John Maar

Not posted yet on the AAS website. I'll wait.

Does it do anything for the bloody awful update installation times? The Arturia Software Center has the same problem with installation times. Sheesh.

If anyone is interested, I saved all of those steps to a Word .docx file and attached it for your convenience. How to fix long load time for Kontakt.docx

I'm on the latest version of Win11 Pro. Both the MS GS MIDI Synth and all four channels of Virtual MIDISynth show up in Gig Performer, Reaper and Band in a Box. Studio One Pro doesn't seem to have a MIDI player option, so neither show up there. But, VirtualMIDISynth runs great under Win11.

I had a Camtasia license back for v1 and v2 (late '90s). It got expensive even back then. I sat on v2 for a long time, until more proficient video editors came along. No going back for me, not even for a buck 21.

Same here. 50 € max for me.

There are 3 versions available: 1) VST/VST3, 2) full Kontakt 5, and 3) Decent Sampler. If you aren't aware of the free Decent Sampler, you should be. Check it out at: Decent Sampler (free)

This is a free plugin if you select $0, which I did. After giving my email address (presumably for marketing offers for their paid libraries (not mentioned, but should have been)), I was taken directly to the download page. No interaction with Gumroad required. People making a non-zero donation likely will have to deal with Gumroad. In situations like this, I prefer to test the instrument or library first. If I like it and find it useful in my work, I go back and make a donation. I think of it as the "shareware" approach.

1967. 4 piece H.S. cover band. $125/gig. $25 to each of the 4 members, and $25 to common gear like mics and stands and cables and PA. I bought a used late '64 black face Fender Bassman, a used '63 Fender Jazz and a used Farfisa Mini with my gig money, gas station and Burger Chef jobs. The wonderful life of a wanna be musician. That $25 wouldn't buy doodly squat now. Now, it's all about EXPOSURE!

SPlat. The sound heard 'round the world. SPlat went splat all of about 6 months after I bought a lifetime license. I forgot to read the fine print: "Lifetime of a mayfly*." * Mayfly lifespan: 24 hours, the shortest of any insect in the world.

I pay 69 € per year. I chose to do that instead of buying permanent licenses, because: 1) they're expensive, 2) updates to new major versions are NOT included and 3) I use the included Android versions occasionally.

Please pay us to have the opportunity to give us the password you use all the time. We promise to use it only to drain your bank account. Merci d'avance, sucker!

There's now a v7 of Guitar Rig? I have v5 and v6. Nary a peep from NI to me re v7. Guess I'll have to do the legwork myself.

Big fan of Spooky Tooth! RIP, Gary.

Jimmy Buffett concerts were events. I've attended hundreds of concerts, but Jimmy's vibe was different from the rest. We had a special way of starting a Buffett concert off. We'd start a week or two before the show, driving around the neighborhood, looking for an old sofa out on the curb. We'd put it in the bed of my friend's truck, along with a couple of coolers and a baggie or three, and get to the show way early. Stuck a Buffett tape in the player and started the party. When the concert was over, we'd push the old couch out into the parking lot and leave it there. 🤣 I visited the Margaritaville grill in St. Bart's once, the one where he liked to drop in from time to time and grill burgers for customers, but didn't see him. That would have been fun.

Aha. I knew there had to be a limit somewhere. Glad you finally got the full download. And make sure you d/l the manual at: Download - English version

It does sound like the problem is with your ISP. Your broadband connection may be good, but there may be constraints imposed by your specific account.

Same here. And he's still working on it! v2.4.3 is the last stable release, and it's been around for awhile. But...you can d/l the current beta v2.5.4, released a little over a month ago. Here's a page the describes the new features in beta v2.5.3. It includes an interesting discussion of the problems he's had/having with the AAX Pro Stools version. Youlean Loudness Meter beta v2.5.3 changes and new features

I've only got 3: 2x2TB T7 a 1x2TB X5 Thunderbolt 3 SSD for my sample drive. 👍 EDIT: Downloading. Good thing I speak German (I wish my French was as good), since the User Manual is in German. EDIT 2: I just noticed that there's also an English User Manual link at the bottom of the page. One more nice detail from the dev!

