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  1. If that's true, grab it quick. Excels at uber-squashing. [EDIT] Just checked and it's $149. My guess is they were adjusting (read:raising) prices and mibby just caught them mid-edit.
  2. I've never tried the UAD endorsed above, but I've got a boatload of Hammond emulations to compare. And this one is the best of the bunch.
  3. Here's an obscure one. Well, I remember seeing it peoples' record collections back in the day, but I don't think I'd ever given it a listen until today. I pulled this up after watching an interview with Leland Sklar in which he included No Other by Gene Clark in his list of his five favorite albums he's played on. High praise, given that Lee has played on literally thousands of records that run the gamut from straight-up pop to serious jazz and jazz-rock fusion. Many were huge commercial successes but most are appreciated primarily by music nerds. No Other falls into the latter category. I can see why this album wasn't a hit - there is still no tidy category for it. It's not Country, but has Country influences. It's not exactly Eagles-style Country Rock, although it does feature Timothy B. Schmitt on vocals. It's not folk rock, but Clark's former Byrds bandmate Chris Hillman plays on it. Here's the Wikipedia entry, which links to the impressive pedigrees of all the musicians who contributed to this album. I call it Country Prog. Some great melodic and inventive guitar work (7 guitarists are credited), and of course listening to Sklar is a master class for bass players. Here's a link to the full album. It's all good.
  4. George gives me hope. He'll be 80 next week, still a one-of-a-kind talent and sharp as a tack. He relates detailed anecdotes beginning from when he started out on ukulele at the age of 7, remembering the names of every mentor and every great player he ever met, as well as the melodies of the first thing he heard each of them play.
  5. Pretty cool software, and free to boot! I presume you've already been in contact with those folks? I see that although the product is free, support is not. I read a bit of their user manual. It seems to reinforce my theory that the Speakerphone problem is due to the browser section of the UI not being an actual subwindow, but rather drawn directly onto the main UI graphic. You are effectively interacting with a single window, the whole plugin interface being one window. Consequently, there are no standard Windows shortcuts nor NVDA shortcuts that will let you set focus to that portion of the display. If my hypothesis is correct - and I am not certain it is - you may have to find another product. That'll be tough, since Speakerphone is unique as far as I know. Unless AudioEase can suggest an alternate method for loading presets. That's what I was thinking when I suggested track templates. If you load Speakerphone with a specific IR file into a track, then save the track as a track template, every time you insert that template into a project it will include the plugin and have that preset/IR preloaded. I do this with complex instruments such as Superior Drummer, so I know it works. However, I do not have 400 presets in Superior Drummer, only 3. At best, the track template workaround would only be practical if there were only a handful of Speakerphone presets that you use regularly. A crude workaround, granted. Another possible avenue might be a VST3 wrapper, a VST2 plugin the serves as a VST3 host. I found this one, from the people who make the Sequoia DAW: https://www.xlutop.com/buzz/zip/vst3shell_v1.3.1.zip That's a direct link to the plugin. Here's a link to the KVR page: https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=565924 Sorry, this post has been a long stream-of-consciousness speculation dump, but I'm shooting in the dark here, so to speak.
  6. Surely you're referring to the east and west coasts of Florida, no?
  7. Never heard of a VI doing that. Dropped notes, yes, but throwing in extras? That's a new one. Are you sure your MIDI file doesn't have duplicate events? Easiest way to check that is to create a new MIDI track and manually draw in a few notes via the PRV.
  8. I don't know why this custom keyboard layout hasn't caught on yet...
  9. Could the Narrator feature in Windows 11 address this? Or is it only capable of reading Windows screens?
  10. I am truly in awe of your ability to navigate the DAW this way. The elaborate mental constructs it must require has got to translate into almost supernatural compositional skills. I'll bet your kitchen is very well-organized, too. I'm sorry but I have no experience with Speakerphone and can offer no useful advice here. I assume those sample packs are listed in a scrolling tree list, which would make them discoverable via keypress in most Windows applications. However, plugin makers usually ignore Windows conventions and draw everything themselves using a library specifically made for plugin interfaces. If there is a way to work around the limitation outside the plugin, meaning via the Windows file system, that might be your best option.
  11. This has apparently been a problem for a couple years, but I just started noticing it about a week ago. When I'd do a warm boot (the normal shutdown/start procedure, not a restart) it would take two or more minutes before the task bar populated and the hourglass pointer went away. Not surprisingly, yelling at the screen had no effect whatsoever. Fortunately, even though Windows refused to do anything else during this time, Task Manager would still come up on command. That's where I found the culprit, a process called Microsoft Compatibility Appraiser. This is a process that kicks off with every boot, and every day at 3:00 AM and every hour after if your computer's running at that time of day. There are also two mysterious "custom triggers" that the Task Scheduler won't explain nor let you customize (trigger editor says "This type of trigger cannot be edited in this tool"). Although you're limited in how you can customize this scheduled task, you can disable it completely. When I did so, my computer went back to its expected behavior and now comes up very quickly. I'm always cautious when disabling Windows processes, lest there be unexpected consequences. According to Microsoft, this one "sends data to Microsoft on a regular basis in order to improve the system and improve the user experience." Whatever the frick that means. Sounds like spying. Most important, though, is that Microsoft says it's OK to kill it. So what does it actually do? Again, going back to Technet for answers, all they say about it is that it collects performance data that gets stuffed into a database over at Microsoft. It also checks for Windows 11 compatibility. Not something you need for music production, nor anything else. It's supposedly a "voluntary" opt-in program, although it's enabled by default and you have to opt out. If you're not familiar with the Windows Task Scheduler, just google "Microsoft Compatibility Appraiser". The vast majority of results are instructions on how to kill it.
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