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It might be true, it might not: I didn't write that, nor do I consider myself a historian of any kind. Given how calendars and beliefs have changed though, I personally wouldn't find it to be too much of a leap of faith: it may or may not have been that people would do different things during each month and the winters were too cold. Just my own personal speculation; don't have anything to back up that theory.

Happy New Year everyone! Apparently, yes and no. According to https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/months/december.html December was the last month, back when the calendar only had 10 months, and it began with March. It was only later that another two months were added.

Interesting string ensemble. I like the contrast of sustained legato violins, and the pizzicato (?) basslines. Overall, there's a flowing feel to this, especially with the violin solo bridge. There's also a nice change in dynamics throughout where specific string sections take turns, and also play together. Well done!

My pet has crazy glowing eyes

It's a German company: they use '.' as their number grouping delimiter and ',' as their decimal delimiter

'Hammer Time'?

IIRC Affinity's last two sales have been around Black Friday

I like Corel's products; I just wished that they: just dropped their desktop advert popups had consistent sale prices: their emails might offer 15% off, while (in the same sale period) their popups offer 30% and 50% seemingly randomly (and if you dismiss it, the offer's gone)

Also, don't forget that any word can take on any one of multiple meanings, e.g. does anyone know precisely what 'fine' means?

@Michael A.D. when it's convenient, would you be able to upload a recording of the vocal? I don't have SILK so I can't try it out, but I'd be interested in hearing the phantom vocal.

Nice tune Wookiee I like how there's one theme that restates itself throughout, but the gradual build up of the piece overall both builds energy and doesn't let the theme get old. For me, I found the instrumentation to be both bubbly/fun, and yet somehow pensive at the same time. Well done!

It does have a signature though; signed by NXTGN Music Technology GmbH

Does anyone get the Windows Defender SmartScreen popup when trying to run the installer?

I got excited until I saw the $149 bit Slightly ironic, given that the reason stated for introducing minimum-spend was to combat voucher swapping/sharing. Tra-la-la...

It's a good idea, but I would have thought that this would be like trying to get the individual whole ingredients back out, given a baked cake. Even acoustic sims don't really sound acoustic, and they're working from a clean DI.

Anyone have any opinions on the Shadow Hills compressor? I've read that it's good, but I've already got O8A, FabFilter Pro-C, and the Overloud compressors. I've seen a few of your compressor reviews @Zo; any thoughts?

Let it go, let it go Can't hold it back anymore Let it go, let it go Turn away and slam the door...

Anyone know what's actually in it?

Does it have anything to do with The Neverending Story?

I'm not buying anything either; I have enough from other plugin companies. I get it: business is business, and every company's trying to make money somehow, but for me I feel a sense of cash-grab/deception/disingenuousness from them. They used to have $29 sales (which I bought into); since their subscription rollout, I've seen the same sales, but for $49. When their ADA flanger first came out, it was priced north of $300; it has since been brought down to a more reasonable price, especially so with their sales, so fair enough I guess. They try to push their subscriptions as the best deal ever: plugins worth five-figures (I forget exactly how much) for <$100 a month. I guess that is a good deal, but you have nothing once you stop; there are services that let you rent-to-own. And it's not a consumer service like Spotify; these are tools for projects that you create and may rely on. Opinions of others will probably differ, and I may be in the minority. That said, this is the reason why I will probably (but not necessarily) look elsewhere if I'm looking for new plugins.

Amazing how one guy's flippancy towards instrument tuning has inspired a whole following to believe things about the frequency of the universe, enjoyed only by those with heighted senses.

I hope not; trying to fit into some of my older clothes is far too much effort Reminds me of the film Equilibrium On a more related note (pun unintended), I didn't realise that something like the tonoscope existed. Kinda interesting/cool to see the sand move around according to the note being played. Sort of reminds me of when I studied computer image processing: we passed images through an FFT during convolution to blur images, and they ended up looking like those patterns. I suppose it's the same thing - images are just 2D signals, whereas audio is a 1D signal.

Did the whole 432Hz thing start because someone genuinely believed it was better, or was it a joke that lots of people took too seriously?

I know we've all said this by now, but I don't get the subscription thing. It's marketed as a 'benevolent' way of letting everyone have access to all plugins at a manageable price, but there are services like Splice where people can rent-to-own. Or maybe they've hiked up their prices so much now that nobody in their right mind would pay full price for them, even through rent-to-own.

There should be a ProChannel version of this!