John Maar

St. Paddy's Day. Paddy for Patrick. Patty for Patricia. Unless there's been some surgery involved.

I picked DDLY up for free years ago, and pretty quickly uninstalled it. I don't know what iZotope is doing, but several different apps had trouble scanning and authenticating it. And it's not the only iZotope product I've had that problem with. I have uninstalled all of their products, even the ones I paid for, and have put them on my "never again" list, along with Waves and Slate.

FWIW, NI's Komplete Kontrol S Series keyboards have always supported aftertouch. So, why did I replace a perfectly good S61 MkII with an S61 Mk3? Because the Mk3 supports polyphonic aftertouch, whereas the MkI and MkII only support channel aftertouch. 👍

For @PascalHP who is probably not familiar with the Coneheads, a semi-regular skit from the TV comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL). SNL is still on U.S. TV, but has never recaptured the essence of the first two years on the air from October 1975 to the spring of 1977. I was a student at the University of Wisconsin - Madison at the time. The bars would empty out at 22h30 on the Saturday nights when it aired. Everyone went home to watch the show and then went back out to the bars when it ended. It was then made into a movie.

I'm another. I moved to Arcachon on the Atlantic coast 45 minutes west of Bordeaux and 2 hours north of Spain almost 3 years ago. So, Pascal covers the northwest, Zo covers Paris and I cover the southwest. Now all we need is someone from Lyon and Marseille or thereabouts, and we have France covered. Bienvenue, Pascal !

The Eden is currently on sale for 49 € instead of 99 €. Applying this promo code reduces the price to 39 €. So, 60% off of list, not 60% off of the current sale price. Still a pretty good deal. I'm a bassist, and this is tempting, but I'm going to pass. I have a lot of bass amp sims and if I'm honest with myself, I don't need any more. Still, holding the line of my GAS for anything bass related is as difficult as holding in a Taco Bell f*rt in a crowded elevator. I made it this time. Whew.

I just checked, and Thomann is correct that the S Series MkII keyboards support aftertouch. What's new with the S Series Mk3 keyboards is that they support POLYPHONIC aftertouch. Sorry for my confusion. Here's a link to the S Series Mk3 User Manual. One possibility may be using your VSTi plugins inside of Komplete Kontrol (which is something that you would need to do anyway if you want to use the color display and knobs to control those that offer NKS support). Check out pages 8-12. There are a couple of other possibilities documented in the manual that you can consider. Komplete Kontrol S Series Mk3 User Manual in PDF Another option is to check out Gig Performer for those switching tasks. It's an amazing piece of software for both live and studio use. It may be exactly what you need. One of the devs is a touring keyboard player. The devs were formerly with IBM Research. G.P. is truly next generation after Mainstage, Cantabile and Forte. There is a super supportive community of users available in their forum. I've been using G.P. in my studio for years, and love it. Gig Performer Gig Performer forum Gig Performer YouTube channel

I have owned a Panorama P6 and still have an S61 Mk2, but it's in the box that my new S61 Mk3 came in. I don't use Machine, so didn't need the Machine-specific buttons on the Mk2. The Mk 3 supports aftertouch (!), which the Mk2 doesn't. Also note that you don't need Komplete Kontrol to directly control Kontakt 7. It supports the Mk3 directly. My P6 had a great semi-weighted keyboard, but I had a couple of issues with it. One, the color display partially died, but more importantly for me, there was a bug is the Nektar sysex file for direct support in Studio One. I provided Nektar with exact steps to reproduce, and even told them on which specific line in the sysex file the bug occurred. All I ever heard from their support was "it works here". I had also heard of others with driver issues. It just seemed to me that they did just enough software development to get new products out the door, and then moved on to other things. I landfilled the P6 and bought an S61 Mk2. I sold it when I moved to France and then bought another one here. It was working perfectly, but I wanted the aftertouch support on the new Mk3. If you live in the EU, I could be talked into parting ways with my Mk2. A quick note about sliders on MIDI keyboards... Unless your software supports soft pickup (you can move a slider without changing the parameter it's linked to until its position matches the current parameter value), you'll find using them a challenge. My P6 had 10 sliders, only one of which was motorized. Unfortunately, the motorizing was buggy and never worked in my setup, meaning I just had 10 non-motorized sliders. YMMV.

Cream hasn't been updated in YEARS.

