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Yer tellin' me! I hate to see people in distress over their music software, so I try to help, but really, even a Google search for answers to some of these perennial questions will yield results from this forum. The search engine here is not as bad as the one on the old forum, but yeah, it has issues with trying to find relevant posts. It very much favors recent topics over relevant ones. One I detest is the one at the KVR Forums. If you try to search for MModernCompressor in the MeldaProduction forum, the search engine kicks it back with a message saying that the search term is too common. Really? I think I'm the only person who's ever started topics on it over there. @mibby can back me up.

Thanks for turning me on to something that should have been obvious to me: I just checked Orders to see if MModernCompressor and MAutoAlign were in there, and noticed that there is a gap between November 2022 and April 14, 2023 (which I think is around when I bought Chromaphone), after which it lists 26 orders on April 14-15, all for plug-ins that I bought years ago, like the Orchestral Companions, some later ones like Freakshow Industries' lineup, and a big pile of freebies of the month. Unless memory really fails, I did NOT buy 26 plug-ins over 2 days around US tax day. Especially not ones that I'd already been using for years before April 2023. And I don't think I went 6 months without buying anything from PB, although that is possible. I did declare a moratorium on new mixing plug-ins around late 2022, so maybe I stuck to it better than I thought. This suggests that they did some database work around that time that could have included contacting plug-in manufacturers and getting lists of licenses registered by me regardless of whether I purchased them from PB or directly from the manufacturer. There are also other purchases in there for plug-ins that have incorrect dates. W.A. Production and iZotope are also well-represented in the "wrong date" zone. I guess that for a huge database that contains purchases from millions of people (I assume) going back for such a long time, corruption becomes increasingly possible. Complicate this with freebies, store bundles, and it seems pretty daunting. Good reminder not to rely on PB to keep my license info safe forever. Put those serials in a spreadsheet. I don't always remember to do this, but I have a Google Sheet with many serials in it.

Bridget is the queen of topic necromancers, but y'know, it means that she's at least using the search feature and reading the topic. I've seen enough "why aren't my VST2's showing up in Cakewalk?" one-post wonders to last a very long time.

I've lived with gallstones for over 25 years. Including the diagnosis failure, although, thank heavens, that only went on for 2 years rather than 8. My issue there was that I was going into the ER, where their focus is triage, not diagnosis. So they'd put me on a morphine drip (what those in recovery call a "freelapse"), which didn't stop the pain. I'd only get relief if the morphine drip put me to sleep. They'd supposedly make an appointment for me with my primary care physician, but I'd never hear anything. Turns out my primary care physician (who was an idiot anyway) had retired, and the requests from the ER were going into the ether. Hell, even my DAW's will let me know if I try to load a program that uses a plug-in that was deleted. Once I knew what brought them on, I managed it by, duh, not eating a huge amount of fat at one time. Stick to a regular order of fries. Can't eat deviled eggs at all for some reason. I had a couple of attacks recently, after decades without one, which is worrying, but they were brought on by being in a fasted state followed by fatty meals, so, my bad and I paid for it. Lying on the bathroom floor in so much pain I was moaning and howling. And the worst part is that it goes. on. for. hours. An acquaintance of mine, mother of twins, said that gallbladder attacks hurt more than having twins. I believe it. I think the enthusiasm in the medical profession for yanking gallbladders is because dietary habits are really difficult to change. It is possible to avoid attacks with diet management, but it's too hard, so doctors don't even try. Their patients get their gallbladders taken out, problem solved, no more attacks. They leave 'em in, old habits die hard and they're back in the ER. The side effects of not having a gallbladder scare me more than fear of having another attack, which should tell you something. There are some gallstone patients who absolutely do need to have them out, there can be so many stones that the gallbladder gets distended, or they get lodged in the duct and threaten other organs. But it is possible to manage it through diet. It's too bad, because I like fasting every once in a while, it feels good. And who doesn't love fatty foods? But if I'm in that fasted state, I have to be really careful and come out of it eating steamed rice and vegetables (which I find delicious anyway), not a trip to Five Guys or New York Pizza. I've also been "blessed" with kidney stones. Passing a kidney stone, what it feels like going through the urethra is nothing compared to what precedes it, which is spasms that feel like being punched in the lower back and sides by a bareknuckled George Foreman. It's weird, because for a few seconds, you're in this INTENSE pain, then the spasm ends and endorphins kick in and you feel fine. Repeat. I've vomited from the pain from passing a k-stone. The last one that came out was at least 4mm in diameter. I kept it, it looks like a very bumpy asteroid. Staying hydrated is an issue as well, with the ADHD I get intensely on-task and forget to drink. So I try to always have beverage fixin's on hand, my favorite is a 1:2 mix of fruit juice and seltzer water. I can slam that stuff all day. Congratulations on the gig from heaven. I know those moments both from playing and from being in the audience. Just one of those can make up for years of the drudgery of keeping a band together. And what I particularly like about forms of music that involve a lot of improvisation. When that blue bolt comes down from the sky, there are few things that make me feel so alive and in the moment (one of them is obvious, another is dancing with a good partner).

