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    Studio One 5.2 announced

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    Saw this on Reddit about it:

    Editing note events in the Piano View is faster and easier than ever in Studio One 5.2. When editing Note events inside the Piano View, the Arrow Tool turns into a real “Smart Tool” at higher zoom levels—without ever having to switch tools!

    In addition to selecting, moving and resizing note events using the Arrow Tool, the following additional functions can now be changed all with the same useful tool:

    Note velocity

    Mute/unmute event

    Split note event

    Split note event and part

    Glue adjacent notes

    New in Studio One 5.2, the Arranger Track lets you try arrangements on the fly before committing to a new playback order. The updated Arranger Track Inspector lets you quickly jump to different sections of your song from a quick view list. Simply double-click an Arranger Section while another section is playing and Studio One will seamlessly transition from one section to another—without skipping a beat! Also new to 5.2: you get even more robust live arrangement functionality with Arranger Tracks in the Show Page, in both Setlist view and Performance view!

    Live arranging is available both from the Arranger Track timeline and the Arranger Track Inspector. When combined with loop playback mode and “Loop follows selection” enabled, you have the ultimate remix experimentation environment. Best of all, Arranger Sections can even be controlled from any hardware controller or Studio One Remote.

    Use the new Patches View in Studio One 5.2 to see all the Patches for a given Player on an easy-to-read grid to quickly recall Patches for your virtual or real instruments, effectively turning Studio One into a powerful master (keyboard) controller. Or open the new Arranger View to see a grid of all available Arranger sections. Set each section to loop and Studio One turns into a powerful loop launcher!

    Studio One 5.2 adds the Arranger Track to the Show Page, letting you experiment on the fly while you're on stage or live streaming from your studio. For each Arranger section in every Setlist song have a choice of five playback modes: Continue, Stop at End, Skip, Loop, or Loop and Continue; the last of which lets you repeat any section for a specific number of times before playback continues to the next Arranger Section.

    New in Studio One 5.2, each setlist item can now be equipped with its own Arranger Track, letting you assign different Patches to the same Player for different sections of your song or turn your song into a dynamic and interactive loop performance!

    New in Studio One 5.2, Chord Track information can now be transferred from your Song to your Show so you’ll never miss the next chord again!

    New in Studio One 5.2, you can now use Studio One Remote 1.6 on your favorite mobile devices as a master controller for your live performance! Take the Performance View with you on stage to take charge of your Show. Best of all, multiple devices can connect to the same computer running Studio One so each player can control their own patches right from their mobile device

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    1BITDRAGON AudioProductionDeals Special "1BITDRAGON" lightweight music sequencer ($10) for Windows, macOS, and Linux until 5 March

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    Link to sale: https://itch.io/s/47112/audioproductiondeals-special?c=audioproductiondeals

    New exclusive. A newer sequencer designed for quick and easy work. You can find information about it here: https://1bitdragon.itch.io/1bitdragon

    https://youtu.be/k0zNYu043qU

    https://youtu.be/R5xKIEF01wg

    Disclosure: code is not an affiliate code. I am currently not affiliated with any companies.

    Icon iKeyboards

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    Be warned. Icon has a LOT of quality control issues with their iKeyboard line. I really really wanted to like them. Small form, 88 key, semi-weighted board? I had the perfect place for it. Attractive metal case? Sadly, the keys have issues, the hardware on the board itself has issues and the software has issues as well. They really could have knocked it out of the park with the line but instead, they cheapened out on a lot of important details.

    The Harrison MPC $1500 Plugin - Worth It?

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    So I get what he's saying with this video. It's less about being better than everything else and more about getting the sound of the old Harrison console itself which, I mean, I guess some people might want that? Maybe? Is it worth $1500? Not really. Alex is a well known person in this industry but you can tell he was choosing his words carefully with this and doesn't seem to be endorsing anything, just giving the by the book information which makes my eyebrows go up a little more when it comes to the plugin itself. I doubt he will implement this into his own workflow.

    Auddict Hexaract

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    Auddict has become an absolute joke. They used to be a really good sample company but then wanted to get into doing their own plugins and got in over their head. Hexeract is a mess they simply gave up on. Sadly looks like they are going to give PercX the same treatment.

    A Fine Example of IK Stupidity

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    15 minutes ago, Piotr said:

    I believe many reason of such terrible approach to customer raises from lack of proper and strong feedback.

    Oh, they are well aware and know, they simply don't care. We've been yelling at them for years about this stuff. They have a terrible reputation all over most internet communities but they continue to sell well because they focus mostly on marketing. The products themselves, some are okay but nothing that can't be replaced. On top of that, they are insulting. Nothing is ever their fault or the products fault, it's always something the user did and they deflect with "well no one else has this problem" rather than actually trying to help fix it. They are one of my very few blacklisted companies. 

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    (NOT A DEAL) Native Instruments announced the sale of the company to a technology investor

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    I've got my popcorn ready for this. What I am starting to expect will happen won't be unlike what happened with Magix when they bought Sony Creative Suite; we'll see a yearly update of Komplete with not much added. Possibly a subscription but there is so much competition out there and so many people who already own some version of Komplete now that it may not be worth the investment. This is especially true since many already have Kontakt which is what they will likely be banking on making their money back with. They will likely continue to push out shovelware libraries to throw into Komplete to keep giving people reasons to upgrade every year.

