kitekrazy1

These are not for the hobbyist unless you want to brag to your DAW buddies on forums.

Well I like to collect DAWs.  If it's Mixcraft or Reaper pricing - sold.

Of course there is licensing that is the big one for me.  I don't buy 2 machine limit software.

Let's keep the sub pandemic going. 

2 hours ago, cclarry said:

I approve!  It's quite an improvement - especially the Mixer!  It looks more like the Mixer in 
Reaper, but better IMO.  Getting the 3 Cherry Audio Plugins that have been added was a
bonus!

Didn't those come with Humble Bundle recently?

I think I'd rather slow $39 on a DAW I might not use when I almost pay that a month on some more plugins or sample libraries I will forget about.

 Staff view sucks, bundled instruments suck.  Not sure it's worth it if the staff view is the same.  Bundled instruments suck in most DAWs anyway. Be like Reaper, just the DAW please.

4 hours ago, Bruno de Souza Lino said:

Personally, the only things from IK which interest me are B3-x, T-Racks, both MODO instruments and Amplitube. Everything else is a bit meh, especially with their stupid "sounds that you paid money for but have to renew every 180 days."

I'm one of those fools who install everything because I paid for it.

I don't need another synth, eq, compressor, reverb, delay..........

Sometimes I debate on these deals knowing TS Max is a good deal but how much of that do you really need.  I even started to evaluate this after upgrading Komplete.

1 minute ago, kitekrazy said:

 I'm gonna take a stab here and think not much will change.  It could be Bandlab now has the rights to call it Sonar.  Something that was free turns into something paid for isn't going to be accepted.

 How many of us know how big Bandlab really is?  We are just a small part of it.  I guess their phone app is big overseas and it's free.  But I'm pretty ignorant about the whole organization.   Maybe they will do what Reason and Tracktion does and rely on selling sound content. 

Speaking of ignorance and not taking time to read these will be paid for apps.  Still as for pricing there are too many fish in the sea.

 I'm gonna take a stab here and think not much will change.  It could be Bandlab now has the rights to call it Sonar.  Something that was free turns into something paid for isn't going to be accepted.

 How many of us know how big Bandlab really is?  We are just a small part of it.  I guess their phone app is big overseas and it's free.  But I'm pretty ignorant about the whole organization.   Maybe they will do what Reason and Tracktion does and rely on selling sound content. 

It's kinda sad the regression of Wusik.  It was popular at one time.  He blames issues on mental illness and I don't think people are buying into it.

Forgiveness is hard and he needs to do something to change that.  I left Wusik are no updates and into a paid upgrade.

4 hours ago, Carlos Iglesias said:

Honestly, asking for 299 for three  new features  seems to me to be too much.

That's the Magix trademark.    You do get to other nice apps.  Now if they threw in Acid Pro I'd give it look.

Those Terminator movies don't seem so fiction any more.

22 minutes ago, Bruno de Souza Lino said:

I'd love to live in your world because 87 USD is not something I call "stupid cheap."

We got off topic.   When you fork out $200 for Komplete U that last thing I want to hear is how "cheap" drives are.  I prefer SATA SSD because I can use 6 SATA ports.  I still run Komplete of HDDs on some systems.  I started to delete plenty of never used Kontakt libraries.

I practically have all of Sampletekk pianos and thinking no need for the  Giant, Maverick. Granduer. and Gemtlemen.   I'm not really into pianos other than sketching for synths.   BTW those libraries load fine on a HDD.

3 hours ago, craigb said:

Large SSD's are getting cheaper!

Just sayin'... ?

I'm trying to avoid that. Maybe try less sample hoarding. 

The next question is what pianos to keep that go back to like Komplete 10.  I do keep Alicias Keys.  I will install the new ones. 

 I have a lot of their loops.  Good stuff.  Find ones that included midi.

Only reason why the have the iLok option was doe Pro Tools users.  I makes no sense otherwise. You can install Izotope on every machine you have.

3 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

I'd like to point out for anyone interested that this product is not an SSD. It's a 5400 RPM spinner.

I only noticed after I ran Crystal Disk.

I'll probably keep it because $60 is still not a terrible price on an external drive (which I currently have a need for), but it's not what the thread title says it is.

 OP gets a major thumbs down.   The warranty should have told you it's not a SSD.   I haven't seen a WD ext. SSD  yet.

The beauty of PA is you can download each file.  Hornet does that.  Melda you can pick.

It get the idea of the all in one installer when you have as many products as Waves and IK.

The biggest headache for me was NA 2. 

14 hours ago, PavlovsCat said:

If I'm going to be completely candid -- and just about every time I am someone comes around to try to censor it (folks, when people state their opinions, there's nothing to fear or react strongly negative to; we can have different opinions and get along just fine, try it) -- I found this freebie, and just about all of the freebie libraries I've tried from Sonixinema to be the kind of freebies I immediately delete. None compelled me to want to buy the full sample libraries they came from. They didn't convey compelling, great sounding sample libraries -- even though the full libraries might indeed be that. They were just novelties of no value to me as a user of sample libraries or as a decision making tool to decide if I wanted to purchase the ful library. 

I would strongly recommend that developers that spend the 10 cents each or whatever deal they work out with NI to license the KONTAKT Player to not waste their money and opportunity to impress sample buyers by creating freebies like this. There's too little to what Sonixema puts in these freebies to assess the library it comes from, so it's completely useless to me, and I'm sure many others. I think they're better off doing say 2 octaves of a significant articulation of a sample library, say a sustain patch -- or maybe only include notes in one octave or two octaves in the key of C for two octaves, but give it the full scripting of the complete library to give the user an opportunity to assess the actual library it comes from. Because I found that this freebie -- and most of Sonixinema's other freebies -- to have no utility for me whatsoever. It's more or less, a novelty  articulation that I wouldn't use and doesn't convey me how playable or realistic the main articulations of the full sample library is. It didn't help me to assess the full library and it's not useful on its own. Consequently,  I have no use for it and it didn't help me make a decision on whether or not I want to purchase the full library. <DELETE.>

It seems that Sonixenima makes some very nice libraries. But I think I'm going to skip bothering with their freebies. They have zero value for me. 

As developers seen to use more disk space I'm starting to use more scrutiny and what do keep on drives.  I've gotten away from free stuff.   When you have all of the popular synth VSTs I don't think there's a point in synth romplers for me anymore.  BTW Kontakt is also a synth.  I still keep a lot of stuff on spinning drives.  

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On 5/31/2023 at 11:20 AM, Bapu said:

Your forgot to say INSTALLED.

I don't have enough space to install all of it.  Some of it is bloated as well.

Debating on what old pianos to keep. 

Deleted Symphony Essential since I can't keep track of the other developers beginning orchestras.

Action Strings 2 worth installing?   

That solo violin rivals Soundpaint for bloatness.  Not gonna install that.

18 hours ago, Brian Lawler said:

I second the thanks to @cclarry but I have not used any PNY branded memory devices since I had more than one fail after limited usage.  Been 5+ years ago, so maybe they are made better these days.

I only buy drives with 5yr warranty usually WD and Crucial.