Hidden Symmetry

They'll sell like hotcakes at $99.00

More realistic at $99.00.

Pricing Announced:
Retail $249.00  currently on sale: $149.00

Pricing announced.
Retail $329 currently sale $229.00

MakeMusic is committed to providing free technical support for current Garritan products. Two years after the release of Garritan Personal Orchestra 5, technical support for the previous version, GPO 4, will be discontinued effective March 1, 2019.

We encourage GPO 4 users to continue to find alternative support through our Help Center, which includes links to our Knowledge Base and Community forums. GPO 4 users are also able to upgrade to GPO 5 for $49.95.

Because these changes impact support, we are contacting all GPO 4 users, including those who have opted out of email in the past. Please take this opportunity to make any desired updates to your email preferences via My Account.

https://makemusic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us

 A new update for Metropolis Ark 1! This is a feature update coupled with a small maintenance update, introducing the following changes: - the Capsule script was updated to 2.7.0 - support for the Native Instruments NKS standard (if you have compatible NI hardware) - miscellaneous small fixes 

Important: This update requires Kontakt Player 5.8.1 or higher. After installation the collection will NOT work with any earlier version of Kontakt.

Check your emails for Continuata Connect download code.

thanks Paul

same with albums, buy on sale & use when you're ready.

thanks ZincT

thanks Noel & bjornpdx

Some nice licks in there Will, that seagull type sound around 1:43 was cool too.

Last week I mentioned to CD Baby that they haven't had a sale on their standard single song distribution in a long time. Well they listened to me & posted this today!

"Start your year right by releasing your first single of 2019 for only $5!
Flash sale expires Jan 11!
Use code: FLASH5 at checkout"

https://cdbaby.com/

Lush, Organic Soundscapes

For this exclusive product, the Vienna team went straight to their vast treasure trove of orchestral sounds. The core of Vienna Smart Spheres is entirely organic and acoustic, with all the liveliness and vibrancy that comes from live performance. The breath, Bows and body movements of Vienna’s famed musicians shine throughout the range of each patch.

After Vienna’s sound design team experimented with their raw samples it became clear that their acoustic recordings would provide uniquely vibrant sounds with tremendous depth and interest. Using the possibilities of Vienna’s new Synchron Player with its powerful integrated FX plug-ins and routing options, Vienna Smart Spheres offers a shimmering and impressive collection of sounds that will be useful in any musical environment, from film scores to the more experimental side of electronic music.

The Vienna team’s goal was to design soundscapes from various sources, recorded over the course of many years, with the highest attention to detail. As always, the included presets are a suggestion, a starting point that ideally inspires any musician to explore, modulate and expand sonic boundaries within the traditional symphonic realm. You may tweak the presets and the FX amount simply by moving pre-configured Continuous Controllers, such as CC1 or CC3. If you want to go further, the flexible and open structure of the Synchron Player’s user interface easily allows for far more detailed editing. Whatever your personal approach will be, Vienna Smart Spheres will guide you through a variety of settings, from fearsome dark drones to heavenly ethereal spheres.

Ambient symphonic explorations

Hand-picked sound-design presets

Organic, living, breathing sounds from the finest acoustic sources

Flexible routing and sound-design possibilities

Experimental sounds for Basses, Leads, Pads, Plucks and Pulses

If you’re a registered or new user of the Vienna Smart Orchestra, your crossgrade price to Vienna Smart Spheres is €85, only through January 31, 2019!

Starting at just $95. For more information:

https://www.vsl.co.at/en

jrrshop: $97.00

https://www.jrrshop.com/vienna-symphonic-library-smart-spheres-for-owners-of-smart-orchestra

Best Service: $105.00
https://www.bestservice.com/vienna_smart_spheres.html

Found this internet collaboration the other day. Not mine but a project by Charles Morais Jr. (drummer, age 17) of Coltrane's Giant Steps. Charles Morais SR.: keys Jerry Brooks: bass Roger Byem: saxes, myself on guitar.

Done in 2005 it says 'still under work' but it was never continued or finished. Still there's some good raw performances from Charles, Jerry & Roger in this working version.

https://www.soundclick.com/html5/v4/player.cfm?songID=1633313

 maintenance update for Monofilter.

This update includes a fix for the Master Bypass delay compensation. This is a recommended free update for all existing users.

https://nugenaudio.com/monofilter/

Precision Audio Analyzing from SPL

https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/products/spl_hawkeye.html

Features

Level Meter
True Peak Meter for L, R, Mid & Side with different scales, including Katz-Scales; RMS Metering for L, R, Mid & Side; TPL Histogram

Loudness Meter
Peak to Loudness Ratio (PLR), Peak to Momentary Loudness Ratio (PMR) and Peak to short-term Loudness Ratio (PSR); Integrated Loudness (IL), Momentary Loudness (ML) and short-term Loudness (SL);

Display
Color-coded timeline display to master against a set LU target; Loudness Range Histogram

Bit Monitor
64-bit display; Bit-Depth check - Determine real bit-depth; Bit pattern and distribution timeline; Direct Current (DC) offset meter (up to -40dB)

Vector Scope
Goniometer in linear and logarithmic view; Luminescence slider; Balance meter; Correlation meter

Analyzer
Spectrum- and 1/3 Octave-Analyzer as well as Phase-Panorama-Display: Spectrum (FFT) with 4096 bands achieving a high frequency and amplitude precision; Spectrogram; Panorama- and Phase-Display with a resolution of 4096 frequency bands; 1/3 octave analyzer; Linear and mouse draggable logarithmic frequency scales; Mouse draggable dB scale to change the displayed amplitude ranges 

Retail $249.00  currently on sale: $149.00

In 2015 SPL released the IRON mastering compressor based on an original concept.

Their goal was to conceive a compressor that provided a pleasant, melodic-sounding, transparent compression, inspired by the vintage compressors of the radio era. But they wanted it to be versatile enough to adapt perfectly to the needs of modern mastering studios.

Variable Bias Tube Compressor

Parallel Dual Tube Circuit

Custom Mu-Metal Iron Transformers

Feed-forward resistive Vactrol-Opto-Isolator

Six different Rectifier settings available

Sidechain that allows you to choose between Off, four sidechain-filter presets or an external sidechain signal

In Link mode, the Threshold, Tube Bias, Attack, Release, and Rectifier parameters, as well as the Sidechain EQs, are controlled with the right side (channel 2) of the unit

Master out features an additional, Passive Equalizer with two fixed sounds

Retail $329 currently sale $229.00

https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/products/spl_iron.html

thanks Will

Today I remixed an older album track & made this video backdrop. 'After Hours', an internet collab feat. Gernot Dechert on sax.

I'm no Steve Vai but thanks Will.

Physics & also psychotherapy.  Sometimes way too complicated to understand.

Purpose "Songs: Post links to your songs, share and discuss. "

It's another reason for using the tags  feature this new forum.

No need for sub forums simply use tags such as music / mix advice / techniques /  discuss /  songwriting  etc..

Thanks jude77,

The videos are done very quickly & on the fly until I have a video 'backdrop' for the music track.

Today I remixed & made a video 'backdrop' for this previous track:

I'll add Catapult to your list. Catapult

My only con is that there's a take down fee. Unless you think you'll be selling lots of product I wouldn't go with any that have a yearly fee. There's also this older reference page to check out:

https://aristake.com/post/cd-baby-tunecore-ditto-mondotunes-zimbalam-or