    I see development on Kontakt coming to a screeching halt. If NI themselves couldn't fix the disaster it's become, I can't see some new company coming in and doing it for them. Especially since it's an investment firm. Looking through their list of companies they've invested in, I can't see a single one that has actually benefitted from being bought out by them. Most have been cash grabs because they had large communities and customer bases already and they looked to capitalise on that before dropping the further development.

    Looks like it's time for a new company to become the industry standard.

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    Auddict PercX

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    Yah, this sale won't ever end. I'm just waiting for them to abandon it like they did with Hexeract... which is still at intro price 3 years later as well. lol

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    How to Make Your Libraries show up in the Library Section of Kontakt 6

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    Just now, Doug Rintoul said:

    I suspect it is those developers who have paid for the Kontakt Player license who get to have their libraries show up in the Library panel. The nicnt file format is proprietary and producing them is a bit of a grey area. The NI application for producing nicnt files is not available to mere mortals.  See this thread from 2015:

    https://www.native-instruments.com/forum/threads/creating-custom-nicnt-for-libraries-illegal.257097/

    Correct, and the cost to developers in order to license their libraries is not cheap. This is one of the reasons most libraries you buy that are compatible with Player also cost a lot more money. They pass that cost on to the customer.  I've noticed more than one free library lately with license keys and a few cheaper ones as well. Pretty crazy they eat the cost since I have an idea what the loss is there.

    Any chance for deep hardware integration?

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    On 12/26/2020 at 9:39 AM, Noel Borthwick said:

    It had nothing to do with Cakewalk not wanting to support it. Roland stopped supporting their hardware. If they still supported it we would have continued. We put a lot of effort into the VS700 and even extended our control surface SDK to do all sorts of editing stuff. This is all open source on Github if someone wants to utilize it for a different product.

    Yup, I'm aware and it's a damn shame that it went down the way it did because it was a really nice piece of hardware. I'd likely still be using it in some capacity if it didn't require 40 steps to get it somewhat working. I'm actually really surprised they didn't continue supporting it considering the work and money that must have gone into producing it.

    Any chance for deep hardware integration?

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    11 hours ago, Craig Anderton said:

    Cakewalk works with EUCON controllers, I wrote an article about it that Noel posted on his blog.  I haven't tested EUCON lately, I sold the Artist controller and bought a FaderPort 8 instead.  However I don't see any reason why it still won't work.

    It was a little squirrely to figure out at first - certain things have to be done in certain orders - but if you follow the steps in the article, it should work.

    As to Avid, I doubt they would have any interest in supporting Cakewalk.

    Thanks for that. Certainly gives me some more to consider. I would do a pretty extensive test with this before I jump but it's nice to know the option is available and it mostly works as intended.

    Any chance for deep hardware integration?

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    I was wondering what the chances would be that Bandlab would be willing to work with hardware manufacturers such as Avid to bring Cakewalk into their hardware ecosystem? I've been eyeing up an S4 EUCON Control Surface but sadly Cakewalk is not on the list of supported DAWs. This is sadly the case for most hardware integrations and has been for a long time. It would be nice if this could change because I feel the lack of deep hardware integration is one major drawback to using Cakewalk at this point.

    Any chance for deep hardware integration?

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    On 12/21/2020 at 5:16 PM, azslow3 said:

    Do I understand that right, the proposal is support $30k device?

    Roland has tried with $5k device... that was epic fail 🙄

    But Cakewalk was supporting some EUCON, so can happened.

    Correct. There's no reason it shouldn't be unless AVID doesn't care enough to do the leg work on their part but that would be a discussion between Bandlab and them to come to that decision. I doubt it would ever happen if there was no discussion though.

    The Roland console was fantastic. I had one. I really liked it when it worked. The crumbling relationship between Cakewalk and Roland though didn't help with keeping it supported though. With AVID, if it meant the possibility of selling their consoles to another market, they may just be willing to put the work in.

    Any chance for deep hardware integration?

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    I was wondering what the chances would be that Bandlab would be willing to work with hardware manufacturers such as Avid to bring Cakewalk into their hardware ecosystem? I've been eyeing up an S4 EUCON Control Surface but sadly Cakewalk is not on the list of supported DAWs. This is sadly the case for most hardware integrations and has been for a long time. It would be nice if this could change because I feel the lack of deep hardware integration is one major drawback to using Cakewalk at this point.

    Babylonwaves "Art Conductor 6 for Cakewalk" Articulation Maps - Intro Price (€68.80)

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    3 hours ago, Matthew Sorrels said:

    I've sent them an email.  The day I'm having I'm sure they will tell me I'm wrong or something.

    Let us know what you find out. I have them for Cubase and was about to buy the ones for Cakewalk but I think I'll wait. The whole articulation mapping in Cakewalk is pretty new so I assume there will be some things that need to be fixed with it. I've not even updated to it yet.

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