Patricio Campos

Poor girl... really beautiful dog. I wish she will get better.

Isn't this like false advertisement or something? Bitwig 8 TRACKS has been alway free and they advertised it as costing 99€ which is plainly false (even the 16 tracks version is cheaper than that). Shame on them for trying to sale more magazines by lying to uninformed people.

wow, that's a huge change log. Amazing that I purchased a license for Reaper on 2016 for version 5 and is still valid for the last version (with continuous development) more than 6 years later.

well, Apple market share is 8% for all users, but I am quite sure that its marketshare for audio related users is quite more than that. Apple silicon is a huge innovation and improvement. I am convinced that in the next few years it will take over all of the Mac user base. I can't understand audio software companies not understanding this.

Regarding VST3, if you don't update to this format you are leaving all of your Cubase/Nuendo users behind. Also something I don't think is very smart from them. VST3 was released years ago and at least to me (I am hobbyist so I could be wrong) it makes way easier the side chain setup for plugins among other things.

To me Positive Grid is plainly lazy and they really do care of getting money without investing in their product development. Something that some other companies does too.

Just found that owners of perpetual FG-X license get free upgrade to FG-X2. This is how you should treat your customers! FG-X is a very old product, but many users like it despite all of the compatibility issues. It is nice form Slate to give this for free to their loyal customers, I wish other companies did the same (looking at you iZotope, I would never buy a thing from you again after your Nectar Plus scam and absurd upgrade prices, among others).

I used to be an All Access Pass subscriber and FG-X was really good. I can imagine how good this upgraded version is.

It is hard to believe that this company doesn't have native Apple Silicon support yet for their products. And it looks like they only provide VST2 and AAX formats for their flagship products. I would never buy something from them, their lack of support to their customers is incredible IMO.

Me neither. Nice update, it nows support native M1. This is the release notes:

• Added native support for Apple silicon Macs (Apple M-series chips).
• Added support for macOS Monterey, macOS Ventura, and Windows 11.
• Deprecated support for macOS High Sierra (10.13), macOS Mojave (10.14), and Windows 8.
• Deprecated support for the VST2 plug-in format. The VST2 plug-in format is not included with 2.1.0.

Looks like they are killing Iris, BreakTweaker and Trash for MacOS users, unless they update these for Ventura compatibility.

Neat indeed. And if you try their development builds you will see that there are many more interesting features being baked. You can check landoleet.org

Contrary to what you can believe, this pre-release versions are very stable... many people use those in their production machines.

15 hours ago, ALC said:

Looking at the past release dates, it's been at least two years between major version numbers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_One_(software)

• 1.0.0: Sep. 2009
• 2.0.0: Oct. 2011
• 3.0.0: May 2015
• 4.0.0: May 2018
• 5.0.0: July 2020
• 6.0.0: Sep. 2022

If you buy certain hardware, you have an option of choosing between Studio One Artist and a certain number of months of Sphere subscription.

Looks like there was a 30% sale on Sphere before.  https://rekkerd.org/presonus-sphere-studio-one-professional-notion-sale/

You are right. I think my timing was really bad. I purchased my license on February, 2022, so it was just 7 months and this new version was released. I am a little upset that now I should have to pay again.

I read somewhere that now that Presonus was acquired by Fender we should expect yearly version releases.

Well, considering Presonus will be launched one new version of Studio one per year it looks like subscribing to Sphere is the way to go. Doesn't make sense to buy the upgrade if it is almost the same cost as the yearly subscription. I will have to think about it. Anyone remember if Sphere subscriptions went on sale before?

2 minutes ago, Bapu said:

New Pan features (Dual Pan is the best addition IMO)

Lyric Track

Expanded Fader view

Fader Flip

De-Esser

These are worth the $114.21 I paid for the upgrade YMMV.

 

Reaper is a very nice DAW too. I use it occasionally but Studio One fits my workflow needs a little better.

 

Well, actually Reaper had lots of Pan features and I seldom used them. Lyric tracks are a PITA to setup and sync with your project so in my case I am better off just printing the full lyrics. De-Esser... well I have a lot of good de-essers 🤪. Fader Flip looks like a nice addition but I don't think that in my case justify the upgrade. Maybe it is because I do this just as a hobby and not for living...

After reading what's new I can't find a reason for upgrade. Really, I think this should have been a .5 update at most. Yeah, I know that 5.5 plus a .5 update equals 7, but the new features doesn't look enough for a version jump.

