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6 minutes ago, user4325874 said:

PA isn't charging $300 for a software flanger. The ADA Flanger costs $149

When it was first released, it was slightly north of that. I admin I haven't been following PA's pricing.

41 minutes ago, Zo said:

lol it's like a man shitting on a woman , patience and forgivness have limits lol

Pretty sure that both patience and forgiveness will be required, whether it's cheating or shitting 🙂

Having a look at the plugins on sale; anyone have any opinions on Oracle and/or Nebula?

1 hour ago, Some Guy said:

This is very different from what you seem to be responding to.

I wasn't taking aim at anyone; just stating differences between audio and MIDI loops. As I said, I have no problem with either loops, or anyone who uses them. While there are a few posts that are derogatory towards loop based music in this thread, I can also see there are a few people who have decided to upgrade to the latest version of Acid Pro. Good music is good music, regardless of how it's made. Peace out.

If someone wants to use loops, that's fine and I have absolutely no problem with either them or their music: if it sounds good, it's good music regardless of how they made it.

That said, it's not entirely the case that MIDI loops with a decent VI are the same as audio loops. Audio loops will always sound exactly the same, even if perfectly time/pitch shifted. With MIDI loops, you could tweak the output: maybe you'd like one iteration p while another f, or you might want to crescendo a build-up. You could automate a volume/LPF envelope on an audio loop, but with some VIs you might get different instrument timbres at different velocities that go beyond volume and EQ differences. A VI might also have round-robin samples that make different loop iterations sound ever so slightly different, or you might also have different reverb options depending on how dry the audio loops are. These are all very subtle differences that may or may not get picked up by the end listener, but the differences are still there.

But as I previously mentioned, if it sounds good, the producer did a great job and it's good music regardless of the tools/sound sources used in production.

3 hours ago, cclarry said:

108 plugins from almost 30 brands with a total list price value of more than $17,500.00

Maybe now... but once upon a time, before subscriptions were available, and before someone got greedy, it was probably more around $6,000 at full price. It only got that way because for some reason, a new line of thought came along that also deemed $300 a good price tag to put on a flanger. Good thing it's a really good flanger… or at least it should be for that much.

And also, if you put four items in your basket, you get the cheapest for free

Still deciding whether or not to jump on this. Does anyone have any opinions on the new low end module?

I've currently got Master the Mix's Bassroom on my wishlist and I'm wondering whether upgrading to MPS 3 will give me reason to strike it off.

My first DAW was Cakewalk 3

Wasn't the Sonic Maximizer once available to buy on the Cakewalk online shop (a really long time ago)?

Hmm... do you think it'll ever flash-sale at $29?

Anyone know when the special pricing ends? Would hate to wait for next month's PB freebie, only to find Union's gone up to normal price.

19 minutes ago, Paul Young said:

GPO is underrated.  Sure it doesn't sound like the big boys and has fewer articulations but you can lay down some stuff pretty fast.

Agree with you there. The bigger libs take so much longer to load as well; I still use GPO as my sketching library. The only problem is that sometimes the instrument ranges are different, so I end up having to re-arrange/rewrite some parts.

If it doesn't run well on a PC like Matthew's, I don't think I should even bother trying on mine.

Which is fine; I'm happy with my recent orchestra upgrade from GPO5 to some libraries from the CineSymphony range, and a few 8Dio libraries.

Almost stopped watching because of the intro bit, but certainly gets more interesting afterwards

26 minutes ago, Pragi said:

 Cubase `? 

This describes 'installing waves' in the computer belonging to an entity known as 'Morning Producer', and how 'waves' is the result of opening the 'nothing' that belonging to Cuba. As 'waves' is all lower case, we can assume it does not refer to the audio plugin company Waves; instead we can infer that some form of rapid oscillation occurs.

Already got AT4/Bias/TH3 so gave these amps a miss. Instead I used my complementary voucher to get Indent 2 and Instant Delay for free.

Been waiting for this one! If they were to sale Voice of Wind: Adey, I'd probably get that too.

Keep in mind that better sounding libraries are generally larger in size and so take longer to load. If you're sketching out an orchestral piece, it might be a good idea to use one of the cheaper libraries while putting down ideas.

Huh... I'm sure the countdown timer on APD said a few more days for the intro pricing. Was slowly getting off the fence and then realised intro offer was over. Oh well... GAS suppressed once more for now...

Anyone know if you can output/export the patterns as MIDI from this, or is it an audio-only tool?

14 hours ago, Bapu said:

Then I'm twice as happy.

 

I have the FP16.

Show off 😜

Hmm... Seems like a good deal; can't get better than free, but a few things are making me think twice:

• Every page on the SynthMaster website is encrypted (i.e. you get the lock on your browser) except the checkout page where you actually enter your details
• I can't actually see their terms of service or privacy policy: I see the links at the bottom of the page, but clicking on them only returns me to the top of the page

10 hours ago, bitflipper said:

Or take a class. I recommend "Binary 101".

Is that like Babylon 5, but not quite?

1 hour ago, craigb said:

I've also heard that there are three types of people in the world, those that can count and those that can't!

Take that with a pinch of salt: 78% of all statistics are made up