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Matthew Sorrels

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  1. https://www.waves.com/downloads/release-notes
  2. And they did have a update to v3.0.1. The installer isn't signed but seems legit. Had fun playing with it again (it's been awhile). 🤷‍♂️
  3. Pretty sure that's legit. It let me login and shows all my purchases (going back years). That said the new site does seem to have some technical issues. My product list page at the bottom has this But the list looks correct and it has all my serial numbers/download links. There is nothing really wrong with Let's Encrypt. It's math. The idea that the extra verification higher levels of SSL certification actually protects you is just a rent seeking racket. This is because SSL certs are being used to do two things. The main thing it does is encrypt the communication between you and the site. Let's Encrypt certs do this as well as any Sectigo cert. The second thing, where it also can verify a site because some trusted 3rd party issued the cert and they are trustworthy, is maybe a bit of a marketing haze. Sure they have painful and difficult processes to try and validate who is asking for a cert, but even that, at the end of the day may not be enough to stop someone from faking an identity. The history of SSL certs is filled with failures and revocations. It's not as gold standard as they might hope you believe. As for signing Windows binaries, again another rent seeking racket. Acting like Hexacord, or any music plugin making company, is a giant company that is making vast amounts of money is a bad idea. It's most likely a barely generating any income kind of business. Best to treat it like what it is. With no music software company can you count on "support". Just look at iZotope's recent announcements for example, shutting down products. And others. And yeah, that may not be something you are comfortable with. The idea that you buy an expensive license to software that might not work and that you won't get any help can be a bit of a crazy thing. I have several thousand dollars worth of software I can't even run anymore due to copy protection issues (we have shut down the authentication server and if you try to move the software to a new machine you can't get a license for it). It happens. As a rule I don't expect anything I buy (correction, I license -- you never get to buy) to ever really work 100% right and I'm reasonable in expecting that the company that made it might not be able to help me or fix it. Setting your customer expectations too high (especially with Hexacords) would be a bad idea. Still it's an interesting product that I've not regretted much of what I've spent on it. But I don't have a lot of faith they are long for this earth and I wouldn't count on it working 100%. Still I've had fun using it and made interesting music with it.
  4. I submitted a ticket but I also give up. You can uninstall Native Access 2 and re-install Native Access 1. So I did. Not really impressed with Komplete 14 CE so far 😞 Should have waited for the summer sale.
  5. And that dialog has no way to close it. You have to kill the process or reboot.
  6. After my attempt to upgrade to Native Access 2 (that's after two reboots).
  7. I got mine on Sept 8th. The subject of the email is "Important / Liquid Notes: Claim Your Copy of CHORDS Pro + NOTES Now" from "W. A. Production" <news@waproduction-email.com> Just redeemed it. Note the 100% off coupon expires September 30th 2022
  8. They make you register at another site https://getmylicense.ca/bundle/register/ who then sends you an email with another link that you then use the serial number Best gives you. Which then gives you the actual serial numbers (9 of them) for use at iZotope/etc. Here are the instructions:
  9. This upgrade from RX 6 Post Production Suite from Best Service comes as a handful of licenses (after you jump through this bizarre extra hoop). But it's not exactly individual licenses. Here's what I got: Stutter Edit 2 (serial) Brainworx - Creative Mixing Set (serial) Melodyne Essential Trash 2 w/Expansion Packs Iris 2 (serial) Music Production Suite 5 UE (serial) RX Post Production Suite 7 BreakTweaker Expanded (serial) Status 3D and Symphony 3D The two big ones (PPS 7 and MPS 5) are single serials and register everything included. So you might be able to peel off Stutter Edit/Trash/IrisBreakTweaker but not parts from any of the big bundles. For the price it wasn't too bad. RX Advanced has always been good, not sure what's new though. The other bits I almost had all of already.
  10. I have all the Ark's in Kontakt version and got the "free" upgrades to SINE (not sure you get that now though). The Kontakt versions are better. A lot better. I tried the SINE versions and uninstalled them. Don't need to waste twice the disk space.
