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Brian Walton

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  1. I'd agree if one was stuck in that ecosystem, but if you work cross platform yourself or with bamdmates that lands right back to the Sonar situation. I guess it also depends on what you need and how you work with the DAW. Reaper is a lot less expensive even though Logic came down dramatically in price since the early days.
  2. Hard to imagine using anything other than Reaper for that use case. Sadly so many people use Macs.
  3. Windows 7 has been end of life for 5.5 years and there is a free update to win 10 (also set to be eol in a few months) and now free Win 11. I get the fact win 7 is the last user controllable windows os, but honestly I've literally done hundreds of upgrades moving 7 to 10 or ultimately 11 and the sky hasn't fallen on me yet. I was worried about some sound cards with no 10 drivers but they worked fine. While I have new computers that are high spec. I also have 10 year old machines that don't support win 11 that I was able to get it installed on and so far so good there too. Of course all of this is YMMV. But if you have 10+ year old computers even going used might not be the worst thing to get some modern performance.
  4. well if you were ok with the previous CbB situation the new Free Sonar offer is basically the same going forward. I would throw in the UI difference between the two but since you are looking at jumping ship for another DAW that clearly isn't a concern for you.
  5. Gotta love some made up statistics. 99% of producers never finish tracks? Guess what, that means they are not a producer because they are not producing anything. I agree virtually all of us should spend more time actually creating than shopping/collecting. But I also think this idea of GAS is overrated for anyone that is an actual artist that is driven to create. Some are creators and others well, are not. My music circles are not EDM so perhaps the perspective is different, but the actual musicians I know are driven to play/create and those that do not, are not really stuck in the creative side - they are more on the technical - just like to tweak things side.
  6. See chart here. https://discuss.cakewalk.com/topic/85290-current-sonar-release-202506/
  7. The RHoF is a sham and I can understand why some would want to reject being a part of it. However, the reasons I've seen stated from her don't make logical sense. Reject it because it doesn't give recognition to the unsung heroes? Isn't that exactly what they are doing by adding her? She is a legend that for decades very few even knew about and frankly outside of music circles and youtube videos drawing attention to her as this "bet you didn't know" kind of content - she wouldn't be known to any kind of mass audience unlike the artists who's albums she put down tracks for. And as for the wrecking crew name. Well I think technically speaking there is some validity that group of amazing musician's did wreck the ability for others to get hired and fundamentally changed the artist / recording landscape in LA in particular.
  8. Yeah I did that out of necessity but really didn't like it. Laptops have fewer and fewer ports and between using an interface and a decent mouse, external drive, etc the space is a lot a premium and if you compound that with ilok and others it really is unacceptable for software one has legitimately paid for. Even my desktop has gotten out of control with the ports with everything I use between audio, video, and photography.
  9. Who knows but if I was on WUP I would to get resizable UI across all plugins as well as have the tech support if something breaks. If you are outside WUP even if they did let you upgrade you would be outside of support and have to pay for WUP for them to help you get operational again. The UI resizable update is about the most meaningful thing I recall them doing in the last 5 years. Glad I ditched them when Super Clear was able to replace Clarity VX which was the only thing keeping me tied. As someone who works across multiple computers the single seat when now on WUP is absurd. This isn't 1985 when only the Uber Rich could afford more than. One computer.
  10. Looks like they have moved to a once a year new version cycle to push people to WUP unnecessarily even faster. The company is 33 years old and the versions would last a few years....until recently.
  11. Well this is odd. Now that I have both installed the Boz Pro Channels no longer show up in CbB - and also not in Sonar (I had the paid Hoser XT, as well as the Bark of a Dog)
  12. Here is my hot take. Years ago they bought Cakewalk and released it as free. At that time the outcry was we don't believe you and expect they will charge us. Over and over we were told the core platform and features would be free, but if they added back things like the Adaptive limiter EQ, synths, etc then those would potentially be paid products. Honestly this feels like they are trying to keep their word after pulling the rug out for a few months with a sub only option. Once again, we will see.
  13. I agree the interval can be problematic. Any computer that is used to create one of a kind art needs the option to work offline for security of that data. I do appreciate we can now use the new version without paying for it (as someone who purchased lifetime updates back in the day always hoped this would be honored even though legally they were not responsible do to they way they purchased the IP. That said, I hope they keep CbB as there is a massive difference in the UI for those of us running custom themes. If you use one of the defaults getting used to the same theme but flat isn't a world of difference. My custom theme is already pretty flat but both the colors and the fact I've decluttered it by removing text and things of that nature in a few places is easier to work with. There are also some pro channel stuff that is installed in my CbB that isn't in Sonar on the same machine.
