Matthew Sorrels

I signed up for the trial. I have to admit I'm kind of underwhelmed. Perhaps if I owned some of the hardware of the Roland synths I'd feel differently. But of the collection only Zenology seems to be a "modern" software synth. Almost all the classic synths have really tiny UI (not scalable) and awful preset management. I could see picking up the Sound Canvas just because of the General MIDI support but I think the Arturia collection is a much better package. This shouldn't be a subscription, and the lifetime prices are way too high considering. Even the Korg collection I think is a better deal and doesn't require $200/year.

You're right. I ran some tests. A Type 0 file with multiple channels does auto-split. But a Type 1 file with multiple channels on a single track doesn't and as a result needs something to split it. I guess you could also create something like this naturally in Cakewalk where a single track has notes on multiple channels. When you get that mixed channels on a single MIDI track the only way I've ever seen to split it is with a CAL script.

You can use a CAL script to split the MIDI into tracks. A Type 0 MIDI file with the channels all combined will always come in as one track. I have two CAL scripts for doing the spliting, but I'm not sure where I got them "Split Channel to Tracks.cal" and "Split Channel to Tracks-Choices.cal" Google found this: https://bobbyprincemusic.blogspot.com/2011/06/sonar-x1-using-cal.html

Single notes seemed to work for me, but I'll admit I didn't look at it very closely. I quickly hacked together a small command line EXE to convert Type 1 MIDI files into single track Type 0 files and that seemed to work for making Ripchord happy. Though I'm pretty sure tossing track 0 and any tracks above 1 and setting the file to Type 0 might not exactly be the best "convert to Type 0" system. I wonder if I could have found an already made solution faster than my hack? I'd bet you could load the MIDI into Cakewalk and then save it out as Type 0.

EW can fail to play correctly in realtime/normal play mode as well. It seems to skip release tails if it can't get the data to the buffer fast enough. It's not just fast bounce that is broken. Loading everything into RAM seems to help this the most though.

Seems to be some issues with SONAR at the bottom on this page: https://www.rolandcloud.com/catalog/legendary/sound-canvas-va and Are these big issues? I'll admit Sound Canvas has been on my list for a while but the price was always a bit too much for an instant buy. But $69 isn't unreasonable. Not sure about the $200/year subscription though. If they were still offering one free lifetime product per year, maybe. But $200/year and nothing left to show for it after a year is a bit high.

Tutti Vox also has an update to 1.2 showing

If you start with the New Preset option, then import the MIDI file. It will assign each white key to a note in the file, in order. You can then switch to edit mode and use the arrows to move the blue keys to where you want them and maybe edit them by selecting the step. But I'm not sure what kind of MIDI files it will import. All my successful tests were simple, single track MIDI 0 files, when I tried to do a more complex MIDI file I got nothing on the import. I think it's a bit picky about what track it will take? The files it failed on were Type 1 MIDI files with two tracks, a tempo track (with only one setting) and a note track. It wouldn't import them (though I'd think it should have) all I got was a blank keyboard, but no errors either.

You don't put it anywhere. Extract it from the Zip and in the plugin use the import option, you can multi-select. It then copies the files into the right place (on Windows I believe it puts them in %APPDATA%\Trackbout\Ripchord\Presets) After you have imported any presets you can delete them. I would say you could just copy them over yourself, but I'm not sure if there isn't more to it than that, so I'd stick with the import option in the plugin.

I went ahead and got it also, figured it was a decent price. At first blush it reminds me a lot of Addictive Drums 2. Similar drum sets.

I recommend you always store Waves licenses on a USB thumb drive, it's too easy otherwise for the CPU identity to change and this to happen.

Looks like you can't use Jampoints with the $50 discount. Bummer.

https://spitfireaudio.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002704694-How-to-reauthorise-and-locate-in-the-Spitfire-App Has the steps for relocating and reauthorizing.

From my Steam account on https://steamdb.info/ That's over 9 years, 2399 games only played 356 of them.

So watching the videos it looks like they have set it up so that if you load a project made with the Pro or Core BBCSO and only have Discover it will still work. You'll see the "Pro/Core" articulation and it will actually play back. But substitute with the closest match for the version of BBCSO you have. Which explains why I could see the articulations in Discover mode and they actually worked. Which means the stripped down template may actually be better since it will put the drum parts on their own tracks, even for Discover users. Which is maybe easier to use than having to remember/look up/find by hunting which key is which of the drum articulations. Of course this also means you could just use the Pro template as is. Everything will work, it just won't sound the same. Definitely an interesting feature. Should make it nice for students and teachers. I still think the pricing is a bit crazy on this, even the sale price feels off to me. If the sale prices they have now were the normal prices and they had sale pricing on top of that I'd say it was about right. It will be interesting to see if they put it on sale more in the future.

