Shane_B.

Meh. Who knows. It's happened before.

*shrugs shoulders*

There's plenty of other daws out there so I wouldn't worry. Enjoy it while it lasts.

35 minutes ago, Bapu said:

'85 for me. TR-505 and Juno 2 keyboard. As a starter, with some off brand MIDI Sequencer for the IBM PC. After the sequencer company went under I bought Voyetra Sequencer Gold Plus before getting Cakewalk PA3 and on and on and on.

Careful now. You're getting dangerously close to being OT. (On Topic)

My fist entry into midi was ... I can't remember.

@craigb 

Tank 7

Best beer I've ever had. Be warned though. They should require a prescription to buy this. It knocks you through a loop. I can only handle 2 maybe 3 tops and I am completely non functional. Normally I'm good for at least a 6 pack or more.

I don't drink anymore but when I did I couldn't drink anything else once I tried their beers. Even when I was young and could gag down half a can of Bud it would give me a horrible headache. We used to call it Zombie Pee (with s's).

13 minutes ago, craigb said:

Maybe someone got this forum confused with the one that's discontented? 🤔

I had kinda major surgery yesterday and I'm on copious amounts of Hydrocodone. Everything I say for the next 2 weeks are suspect. Not that they weren't before. 😁 I have become, uncomfortably numb.

I think his point was this forum does host our files and doesn't rely on us to do it. Therefor the contributions would be managed better here and not dependent on our 3rd party file hosting sites that could go away or links changed.

Sorry to hear that Bill. I hope you can get it out ASAP!

Don't forget my Frampton cover idea. 😜 Or Jim Reeves. Jim's steel player was one of the first to record with it. I recently bought this on vinyl at a thrift store. Sounds incredible to me.

I have Willie Nelson, Ferlin Husky, Brutus Beefcake, Classy Fred Blassie, and Captain Lou Albano's autograph. The wrestlers are on a McDonald's napkin from where they were all eating at in Port Jervis NY and Willie and Ferlin's are on show tickets.

Just got the Essentials FX Bundle which had the two plug-in's I was mainly interested in. It went from $297 to the sale price of $119 to $19 when the system discovered I already had the auto dynamic EQ then to $7 when I signed up for the newsletter. That's more than fair. I almost kind of feel bad to be honest. Almost ...

3 minutes ago, Fret Flintstone said:

Posts will inappropriately be removed.

Don't worry. I think you're ok. It doesn't apply to everyone.

1 hour ago, Brian Walton said:

Weird.   I own AutoDyanmicEQ and TurboCompLE (both in that bundle and they want to charge me $44 for the Essental Bundle).  

I wonder if they keep track of how much you paid? I think I paid full price for it a very long time ago but can't remember for sure. Maybe you got yours on sale and they aren't as willing to give as much back? 

Darn. I was hoping to catch another deal like this and cancel my Sphere membership. They just charged me for another month last night. Now I might as well stick with it because if I bought it now with this deal and cancelled Sphere I'd still be at $130. I like Sphere and recommend it but it's not for me because I just don't spend the time at my DAW that I used to to make use of all the samples and loops and storage.

4 minutes ago, mibby said:

You should get an extra discount for those bundles if you own some of the plugins already.

Hah! I was just going to post about this and your reply popped up. Good timing.
 

Yes, I was able to get a discount. A huge one. I own MAutoDynamicEQ. I can get the Essential bundle for $19. On sale it's $119. So they are giving me $100 U.S. off for already owning their dynamic EQ. To be honest, I'm only really interested in the MAutoVolume plugin. It also has MAutoAlign. They are two awesome plugins. I haven't used MAutoAlign in a while and thought I owned it but I must have used a demo because it's not in my account. For $19 bucks this is a no brainer. 

3 hours ago, Soundwise said:

Since Samsung acquired AKG (along with other companies, like Harman, DigiTech) the prices have skyrocketed. You can still find NOS AKG headphones. AFAIK, Amazon policies prohibit selling fake product.

Samsung. Grrr. Not a big fan of them anymore like I used to be. 

I have an old pair of K240 MKII's. They sound good but I've never been able to get a good mix on them. I ended up getting far better mixes in a bad room with my speakers about 4 feet away from the wall and me about 2 ~ 3 feet from the speakers. But with the headphone software available now I'm wondering if a better pair coupled with software would be good. On the other hand, if I bought everything I felt I needed right now I'd be about $15,000 in the hole. 🙁

I wish they had a 'Create Your Own' bundle and let you pick 10, 20, or 30 plugins of your choice.

All the bundles I would be interested in include some I already own.

