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9 minutes ago, Chaps said:
It looks interesting but it only opens in Demo mode for me.
I had to sign into it first, then reopen the plugin and then it worked.
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21 minutes ago, Nitrate Audio said:
i didnt know there was one.
I didn't have any of their products previously, but I believe there was. Your products should all still be there.
Hopefully this might help, or point you in the right direction. In failing that, just drop them an email.
https://support.korg.co.uk/en-US/migrating-legacy-collection-licenses-to-new-korg-id-website-405747
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1 hour ago, Nitrate Audio said:
garbage. i see no products in my profile. i am pretty sure I had something before. It looks like they wiped my data.
Did you do the migration steps from their old system to the new one?
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5 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:
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What do you think their primary concern actually is? As far as I can tell, their sources of revenue are licensing their copy protection to software companies and selling their dongles to software users. As far as I can tell, the bulk of their customers for both of these are working in the audio field.
What am I missing?
That's my point... They focus a lot on dongle sales which aren't even required and could be solved by non proprietary every day flash drives, or even abolishing them altogether in many cases by making some improvements to their other methodologies. They don't care to change, or evolve in any way, as they just want to keep selling dongles and the companion sale of insurance for the redundant dongles.
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1 hour ago, kitekrazy1 said:
I have 3 iLoks and they don't ever move. As for flash drives I lose track of them.
I do use their cloud on certain VSL libraries.
As for PA they allow 3 installations. Not sure why anyone would think the "improvadongle" is a benefit with PA.
3 iLok authorizations are becoming more common.
If Waves was like Melda with no machine limit I'd be happy to pay for WUP.
They still have the worse licensing in the industry. They probably haven't recovered from the boneheaded move of a forced sub. They lead the league in race down to zero with their crap licensing.
I doubt I'd ever buy Waves again. Their entry level bundles are hard to beat. I guess you can get away with that kind of licensing when you develop great stuff. They have to do their sales because there are smaller developers out there making great products.
Losing track of flash drives is probably common if they don't have licenses on them, but really if they do, they're no more likely to be lost than iLok. Just simply add a tag to it, or use a permanent marker.
The dongle from PA (which I don't personally use), is good for offline and using other friends DAWs, for collabs, or getting mixing done, etc. But it's more the fact that if someone wants to use a dongle, they can pick up a cheap generic flash drive and not an overpriced iLok dongle.
3 is becoming more common. I do have a mix though and quite a lot with 2. 1 auth is strictly do not buy for me. Even ML Sound Lab who only provide a second if you contact them I opted to not buy from. I don't want to have to contact a vendor to plead my case for a second activation, even if it's not too difficult.
2+ auths out of the gate, or I'm out these days. I already have enough and what they're selling can probably be done with something else that does include 2+.
Melda is really great with their licensing and yes, Waves somehow manage to further alienate even more people with that move which was quite an achievement given the majority of people's hate for WUP!
You're not wrong on those bundles either... You do get a lot of bang for buck. Without those and the freebies, I'd imagine their sales would be much, much lower these days. It can be a false economy though.. if people do pay WUP, then for what they often spend, they could've just paid once for more premium plugins that are better than Waves and still be getting free updates. Lots of great devs out there.
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1 hour ago, kitekrazy1 said:
That seems a worthwhile freebie.
It's one of the more surprising ones in quite a while. This seems very well regarded from everything I've seen / read so it could be good exposure for Steinberg.
Making this a freebie (with purchase) along with their Cubase 14 release seems to indicate they are trying to be more widely appealing to the EDM / beats producers. Of course you could easily use Cubase for those before and it was great for it, but it seems like they have been copying some of the ideas and simplified workflows especially for drums from the more prominent competitors in that space (Live / FL).
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11 minutes ago, Skijumptoes said:
So it's more powerful than what you can do with a DAW and routing/layering existing plugins and fx? What does it do that excels it beyond?
To me it just looks like an instrument of convenience that ultimately has you with putting all this work into one DAW instance, whereas i prefer a more old school approach of treating each instrument in a layer as it's own entity on the mixing console so you're learning a wider skillset that can be applied across the board.
I've owned HALion for years and I see the same comments about that back in the day, and I question what's the advantage working within a restricted single instance environment, overkilling a channel strip ,when you could instead reach out for a much wider gamut of sounds through the DAW?
