Matthew Sorrels

You can't do the 10 to 10.5 upgrade again if you have already jumped to 10.5 before. It does look for, an then replace, the license on the eLicenser. Since you don't have a 10 license on the dongle, you can't apply the upgrade.

This happens for me too with the new version. Cakewalk also crashed when I exited after testing this.

Not really cheap but The Loop Loft was the go to for MIDI loops. Not sure what's happened now that NI bought them. Groove Monkee has great MIDI files. And of course Toontrack and Addictive Drums. I'm sure I'm forgetting some though.

I'll admit I horde MIDI files like a fiend. But sadly good ones are never very cheap. Ugritone is very nice, recommended. I also like the AD2 MIDI packs and drums to be honest. My big headache now that I've finally gotten all the EZKey MIDI files is to figure out how to get all the Toontrack Drum MIDI files without going broke. All the good sources for 6 packs have increased their prices a bit. Took me two years to get caught up on the EZKey MIDI files. I think completing the drums may take even longer. I hope AD3 is in development though. I'd hate for Toontrack to be the only one left standing.

That's definitely new, would have saved me a bunch since I ended up having to buy bundles to get all the MIDI (which also got me all the drums) and 4 left over kitpieces with nothing to choose.

They want $99 to upgrade my 10.5. After I crossgraded to Nuendo (I kept my Cubase license) I was kind of thinking I would drop Cubase. This feature lag between the two is very annoying. I wish they would ship together. As Steinberg upgrades available from any retailers?

I'm not sure with Cakewalk any plugins work on a surround bus. Last time I tried, it was an epic fail. I don't think it's gotten any better. If your DAW supports it sooner or later your audio has to reduce down to two channels to go to your headphones. You should put Sonarworks there. All it does is fix your speaker response to be flatter. No space, no virutal. Like buying a better set of headphones. That's it. The surround bus is what you feed to dearVR or say a 5.1/7.1 Waves plugins. Sooner or later though it has to mix down to stereo or your headphone can't listen to it. But again I don't think any of those plugins work with Cakewalk's broken plugin on a surround bus model (which tries to turn it into stereo for the plugin or something). Wave's is very clear on their surround plugins tech pages that only some DAWs work. I'd think that applies to dearVR Monitor as well. Most DAWs aren't really very well setup for surround anything.

Work yes. Work well? Who knows. Both Sonarworks and ToonBoosters MorphIt are both just EQ. The same EQ on both channels at least with a non-custom measured set. I'm not sure about a custom measured EQ curve it could be different on each ear. Both work with Wave's NX but it doesn't matter what order you put them in with Wave NX. Before the head transfer or after the results are the same (I did some tests and made a post about it a long time ago). I doubt this dearVR Monitor plugin changes that. All the headphone EQ does is make your headphone speaker closer to flat. It shouldn't really matter about the space part.

It is a deal, just not a normal one.

Isn't this just for custom phrases where she records what you tell her (non-lyrical only)? It's not a discount on their sample products. Not sure exactly how you'd order it from their web site.

If you want flat and 3d you may need to mix this with Sonarworks or one of the other headphone EQ products. This was true for the Waves stuff in the beginning, until they started to add EQ profiles for various headphones as an additional option.

It's a tough lesson, but the only safe way to activate Waves plugins is to a USB thumb drive. Yes it's a dongle you have to buy and keep track of yourself. But it can save you so much pain and suffering.

Too good a deal to pass up, even if it's not my favorite platform. Download isn't going very fast, seems to be speed limiting anything other than one download. But it's not that large so I don't think it's going to take much longer. I'm pretty sure I don't need another vocal library, but the price is too good.

And yes, many of these IK sales polices are kind of crazy. Losing jam points when you transfer a product. Lots of NFR rules. Expiring downloads. etc. It does seem kind of endless and filled with gotchas.

From https://www.ikmultimedia.com/faq/index.php?id=1072 So I guess if you buy collections with a credit card you can transfer them but the a-la-carte stuff can't be transferred no matter what.

You can of course use cash in the web store and get a version that you can transfer, but if you buy it in the custom shop it's NFR no matter how you pay. I think. It's hard to say for sure sometimes with IK.

US users can use Guitar Center and/or Musician Friend 15% coupons to get a discount on Omnisphere. They come up often enough. It's how I got it a year or so ago. Not exactly a giant discount but about the best you can do.

All Custom Shop purchases are NFR, doesn't matter how you pay. Just how it works.

Orb Producer 2.0.1 is out now. I'm not seeing any change log yet though.

So if the intro prices stay in place till Dec 31, and it ships will the intro pricing also be available in the CS using gear credits? Usually in the past I thought IK ended the pre-order offers at release since otherwise it would let people get things with crazy levels of discounts depending on how cheaply they bought gear credits in the past for. Or will the gear credit prices not reflect the intro discount? Not that I care at this point, it just was a crazy thought that occurred to me in this thread. While I hope IK ships it soon, right now November is kind of booked up with new releases. Two new game consoles, new CPUs, new GPUs, crazy prices on SSD storage. I think the average IK customer is going to be stretched a bit thin.

It depends on the template you use to create the project (these are per-project settings). But all the default templates get reinstalled every time you update. So you either have to edit them and save them as new templates (and never use the defaults) or every time you make a new project you may have to tweak the project settings.

Be sure to read the install instructions. Running the installer isn't enough, you also need to install the .guru file in Unify itself.

It's preorder. Actual full pricing is AT5SE $149, AT5 $199, AT5MAX $399. But I believe there will still be upgrade/crossgrade discounts equal to what things are now for IK customers that qualify for those options even after the preorder prices end. So if you are one of those customers the pricing may stay the same. If you are a new customer, pricing will go up. Until the next sale, which will certainly happen for Xmas. No promises though, IK is free to change their pricing and discounts at any time for any reason. I do think it's safe to say that if you are willing to wait the current offer will be available again.