Matthew Sorrels

I played with the ukramedia scripts today (yes I have a Adobe Creative Cloud subscription). They aren't bad, but I wouldn't call them world class and awesome. Useful if you need something like that, but kind of plain. There are a lot of lower third and titling packages at much, much higher prices that are technically better. I don't think anyone that gets this bundle and doesn't have After Effects is really missing much. It's a nice bonus but nothing to write home about.

All the ukramedia scripts/presets require Adobe After Effects. So might not be that useful for casual users.

I actually bought this (a sale), but it was a long, long time ago. I want to say 7 years ago, maybe more. They updated it once since then. I don't think I've ever used it in any music. It's fun to play with though. Just never got anything out of it.

The UI paint problems with the VST3 version in Bandlab may still very well be iZotope's bug, can't really tell. The track name garbage though is almost certainly Bandlab's bug, looks like they aren't null terminating the track name when they hand it to the plugin maybe. The VST2 version of Relay in Cubase 10.5 doesn't even have the advanced drop down arrow. Which I think is funny (since Cubase is the defacto VST platform). But the VST3 one correctly resizes and repaints the UI, which Cakewalk doesn't seem to do right. In Reaper and Ableton 10 both the VST2 and VST3 plugins work correctly and have all the options visible. I'd say the odds of getting this fixed aren't that good. Maybe someone from Bandlab will see this and can put it on the list. I think they can get a demo version of the iZotope plugins that would be enough to test/debug this.

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Your screenshot shows Relay is the VST2 version (see the plugin title area at the top) but the Visual Mixer is the VST3 version. I don't think VST2 will do track names. Sadly with all VST3 the track names aren't coming out right, they seem to have extra garbage characters on the end

MuseScore is really the best option for converting the MusicXML files. I have a one line batch file that uses it's command line options to do it. You can then set that batch file up as a Send To target so you can actually right click files and send to the batch file and have it convert right there in the explorer. Change the path to where your copy of MuseScore is and save it as a batch file, MusicXMLtoMID.bat somewhere on your computer, then select the .bat file and do a right click and create shortcut. Rename the short cut to just MusicXMLtoMID.lnk then right click and cut it. Then in the explorer type "shell:sendto" (no quotes) This takes you to your Send To menu directory, then paste the shortcut in. Now when you right click on an MusicXML file go to the Send To menu and pick MusicXMLtoMID and it will run the batch file on your xml file and produce a .mid file in the same location. There may be other better ways to do this now. I came up with this many years ago to solve problems with Guitar Pro's MIDI save feature not doing slurs correctly (but it's MusicXML was correct and could be converted). Here's some help on doing the send to thing: https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/customize-the-windows-vista-send-to-menu/

You may need to install a newer/updated video card driver. opencl.dll comes from your video card manufacturer.

The differences between Resolve and Resolve Studio aren't really that clear. Blackmagic still only has this one document for Resolve 15, it hasn't been updated for 16. https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/SupportNotes/DaVinci_Resolve_15_Feature_Comparison.pdf I'm not sure if HDR and greater than 4k is all that important to most people. The missing effects are pretty much covered by this Ignite Pro bundle. The missing audio effects I'm assuming anyone posting here has a ton of better VST plugins which should work in Resolve. There are some file formats the lite version doesn't support but I'm not sure if that would effect most people though. Movie file format support is going to always be an issue no matter what you use to edit video with. Again I think for most users the paid version of Resolve doesn't bring all that much to the table. For Fusion there are a bunch of 3D/optical flow features that I personally think are useful but again I don't think the average user would ever bother with. I don't really think the effects in this bundle changes things all that much though. Editing video isn't really about having a vast collection of visual effect tools. I think not getting this bundle and just using Resolve itself as is covers most people. This bundle just helps with the VFX side of the fence. Which may or may not be all that important to you. If you need to blow things up, do guns/lasers, etc. Having HitFilm and these plugins and stock footage can be invaluable. Even normal video these days have a lot more VFX work than most people realize. Object removal and green screen pretty much top the list. Sadly neither of those are always easy with or without a ton of plugins.