I'd love to be interested in it, as it's clearly at a great price, and the countdown clock is ticking. But I just don't get it, sadly. And nor do I hear anything special from it.
It does look great fun though, but i'm trying to prevent proscratination not add to it!
You absolutely could do those things separately and that's a completely valid way of working and common. Buy there's also benefits of the simplicity and direct feedback from trying things all within Falcon and not having to open up multiple other synths, have all that separate routing to worry about. Besides I'm pretty sure you can simply split the outputs out of Falcon and treat them with external FX and their own channel strips anyway. I only just got it recently, so don't bank on that, but I think you do. Something for me to try!
Plus, if you've got any of the UVI libraries, you can get more control and ways to integrate them into your creations and layer them too.
If you use them, it's easier to set up keyboard splits if you ever want to create them, again, all within Falcon.
As for sound, I'm really surprised. Maybe it's just their demos on their site or something. After owning it, some of the sounds I've heard it make sound pretty amazing, rich and warm.
It might depend on what genres you like though. Do you have a preferred style?
I've often found that most of them have an area they do well, but then for another type of sound, I'd reach for another synth. Some excel at pads, some super saws, some basses, etc.
But I could play this thing for hours just purely for the hell of it. For the enjoyment so far, I think I've already got my money's worth! 🙂
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5 minutes ago, Starship Krupa said:
The single seat thing is pretty stingy. Even most iLok'd plug-ins allow 2 seats. But hey, it's their business
There is a touch of redemption in the fact that you can keep your Waves licenses on a removable drive, like an SD card or thumb drive, so in theory at least, you can use them on the laptop if you tote the SD card along. That's much cheaper than having to purchase a physical iLok dongle, for which I give them credit.
The only Waves plugins I've ever used are the many freebies they've given out over the years, and since they tend to run the same freebies multiple times, I have duplicate licenses for the ones I'd be likely to use anyway. Just in case, I keep the licenses on a micro SD card.
That is indeed one thing they and Plugin Alliance did right. A regular flash drive instead of iLok. Apart from iLok dongle sales, there's really no reason Pace couldn't do the same. They would probably win a lot more sales for their developer customers, but for some reason I don't think plugin and instrument companies are really their primary concern 🤣
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4 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:
So far I've not had a single one "go bad" on me. I paid for WUP once to be able to update a couple of freebies I got. I think it was $14 to take two plug-ins from v. 9 to v. 11. I think the new feature that I wanted was the resizable GUI.
Which has always puzzled me about the wailing and gnashing of teeth around WUP. Yeah, Waves are a little pushy about trying to sell it, but nobody's forced to pay for WUP. In the event that a plug-in breaks, you can jump in and WUP any plug-ins that have broken and have them updated to the latest versions.
Seems fair to me.
Often overlooked, but they only provide one seat license with Waves unless you have active WUP. So once your WUP expires, you can only use on one machine unless you want to constantly be transferring licenses, or use a USB dongle.
So anyone with a DAW in the studio that also works mobile on a laptop, or second DAW in another location, it stops working completely .
I'm struggling to think of another developer that only provides one seat in this day and age. Even McDSP have evolved to give more than one! I'm sure there's others that suck in that sense, but not many at all!
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On 1/26/2025 at 8:13 PM, Carl Ewing said:
This applies to Omnisphere as well - which also gets called a rompler. Both Falcon and Omnisphere are extremely powerful sound design engines. I would argue both are far more powerful than most on the market. Most of Cliff Martinez's electronic scores (Drive, Neon Demon, The Knick, etc.) are Omnisphere. The 'Hardware' preset bank that comes with it blows anything Arturia out of the water, and I'd argue it rivals some U-He synths, although Zebra & Bazille are on another planet in some respects. For example, those drums at the beginning of Dune Part 1 are Zebra, as are almost all the synth sounds in The Dark Knight.
But agreed, I think many people are missing out on some of the best synth software around by thinking these things are romplers.
Some great points Carl and now that you mention it, I do recall Omnisphere being incorrectly referred to as a rompler quite a few times too.
I think a lot of people just don't take the time to fully understand and explore these products and learn how to use them. I would say that the learning curve can be a touch higher if you're creating presets from the ground up, but that's because they allow you to break out from the common rigid design of most synths.
if you just jump in and click on a few presets and go no further, then you really miss out on seeing how powerful and versatile these things can be. I've tried quite a few synths over the years where I fired them up, tried all the presets as that's often a simple way to test the capabilities and thought they were terrible, only to find after creating a few patches that they were really much better than what the presets show.
