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For my fellow fans of AIR's Hybrid 3 (best money I've ever spent on a virtual instrument), Sounds2Inspire have updated their Hybrid Ambience expansion pack. Best of all: it's still free: https://sounds2inspire.com/hybridambience/ As much as I love Hybrid 3, it's considered kinda old, so to see a soundware developer giving it some attention warms my heart.

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41.16$ with code GROUP https://www.jrrshop.com/tracktion-kult

Download page: Clon Minotaur Transparent Overdrive – Nembrini Audio

My dad always said that if you lend someone money and then never see them again, consider it money well spent.

I finally had a chance to sit down and work with the new interface. I have to say that I'm really, really digging it. It's snappy, easy to read, and unlike Cubase and Studio One, it doesn't seem cluttered or have fonts that are too small. Picked up the subscription, and going to give it some heavy use.

Quoting you from that topic: Okay, so it's via an extension to the BandLab Backstage Pass membership, but it's still just an "early access," which phrase has been used for years in this forum by employees of BandLab to mean "feature complete but not yet released." And that's what I thought. There's still nothing definite one way or the other about how the released products are going to be priced. I agree that signs point to one option being like PreSonus' Studio One+ subscription, where the subscription grants the user access to a variety of things, one of which is use of the Studio One Pro DAW. This Backstage Pass sounds similar and I wouldn't be surprised to see something like it continue once Sonar and Next are actually released. However, I would be very much surprised if there is not also a perpetual license option for Sonar. People can go on and on about how the software industry is heading in the subscription direction, but the fact remains that for audio production software, there is exactly ONE single DAW that is subscription-only, which is Adobe Audition, not exactly a force in the DAW market. Even AVID still offers perpetual licenses for Pro Tools. And AFAIK, the majority of DAW vendors have no subscription option. I'm not sure which ones do, other than PreSonus and AVID. So yeah, trends in the software industry blah blah blah, but subscription-only is NOT a trend in the audio software industry. Adobe is the only one who do it, and I think the popularity of Audition speaks for how successful they have been with that. I don't know how well Studio One+ is doing, but it looks that as with BandLab, you get access to a whole bunch of stuff along with the DAW itself. I think that's a great way to do it: if you'd rather have people on subscription, let the subscription also give access to premium services. The DAW that is said to be the most popular in the world right now, FL Studio, has pretty much the opposite licensing model: pay once and you really do get a "perpetual" license in that it grants you the right to use the product and all of its future versions as long as the product and the company exist. Same with MeldaProduction, a plug-in vendor I have watched grow in popularity. One major player, Waves, tried to switch to subscription-only and they still washing off the smell of the crap that got slung at them for trying it, also they are completely back to the same old licensing model they had before: I get an email a day offering their plug-ins on sale at $19.99 each for perpetual licenses. Subscription is merely one of their options, along with bundles and singles. I'm making the BIG distinction here between only selling licenses via subscription and having a subscription option. They are wildly different things. I'm a perpetual-only guy, but I also think that subscriptions are a great option to have for businesses and individuals who prefer to spread costs out or find it better for accounting reasons. The thing I'm most looking forward to at Sonar's eventual release is finally shutting down the panicky speculation about pricing and licensing....the bottom line is that we don't know what the release pricing and licensing will be until it's announced.

Nembrini Audio has arguably the best rendition of this pedal in a plugin. And it's free.

Mike's video giving a brief overview of new features

Update - I decided to open an Etsy shop to see if I could sell a few ukes, and fund the next instrument design. Would you like your own custom, 3D printed uke? I'd be happy to give a discount to forum members thanks to all the help and feedback that has been provided along the way in my musical journey. https://www.etsy.com/listing/1696540481/3d-printed-soprano-ukulele This one has been quite the project. I got it into my head a while ago that it would be fun to write and record a song on an instrument that I made. Since my woodworking skills are non-existent, I turned to 3D design and printing. Since I was doing 3D printing, that meant the instrument was going to be a ukulele. Designing and printing a ukulele that sounded halfway decent turned out to take a fair bit longer than I was planning. But I'm pretty happy with the result. Ukology is the demo song, using the 3D printed ukes. Hope you enjoy. And if you have a 3D printer, and would like to print one, you can get the files here: https://www.printables.com/model/806849-soprano-ukulele/related#tabs Jeff