Humble Bundle is legit. They are also very cool and easy to work with. It's now a very well run machine. Create an account, buy the bundle at the $30 level, get all the serial keys and activate them. They have web pages that explain how to redeem each of the many products in this bundle. The steps involved can be complicated but they do have pretty good documentation which you should read. Mostly it involves making accounts at the various businesses and installing the software and then using the serial number to register the software. Ignite Pro's ton of plugins shows up in Resolve, Adobe Premiere and After Effects for me with no problems. That alone is a pretty good deal for $30.

Yes.

I have VC7 so it was $49 crossgrade from that. I got the Paypal to finally go through but getting their software center to sync has proven impossible. I think I may have finally got it to authorize (after a number of failed attempts). I can't remember an online portal/installer behaving this poorly.

Well I finally got logged in and it offered me a crossgrade to Pigments 2 for $49. So I guess it turns out I do need this synth. 🙂 Sadly that's as far as I was able to get, that cart/login/checkout sequence doesn't seem to be possible with the current website's load/whatever.

They updated all the synths. It took me an hour to install them since it runs the manual installer for each and every one of the zillion synths included in collection. That was so much wasted time and effort. Don't have Pigments though, so this is kind of interesting. Do I need another synth? Or more importantly do I need this synth?

Most people don't really need the pro/dongle version of DaVinci Resolve. Though I personally wouldn't give up my dongle. 🙂 Hitfilm has never really been in the same class as Fusion. But I may be slightly biased since I've paid well more than $1k for Fusion licenses (before Blackmagic). Lucky for me my last Fusion support contract got me a free Blackmagic Fusion dongle. And now they have made it so the Fusion dongle will authorize Resolve. I saw that bit about After Effect plugin support coming to HitFilm. I've seen this in the past (before Adobe cloud) there were several apps that supported AE plugins. But none of them could keep up with the changes in AE for very long. Or they were so completely buggy as to be unusable. I don't think I'd ever get my hopes up on plugin compatibility. Even OFX plugins rarely work right on all platforms/hosts and they were meant to.

Maybe it was just the offer on the Modal Runs. It's page seems to say it's good for 26 days which would be Jan 6th.

I thought (but can't find the KvR post so take with grain of salt) they said all the deal prices will stay in effect till after the new year. It's not like 8dio where they are only good for 48 hours. The free offers are limited quantities though.

You can only use the 10% offer once per account, even though they keep offering it to you.

I think the tide on this one is slowly turning. Early on VST3 plugins had more issues, they were newer and things were unfinished. VST2 was old school and stable. But now that VST2 isn't supported by Steinberg (if you want to sell a VST2 plugin you had to have gotten a license before last year I think) more developers are focusing on VST3 and as a result the VST2 plugins are seeing more specific to them issues.

Missed the free one, but got it cheap with points.

Are you using Mellodyne? I think it saves data into your project file. Might be the reason it's saving so slowly. Almost always going to be a random plugin though, they can save whatever they want. Something that processes all the audio data might have a large save footprint.

I think the brass high end is more limited because there are no trumpets. I have been wanting to get this for a while to use with the phrase libraries but it never was a great enough deal to warrant picking it up. But this plus the new loyalty points tipped me over. Though I doubt I'll use it all that much (if at all).

The Play plugin can take input from the computer keyboard, which is what you are having a problem with since Cakewalk wants the input to drive it's UI. But it can also take input from your MIDI keyboard and will still play chords. Makes it a one button chord plugin (you press one key and get a full chord). Plugins that use keyboard input often have issues with the DAW. Which is why there is that switch to focus the keyboard entry to the plugin. But even that has limits. Reaper isn't a magic bullet for this, it just is slightly different so perhaps it's working better for you. The truth is the Play plugin is the least useful (to me) of all the Captain plugins. In general the Captain plugins have seemed to work for me in CbB. But keyboard control over a plugin is always an issue, doesn't matter what plugin or what DAW. If your plugin wants to use the '1' key for a feature and your DAW wants to use a '1' key for a feature, someone is going to lose that fight.

Turn on the send all keystrokes keyboard icon in the upper right corner of the CbB plugin UI to get the keystrokes to the Play plugin. It mostly seems to work for me if I do that, but I think you'd have more luck with it in MIDI mode.