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Saw this deal in my e-mail earlier today. I love their sample packs. Free for a very limited time. https://riemannkollektion.com/collections/hot-at-the-moment/products/riemann-dark-melodic-techno-6-24bit-wav-loops-oneshots

This week the free games on Epic Games are Call of the Wild: The Angler™ and Invincible Presents: Atom Eve. Call of the Wild: The Angler™ "From the creators of the Hunter: Call of the Wild comes an open world fishing experience! Relax and unwind at your favorite spot or explore the beautiful great outdoors with friends as you embark on the journey to become a master angler." Get it here: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/call-of-the-wild-the-angler Free until: March 28 Steam rating: Very Positive / Mixed Steam page (for reviews & more info): https://store.steampowered.com/app/1408610/Call_of_the_Wild_The_Angler/ Invincible Presents: Atom Eve "Become Atom Eve and take control of your own path as one of the most powerful superheroes in the Invincible universe! Unravel a mystery and balance the dangers and responsibilities of being a superhero with the relatable challenges of everyday life." Get it here: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/atom-eve-ff090d Free until: March 28 Steam rating: Very Positive Steam page (for reviews & more info): https://store.steampowered.com/app/2060870/Invincible_Presents_Atom_Eve/ Gameplay video for Call of the Wild: The Angler™: Gameplay video for Invincible Presents: Atom Eve:

Not only can you have different delay times for different instruments, you can have different delay times for different note ranges and/or velocity ranges within the same instrument. This can be useful if you have a string sound that has a slower attack at lower velocities.

https://www.decentsamples.com/product/stella-mandolin/

I heard back from support. After a few brief exchanges back and forth and suggestions from me on how they should clear things up for their Ultimate customers, the support person emailed back and said he saw that I have been a customer for a long time and purchased many of the free (now) plugins. So he kindly issued a license to my account. 🙂 While I think this pricing is stupid, it's nice to know there are decent and reasonable people on the other end.

Run Steinberg Download Assistant

My "early access" Cakewalk software came on a 5.25" floppy disk... 😜

SERVICE UPDATE. Just a quick note to let you know there is a new update for all of our plugins available via the PA Installation Manager. FIX • Scaling issue solved, so no more black boxes around the plugin GUI in VST3 in Cubase on Windows systems NEW • Double click control resets to default value • Added mouse sensitivity selection to main menu (upper right corner) Just reinstall from the app to update

https://gigperformer.com/the-decent-sampler-xml-generator-free-download Gig Performer has just released a free application called the Decent Sampler XML Generator for Windows and Mac. This standalone app lets you employ the free Decent Sampler to load and trigger a custom collection of samples quickly and directly from the plugin host. It can be helpful when you want to have a small collection of sound effects pre-loaded and mapped to the keyboard of a basic sampler like the Decent Sampler. https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2024/03/20/decent-sampler-xml-generator/

$17.64 with code GROUP https://www.jrrshop.com/psp-springbox

Check the deal at PA site https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/products/rx1200-12-bit-sampler-intrument.html

If you're not in a hurry, it's been 29$ several times recently. I got it for 19$ a while back.

Best mag in da biz!

Prices from $9 https://www.pluginboutique.com/deals/show?sale_id=15835

The 2445 is one of my most used reverbs. And the Twin-L is pretty much on every mix and in my recording chain for bass.

Blowdio is a new free effect plugin by Integraudio that lets you add different colors and flavors of tape saturation to your sound. https://integraudio.com/blowdio-review/ It's a review with download link at last of page

My understanding has always been that theory was developed to explain why music works and sounds good. It’s kind of like what came first, the chicken or the egg. When theory is not followed, but something still sounds good, then it’s often written in theory as an exception. I think it’s good and OK to understand theory, but I do think that it sometimes keeps people from coloring outside of the lines. Some people can’t stand coloring outside of the lines and others find that to be interesting and creative. Similarly, blue is a primary color and that is a rule of design….but does the sky need to be painted blue.

Wait until the Black Friday sale if you want to upgrade your V Collection. Should be $99 for any version as they do every year.

This comes as the 2.2.0 update

Using my soprano, alto and tenor saxes, fretless jazz bass, midi guitar, Ezdrummer3.

Regarding 2 - you're wrong. see here

https://zaksound.com/atmospheres/

https://kilohearts.com/blog/introducing-shaper-and-shaper-table Shaper: Free forever Shaper Table: $39 $19.50 Intro price (Sale expires at midnight CET on March 24th!)

I don't get out of bed for Spitfire unless it's minimum 50% discount across the board. 😉

Hope the band can play again Dave but, more importantly, hope your friend beats the big "C!"