  11. So I installed this (and picked up the sampler). I pointed it at my giant ACID music loop library directory. Let it scan overnight. This morning it showed something like 23,000 samples (so it must have found something). But oddly enough my ACID Loop folder had a count of 0 samples and it wouldn't show anything? A simple file search says it should have found about 400,000 wav files. I don't think Cosmos is up to handling a real sample library.
  12. If you already own any of the products in the bundle they reduce the bundle price by the value of those products. Using crazy math. See this web page: https://spitfireaudio.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360007710458-How-do-Collections-work-Price-example-
  13. I have to admit the Spitfire Solo Strings are really good. I got them with some bundle or something a year or so ago. Didn't think I'd be amazed, but more often than not these days they end up as my solo strings of choice. With credit for what I already had, getting the Chamber strings and Stratus (the two in the bundle I'm missing) seemed reasonable. Will have to hope I can find some time to actually use them. Neo is pretty nice too, but the rest I'd not say are must haves. I've yet to really find much use for either London Contemporary Orchestra Textures or Spitfire Symphonic Motions. They are fun to play with though and could spark something.
  14. Musician's Friend/Guitar Center do 15% off coupons a few times a year that have usually included Omnisphere. But it's a physical copy -- they have to mail it to you. It's about the best deal on Spectrasonics products you can get.
  15. Limited Time Offer Owners of Spitfire Symphonic Strings, Symphonic Motions, Symphonic Evolutions or Chamber Strings save 35% on RRP during the introductory pricing period. Ensure you are logged in to view your special price. Sadly that's 35% off full price (not the intro price), which comes to $161.85
  16. It's a company/unit license so if they had one for version 2 of their plugin, they should be covered for version 3, etc. I would also think a company could hire/subcontract a company with a license to subcontract the publishing, maybe. But that kind of legal jumping is way over my pay grade. Not clear if you can pass the license on (if a company is bought/etc). Would have to read the fine print. The license was free though (which is how free plugins can be made) but since it is not open source you can't really do "true" open source VST plugins or even mix GPL code with VST code. I'm sure I've seen a few open source apps that didn't support VST because of the license mess. And there is a lot of gray area stuff, that may or may not live up to the license. You end up with things like "This is open source, except for this small part of it, which is licensed differently." No clue if that kind of thing is really legal. You see this kind of legal gymnastics in Wordpress plugins too. And of course they no longer make the SDK and development files available anymore and there is no support. Which just makes things harder. They really are trying pretty hard to kill VST2.
  17. VST is very much not open source. It requires a license to support/use in a DAW or a plugin. You have to send Steinberg paperwork (digital but still with a signature) and you get back a license. And if you didn't do this for VST2 before they closed the window, you cannot ship any VST2 plugins at all. (yes I registered my company with a VST2 license before the window closed). VST2 and VST3 are separate license also. It's a mess. This is just the next phase of killing VST2. Though I don't think they have sued or shut down anyone who didn't get a VST2 license, they always could. It's one of the reasons some new companies aren't including VST2 versions of plugins, they may not be able to legally get a license to do it. I don't think they can stop anyone that did get the license before they shut that down from supporting VST2 though. But they can stop supporting it in their products. The world would be much better off if VST was an open standard. But Steinberg won't give it up and no efforts to make a new standard have ever made much headway.
  18. Guess I found a use for my Jan $25 voucher after all. $75 still seems high -- I'd bet with some more time a better offer might come up, but it's close enough for now. 😁
  19. I have these (and added the new ones) but Cubase/Nuendo export of MusicXML is at best poor. It is driven through the Score Editor and to be honest I don't think it offers any of the details the Cubase project have. What you get from the Cubase project is some organization (folders) as well as all the EQ settings (he uses the built in Cubase EQ, kind of like Pro Channel) and the constant use of EastWest Spaces 1 (which is no longer available for sale). And settings for the instrument patches themselves (assuming you own the instruments he's using, lots of issues with that depending on what the instrument is hosted in). None of that really comes out in a MusicXML export. I tried exporting one of the projects as MusicXML (which did work) but Studio One doesn't seem to have an import for it? Are you using Notation for that? Looking at the MusicXML file Cubase made, it's really just the score. No instrument setups, no EQ, no effects plugins, tracks, etc. And I couldnt' even get anything reasonable importing it into MuseScore. Looked like garbage. I think these projects are very educational (you can't use them for anything else) and even the plain MIDI export is very useful. But I don't think I'd put much faith in being able to export from Cubase (with a trial version or the real thing) and import them into any other DAW. The MIDI files are very importable. But none of the Cubase project "extras" seem to come out in a MusicXML export.
