Magic Russ

Old 97's, Timebomb: She's gonna kill me, and I don't mean softly... Bob Dylan, Positively 4th St: Yes, I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes You'd know what a drag it is to see you James, Laid: You're driving me crazy, when are you coming home? Wilco, Passenger Side: You're gonna make me spill my beer, if you don't learn how to steer Wilco, Jesus Etc.: Our love is all of God's money

I always preferred his cover of "For You"

One potentially important thing people may not have noticed is that with version 4.2 Battery no longer supports import of 3rd party formats such as soundfont, drumagog, mpc etc. REX is an exception. If you need these you can either roll back to 4.1.5 or keep Battery 3 around if you have it.

It just adds macOS Ventura compatibility and some minor graphical improvements when building instruments.

The regular price for their emulation of the Boss DS-1 is $50. I can get the real thing for $40 on Reverb or $50 new when Guitar Center has a sale.

Somehow I managed to get a coupon in my cart for Mesa Boogie 2 which brought it down to $14.99 (but no additional jam points) so perhaps check that before going to JRR.

I want to finish more songs this year.

Witcher III is a pretty good game and with the included expansions that's a lot of content for $10.

It's more or less a couple of test tones with some amp and filter envelopes and a cool interface.

I think they are optimistic thinking they can get $15 for it at the regular price.

I listened to the demo video and did not like what that did for the EP at all. I might download it though because it might sound interesting on some other instruments.

Picked up Currents.

..and you have to photoshop or discard all the pictures where you are wearing that old clothing.

Same here, although I don't think I've ever bought a compressor outside a bundle. Sonar comes with Blue Tubes bundle, cool! Joined IKM group buy to get Amplitube products, may as well go with TRacks components! Oh look, Komplete has kompressors too! Cheaper to buy the bundle from Arturia than the one FX I want, guess I have even more compressors than I will actually use. I'm pretty much the same way with EQs for the same reasons.

Yeah but with Cakewalk there's the question of what is stock? Do the plugins that were stock in SONAR count or just what is available in CBB? OK so I take SONAR but can I use the plugins that were there from earlier versions but not in the final one?

Multi-effect: Guitar Rig. This is feels like a cheat because it has the three SoftTube compressors, Mod Pack, Crush Pack, bunch of reverbs etc. Delay: MTurboDelay. Like Starship Krupa said, this covers more than you would expect a delay to. WTF MFX: Molekular Amp Sim: Amplitube 5 Convolution Reverb: ReMatrix One Stop Mastering: Lurssen Trance Gate: MRhythmizer LoFi: RC-20 I'm not committing to compressors because I have a boatload and usually don't get far enough into a track to be concerned with mixing. I'm not committing to algorithmic reverbs because I just got the Arturia FX pack and Intensity could be a contender, but MTurboReverb is pretty good too.

8 hours so far for me. I'm not surprised it will take up to 24 hours to show up. It took me a few tries before it would download the K7 player.

Reaper is supposed to offer same functionality as well. Unfortunately my preferred hosts are Cakewalk and Bitwig and neither support that.

Either way you still get the problem of having to update all your track templates every time they come out with a new version of Kontakt.

Ableton always put me off as well. Bitwig seems a bit closer to Project 5 to me, so I use it on occasion. However, there are a few things in Bitwig that are just completely unintuitive and not in the manual. Tap Tempo is a great example.

I'm guessing Headley Grange is next. Any other guesses?

I gave in yesterday. You weren't kidding about that reverb. There was one preset where I ran an 808 kick sample through it and it sounded like Godzilla stomping.

I think I got these for free for joining the SoundWide mailing list.

I have only had Pigments for about a week or so. It can cover a lot of sounds and has a lot of nice presets. I'm not sure I really needed this but it still is pretty useful.

I can get EFX 3 for $49, and from what I've seen of Fragments that might be worth it alone. Glad to know that the reverb is pretty good too. My needs for most effects are fairly well covered. On the other hand, if their 76 compressor is better than the ones I have, I might as well use that and let the others collect dust.