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He's quite a drummer! Here he is recording his own drum loop...

Guitar Rig, Amplitube.

Thanks for the tip. But I expect that it's going to take me years to just get through the bundled Ableton packs in Suite, including the free Max for Live devices. I just recently upgraded to Suite in a pre-release no-brainer deal.

Day 1 - Stratum Transwave Synth, that's a SONiVOX instrument. Funny they are now using Akai Pro to market it, LOL! 😂 https://sonivoxmi.com/products/details/stratum-transwave-synth#overview

Pretty much same here, except that I had an old license for v5 that wouldn't even install on Win 7, that I upgraded to v9 Standard a few years ago after Gibson shut Cakewalk down. Have taken advantage of the upgrades since to keep it current. Fascinating stuff!

If you are curious about Ableton Live, my suggestion would be to sign up for an online video course by a certified Ableton trainer, instead of watching random YouTube producers. I can vouch for: https://www.ableton.com/en/certified-training/j-anthony-allen/ He has a complete Ableton Live curriculum at Udemy.com for low cost. Get it on sale frequently. Currently one day left at $11.99. https://www.udemy.com/course/ableton-live-10-complete/ Just use the trial version of Live Suite for the course. Get all the features of Live 11 Suite free for 90 days. https://www.ableton.com/en/trial/ You should be able to decide within 90 days if it's for you... and since many Live demo projects and courses exceed the capabilities of Live Lite, you will probably be much happier if you can follow along using the full version demo.

Don't recall ever seeing a crossgrade offer. Just the upgrades from intro and standard, plus the version upgrade deals. I think that if you already have a DAW you like, you don't really NEED Ableton. But it still offers a lot in the way of sound design creativity, and experimentation for any style of music, not just EDM and DJ - at the cost of a huge learning curve. It is different from other DAWs, and that is what can make it a good complement to your existing DAW. It is also rock solid for live performance.

Fyi: uHe Zebra is a synthesizer, not a sampler... It is packed full of synth presets!

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/gtx-1650/ These were in stock for $150 last year. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1585942-REG/asus_ph_gtx1650_o4gd6_phoenix_geforce_gtx_1650.html

I have all of the expansion packs for this thing. I quite like the synth pads and textures that it can produce! I skipped the marimba. That's so cliche.

I agree. That's the first thing I would add to that PC to make it useful. Although I use a self-built Win 10 desktop with SSD for my DAW, I had a fairly recent Acer laptop with only a HDD and it was dog slow after I upgraded it from Win 8.1 to Win 10. With Win 10, an SSD drive for the OS makes all the difference in performance! Best return on investment that you can make! I replaced my Acer laptop with a Dell Latitude i5 Win 10 Pro refurb for $350. It had everything I needed, except an SSD. As I was upgrading the SSD in my desktop, I just swapped the older SSD into the Dell laptop. It runs great!

Creating instrument definitions https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=SONAR&language=3&help=Instrument_Defs.04.html

$159.99 for Window 10 Pro, plus a free refurb PC!

Audiffex has a very nice Gallien-Krueger LE for free. Adds a nice bass amp sim to your bass VSTi.

Love that Chromaphone 3! And maybe it's time to check out Unify again. Tried the demo last year.

He added an index to the video on YouTube, so you can link jump directly to specific parts.

Why? It is meant to integrate with Notion, which has more comprehensive scoring features. But with SO5 on it's own, it's really just an alternative view to the piano roll. Like in Cakewalk.

We need an "AA" for game hoarders...

Says the one that went "Beyond", and then returned...

Bulent is working on SM 3.0 now. He had to finish up 2.9.9 first, which merged some code from One that he needed for 3.0.

Perhaps you should be using separate machines for your DAW and development environment?

If I believed everything that I read on KVR... well nevermind... 😉

Yes to what antler said! This applies to both SM One and SM 2.9. The "Everything Bundle" includes all expansion banks.

For those that have been seeking a reasonably priced higher end GPU for their DAWs... https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/hardware/upcoming-nvidia-rtx-3060-purposely-cripples-mining-performance/ NVIDIA is purposely crippling the Ethereum mining power of their upcoming GeForce RTX 3060 GPU by 50% to increase inventory for gamers. Today, NVIDIA announced the upcoming launch of the GeForce RTX 3060 on February 25th for $329, and has made a drastic step to make sure miners do not steal all of the released inventory. Instead of allowing the GPU to be used for any purpose, the RTX 3060 drivers will purposely reduce performance by 50% when it detects the card used for Ethereum cryptocurrency mining. "With the launch of GeForce RTX 3060 on Feb. 25, we’re taking an important step to help ensure GeForce GPUs end up in the hands of gamers."