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Sounds like an undeal

3 hours ago, TravEllerZero said:

The email was specifically about this bundle though....

 

My bad.  I tried the code on PB.

On 10/31/2024 at 11:52 AM, paulo said:

If they're calling it an "expansion" then I don't need the engine because I already have it.

 

Yep. About 5 minutes after I first saw it in my case.😀

The difference is with Toontrack you have to pay $149 or so to get on the ground floor.

AD comes with all of their kits.

On 11/2/2024 at 4:33 PM, Shane_B. said:

I thought this thread was going to be about LP's, those I have tinkered with but in the end I just scrapped them and left everything the way it originally was. I've never really tried to mess with CD's.

A long time ago there used to be a preset in the Sonitus Compressor that was listed as "Decompress". I have used that on bad recordings but not in a very long time.

Learned long ago this was a waste of time.  Anything you like just hope there's a CD.

19 hours ago, TravEllerZero said:

Got an email from APD saying they have the entire collection for $20 using code TREAT20 through 11/5.

Doesn't work on this bundle

4 hours ago, Joakim said:

Uvi workstation is their player, but it currenty only supports samlebased libraries (?). Halionsonic is just that though, and I suspect UVI will eventually follow

The older UVI workstation you could work with your own samplers.

On 10/30/2024 at 3:49 AM, paulo said:

I'm no longer totally sure if it's them or me that has an unrealistic view of what a kit add on is worth, but I'm still leaning towards them.

 

 

Lightweight. 😀

I don't have the ears of a drummer so to me they are all noise makers except when it comes to the speed metal genres, that's sort of a contradiction.

With AD a kit comes with the engine.  Not so with Toontrack. 

It's easy to forget Modo Drums, and Komplete. 

BFD is a waste because of their authorization nonsense and I guess buying those kits have installation issues.

I have Meldas Drummer in it's 60gb of glory.

Battery is underrated.

Then there is UJAM and Slate.

DAWs have advanced in sample manipulation where you could use multi track loops.

10 hours ago, Carl Ewing said:

It's what always surprised me about Omnisphere. Easily one of the best synths on the market - absurdly extensive modulation options, crazy advanced synth engine, 8 layers, huge effects section, over 500 wavetables, great arpeggiator, great granular synth engine, and on and on. And then on top of that, huge sample library with almost everything instrument you can think of including tons of psychoacoustic stuff, and then possibly the largest analog synth sample database on the market.

I regularly prefer it to Zebra, Diva, Repro-1, Serum, Pigments, for patch building. (Not Bazille though - nothing beats Bazille!). But still, people consider Omnisphere mostly a rompler as well, which is bizarre.

It is.  I avoid it since I don't have space.  It is probably the only one you would ever need. 

3 hours ago, JT music said:

Falcon is not a rompler, it is an all-round FM synth, tabla wave, granular, sampler and more.

Neither is full Kontakt, Soundpaint, Sound Factory and even Sampletank.  We tend to treat them that way. 

23 hours ago, Paul Fogarty said:

which planet are you on that you don't know who loopmasters are ? cakewalk even included their stuff in the past.

p.s. google isn't broken today either 😉

"you're welcome" .. next year I won't bother.

 

Good.  Check the forum around here and notice many don't half ***** like this.

BTW Google is often broken, So yes do us a favor and don't bother.

5 hours ago, JT music said:

Not even Falcon being reduced to $150 had that much of an impact on this forum, obviously they lowered it because it was overpriced before and on top of that you only get two exp with the bonus instead of 6 as they used to give away some extras when you buy them, UVI is a disaster with list prices, it never has a single stable price and one can have an idea of the fair list price.

I'm done with romplers and this one tempted me.  Another rompler means buying more sounds to make it worthwhile which means more space and put them on a SSD with little space or existing HDDs.  

When it comes to all romplers for synth sounds I'm not sure they are worth it anymore when you have the popular VSTs and endless 3rd party presets.  

I don't buy toontrack anymore because everything is genre specific and gets expensive and uses more space.  It's their player that's a draw for me.

I have hopes physical modeling will become a thing instead of developers like EW bragging how big a library is. 

I have everything from them but this one I don't get the hype. 

1 hour ago, Paul Fogarty said:

bring something to the table instead... off ya trot

 

If you are going to post in deals provide links

On 10/23/2024 at 2:05 PM, Carl Ewing said:

No mention that the magazine never innovative over time? Music industry journalism is maybe one step above gaming journalism these days. And that's not a compliment. It's no surprise most of the media side has been co-opted by serial killer looking influencers in their basement.

