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 Just noticed the WD Sata 1TB SSDs are 89.99. 

To me this is like having Waves 14 and installing Waves 9.

Developers can't avoid that "create stupid GUI" crack pipe.  I still am annoying with those thin scroll bars.  Plus you'll spend time trying to make 11 look like 10. 

Long live Windows 10.

3 hours ago, Monomox said:

this sale reminds me I have a bunch of PA plugins I need to hide, I'm suffering some serious anti-GAS, yawn

I haven't recovered from IKMM's slapping a plugin on my face 25 consecutive times

Same here.    Opening Bandlab is a reminder I have too many plugins. 

1 hour ago, marled said:

I guess you mean the ones with the big purse! 😄

Yep and Epis are quality instruments.   I'm glad I'm not a guitar player because I would suffer from headstock syndrome. 

 Some people though gotta have that other name on the headstock. 

7 hours ago, Reid Rosefelt said:

Besides cost, the problem is having spare x8 and x16 slots. A lot of computers have only one x16 and you need it for the graphics card. 

The cheap cards with a regular NVme and a SATA one work on x4. 

Nowadays the number and size of PCie ports is getting more important. 

You also need a card to give you more SATA ports to make up for the ones you lost plugging NVmes into the motherboard

Plus it's less confusing with an older system.  I prefer SATA because of the simplicity.

 If I bought that I wouldn't have any money to buy drives.

2 hours ago, Yan Filiatrault said:

I have Legacy and upgrade is 149$ for me too.

Same here. I'll stick with Arturia.  I like how they do things.

4 hours ago, abacab said:

Great idea, since the port on the drive cases seems to be the weak link. And these drives cannot be "shucked" like older external drives could be, to reveal a functional internal drive. The ports are hard-wired internally to the drive electronics.

Fyi, these Elements 2.5" drives use USB bus power only, so no power supplies needed like their larger brothers.

Kinda like Apple products.

Hard to beat a RYO external drive or just use drive docks.  

I'd be afraid a platter would go bad on those mega drives before you fill half of it.

Soundpaint and its libraries are a no buy for me.   EULA has 2 machine limit. 

Kontakt (not the player) rules.   Not a fan of machine limit libraries even though I have VSL and HWO.

Beside the brass picture is a pocket trumpet with a mute. I had no idea mutes exist for a pocket trumpet.  If you are a brass player you know the only reason for ever owning a pocket trumpet is so you can play it in a phone booth.  

There is also a new 40gb Grand and a Drum machine for Soundfactory. 

So no one has this?

1 hour ago, Fleer said:

You’re nine years ahead of me, Bapuji. 

We've got nine years, stuck on my eyes
Nine years, what a surprise
We've got nine years, my brain hurts a lot
Nine  years, that's all we've got

We've got nine years, what a surprise
Nine years, stuck on my eyes
We've got nine years, my brain hurts a lot
Nine years, that's all we've got

If you ever go WUP = means you're senile.

 Recertified - means it was broken and will break again.  Also a much shorter warranty.  These are often 5400RPM.  

It comes with the Melda everything and another one called Guitar Architect.  BTW Melda doesn't let you know if there is a new version of 16 beta but it's now up to 16.00f.

On 6/22/2022 at 8:54 AM, rsinger said:

After 8 years there's something to be said for a clean install. Clean registery and so on. Just sayin.

I usually find myself installing less stuff.

I rarely do that.  It seems that W10 will load appropriate drives when you've upgraded major parts.   

 Tempting for the lite version but I have have Serum patches that sound similar.

23 minutes ago, husker said:

Husker:  The SOS part is right as I can use all the help I can get making music buying more plugins.

This is the reason why I don't look at the magazine.  I wasted money on a CM sub only to read the product reviews.

4 minutes ago, cclarry said:

Correction from Harrison - Course will NOT be retired...

Meanwhile I retired Mixbus to a storage drive.  Too many DAWs.

4 hours ago, Technostica said:

System requirements:    Free KONTAKT PLAYER or KONTAKT (Version 6.2 or higher).

I could not find those.  It's still a pass.

1 hour ago, telecode 101 said:

thanks. i just picked it up. havent really tried it. i guess its just samples in a kontakt interface.

Nope it's not Kontakt.  It's another player.

This one just doesn't seem yo be worthy of installing.  I'm not a fan of iTune type romplers.

5 minutes ago, cclarry said:

Well...I've gotten about 8 years out of my current FX-8300 system, which is pretty dang good,
but it's starting to get a bit flakey, so I figured it's time to upgrade.  Here's what I'm going
to:

Ryzen 9 5900X 3.7 Ghz
ASUS TUF GAMING X570-PLUS WI-FI AMD Socket X570 AM4 ATX M.2 Desktop Motherboard
VICABO WINDWALKER F06 CPU Cooler Dual Fan Heatsink Radiator ARGB High Performance CPU Air Cooler, 6 CDC Heatpipes,
Silicon Power 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600) 288-Pin XPOWER Turbine RGB DDR4 SDRAM Desktop Memory

A little over $600 for everything.  I couldn't touch an R9 prebuilt for anything close to that price.

Everything else will carry over from the old system.  I'll use my current Graphics card until I can upgrade that. 
I just bought an NVMe 2 Tb Drive for this reason, because I knew my system was "on the edge", and I have enough
hard drives and SSD's to complete the build.  The REALLY SUCKY part will be "reinstalling everything", which
is always a PITA.  I will clone my OS Drive to the 2 TB NVMe, and hopefully that will "Ease the pain"!
I figure I should be good for another 5 years.

Don't. That is the most overpriced component these days.   I still have a 9800GT running.  If I ever do a budget build I will probably use an AMD APU.

34 minutes ago, LAGinz said:

Yeah, it was free at least once a few years back. Free or not, I kinda like it:)

Other companies gave free stuff to persuade users to go iLok.  I think I got Line 6 Amp Farm that way.

This was free a long time ago.  I have yet to use it.

Just now, abacab said:

I just updated my Cosmos and CR8 to v14 for free, as they were still covered by the free year 1 WUP.

I thought they would be upgraded automatically in Waves Central but I had to go to the website.

I can't wait to see which of my DAWs gets confused with the plugin scan.