marcL

I can recommend DynaRide2 of TBProAudio as alternative for Waves VocalRider and BassRider. DynaRide2 is much more flexibel, 'cos it allows more control over the riding process. By the way, It is also very good for vocal levelling!

21 minutes ago, Patrick Wichrowski said:

My Peaks are now True

Great idea! I didn't know that the voucher could also be  used like this.

5 hours ago, Fleer said:

Cherry Audio rock.

For me they don't rock at all! I don't like that they do not support any offline authorization. Recently I came even to the clue that I should not add any plugins anymore that have some kind of machine authorization, I had so much trouble with that kind of sh... (PA is an exception, never had trouble with them and their auth is for all plugins at once). Thus my target are plugins/libraries that don't have authorization (e.g. full Kontakt!), that have an offline key/file or iLok authorization.

3 hours ago, Carl Ewing said:

As of 2023, roughly 20% of the $40 trillion dollar credit card processing market is subscription processing. That keeps going up, and up, and up. It will eventually take over virtually everything involving distributor-to-consumer sales. This applies to companies with near monopolies (Microsoft, Adobe) or industries with multiple subscription models competeting against each other (eg. what will now happen with Plugin Alliance and Waves, etc.). 

Do you think this happening because subscription models are bad for businesses;  a one way ticket to bankruptcy, and consumers hate it? Or do you think it's because it's enormously profitable and something consumers clearly want / use? One answer is correct and is proven year after year by revenue / profit models for (almost) every company that switches to it.

Sorry, but this description really scares me! It reminds me totally of feudalism in the Middle Ages where many people didn't own anything, they were only working for the leaders (almost like slaves). It seems history is returning! Everything is very similar, but not that obvious!

47 minutes ago, smallstonefan said:

Like it or not, subscription is the future.

I'm guessing I'm the only guy on this board that took a perpetual software company to a subscription model - this is a topic I'm absolutely a subject matter expert on. I'm also rather proud that we navigated those waters successfully without institutional investment (thought we did almost run out of cash).

With predictable revenue from subscription we were able to staff up and increase the pace of releases - creating a LOT of value for our clients. Our software is used to run entire businesses, so the the constant innovation and support makes sense. It's been a great thing for our company and I think it's been good for our customers overall, but I know many of them have a different opinion - and I respect that.

Something else everyone here misses is that most businesses are valued on a multiple of their EBITA (ie profit). Software companies are usually valued on a multiple of their recurring revenue. So, a traditional business doing $10 Million in revenue with $1M in profit might be worth 3x or 4x their profit - a valuation of a $3M-$4M. The same company that does software with that $10M being subscription revenue (what we call recurring revenue) is worth closer to $30M (a 3x on recurring).

Which would you choose if you ran a company?

The reality is that a CEO's #1 job is to increase shareholder value. PERIOD. If the shareholders of Waves are thinking about a company sale, then moving to subscription is absolutely the right course of action.

All software companies over time that want to have a big exit and not stay a life-style business will move to subscription. The only question is how will they do it - and I think Waves has shown a great example of how NOT to do it.

I think this represents only the company and investors view!

IMHO you're missing one important thing: Competition that serves the customers! Most subscription services today reduce competition substantially. They bind the customer and thus remove the possibility to influence the business target (e.g. if you only use the plugins of 1 vendor). Like this there is the risque of overpricing and idleness. In the end this leads to something comparable with the former soviet system.

Just look at music streaming services, they have ruined the music market. The big ones in music business (with a lot of money in the background) can issue whatever they want and newcomers have almost no chance and the audition has not a lot of influence! Or if I look at the food market in Sweden where the 4 biggies define the prices and what is available, or the do-it-yourself shops, or ...

I did the survey, too. Immediately got the 670 in my account (?).

But the authorization on my offline machine did not work at all ?! Furthermore the installation takes up about 3GB and that is a lot for the 2 compressors that I own (Vintage 670, Black 76). It's the same crazy philosophy like with Amplitude, they always include everything in their packages! Totally idiotic! Will remove it again!

By the way I also got "Orchestral Percussion" in 2021, but I never succeeded to authorize it (offline). I give up on IK, I hate their installation/authorization circus. Syntronik I don't like it, it is so slow to change presets. The only thing I will keep alive is Amplitube for the collections that I own!

