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  1. 4 hours ago, Promidi said:

    Subscription software....Miss a payment and you're in demo mode?  I think I'll pass....

    Actually, I saw the writing on the wall and licensed the whole CS6 Master Creative Suite Back when the subscription thing was  starting up, so I am good, if frozen at CS6.  One of my exes has an .edu email address so she can get the Student deal on Creative Cloud which isn't bad for what you get. 

    My $.02 is that in my case Photoshop is part of a larger ecosystem and workflow and The Gimp or PSP or whatever has no integration with Illustrator, InDesign,Premiere, After Effects,  DXC collection or Capture One. CorelDraw is actually a pretty good vector program but if you do graphic stuff seriously (like for money), the Adobe license is either just part of doing business or something your boss pays for. PSP was always the crappy little brother to CorelDraw IMO, but I've also had some Adobe License or the other since 98 or so and PSP never came close to Photoshop for functionality so I probably haven't touched an instance of it since ...around 1998.

    If you look at the subscription as a way of financing the inevitible upgrade license evey few years it actually isnt that big a difference.

    Hell, anymore, most people don't need any more of a photo editor than what ships with Instagram or Snapchat anyway.  Whoever owns the IP for Corel is just milking the old cow in the barn for as long as they can.

  2. I got to double dip on this sale. Cheap ***** that I am, I picked up  a used UAD-2 Solo card on Reverb with a nice little bundle of plugins for about $150 to stick my toe in the water.  The card had the basic bundle of analog FX included: Real-Verb, Precision Mix rack collection and the Legacy Plugins (Pultec EQs,  La2a, 1176 etc...). 

    Today I used Capitol Chambers on a vocal track in demo mode to see if it was "All that"...and yeah...it is.  I could tell immediately that it was something I would want to have available (although it pretty much needs to be run by itself on the solo card!).

    Remembering the sale is  going on - I opted for the Pick 3 bundle (which gets you 4 plug ins). and went with Ocean Way AND Capitol Chambers, the newer Neve Preamp and Manley VoxBox.  They gave me the sales price and there was another coupon code FINDYOURTREASURE that gave another $25.00 off. so the 4 new ones ran $374...and I just got an email with another $25.00 coupon....

    Sooner or later, Ill find a great deal on a Octa card...but I am satisfied I got a great deal on these UA plugins. 

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  3. Meh - Instruction sets for ARM vs. x86 are very similar , especially when compared to the old powerPC chips and current IBM Power. At least with ARM, byte order is the same, not the big-endian vs. little endian thing that went before.  I expect some specialty apps that rely on the very specific specialty  X86 or x64 instruction set (Like  the AES encryption offload) will require refactoring -and actually expect Apple will have both ARM and x86 systems systems on the market for a while.  

    A Hypervisor/VM on ARM to run X86 is not really a tenable solution as the processor still would not have the instruction set for the VM to access.

    But then again, Apple is about the worst for suddenly abandoning users. And so Cakewalk running on a Mac booting Windows will not be a possibility. For a DAW on a mac - Pro-tools or Logic or Garbage band will be the way to go. 

    One of the very large video shops I work with is Windows exclusively, in their case because the performance of Windows SMB just absolutely spanks Apples' version of the protocol for throughput performance - we're talking a factor of 5x or more faster

  4. Personally, not for years.  Couldn't even tell you what I am missing out on at this point.  Used it quite a lot in Nashville but one  place I worked with out there for a major project was a Sonar shop. The Studio owner seemed to really like it (or maybe was just defending not being a Pro-Tools house) and he convinced me to give it a whirl. When I started producing I went the PC/Sonar route and have been pretty happy with it... even major label releases can be done start to finish in good old Sonar X1 Producer (although I will confess I use GoldWave for quick .WAV edits) .  Given the quality and functionality CbB now offers, the only advantage I see in going to Pro-Tools would be easier interoperability with a larger ecosystem and a bigger pool of sound engineers who know the platform as it is what is being taught in the schools (at least locally), but I can export stems as needed and no one seems to have much of a problem with them, and I can import stems easily enough as well. 

    You might check out Mikes @Creative Sauce tutorials for a lot of good info in using CbB - I've used the software for a long time and still picked up a lot of tricks. 

    I know some guys bounce back and forth between a lot of different DAWs and, for some genres I guess it makes sense...but CbB hasn't had any feature gaps that have impacted my work, works perfectly fine with my setup (After a few afternoons of hair pulling frustration to get it set up initially with the outboard gear)  and, like video post production, I feel it it is WAY better to know one tool really in depth than know how to basically work with a bunch of them. 

    If you want a job at a studio, it really makes sense to know Pro-tools at a very proficient level. If you want to have a studio...I cannot see the advantage.  

    This, of course, may be based on an old world view as I left Nashville over 10 years ago... And on that note I have to share:

     

  5. I do this with the UA6176 - actually have it split into two sides (Preamp and compressor). Will work the same for you but you only need one mono channel. I don't view it as an "Internal" plug in" but as a signal chain that can be reswizzled as needed. 

    in my case with the VS-700 (Should work the same with any I/O device) I have VS-700 OUT 1-2 connected to the inputs of the 6176 - Left is the Pre-amp, Right is the compressor). Then I have the output of the 6176 going to inputs on the VS-700 (In my case 3-4 - Preamp on the left, compressor on the right)

    So, to use the compressor, I just set what ever channel I am working with to output to VS-700 Out 1-2 (Right) or I may elect to use it with a send - depends on whether I want the upstream FX included - often I do as I EQ before compression almost always.  I then set up a new track with VS-700 3-4 (Right) as the input and route it to the correct bus.  

    By the way - Setting Friendly names in the device settings makes this much easier to use in production - so all the I/O ports associated with the UA6176 have been relabeled with the friendly name UA6176  

     

     

     

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