Valhalla Room updated to v2.0.5 New Space and Lo Cut controls. New in 2.0.0! Space controls the feedback around the predelay and early reflections. Use it to add natural decay to early reflections, create diffuse echoes, or make long modulated reverbs with the early section by itself. New in 2.0.0! The Lo Cut control allows the user to reduce the low frequency content of the reverb output. According to website this was released March 15th but first mention I heard of was today. Download available in your account folder: https://valhalladsp.com/my-account/downloads/

You tacked this on to a thread from 2019. Much has happened since 2019, especially in the past several months that affected TTS-1's inclusion in the current build of CbB (Cakewalk by Bandlab). See the following thread. If you have an older version of CbB, perhaps you can find TTS-1. Not sure if you only have a version after which TTS-1 was dropped. In either case, the 2024 thread would be a better place to ask for help than a 2019 thread.

https://www.spitfireaudio.com/eric-whitacre-contrast

I bought this in October of ‘23 looks like price during this sale matches intro price from last October. Wanted to clarify that it’s not a new release as I had to double check myself haha. But it is a cool library if that is your thing.

I must say, CbB/Sonar has one of the best first-look UIs around. I still compare others to it.

It's a shame we can't do multiple emoji's. I'd do a "Like" emoji for the much ado reference; a "Good idea" emoji for referring people to the FAQs; a "Thanks" emoji for choosing a relevant quote that those with blinders on seem to be missing (some intentionally so); and an "LMAO" emoji for the brilliant Bitcoin/Unicorn allusion that for me gets at the speculation / imagination some people are responding to instead of the facts.

Then where's the press release announcing the new SONAR? What's the price? Can it be purchased? Does access require a bandlab subscription? The way they're handling this is shabby at best.

I hope your buddy, Mark, heals both quickly and completely, and the magic that is that combination of musicians survives.

Wow, I wasn't kidding about Adobe Audition's status in the DAW world as the lone subscription-only product. Out of curiosity I did a search for "Adobe Audition" on YouTube. You know how DAW's like Cakewalk and FL Studio and Ableton Live and Cubase and REAPER and Studio One have "channels" where a user will post an ongoing series of videos about the DAW? Yeah....not so much with Audition.

This document shows you the improvements etc. Sonar

What subscription scheme are you referring to? To my knowledge, Cakewalk have announced neither a subscription model nor a perpetual model for Sonar licensing. They currently have something where you get access to a pre-release version of it with a BandLab membership. But it's only a pre-release, not the actual shipping version. Did I miss something?

All the smoke and mirrors about the new Sonar and some people not seeing the obvious and listening to reason made me switch to Reaper.

The "Bakers" don't have any control over the rollout plan. They said it before and can say it again. They aren't setting the prices and terms - Bandlab is. We should be sending emails and comments to Bandlab and let the developers work on the program in peace. The problem with these types of "get your music heard" subscriptions is they don't work. Of the people I have spoken too about Bandlab, Landr, Soundcloud, etc. people rarely go there to find new music. They hear it elsewhere and go to these place to find what they heard. Now many of these places do distribute your music to various sites (Youtube, Amazon, Spotify, Pandora, Jango, etc.) for a cost (to you) but in the end, playing live is how you get exposed. Tossing a bunch of tracks on Soundcloud and then having them distributed will pretty much get you nothing - most of the time. There are some success stories but they are rare. I really don't want to have to buy/pay/rent/subscribe to sites like this. I want a DAW. It's simple. A DAW. Bandlab is not a carrot.

Hi. This time I try to entertain you with a bit melancholy tune. You may have heard it already on the old cakewalk forum. Nevertheless I hope you like it https://on.soundcloud.com/3J4ks

Well, I guess I can say no more. I'm done and I'll just wait and see if I will be using New Sonar or not. Will have to brush up on studio One and reaper. Although I am more familiar with Reaper. Feel like I am leaving an old friend, well I am. Wish it was different but I honestly believe they will stick with their subscription scheme and the hell with the rest of us 30+ years Cakewalk Users............ I was actually warned in another forum that I frequent years ago that this would happen. I argued for CW and said no way. They may have subscriptions but they also will sell it to us...........Guess they were right and I was wrong. ?

If I say anything anymore people will think I'm angry and just lock the thread. So I'm just here reading other people's post and reacting to the same thing I have been saying all along. ??

BBCSO still reigns. On their own app.

I'm confused, you don't want feedback?

I'd say until they're over but that would be snarky. ? So, I'll say you never really know unless they advertise it as a Flash Sale, which thus ain't. But I'd be surprised if lasts beyond the end of the month.

This is a good video. He really appears to be all for Sonar being brought back out. Sure knows his way around.

The current asking price is bandlab membership.