4 hours ago, abacab said:

The thing I really like about Reaper is that a track is a track. It can route MIDI or audio as needed. It's all up to you what you do with a track. There are no dedicated track types such as instrument tracks, MIDI tracks, or audio tracks. Very flexible!

Yeah, that's great! But on the other hand I miss that there is not a dedicated Mono track setting, i.e. it is more complicated to set it up using mono plugins.

I use mostly CbB, because I prefer the totally zoomed in audio view, the Radius stretching and I am also more fluid in working with it.

On the other hand I am absolutely a fan of Reaper's

• great batch processing (can even be used on a folder outside the daw)
• light installation (I like the portable install, no Windows hassles)
• performance (very light on cpu, run's even on my old i5 laptop without issue)
• user-friendly authorization
• super-fast plugin scan
• absolute reliability (I never had an issue for years, except with plugins)
• possibility of tape-like stretching (naturally affecting the pitch; I used it to fix old tape recordings)

4 minutes ago, cclarry said:

Look up "Klaus Schwab".  He's the "Leader" of the WEF (World Economic Forum).  He has a book called "The Great Reset"
and in it is stated the "You'll own NOTHING...and you'll be happy" motto.  Their GOAL is to
RESET the World Economy under which you will own NO PERSONAL PROPERTY WHATSOEVER! 
It's not funny in the least, and they are DEAD SERIOUS!

You see, nowadays leaders do not differ to the despots of the history! It's no joke, it's also dead serious!

I guess that there will be a winner! It's the other plugin providers like PA ... For them it is great that Waves leaves such a saturated market, it's those other companies that will make the future business!

Sadly ADSR applies European VAT! That raises the price awfully for me (25%)! ☹️

8 hours ago, kevin H said:

My Apple defender laughed at your Windows defender issues haha

Maybe it ignores any threats! ?

I use TB_Equalizer from Toneboosters and IMO it is excellent! It is absolutely enough for my purposes. And then again, I also have the dynamic EQ of Ozone! I think I'm covered!

17 minutes ago, chris.r said:

What's their focus on in the questions?

How you use T-Racks and sub of course! ?

8 hours ago, Grem said:

If they still sell perpetual licenses after the 26th,  I will still probably buy more of them.

However, if it's sub only, I am outta here. 

Ever since PA started really I pushing thier MegaDeal sub, I have bought very little from them. Very little. Only reason I buy anything from them is I get a perpetual license.

I ain't doing no sub, don't want no sub, ain't down with subs at all. They can take that sub and stick it....

I totally agree!

But I still wonder how many companies try to go the sub-way ?! Recently I had 3 surveys and all were more or less about "subscription"! This is crazy, if I look at the reactions here on this forum! There are not many who are sub-enthusiasts!

4 hours ago, msmcleod said:

The only time I've seen this happen is when using a project with only MIDI tracks that are exclusively using hardware MIDI outs - i.e. no soft synths or audio at all.

By default, the clock timing is derived from the Audio source:

4 hours ago, msmcleod said:

However, if you've no audio tracks / soft-synths, there's no audio to sync, to which causes the timing issues.

Thanks Mark!

I have checked my recent projects, all have source set to "Audio" (and of course all do contain audio, cos it happens during comping with a lot of takes).

One thing that I have noticed:

If I stop the audio and wait until the meters go totally down before I restart play, then the metronome runs fine. It is only when I stop and very quickly restart playing (spacebar) that the metronome is sometimes not in sync. Another thing is that I always have an active loop selection during this procedure, maybe this has an impact, too?

4 hours ago, Craig N said:

tmpc on VI Control contacted Waves and was told "they are moving to a different company to handle the actual license generation and management"

I still think I might be right about them getting rid of WUP. Maybe moving back to iLok. It made sense to use their own license manager when creating new iLok licenses comes at a cost and new Waves versions covered under WUP required generating new licenses. But what an error prone mess Waves licenses are. I'm terrified of updating Waves plugins because half the time everything disappears and I have to do some kind of deep clean to get them back. It must have been costing Waves a fortune in support dealing with all the issues. Whereas iLok, for all the hate it gets, works pretty reliably these days. So if there's no more WUP, then there's no reason to maintain their own licensing and copy-protection regime when iLok does it better. 

Anyway that's just my guess... partly fueled by wishful thinking ?

