John Maar

The standalone version is still unusably small in 4K screens scaled to 200%. Disappointing. At least the VST2 version is usable on my system.

I'm on Studio One and don't expect much change in their pricing, especially with Sphere subs going for $15/month. I can't remember the last time, if ever, that I heard the two words "Fender" and "free" used in the same sentence. I have a Reaper license good through v7, but don't expect to ever use it again.

Best price I've ever seen for this bundle. I paid US$99 several years ago, and never saw that low price repeated until now. The best sale price since my purchase was US$199. These are excellent pianos (American, Italian, German), different enough from each other to be worth having all three, but as Fleer said, once you have these, you'll want the Ravenscroft 275. I had to wait a couple of years to pick that one up on sale. Now, I' still waiting for a decent sale price on their newish upright release, ModernU.

Voice heard from the back of the Dane County Coliseum in Madison, WI when the lights went up after the opening act for a Jethro Tull concert: "Does anybody know me?"

Pat contributed just a few tracks in Set 195, but they're nice to have. Pat Martino Real Tracks demos in BiaB Here's the lengthy list of all professional musicians who have contributed Real Tracks. All artists Real Tracks in BiaB

I replied to your PM. I made the transfer request and paid the fee. It was only 14,24 € since I live in France. I attached my bank info so you can transfer that amount to me.

I have an unused Artist 5 license that came with my purchase of an 1810c audio interface. I've been on Studio One Pro since v2, so have no need for it. I just checked my account, and a $25 (22.08 €) transfer fee is required. If you are interested, and have a PreSonus account, PM me the email address associated with that account. I would then enter that in the online form that pops up. They would contact you via your account address, get the $25 from you and take care of the transfer from my account to yours. $25 is a bargain for Artist v5. As mentioned above, it finally includes third party VST support without having to pay for the add-on. Plus, it would save you money on an upgrade to Pro, if you want to get that way in the future.

Pat Martino contributed a bunch of excellent Real Tracks for Band in a Box. Much sadness over on their forum this morning.

Soundpaint downloads are in sequential files about 971MB each in size, so .001, .002, .003 etc. It deletes those files once the installation is complete, so I don't have a backup for them that we could test via FC (File Compare).

Installation tip. Install Soundpaint first. Create a Soundpaint directory on your samples drive and point Soundpaint to it via settings. When asked for a download folder, point to the Soundpaint folder on your samples drive. The Soundpaint downloader will automatically create the “Piano - 1928 Vintage Grand Steinway” folder under Soundpaint (or whatever download folder you chose; I used my normal download folder and had to move the “Piano - 1928 Vintage Grand Steinway” folder and its contents to my sample drive and then rescan).

CDN stands for Content Delivery Network. A website can host its downloadable content somewhere other than its own web host. Often much faster.

Thanks, Zo! In my case, the file path is: E:\Studio One\Presets\IK Multimedia\SampleTron 2 My 2TB Thunderbolt 3 "D" drive is for samples. My 2TB USB3.2 "E" drive is for work files and my 2TB USB3.2 "F" drive is for backups. I keep my 1TB internal "C" drive as clean as possible. I can't recall what folder Studio One created on my "C" for project files when I initially installed it. The "Presets" folder contained just the "PreSonus" subfolder. I had to create "IK Multimedia\SampleTron 2". All good! Thanks again.

