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2 hours ago, Jan Schmitz said:
Never, apparently.
Why do I need this?
Just like most DAW gear - you don't.
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12 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:
Nice. Yeah, let's see it. I'd love to have access to a trove of retired PC components.
Parts that IMO should never be tossed are case, power supply, fans, and CPU cooler (within a certain range of sockets). Right now, my DAW system is using a hand-me-down case, which also has fans in it from a Pentium D-based HP full-tower that I found on the curb about 10 years ago, then retired and mostly stripped about 6 years ago. The HP carcass had been sitting outside for the past half dozen years waiting to be taken to a metal scrapper. I needed a fan for a new build last week and voila, it still had a pair of pretty nice (Delta) ones. As long as they have at least 3 wire connectors, a modern motherboard can control their speed. The HP's 450W power supply is currently still running in a system I gave to a friend.
Sometimes "office boxes" have nice fans in them, as quiet can be a selling point for office PC's. They get even quieter once you set up cooling profiles with your fancy motherboard and slow the speeds down. They're also rugged, because nobody wants their office computer's fan to start making funny noises.
Since cases are pretty standardized, there's no reason to dump them until they are well and truly done for. I just spent $50 on a new one, and I'm sure that there are multiple retired possible case donor PC's sitting in garages within a block radius of me.
The need for 500+W power supplies is exaggerated these days. CPU's and graphics cards are being built to use less power than they were 10 years ago, and if you're not gaming and just using your processor's on-board graphics, 350W is probably more than enough. My main rig has a passively cooled GT 1030 in it, which is very light on power consumption.
I always keep these parts. They are handy for trouble shooting hardware. The one system parts I have yet to trash is my Intel Q6600 system. It was probably the most stable system I've had.
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3 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:
Getting your DAW on with less-than-cutting edge hardware is the opposite of shame. Until 6 months ago I was pretty happy with my i7-3770. Then I found too good a deal to pass up on Craigs List and I'm running an i7-6700. Your 4790 is quite capable of doing anything you're likely to ask of it, and sometimes sitting down at my older system feels like putting on a nice pair of perfectly worn-in shoes. Comfortable, familiar. I know where everything is, before I built a new computer and started keeping things tidier.
Maybe it's the punk rock thing: it's cool to make music on banged up no-name instruments that "serious" musicians would shun. ?
Not too long ago I took I took my retired PC parts to the electronics recycling Like you are suppose to dump stuff there right? Well I found a motherboard that had one of those massive dual fan CPU coolers. I had to take the whole thing. I had my hopes that the CPU in it was a 4790k. It wasn't anything special but I do have this massive heatsink that I'm sure would probably work on new systems. I'll have to post a picture of it sometime.
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I download the all in one installer and delete the session ones in the zip before installing.
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13 hours ago, MusicMan said:
I wonder if the same will apply to their other products from PA as well.
Doesn't look like it yet.
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On 1/16/2023 at 9:56 PM, Fleer said:
Just get FabFilter Pro-Q3 and be done
Yep. Amek has too many knobs. How many paid full price for that EQ?
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14 hours ago, satyabrata satapathy said:
Yea we r preety used to fancy things now . Simple things scare us unless it is a sampler
3xOsc is still a favorite in FL Studio.
The synths that use to come in Sonar were lame.
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Maybe it doesn't work for me because Larry didn't post it.
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Well now it's fiction. If I got them I probably wouldn't notice anyway. I'm thinking just like their free stuff you already have you don't get another one.
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I might get these when I can spare $19.
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Aren't these basic synth sounds just about any synth can recreate?
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8 hours ago, PavlovsCat said:
Simplicity scaring us? I don't think that's the problem. I have a bunch of sythns and samples of analog synths that are simple. Simple can be beautiful.
I found that kHs One didn't bring anything very different and sonically appealing to me from other virtual analogue synths I already own. However, there's a huge caveat for others when I share my opinion on this and any synth, I'm really only judging it by presets, so someone who creates their own patches from scratch may have a completely different opinion. Of course, everything is subject to personal tastes.
Funny, back in the day, with hardware synths, I actually did create my own patches. But not these days. I leave it to people with a lot more talent at it than me.
That's how most synths are judged. See Sylenth, Spire, Serum, plus the amound of 3rd party presets out there.
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I'm sure this is old news.
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23 minutes ago, PavlovsCat said:
When I shared this, I got the link from a Facebook group I'm in and completed the forum on my (Android) mobile phone. So, perhaps the link is optimized for mobile (although the script on their site should be smart enough to get that right in 2023, I'll leave that to someone who codes to answer, it's just a guess what a problem could be)?
Some of us are getting tired of circle jerking that link. Maybe some of use already have it. Otherwise this thread is fiction.
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10 hours ago, Niky Serrano said:
Well done but... Ops!
Exists other similar plugin named AutoGain Pro MK2 (https://www.hornetplugins.com/plugins/hornet-autogain-pro-mk2/) that uses the same processing code of the AutoGain Pro pluginI got the AutoGain Pro MK2 some months ago... now has an excelent price with this offer
That's the one I have.
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I got the autogain pro. I didn't really need it but it was $5.
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54 minutes ago, Niky Serrano said:
And the code 20220620 works with an additional 20% off
I feel guilty using this on already reduced plugins but I don't need anymore plugins and I like this developer's attitude so I guess its like giving a donation. Hornet has replaced my PA hoarding.
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On 12/29/2022 at 4:04 AM, Jack Stoner said:
ASIO4ALL is probably the culprit, not Cakewalk.
I tried it one time, on an experiment, and it corrupted my PC audio.
It is not really an ASIO driver but a modified Windows driver. It's open source and some developers use it to create their own version. I know there is FL Asio and Cubase has their version.
Windows is very good with legacy drivers.
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On 1/5/2023 at 9:18 PM, jesse g said:
+1 for Acronis True Image.
Unfortunately they turned into a sub. 2020 was their last version before that.
Interesting that older image software seems to work by any developer.
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On 1/14/2023 at 11:54 AM, Technostica said:
Is it possible to set up a server side script that automatically moves all threads with 'not a deal' in the title, to a different forum?
Did you ever think we've turned Deals into our own little forum and post everything to get attention? It's actually rude on a forum hosted by a developer. We take advantage of the freedom here. Try that on any other developer's forum. We are becoming the VI Control mini version.
Check this site out for a change, https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/forum/29-community/
How many of us monopolize a forum hosting a product not everyone uses? Of course the overall forum could use a better structure. We've taken advantage of the liberties here/
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Unfortunately CPUs are getting up there in wattage. I'm still a fan of those AMD 65 watt CPUs.