Starship Krupa

What OS is on this laptop? If it's at least Windows for Workgroups 3.11, and it can connect to your home network, you may be able to transfer the files via Windows networking. The newer the OS (Windows 95, 98, XP), the better your chances.

It's not, actually. There are so many free offerings of plug-ins that it's like trying to drink from a fire hose. This particular promotional giveaway was bungled. And kinda weird, really. Why did they think they'd need to entice people with free goods so that they would participate in a class with Alan Parsons? The way it went for me was that I registered for it on the day it was announced and heard nothing further. I had forgotten the date, so a reminder email would have been nice.

So this deal is actually kinda half-fast?

My math on Melda's deals is notoriously unreliable (but usually my calculations come out higher than what they actually are). So thanks for the clarification.

Larry already posted this as part of a larger list of VSTBuzz deals, but I think it warrants its own topic. https://vstbuzz.com/deals/80-off-mlimiterx-by-meldaproduction/ This is one of those cases where getting the plug-in at a deep discount can pay off when the bundle sales come around. Melda licenses purchased from retailers are credited at 50% of list when applied to purchases of bundles that include that plug-in. MLimiterX is part of the MEssentialsFX, MMixingFX, and MMasteringFX bundles, so if you're interested in any of those, a license for it's good for $54 off. Couple that with one of their periodic 50% off bundles/everything sales, and you can get a nice collection of processors for little money. Not incidentally, out of all of the limiters in my collection. MLimiterX is my go-to mastering limiter. It's a worthy purchase whether you intend to leverage to a bundle or not. Caveat: if you've never bought anything from MeldaProduction before, this will qualify as a first purchase, which means that you'll no longer be able to use someone else's referral code to get a 20% new buyer discount.

This. The issue is the presence of the Realtek ASIO driver. A quick trip to the registry and all is well. Your system can then be set up to play Windows sounds like YouTube and whatever through the onboard chip and you will still have the ASIO functionality with the mixer. Also, in order to switch between two ASIO drivers present on a system, you must first uncheck all of the Audio Devices that pertain to the unwanted ASIO driver.

I think that's no longer strictly true, as a few of the newer synths that they have come out with seem to be using the underlying technology of Hybrid and Vacuum. They don't seem to have come up with anything like XPand! yet, though.

I wonder if the "save your keyboard binding in a file and delete all lines in the file which contain: Kx00530B, then load that keyboard binding file" fix that the OP tried also fixed this issue.

Therefore not much incentive to work around its bugs.

I'm very fond of Hybrid 3. For arpeggiator-driven 90's ambient kinds of stuff, it's my most inspiring synth, and I have MASSIVE and Chromaphone 3. Hybrid 3 has the best arp sounds. It has 2 arpeggiators that can be used simultaneously. Well worth $10, IMO. Xpand! 2 is also my favorite general purpose ROMpler. Vacuum Pro is another favorite. The only drawbacks I've ever experienced with AIR's synths is the lack of a way to mark "favorite" in the patch browser, but I can use the DAW's native preset system to get around that. As far as technical issues, I've never experienced any problems with AIR synths, not a single one. They are light on resource use compared to other synths out there.

They're usually trying to sell more of them I think. Likely very few. Yes. (apologies, I'm watching this freaking hilarious mockumentary show on Netflix called Crunk on Earth that features a hilariously literal-minded character covering human history in 5 30-minute installments. "So how long were the first flights? "Typically on the order of just a few hundred feet." "Well they could have walked that....")

Maybe we could compile a list of most-given-away commercial licenses. Quadravox, iZotope Elements (in its various forms), Ableton Live! Lite, A|A|S Sessions (in its various forms)....

Good lord, for whom? I've always been kinda weirded out by people who stuck with SONAR when CbB is free and so much of an improvement (and were subsequently having problems with the years-old unsupported program), but in this case, I believe there will be plenty of people who will keep using the free product unless there is a paid version that is really inexpensive. Whether they will also be people who actively participate in the forum remains to be seen. If anything, I'd have the impulse to shame anyone who shamed CbB stalwarts. 😃 Of course there is that versionism thing where anyone, pro or volunteer, who is trying to support a program will try to convince users who are having tech issues to upgrade to the latest version to see if it helps. How long before the first angry "I even spent my hard-earned cash on buying Cakewalk Sonar to see if it would solve the problem, and now I'm out the money as well as the time and my haptic controller still can't talk to my plug-ins?"🙄

VHS for 3.85€ you shall be mine.

It seems self-explanatory, does it not? Except maybe you're wondering why it happened when you have your DAW connected to the net every day and why would the activation ever get that close to running out and isn't it supposed to just silently renew itself yada yada. And the answer is....it just does it this way sometimes. Every once in a blue moon, someone's Cakewalk will start forgetting to renew itself, then eventually pop the red toast message saying that time's a wastin', then they have to tell it explicitly to renew itself and then it's fine. Often they also have to log in to BandLab with their browser, but it seems that you were spared that indignity.

I don't usually look too far outside the more business-y areas of this forum. So I open this topic and there is a photo of Richard Branson kite surfing with a naked teenaged girl clinging to his back. WTF do you guys get up to around here?

Perhaps in number of features, but that lack of support for 3rd-party plug-ins was a stone cold dealbreaker for a LOT of people, myself included. That relegated it to being just the little sound program that came with the interface. Crippleware. Plenty of native FX I suppose, but I'm too into VSTi's to be able to make use of Studio One Artist 4 except as a sketch tool.

