Acid still has a following. If it had a separate window for midi editing it would be great. I still use Soundforge instead of RX7 because I'm use to it. I have Vegas but rarely touch it. It use to be popular as a mixing environment.
I like what Sony did by keeping the GUIs similar.
I still have those Sony tutorial series which were $99 back in the day. They did tutorials right since they had the project files with them. The use to make money on their loops which are top notch. The ones from Magix are inferior and have odd licensing.
When they went away some went to Mixcraft.
There's a deal in the Samplitude upgrade for $149 that comes with Soundforge. If they threw in Acid as part of the package I'm in.
I'd never get there. Add Komplete, Arturia, Sampletank, Reason Studios. It seems disk space for vintage synths doesn't appeal to me. I've deleted most of my UVI libraries.
It seems their upgrades are never in the must have category.
They supposedly retained some of the former Sony staff but you wouldn't know it.
I think the only upgrade in Acid was so you can click and buy loops. Great another iTunes.
I decided to rummage thru the Cakewalk effects.
CA-2A asked for activation which I had to go to the old site and do an offline authorization.
Are there any others that I would have to activate?
It's the pricing that was the issue.
If I do another budget AMD build it will probably be an APU. I'm still using a 9800GT in my FX3600 system. I have a Geforce 210 somewhere but I can't seem to find it.
As for gaming I'm starting to replay games that came out during the XP/W7 era. I'm not too fond of newer games as many are reaching 100gb. Most games I've come across on forums often have a 1TB OS drive.
I would imagine those are more in demand than people buying boards.
I built my 9900k system for around $800 and I only used the previous drives. That included my nVidia 1660. This was during the Covid summer when prices were low.
How are MSI boards? I've only used Gigabyte, Asus, and AsRock. I think the last time I had an MSI board when AMD came out with 2 different sockets of their 1st 64 bit CPUs.