marcL

Today I am also satisfied with the stability of Cakewalk. But it depends also on your hardware. Reaper is very light and thus runs smooth even on older, weaker systems. Its current installation package is 14.5 MB only (Cakewalk is about 549 MB).

Yes, this is true with every brand. But there is a crucial difference whether you are able to use what you have or not! E.g. Reaper or some older DAWs can be authorized on new systems even if the company is gone! This feels save! 😉 I prefer those kind of authorization also for plugins, because you never know!

Regrettably I could not resist the Neold U17 for $15 + tax (=$19)! 😆 Seems to be a very cool compressor.

I think it is an illusion that the "were up against with computer power and functionality" was really used for product improvements in the software industry! No, I am sure (and I know what I am talking about) that more than 90 percent was wasted for development products itself that don't improve the end-software (in the contrary; e.g. compare Reaper's code size to other DAWs)! And a lot of power (of the other 10 percent) was used for useless quality improvement like high pixel photos with poor lenses for low-grade applications, high print resolution that our eye cannot perceive, high sample rates with poor recording equipment, high frequencies in music listening that we cannot hear, and so on ...

Okay, and? The electric guitar is even much older, so do you think it is not worth anymore? When I look at the latest NI "synths" (if you can call 'em like this, "play series"), then I really prefer their older stuff! Sounds much better in my ears! That's a great idea, I like Surge XT! It is one of the better synths available nowadays (even if its roots are far older as you told us). I think the idea "what's new is better" is a very stupid phantom of these days (and was ever since in all so-called advanced civilizations) . Look around in this new world! Regrettably I see more worsening than improvements in almost all areas (and I still hope it is not going on like this ...)!

Strange, here it disables both snaps when I press the N key. But maybe there is a setting that is different in my CbB?

This picture is nearly 40 years old! 😆

I think some of the kids on this forum that want it are a bit older! 😄

Is this progress when an audio tool needs much more resources for graphics? 😡 I am too old, really don't understand the 21st century. To me it gets more and more crazy! 😆

MIDI? Definitely CbB!

+1 I use mostly Cakewalk and Reaper. They both have advantages. There is one thing in the coming CbB release that is a real improvement IMO: The minimum project loop length has been reduced to 1/128th note. This can help a lot if there is something in an audio recording that is difficult to get in a longer run! E.g. an artifact/dissonance in the start of a note or a misplacement/retardation in a hit/note. Actually it would not be necessary to listen that in a loop, but it is important in such a case that the playback stops at the right position (so a one time loop would be a cool new feature, I think Samplitude has something like this).

The LXP Native are my goto reverbs, they sound really great! Actually I had no need for other reverbs, but there is still GAS. 😆 For this price the LXP bundle is absolutely a deal! Can recommend it!

I don't think that they changed the worst thing that is out of sync to any DAW: The scrolling and zooming! IMO it is a real disaster when you work with Melodyne in any DAW, because the scrolling and zooming is completely different (no mouse wheel + ctrl/alt/shift). Okay, I am a bit older (not so flexible anymore), but I guess also younger people have some trouble to change always the scroll behavior switching between the DAW and Melodyne! 😉

I had a similar problem with the multi-track recordings of my Tascam 38 made in the 80's. And I recommend you to do it not in CbB, because there is no real tape tempo correction, i.e. where the speed also automatically effects the pitch! You can do it better in Reaper or Samplitude, because they support speed change with natural pitch deviation like with tape machines or cassette recorders. The advantage is that you almost get no artifacts compared to doing a separate digitial tempo and pitch change (the only way to do it in CbB)!

IMO it's one of the best transient shapers!

Collector! 😄

What a pity: "Availability: Out of stock" ! 😆

I wonder whether it's really worth to get Kontakt 7? If I look at the lean improvements from Kontakt 5 to 6, then I guess I will stay on 6. There were even things that I preferred in 5! In general I have the feeling that recent updates of many providers are quite lame (if you do not have Apple Silicon! 😆)! A lot are not worth the memory and performance waste, nor the installation hassle! And I abstain from updating for the update's sake! 😉

For me it is the same as others said. I have Komplete 13 and I am happy with that huge stuff. As I am interested in real instruments this is a really poor release (disappointed). The only new product that's interesting to me is Electric Mint and that's not worth 200 bucks! I had expected some more of their old Softube FX included, but that's also not the case. The PA and iZotope products are not new for me, too! And what I really don't need are additional Play Series products, I have enough of them and almost never use them, because most of their sounds are poor IMO (also compared to their real synths).

But it is! Selecting the update check in some VST plugins caused Win-Doof(german) to signal a severe threat!

Thanks, I had already done this before. But in the special case above it does even not work, i.e. Windows complains anyway! 😉

Are they LAMe?

Today I wanted to check the versions of some plugins on my laptop. I was shocked because when I clicked the check version Windows Defender reported a severe threat. First I thought that this vendor really had some virus issues in its plugins. But when I tried with another vendor's plugin the same thing happened again. Googling for "Win32/Hive.ZY" threat listed the following interesting article that mentions this as a new Microsoft issue: https://www.windowslatest.com/2022/09/05/microsoft-confirms-behaviorwin32-hive-zy-false-error-bug-in-windows-defender/ It is unbelievable how Microsoft is the worst threat in always stealing my time and my precious hardware capacity! And this for years! 👎 This is the reason why I don't want to have my DAW pcs always online (for authorization and cloud stuff), because it exposes your pc for the MS Update threat! 😉

The only harm then is Windows Update! 😆 Frankly, if there was not always this threat from Windows Update, then I would agree. There are 2 things that disturb me then: 1.) The updates are time consuming, 2.) there maybe some settings (happens all the time) or driver changed. Not that I mind security updates, but especially feature updates are (or have been) worthless for me. Nevertheless I do it like you proposed with my mixing pc, but on my recording machine I can't, because I do not have internet in the barn.

There are some interesting deals (without voucher), i.e. new lowest prices. Unfortunately I still have them and the rest is too expensive for my August budget! 😆