On 3/10/2021 at 1:23 AM, Soundwise said:

My favorite headphones for ... basically anything, including mixing. I also have Sennheiser HD650, and use them occasionally, but 712s have more definition and better scene. With plugins like Sonarworks (or Toneboosters' Morphit) and ARStudio 3 one can easily make great sounding mixes.

I was looking at the AKG 712's. They are $550 at Sweetwater and Guitar Center but $389 from AKG on Amazon. Makes me wonder if the ones on Amazon are fake? That's quite a price difference.

11 hours ago, Bapu said:

It was participation level, not cost. One less plugin per month covered the cost.

I'm sorry to hear that. My laptop died and I never replaced it and at the time my DAW was in my basement. Your site didn't work on any Android device I had or I would have been there a lot more not that 1 guy would have made a difference. Now I've moved my gear out of the dungeon in to the dining room so I'm on more regularly again. Lucky you guys eh? 🤨

I like it here and I'm very grateful that we have access to this forum. It's easy to forget where I'm at and go off topic though. It's not intentional I just get used to being here and let my guard down because I feel at home so to speak. I need to be more mindful and respectful of the policies here and all will be just swell.

Back on topic, I've been thinking about this a lot since I started this thread. I can't decide what I would do. If they updated a few things, one being make it look better on a 4K monitor, I have to admit I would have a really hard time deciding. IRT the 4K thing, I'm running 4K on a budget so maybe the scaling on my end isn't right. It would be interesting to know how CbB looks on other people's 4K setups.

On 3/10/2021 at 9:58 AM, Bapu said:

and then foolishly a fledgling act called Hall and Oats.

A guy at the gym I go to claims to be one of the sound guys for H&O. I imagine he's telling the truth. Who would be so desperate for attention that your claim to fame us H&O's sound. 

1 hour ago, craigb said:

I had a small earring in my left ear when I joined a band, but that filled in decades ago.  I've never had a tattoo (I personally think they're graffiti and almost everyone I've seen with them would look better without - JMO!) but, if I were to get one, I already know what it would be:  The keyboard keys Ctrl, Alt & Del (probably on the back of my neck)!  😆

I have a copy of an old tintype photo of my Great (x4 or 5) Grandmother. She was a full blooded Mohawk. I always wanted to get that tattooed on my arm up high enough so a shirt would cover it. I imagine something realistic looking would be expensive.

26 minutes ago, Dzilizzi said:

Does it work on hard drives?  I am a little jealous.  😊

I have a degausser too. I'll try it on my HDD. If I'm not back in 5 minutes you'll know it worked.

Maybe I should think this through a little more. 🤪

I just grabbed a GTX 1060 on eBay for $60.70 Buy It Now free shipping. The guy has a ton of them for sale. We'll see what happens.

Link here.

Never mind then. LOL. As soon as I ordered it eBay removed the auction. Must have been a scam.

OMG! FULL SCREEN MODE! YES! LOL!

Shift + F.

If you're like me and assigned a macro to Shift + F so it worked like CbB then make sure you re-assign full screen mode toggle to another key. F seems to not be used by S1 for anything so I used that. 

I manually went in to full screen mode by clicking View on the menu area and scrolling down to Windows and then Fullscreen. Problem is, once the menu area is gone while in full screen mode there is no way to bring it back. I had to hit the Windows key to bring up the task bar then close and reopen S1.

👍🏻

9 minutes ago, Wibbles said:

Participation was dwindling to say the least. 

@Wibbles

Sorry to hear that. I have been off line for several years and every time I checked his forum via my cell phone it just showed everything in a jumbled text format that was unreadable. I've only gotten back on the net in the last few months. Ain't you guys's lucky. 🙄

4 minutes ago, InstrEd said:

Hey this site is rated "G"

Or is this site rated "H" for Humor

@InstrEd @Bapu

Apparently the site rating is on a sliding scale depending on participant.

I wish Bapu's forum was still going. I'd be willing to pitch in if cost was a problem.

Back to the topic at hand 🙄, I'd rather forget those X# days to be honest. Not very good memories of that era.

12 minutes ago, SteveStrummerUK said:

I loved 8.5.3. Best version ever.

(I could post a screenshot of someone stating X1 pre-many-many-fixes was the bestest 😁)

@SteveStrummerUK

Yes, 8.5.3. I still have the update backed up. As well as Dim Pro and Rapture updates. I also have a bunch of free add-ons for Dim and Rap too. 

I really need to back all this stuff up. I'm playing a risky game with these old HDD's. But if I went out and bought everything I needed today to backup and update my PC it would total in the thousands. Prices of this stuff is getting out of control.

I'd rather not see that screenshot. My BP is already elevated. 

15 minutes ago, Bapu said:

The greatest invention evah on the other end of the age spectrum.

@Bapu

I just roll with it and carry a travel sized spritz bottle of Febreze.