Now thinking in returning to Reaper. Still good with my license purchased on 2016 and valid until the current version. I am getting tired of these greedy companies.

missing him every day

4 minutes ago, Bapu said:

I have all access and I don't see that.

Really? I do have it but I as I said I have no license for it:

Could it be possible that I was receiving this by mistake?

There's a new de-esser plugin FG-DS 902, but I couldn't find any info in Slate site. Perhaps it was mistakenly released because Slate is quite vocal when they are releasing a new plugin. 

I don't have the all access pass so I can't test it.

Can't believe this is free. I played the original Bioshock 1 and 2 when they were released and those are pure gold. Wish it would be MacOS compatible.

I updated with no issues on MacOS.

Btw, it feels odd winning Larry in this update notification post 😆

Run Arturia Software Center to update. Release Notes:

Analog Lab V 5.5.0

New features:

• VC9 new instruments support
• New preset tagging system (right click to open tag menu)
• New Preset browser, toolbars and menus design
• New sound bank view 
• New instruments icons

Improvements:

• Enhanced preset recommendation algorithm
• User presets from legacy instruments are now always visible
• Removed the demo playlist for new users
• Project opening time improvements
• Preset loading time improvements
• Preset store performance improvements
• Enhanced preset drag & drop to playlists
• Moved user preset category in Explore
• Playlist menu improvements
• Playlists can now be edited simultaneously on plugin instances
• Preset info menu improvements
• Improved home page pop-up behavior
• Edits made in playlists are now automatically saved
• Added multiple preset selection count

Bug fixes:

• MPE no longer conflicts with standard pitch bend messages
• No more freezes when displaying two instances of the same instrument with AMD GPU
• No more missing presets when importing large banks
• Playlists can now be selected with program changes messages (MSB)
• No more pop-up display issues
• Installers no longer proposes Rosetta install on non-Rosetta systems
• No more missing presets when using several Analog Lab instances

Augmented STRINGS Release Notes V1.1.0

New features:

• New preset tagging system (right click to open tag menu)
• New Preset browser, toolbars and menus design
• New sound bank view 
• New instruments icons

Improvements:

• CPU consumption improvements
• Project opening time improvement
• Preset loading time improvements
• Preset store performance improvements
• Enhanced preset drag & drop to playlists
• Moved user preset category in Explore
• Playlist menu improvements
• Playlists can now be edited simultaneously on plugin instances
• Preset info menu improvements
• Improved home page pop-up behavior
• Edits made in playlists are now automatically saved
• Added multiple preset selection count

Bug fixes:

• MPE no longer conflicts with standard pitch bend messages
• No more freezes when displaying two instances of the same instrument with AMD GPU
• No more missing presets when importing large banks
• Playlists can now be selected with program changes messages (MSB)
• No more pop-up display issues
• Installers no longer proposes Rosetta install on non-Rosetta systems
• No more missing presets when using several Analog Lab instances

5 minutes ago, Brian Walton said:

They just gave away Masterdesk for free.

SSL9000J is cool but the out of pocket cost with the Minimums wouldn't be worth it.  You can simply buy the forever 29 voucher any day of the week and pick it up for $31.

 

Have to see what deals come along this month, but none of what you have listed is currently on sale for use with a $75 voucher that would make any sense at all, you would be better off with some forever 29 plans.

I was talking about the non free version of Masterdesk.

It looks like I'm not good at price analysis... just choose following my tastes.

Well it really depends on what you need or want. There many options available in that price. I have many Brainworx plugins which sounds fantastic, so I would go for bx_masterdex, bx_console SSL 9000 J (just to add to my 4000 E - G and Neve channel strips) or one of the bass amp simulators. But that is just what I would choose, you could have totally different needs.

Anyway I think you couldn't go wrong with any of the Brainworx plugins, in my experience all the ones I have are excellent. For the other brands I don't have experience.

Well, some of us are not native. I didn't understood the meaning of your post (went to PA website to check is some promotion was running). Guess I had to PM you instead of doing that.

It would be great if you give more info. What does it means FCFS?

This must be a joke. It looks like this update is only for Nectar Plus, not Nectar 3.

1 hour ago, Fleer said:

So we’ve got native versions of Ozone, Neutron and RX now. Nectar should be near indeed and I’m still hopeful for the EA reverbs, at least Nimbus and R4. 

I'd love to get EA plugins updated but I wouldn't hold my breath... It looks like iZotope has abandoned those plugins.