So I stripped my template down to the Discover instruments but I'm not so sure it's going to work right for people without the full BBCSO. In my template I have all the percussion instruments as separate tracks. This is because in Pro BBCSO they have actual articulations also. In Discover though there is only the Untuned percussion choice (which has each percussion instrument on a single note). But when I open the say track Snare 1, it is in Discover mode but it shows the Snare 1 articulation (a view I can't get normally from Discover mode). So I don't think that will work if you don't have the Pro BBCSO. The answer would be to remove all those percussion tracks and just leave the one Untuned one I guess. But someone with the cut down version will need to tell me what happens when you open up Snare 1. If you see this: You can download the Cakewalk template here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=11vrPhsRW2c6jOSNLUxTHY9NwP5Kc1gBu Someone with only Discover will have to tell me if the drum tracks work.

In these types of licenses the physical product restrictions are usually about making toys, robots, household appliances, cars, gadgets, etc. A lot of sound effect libraries I've bought have terms that say you can use them for games/video/film but the second you stick it in a robot or a toaster they want you to get a costly license for which they have no fixed price schedule.

Technically a CD is digital media, not sure about vinyl though.

I don't see these new versions/update in my Spitfire Audio app yet, but I suspect the Cakewalk templates I made when BBCSO first shipped could work with these stripped down versions. When I can get the update I'll make trim down versions of the templates for the Core and Discovery BBCSO.

That isn't any different than the more than 1TB of Kontakt instruments I already have. ?

Here's the coupon codes that aren't unique: BorisFX Film Impact Music Radio Creative Content Creator SFX Cellar pack

They do warn you in the Video Creator Bundle email I did try Title Studio out in Resolve and it does work. So for users not stuck in the Adobe universe that don't already own an Continuum filters this is a great deal. I suspect BorisFX's licensing may explain why they keep bundling their units with Vegas as well. You upgrade Vegas and are forced to upgrade your older Continuum units or else you lose them. I generally recommend Toolfarm for purchasing BorisFX plugins -- they are usually a little cheaper and unlike BorisFX's webshop you can manually enter your serial numbers. BorisFX doesn't actually track registration I guess, only direct purchases, and won't let you on-line order an upgrade if your account doesn't have a purchase in it. They force you to contact sales with email to do the upgrade. Buying from Toolfarm avoids that (and I got my new licenses instantly).

This is a good deal (free) but there are a few things you might want to understand. The Boris FX Title Studio and Film Impact Essentials Collection both are plugins for Adobe Premiere/After Effects/etc. The Boris FX plugin also includes OFX support and also works in Resolve, though I've never had a lot of luck with BorisFX plugins and OFX. Film Impact are video transitions and it's a subscription service. This free license for the essentials will expire in one year and stop working completely. Unless you resubscribe. I played with them, they are nice but not exactly amazing and their subscription pricing is crazy. I can't see me using them since I know they will stop working at some point in the future. BorisFX Title Studio is a permanent license. But BorisFX is some what like Waves, only with even worse customer issues. The Continum units (which Title Studio is one) are part of a larger package, but you can buy the parts you want or the whole package. Normally you get a year of support when you buy a unit(more on this in a bit). Which for BorisFX that means any updates that ship during the year you will be able to install and use. But as soon as your license expires, any updates dated after that will not work/can't be used. However, unlike Wave's BorisFX have decided to make it impossible to install multiple versions of Contitunum on one computer. And they only have one master installer now. So you cannot mix and match versions of Continuum unit plugins. So if you bought (like I have) older versions of some of the units you can't have/keep them and install this free Title Studio. If you don't have any BorisFX Continuum units this doesn't really effect you that much, but it was a major pain for me, since the handful of units I had appear to have all expired very recently. I went ahead and upgraded even though I'm not sure Title Studio was worth it. The Continuum stuff is on sale and I was likely to have upgraded sooner or later. But it wasn't exactly cheap just so I could get everything to 2020.5. Now the giant catch on this specific free offer, the license you get for BorisFX Title Studio expires the day you get it. You don't get a year. It is ended today. So if next week they ship a new version of Title Studio you will have to pay for a year of updates in order to use that new version. You can keep using the old version (save the installer I guess) but you won't be able to install the new version nor will you be able to install any other Continuum units you buy in the future (without losing your Title Studio). In the past you could make things work with mixed versions but they seemed to have gone out of their way to make it pretty close to impossible. They also don't offer any upgrade path from a bunch of the units to the full package, which bothers me a lot. I played with Title Studio and to be honest it's kind of unimpressive. It really needs some 3D/video card acceleration support I think. There are better title plugins, even for free this might not be all that awesome.

If running admin works but sticking it in a directory with normal user having full write privileges isn't enough the next thing you need to check is permissions on registry keys it tries to write to. I usually just run Microsoft's Sys Internals ProcMon and let it log all the file and registry access. Then look and see what the plugin is trying to do and fix the permissions. You can also find other directories it wants to write to (other than where it is installed) that way too.