I have that...and forgot all about it.

Hi Max. I'm just an amateur home studio enthusiast, not a gigging musician. I bought a license to play with. I had hoped to be able to route audio from Gig Performer to Studio One, but forgot one thing. On Windows, I would need a multiclient ASIO driver for that, and the driver for my PreSonus 1810c is single client. So, that failed. I was hoping to eliminate the Voicemeeter "middleware". Oh, well. And another odd thing. I have a 4K display on my laptop, scaled to 200%. The plugin UI in Gig Performer scales, but in Studio One, it doesn't, making it impossible to see and work with. Sigh. So, for me personally, it's still in the toy/test phase. Gig Performer users on Macs are having good success with it in live situations. I know that multiple instances of it can be used within a single VST host, but I haven't figured out a test case for that yet.

The current v1.12 installers told me that I had a version of v1.12 installed already. I did, but the file dates on this version are newer, and the file sizes are different. I'm guessing that the couple of minor fixes in the current update didn't get their own version number. So, even if you have v1.12 installed, get the new installers. Blue Cat Connector has been great for sending audio and MIDI between multiple instances of Gig Performer, and between Gig Performer and Reaper, with no noticeable latency. Blue Cat Connector A couple of examples. I suspect that many of you will recognize the voice in the first video. This includes an example of sending audio from Cubase to Cakewalk on the same computer.

I live alone, and went from an 1800 sq. ft. townhouse in the U.S. to a 550 sq. ft. apartment in France. I donated all of my DVDs and Blu-rays and 75% of my CDs and all of my furniture to a local charity 2nd hand shop before I left. Because of tax laws in France, you can't find unfurnished apartments or houses to rent. Buy empty or rent furnished. I got to know my landlady and she kindly allowed to remove the furniture in the second bedroom (which just barely held a double bed and has no closet. The one CD rack I brought with me is in the 2nd bathroom, blocking the sink. I invested in 2 König & Meyer guitar stands and can now get 10 basses in the space where I had 3 tripod stands. I bought a small desk and a 17" laptop to replace the desktop that I left behind. I bought a couple of 6.5" Focal monitors to replace the large monitors I sold. I replaced the Rumble 200 I sold with a Rumble Studio 40. It all fits. Just barely. If you have one or more kids, then you need the second bedroom. If not, then a small studio is possible. I am slowing learning how to live in much less space. Good luck with your transition.

I haven't watched the videos yet (next up), but I'm laughing already. My first job out of college was two years ('78-'79) as Asst. Crew Chief on the Neutrino beam line at Fermilab (a particle accelerator physics research center). The Higgs boson was discovered in 2012 at CERN. Never thought it would become a musical joke. OK, off to YT to watch the two videos. From the CERN website: How did physicists know it was the Higgs? On 4 July 2012, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations announced the discovery of a new particle to a packed auditorium at CERN. This particle had no electrical charge, it was short-lived and it decayed in ways that the Higgs boson should, according to theory. To confirm if it really was the Higgs boson, physicists needed to check its “spin” – the Higgs boson is the only particle to have a spin of zero. By examining two and a half times more data, they concluded in March 2013 that, indeed, some kind of Higgs boson had been discovered. Discovering the Higgs boson was just the beginning. In the ten years since, physicists have examined how strongly it interacts with other particles, to see if this matches theoretical predictions. Interaction strength can be measured experimentally by looking at Higgs boson production and decay: the heavier a particle the more likely the Higgs boson is to decay into or be produced from it. Interaction with tau leptons was discovered in 2016 and interaction with top and bottom quarks in 2018. But there is much more still to learn about this elusive particle.