Although I know it's useless to use facts and logic to change an opinion that wasn't formed using facts and logic, let's check out how Linux has fared in the desktop market in the past 5 years. In Jan 2018, Linux had a 1.69% share of the market. OSX had 12.8%, and Windows 82.68% In Jan 2023 Linux had a 2.91% share, OSX had 15.33%, and Windows 74.14% So in the past 5 years, Linux has gained 1.22%, OSX a (surprising, way to go Apple) 2.53% gain, and Windows has dropped 8.54% Not exactly a tidal wave. Speaking of which, one of the things I've noticed about people with irrational beliefs is that they often preach that there is an impending cataclysmic event or shift of some kind that will elevate those who think and act as they do to a superior status. This will be their reward for whatever deprivations they are suffering now (with Linux loonies, the deprivation is usually lack of software choices and hardware support). "You'll see! Just wait! You won't be laughing 5 years from now!" The thing is, it's trivial. If, 5 years from now there's been some breakthrough that actually does make Linux a superior platform (and that would need to include core audio functionality similar to Microsoft's and Apple's), and software vendors are supporting it as well as they do Windows, then there could be a reason to switch. I use my computers to make music, browse the web, and play games. When they no longer do that to my satisfaction, I change them. By adding storage, changing to a more powerful CPU or graphics card, switching to different software to perform those functions, a different audio interface, or whatever. When there is a compelling reason. Not one that I fantasize about happening in the future, but WHEN it's necessary. All the pieces are subject to change, including the OS if one more suited to my tasks comes along. Hasn't yet. I'm just not that emotionally attached to computer parts, including the software. I have some odd quirks about what I use; I still prefer Firewire, so I bought a new-in-box Focusrite Saffire Pro 40. I don't annoy people with how much "better" my interface is because Firewire 400 is an asynchronous bus-mastered protocol and USB 2.0 is serial, and nobody wags their finger at me or tries to convince me that soon Microsoft will end support for Firewire on Windows so I better drop it and get a USB one. I still have an optical drive and use it, nobody chides me about CD's being obsolete. Who even cares about this crap? This OS wars thing is so 90's. Use what you use and leave others to do their thing. As much as I'd love to have Garage Band available on Windows so that I could recommend it to DAW beginner friends, I don't go to Garage Band forums and drone about how I think Apple should make a Windows version and tell the people that they should switch to Windows before Apple forces their systems into obsolescence. I'd love to have iMessage on my Windows desktop like I do on my Mac. But I can't, and I understand why. No whining, no weenie-waving. I just use the stuff I do have and get on with it. I've also learned that fanatics are much more bothered by indifference than they are opposition.

Brave on Windows 10 over here. Works a treat. Maybe Linux systems have a feature that blocks hard information about the OS' market share. That would explain a LOT.

How else would such a referral system work? I put mine out there enough to eventually get MComplete and I never felt like I was begging. I think their products are a good value that I want everyone to know about. I post the same stuff now that I can't even use referral credits.

It works just fine on my system. 😁

No, god, no, please, anything but that.

Congratulations on your MCompleteness. Over 100 plug-ins that you'll feel like you barely scratch the surface of. 😄 That is not an "issue." Those are the terms of purchase. It's similar to most other software companies' policies on upgrade deals: upgrading doesn't grant you the right to sell your previous license(s). You usually retain only the right to use the product(s) that were upgraded. Also, you're usually not permitted to sell individual licenses from a bundle. From the MComplete bundle, there are over a dozen individual plug-ins that at this point, I don't think I'll ever touch aside from just test driving them. It would be great if I could sell or give away those licenses, but it just doesn't work that way. I think some of the mystery big purchases I've seen drop credits into my account are from when I put my referral code into a couple of threads (I got hand-slapped by a moderator, but the code is still in older threads) at VI-Control about MeldaProduction. The userbase over there seems to include some high-roller pro types whose idea of checking out a manufacturer's line of goods is to just buy a complete bundle. No "upgrade the FreeFX bundle" for them. The moral is to get it out there when you can. I always tried to be cool about it and actually type something helpful, like the recipe for getting the FreeFX bundle/pro upgrade for $5 or whatever. No "Use this code for 20% off at MeldaProduction!" followed by nothing else. 🙄 I wonder how much cash I've spent with them over the years. I decided at one point that I had all of their products that I wanted, but the credits kept rolling in and a couple of lowball introductory offers (MTurboAmp, MSoundfactoryLE) on big-ticket items (normally $108 each) came along and....here we are. Those deep discounts really add up. And it usually comes as a surprise during these 50% off all bundles, 50% off all products, 65% off all bundles sales just how much those little $9-25 purchases and Pluginboutique freebies are really worth in Meldaville.

This. Horses for courses. Linux is great at what it does best, which is hosting servers, enabling people to get extra life out of older hardware, and provide a viable productivity desktop for people and organizations who wish to save money on OS licenses. It also provides an alternative for users who don't care for Microsoft's and Apple's policies and behavior. The primary function of a company is to make money. If they can't make enough profit from some activity (even indirectly), they will either not engage in that activity or cease to engage in it. Witness the impending freeze of freeware CbB and advent of payware Cakewalk Sonar. The "building brand awareness" era was great, but about to come to an end. The 5-year introductory offer. 😄 It's difficult for audio software companies to make money on Linux because A, there are so very few people using it for audio, and B, frankly, Linux users are used to getting most of their software for free. The potential customers are LOUD, but few.

I believe you meant to say: 💩 Really, folks, look at this guy's content (as well has his change of handle). The only places he's "contributed" to are the "Delusional Linux" topic in Coffee House and here. The "is that all you got," the change of handle, the repeated assertions that he's "out of here" yet always coming back, it's obvious. He's a skillful troll, and it's been fun to play Poke The Troll with him, but he's just getting a kick out of the attention and how much he can bait us. And sincerely, Mr. Linux Advocates Are The Worst, my (red) hat is off to you. You played the 90's "Linux Loony" to a T. It was fun to revisit my younger days. 😄