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That would be one scary download session if someone had SD3 and all expansions 😁

Looking forward to it! and Welcome back, Larry!

Wow... I'm guessing they wanted that thread to silently disappear? In any case, a ban is a pretty strong response

Yes, I agree. I've come to understand that products - not just music - only really sell with a story; this made me realise why all of these products have a my story section where it describes how someone first come up with an idea and then did whatever it is they did: stories sell products because we as people relate with stories.

I agree. Having a virtual singer sing exactly what you type in is really quite incredible. I wonder how that's going to work. Right now, we associate a voice with a certain artist. When different artists start sound the same (because they use the same SynthV [or alternative technology] voice), it's going to be quite strange; I suppose it's no different from artist, featuring vocal artist though. I also get the feeling that it's going to lead to online debates about real vs. sampled/modelled, like the discussions that already exist about real vs sampled instruments.😒

I agree - customer support is pretty good from my experience. I once bought a bundle package. They announced a new version a little later along with a grace period. My purchase date was before the grace period began, but only by a few days. I contacted them and they included my purchase within the grace period. They make great products too that I use on all of my mixes.

Yeah... to be fair though, upgrade offers can go pretty low if you wait for the right time and shop at the right place. They're also fairly generous with their upgrade grace periods. They're just not that great if you look at the loyalty coupons when logged in - they even offer to sell me upgrades to products I already have. 🤪 I'm just thankful their DSP coding is better than their loyalty sales detection algorithms.

Something to keep in mind is that sometimes companies restrict applications to a certain geographic region for tax purposes.

You might possibly want to take a look at Zero-G ETHERA Gold 2.5. The main library is Clara (female), but there is a an instrument or two with Daniele (male).

I'm slightly surprised (though not that surprised) you didn't mention the more recent announcement from Waves and registering serials. I'm not sure it was a sales tactic. It was around that time that they switched from DVD-only-distribution to an online download platform; possibly there was a technical reason behind it.

Effectively 80s-style synthy music

Maybe speed - if you have project deadlines and don't have time. Maybe also if you'd like a ballpark mix/master to compare against.

I would guess that your emails were safe from (roughly) the time you pressed No. My guess is that the active cookies got them into the account, that flagged the login verification, and then when you pressed No it initiated something to lock the account out - maybe invalidating the cookies on Google's end to force a logout. It's a good idea to migrate, but I don't think they would have had access for too long. Please bear in mind that this is just my guess - I don't have any knowledge about how Google's systems actually work.

I'm guessing the malware app uploaded the cookies immediately after it installed the Chrome extension, so (unfortunately) clearing cookies when closing the browser wouldn't help much if that was the case. I don't know much about how a Yubikey works; I'm guessing that it works in the same way though - it generates a one-time-pad (similar to the 2FA), rather than having YouTube constantly checking it like a dongle. I'm happy to stand corrected if wrong though.

You don't like the sound, or the UI?

Whoever it is, they're going to need magic coffee* to post deals at the same rate 😁 * magic coffee: when you make coffee using Red Bull instead of water; not a drink I recommend anyone to try

Safe travel, and hope you enjoy the time off!

They did a sale during the Black Friday just gone

It says Unlocked where it used to tell you how many uses there were remaining

Sorry to hear you got hacked Simeon. What happened when you opened the application? I don't mean how did it steal credentials; I mean more like, was there any clue that it was malware?

I believe it's a 'soft' copy protection mechanism. As it's a Full Kontakt instrument, it's very easy to copy it around. There's also some small text in there somewhere that explains how to unlock it. IIRC you just send an email to support from the account that you purchased with asking to unlock. They'll send you some special files (with instructions) to unlock it - the process is very easy.

Sorry - I can't comment on Songkey (I don't have it). I was just thinking that certain software will tell you the chords if you have the MIDI. Studio One has a chord view that can tell you the chords of both real-time and pre-recorded MIDI. Pianoteq will analyse chords in real time too; it's fairly pricy, but it is a great modelled piano instrument (i.e. small footprint) with expansions for some other instruments too - maybe one to add to the sales watch list if you like pianos and don't already have it. It sounds like ezKeys already works, but as you say, there's the cost of duplicating the track.

Are you recording audio or MIDI; and are you recording your left hand playing the chords/bass lines in addition to the right hand melody?

You get other Open Source licenses too, though they all pretty much mean you give away your product. That said, there are lots to choose from ranging from GPL3 which mandates that any derivative product must also be licensed as GPL3, all the way to MIT which is pretty much 'do as you will'.

In theory, I suppose so: ISW has a Reaktor chiptunes instrument. In reality, there's probably more to it than just the synth patch though - the hardware may have had certain characteristics to give it a special sound, as well the EQ profile that the speaker and console shell gave it; similar to how there are MegaDrive/Genesis sound chip emulators.