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Softube seriously has the WORST upgrade program in the business!

https://www.newfangledaudio.com/holidaysale#saturate

During the holidays, Epic Games gives away one free game every day, amounting to a total of 17 games. Each game is available for free for a limited period of 24 hours. The seventh one is Human Resource Machine. "Human Resource Machine is a puzzle game for nerds. In each level, your boss gives you a job. Automate it by programming your little office worker. If you succeed, you'll be promoted up to the next level for another year of work in the vast office building." https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/human-resource-machine Gameplay video:

IF CbB was as bad as you think, the forums would be on fire....

During the holidays, Epic Games gives away one free game every day, amounting to a total of 17 games. Each game is available for free for a limited period of 24 hours. The sixth one is The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition. "As you explore a space colony, the character you decide to become will determine how this player-driven story unfolds. In the colony's corporate equation, you are the unplanned variable. The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition is the ultimate way to play the award-winning RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division. Including the base game and all DLC, this remastered masterpiece is the absolute best version of The Outer Worlds." https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/the-outer-worlds-spacers-choice-edition Gameplay video:

Soundfingers 2 freebies https://soundfingers.com/freebies/

just sign up and you will get email with code to redeem https://www.boyss-sound-e-scapes.com/cgc-shaker.html format: Kontakt (96KHz & 44.1KHz), Akai MPC software, NI Maschine

https://www.uaudio.com/uad-plugins.html

https://www.softube.com/promos/end-of-year-sale

Or you don't feel like spending an extra $50 (the price of entry, based on M-Audio's cheapest interface) and lugging around an extra piece of hardware just so you can compose and mix while traveling or perched in a coffee house. There's nothing inherently wrong with the Realtek hardware CODEC, I've actually read their datasheets, etc. For ITB work WASAPI Exclusive-on-Realtek will get you there just fine. I've seen EDM artists gigging live with audio coming straight out of their Windows laptops. And here's one anecdotal report: WASAPI-on-Realtek can do a notch faster latency than my PreSonus Studio 2|4 on my notebook using ASIO, go figger. Dropping the $50 becomes necessary the moment someone wants to record audio. There's just no way around that yet.

$39.50

Dang it. The next time they do the $125 everything offer, I'll grab it. For now...I wait. The $125 everything offer wasn't even an upgrade offer. It was $125 for everything.

Or Loom II, Vacuum Pro and Riser for €9.90 https://www.thomann.de/de/air_music_technology_air_essential_synths_pack.htm?shp=eyJjb3VudHJ5IjoiZGUiLCJjdXJyZW5jeSI6MiwibGFuZ3VhZ2UiOjF9&reload=1&glp=1&gad_source=1 Or $9.99 for all three at Audio Deluxe and get Dirty Tape Free. https://www.audiodeluxe.com/products/audio-plugins/air-essential-synths-pack

One of the easiest yesses ever. Best soft clipper on the market.

https://www.productionmusiclive.com/pages/free-everything-preview-2023 This free bundle includes our favourite sounds from Deep Premium 7, Melodic Techno Academy, Diva and Serum Bundle, Acoustic 3, Overdrive Techno Production Pack and many more! 10 Serum Presets 10 Diva Preset 10 Ableton Racks 80+ One Shots and Loops 2 x Ableton Project Files

In somebodies defense, sometime you just spent a huge whop on the PC/Laptop and a set of decent speakers and you think maybe I should give this music thing a try now that I have a decent computer setup. You know, give it a go before I invest even more money on specialized gear and peripherals. Just saying.

🤔?? But it was released years ago and so it must be garbage, right? Newer stuff by less experienced programmers at underfunded companies must surely be releasing superior products. and besides - how can it be the best if I already own it?? You're just depriving me of excuses to enlarge my plugin collection with more items I'll never get around to using. Doesn't that violate the ethics of this forum?

I wanted to bump this one quick, because Chandler did a video when Scaler EQ came out to do basically the same thing with MDynamicEQ (currently on sale for $19 (regularly $76)). It is a little more involved to set it up with MDynamicEQ; however, this is very much worth noting since it uses functionality embedded into most Melda products that many folks either 1) do not use or 2) (more often) do not even know exist. I actually prefer videos that show this capability of the plugins over the "easy screen" overview, since the power of Melda plugins is in the editing view/multi-parameters. Unfortunately the number of tutorials covering editing view/multi-parameters rarely have "real world" examples included.

$15.20 = Installed!

9 Euros https://vstbuzz.com/deals/82-off-the-urban-cookbook-vol-2-by-goldbaby/

Hi Gary Totally agree with what tom said!! have a great Christmas Nigel

At Guitar Center POD https://www.guitarcenter.com/JBL/305P-MKII-5-Powered-Studio-Monitor-1500000151382.gc

Talking Heads - Psycho Killer

Wouldn't be Christmas without these. In fact, I've been known to play them at the most random times of the year. Putting up a Christmas tree in the middle of the summer can be quite therapeutic.

https://gs-dsp.com/products/mmm/ Yes thats the name Magic MIDI Modulation Are you ready to add a little “Mmmph” to your music production? Look no further than MMM - the Magic Midi Modulator that’s so good, you’ll be saying mmMMMmm all day long! Features 24 MIDI CC sends simultaneously 24 Modulators arranged in 2 banks 2 XY Pads 2 Vertical Sliders 2 Horizontal Sliders 16 Rotary Knobs Send MIDI CC messages to any device or the plugin’s internal MIDI output System Support ▷ OS X 10.13+ | Windows 10+ iOS 12+ ▷ VST3, AU, AAX, AUv3

be quick https://midi2themax.gumroad.com/l/scale-library-for-Live

Getting a real audio interface will solve this and 99% of all the other audio problems you are going to run into.

