Doug Rintoul

54 minutes ago, RobertWS said:

🎵Nooo....Caaaanada....

Guess Amazon finally figured out that Canada is really a mythical land.

Note that it is $25 AUD.

7 minutes ago, cclarry said:

Well, she was more of a man than he EVER was...so....

Ouch!

6 hours ago, marled said:

I know, I know ... ! How many times did I buy a plugin/instrument only because it was on sale!! 😆

The way I figure it, the money I save from buying something on sale can be rolled over to new purchases. I now have thousands of dollars banked up from Wave, and PA purchases alone, not to mention 8Dio and Rigid Audio.

51 minutes ago, RSMcGuitar said:

Personally, I don't really get the rounded corners thing... like, my screen is rectangular... 

The real question is: Will it mess up our audio?

Not to dredge up old memories, but didn't Apple try to sue someone over rounded corners? Hope Microsoft is not in trouble.

3 minutes ago, antler said:

I don't doubt that - just saying that previous Windows 10 version names have included Anniversary Update and Creator's Update; Windows 11 sounds arguably better than Windows 10, 21H2, or Windows 10, 22H1, etc depending on when it comes out.

I thought 21H2 rather catchy.

1 hour ago, cclarry said:

Just call it "Macows"...

 

Read that as Ma-cows, not Mac-ows. Visions of Farside dancing in my head.

1 hour ago, RSMcGuitar said:

All I know is, if the taskbar can't be left justified, I'll be upset.

What are they trying to fix by making it center aligned? More OS X like? 

15 minutes ago, Jim Roseberry said:

This is borderline silly...

Borderline?

4 minutes ago, Hugh Mann said:

^^That’s not bullying, lol. ^^ Be best.  Whatever.  I engendered I’ll will from some of you because I dared  to correct a false and exaggerated statement from someone you guys are a fan of. I don’t think that’s fair, especially since I’m correct.  but so be it.  Like I said,  it really reflects more on you guys than it does me.  Can we move on and stop making it personal now? Or do you need to vent your anger and abuse some more? 

No. Conversation is good. Interaction is good. It is fine if you express a different opinion or even point to independent studies that back up your point. However, it is the manner in which you went about it with statements like "Leaves intel and amd in the StoneAge", your whole mean girls thing, questioning my ability to search, questioning Jim's expertise, calling everyone a bully. Your whole attitude has been "me against the world" and it is not healthy. To paraphrase you, "if you can't see that, then  you have issues I can’t begin to address."

1 hour ago, Hugh Mann said:

What I said is not inaccurate.  Maybe not stated in a technical way.  But the point was that it uses the ssd as a sort of ram.  Isn’t that what a swap file is?  You can try to get me on a technicality if you want,  but the point is accurate.   He is saying that because the sad is slower than the ram, performance will suffer.  He assumes, since he hasn’t tested an 8gb one.  Now of course, it’s not a bad assumption.  It will be a performance hit, compared to internal ram.  But how much of one? As in real world difference?  One can assume, but until tested,  it’s all speculation.  He is making it seem like it will be a crippling hit.  That is not the case.  It’s a misleading statement.  Here is a video that explains it well.  Around 1:20 minutes in.   Maybe Doug can practice his google searching and look up other articles and videos that explain this better.  

 

You really need to let this go. You have engendered so much ill will that even if you are proved right in the end and are vindicated, it will be a hollow victory. No one is going to want to interact with you after you have belittle and insulted people right, left and center. And saying "well they did it first" is childish and will not improve your standing in the community.

Not in Canada. 😔

I bought this two days ago and I have already composed a potential Oscar winning soundtrack sure to take the world by storm.

Seriously, these are really good.

6 hours ago, InstrEd said:

Heck competition is great. Now Intel, AMD on the x86 hardware front have work to do and MS on the software end. Just think when Ryzen is on 5nm for laptop chips😊

Agree 100%. I am all for competition and the more the better because we will all benefit in the end. What I am not for is people asserting that their gluphorkan of choice is so much better than yours, you may as well go home and die because what you are using now is so obsolete.

What was that about a sale again?

1 hour ago, Jim Roseberry said:

5950x is the newest Vermeer version of Ryzen.

The 5xxx series is where AMD got their ultra low-latency performance together.

The 3950x and 3970x (previous gen Ryzen and Threadripper) are great at multi-threaded performance... but a bit weak at ultra low latency audio.

Until the 5xxx series, that was their Achilles Heel.

 

Running this test, the Intel i9-10900k is right about even with the 5950x.

The 5950x is a more complex machine to configure... if you want it to run close to dead-silent.

Also, if you disable four of the cores, the 5950x's performance at ultra low-latency is slightly faster.

I've read that if you disable four cores, you can overclock them higher and get even better single core performance because less heat is being generated.

13 minutes ago, Paul Young said:

You insulted Apple fanboyz.

