Doug Rintoul

50 minutes ago, paulo said:

It's been more or less that price for years. The "discount" isn't real.

Gotcha. So no hurry then if I do decide go for it.  @Reid Rosefelt, so you weren't serious when you said it might never come back? Kind of like, "I wonder  if Waves is running a sale right now?" 

1 minute ago, paulo said:

Exactly.😁

Can you elaborate? All the reviews I have read seem to be very positive about these VIs. They are older, but older does not necessarily mean dated.

2 hours ago, paulo said:

The best thing about this "deal" is that it proves that I'm not as stupid as they think I am.

😀

 

How do you mean? So not a deal?

Two of those guitars sure look electric to me 😝.

With just over 6 days to go and the number at 1116, we need an average of 64 per day joining the group buy. The average since the beginning has been about 139 per day. I think we just might make it 😁.

3 hours ago, Fleer said:

Just heard from a cousin in Vancouver 😎

I live just outside of Vancouver in Abbotsford. We don't have the luxury of living near the ocean. It was 43 C or 109.4 F to those of you who live south of the border. Tomorrow it is supposed to be a balmy 33 C or 91 F. I can hardly wait.

41 minutes ago, Christian Jones said:

Still, I don't think we're gonna make it, Chris.. hold me 😢 

And if we don't make it and I don't get what I want.. then avenge me! 

Pessimist.

5 hours ago, abacab said:

The Intel CPU must also be at least 8th gen. The i5-7200U won't pass the test. MS has announced that 6th and 7th gen is not supported for Win 11.

So what is it in the 8th gen CPU that the previous gens do not have?

5 hours ago, Paul Young said:

My first SSD drive fail was Intel.   At least with Intel they send you a replacement and you send the defective item back. 

Is the M1MacBookAir's SSD replaceable?

58 minutes ago, antler said:

S.M.A.R.T. is something that's built into the disks themselves. I suspect the app you mentioned reads and displays that data.

For Windows users, try CrystalDiskInfo

https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskinfo/

Seagate tools is a great as well, and not just for Seagate drives.

4 hours ago, Paul Young said:

Welcome to the modern age of synth  programming called sound design  and not to be confused with music design.

Not so sure this is necessarily a "modern age" phenomena. Some early electronic "music" sounded pretty horrendous too. Of course, you could consider that modern age as well I guess. Sort of reminds me of the folk purists who squawked at Dylan when he brought electric guitars to the Newport Folk Festival in 1965. Or my parents commenting "You call that music?" upon hearing what I was listening to.

Yes. Safe travels.  Hope all goes well in Kentucky.

7 minutes ago, Bapu said:

Make Ed Great Again?

Mixing Ed's Guitar Again?

 

I was thinking Edith.

This is another developer I would avoid. He released an effects plugin called Vybz in February that saw some traction.  However a show stopping bug  was found that the developer said he had fixed and would release a new version within the week but the version has yet to see the light of day. The developer has not been heard from since the end of March, except to run a bunch of bargain basement sales.

9 minutes ago, Hillmy said:

Well, I now officially have all their virtual instruments. 😛

Now I challenge you to used them all on one project.

They have some really good ones and some unique ones too. I still haven't got my head around knifonium to make a sound that doesn't sound like a cat horking up a hairball. Needless to say that was not what I was going for. And Byome and Triad are beasts. Nothing quite like them.

46 minutes ago, Hugh Mann said:

Like Ableton.  On my windows laptop (2016 dell Inspiron) and on my previous 2018 15inch MacBook Pro (with 16gb ram), Ableton would take a really long time to load.  Under Rosetta with the m1,  it opens  up right away.    I am looking forward to more software being m1 native, though.   That should translate into even better performance.  However, Rosetta works so well,  it seems many developers are dragging their feet a bit on porting to M1.  Some may never do it.  
 

 

Loading times are completely irrelevant to whether it is an M1 or Intel or AMD. It is an indication of the speed of the SSD. SSD speeds have come a long way since 2016 and even since 2018.

And this year's voucher is...drum roll please...MEGA-SALE-20OFF

10 minutes ago, abacab said:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1237446-REG/asus_tpm_m_r2_0_14_1_pin_tpm_module.html

Expected availability: 2-4 weeks

$11.99

Currently out of stock though. But Windows 11 won't be released in the next 2 to 4 weeks will it?

3 hours ago, cclarry said:

If we get a voucher this might be a good sale

Last year, they sent out a $20 voucher during the Mega sale. It was MEGA-SALE-20-OFF.

21 minutes ago, Olong Johnson said:

After reading this article (TPM-2.0-A-Brief-Introduction.pdf), I would also go with the chip rather than fTPM if I had to choose one over the other.

If you can find one. After the Windows 11 announcement, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a run on TPM modules.

1 hour ago, Olong Johnson said:

Interesting. I didn't even bother going into the BIOS after I read in the ASUS manual that the motherboard only had a TPM header.  I checked the BIOS afterwards and saw the setting you mentioned, but after reading the attached notification I'm leaving it disabled.

Correct. So if you use the firmware TPM, and upgrade your processor, make sure you unencrypt any encrypted drives before replacing it.

Also note that when you encrypt a drive using bitlocker you should store the recovery key in a location other than your computer for example, on a USB drive, or a physical printout. 

1 hour ago, Olong Johnson said:

I have no intention of updating to W11 but I was curious if my brand new state-of-the-art computer (ASUS TUF Gaming X570-Plus with AMD Ryzen 5600X) would pass muster. Since we're dealing with Microsoft here, I guessed not, and I was correct. My motherboard has a header for TPM, but no chip. It is purchased separately, and of course it is not in stock anywhere. And now that we all know TPM is a requirement for W11 it will be impossible to find at a reasonable price. Thanks Windows 11, and buh-bye! Don't let the door hit you on the way out. 👉

I also have an ASUS TUF X570-Plus. My processor is an 3700x. I just needed to turn on fTPM (firmware TPM as opposed to discrete TPM) in the bios to get TPM 2.0 support. I believe all Ryzen CPUs have TPM built in. 

That is pretty impressive for sure. One thing you might want to look at though is the difference between loading nine instances of the same instrument and loading nine different instruments. That is what a real world scenario would look like. There may be sample sharing between the Kontakt instances. I would also be interested to see how it performs with CPU heavy vsts such as anything from Acustica, Diversion with full unison, or Fathom. 

I could do with a Rumbo, right about now.

Rhomboid?