kitekrazy

23 hours ago, jesse g said:

Musiclab.com had a product called Midi Over LAN that I used to use year and years ago which allowed me to control my Midi over my network, which worked flawlessly,  I don't know if they still sell it or not, but  it worked great.

Nope, I still have it archived somewhere. There is rtp midi which is free.  You need Apple's Bonjour to use it.

Love to see how competitive Best Buy is. So many of their deals can be ordered and picked up local.

If I had to do it all over again I would be satisfied with RennMaxx. 

Waves licensing sucks compared to other developers.

15 hours ago, Christian Jones said:

Is this really worth getting for these types of sounds? I guess that comes down to taste, but sell me on it. Where are some shill videos who will sell it to me the way I like? 

With the numerous VSTs and presets there is probably something I already have to fill that imaginary void.

1 hour ago, sarine said:

 

 

These are the things that rub me the wrong way about this guy.

During the end of the year sales circus the spamming got ridiculous, he makes a lot of noise about nothing.

The mental illness (bipolar) part is a double-edged sword for me. On one hand being open about such things could take courage and sincerity which is respectable, on the other you may come off as whiny and make everyone uncomfortable. It's a private matter and begs the question; why are you making it a public matter? It's especially bad when you're handling stuff meant to be shared with your family, friends or a therapist, in public and to an audience that are essentially [potential] customers of your company and thus confound your private and public personas with your business entity. It could end up having a negative effect on everything you represent - a totally unnecessary risk you didn't need to take. Which brings me to the reasoning behind choosing to take it, namely that it seems the personal problems are used to publicly excuse [in]actions of the company. In summary, unprofessionalism shines through.

I feel dirty just talking about this stuff because I have no reason to doubt his diagnosis and I feel for him. But I'm as confounded as anyone with regard to where the person ends and the business begins, so let it be an example of the dangers of shoddy PR.

 

There was a developer who used the sounds in Kontakt to sell them as a refill.   After being caught one of the statements was "autism is a serious thing".  It's our nature when we are caught to always deflect.

 This William guy has a forum and now no one is in it. Maybe we can figure out why. Whaddaya bet he also deletes FB comments?

On 1/20/2022 at 9:35 AM, cclarry said:

I always create a "Notepad" document with the Serial # and save it on my Archive Drive in the folder with the Installer...

I use winzip and paste it in the comments part of the archive.

20 hours ago, Walter Cruz said:

But you can install a WUPed bundle on two machines... (and the second license is gone when WUP is over, meh)

That will make anyone crazy when DAWs do VST scans.

They are still the king of doorstops.  They aint RME.

13 hours ago, Fleer said:

Yeah, I won’t bite either. Just got the Gold+Renn a month ago or so. 

Lucy keeps telling me, "Come on Charlie Brown kick the football".

On 1/19/2022 at 2:51 PM, James Foxall said:

...and Wusik will spam you into the ground. He doesn't honor unsubscribes either (and I bought him a coffee).

My advice is to steer clear. 

Wow that's dumber than falling for Waves deals.  If I were you I'd leave that part out.

He also likes to flaunt his mental illness whatever it is for sympathy.  It's the net you can be anything you want to be.

On the plus side he does answer support issues.

Tempting. Anyone else in on this.

 I can get it for $50

Drawbacks are moving up to s pricey WUP, also upgrade removes previous license so you can't put it on another machine.

 Nothing new under the sun but I bet it will be the largest sampled.

You would think with their engine they would come up with better ideas.

I didn't like the demos.

 48GB -  I know of one forum where that will be impressive.

I can't wait until they make a 10GB hand clap.

I don't think it shows up if you have everything.

I still use the plain GUI.  I could go crazy just on themes.

20 hours ago, lawajava said:

I once bought a pack of 3,000 Serum presets from ADSR for like $9.  I poked around a little in the pack but came away very unenthused.

Perhaps jumbo packs without having a chance to listen to examples may be dicey.

I think that's often the case with most presets.  When I look at them that are for specific genres it's how many times can they reinvent the wheel.

3 minutes ago, cclarry said:

That's the beauty of American....YOU can believe whatever you want...

Beliefs are also driven by money.

2 hours ago, abacab said:

Kontakt is the only thing from NI that interests me. I have no use for Komplete, as that's just a way to fill up another hard drive with stuff that I will never use.

I'd say that's with almost everything I buy.   Unfortunately Kontakt is always used as a rompler.

7 hours ago, paulo said:

I don't know why anyone would buy Kontakt as a standalone product. Waiting not very long for the inevitable 50% off Komplete sale seems like far better VFM.

Komplete also allows for 3 machines. 

Just now, cclarry said:

Selling 100,000 plugins wouldn't be worth a developer's time? If you say so!
The Pro Channel IS  VST!  It's a "VST FX Bin", it just has a proprietary interface, which wouldn't be difficult for a developer to add on!
I completely disagree with "Cakewalk isn't Popular"!  I'm in MULTIPLE groups that are "Cakewalk User" groups,
so I don't know why you would say this?  It's not "Pro Tools" or "Cubase" popular, but it most certainly has a substantial base.

 It isn't.  User groups are not always proof.  A developer goes by how  often a product is downloaded.

Somehow you think a developer is blind to your first statement.

A good example is look at all of the Kontakt libraries compared to Halion.

20 hours ago, Esteban Villanova said:

Same thing with Reason RE's. Seemed like a good business idea for developers but it didn't really pan out. VST format is just too prevalent.

Developing an RE is similar to creating something to use in Kontakt player.  Reason charges a developer 30%. The are fewer RE developers.  Many of the free REs are from developers who stopped making them. They can't be resold and proprietary and bloat a system drive.  My RE's take up 15GB of OS space because they can't be moved.

20 hours ago, cclarry said:

I was just thinking:

Now that Cakewalk (Sonar) is FREE, I wonder why some REALLY SMART developer hasn't
jumped into the "Pro Channel" Pool?  I'm sure the market would be BOOMING!  As it stands,
we have Boz Digital and Softube, and then only a few of their plugins are PC capable.  Just seems
that it would be quite the lucrative market...but hey, what do I know?

1 - it would be proprietary and not worth a developer's time. that's why there is VST

2 - Cakewalk is not popular

52 minutes ago, Patricio Campos said:

Any recommendation? I don't have any Nugen plugin. I do have Neutron and Ozone advanced and Waves Horizon. Not sure if there is something here my current tools don't have.

I think my life can go on without having another plugin.