Three topics you should never bring up at Thanksgiving dinners, politics, religion, and Apple verses PC.

9 minutes ago, Hugh Mann said:

If you can’t figure out how to search, you have issues I can’t begin to address.  Since you are so incapable, lol, here is a good one.  Or go to YouTube and put m1 Mac 8gb daw. I just found dozens. https://youtu.be/43pqKIEFhFM 

You are funny, I know how to search just fine thank you. I think maybe my Google is still broken, because using the search parameters you gave me, I found only three videos that actually addressed the 8gb issue, not the dozens you claim to have found. Two of the three videos I found concluded that you should go for 16 GB (even the one you linked to), even though 8GB will run okay for run of the mill projects. 

You must really like abuse to antagonize people the way you do.

On 6/8/2021 at 11:16 AM, Paul Young said:

Upgrade from Liquid Rhythm 1.4.5 to Liquid Music 1.7.0  - $99.

Bad marketing - should've been named 2.0,

I get a feeling they wont be around much longer. 

If you are going to get Liquid Music anyway, don't bother with Liquid Rhythm from JRR. The Liquid Music & Liquid Rhythm bundle is currently $99 on the WaveDNA site.

1 hour ago, Hugh Mann said:

I do not blame you for being skeptical.  It’s amazing and impressive results.  I didn’t document my results because I didn’t know that seven months later I’d be attacked,  lol. But there are many, many videos and reviews out there that confirm what I’ve been saying. Myself, I will get a 16 gb machine. Just for future proofing and I may want to get into video.  But I would have been more than fine with 8gb for all that I do or could foreseeably be wanting to do in the near future. 

Well, I am trying to find those many many videos and reviews you keep talking about. Maybe my Google is broken. The power/performance ratio is impressive, but from what I've read the M1 more on par with Intel/AMD and is actually worse when Rosetta is factored in. It certainly does not make Intel/AMD processors appear stone age. 

6 hours ago, Hugh Mann said:

Sorry, I no longer have an m1. Returned it. Waiting for the new versions. And I also don’t have that software.  I don’t remember the specifics of my testing, but I have kontakt and diva and a bunch of other plug ins. I purposely tested the ram by loading line 20 kontakt instances. Strings, horns, guitars, piano, vocals,battery,session drummer…all ran fine. This was on top of  over a hundred tracks. diva, and a bunch of other plug ins. Also threw a bunch of fx on each track.  Oh and it was 96khz,64 buffer. Uad interface. All silent and barely warm. I finally got it to crack when I also had a video editing program open and a few safari tabs.  It is an impressive machine. Leaves intel and amd in the Stone Age. 

Colour me skeptical, but I find it hard to believe you were able to do all this on an 8 GB M1. 20 Kontakt instances on top of over 100 tracks? Pictures or it didn't happen. When Fleer gets his M1, he will be able to confirm your findings. 

4 hours ago, Hugh Mann said:

Not if he’s making that claim. One instance of grandeur will not use 8gb of ram on an m1.  I think he’s assuming based on x86 architecture.  

Come on man! Jim posted a screen shot of his memory usage. It was definitely on a MAC. He even specified it was a M1 Mac Mini running OSX Big Sur v11.3. It did have 16 GB of memory, not 8. Jim didn't say that one instance of grandeur would use 8 GB of ram. But loading Grandeur with whatever else was running at the time, seemed to put it over 8 GB.

Now the M1 may be an impressive processor, especially considering it's  low power, but nothing I have seen so far indicates that it leaves Intel or AMD processors in the dust.

7 hours ago, sarine said:

Addiction Synth is the worst synth I've stupidly thrown money at, and a close competitor for the worst plugin overall. That was the first and last of Stagecraft for me.

Addiction has the dubious distinction of being my first buyers regret synth even though I only threw 10 bucks at it. If only I had listened to my dear ol' dad and invested that $10 in pork belly futures. I be rich, rich, rich today.

3 hours ago, cclarry said:

Code doens't work on the Forgotten voices either...

Too bad. I needed Terrie to complete my collection. $28 is still more that 50% off regular price but I think I will wait.

6 hours ago, Fwrend said:

Thanks Larry!  Got it for free as well and noticed these other Mirage instruments.  I had Terracotta and Phoenix for Kontakt which I assume is why they were only $5/ea.  Maybe I missed when they were offered free to those who owned the Kontakt versions?  No worries - I like FrozenPlain.

Mirage Libraries (VST/AU) Archives - FrozenPlain

They never were offered for free. I cross-graded Phoenix-Mirage when it was released, but had to pay $5/ea for the cross-grade. I didn't bother with Terracotta. I was actually surprised that Artic Strings-Mirage was free for Kontakt users. However I am not sure I like the Mirage interface over the Kontakt interface.

16 hours ago, Fleer said:

We’re pathetic. 

I have all four, but I want to buy them all again just to get in on the "no brainer good deal".