  14. I don't have it but everything I've seen suggests it is a license key and 3 authorizations (online- offline auth not supported) but does have an auth and deauth process to move around computers. https://www.scuffhamamps.com/support/faq/licensing https://www.scuffhamamps.com/support/product-activation/s-gear-activation
  15. Almost forgot about the Tapes, I love a couple of those but they are super resource hungry and I always wait until the end of a project to add them. That said, a lot of the older (but still great) T-racks plugins are pretty light. The 670 comp or the black come to mind and I'm betting the same algos are used in mix box for those.
  16. My main complaint is it is a bit resource heavy. It was at one time one of the more expensive bundles and has quite a bit of stuff in there. As a windows user, I expect it to work for many years. If I was a Mac user I'd expect not only this but everything else to be a temporary tool outside of a subscription service like adobe where you know they have a vested interest to play the apple update game.
  17. It isn't clear on the website but there is now a free version with unlimited tracks, it doesn't have all the addins and features of the paid version, but it is fairly close. Use the same installer as posted in the OP. Seems to just have a nag screen and you have to login to your account like you have to with CbB and will have the periodic check in requirement just like the same.
  18. They also seem to be offering the $20 IKM Mix Box suite at check out (like PB was offering for a time previously) Just an FYI for anyone that had Tape Echo already and had no interest in that deal, but might have had interest in the "suite" for a fairly reasonable price. Just be aware reports are that the platform will no longer get new features or development.
  19. That is a great track and a fun recording (I've personally recorded Derek Trucks Band covering that tune live myself more than once back in the day) but I think we have a different understand of what "amp in the room" actually means. That recording while it is a live recording and certainly has quite a bit of the room sound picked up on it - certainly doesn't sound like what the amp actually sounded like to the human ear in the room - this is a function of using microphones and different speakers to capture and play back sound - it will never actually sound the same, though you have picked a really solid reference of a live band in a room sound. I agree AT5 sounds like a layer of AT5 and I don't use TONEX within AT5.
  20. This is why I reference Tonex as a warts and all. It sounds like the real thing when you mic a cab (which is how tone was traditionally recorded to tape) this is not as easy to do as most people think and therefore the results can vary wildly. As for what the real thing compares to. The real thing is not the "amp in the room" sound. No one in history has ever recorded that so it sounds like the same thing played back through speakers physically isn't possible. So the real thing is what does an amp sound like miced up for recording, and as far as feel - it goes through the same process. If I was sitting in a control room in a studio with my amp in a different room does it respond like that amp would as translated through a microphone and speakers? I've done the tests and TONEX is as close to that recreation as I've experienced. This isn't to say it is perfect, you can read my little blurb on the TONEX cab and how it can't overcome the harmonic content and richness of an actual super high end tube amp "in the room sound" but once it is going through a mic and speakers, it is rather close to that, or at least close enough for the average player. I've used S-Gear as noted, it can get a polished sound potentially faster than tonex. But as you observed, an actual amp recording is not a pristine thing without a whole lot of work. I'm guessing you haven't done much capture work with Tonex if you are not sure it is like the real thing or not. After a capture you can literally A/B between the "live rig" setup of your amp and your mic through headpones and compare it with the tonex capture in real time. That said, if you don't like the results of your personal amp+mic results - you are going to get close to the exact same thing with a Tonex capture.
  21. They both seek to emulate the sound and feel of guitar amplifiers (and effects) and therefore I'd put them in the exact same category. You can literally capture an S-gear rig with tonex and see just how close the two can be. I'd argue that Tonex sounds and feels more like the real thing (but that also comes at a warts and all approach). So you are looking for a polished final product sound, S-gear in many instances takes less time to get there. But add the Tonex pedal in the equation with the super low latency and that realistic feel becomes more apparent than in a software based rig in my experience (and yes, I have a very high spec computer)
  22. Shocked this is still in business after the TONEX ecosystem was created and the fact that have had the core software down to like $35 before that allows unlimited Tonenet downloads. And let's you expand into a hardware version that has 1.2ms latency, good luck getting that with a computer and feeling like the world is stable
  23. Deal and website is legitimate, sounds like you are dealing with a personal problem. Good luck.
  24. I've got the $20 offer but really wish this was an included upgrade. The v1 is unusable to me because of the UI. I get that devs should be paid for their work, but the UI has been a problem since it was released and should have been upgraded many years ago.
  25. As an "audio engineer" myself I certain appreciate the work involved in that, but it doesn't really speaks to ones actual musical abilities at a deep level. I know lots of well respected engineers that couldn't write a tune if their life depended on it. I'm not a huge Sting fan but he is a writing legend and I can't even imagine arguing against it. -Every Breath You Take -Message in A Bottle -Roxanne -Every Little Thing She does is Magic - Walking on the Moon - Fields of Gold _Englishman in New York - King of Pain -If you Love Somebody Set them Free -If I ever Lose My Faith In You - Shape of My Heart - Desert Rose - Wrapped Around Your Finger Each of those is wildly popular. He also has plenty of other 2nd tier hits - Fragile - Brand New Day -1000 Years -When we Dance -Seven Days
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