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You can get the whole Blue Tubes Bundle V3 with 19 plugins... for $399.00 $29.00. http://store.dontcrack.com/product_info.php?products_id=215 The Blue Tubes Bundle V3 now contains 4 distinct products (also sold separately) that are : Blue Tubes Dynamics Pack http://store.dontcrack.com/product_info.php?products_id=216 Blue Tubes Effects Pack http://store.dontcrack.com/product_info.php?products_id=251 Blue Tubes Equalizers Pack http://store.dontcrack.com/product_info.php?products_id=217 Blue Tubes Analog TrackBox http://store.dontcrack.com/product_info.php?products_id=219 Oilcan Echo is included in the Blue Tubes Effects Pack.

I think that Oilcan Echo was my favorite of the bunch in the Blue Tubes from Sonar.

I guess that is where I am at. I think I'm only going to buy stuff that I plan to use, not just because it is available for an all-time low price. Unless it's free, and the hard drive space isn't an issue!

Yep, that's a pretty good piano. I may put that back on when I replace my drive with a more bigger one! But the orchestral companions, ugh. I think that the Soundiron Elements blow them outta the water!

I found some free drive space by deleting my SONiVOX crap that I never use anymore...

I think that a lot of modular is just useless bleeps and bloops, and over modulation, because you can! 😂 But there is some good stuff in there if you look for it.

I probably already have all the plugins I will ever need ... said no one ever... 😂

And back on topic... My favorite new Brass presets in this Elements expansion are: Fallout Radio, Majestic, and Wingsuit.

I have the $69 offer, and that looks like a great deal, but I already have 3 of the FX from FX Collection 2 > Mini Filter, Chorus Jun-6, and Rev PLATE-140. They are good! But I think that by already having IK T-RackS 5 MAX, the rest of the FX Collection appear to be mostly duplicates for me. I could be mistaken, so open to opinions!

Love that distant violins preset in there!

Thanks for the heads up the Strings expansion! I had missed it because I only recently upgraded from Micro to Elements at the current sale price.

Nice gift!

Yes, V-Collection 8 certainly is a wide range of useful keyboard instruments, and not just synths! Acoustic and electric pianos, organs, mellotron, clavinet ...

Producer's Guide to Scaler 2, $33.59 https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/66-Music-Courses/78-Video-Courses/6443-Producer-s-Guide-to-Scaler-2

Yep, I do a "cold" image weekly with a USB drive that I rotate offline. But the Macrium Image Guardian assures me that nothing, including me, can tamper with daily image files that I have connected online to a hot USB drive!

Keeps on gettin mo better!

All you basically need to do for assurance is to test boot with the USB recovery drive. Select "Restore" and make sure that you can access a usable image file. And then cancel before starting the actual restore. No need to go swapping in spare drives to test the restore on, unless you really want to. Macrium is very reliable when it comes to making images, but there is one additional step that you can add to the image definition. Go to "Advanced Settings" and select "Auto verify image" and check the box to verify the file directly after creation. This will double the time that it takes your image job to complete, but you will be extra secure in knowing that you have a usable image file! I leave that enabled on all of my image jobs.

I have been running Macrium Reflect for years. Started out with the free edition, which works very well, then upgraded to the Home edition at the sale price last year. I make daily full images of my boot drive with Reflect, and have restored the full disk several times using the USB flash recovery drive. The recovery drive starts the computer using a bootable copy of Windows PE that is customized for the task. Then you can start the restore by selecting the image you want to restore, and then the target drive you want to put it on. I can take a full image of my 500GB SSD (~260GB used) in about 35 mins, using an external 2TB WD Elements USB drive. The restore takes about the same amount of time. Rather than backing up files and folders, a disk image copies the disk sector by sector, so you don't miss anything such as a folder being locked. The main advantage for me with the Home edition is Macrium Image Guardian, which protects the image files from ransomware. The free version does not have that feature. There are more image options in Home as well, but I'm still using the full image type just as I did with the free edition. Highly recommend!

Don't miss the Phil & Chester drum duet at 1h:26m. 😎

You will be eligible for a cheap upgrade to SM v3 whenever it is released. SM One was actually a proof of concept for the developer to try new technologies, as he tried a few new things, and eventually spun that off to the iOS platform. Lately he has been merging the tech from SM One back into SM 2 into a common architecture, so he can eventually roll out SM3 as a unified concept. SM3 will be able to load SM One presets into layers, along with all the other new goodies in the new version.

Some folks find change unsettling. But to me it's a bit of creative destruction, moving forward!

I agree that the early Genesis was the incomparable original. I got turned on to them in the mid 70's, and used to listen to Selling England, as well as Nursery Crime, Foxtrot, and The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. The breakup really shook things up. But I'm as equally impressed with the turn the band took afterwards. They took that opportunity and ran with it, to a surprising commercial success. Phil was a master front man, although no Peter Gabriel. And a hell of a drummer!

You might be interested in Kevin Schroeder's factory presets for SM2 (not a separate expansion). It's not rock & roll, but it's not EDM either. A bit more atmospheric.

I upgraded my response to a laugh! Here's my favorite Genesis concert, btw. Enjoy!

If you are into classic rock & early electronic music, then many of the SM2 expansions are useful. For example, Historic Synth Giants Volume 1,2, & 4, covers synth sounds of Pink Floyd, Genesis, Vangelis, Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman, & Jean Michel Jarre. And Dawn of Electronic Music Volume 1 covers Kraftwerk, Volume 2 covers Depeche Mode, and Volume 3 covers Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream.