El Diablo

Love this plug-in! Ice used it in almost all my projects.

If I update to windows 11 there's a huge possibility that my Roland PCR 300 drivers won't be compatible. I had to hack windows 10 to force it to run the windows 7 drivers. I don't even know if that's possible with windows 11. So, I would have to get new hardware on top of that!

Windows 11 is got more spyware than windows 10 that has more spyware than windows 7....

It's all about the name brand, not the years between. It's fine if they don't want me back. I still own 8.5, and with Blue Cat Audio Patchwork, I can run VST3 inside it. It maybe cheaper to buy a used platinum version from ebay that still works with offline installation? I've got Reaper DAW. The only thing I'll miss from the newer version of Cakewalk compared to 8.5 is the ability to drag audio up till it turns a line blue, drop it, and then it converts the audio into a tempo map automatically via Melodyne embedded. I use that feature quite often when I use Cakewalk.

I wouldn't think so... I've looked deeply into creating imprinting into audio files that isn't audible to the human ear and found that to be extremely difficult when getting into the CD quality 44.1k 16 bit formats. Anything that compresses or converts like mp3 will completely mess with the signature. I couldn't wrap my brain around a way to do it without creating your own audio format. Edit: it would be much easier to stuff a song into a BMP file than to stuff a BMP file into a song and it still be usable.

This new Cakewalk BETTER have CLAP support!

Do you mean Fad Filter? As it's slowly drifting into the faded sunset... Just a distant memory...

If your computer is as old as my computer (2015) you'll probably not be able to handle East West Opus.

If Cakewalk offers a really good upgrade price from version 8.5 to the newest version that has a Perpetual license. I think it would be worth the upgrade

Don't forget, it's $225 if you plan to use Reaper to sell whatever it outputs.

Where do you get them from? I know about https://www.indiginus.com/renegade-acoustic-guitar I plan on using more of his instruments, but I don't know of anyone else within that price range. I'm needing to replace NI session bass and session guitar instruments if I uninstall Komplete 14. With Komplete 8, I have everything I need. I did however enjoy glaze instrument, but I can do without it. Most of the newer instruments I can do without. Kontakt 7 is CPU hungry verses Kontakt 5!

I understand this is a cakewalk forum, but y'all are a better crowd of people whom can relate to many different things relating to music and plugins. When I had Komplete 8, I've never had this issue. Upgraded to Komplete 14 and now every so often I have to log back online to re-activate all of my plugins!!! I mainly notice this when I use Kontakt 7. It's the most used plugin from Native Instruments. Why do I have to continually go back online to re-activate something I already bought? I understand this link: https://support.native-instruments.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005670809-Offline-Activation-of-Native-Instruments-Products It doesn't say anything about having to re-activate products every 30-60 days. This is a Komplete headache! What happens if Native Instruments collapses and is no longer a business? Are all my products forever done? Should I stop buying from Native Instruments? Is this the kind of product I can not keep forever? Any suggestions to a different company that doesn't give issues like this and you can keep your instrument plugins forever? Maybe I'll denouce Native Instruments and start using someone else for my instruments that won't give me such a headache!

It's probably free to help provide feedback for his product to help him make it better.

You know that it's going to get leaked here for the non-subscribers.

Did cclarry create a topic just for someone named "Sampleson". Then I come here and see it's not a person 🧐

Dang it! I thought for a minute there y'all was advertising Mario Paint!

Plus, the Cableguys patience is not much. A friend of mine sent emails to them about product issues, and eventually they told him to keep his money. 🧐 So, if they don't wish to address product issue problems, or be helpful in product improvements, then it's another reason not to buy Shaperbox.

Your right, I do buy projects I installed most times. There's more reasons not to buy this product than meets the eye. Shaperbox has a lot of product problems. Like, you can't change any of the numbers using a keyboard. Everything is mouse based. There's some numbers the mouse won't let you get... Like the 9khz issue discussed in another post. I have stopped using Shaperbox. I will most likely uninstall it soon as it just takes up space. Shaperbox sounds really nice and all... but the complexity of using it is probably best for sound designers whom have the time to tinker. I would rather just get into making music right away, instead of tinkering for hours and hours. Yes they have presets, but I also hardly use presets. I am creative with my instruments and effects, but not too the extreme like Shaperbox. I figure, in order to use Shaperbox effectively, you'll need to learn everything. I mean everything on how it works, before you actually start using it. It's kind of like iZotope Stutter Edit 2, which I regrettably bought. Once I got into it, it's just too complex and I don't want to invest hundreds of hours learning it. Good thing I only bought it for $10. Imagine those whom paid $199!!

I think they give you a discount for the Shaperbox, but why buy it? There's unlimited usage demo version. You can only have 5 instances of it. It doesn't save anything everytime you load it... I am currently looking for a plugin or software that would "read" ram and save it...then load it into ram. Currently all the software and DAWs I know of "asks" the plugin to save it's own state, but I don't know of any software that can actually save a plugin state without the plugin needing to save it's own state. I know it can be done, windows does this when it hibernates. It dumps RAM into a file and reloads it back into RAM on boot up.

They listed QuickMuse for $9, but when you click it... It says $49! Did they forget the 4?

I wonder if they'll do it for $29 again? Today it was $64-25% discount... Doesn't beat $29. I don't need it, so I'll wait.

So, I was looking at Meric A/B (which isn't on a huge sell), Mastering The Mix Reference 2 (sell isn't big either), and MCompare which currently has the best sale price. I found out thru some research that MCompare can do something that neither of these other plugins can do, which is compare FX plugins. In other words, you can put two MCompare on the same track, sit a few FX plugins in between, and listen to the difference between the two MCompare sessions! It's not an advertised feature, at least as far as I can tell. The only thing I hate about MCompare as of right now is the inability to highlight the spectrum of frequencies you want to focus on... They do have a high and low cut filter, but those are boring knobs. I still hate the way the interface looks, but I'm sure they do that in order to focus more on the pressing matter at heart (the audio). Overall, after 1.5 years of debating, I'm finally set on one of these plugins and MCompare wins, despite my distaste for the appearance of the plugin, its features out weight all the other plugins for the price it is currently on sell. Even if the other plugins was to drop to this price level, MCompare would still win, unless those other plugins add the FX comparing feature to thier list of what they can do. After you add MCompare to the cart, go to check out and add FORUM code to get that discount price at JRRSHOP. https://www.jrrshop.com/meldaproduction-mcompare

Dang it! Mcompare is what I'm looking for right now. It's on sale for $25 and some change at JRRSHOP, but I've never known it to be as low as $12.

The great thing was all the give aways they've had over the years. I found a plugin, I've never used or needed, but now that I need something, it was one of their freebie plugins "MetaFilter", that I found that I needed because I couldn't find a tempo based gating plugin that I would want to buy. I actually own that filter...lol. It was a freebie, so I never really gave it a chance, until now. I saved money because I don't need to buy a plugin anymore so, lesson learned. Don't ever throw away a plugin just because you've not found a use for it. Someday, you might find you need it, and when you actually find you own something you need, then you are so much more happy It's better to own something and not need it than to need something and not have it.

Yeah, have you seen the prices? They jacked up the prices once again. I guess if you want to buy any of their products, they've made it known that Xmas time is the best time of year for the lowest prices. Wait till the end of the year or find something else.