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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).

4 minutes ago, PavlovsCat said:

customer disloyalty practices as Toontrack forcing Superior Drummer 2.0 customers to upgrade within Toontrack's timeline or forever be excluded from receiving upgrade pricing again

I'm slightly surprised (though not that surprised) you didn't mention the more recent announcement from Waves and registering serials.

5 minutes ago, PavlovsCat said:

I own the much less expensive ezDrummer and they never tried the same tactic for that as their flagship product. 

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.

51 minutes ago, reginaldStjohn said:

What is "Synthwave"?

Effectively 80s-style synthy music

On 1/30/2023 at 4:42 PM, fret_man said:

If I already have the iZotope products, why would I need these?

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.

12 hours ago, Simeon Amburgey said:

The Trojan was able to scrape the information it needed to take my Gmail account over and that was extra scary as they had access to my emails on that account. Needless to say, I am working on migrating to a new email address and phasing the compromised one out. 

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.

8 hours ago, Monomox said:

I hadn't thought about clearing all cookies when closing the browser as a security measure, but that's where we are

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.

8 hours ago, Monomox said:

It's a PITA, but no 2FA will help you if they get hold of your cookies, unless the yubikey works differently and it's required for it to stay plugged in at all times. 

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.

17 hours ago, Zo said:

tested .... easy pass ....

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

On 1/24/2023 at 1:49 PM, cclarry said:

I'm secretly training "someone" who has the tenacity to take over

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!

2 hours ago, Jan Schmitz said:

Never, apparently.

They did a sale during the Black Friday just gone

6 hours ago, Max Arwood said:

How do you know this?

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

Sorry to hear you got hacked Simeon.

27 minutes ago, Simeon Amburgey said:

Thursday about 12:00 pm EST, I opened an application from them (the impersonator) that was able to steal what I believe were my SESSION COOKIES, giving them a way to bypass the usual Two Factor Authentication I had set up. Things happened very quickly from there.

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?

48 minutes ago, Cecelius2 said:

Why have a 400 launch limit??

35 minutes ago, abacab said:

Although I have never reached the 400 limit, this just sounds weird.

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.

1 hour ago, PavlovsCat said:

I do play with my left and right hand on piano tracks. I'm mainly only concerned with quickly figuring out what chords I was playing.  I can decipher single notes by ear (of course, I can with chords too, but sometimes, I might be playing say a 9th or 11th and it would be great if the software shows me that; ezKeys is pretty decent at that, but I need to dupe the track and through it on there and it'd be great if I could just add a plugin to the original track and figure out the chord progressions). 

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.

23 hours ago, PavlovsCat said:

I will often feel inspired and record myself playing piano (that is, a piano sample library), say late at night, and quickly record myself playing a song I wrote decades ago from memory or coming up with something completely new. and I won't write down the chords or notes I played, because if I spend the time to do that, I might lose my inspiration or forget a part. So, what happens is that when I go back and listen the next day or whenever, I often don't recall the chord progression and sometimes, I don't even remember what key I played in.

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?

12 hours ago, Niky Serrano said:

These are the risks of Creative Commons CC-BY-SA licenses

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'.

18 hours ago, kitekrazy said:

Aren't these basic synth sounds just about any synth can recreate?

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.

Sorry - I'm afraid I can't explain where a 72GB Gameboy library would be more advantageous than the standard version. Apparently, the UDS "(Ultra Deep-Sampled) features all the natural variations that occur when you retrigger the same key. Designed for professionals."... But it's a Gameboy; I didn't think it's sound chip offered that many different variations of the same note. That said, I don't have the library, so can't say for sure.

3 hours ago, PavlovsCat said:

Gameboi? Did they run that past a trademark attorney (rhetorical question; it's a clear infringement on Nintendo's trademark,  changing a letter doesn't stop it from being a trademark violation).

I guess it sounds better/less dodgy than something like 'play mini-guy' though 😜

At 72.81GB(!) for the UDS version, I think it wins for largest library in that category.

Hey Zo. You may want to check out the YouTube channel for FreeToUseSounds: looks like there are quite a few videos about field recording equipment (the guy basically travels the world, recording sounds).

https://www.youtube.com/@FreeToUseSounds

3 hours ago, PavlovsCat said:

she wanted for her scripts now works for 8Dio's competitor,  Impact Soundworks

I wonder if there's any coincidence that this is a Gameboy sound library (or at least the image would imply), and that ISW has a library that it describes as A truly authentic collection of sounds from the classic, best-selling “GB” handheld.

12 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

If you think PACE licensing service or Waves Local Server are a burden, they got nothing on Defender's realtime scanning as far as chewing up resources. Defender loves to slam your hard drive.

To be fair, I wouldn't expect the licensing services to use the same resources as Defender. The latter is scanning files for malware and it would make sense for it to slam the hard drives. My guess (I don't use iLok or Waves plugins) would be that the licensing services add CPU (to check dongle IDs, etc.) and network usage (if cloud enabled).

I don't doubt that a malware scanner would be more resource intensive though.

8 hours ago, Jan Schmitz said:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that technically, installing an OEM licence on a device that didn't came with said licence is just as illegal as using a cracked copy. Only less trackable, I guess...

The main differences are that you're not allowed to transfer to another machine, and you're typically not allowed to upgrade it (though IIRC W8 OEM users were allowed to upgrade to W10). I don't think buying one and using it is illegal: it'd be very easy for MS to block activation on their end for certain keys anyway.

1 hour ago, Wookiee said:

Two votes so far to move to the Coffee house whats the concensus?

Yes, please...