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34 minutes ago, Sent4th said:

I see no incentives in purchasing this library if you already have Hollywood Fantasy Orchestrator, Hollywood Fantasy Strings and Hollywood Stings Opus Edition. There should be maybe an upgrade price less than $400.00. Maybe I'm missing something. Just my thoughts.

I will probably happen at some point.

28 minutes ago, Brian Walton said:

Yamaha didn't kill off Steinberg - but they are also still have "old school" pricing model and just discontinued VST2.  I personally wouldn't view them as a customer friendly company.

Image Line hasn't killed those off, but in what way are they better now?  Melda is the only one that I really use (but own products from the other two) and I haven't seen any material improvement whatsoever.  The positive is simply that they don't feel like they have changed but that doesn't make them "better" now.  Melda thus far as least isn't a case of another company stepping in and ruining everything thus far which normally happens.  

In this age it does make them better by not changing.   If it aint broke don't "f" it has a bigger meaning than ever.

Interesting that when Gibson killed off Sonar there were a lot of DAW deals. 

Enshitifiction is here to stay.

3 hours ago, Kirean said:

I tried, but I can't quickly think of a single instance where things got a lot better for the consumer after a new party had to recoup its new investment costs.

Steinberg under Yamaha

WA Production, Melda Production, UVI, under Image Line who vows not to interrupt the 3.  Some FL users were disappointed hoping UVI would be iLok free but not so.

Steinberg seemed to avoid the enshitification being bought by Yamaha.

No more hardware dongle, 3 machine license.  Unfortunately they have that odd distribution system.

As for the Studio One vs. Cubase try demos.  

There's nothing wrong with having 2 DAWs. It is not polygamy. 

3 hours ago, pwal³ said:

guess i didn't try hard enough haha

That's the Magix footprint.

Great Quote:

Here's a wild idea: terminate NA all together. Just let people download the install files for their NI account online. You will save a ton of time and resources that can be used elsewhere, and at the same time get rid of the biggest nail on NI's coffin (both for NI and us).

3.9.1 somehow broke itself.  It will not show any of your products.

Reported on Vi-Control and NI forums.

I will assume its probably an issue with a server.

Products show up in Kontakt.

3 hours ago, Brian Walton said:

Sadly the last few releases I've purchased had issues with Cakewalk....this being one of them.  Hope it gets sorted out.

I don't really have such issues with other devs.

He will fix it instead of  "cakewalk is not supported"

14 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

Bought it to go with the rest of the HoRNet plug-ins I seldom use.

That's more common than not with just about every developer.

I don't mind giving this developer a few bucks. There's more positives than negatives.  I get the impression he's not really into it for the money.

1 hour ago, Doug Rintoul said:

You are right. I rarely visit there. However Mike, in the video in the OP stated at the outset that he did not know when Sonar was going to be released and nor did he know what the final price was going to be, so I assumed that no official announcement had been made, even upstairs.

Sometimes that is a wise move.  I learned from being a Gigastudio user promises are not kept.   It's better to not rush something full of flaws.

19 hours ago, Hillmy said:

 All the smoke and mirrors about the new Sonar and some people not seeing the obvious and listening to reason made me switch to Reaper.  

It's the usual mention other DAWs in a thread about a specific DAW.

Th real test in this is about loyalty with the end user and developer.  It isn't really about using a DAW but selling a license.  I stopped using Sonar around v4 but I bought a license even the lifetime update.  It's difficult to sell a 1st time license than selling upgrades that is a concerning someone who has never used a DAW.  

 I admire them avoiding the race down to zero.  

The only thing I would buy is their older stuff for Kontakt.

I didn't realize for a time that every preset not purchased in Analog Labs have demo presets.

Some of their vst3 have issues.

22 hours ago, ptheisen said:

I will admit that it feels like there is significantly more drama on this forum than on the forum of the other DAW I use.

You must not have heard of Vi Control.

Drama often happens when a DAW is criticized on a company forum.  There's no shortage of fanboys.

1 hour ago, Tim Smith said:

I know but I'm kinda stuck here for now. Not a bad place to hang out, well sort of

Having creativity and not being able to use it is a lot like trying to make love to your wife when you have company in the house.

Not that I have any, but I can't even try right now.

There was a similar discussion on another forum about not making music because of forums, having to update software, looking for new products.

These Cakewalk forums are like a woman's knitting circle.   

2 hours ago, Nick Blanc said:

Purchased, I like their stuff (use it too little though) and I would like to have the collection complete, which is a stupid reason but still a reason.

I think it's not so much about liking what they make but who they are. 

4 hours ago, LittleStudios said:

Run Steinberg Download Assistant

But you have to update that first.  At least you have the option of getting it of their site. 

I'm confused about testing this.  Do you have to pay their sub to try this?

I decided to go over to the Magix forums and check out the status of Acid.  That one might get the cut. 

6 hours ago, husker said:

Falcon is MUCH more than a rompler or sampler.    It is one of the most full featured synths out there.

I got plenty of those.  There's not enough libraries to tempt me.

This forces its way into Windows startup.   

  I almost bought Falcon but you realize when you buy a rompler you have to buy more sounds for it.   Unlike Kontakt where a developer can create a library without the need of the player.  

This came with a lot of preset packs. 

3 hours ago, Patrick Wichrowski said:

I couldn't resist of the semester deal. I had to get it. Now a need more HD.

I've got it running off a HDD.  It works fine if you don't use the Syntronik stuff