What current asking price? I don't think a price for the new Sonar has been announced yet.

35 Euros - Requires Full Kontakt https://rastsound.com/downloads/master-shakuhachi/

John, I unplugged the usb and yes! I was able to record the combi sound to an audio track. I have my Korg connected to a Focusrite scarlett 4i4 interface with 5 pin midi cables. I also have the Korg 1/4 inch outputs going into the L and R instrument inputs on the 4i4. Just this week I added the USB connection in order to run the M50 plugin editor vst. Can't thank you enough for pointing out something so simple to fix my problem. With all these connections and daw software, sometimes you miss the forest for the trees. Again, a million thanks.

Easy! You just load the plugin, then it prompts you to drag-and-drop a patch file onto it. It's a simple file But you need to download the zip archive from Github and unzip it.

Book of Demons is free on GOG for about 68 hours. See the first post for details.

Those services would cost you more money than whatever pricing Sonar charges for a perpetual license if they do so. - I don't know about you, but fixes are not features unless they introduce new functionality which wasn't present before the fact. - While the tempo track could be considered a feature, it's only a repacking of the tempo map stuff which already existed. That's one way to put it, considering a lot of what Bandlab sells is subscription based before CbB went commercial. IMO, the Export Window with its weird selection quirks and functionality which lies to the user is a downgrade. Because they never had an answer when several people asked if there would be subscription plans. If the answer was "no" every single time, why wouldn't they say it? And why didn't they respond to criticism towards the whole subscription thing and locked both threads instead? That looks like more profit if you assume all those users will buy those perpetual licenses at the same time, which is very unlikely. Even if they did, that will net $40,000,000.00 once. Meanwhile, your less profitable subscription plan will net you $48,000,000.00 per year with the same users as long as they keep subscribed. And they're cheaper on the long run because having a steady flow of cash incentives stagnation, which will translate in lack of bug fixes and updates on the long run. Or they're gonna do the same thing Adobe does and simply do minor version updates which do nothing but increase system requirements for that piece of software and break backwards compatibility.

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Except it's hard to make that statement because there are no detailed release notes on what was fixed. The difference here is that Bandlab can force that onto their users because I don't think the current userbase is large enough to put any pressure on the company to force change. The whole argument of holding pricing information and never being direct when asked about that when it was first announced nowadays feels more like they were testing to see how users would react with a subscription only model and to cause people not content with that to jump ship early so Bandlab would be met with little resistance when they introduced a subscription only model. He was right. There are different subscription tiers, giving you three options. Considering the financial journey, I don't think we're gonna perpetual licenses. They don't provide the instant profit shareholders demand and fail to keep users tied to an ancient piece of software which hasn't received significant updates for the last 20 years.

I wouldn't put money on it based on how strange the whole interaction was when the commercial versions were announced. It was obvious they wanted to not be on the receiving end of the obvious discontent with the probability of the product being subscription only. I have serious reservations about companies which apply mushroom management (being kept in the dark and fed manure) to their users. Then they complain about people creating FUD when it's their fault for keeping information under wraps. I wouldn't be surprised if their current game is making people wait until they move on so they can perpetuate the subscription plan as the only available option.

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

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.

Yes, this is very true. Sadly I have allowed myself to loose a lot of my hard earned abilities. I am/been working to get some of them back. Well said.

You know what. I'm fine with this. After the $20 off anything coupons stopped coming a year ago, I do consider that when prices go below 20 bucks (say $15-19), it can be considered a deal somewhat. Especially for the latest plugins (and maybe less of a good deal for the oldest plugins).

So, here’s my plan. I will lean back in my chair until Sonar is released and the question whether it will be possible to buy a permanent license, or if Sonar only will be available through a BSP membership, has finally been decided. I have always stayed away from software subscriptions (ask Adobe) and intend to do so in the future as well. As for the BSP package, I’m only interested in Sonar. While waiting, I’ll keep using CbB as long as it runs. If CbB stops working before any such decision has been made, I have both Cubase and Studio One installed on my computer. Also, I have SONAR Platinum installed, so I will be able to open my unfinished Cakewalk projects reasonably well. In a worst-case scenario, I certainly won’t change DAW lightheartedly. I’ve always loved Cakewalk, but I will move on if the only option is a BandLab membership.

There's a cmajor audiounit and vst plugins.

as part of the install process - did you select the cakewalk content / demo installation? if not, go ahead and run that. if you did, check in the content folder: C:\Cakewalk Content\Demo Projects

We tested the VSL maps and the Vienna folks have had early access to this build of CbB for some time as well.