Matthew Sorrels

There is a lite/free version of Ibrido Cinematica you can get here to enter this contest with. https://metapop.com/pages/promos/scoring-with-sonokinetic?p=1

The register link is there below the login box but the color/font choice makes it almost invisible.

It's pretty awesome. It's what I had thought Spitfire's eDNA Earth should have been.

I liked Massive X's sound, more or less, but after so many years I think I was expecting something more. Right around the same time it finally shipped I bought VPS Avenger. In comparison Massive X seemed kind of weak. As a result I may not have given it a fair chance.

I can think of a lot of better ways to spend $58 than for three expansions for a synth that is at best blah. Massive X is/was pretty disappointing.

I don't think that page for this deal has the crosscheck validity checker like the main Massive X order page does. If you order it and don't own a Massive license you may find it doesn't authorize. Also be sure your computer CPU supports AVX otherwise you won't be able to run Massive X at all.

Or get it for no extra cost (not free) with eXplorer-6 😁

I couldn't get the subscribe option on the page with the free instruments to work. But if you go to the main product page https://www.analogueinstruments.com and scroll all the way down, that subscribe option did work for me.

Same full retail price as EZKeys and EZDrummer 2. Right now EZDrummer is 33% off, which I think is normal for Toontrack. Good chance if you are willing to wait you should be able to pick this up for $120ish. Less if you can order in GBP and have VAT removed. For SD3's release Toontrack forced Time&Space to stop selling to US customers in non-US funds to avoid that currency discount. But I don't think they are doing that any more, may have just been for the SD3 roll out.

I'm not surprised they claimed no support for Cakewalk. However the pro channel feature is part of their product and they broke it. My fear is their solution to breaking it will be to just remove it.

ROLI also just sold JUCE to Pace/iLok. Off hand I'd say they are dissolving.

You can also use a virtual MIDI cable, like LoopBe You feed the one MIDI track to it. And then feed the output of that virtual MIDI cable device into MIDI tracks that go to the synths and turn on echo.

Those can be sort of hit or miss. If you really want to look at a crash dump I'd recommend installing Visual Studio 2019 Community edition (it's free at Microsoft). Then inside it do a file->open and pick the .dmp file. Then start debugging. It will let you see everything involved in the crash that it can pull out. It's exactly what I did with your crash. There is only so much you can do without the symbols for the programs you are debugging though, but you can at least get a feel for what may have happened. Cakewalk uses a DLL for video and it was loaded in your crash, but I think it's always loaded (even if you don't have a video as part of the project) but crashes painting the screen like that aren't all that common unless some video driver is a problem. Reading a crash is kind of like solving a puzzle, a lot of it is just guessing though. Good luck.

You need a debugger to read a dump file, you can't just open it. Your crash is inside Cakewalk, not inside a plugin, only someone from Cakewalk could tell you more about what exactly crashed. But looking at the dump your version of mfc120u.dll, mfc120.dll and mfc140u.dll aren't current. You may need to update your Visual Studio runtimes. Since Cakewalk uses MFC having older versions can cause issues. I'd consider updating them. The other interesting thing is the main Cakewalk thread is doing a GdiPlus.dll!ConvexRasterizer which is an operation for drawing on the screen. It's not crashing in that thread, but the fact it's doing something with the screen usually points to a problem with your video card drivers. Do you have an embeded video in the project? My simple advice, run Windows Update and update every single thing you can. Then go here https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2977003/the-latest-supported-visual-c-downloads And download and install at least the Visual Studio 2015, 2017 and 2019 64-bit version and the Visual Studio 2013 installer (the first one in that section should be fine). Then go get the most recent version of your video card driver and install that. Then see if Cakewalk still crashes.

If you need film/movie/video/game sound effects I recommend these guys very highly. They have bundles and they offer upgrade prices to the bundles that take into account what you have already bought. The sound effects are really good, though they only cover some what limited areas (weapons and robots originally and now a bunch of horror and UI). They also have some audio plugins and Reaktor things as well. Those are interesting if you are doing sound design.

I can't help but feel I'm being hit in the face with a copyright infringement lawsuit from just looking at that page. A company named "Mimic Audio" selling music packs: Old Town Road Bad Guy I Don't Care Sunflower Beautiful People Godzilla SEÑORITA Dance Monkey And their product pages have links to the original rack on sound services even. While I'm sure they have some legal cover or at least think they do, I'm not so sure.

I quit installing the VST2 versions, the VST3 versions are good.

I was wrong, the pro channel presets has a last used section as well a the list of available. With Saturation Knob the two lists are small enough to be the same, making it look like everything is double. So yeah I think all the Softube Pro Channel plugins that I have other than Saturation Knob are broken: Active Equalizer, FET Compressor, Focusing Equalizer, Passive Equalizer, TSAR-1R Reverb. All the crashes are deep in the Softube plugins themselves. I'd bet only Softube can fix this.

My Saturation Knob works but the new Pro Channel presets for it seems to have two copies of the presets. Not sure that's Softube or not though? Could also be something specific to the early access version. All the rest of the Softube Pro Channel plugins either crash instantly or draw bad/missing UI and then crash later.

All the Softube Pro Channel modules look broken with this last update. 😱

I bought it because it was the closest thing to Roland's R-Mix, which I kind of missed (the Cakewalk version). I understand the real R-Mix is part of the Roland cloud now but when they dropped the loyalty bonus my interest in that went out the window. F-Rex is like R-Mix but is missing a bunch of features to make it really awesome. It does have the basic R-Mix UI, but things like simple solo buttons aren't there. The window is always square (no round options) And the effects it includes are kind of weak. It has great potential but I have a hard time recommending it. A Japanese company with a name of "INTERNET Co, Ltd" should be the first clue. They haven't updated it in forever. I just checked with their activation center (how they manage the activation/install) and it tells me I have the most recent version. You don't even register with them, you can access the download with your serial number only. I think you can demo it: https://www2.ssw.co.jp/download/dl_trial_en.aspx?p=761 It's also part of their audio editing app Sound It!(It's included with the app). But the version included in the audio editing app can't be used outside of it. I checked with their support when I was looking at this years ago.

I updated my legacy using the Korg Software Pass app (which is kind of crappy the way it handles things). I don't think adding the Triton and ARP for $199 is a very good deal, but the new GUI's on the older ones is a very nice free update. If they lower the price on the Legacy update to $99 and I'd jump, till then, no.

This is the second Sugar Bytes product they have brought into the Composer Cloud (Aparillo was first I think).

There was a big debate on either VI or Gearslutz about if Phoenix did anything different/better if you had Nimbus. I think the answer they came to was yes, but it wasn't all that clear to me. So I passed on this the last time it was on sale. Maybe I should reconsider.

You can't use the Adobe sound files as part of a trademark (audio mark) and expect them to be exclusive. The sentence as read only entangles the "trademark rights" the "content file or derivative works thereof" means exactly that. You can't take these sounds, fiddle them and then claim a trademark right on them (either as shipped or a derivative). Adobe has no issue with normal sound file usage, these sound effects have been distributed with Audition for a very long time (and under a bunch of different licenses). I'm pretty sure Adobe couldn't sue any one for using them if they wanted to. Trademark rights are a totally different kind of thing than a copyright (just like patents aren't trademarks, and design patents aren't normal patents, but people blur them all together sometimes). And no I'm not a lawyer, but I have used the Adobe files in projects and will continue to do so. Though technically I may have paid for them a few times since I've bought Adobe products that included them on discs before the creative cloud and do have an active creative cloud sub. But I don't think that gives me any extra rights.