I own most of u-he and have somewhat had my eye on Zebra. I have been tempted to bite the bullet and just go with the current version, as I know it's very good anyway, but with the new one somewhere on the horizon, I have been holding off so far!
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1 hour ago, mibby said:
Hmmm... I just checked again and it's not there. I have a 2i4 2nd generation.
Interesting.. my account must fall somewhere in the middle! I don't get all the new stuff anymore, but I did get this...
I do have 3rd gen, only solo though, but that was bought a few years ago now and isn't their latest generation.
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2 hours ago, mibby said:
It's likely only for NEW Focusrite interfaces.
From here: https://us.focusrite.com/software/hitmaker-expansion
It's actually not for once 🙂 I almost missed this, as when they first announced it, it wasn't in my account.
But I logged in the other day to see if that new GForce synth was available (and it wasn't, but I expected it not to be) and was pleasantly surprised to see these were.
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41 minutes ago, msmcleod said:
Although this is technically true, it's worth putting things in perspective.
In any system you're going to have a bottleneck somewhere. In a DAW, you've got disk access speed, memory access speed and CPU speed.
If you're using plugins, by far the biggest bottleneck is the CPU. Memory comes in next if you've got 100's of tracks (especially with samples).
Disk speed only becomes an issue when you're using a large amount of sample libraries that are streaming from disk, or a VERY high track/clip count streaming from disk.
Streaming 32 tracks of recorded audio data with a handful of clips per track isn't going to be an issue for any disk drive. I was doing that on a P166 with IDE drives back in the 90's, and modern portastudios are streaming 24+ tracks from SD cards which are way slower than any hard-disk drive, never mind SSD's.
FWIW I'm currently using SSD drives via SATA 2 and have zero issues. A large Omnisphere patch takes around 30-45 seconds to load on a 5400rpm hard-disk drive - on my SSD drives it's around 2 seconds.
Would NVMe be quicker still? Absolutely. But does it warrant the extra cost? That's for the OP to decide.
If you dig into that though, it's also not always so clear cut.
A lot of what you've mentioned makes some sense for your content drives, but the system drive is what the whole computer runs off and that being faster, allows the OS and everything, including the DAW to run faster as a result as well. Apart from that, it's often just more responsive to use for all other applications and general use too. If the swap file is used, that will also be more performant as well. There really isn't any reason not to use them (apart from cost).
CPU is definitely the king in most cases, although as you mentioned RAM at times can be important as well. But often you're more limited with CPU. Changing a hard drive for something better is trivial and normally simple to do. If you use large Kontakt libraries, especially orchestral, using a faster drive just makes sense, so both system and content where possible is preferred.
All instruments are only going to get more demanding and larger, so it's often better to just simply do it once and do it right to save doing it all again.
Personally I know I'd rather get faster drives and pay a little more. Over the lifetime of a well spec'd DAW, it's worth it to me and I won't remember the spend, but I will appreciate it every time I'm working with large files, or libraries.
Cost is a consideration though, so I get the point.
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23 minutes ago, JT music said:
Falcon's sound is light years below Dune 3, Rapid, Pigments, Diva, Serum, Spire, etc. in synthesis, as a rompler it is also below Nexus 5, as a sampler it is far below Kontakt, its operation is totally crude with an old and complicated interface full of comings and goings more than shortcuts, a very undervalued instrument that had to significantly decline its prices for being very underestimated and will continue to drop, its expansions are really mediocre and it does not have external developers like Kontakt, the only benefit is for those who want to break their heads editing a sound for hours, not to mention how heavy it is for the CPU without having multi-core processing, loading a single instance of some pad expansion consumes a lot, I do not recommend it.
I own all of those synths and wholeheartedly disagree, but of course everyone's opinion and tastes are different. If you listen to any of the professionally made sounds created by it, it easily sounds on par with all of those. You might be very surprised to hear how commonly it's used in cinematic and movies you've likely seen and also the types of high end situations where money is no object and they own all of the synths you mentioned too. None of the ones you mentioned can get as complex a sound without using multiple instances of them. None of them even come remotely close in terms of versatility. Falcon is completely modular. All of those other synths are very limited in terms of architecture. They sound great, but if you can think it in Falcon, then you can create it.
I personally wouldn't think of it as a primary sampler, but integrating that with building up patches and layering the "rompler' content is great to have in there.
