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This is free for Hyperion owners. Use Tracktion Download Manager to install. $65 Regular price but code LABOR23 makes it $39 Purchase entitles owner to upgrade to Hyperion for half price. https://www.tracktion.com/products/theia

https://insanitysamples.com/collections/monthly-spotlight The Vintage Keys Collection - $75 ($126) NEW ORLEANS BRASS - A 5 Instrument Brass Powerhouse - $75 ($126) OFFENSIVE DRUMS - Sticks, Mallets & Brushes -$23 ($39) The Cool Jazz Collection - $152 ($254) + New release w/ intro pricing: SHIRE WINDS - The Folk Woodwind Collection - $96 ($190) https://insanitysamples.com/collections/out-now/products/shire-winds-the-folk-woodwind-collection FULL version of Kontakt 5.8.1 required.

I bet you've been waiting for this sale all year, but HoRNet are having a 80% off all plugins party (but only if you buy more than one) for the next few days (a bit less at the time of posting). Buying them is easier than catching Pokemons in Pokemon Go without a phone. https://www.hornetplugins.com/ Next up, Waves' plugins for 29.99...

Absolutely. It’s all about achieving the end result. No one, other than other musicians & engineers, cares how hard or easy the process was, as long as the result is interesting in some way. Look at how much more depth there was to music of the early ‘70s when 24-track machines were a thing (thinking specifically of Genesis, Yes, Floyd) compared to what was attainable a mere decade earlier when the Beatles were basically recording live in studio to mono or 2-track. Was that cheating? Who cares. It’s lovely music that wouldn’t have otherwise existed.

Amen John. However, I don't look at it as cheating. And if it is, then the studio has always been about cheating. Just the ability to do a second take is technically cheating. You can't do that live. And how long have people been doing punch ins, cutting tape, etc? No, I view being a musician like being a NASCAR mechanic. The studio is the garage where we're EXPECTED to build an outstanding car because everyone knows we have the luxury of time & lots of tools. And we HAVE to build an outstanding car to compete because every other pro is using those exact same advantages. Now playing live, that's our race day where we show how well we handle the pressure of the pit with no second chances. But the beauty is, unlike the studio, no one is expecting perfection live. We just need to show that we're not all smoke & mirrors. Even from the pros, we expect to hear a few off notes, tempo fluctuations, etc. Which is why even live albums are almost always doctored. Btw, Tom Scholz of Boston is a big hero of mine. In one of his interviews on youtube he points to a few TALL stacks of cut tape. He says that those are all just the drum edits for the song Don't Look Back. Not the whole album, just one song. He follows that by saying, 'I'll do whatever it takes to get the sound I'm hearing in my head". Bottom line, if editing is cheating then I'd guess around 90% of pro musicians belong in jail. (Even if their producers did the dirty work)

The Lovely Lady is enough for moi.

Hornet does seem to have a sale going on almost constantly. But they're a good developer and their sale prices make them an excellent value. Thanks, @Kirean and @satya, you two have been doing a great job keeping up on deals in cclarry's absence. I'm sure I'm not alone in my appreciation.

29 EUR for me. I have Drumazon and Frontier. Not sure if I need it either. Once I found the video (linked above) which starts off by showing differences, I didn't look for a text based list. That would be good to have, too. UPDATE: I just found this review article ("D16 Group’s Drumazon 2 Will Get New Effects, Busses, Trigger Outs") that focuses on some of what's new. Hope it helps. It takes less time to read than to watch the video. I don't think either are comprehensive--they just have what the writer or youtuber felt important enough to mention. MORE DETAILS: Here's a link to the pdf manual. Its not a summary, but since I looked it up for myself, I though this is a good place to share the link/

Looks like this issue has now been solved. I can now access all my older product downloads.

If I can cheat—/- I cheat. Midi most certainly taught me that. Now I’m figuring out how to do the same with audio. But in the end I do the cheating and hate the result so pick up my guitar and a shot of whiskey and then nail it in the first take because that 6 hours of editing to get what I was after is now deeply embedded in my brain. I have no qualms about deleting 6 hours of work if I don’t like it. That’s how you achieve stardom like me. Well, at least my dog seems to like my music.

Is this the anti-Kenny thread? He's looking for some amore. 😁

Craig if ye fancy watching whales yourself, found a used sub with pricedrop on Ebay.

or just have them play it right in the first place 🙂

You can add 1973 to that table. The difference is that in 1973 I bought my first house out of gig earnings. Today it buys a tank of gas. btw, last week my band went into a studio to record a going-away gift for our departing guitarist. The software in use there was Sonar 6. I am now mixing it in the current Sonar beta. I have worked on several projects that were started in CbB and seamlessly transferred to Sonar. No one should have any qualms about losing projects going forward.

1983 -Home Studio set up with 8 track Tape machine, mixing board, a few processors and an Amega or Atari computer and few hardware synths for Midi = $10,000. 2023 - Home studio set up with audio interface, headphones, descent mike and near fields =$1,000. This seems contrary to things like the cost of a car or a case of beer and just about everything you purchase, Oh but I forgot, musicians are in a time warp.. 1983 Gig = $100 2023 Gig = $100 So if it takes playing 3 gigs to buy Sonar I'm in.

That's a good idea John. I need to try that. Esp since I tell friends that I nail everything on the first take. I'd hate to get caught in a lie 🙃

Yes this is the simplest solution. No need to use plugin manager.

Most X.0 programs have an X.0.1 release shortly thereafter. Cakewalk has a history of introducing hotfixes when needed. I can personally vouch for that - several years ago I alerted Noel to a problem no one else caught, and there was a public hotfix in a week. So...yes, you have 6 months to decide if you want to go to the new Sonar, but that also means you have 6 months where you can chill and check out a somewhat later version with bug fixes. You don't have to use the very first release, you can wait for one or two "point" updates if they're needed, and see how things unfold. I look forward to seeing what the Bakers come up with. I'm encouraged that it's not being rushed to market.

Yes we can, but you can't assume the same about the bean counters at Bandlab. They could well be getting twitchy about CbB being an endless drain on their resources.

I think you may have wandered into the Deals section by mistake.

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Get out of here with that crazy talk! 🤨