This months CM highlights are "Becoming A Software Guitar Hero", a 'sick pulsing bass line' masterclass, dime a dozen software reviews, Sara Simms on the "future of trance", which follows the hard hitting previous issue covering some 'experimental' artist's first use of her own vocals, musings on Reason Studios legacy, some other artist finding "magic" somewhere in her computer, a 'hair-raising' workshop dissecting Prodigy's No Good circa 1994. And of course a bunch of 'freebie' loops that are 10% quality you could get in a loop site subscription for the cost of a CM subscription, and software freebies that, well, most software is dirt cheap these days and few people want the clutter / headache of mostly low-tier future abandonware.

They should have put their resources into social media. Their Youtube channel is surpringly dull af, with endless thumbnails of software screenshots and monotone tutorials / reviews that sound like they're read from a teleprompter. This is not a company that was going to make it much longer. And that includes Music Radar, which isn't much better.

Most of the DAW marketing world is towards dance genres.   We see those complaints with a DAW's new features - see Studio One.  All media have to rely on paid advertising.   I don't mind it if it is DAW related.

I remember when Guitar One was removed and put into Guitar World.  Guitar World was always metal oriented and One was about playing the instrument.  The so called lesson was just watching the player without any dialogue.  

10 hours ago, Pragi said:

Can any of you say whether this works better than the Midi to Audio conversation with melodyne?

I've come to the conclusion there is no holy grail.  Better is often different.

 I've used Live's and Melodyne and the results were slightly different.  I preferred Live's only because it made certain parts I desired more clear. These apps have been around since the DAW came about.

They all work fine with single tracks but as for a song - no holy grail 

Most of the Wave stuff from v9 still works in a Windows OS    Waves are some of the best developed plugins and the Renn stuff is still the best.  I guess WUP is their solution to generate revenue despite most of their stuff was built to last. 

7 hours ago, Sidney Earl Goodroe said:

I do fully enjoy some of the new features, but the brightness of the screen makes it hard for my old eyes to withstand!

I worked hard, staring at Cakewalk products since the 90s!!

I have earned these cataracts and I intend to enjoy them as long as possible!!! Hee-hee!

I'm the opposite. I don't like dark themes.  I still change the themes looking the like the original Acid, Reason. Live,

At first I thought someone brought up an old thread.

22 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

Do you mean RX and Ozone or Stratus and Symphony won't be upgraded? I don't really need the reverbs to be upgraded (aside from maintenance updates).

As for Ozone and RX, aren't those kinda their flagship products? How could they not upgrade them?

Also, which 2 new plug-ins are they leaving out? The new Trash maybe? Which other one?

It does seem kinda weird to leave Trash out of something called "Music Production Suite."

EA stuff might be maintained but see below about Logic.

No Aurora and Plasma - deal breaker for me.

Well they could probably still do it as online only.

Another developer who thinks bloat is a great marketing tool.

With all of the VSTs and presets out there I couldn't do another synth rompler. 

9 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

I'm scratching my chin about this one, especially if there's a GROUP discount at JRRShop.

Wouldn't mind having a couple more licenses for Stratus/Symphony to use on my laptop. Other than that it would increment my RX and Ozone to 11, no idea if that's a worthy upgrade.

Those aren't really going to ever be upgraded.  

If they threw in their 2 new plugins I'd go for it.

Having bundles with other developers products (NI,PA) seem to be more of a turnoff for me, It's like a pricey Humble Bundle deal. 

9 hours ago, paulo said:

Every time I've looked through it in the last year or two, it seems like pages and pages and pages of ads with a few articles about people that I've never heard of who do things that bore me. Ok, so now we've established that I'm too old to be in the target audience and that's fine, but when most of it is basically just ads it shouldn't really come as a surprise that people don't want to pay for the privilege of looking at them, especially when they have the www at their disposal and can easily find info on just about anything they want to any time they like. A wise man once said that the internet will become both the best thing and the worst thing ever invented at the same time.

With ads and reviews it was just like another deals forum. I would basically read the reviews.

I'm not sure it's worth it.  You get some reverbs that are still tied to iLok.  The throws it off since I have Izotope software on 3 machines.

Plus the NI stuff makes it less enticing since most of us have Driver.  Guitar Rig, no thanks since it will be in the Komplete upgrade.

Other than the fancy EQs it's just repetition of what we already have.

https://www.izotope.com/en