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Alan Tubbs

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  1. Nobody I know likes the subscription model.  Yet the #1 DAW is sub based - Pro tools.  We might not like it but it is a fact.  I don’t like paying taxes or co pays either.

    i do think the roll out of of cakewalk sonar was … confusing.  It shouldn’t take so much effort to figure out what Cake is offering.  It is spread over various web pages and sites.  As far as I can tell Bandlab is mostly a social music site.  Cakewalk Sonar is a bonus for bandlab users that want to step up to pro output, but you have to keep paying.  Certainly not the straightest line.

    But it is also true that  cakewalk use to charge $500, a year, for the full version of Sonars and also loaded with the latest synth that cost hundreds too. So your $150 a year sounds kind of puny and a good deal (even with out Dimension Pro or Rapture).  I never heard as much squealing over Sonar’s pricing. 
     

    they are going to get your money one way or another.  It is natural to kick against the ***** but at some point you need to move forward.  My next choice would be Mixcraft since is a cheaper buy and works much the same as old Sonar.  But you know, you still have to pay for it, even if you buy it by paying off a credit card.

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  2. The Newton is a reasonably priced RND channel strip with an excellent pre.  The isa one is good and cheap, relatively for a standalone.   It isn’t as thick sounding as the wa76.  But I found that putting a nice transformer somewheres in-line can help get “that sound” without a +$500 pre.  But  again, you are going to be spending that much per a channel on a decent comp or eq, so ….

  3. I haven’t had a problem with original warm.  Or the tone beast.  Perhaps you can check against your standard interface pre?  If the Warm is the problem I would complain to them.  The are (were) very responsive and used to go out of their way to be helpful.  

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  4. Get at least a 2 inputs. A 2 x 4 config is really the minimum that allows the use of outboard, which is great and allows stereo work.

    I've liked a lot of tascam units they are solid. Roland worked reliably  too in my experience.  FYI, these days I use motu with a Neumann m48.   Great clean capture and replication.

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  5. I don’t know anything  about the daw bandlab s sounds.  The forum deals with CbB and the new Sonar.  And I don’t know where this question should be asked.  Does Bandlab the DAW have a help section?  I would ask there.

  6. The microtech gefell m930 is hopefully cheaper and a great mic.  the original Neumann factory was moved across the Elbe river to what would become east Germany because of the allied bombing.  Microtech still makes the m7 capsule,for example and their m930 is a best in class for about @$1000 for instruments and solid vox.  It sounds great on about everything.  
     

    The Austrian audio oc818 are akg guys who started a new company.  A good replacement unit and a little cheaper.

  7. It looks like things are getting clearer.  @  $150 a year or @15 per month for the nu sonar and all of Bandlab stuff.  Or continue to use CbB for free until ms changes something vital and fails to work.  Now all bandlab has to do is add a perpetual license to the options and leave nu sonar operable once the lease period ends.

    there are plenty of users willing to shell out $150 to $180 to keep Bandlab rolling for another year.

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  8. You have a delay between pressing a note and the sounding of your guitar against the rest of the recorded music?  That is latency caused by your soft synth’s processing.  The delay can be shortened but usually not eliminated . Read up on latency and work arounds.

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