Vernon Barnes

IIRC there is a (substantial) minimum purchase of $198 to get the freebie.

Mmmm, I am not up for one of the big ones but 5 Syntronic expansions might tempt me. Can we use jam points?

I just got an email $99 buying direct from Slate. $49 for trigger. https://stevenslatedrums.com/ssd5/?utm_campaign=End of Summer Drum Sale 2020 &utm_medium=email&_hsmi=92629653&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-91I5L0BXIYDlubejAsBajBVumf6VjVE1Vs3QIj0uwBP7G1UU_jXmeWPl5wDdOxvlY_FD3CcJ8Svxm7KuG3ZSMfWzWN4Q&utm_content=92629653&utm_source=hs_email

You get a lot more for your money to be sure. Drumlab is a bit of a specialty really if you want to create hybrid sounds so i would not say Slate compared in concept. The Abbey Road drums are probably on a par sound wise.

The sounds are great but for me the player has been the issue, I think I even preferred it when it was a Kontakt instrument. If fact I was considering reinstalling the Kontakt version now I have some free disc space, if I can find my backup discs. I had hoped version 5 would address some of my dislike of version 4 but the free version has not convinced me. That said this is a very good price for some excellent sounding drums.

Well I went and got the Tonal Balance bundle cross-grade from Plugin Boutique. There may have been possible savings elsewhere by dodging the VAT and looking at currency rates but the tokens and virtual cash means a few quid of my next order so there is probably not a lot in it. I did not have Neutron at all previously, but I did have Nectar 3. All in all I am happy to get Neutron Advanced, upgrade my Ozone 8 standard to 9 Advanced and get RX elements 7 (I previously had 6) for £128.

OK, thanks. I must admit I did not read a lot of that correspondence in that thread but I did see there was some confusion. I just ran Software Centre after seeing his post and it updated almost everything, so i must have the one you are referring to.

I don't see anything in my Software Center. Is this a further update to 7.2 (posted by cclarry last week) ?

£128 on plugin boutique inc VAT for UK customers. Not sure if customers in the US can buy at the ex VAT price of £106.67

Looks like the tonal balance bundle might be the most cost effective way of upgrading my Òzone 8 standard to Ozone 9 advanced. I shall have to investigate further.

The update I want is for Riffer to have a chord changing facility rather than just a transpose. Say you are in G Major and you want a ii chord, you transpose to A and you get a major rather than minor chord. I tried dragging riffs out to Studio 1 so I could use the new keyswitch lane and chord track. This works up to a point, the problem is when the chord changes notes can get moved out of the range of the instrument (strings?). It Amplesound could introduce chord selection similar to EZ Keys into Riffer it would be a major step forward. I assume it would not be that easy to implement, but would not be surprised if Toontrack were considering in it for a future instrument.

Looks like the lowest price is for Francesca. Prices come up in pounds for me its £54.95 including VAT. I also see Strawberry but it is 33% off at £73.34. The best deal is on the bundle for £114.95 - you get the four voices Francesca Genco, Linda Strawberry, Bryan Lane and Michael Peaslee I have these for an earlier fire sale and they are very nice, but I have not yet used them in a completed piece of music. The bundle works with the free Kontakt Player (version 5.6.8+) but Francesca bought alone need the full version of Kontakt,

No other issues, and the one I did encounter was probably due to processor overload with the other plugins, Melodyne was just the final straw. 5 is a significant update. The sibilance tool is very good.

Yes, Cakewalk has Bitbridge which bridges 32 bit plugins to the 64 bit system. Most will work but its not always plain sailing and some may not work too well. If you get problems there is a third party bridge called JBridge which was useful back in the time I was still trying to use 32 bit plugins. EDIT - Abacab was typing his almost identical answer at the same time as me - Great minds thin alike.

I have done quite a bit of work with Melodyne 5 studio in Cakewalk since upgrading. The only issues where when I went back to do some remedial edits on a project that was close to finished and had a lot of fx running. This caused a unrecoverable dropout. The solution was to restart Cakewalk, turn off the fx and do and render the edit before turning them back on. CPU load is very high on this project. It may be unrelated to your issue but turning off any fx may be worth a try. Do you have the latest Cakewalk version installed? I seem to recall some ARA fixes mentioned in release notes a while back but can't be sure.

Same here.

The user defined resources folder is a significant step forward. It can get quite large and be an issue if your system drive space is at a premium. They had a hack for relocation which automatically set up a directory join after it moved the folder. I did this. It will be intresting to see what happens after the upgrade

I had a bit of fafffing about creating an account, it was probably my fault as I ended up on sign in, rather than sign up. The problem then was the error message was in Russian so I eventually managed to copy it before it disappeared and run it through Google translate. Then it all became clear.

One of the pre-orders that arrived while I was somewhat preoccupied working on my own stuff was Magenta's (the Welsh one) "Masters of Illusion". A prog concept album about vintage horror film actors seems unlikely but now i have played it a few times I am really liking it.

Its certainly better value if you did not have a version to upgrade, but its still an option to consider particularly if you want Notion. I looked on it as low risk because if I don't get on with it I can always cancel, but its looking good so far. The collaboration tools could be useful. The content is certainly useful. Maybe not up there with the top flight libraries but as mettelus says very useful for sketching and I would say on a par with Sampletank 3. I have not downloaded many of the Notion instruments yet. It looks like they are only available in Notion but look fit for the purpose of sketching out a score.

After Bit's Giligan's Island post I thought I would put this out there.

Very well done. It could have been appalling but it was enjoyable.

I had a bit of a search for a female singer for a song in my latest project. Covid ensured it was definitely going to have to be online. I found going through show reels difficult as one had to translate the voice to my own song. I was quite luck to find this lady and I was very happy with the process and the results. http://www.ginaellen.co.uk My song is in the song forum

Thanks again for your kind comments and suggestions. Things have moved on an I have replaced the file with a new mix. I have done a very quick master using the Ozone 8 assistant for streaming. I plan to leave this on Soundcloud for a week and then take it down. A final mix and master will be done once the other songs in the cycle are completed. I am also planning to go right back to the comping stage and redo the vocal production and final mixing in my newly acquired Studio One, a) as a learning process and b) in the hope I may manage a better mix. The plan at the moment is to put the final "EP" on Bandcamp (without too much hope of many sales) and maybe make a few CD to try to sell locally, pushing the strong local story.

I have downloaded most of the relevant keyswitch files which should save a lot of time later. I have not tried using them yet. I also grabbed a lot of pitch maps, these seem a lot easier to use, but less versatile than Cakewalk's drum maps. The cloud seems a very useful resource.