Its for those who can’t afford a real audio device…… or who have a screwed up system. Real Asio drivers on a decent system work nearly every time as they should. just saying ….. J

https://www.synthmaster.com/synthmaster3.aspx

Seems like there is a disk failure problem with SanDisk https://www.theverge.com/22291828/sandisk-extreme-pro-portable-my-passport-failure-continued

We really appreciate all of the support you all have shown for us since we released Complexx, and the new Filkchannel update! It's a been a great year and we couldn't have done it without you! We also are super excited to unveil our next free plugin, and all of the exciting plans for 2024 here soon! An Extra Discount Code For You 🎁 It's the season of giving so we wanted to make sure you knew that you can use the code Holiday15 at checkout to get an extra 15% off your order on top of ALL the current sales! https://www.kiiveaudio.com/

Don’t forget one thing : what doesn’t work for you may work fo others - perhaps your issues are mostly system specific ?. I’ve had very few issues with CbB (and those i had were mostly user error), it is stable, very usable and thoroughly recommendable. But thats just my POV. YMMV but not mine. I paid for Sonar before it became CbB and i’ll do it again, no problem when Sonar comes out. YMMV

https://www.kvraudio.com/product/blackbird-by-dmitry-khrykin BlackBird is an analog-inspired software synth with its own voice. Features: Two 3-waveform unison oscillators. Low-pass filter. Single envelope for velocity, filter cutoff, and resonance. Built-in Reverb. Wheel modulation. For Win and Mac

https://rastsound.com/downloads/chameleon/

No, the best you can do is adding a $14.50 Massive expansion und using the voucher bringing the total to $64.

Crucial, recommended by B&H

So this randomising synth was in Andrew Huang's top list of 2023: https://vst.beatsurfing.com/music-production-tools/random/ It seemed interesting, but I initially shelved it to buy at a later point because I'm drowning in synths. Then I realised they had a "make your own bundle" option where you buy 3 of their plugins and get 40% on top of the sale prices: https://vst.beatsurfing.com/music-production-tools/make-your-own-audio-plugin-bundle/ So they got me. I picked Random, 7 Deadly Snares and Lunch Table, which all seem like cool plugins. Can't wait to never use them. Happy new year.

That is absurd. KSHMR is a maaaaasive electronic producer, who has products through a gazillion companies. It would be like trashing Native Instruments/ Splice.com because the KHSMR sample packs are one of their biggest sellers / partnerships, despite controversies with those sample packs over plagiariasm with Mick Gordon's Doom OST. Lifeline Console / Expanse have absolutely nothing to do with any of the KSHMR stuff. They are exceptional plugins - both have replaced most of my lo-fi plugins, including RC-20 and Lo-Fi-AF (Unfiltered Audio), as they are far more versatile , with great programming / UI, and sound far better (specifically the full versions). Free lite versions are a no-brainer, since upgrading to full is often on sale for dirt cheap.

If you go here... https://www.plugins-samples.com/shop/subscription-gifts/ it's more expensive, but you can pick a free gift. https://www.plugins-samples.com/shop/

David Sylvian - Let The Happiness In

Probably a few of us have Equivocate, which was free in the past. Current upgrade to Mastering Bundle is about $55. Curious what it changes to for those that bought Saturate for $15.20?

When I click https://www.jrrshop.com/catalogsearch/result/index/?dir=asc&limit=36&order=price&q=JRR+Sound+Kits, all I see are kits for $4.99 each. Am I missing something?

Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)

Ah, I live in hope that more folks will embrace the hybrid digital/analogue mixing world!

Now Available on iOS Fully re-coded but with the same classic tape echo sound. Brand new Retina GUI. New Features! The new version is available to all previous v1 users. Just log into your user area. Promo ends on 6 Jan 2024. $39 intro price https://www.audiothing.net/effects/outer-space/

Dr Drive is an analog simulation of a modern overdrive inspired by the Horizon Devices Precision Drive. Dr Phase is an analog simulation of the epochal MXR Phase 90 phaser pedal introduced in the early 70s and used by countless musicians. https://www.audiority.com/shop/dr-drive/ https://www.audiority.com/shop/dr-phase/

On such roads, passing is permitted WHEN SAFE TO DO SO. That means no oncoming traffic. I stand by my statement. And, yes, those types of roads can be scary as hell. I have been guilty of passing when I shouldn't have. I was a teen, driving the family station wagon, with the family in it. I started a passing maneuver that I should have had plenty of time to complete, but I was young, inexperienced and didn't realize how much extra time it would take to pass because I was towing a boat with a car that had 7 people in it. An oncoming driver was forced off the road to their right. Scared the hell out of me and the rest of my family. I counted my blessings, and never made that mistake again.

Happy Christmas to all.

I have the everything bundle and I regret buying it, even though I got it for only 34€. The thing is, none of it offers the type of sounds that I'd actually use. But that might depend on the genre you're doing. Me, I like synthwave, trap, pop, rock. The Rigid Audio instruments are mostly soundscapes or somewhat experimental.

We’ve been black listed. I’m probably a waist of time anyway because I haven’t found a bug in Cakewalk for probably 5 years So doubt I’d find anything wrong with Sonar. I was messing with Sonar Home Studio yesterday and the audio engine kept stopping. This just proves to me how far we’ve come since 2016. We forget those days and how you just block out what it was like. I don’t see how people can still be using those versions? I’m happy that I won’t ever have to go back there. Note that Home Studio was a lot more stable than Splat back then because it is so simple. I bought it for that reason. I was going to use it for live performance.