kitekrazy1

5 hours ago, Wibbles said:

To be honest, most of the other libraries are of zero interest to me. 

I'm trying to be good and only install stuff that I'm likely to use (probably a futile endeavour). Even though I barely spend any money on plug-ins, I still have a hard drive littered with freebies and mega-cheap deals* that no matter how good or bad they are, I'm never going to use.  

 

 

*     For which this place is, in no small part, responsible. As well as those newsletters that keep arriving in my inbox.

You should also get Komplete Ultimate and have a bunch of stuff you never use as well.

I know what you are saying. 

26 minutes ago, Grem said:

I didn't get my serial # till Tuesday also. It will be a few days before I can get into it. 

Have never used this program so I will approach it with open mind.

It's nice the help files come in .chm instead of PDF.  If you have a Groove3 pass there is tutorials.

38 minutes ago, kennywtelejazz said:

What ! no OGG file support  ?  Acid Pro 9 don't even  seem to read them nor recognize them ...

there seems to be no way to audition them using preview in the file explorer .

Once inserted in a project to hear and see if they work , all I get is a flat-line graphic where it should show a wave form and    a noise   when I hit play

As far as I can tell so  far there  is no  way to insert the OGG files into an Acid Pro 9 project and have Acid Pro 9  play them

Nice one Magix

 

Kenny

https://www.magix.com/us/music/acid/acid-pro/specifications/

Well it's suppose too.  Pretty odd.

2 hours ago, Vernon Barnes said:

I did not see the coupon in my account, not a big deal. I got as far as checking out three packs and the website crashed while entering my payment details. Seems its still down. I am not sure if the payment went through or not. I will check later.

EDIT - Back up again now. The purchase did not go through first time. It went faultlessly on the second attempt.

 That's because they are giving away the player for free.  When you order these presets you will get a player added to your order.   $4 for a bank and the player is really good for someone on  budget.

BTW the Aria engine and Player are updated.   The player will have to be updated at Make Music.

I was going to cancel my order but the serials showed up Tuesday.  I still like this app.  CPU requirements are still only 1ghz.  

23 minutes ago, simon said:

doh !!!! user error - I posted the plugindiscount link and not the boz one

- and bought them  at $39 (and the wall - thanks @mibby ?)

they were $125(ish) at plugin discounts

 

 

I usually buy direct from Boz.  I think small developers like this who make great stuff and have such sales is the reason why companies like Waves do the $29 deals. 

No real updates other than removing your 32 bit plugins.

3 hours ago, simon said:

chanced upon this on the website

https://plugindiscounts.com/product/boz-digital-10db-bundle-2/

$39

also the individual plugs are discounted too @ $29

this price doesn't seem to have made it to the discounters yet

Anybody any experience with these - I have the original hardware and thought about picking them up ?

 

 

 

 

 

If you log in the price is $125.89

Have they figured out that their web store sucks and it's been that way for a long time?  

 I'm thinking life is less complicated by not using Waves anymore.  They only other complication is Izotope's upgrade pricing.

 I'm done with them.  I agree to a point what they needed to do with vouchers.   How much of that stuff you got free or for under $10 is nothing more than hard drive filler?  Most of the SPL and Unfiltered is gimmick stuff.   How many plugins have been updated?  So much older stuff on version 1.  I think they should go boutique all the way and go subscription.   They could probably survive on fanboyz.

1 hour ago, simon said:

I think those particular interfaces come with a USB C to USB A cable as default - it was in one of the videos

they don't actually supply a C-C cable

 

And it's still USB 2.  It would be interesting what kind of buffer size one can run with stuff like Serum and Spire.  Usually something in this price range does not run well under 512 samples.  I doubt you would get the low latency of a Babyface or the mk4.  

When someone gets one I'd like to know these things.      

Optimized drivers yield round-trip latency as low as 2.5ms at 24-bit/96kHz with a 32 sample buffer.

I'm a doubting Thomas on a unit with a $169 price tag. 

I just bought some presets for Analog 4.  Now this.........? 

 I'm done with them.  

So is this a one machine limit?

 One of the best anti dongle arguments came from Eric Pershing the founder of Spectrasonics.  He doesn't like the extra link in the chain with his users and brought up even the dongle maker gets acquired.

 I prefer iLok over eLicenser if I had to choose between the 2 evils and death is not an option.

3 hours ago, Zo said:

Personnaly iv'e been testing here and there cubase for years , and this is why i bougth the Cubase 10 pro , this one is the first time it's solid in pretty every apsect including some aesthetics stuff ....

ok don't tell me how i know that , and don't spread it , but chance are they're going dongless : when ? will it be done or not ? can't say but , thy're into it   that's why i said don't laugth , it wasn't a joke lol

and i know their update process is expensive that's why i waited a version i could stick with for years , the  only thing missing is the ability to have complex routing of complex fx / instuyments chains,reakltime Clip FX and an easy way to read overlapping audio clip events ... in all other areas it's pretty equals or superior to other daws ...

 

 

So wait and see .... at 179 euros the licences , risk is minimal , versus benefit if it rocks !!

I will def use it as a PT replacement and use S1 as my go to witch is the case since one year ...(still waiting bandlad to give that burst to next level , will be happy to help an any way by the way ....to get their things up to actual market needs )

 

 

  elicenser and Cubase are owned by Yamaha.......don't get your hopes up unless they go into the human imbed chip....

1 hour ago, Grem said:

That depends on how bad the suck is!!

I have tried and the intricate stuff gets lost in the audio to midi conversion. And that's what makes or breaks a useable  part. Fo me anyway.

Oh that's easy.  Records the note you use and put them in Kontakt.   You can always dumb it down.  If your audience is to impress other DAW users, dumbing down doesn't work. 

I have 2 basses. Maybe I should spend some time playing them.  The only cost is time. With today's software you can edit the suck out of your playing.

1 minute ago, paulo said:

Me too.

Taking the doughnut round the hole view....... at least it removes the temptation to buy something else that I don't really need just to get the "free" thing.

 Two times I actually bought what I wanted.    Amazing how even the Kontakt freebies and the under $10 Kontakt instruments start accumulation over time.  I have 2 systems that have over 5tb of space each and it's gotten to the point where Kontakt/Komplete are spread across 3 drives.   Then you have to watch your OS drive because even with W10 that space creeps up.   You have to watch that app data folder since Waves and Live will populate that and so will other plugins and DAWs.  Some will still insist on installing 32 bit plugins. 

 Drive space is only cheap when you don't have to buy it.   

BTW a new upgrade is out.

5 hours ago, antler said:

If that actually happened a while ago, I would have looked more seriously at Cubase as an alternative DAW. Not saying Cubase isn't serious; more that I personally prefer to be dongle-free... and also to not have to pay for minor-point releases.

I'm thinking of not continuing the Cubase chain.  This is my first license.    FL, Bandlab, and Reaper will not break the bank.   I see more Mac users using Logic over Live.  Mixcraft is another one with cheap upgrades.  

16 hours ago, Zo said:

Ok guyz imagine no more dongle ? Don t laugth  

At one time IK went dongle.   Licensing is still my #1 factor in purchasing.  More iLok stuff has went past single activation and doesn't need hardware.    VSL still has the worst policy with dongles.

 Melda and Image Line hasn't went under with their licensing. Nor has Izotope or IK.

On 10/28/2019 at 2:46 PM, kitekrazy said:

I have two old machines with Acid 8.  I'm not sure it's worth $20 to upgrade.  

Then again why not?

I still have those AP7 tutorials from Sony - they go deep into the midi side.