Triangleman

Yep Sound Forge was an essential part of the early computer audio era.  I streamed a lot of events with their Mediasite streaming appliance, too.  I needed tech support one time and called the number and a guy in Wisconsin answered and helped me out.  Good stuff.

On 12/6/2023 at 10:35 PM, Shane_B. said:

Rush is one of those rare bands where not a single member is replaceable. You lose any one of those guys and it's over imho.

There is nobody who could replace Lee's voice, Lifeson's guitar work, and sure as heck Peart's drumming. Him especially. Nobody could ever come close to him on drums in my opinion, plus he wrote most of their songs according to what I've read about them.

They can do what they want of course, its their baby. I'm not even that big of a fan of theirs tbh, but it feels wrong to me to keep going without him.

I 100% agree with this and I hope if they do continue with another drummer they don't try to replicate the past but make something out of the new chemistry.  Be it reimagining Rush songs or doing new material. 

I updated my H90 and I am loving the poly synth.  I used it on some piano noodling and put the resonator behind it and it just makes it's own thing.

I'm on the Omar Hakim bandwagon.

 WHOA NO!
Guadalajara won't do

And this year looks like they have 6 stages set up to stream.  I only recognize a handful of the performers but it's the way I like to experience a big festival - my recliner, my hi-fi, my bathroom.

I like to bounce around during the early acts and I have picked up on some cool music I wouldn't normally have seen.  Otherwise looking at the Bjork show Sunday - that should be good.  Domi and Beck I'm curious how they come off in a festival environment.  Boygenius - I like their new album and now I can see who is singing what.

Schedule grid by day, time and stage:  https://coachella.com/schedule

I've been waiting for this one.  But I shall prudently wait and observe others before installing.

Interesting I'll try the V2.  Manipulaor has what I assume is Wider V1 and I always like how it sounds.

Soooooo will there be the 25% off WUP sale like usual this time of year?  That's all I really wanted but then the popsicle stand blew up.

Of course the other victim in all this is the poor Waves employee who did all the weekly stupid sales deal marketing stuff and got laid off.

Unless they start doing sales on subscription prices!

Not enough value for my needs in those annual rates. 

I was just on Audio Deluxe and the only Waves product was Musicians 2 bundle for $9.97.

47 minutes ago, Doug Steinschneider said:

I think this is a good place to ask a question I've wondered for years. I've never WUP'd my Abbey Road Collection (v12) and some older classic waves plugins I bought more recently like Rennaissance Bass (v14).  What scenarios would cause me to need to update?

Thanks,

Doug

I'm in the same boat with maybe 7or 8 older v9,10 plug ins that I have never WUP'd (and use on a PC with Cakewalk) but I just bought the Renaissance bundle as v14 to use on my new Mac mini M1 with Logic (which I am really liking). I've been waiting for the annual 25% off WUP sale so I could upgrade a few of the older plugs (like AR Chambers, L2) to work on the M1 Mac.  

That's my scenario for finally thinking about an update.  But now with whatever new policy they have I'm just watching along to see what will happen.  I figure worst case I can always buy the 2 or 3 old plug ins again in the latest version on a sale for my Mac and it is close to a wash with the WUP price.  

10 hours ago, Grem said:

You had a Pinnie?

 

Maybe - I can't recall the name.  It had the slots for RAM on it that would load up so slowly.

On 2/19/2023 at 4:52 PM, Wibbles said:

I'm stuck at Sound Forge XP 4.0 that came free with a SoundBlaster from some time around or before 1997.

It still gets used occasionally (on Windows 10) for topping and tailing samples (16 bit or lower samples only).

 

 

 

This is what's great about Sound Forge.  My Sony era version still installs and authenticates and for that I am thankful. For the basic needs I have it is the perfect tool.

And I think that Sound Blaster bundling was my first exposure to Sound Forge back then, too.  Also remember my Turtle Beach sound card (that I got after my Sound Blaster) and the Cakewalk version that came with it!

My KISS era was between Alive and AliveII and as a pre-pubescent elementary kid the lyrics made no sense but I could tell it was probably fun and Ace was my fave.  I moved on to Steely Dan, Rush, Yes, etc for high school but I do enjoy going back to Love Gun and even that Creatures of the Night reissue that just came out. And I love to blast Black Diamond off the 1st album and dig the tape slow down at the end which I can only imagine was to get another minute on the album.

Were those recently released synths always that expensive?  I want the Prophecy but for some reason I was thinking $50 black friday price.  After playing with the demo for a few days I'm not so sure about $99.  

I'm stalking NVME 1tb gen 3 sticks and they have been dropping for sure.  I'm buying from a local brick and mortar but the WD blue price has gone from $119 a couple months ago to $79 now.  I'll pick up one at this price and see if it drops any more maybe get another one.  

Great thread and good info.  I have not enjoyed Win10 and I'll probably do an 11 build on a cloned drive soon just to try it out.

Not buying that Dave Smith Poly Evolver Rack unit for $700 locally back in the late 2000s.  The last few sold on reverb.com were $2000+

I ran a MOTU 828 firewire for a lot of years and it slowly died and I replaced with an ultralite mk4.  I feel both were good choices and good long term value.  And when windows 11 finally pushes me over the edge I know I can just plug the mk4 into a mac mini with Logic and keep on going.

I'm disputing the name of this plugin.

Super VHS - or SVHS  was some superior analog stereo sound when you laid it down inside the video track.

Still love the concept and I use one someone built for reaktor. 

A little wow, a little flutter, a lot of noise, good times.

NI Reaktor is the best soft synth used in conjunction with their free user library.

All those types of synthesis + 100 more you never heard of or forgot about or are just being developed now.

Synths, drum machines, effects, basics like compressors, modular style with blocks or the older already fully built ensembles.

Don't like the panel - change it.  Want to chain a few together - build it.  Too much going on and you just want certain parts - cut it down.

See a shiny new soft synth or effect say to yourself "I can patch something similar in Reaktor and it will be my unique sound".

I run NI Reaktor 5 and 6 together and old cakewalk projects will open with whatever version I used.  I think one of the  tricks was keeping the same Reaktor 5 file structure.  Ultimately I converted my favorite R5 fx and instruments to R6 and use R6 all the time now  but I'm still not deleting R5.

On 3/10/2021 at 5:42 AM, Noel Borthwick said:

The catch is 1TB per user. Its relatively simple though just create multiple users under the plan to expand the storage.

Have you got the multiple personal One Drive accounts to run on 1 computer?  That's what I've been trying to get working (unsuccessfully so far) and the way I read the MS explanation is you can have multiple business or education One Drive accounts on a computer but only 1 personal account.  Sure you can get at the other personal accounts via the web browser but it doesn't have the same functionality.  Still tinkering with it.

Otherwise love One Drive for Cakewalk and most other things. 

45 minutes ago, Salvatore Monella said:

Magix's new slogan: SOUND FORGE,  nothing much has changed except the version number. BUY NOW!!!

I'm still on Sony Ver 10 and it is working fine and doing what I need.  I am thankful Magix is authenticating the older versions but I don't see much value in what their versions are bringing and there are always hidden struggles making a change.