That would be great if they went back to iLok IMO. No more hassle of an additional non-iLok USB(**) and a clear, reliable authorization path! This would be one of the 2 most important steps for me to buy Waves plugins again (the 2nd one would be the drop of the shell plugin).

(**) E.g. lately I forgot to insert the USB with the Waves licences and accidentally opened a Waves plugin. There was no other way to stop it, than killing CbB!

On 2/21/2023 at 7:24 PM, sjoens said:

May not matter but Audio or MIDI metronome? Buffer settings?

Sometimes MIDI buffers get out of wack causing some instruments to play out of sync until transport is stopped and restarted.

I just use the standard Audio metronome. And as I have no issues with audio playing/recording, I guess there should not be a problem with the metronome. But maybe I am wrong?

But it is a good idea, I could try to use the MIDI metronome.

2 hours ago, jngnz said:

What's wrong with a proper plugin manager that handles updates for you? It's the best thing ever. Would you rather be on 12 billion mailing lists and download every single update yourself?

Most plugin managers

• Give you no OPEN chance to save the downloaded files for the use on another machine (thus redundant downloads on every machine)
• Don't give you full control over the installation (what to install (for each plugin), paths, claims you have a broken installation if you remove Avid/Vst3, ...)
• Have themselves always updates (very annoying if you have just 1 or 2 plugins of the vendor)
• Tempt the vendor to omit full changelog information (it gets more and more misty what has been changed)
• Has its on logic that you have to learn
• Don't support offline installation

I am sure there is more that could be listed that I have missed at the moment!

1 hour ago, cclarry said:

Manage your plugins in a single app, download, version, license check, demo.

Oh no! Not ANOTHER plugin manager! ☹️

I just hope that it will still be possible to avoid it, else Nembrini is dead for me! Maybe those central managers are cool if you only own plugins from 1-4 providers, but if you like to have a varicolored plugin set, then this is mostly annoying IMHO!

3 hours ago, LAGinz said:

Drat!!! Just bought the MPS 5.2 upgrade! Now I have to decide whether, in effect, upgrading from RX9 Advanced and RX10 Standard…..to RX 10 Advanced,  is worth $199! Grrrr….

I don't think so! You gain almost nothing if you have RX9 Advanced and RX10 Standard (it is also my situation).

Edit: I had checked the differences of RX10 Advanced vs. RX9 Advanced and they are all included in RX10 Standard. Thus they want us to pay $199 for nothing! Very odd!

Instant Flanger/Phaser $24.36 in JRRshop.com with code "group"!

It would be cool if it was possible to exclude the selection range to be saved with export tasks and instead use the current selection, because:

1. I often have a couple of clip selections that use the same export settings and I don't want to create that many tasks.
2. The selection range is not clearly visible in the task list (even with recall task settings). I had quite some trouble when I had saved a task with an invalid selection to change this one.
3. If you have to create for each selection another tasks, then the list of tasks might be growing and it is getting confusing (what task is for what).
4. Now if you want to change the selection for a task, it is quite complicated. You have to 
   • Open the export dialog
   • Recall the task settings
   • Close the export dialog
   • Make the new selection
   • Open the export dialog again
   • Change the task with the current settings

1 hour ago, PavlovsCat said:

On the flipside, one can easily make the argument that it creates a near monopoly for NI.

That's the reason why I talked about sample standards that could be used of multiple providers. Me too, I don't like that NI has such a monopoly position in sample playing, even if I own Kontakt Full! I think common, open standards could help to provide more competition and would reduce absolute monopolies like this. 

14 hours ago, PavlovsCat said:

Here's a direct link to the Rhapsody player landing page: 

https://librewave.com/rhapsody/

Thanks!

But I dare to say this is just another sample player! There are now so many out there! The problem is if I am in need of an instrument I only look up in my vsti catalog and in Kontakt! Most of the time I forget about the samples in other players! That's why I avoid adding more samples that are out of the most common players.

It is sad that there are not, say about 3, sample standards so that any player could use them and you would be free to choose 1 single player (yeah, I am dreaming of a positive future, but I know that it goes exactly the opposite way! That's progress in the 21st century! ?).

3 hours ago, Yan Filiatrault said:

So overpriced, even on sale

And it requires the terrible CodeMeter authorization!