Cameo appearance from good ol' workhorse XPand! 2 at 16:45. (edited thanks to User 9-whatever). I can't ID the DAW, though. Nice look to it, dark, flat, with green highlights. When it first flashed by I thought it was CbB with my Green Flat Dark theme, but on freeze-frame, it's obviously not. It's not Pro Tools, DP, Logic, or Cubase, either.

I know I have done so. I go through my PB account every once in a while to see if there are any updates posted, and since MeldaProduction updates their stuff so often, of course the MeldaProduction stuff said that an update was available, and that alert won\t go away until you click on the link. That's another reason the entry for MModernCompressor is strange: I check every couple of months, and only just noticed it now. Of course. I'm sure that many of us bargain hunters have done so. I have two licenses for Boz' Little Clipper because it went on sale for $5 after I bought the first one and then forgot about it. Especially vexing to know that I now had 2 licenses for a plug-in I couldn't find much use for, to the point of even forgetting that I had it. I didn't even notice until I went to Boz' website to download it, checked my products page and found 2 licenses. In the case of MeldaProduction, though, it's not possible to buy the same product twice unless you also start another account with them. What you get from a dealer is just a number, which they convert to a MeldaProduction license on their website. In typical MeldaProduction fashion, the way they handle licensing is a little different. You don't ever get a "license number" that you type into a little box on the plug-in to register it or whatever. Instead, each license is tied to your MeldaProduction account, and to activate it, you enter your account information (name and email address). They of course also have a way to do it where the system doesn't have to connect to the Internet, you download a license file which will authenticate all of your plug-ins. MModernCompressor is the plug-in I own least likely to get a double purchase for the same reason I was stumped by this situation: it was the first of their plug-ins I bought after getting the FreeFX upgrade, and one of the first 3rd-party plug-ins I bought that I considered to be "professional," rather than a loss-leader freebie or bargain basement purchase. It was the start of my increasing my plug-in budget and seeking out ones I considered to be the no compromise best in their class rather than settling for using only things I could get for under $10. Also, it's always been something of a problem child in my lineup due to having that odd dynamics distribution display taking up so much real estate. It's the feature that's supposed to set it apart from other compressors and I don't think anybody but a couple of people on their forum even use it. Watch Chandler's video where he rounds up all of the MeldaProduction compressors and demonstrates them and tells what situations he would use each for. When he gets to MModernCompressor, he kind of pauses and admits to never using it and says it might be good for spoken word. Even their paid brand advocate can't get excited about the thing. It's got an "Island of Misfit Toys" charm about it, complete with an undiscovered talent, which is front page access to the different detector models, (including "psychoacoustic"). The only other MeldaProduction processor that has that detector mode is MDynamics, where you have to dig 2 or 3 panels deep to get at it, and it still doesn't have all of the ones that MModern does. Making good use of something that I don't think other people know about is fun. 😄 In that same video, Chandler digs into MDynamics deeply enough to see the psychoacoustic selection for the detector, and multiple commenters said they never knew it was there and were excited to try it. I've been using it for years, neener neener. It's not a duplicate. Even if it were, I wouldn't care. A LOT of my MComplete license was paid for with referral credits. Once I had the FreeFX bundle and MEssentialsFX bundle, there weren't really any MeldaProduction products that caught my fancy unless they were put on deep discount, like MTurboAmp and MSoundFactoryLE. If someone asked me which of their plug-ins to buy, I'd say upgrade the FreeFX bundle and get MEssentialsFX and that would do it. The rest of the line is high quality but none of them are must-haves, IMO. MPowerSynth is underrated as far as sound, but when it comes to programming it, it's as impenetrable as one would expect from MeldaProduction. But the credits kept rolling in (posted my code on VI Control where the deep-pocketed play and tried to provide useful information along with it) so I kept getting more licenses. It is of no actual consequence and will stay as a curiosity and a reminder to sometimes check whether everything is as I remember it. Rashomon is one of my favorite movies for a reason. Watch it and you'll never again trust your memory or anyone elses!