Harmonic Maximizer Harmonic Maximizer is a multi-band exciter and loudness shaping plugin that will make your tracks powerful and more alive. $29 https://www.audiority.com/shop/harmonic-maximizer/ LDC2 Compander LDC2 is an analog modeled optical compressor and expander with exchangeable optical circuits, solid-state preamplifier and output stage, giving you a unique compression character. $29 https://www.audiority.com/shop/ldc2-compander/ PolyComp PolyComp is an analog simulation of a VCA mastering multiband compressor, a versatile dynamic processor, providing three bands of VCA compression. $29 https://www.audiority.com/shop/polycomp/

So far, users have to wrap our heads around, 1. The announcement was made, what, nine months ago? It's uncommon to say the least for a rollout to take this along. Especially since.... 2. There really are no feature updates. Just a HiDPI update and some bug fixes, which is expected from any product. 3. There has been zero clarity as to how much the thing will sell for and how it will be paid. The "pssst, over here" Bandlab sneak peek thing is lame. Sorry, it just is. Someone who subscribes to Bandlab just for the Sonar access might end up paying twice one the real pricing is rolled out. This is the weirdest, softest rollout of any software I have ever seen, bar none. 4. And Bandlab...some legacy Cakewalk Plugins and Virtual Instruments aren't really worth much of anything in 2024. Session Drummer? Concrete Limiter? C'mon man.

you can never have too many delays haha!

I like that he goes over features that I don't usually use / haven't explored, but might now that I see he pointed them out. Also, nice that he highlights some of the new features. Glad to see the content is about Cakewalk's features and not secondary to his personal preferences for another DAW.

5 Euros https://audiomodern.com/shop/packs/reanimatic/

Still waiting for their Virtual Monitoring Add-on to go on sale....

I think the problem is Arturia spolied us with previous offers.

I like it. A lot. Yet, no toms.

I contacted support and got a second one. Boom like that

Very nice Mark. Left a like and comment over at SoundClick. Y'all could too ya know... t I'm bluetoothed into my new hearing-aids and adjusting to being able to hear the "top end" again! Consequently I'll hold off on any "technical" comments as I'm still "learning" where I'm at these days.

$16.79 with code GROUP https://www.jrrshop.com/psp-twin-l

This bundle will be offered for only $40 instead of the normal $162 from today until April 3, 2024. https://audioplugin.deals/product/pad-motion-drop-cre8-analog-expansion-bundle-by-sample-fuel/

Lately there are some very good PSP deals, but only for plugins that I already have! 😞 Okay, maybe I have too many, but there are some I am waiting for a deal for a long time!

I have the answer to my own question. It's in Piano Roll view, not Track view shortcuts:

@mark skinner, @garybrun . . . I listened to this last night (headphones), so looks like you've updated the mix . . . first of all it's got that "classic" different guitars panned left and right thing that Mark does so well, and the recorded acoustic instruments are captured to perfection I think. From my memory of the previous listen I think the arrangement got a lot clearer, especially in the low end . . . bass guitar pops a lot more, and the tabla sounds really good and punchy. Certainly goes through a lot of moods, Indian jazz, mix collab sounds excellent, and you know I love that cello !

MIDI files do not have the capability to store time offsets of any kind, ticks or milliseconds. CbB generally renders any non-destructive MIDI effects/transformations into the MIDI events on saving as MIDI, basically the same as it does when rendering MIDI through a soft synth. I haven't tested this with articulations but I would expect that to be the case.

It’s the best all-in-one I have. Among (too) many.

Same and I agree! --- edit --- https://kilohearts.com/products/kilohearts_ultimate Now I'm a little annoyed. They should have done like IK or Arturia and labelled it "Ultimate 1", "Ultimate 2", etc. The way it is now is simply says "own the entire collection". So do I own Ultimate or not?? (For the record, yes, I do.) Hrmph. --- edit --- There. Now they have another support email to answer. (support@kilohearts.com) 😉

Oh lord. I'll advise how it goes this time.

Same here. I don't subscribe to software.

Not only they should be crisp at all res, but also scalable at all res as well. As soon as you see someone moving for a format suitable for 4k panels, you seem to always lose the ability to either scale lower than 100% or you lose screen space because, as I mentioned before, the vector UI seems to be a change made for 4k users by 4k users with little to no consideration for other screen resolutions. And while you can technically use resolution scaling to put your monitor at 4k then scale it down to native res, you're gonna have worse results if you already start with poor readability. And to say this is not people nitpicking on changes because of preference, the UI changes implemented in Cubase 13 were similar to the Sonar ones and a lot of people complained about poor contrast and also citing visual impairments which made the interface hard to read. Though my main personal nitpick with the change to the vector UI is the 15% size increase. How is it not possible to maintain the exact same interface size from before when you have freely scalable graphics. And let's consider that CbB already had quite a bit of screen space lost to dock borders and such.

Interesting. I have 2 identical 24" Dell screens so I've had it side by side and CbB is definitely easier on the eyes. Cripser, more contrast - better demarcation between items. Whether that's just design choices or other more technical reasons I don't know. I just call it as I see it.