I do think they could work on the interface and UX, but then Kontakt which is probably it's closest competitor I don't think is great in that sense either.
I haven't looked at all their expansions yet, so I can't comment too much there, but the one I did get is really quite interesting. I like that and will get some use. I'm not worried about external developers. I purely want it for sound design. The expansions are also more of a consolation in that sense.
Agreed on CPU and multithreading, that's what I was alluding to.
Back on sound though, I've heard all of those synths in action, created my own presets in them as well as listened to 3rd party ones, seen them in many tutorials and Falcon can easily sound as rich, warm, organic and complex as any of them without a doubt.
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49 minutes ago, kitekrazy1 said:
So tempting. It would be another rompler that is ignored as a sampler.
Not sure how much space is needed for these.
It really varies between their expansions. Some are barely a few MB and some are a few GB. Conveniently they state them on the page for each expansion, so you could determine that first if it's a consideration. As a guess, maybe 20GB total, but don't bank on that.. The manual also states what the presets are as well which is handy, so you can see exactly what numbers of each type they include and it's a simple PDF on their site.
Calling it a rompler doesn't even come close to doing it justice. You could ignore all of the samples and expansions and it's still an amazingly powerful and GREAT sounding synth for programming your own synth presets from scratch with standard oscillators and much more. The built in effects are probably some of the best sounding across a lot of the main players in well known soft synths. But then of course you can still layer any of the samples over them as well.
It's a pretty amazing modular synth. Not perfect. The layout can take a bit to get used to and they could optimize it in terms of CPU. It does appear to have a few quirky limitations.
But the sound beats a lot of the main synths / romplers / samplers out there.
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8 hours ago, kitekrazy1 said:
An overkill statement. "So much worse"?
Losing an 8TB drive doesn't matter what format it is, you lost 8TB of storage instead of a 2TB out of 8. Plus that is expensive having to replace the 8TB instead of a smaller drive.
Sometimes I prefer practical over performance
Actually it's really not.
The performance difference between them is not trivial. It's a massive and noticeable difference in a system. Apart from benchmarks, you can feel the performance difference and during large compressed file extractions, backups, copies, or moves, the tasks are completed much sooner.
The 2TB / 8TB is somewhat moot, as you're not excluded from using 2TB instead if you choose, regardless of format.
I get the practically and there's nothing wrong with opting for that, but it would be a disservice to anyone reading this thread not to call out what they would be losing by not spending a little more time to work out what is compatible with their system, or even adding a card to extend that compatibility.
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On 1/9/2025 at 1:07 AM, kitekrazy1 said:
Not sure how cables are somehow an issue these days. There's a greater chance of ruining a board installing an nvme. It has happened before. Plus you have to research which ones will work on boards 10 years old. Not so with SATA. I prefer SATA only for more ports. I like less eggs in a basket. Having an 8gb nvme go bad seems pricey than losing a f 2GB SATAs. The reality is how often do we open a system case any way.
The performance of SATA is so much worse though.
I'd recommend NVMe instead of SATA these days every single time, as long as the machine can accept it and then simply back it up to a SATA if required and worried about losing the 8TB. Ideally that should be backed up elsewhere as well. The easiest option of SATA definitely isn't the best in this particular situation.
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8 minutes ago, stony said:
"ALL" Expansions is wrong. Included are 19 and available are currently 26.
Thanks Stony, I wasn't aware of that! Will update
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1 hour ago, audioschmaudio said:
Yeah, I'm collecting his freebies too. I'm surprised by how many plugins he's already given away for free. I got THE_SPICE, THE_STUTTER, THE_COMPRESSOR, THE_BUILD and THE_VIBE, all for free. The only one that I paid for is THE_INSTRUMENT. It's also the only one that I use. I really like it.
I don't mind the Control Center though. It's convenient when you get a new computer. Just have to run one installer and the control center takes care of the rest. Better than having to install each plugin individually, in my opinion.
I think it may get be ok when you've got enough to make it worthwhile. If he gives me some more I might check it out! 🙂
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Interesting.. I didn't install the standalone version at all. I rarely do, as it's always easy to fire up a DAW instead and just run it inside if that, or a host like Gig Performer and then it saves installing all other applications through my computer. But I still would've expected it to be solid from them.
The VST3 worked well for me and I was pleasantly surprised by it. Quite a nice freebie.