Aside from the excellent MCompressor and MEqualizer, and the utilities, anyone who is interested in warping sound in novel ways should sit down with whatever source material and go through the filters and modulators just to get a feel for the depth of them. The comb filter is just crazy. I was working on a remix for someone recently, and they had baked in hard panning of some percussion elements that had made the mix unbalanced in the high end. Went through my collection of MeldaProduction stuff and found MSPectralPan. It let me choose a precise frequency range and pan it more toward the middle, without messing up the rest of the stereo field. I figured that it was have been one of the things that I had picked up when I got MComplete, but nope, it was from the FreeFX bundle.

Without a referral code the price leaps to a wallet-emptying $16. If they have another of those crazy 65% off all bundles sales, the thing to do is use that first-time referral to get the FreeFX upgrade and MEssentialsFX, which has their best processors in it (Also, the extra "s" in MEssentialsFX is where the "s" at the end of the company's name wound up after it was misplaced).

Well, I am not 100% certain. As I get older, my certainty about what I remember becomes less certain. 😃 I remember having the newsletter credit, and I remember wanting to get a really top quality compressor, and remember waiting for MModern to come around on the eternal madness sale, and I remember posting on their forum that I couldn't get one of the features to work correctly.

If it's your first ever purchase from Meldaproduction, we have a recipe for getting you that upgrade for under $10. First, sign up for their newsletter. They'll bless you with 10 euros credit toward any purchase. You can do that at any time. Next, get a referral code. That gets you an additional 20% off the price of the bundle. That combines, so your 50% off from the sale becomes 70% off. That takes the cost of the upgrade down to about $16, Minus the $10.00.... 37 plug-ins for $6.00?

Anything's possible with my increasingly defective memory, but like I said, MModernCompressor was the plug-in I used my newsletter credit to buy. Not likely to be a freebie, considering that it's kind of an oddball in the MeldaProduction line. I even remember waiting for it to come around in the Eternal Madness rotation, which allowed me to get it for about $15. MAutoAlign is a specialized utility, so also not likely to be a freebie or deep discount. There were some MeldaProduction plug-ins that were either freebies or very deeply discounted that I bought from PB, like MReverbMB, MTurboComple, and MAutoDynamicEQ. Those all show up at PB, but that's expected. It's just those two that seem weird. It was long enough ago that looking for receipts would take deep digging, and really, it's of zero consequence. Those licenses have been superseded by my MComplete license. I only posted about it because it was a curiosity.

