kitekrazy

If Sonar X1 Power was thrown in I'd say Deal!

Can't you do stuff like this baked in DAWs?  I'm sure you can in Live and FL Studio.

4 hours ago, Grem said:

 

Actually,  that's a very pertinent question. 

At the time the guitar tech brought me in the back to see my LP apart, this question never occurred to me. However, after becoming more educated on the subject, that was the exact question I asked; Why did he take that neck off? How did he know it came apart? How did he know how to take it apart?

As I said in the story,  I kept taking it apart when I was doing a good cleaning but stopped after a while because of it wearing the joint out. 

But again, why did the tech take it apart and show it to me? I think he was trying to tell me I had something special.  And he also knew I had no clue what I had!!

But I know now!!

As in playing or collecting?

Support fixed it.

 When a company takes over another developers product it rarely turns out well.

Magix did get some of the Sony developers back but it seems there is no gotta have with updates to former Sony products.  At least you can authorize.

Izotope can be installed on many machines but those Expo verbs are tied to iLok.

When Garritan bought the tech for Gigastudio there was high hope but too much code involved seems like a waste of investment.

You never see when a product is taken over the authorization is changed.  If it does it's often worse like requiring iLok.

What's nice is Bandlab is free and they improve upon it.

I guess a lesson learn is when software is acquired, stop using it and move on to something else.

Hopefully I'm moving away from buying a trinket to get a free product.

How many beat making apps does one need?  I just recently removes Liquid Rhythm from my system.

7 hours ago, marled said:

If I did not have

• Insight (1)
• Ozone 8 Standard
• RX7 Standard
• most of the PA plugins above

then this would be an interesting deal!

But just for the sake of the update it is not worth IMO. This is the crux with iZotope, they really don't value what you have. And updates/upgrades are so expensive!

A lot of wisdom there.  I wonder if the Expo plugins are still iLok.  iZotope doesn't have a machine limit. 

19 hours ago, Grem said:

Not the exact workaround I was hoping for!! LOL!

If you paid $49 for it and didn't get any expansion I say delete it.   Use and dealing with flakey authorization seems to outweigh price when it comes to disk space.  Do I really need a bloated drum kit when there is Komplete, EZD, AD2, IK, to fill my needs.   I have Melda MDrummer which I should investigate more.  

BTW nothing from support yet.

Google Error #403002 for BFD and it's a shitload of links.

It's a no brainer to avoid this if you don't have EZ Bass.

50 minutes ago, Grem said:

 

 

I am trying to cleanup my Sample drive after the lastest IK GB. BFD, 9which doesn't get used much) is taking up a lot of space. So I started to move those folders to another drive and I remebered reading these posts.

Would a uninstall and reinstall be a workaround? Opinions?

Remove BFD and never install it again.

2 hours ago, Bapu said:

I have the entire ToonTrack productline up through EZD3 on a PC and a MacPro 2012. Never had that problem. Sounds like a one off (to me) although a big one off to you I'm sure.

I will admit that once on the Mac I had EZD2 kit that would not update. Lasted for about three weeks and with no changes to my system one day it worked. IIRC it Latin Perc. And again it was only on the Mac, the PC was fine.

It didn't uninstall correctly.  It was odd.  If there were only a demo of EZD 3 I could see if that solves it.

Now it is deactivated on all 3 systems.

I'd rather people not turn it into a game since Larry does it right.   Most often others don't post links or post them incorrectly.  If you want to play the no reward beat Larry game at least model his posts.

4 minutes ago, jackson white said:

The built in kill switch now 'graciously' set to 90 days apparently includes a timout reset (kinda like CW?) to avoid deactivation when away from internet access, but is just the initial slap in the face. What happens to your investment when their servers screw up, program bugs manifest themselves or (heaven forbid!), they go out of business? That investment includes -all- of your mixed and archived sessions which frankly, represents way more $$ than a few expansions.

The relaunch (over a year ago) is classic bait-and-switch. I'm sure most of their loyal fanbase was thrilled to see signs of life and upgraded in good faith based on the past quality and rep of the core team, only find out it was InMusic in FXpansion clothing who have confirmed their rather poor reputation by wasting countless hours of their users time with a complete CF of an "update". Apologies for the 'drama', but as InMusic is HQ'd in the US, the investment made here in FXpansion prior to the InMusic qualifies as a felony in 49/50 states. And they've done absolutely nothing to fix many (any?) of the bugs or improve features, let alone increase any confidence in using this on any future projects. 

Continuing to beat a dead rotting horse is a waste of time and energy.  

1. Standard practice now mandates rendering all drum tracks to wav files prior to any mixing on every project. Still thinking about the best/most efficient way to do this,  sort out bounce vs freezing/exporting/reimporting tracks (nested folders should help).

2. Planning to render and resave archived projects in order to preserve the effort invested in them.  

3. Looking for alternatives. SD3 is the only candidate on the radar atm. Never got on with SD2, looking for an opportunity to check SD3 out in depth, will most ;likely have to buy it and try it as there is no demo. Nobody I work with uses it...

...

It's unfortunate, first that pirating apparently led to this scenario and now driving similar trends, i.e. KIT plugins absolutely require an active internet connection to work. Good stuff, but = a hard pass on anything that compromises the ability to use it. Can ony hope the market  eventually delivers up a better alternative. Perhaps Melda or PA will take this on as a growth opportunity. They don't seem to have any issues with their DRM. 

Unfortunately this increases it. 

15 minutes ago, Bapu said:

ToonTrack for one.

Not really.  EZD 2 wont install on one system because the registry locks out the installer.  There are no options to fix this.   Sometimes these programs do an enormous amount of registry entries.

I think I'm done with anything under In Music.   I replaced a drive that had my BFD library and says authorizations reached.  Plenty of hits on that error.

BFD = Cluster *****ed Authorization.

Never buy.

I'm at the point of not supporting products that have their messed up product managers. 

Too much stuff out there with less hassles.

They leave off the drive space requirements.  This will set you back at least $100 getting a SSD.

Does it disable your Hollywood Orchestra license?

Dark Farm = Deep Price. 

22 minutes ago, LAGinz said:

Yeah, I’ve been thinking about that option too. OTOH, may be creating still more work for me if I’m gonna eventually use Product Manager to install—since Product Manager leaves behind all the zip files.

You can archive them instead of paying a download fee. 

1 hour ago, Fleer said:

Should go a pretty bit lower. 

Strings are like other software. When a new one comes out everyone oos and ahs.   They collect strings like some of us who keep buying compressors and eqs.

27 minutes ago, cclarry said:

I have Epic Babies that I got for some ridiculously low price, and it's really nice...
 

It was free.

I'd like to buy their artwork.

Pricey.

1 hour ago, Fleer said:

Nothing but good experiences here. 

Maybe you could create something and share it with us.   I could appreciate something from its users that is not tied to their youtube page even if it's really short and with their instruments.