you've already bought, then no updates. This affects Mac users more, as it's pretty common for a new OS from Apple to not be compatible, so you might want to upgrade your OS, or buy a new computer and if 2 years has passed since you bought Waves plugins, you're sweet out of luck unless you pay them again to use your plugins. It can affect Windows too, but less common, but if you have a problem and need tech support, after 2 years, they won't help you unless you pay WUP. Terrible policies and many other companies provide free updates and support for 5, 10 years+ There are so many better choices.

The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds (Cumulo Nimbus Mix)

The one I've been waiting for. Missed it last time it was on sale.

Still prefer "Full Kontakt" version(s), 'cos they allow offline and manual installation (as far as you have already Kontakt installed)! I don't like NI Access and there are already too many products in it (Komplete), it is not very clearly arranged (in short a mess)!

Neither do I. All I can do is shake my head and ask "WT# were you thinking!!"

Waves plugins are some of the best out there. Always have been. Some don't like what they do, some don't like what they did, and some don't like what they think they will do, as a company. The only reason I see to skip is the one license deal. However, they do offer an option to put your license on a USB key. So you can take your license anywhere with you, plug it in to any computer. Effectively making the one license point moot. Then there's WUP (Waves Update Plan). It's a update/support plan that you can buy if you want... but you don't need to. Your plugins will work as long as the OS supports a DAW the has VST support. But it is something to be aware of. In truth, there is no reason to skip on this deal. There are some great plugins in the Platinum bundle. The first four are really great plugins that use very little cpu. When they were released back in the day, they were some of the best plugins you could get. And still to this day, they are really good plugins! Add the Electric Grand 80 Piano in there, along with all the Renn plugins, Waves Tune, and the V plugins... then you've got your money's worth in my book. And that ain't even half of what you get. 60 plugins for $100 equals $1.67 each. 60 plugins for $74 equals $1.24 each. You won't find a better deal on that kind of quality plugins.

We went down to the beach a few weeks back and shot this. First time I've ever done a video for a song before. Well...that's not entirely true. The band I was in when I was 17 made a music video with a friend's camcorder. But, it was only watched by us and our parents and is currently (probably) under a diaper in a landfill somewhere. Anyway, kind of proud of how it turned out and just wanted to share it with folks.

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You clearly never listened to Devin Townsend. It's literally Enya meets progressive metal.

IMPORTANT: Do not assume that things that look like spam are benign. It used to be that this type of phishing activity had malicious links for malevolent purposes. Often they pretend to be marketing for legitimate products or services in hopes of getting people to click on malevolent links. In the past I would hover over links to see where they went. I would not click on them and I recommend that no one ever click on any links in "spam" posts (or e-mails). As a courtesy, I used to report embedded links (as text) to support my reports that they were malicious posts. For example:

Yep, that's there already. Basically if the forum software thinks something looks sus then it will hide any threads made by that poster, and then we have the ability to go in and flag that account as a spammer when we see it next, which bans them. So it's not ideal, but at least it's not dumping crap everywhere if the software catches it out. I also suspect that a good amount of thumbs down reactions would trigger the software to hide threads too as potential spam, so that might be an option too if you guys see it.

A few will do, HIBI.

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Who cares. I happily divorced Waves after v12 after being WUP'd and shelled to death.

Installed!

Yoda-ized. 😁

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You gotta love that Melda bundle deal. This plugin is included in my Mixing bundle!! Shweeeet!

@mettelus, and I just realized, you basically called that out as well. You specifically reference multiple monitors, and I glossed over that. So thanks to you as well!

I didn't hear the original, but this version was excellent! JEff

Can we please see a screen shot of the following: Preferences - Audio - Devices Preferences - Audio - Playback and Recording?

Bad as s? 🤔

Steve, I appreciate your take on the video. My intent was to show the seeming randomness of dreams and not for a story with a clear beginning and end. And then there's the fun I had with special effects and probably going overboard with all that. -Bjorn

My bad, I didn't know it was a vendor. I guess the post count should've given me a clue. https://everyplugin.com/platinum.html#product-tabs2 73.99 for me and it's not an upgrade. Do I trust Lucy not to pull the football away this time. I removed Waves from my email list. This appeals to my plugin hoarding but bad business model.

For those interested in the topic the OP carried on and found a solution. Offset mode!

I agree this thread I think is one of those that the question would be why are my songs quieter than commercial releases. Answer- learn about mastering I actually gave you one of the tools that you would try in my first post. Boost11. A brick wall limiter will raise you RMS level and put a cap on the peak level. In my signature is the link to my tutorials look for any on the topic of mastering or mixing