This is one of those "am I dreaming or something?" Things. I just flipped through all 22 pages of my Plugin Boutique orders/S/N's and noticed something odd: I am about 95% sure there are serial numbers in there for products that I didn't purchase from Plugin Boutique. These are only from one company, MeldaProduction. In both cases, I am pretty sure that I bought my licenses directly from the company. Maybe I have my own personal Mandela Effect going on? Of course when the Mandela Effect is just one person, it's just plain "misremembering," although this has that same Twilight Zone-y feel to it I associate with the Mandela Effect: a reliable, authoritative source is showing me evidence that something was another way from what I remember. The very first plug-in I bought from MeldaProduction, using the 10 euro newsletter bonus (and after buying a second-hand license for the FreeFX upgrade on KVR) was MModernCompressor. I remember this VERY well because I remember being so impressed by MCompressor and the other FreeFX plug-ins in their "pro" featured versions. The design philosophy, the business practices, etc. I wanted to spend that 10 euro credit on something I would use all the time, and a compressor seemed like a good thing. Turns out that MModernCompressor is kind of the Edsel of their product line, a collection of ideas that seemed good at the time that never quite made it as a product. So. Why is my friggin' serial number for MModernCompressor listed in my account at PB? PB were MeldaProduction dealers at that time (I think), but I remember using my 10 euro newsletter credit to buy it, and I couldn't have done that via PB. There are licenses for other Melda products in there that I did get from them either as free-with-purchase deals or deep discounts, but there's another one that sticks out as having been purchased directly, as I've always preferred to do with Melda. The next license I got for one of their plug-ins was MAutoAlign, and not only does memory tell me I got it directly from Melda, logic also suggests that MAutoAlign is a specialized (and best-selling) utility that would be odd for them to issue as a freebie or the level of deep discount that would get me to buy it from them. MAutoAlign is only useful to people who record audio with multiple mics, it has little to offer PB's producer/beatmaker main demographic. Given my having become a big fan of MeldaProduction's products, wouldn't I remember the first one I ever bought from them? Have that many of my marbles rolled under the fridge? WTF? The only explanation I can think of is that at some point there was a data mishap involving MeldaProduction licenses at PB, and they had to recreate it from Melda's records, and erred on the side of caution. It's not as if showing serials that weren't purchased at PB would hurt anything. MeldaProduction keeps track of them.

Two of mine are inspired by works of animation, anime Neon Genesis: Evangelion and The Beatles' animated feature Yellow Submarine. They're both very colorful. Download links in my sig.

Me too!. The DAW I used before Cakewalk by BandLab, Mixcraft comes with a simple app that just controls the transport, and it really helped sell the DAW for me. I play drums, and wow, just able to kick in and out of record without getting up from the kit is huge. I finally just went with using a long cable on my Korg nanoKontrol II, but that of course adds another cable, and behind a drum kit that's being recorded is a lot of cables. I suggested a transport remote for Cakewalk years ago and the first reply in the forum said that such a thing would be "useless" to the person unless it had the ability to set levels and mute and solo individual tracks....I mean, really, a mobile app transport would be "useless?" But it clued me in to how much feature creep would be demanded from such a thing. I'll settle for the folks at Cakewalk/BandLab doing more to make the software play nice with controllers in general.

Lovely setup. I messed about a bit with TouchDAW a few years ago, this makes me want to revisit it. I have a couple of iPad Minis, so enough screen real estate to do it.

Wow, that looks amazing! Well done, and thanks for sharing the results.

I don't see why it wouldn't work. MIDI is just data, the DAW doesn't care where it comes from.

I only just now made the connection with those mics having "BM" in the model name. Supposedly the mics have a decent housing, good for putting your own mic guts in if you're the tinkering sort.

Maybe my standards are low, but IME, the stuff that people post on the Songs sub doesn't suck. Maybe by the time someone gets a song in good enough shape for their ego to handle showing it off to an audience of entirely musicians/home (and some pro) recordists, it's usually in halfway decent shape. Usually, if anything's "wrong," there are mix issues where the creator just needs to level up their skills a bit, reference more to their favorite mixes for comparison, etc. Frequency range collisions are something I hear a LOT of in hobbyist mixes (I wonder if Trackspacer is on sale, that thing is still the fastest, easiest way to help with that issue. Also problems with processing on the vocals (usually too dry, not enough highpass, inadequate control of dynamics, not the right kind of reverb for the material, and either too low or too high in the mix, depending on how the person feels about the voice). Heck, if someone has finished a track, that's something I've only been able to do on average about once a year. Not that I'm terribly down on myself about that, the hobby isn't necessarily a machine for getting songs out there (wherever "there" even is). I just like playing around with sound. I do like it when I create a finished piece, but it's all the fiddling with it that's fun.

