Marc Cormier

The arranger track alone makes me think about coming back to Cakewalk.

Thanks for the comments! I've used OwnHammer and Redwirez IRs to modify the sound with varying degrees of success like you outline in your post, Piotr. I find it helps smooth some of the harshness in presets I've made and in others it takes too much energy out of the sound so I keep the original cab in the Rig. Like you mention, Soundwise, I'm just not sure if there's a better version of the Rigs for use with IRs since they're creating amp-only presets but maybe we'll get more clarity from Overloud along the way... It's all about the sound and I find something good in each of the libraries thus far - but rarely as they're designed in the presets, especially for higher-gain sounds.

I've been hearing various comments about having true separation between the amp and cab part of the modeling. Some of the new Rigs come as "amp only" where you add your own IR to the signal chain. I can only assume doing this purposefully is better/more accurate than disabling part of the pre-baked signal chain in rigs that are not natively separate?

I'm tapped out for Rigs. Just picked up the Mesa Petrucci pack and then more show up. Not sustainable. At least with groups like STL, the presets for their ToneHub are named and known. I'm also annoyed that the earlier Rig Libraries didn't include amp-only models that worked better with 3rd party IRs.

Got it. Downloaded. Thanks, Larry!

Just heard from Enrique...they're days away: "Hi Marc, GM3 is a project that involves more work than the two we just released, and improvements are being implemented to achieve a greater realism, we are a few days away from releasing its final version, thank you for your patience. " In the mean time, they've released something free and something new. I'll quit my griping.

Would be nice if they finished up Grind Machine III since they offered a pre-release offer.

I reported a couple of issues 2 months ago, and haven't gotten a response from ROLI other than the initial "we're really busy and will set back as soon as we can" message. Anyone heard anything about why the installer was updated? I'm not going to bother unless there's a reason to.

I downloaded the free version as well and I kinda like it. Won't replace BFD3 but I finally can map kits a bit easier and use the Chris Lord Alge kit without having to wait 10 minutes for it to load. I didn't think it would allow me to do that, but its working. Yeah, free is good and this is an improvement over Platinum 4...but I don't think I'll upgrade. Aaaaand there's the BFD3 50% off sale at JRR. That's what I'll spend the $50 on.

That Tundra sale got me hooked. Bad.

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It does work! Thanks, Kite!

We have our own health issues every Black Friday...or when Larry disappears for too long.

Great prices on those Frozen Plains plugs. Nabbed a couple.

Those XChange packs have come in handy at times. I got the Producer Pack late last year for $60 which included Groove 3 annual pass and S1 2 Pro which I promptly sold. If they do it again at the same time next year I may jump on it again for another year of Grrove 3 and something else to sell to recoup the cost. Glad to hear they came through for you.

I got my ATH-M50X cans on Groupon, of all places. $99 w/free shipping.

Geddy Lee has been pretty emphatic in interviews (check out the one's from last year on Youtube) that there's more music to come, but hasn't elaborated. It's so interesting to watch/read the interviews now, knowing what he and Lifeson knew about Neil's condition.

Whatever you do, don't search for "Neil Peart tribute" on EBay...they're already pushing RIP tee shirts.

The fact that he had already passed three days ago only made it worse.

Absolutely gutted.

What are you using now, Larry?

Happy New Year from Deeeetroit, just down the road from King Larry, where we're too busy buying plugins to shovel the snow.

Yup. Scheps Omni Channel for 20 bux. That's as low as I've seen it, anyway. Thanks, Yan.

Yeah, I'm going to jump on this as well - putting faith in the new ownership at this point but I've never seen it going at this price. I was tempted by PG as well but if I have to pay extra for using my own IRs when Revalver lets me use them AS WELL AS third party plugins, they'll get the nod.