Beat me to it. The Xfer dev never puts Serum on sale, yet it's widely loved and used, and has a lot of third-party preset support. I've had Cthulhu for years, and don't remember him ever putting that on sale, either. The American marketing sales culture of over-pricing "list/MSRP", and then putting the item "on sale" at a profitable price drove me nuts. That's one reason (and not the only one) that I loved Subarus. The price was the price. Over Christmas, you could select one of five charities to receive $250 in their "Share The Love" event. And they do do some 0% financing deals at the end of the model year for a line that will have an updated platform the next model year (like they did for 2013 Foresters before the 2014 Forester was released (I loved my 2014, by the way)). With Soundpaint, you decide if the instrument as it is priced is worth it to you, and purchase if it is, without a single worry that it will go on sale at some point later. I'm OK with that approach. 8dio on the other hand... And then there's the perpetual sale. I was managing a project in Honolulu that required 14 trips to the island over an 18 month period. I'd fly in on Sunday and back to Chicago on Friday. I always stayed at the same hotel. There was a small jewelry store in the lobby that had a "50% Off" sales sign that was so old, it was falling apart. Made me laugh. But its condition wasn't enough to stop one guy I met at the pool from bragging that he'd bought his wife a gift at that shop that he "saved" 50% on. I didn't have the heart or mean-spiritedness to clue him in.

This is the keyboard bass that Ray Manzarek used. It's really well done.

That's where Soundtoys EchoBoy comes in (the Binsonette Echo Style; modeled after the Echo-Rec and Echo-Rec II units they own)!

A pretty good effort for v1.0.0. No update yet. I hope they follow the same development path I used when coding decades ago: first, get it to work, then improve it. If I spent too much time on the original release trying to make it perfect, I never got it out the door into the real world.

^^^ What Nigel says! And dudes and dudettes, if you haven't checked out his music writing skills yet, follow the YouTube link in his sig, you will be happy you did. Excellent music AND videos. And a shoutout to Nigel for sending the Regeneration CD to my niece here in France so I'd have it when I arrived after moving here from the States. All of my CDs (the 25% that I kept and shipped to France) are on a ship heading to Rotterdam, so Regeneration is the only CD I have at the moment!

Agreed...as long as you stick with vendors who permit authorizing to a machine. Slate, for example, does NOT. They require either the dongle (which never worked reliably for me on any of three different machines) or the new Cloud destination (worse than a dongle, IMO). All of my early Slate purchases are just collecting dust. They never once responded to my questions asking them why they didn't permit authorizing to a machine. Bunch of buttwipes. I go all the way back to iLok Centronics parallel port dongles, with each dongle limited to a single software title. You supposedly could stack them, but only the dongle physically connected to the port worked at all; the second one in the chain never did. Same reason why I would never consider Cubase, which requires a physical dongle, last time I checked.

If you have Analog Lab 4 or 5, there are two Floyd sound banks available: Floyd Tribute ($8) and Floyd Tribute II ($10). 20+ presets in each, recreating various synth parts from a bunch of different songs.

That's the one PF tour I was lucky enough to see. Saw it outdoors at the old County Stadium in Milwaukee. Very trippy. Great windowpane. Drove my '61 six window De Ville to the show with 4 mates. No memory of the drive back to Madison, but I'm still here, so I guess I made it back OK. 😋

Thanks for sharing, bit! Been a Rush fan since seeing them at B'ginnings in Schaumburg, IL over the '74-'75 New Year's holiday when they toured Fly By Night (just after Neal joined). Love this! I was a drum major in a D&B corp after my Army duty. We marched in parades with the Kilties and the Chrome Domes (and sometimes the Dumb and Bungle Corp; from Duluth IIRC), but we were the filler; they were the main attractions.

I have this as part of Acoustica Premium, which I bought to replace SpectraLayers. Pricey, but there may be a BF sale. Highly recommended! Acoustica Audio Editor FWIW, here's what's included with Premium. [The only major plug-ins NOT included with Premium are DeVerberate 3 and DeFilter 1.] Mastering Suite consisting of Equalize 2, Dynamics, Multiband Dynamics, Limit and Dither. Verberate 2, our renowned natural sounding reverb plug-in Restoration Suite 2 with four plug-ins for audio restoration: DeNoise 2, DeHum 2, DeClick 2 and DeClip 2. Extract:Dialogue automatically reduces background noise in dialogue recordings DeWind:Dialogue automatically reduces wind noise from dialogue DeRustle:Dialogue automatically reduces clothing rustle and microphone bump noise from lavalier recordings DeBuzz:Dialogue automatically reduces buzz and hum noises such as neon light buzz, AC power hum, RF transmission interference from dialogue recordings Transfer, an AAX plug-in that makes audio transfers between Pro Tools and Acoustica a breeze.