  20. Readly doesn't have Feb 2022's issue up yet, only the Jan issue.
  21. Yep. This was the only place I could find my bundle serial numbers, which is what OT's website wants. Use the same serial number for every product in the bundle. You do also need to wait when you paste the serial number in for it to "verify" it before you can press the import button. I copied it from the NI site and pasted it into OT's form.
  22. Ark 5 finally finished downloading (it was very slow to download). Initial impressions are it's a lot like Ark 1. The strings and brass are both very nice. The Analog Synths seem like a waste of disk space (also seems like it's just one synth, not plural). Without an effects engine I'd say any "synth" sounds are pretty useless in a sample player. IK's Syntronik shows how powerful a good effect engine can be with samples from a synth. Everything i hated about Sine is still true with this update. Doesn't appear they really addressed much at all. The Shepard tone articulations are kind of interesting (and new), I can see using that. Some of the combo patches are really nice, great sound right out of the box. But then with Sine you don't have a lot of options or controls, so if it's not good when you load it, it won't get better. I do think the video's on their site are pretty honest about what it does. If any of that looks good for you, it might be useful. Just remember it has no percussion, so discount that when watching/listening.
  23. They did get back to me. If you bought one of the bundles of Ark from NI you cannot use the serial number that Native Access shows you. You need to find the bundle serial number to use when registering with Orchestral Tools. (Which of course is completely different than their instructions). You also have to pick each product in the Sine Cross Registration and use the single serial number. So in my case I had to use the Ark 3 & 4 bundle serial number on Ark 3 and again on Ark 4. I was only able to find the bundle serial number by logging into my Native Instruments account and looking for it there (it isn't in Native Access at all). Trying to use the serial numbers in Native Access will just get you locked out for entering wrong serial numbers. So now I have Ark 3 & 4 available in Sine. And qualified for the discount for Ark 5 (166.40 Euros). Since I'm insane (and a completest) I went ahead and bought it. Though it was funny, after I paid for it their website showed a page saying I needed to make sure I had the most recent Sine player and had a link. That link downloaded the older version of Sine. So I had to go back and get the real new version. lol. I've only had CSS for a little while, so I'm basing not liking it on a very short time frame. But it's timing games with MIDI track alignment has really caused me a lot of headaches. I mostly use MIDI loops or generated MIDI or MIDI written in a staff or Piano Roll, 100% quantized. That kind of "by the numbers" MIDI seems to have issues with alignment with CSS. I have other libraries with delays and or other timing issues too, but this one seems far harder to tame. I'm sure some of it is me just not having read the manual and watched videos. I think the way I use MIDI and libraries may be slightly more sensitive to on the grid issues than say someone that plays parts live. It also didn't help that right after I got it, all these new string libraries shipped, making me think the grass is much greener over there and I wasted my money. Of course the real truth is I really didn't need another string library. And I don't really need any of these other new string libraries either. But my brain may not be wired that way. I still have hope for CSS but my first impression is not very favorable.
  24. So I've been trying to enter my Ark 3 & 4 serial numbers (I bought them at NI during one of the few sales on OT instruments). But their website decides you have entered the serial number before you finish typing and now has "locked" me out and won't let me try again (it says try again in 1 minute but that's a lie). They have managed to achieve IK levels of anger and hate in just a few minutes of time. Epic! I've sent them a note with the serial numbers their broken website won't accept or even let me enter, but at this point I doubt they will do anything. They didn't fix the Choir in Ark 4 either see this post on VI: https://vi-control.net/community/threads/any-guesses-as-to-when-ark-4-will-show-up-on-sine.118605/post-5006128 Guess I'm going to buy something from someone else. I did pick up Cinematic Studio Strings on black Friday as my "big" instrument purchase for the season, but honestly I hate it. I think this season is going to be a bit of a downer if I can't find something else interesting (and on sale).
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