OK, after playing around some with the iLok License Manager and hiding a bunch of plugins that I had previously unauthorized and trying to connect a very old USB iLok key which my laptop failed to recognize in any of the three USB ports I tried it in (this is why I hate it, and I go WAY back to the original Centronics printer port iLok dongles where each one was keyed for a single program and they all wanted to be first in line or they failed to be recognized, so I was forever swapping dongles in and out; end of rant), I opened Softube Central...and got the same error message! But...after clicking on "Keep" and scrolling down the list, I found a second entry for the VCA compressor and it showed as activated on my laptop. That was why it was working for me. Whatever, it's a glitch on the Softube side. I don't think uninstalling it will fix the problem. I need to play around some more with it, but in any case, it works fine for me. EDIT 1: I should have read the Page 3 posts before responding, so there are others in the same boat. I wonder if this is due to the VCA compressor being around for so long. Did Softube use a different authorization scheme before switching to iLok, like PSP is doing on a one-by-one basis with their plugins? EDIT 2: This has to be a problem with Softube Central. My Account on the Softube website shows 5 plugins, and VCA comp as Authorized. There is no second VCA license shown, but S.C. shows 6 owned plugins, with VCA duplicated. Also, there's only one VCA key in iLok, and it shows 1 of 3 available authorizations used. I just rewatched the original Ghost in the Machine movie last night, so, yeah, there's a ghost in S.C.

This may be super obvious, but before looking for some other cause, I just want to verify that after Softube added the license to your iLok account, you used the iLok License Manager to activate it.

Clicked on "Get Free", activated via iLok Activation Manager, download and installed via Softube Central (already installed for my other 4 Softube plugins) in less than one minute total.

Black Rooster Audio makes some excellent plugins. I have their bundle, including this one. I just want to point out that the sale price is exactly 1 € cheaper than the regular full price for Klanghelm's superb variable mu compressor MJUC, which has 3 different "models" available. Klanghelm MJUC variable mu multicompressor I really like the Klanghelm dev. He does excellent work. I have all of his plugins, too. And you've gotta give props to any dev who names his saturation processor SDRR (***, Drugs, Rock and Roll). 👍🎸 I'm sure you know the word that the forum auto-blipped.

I ran the UVI product manager and it didn't show any updates available. I wonder what happened on your end.

I picked up this update almost a month ago.

A quick FYI on the extra Signature Presets... They need to be downloaded separately from the main MixBox install in the IKM Product Manager (there's a "Presets" tab). The .zip files are named for the person who created the presets. As is typical of IKM, the file structure varies, with some a level or two deeper. I extracted the lowest level folder. I deleted the Mac .ds and install how-to files if they existed and deleted the "Signature Presets - " part of each folder name, leaving just the producer's name. I then created a "Signature Presets" folder under the MixBus "Rack Presets" folder and moved the 6 signature presets folders into it. I hate stupid deep nesting that adds zero value or usefulness. One other cool thing I noticed was that the new Sunset Sound Reverb Collection presets that are mentioned in the "What's New in v1.5" notes as available for purchase were INCLUDED, installed and registered when installing MixBox. I thought I was going to have to purchase them separately. 👍

Thanks for the heads up. MixBox is currently on sale on the IKM website for 99 € + 20% VAT for 119 € total. At the current exchange rate, that's around $128.50. Even though APD has my address in France, I was able to pay with my USD PayPal account, so I saved almost $100 over IKM's sale price. Purchased, downloaded and installed!

Kontakt 7 supports NKS directly, which is awesome, since I HATE Komplete Kontrol. It reminds me of Waves shells, and not in a good way.

It's actually Analog Dreams. Ethereal Earth and Session Strings Pro 2 have also been updated.

Purchased and installed. 58,80 € with 20% French VAT. A bargain. Thanks for the heads-up!

I had Radio Waves, but not Oblivion. Thanks! And both preset packs are FREE!

Hey, Bat! I just purchased the album and am downloading the FLAC files now. That was a quick 0.5 GB download. LOVE fiber-based Internet access! I live in France now, so the payment system added France's 20% VAT, but only to the original $7 minimum, and not on the extra $3 I tossed in. It kept mentioning euros, but charged me in $. I still have a US bank account and a dollar-based PayPal account in addition to my euro-based one, so I didn't have to pay PayPal's high currency exchange fees. This song f'ing rocks! Looking forward to listening to the others. We used to be neighbors when I lived in Flagstaff, but we're still neighbors via the digital world. Keep doing what you're doing! John

89 € in France. Includes 20% VAT. That's full price. Might as well buy direct from Toonzes. Installed. Only 54 MB, thanks to modeling. Impressive. Now, let's see how it sounds and how well the Leslie works.

I also had an update for the Scarbee Classic EP-88s. Clicking on the "Release Notes" option yielded this helpful statement: No release notes available for this product.

Going back to your original post, you said that you'd have to pick one or the other. IMO, EZD3 is the better choice for creating drum lines. AD2 may have better sounding drum libraries, but you still need a good drum line to take advantage of that. Way back when, when I only had AD2, I contacted the devs about the bit depth of their drum kit samples, where they 16- or 24- bit libraries? They told me "neither or both", basically, they used a custom variable sample bit depth depending on the complexity of the audio in the sample. They said it helped them minimize to size of their sample libraries. They get beaucoup points for that. Concerning bit depth for EZDrummer libraries...check the requirements for each EZD library. If EZD1 is required, it's a 16-bit library. If EZD2 is required, it's a 24-bit library. I bought Superior Drummer instead of EZDrummer for the SD libraries because of the complaints about the level of processing in the EZD libraries.