Doug Rintoul

7 hours ago, Tapsa Kuusniemi said:

No one is calling you anything.  We have differing opinions on the matter, I was just saying why I would not give any more money to Aria Sounds.

Yes, I know that you weren't calling me anything. I said that kind of jokingly😉.  I actually agree with some of your points which is why I suggested people like me contribute to companies like Aria Sounds resting on their laurels.

33 minutes ago, Tapsa Kuusniemi said:

I just feel that people should not be giving money to a developer so unresponsive on products that are not good nor complete.

From my perspective it depends. I am willing to pay for a product if it does what I need it to do and meets my expectations. To be perfectly honest, I can count on my one hand, the number of times I have contacted support for any product and received a satisfactory solution. So I guess I am more than a little jaded. I have received more support from community efforts like this forum than from any official company support. 

Now I guess you could say that people like me contribute to companies like Aria Sounds providing poor/non-existent support. Oh well. Call me a reprobate. if you want to. 

Here is a plugin that lists support for Windows XP 😁

Okay. I am back. Phew. Still okay with my card.

Just checked my updates and there was another seemingly larger cumulative update for 21H1. It is KB5004476. I have an Nvidia card. Maybe this update will screw up my machine.

Machine is restarting. Be back in five minutes, or maybe never depending on the outcome.

Being a glutton for punishment, I decided to try the update. Everything worked fine at this end. It didn't take that long to do the update either.

What graphics card do you have cclarry?

8 minutes ago, cclarry said:

Just curious, as this topic has grown cold...anyone get thier order?

I wanna say me but I'd be lyin' if I did.

1 hour ago, Paul Young said:

Studio One rejects bx_oberhausen.

Hmm. Works fine for me in Studio One 5.

21 hours ago, Tapsa Kuusniemi said:

And ah, it's, well, it's probably pretty obvious what I'm about to say as it is Aria Sounds.

Funny how each of us have our developers that we just can't stand and we post our negative opinions each time there is a deal highlighting the developer. I am just as guilty as the rest. For me it is StageCraft. I will never buy anything from them no matter how good their new releases might be. For many others, it is PA or Waves. 

I actually like the Aurora Choirs, especially the sopranos. I did buy it for what it was, knowing that if there was issues, I would not get much support. This thread from 2017 seems to indicate that Aria was more responsive back then to issues:

https://vi-control.net/community/threads/aurora-choirs-by-aria-sounds.63813/

2 minutes ago, Reid Rosefelt said:

Maybe that's true.  But does this work any better?

 

https://www.adobe.com/products/audition/offers/AdobeAuditionDLCSFX.html

Actually, yes. Thanks!

On 6/18/2021 at 6:59 AM, telecode 101 said:

i never had that problem. i dont buy to re-sell.

^^^This^^^

The only thing I have actually sold, was a license to Kontakt, only because I had upgraded my Komplete Select to Komplete 12. So no regrets there.

@Reid Rosefelt, do you have to be logged into your Adobe account or have a license to access the Adobe CC sound effects? The link from your video goes to a 404, for me.

1 hour ago, Peter - IK Multimedia said:

I'd rather they release Viva Piñata 3 before Windows 11.

Also late to the "looks like macOS" party but I'd rather they copy macOS's UNIX underpinnings than the visuals.  Just pick something better than FreeBSD, please and thank you.

FreeDOS maybe?

5 hours ago, cclarry said:

$251.16 with code GROUP

https://www.jrrshop.com/bitwig-studio

Upgrade from 8-track is $217.56. That is getting into the more doable range.

1 minute ago, antler said:

What? Did someone say Mac and cheese? 😜

I wanted to try that once, but I couldn't get my Mac in the microwave.

3 hours ago, Paul Young said:

$249 if you have 8 track.   They are like the Waves of DAWs with their WUP.

I agree with you on this one. I wanted to get into Bitwig because of Grid, but the price is just too steep for a year of support. I can justify never paying for WUP because Waves rarely updates their plugins and I don't feel compelled to pay for WUP (being on Windows). But while Bitwig does do meaningful upgrades frequently (I think), they are just too expensive for me over the long term.

4 minutes ago, jesse g said:

News from Windows Central

https://www.windowscentral.com/windows-11

In other words, no news at all.

4 hours ago, Grem said:

It's real, 

 

Or Memorex?

 

UD XL II

Pretty sure I have a tape plugin to handle that. 

4 hours ago, Olong Johnson said:

I received the same email this morning. The way it is worded, it sounds like some orders will not be fulfilled from the first shipment, but will be in a second shipment which is expected to arrive in the UK tomorrow. The second shipment may be delayed another week in customs, like the first shipment was.

Got the same email. Don't mind the delay, especially given the circumstances. Delayed gratification may be a factor here as well.

4 hours ago, Fleer said:

There’s free booze?

That was what I was told.

9 minutes ago, Paul Young said:

I think most of us in this thread are here for the drama kinda like Vi-control.

Or KVR.

Actually, I came for the free booze.

13 hours ago, Zo said:

by the way i heard windoWs 11 will be delivered by vaccine , no need to download anymore lol

Got mine already (I am in a closed test group). Side effect though is that I have this strange urge to donate the the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

55 minutes ago, Grem said:

Might want to ask your wife about this one!!

(You gave me another one!!)

 

Hugh, Based on my experience with my old Surface Pro 3 with only 8gb, I never doubted your claims about being amazed at what an 8gb mini could do.

It is just some of the claims you made were.. out there. Like AMD and Intel getting left in stone age. Suggesting Apple was doing something new with the page file system that made it possible for the m1 to do what others can't (beat the laws of physics?!!).

I will even go so far as to say that if those comment were your attempts at humor, I didn't get it. And I extend my hand in friendship.  No hard feelings.

But to go out and get a M1 Mini to post test scores and prove a point (because that's what it looks like), borders on petty, and can be construed as vindictive. 

The one or two people that are thinking about getting a Mini, has their mind made up already. I bet they go with 16gb after reading this thread.

I am with Grem on this too. The content was fine. It was the presentation that was off putting. Had you posted links to reliable, reputable  reviews and evaluations rather than make us go hunting and sifting through dozens of YouTube videos to find those golden nuggets, you might have been taken more seriously. I had done that before you posted your comment on my search abilities and did not find the overwhelming evidence you were seeing. True, my search parameters were actually M1 verses AMD/Intel performance because of your assertion that AMD/Intel were in the stone age, or if not the stone age, then two or three years behind. To be honest, I was never really that interested in the 8GB/16GB question. I would never buy an 8 GB machine, period. My search told me that the M1 was a great processor especially in the power/performance ratio. But it also showed me that there was a lot of hype and controversy and I just was not ready to swallow the blue pill of the red pill yet.

BTW, tacking lol onto something does not automatically turn something into a joke, especially if you have pissed people off already. Also being able to joke about someone  especially in this community requires that you have already established a relationship with them, and so you know they are not going to take you seriously.

14 hours ago, RBH said:

I wish they would steer the Gui back to using text instead of Icons.

Bring back a full command line based OS. Forget this GUI BS.

1 hour ago, projectm said:

Pretty sure to reduce long mouse travels when you open the start menu on a 49” widescreen monitor 😉

The mouse travels further on a bigger screen? Why didn't I think of that.