EZBass updated to v1.1.1. BUG FIXES General Loading and playing a project containing CC curves could cause EZbass to hang. In some versions of Pro Tools 11 and 12, trying to insert the plug-in would result in AAE error -14018. The detach buttons on the tabs were visible at startup until the mouse was moved. Sound Engine The sub-bass has been restored to the intended volume – it was 11 dB too low in version 1.1.0. Slides could get unexpectedly canceled when using certain combinations of Lowest Playable Note and semitone/octave tuning. Song Track Removing a song track that is not the current one and entering the grid editor caused a crash. Dropping files with multiple tempos/time signatures would only insert the first one. Grid Editor Muting notes in slides did not mute the slides. SD3 updated to v3.2.6 Known issue Dragging a velocity node selects and drags all nodes for the instrument. Workaround: Use the velocity slider to the left, or drag the node while holding Shift (or Ctrl on Windows or Cmd on Mac). CHANGES General Added support for pinch zooming with trackpad on Mac – on the song track, in the grid editor and in the tracker. Grid Editor When a different song block is selected on the track, the note selection now changes to become all notes in the rows/instruments that are selected (like it worked in version 3.2.4). If the grid editor is visible, selecting a song block will move the playhead to the beginning of the block and scroll the grid editor (like it worked in 3.2.4). Grooves Tab Third-party MIDI located in the Toontrack MIDI folder is yet again shown and formatted in the browser like Toontrack MIDI (reverts a change in 3.2.5). BUG FIXES General In some versions of Pro Tools 11 and 12, trying to insert the plug-in would result in AAE error -14018. The AU should no longer crash when added in REAPER with one track per bus. Scrolling using trackpads and similar on Mac has been adjusted in many views so that it is as fast as in the OS (standard applications). CC values were exported and played back with too large delta (in version 3.2.5 only). It’s now even lower than before so that hi-hat splashes sound better. Song Track Deleting a song track no longer causes a crash. Dragging a MIDI block into a hole between two blocks on the song track did not shorten the dragged block to fit the hole. Dropping files with multiple tempos/time signatures did not work properly. “Select Containing Folder in Grooves” is no longer disabled for song blocks that are created by dragging from the Song Creator. Grid Editor Changing libraries with the CC editor being open in the grid editor would cause a crash. Some notes that should not have been shown were visible at the end of a block and were silent. With the pencil tool active, moving the mouse in the grid editor would show and move a horizontal line in the velocity editor instead of a vertical line. Drums Tab Removing an instrument could in some cases lead to a crash. Changing a part of a stacked instrument was incorrectly handled in some cases and a message that the library was damaged could appear. Loading a rack tom on the “Hightom” position in Gospel EZX did not use the graphics of the loaded rack tom. Mixer Tab Several crashes involving enabling, moving and adding effects have been fixed. Changing libraries with an EQ window open would cause a crash. Changing Q for a node in the EQ window using mouse wheel with “natural scroll direction” was inverted. E-Drums The ride and some other instrument mappings were broken in presets TD-20, TD-27, TD-30, TD-50 and DTX-PRO (in version 3.2.5 only). Improved cymbal choke support in some Medeli presets. Improved support for AUX triggers (Roland/Yamaha/Alesis). Added Alesis Surge preset. Added Yamaha DTX Series preset. Some renaming of Yamaha presets to better represent their purpose. Standalone On Apple silicon Macs, the standalone would always start in Rosetta mode.

I got so tired of WUP and the constant version changes and all of the Waves shells that go with them that I gave up on Waves and the dozens of their plugins I had licenses for, and did not install them on my new DAW. Being Waves-free isn't quite as good as being ex-wife-free (I moved to France), but it's close.

It's early here in France. First thing I listened to this morning. You now have 50% more subscribers. I took you from 2 to 3! Those numbers deserve to have many zeros after them. Impressive!