(edited to eliminate misunderstanding on my part, nothing to see here, move along)

Oh, so do I (look in my sig). I didn't mean to come off as being offended. I just thought that featuring a Studio One logo in your avatar photo on a forum for Cakewalk was....interesting and worthy of inquiry. Welcome and let us know if you want any specific help setting up your "listen" bus. You can route things so many different ways in Cakewalk I'm sure you'll be able to put together what you're looking for. That's one of its strengths for me, the flexibility of that mixer.

Some would say neither!😄 But I didn't say "inherently," I specifically asked would we bother (watching and commenting). "We" being my perception of the people in this forum being particularly interested in the "how" of making music. The norm for synth music for a long time has been what David said: laptop/DAW/virtual instruments. Seeing someone play it in real time on a rig with at least 9 different physical instruments is a novelty, it's a throwback to Vangelis or Tomita. The music itself in this video....hmm, if I wanted to listen to something like this I'd probably listen to....Vangelis or Tomita. She has other videos with more interesting music, she's a pretty hot Rhodes player for one, makes good use of the timbres and dynamics specific to the Rhodes electric piano.

My mistake. I guess the manufacturers these days are doing such a good job of emulating the early '80's look that they fooled me! I am impressed. I've had my nose in a computer for so long I'm only peripherally aware of trends in that part of the industry. Okay, well, vintage style hardware vs. 2018 Macbook Pro with a dent in the corner. 😄

Nice. I met Bob Moog, briefly, at the first US Festival. That was the one where Steve Wozniak wanted it to be a music and technology festival, and they lined up some music technology companies. Bob Moog was one representative, it was during a period when he had lost control of the Moog name. I think he was representing Fairlight. About 2 dozen people showed up to watch his talk. To me he was a towering figure in the industry. I just walked up and shook his hand. He was very nice, so I don't doubt that he was fun to hang with in Hollywood.

I'm glad to hear it. I am an Amazon consumer who got screwed over by them a couple of years ago. It happened this way: Amazon have a policy where any 2 people sharing the same address may also share an Amazon Prime membership. Nice for unmarried couples, roommates, whatever. I have a tenant in a cottage at the rear of my property, and he has an Amazon Prime membership, so I signed on to this. He , in turn, has access to the Netflix subscription I pay for. A couple years ago, I noticed that among the scattering of purchases from Amazon, one for the same amount of $14.95 kept popping up. This had gone on for about 6 months. I contacted Amazon and apparently, buried in one of those legalese-filled emails we get about Notice of Changes in Terms to Your Account, was the information that, in order to continue using my tenant's Amazon Prime membership, I needed to opt-in. Failure to do so, while continuing to order from Amazon, amounted to my consenting to having my own membership, at $14.95 per month. If I even read the email, I only skimmed it, because, you know, legalese. I informed them that I did want to opt in to continue on the one address/2 users plan (duh), and not only that, I wanted my money back from the months when I hadn't explicitly opted in to the other plan. No go said they. My bank (Chase), on the other hand, were very accommodating about getting 3 of the months charged back. Yes, part of it was my fault for not reading the email message completely, and for not noticing the recurring charges until it had been going on for half a year. Still, I thought it was kind of sleazy for them to switch people over in this way when who on Earth, if they were eligible for sharing a membership, would choose to pay for their own? It's too bad they pull this crap, because Amazon Prime is a great deal. Either the free fast delivery or the streaming videos would be worth $15 by themselves, IMO. Probably similar to how @Grem feels about Waves: they have a good product, why do they have to be so sketchy in how they go about selling it? I've never been a huge fan of Waves' products. They work fine, but none of the ones I have experience with surpass counterparts from other industry leaders like Brainworx, Meldaproduction, or iZotope, and the single seat license always put me off. Something about them that I think is great is that you can move their licenses around on a generic USB stick or SD card rather than a proprietary dongle.