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I like your thinking @aidan o driscoll... That might be all I need to push me over the edge. Thanks for emailing them and fingers crossed they make it happen!

Yeah Christian, it's a doozy alright! Sorry to be responsible for lightening your wallet It goes back to a discussion I had with Mesh...he bought the Freqout (and Larry had also given it a glowing report before). I have a Les Paul with a Fernandez Sustainer pickup on it which can do some similar things to the Freqout pedal but of course it's only on one guitar whereas the Freqout can be used on any guitar (or other instrument/voice). Then I wondered whether there was a VST effect that could so something similar and at the time I drew a blank looking for one. Next thing I see Blue Cat has brought out AcouFiend! Job's a goodun! 👍

I tried the Mercuriall Euphoria demo Mesh and feel the same as you about it. I decided to get that AcouFiend plugin as an alternative to the Freqout pedal (although may also get that in the long run

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Nembrini - free until April 5th https://apps.apple.com/us/developer/nembrini-audio/id1493296895#see-all/i-phonei-pad-apps Analog Rack Guitar Equalizer Analog Rack Tremolo Analog Rack Phaser Analog Rack Flanger PSA1000 JR The following list is pretty good and includes some of the best freebies (e.g. Minimoog Model D, Korg iKaossilator) and sales ( e.g. NanoStudio 2, Samplr and Patterning 2)... https://appsliced.co/apps?sort=latest&l=nav&cat[]=6011 Wotja Pro 20 Generative Music is also on sale at 7.99 https://www.iosnoops.com/appinfo/wotja-pro-20-generative-music-for-iphone-and-ipad/1476932451 Wotja is also available on other formats (e.g. Windows and macOS) are also on sale. See their web page --> https://intermorphic.com/wotja/ Also, Affinity products (Photo, Publisher and Designer) are all half price on all platforms at the moment. https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/

I have been playing with it some more today in Studio One and the workflow is pretty smooth and fast. I might still be tempted before the 15 days are over

Seems an odd strategy doesn't it? Especially in the current climate with seemingly everyone offering sale prices or freebies on their products.

That seems to be the case Simon. It's 99 euro or 79 euro for the first 15 days with the special coupon code in Matthew's post ( ORBREWARD ).

Great video! Gotta demo this one.

Thanks Matthew. One thing it has convinced me to do is spend more time using Cubase. I really like it but feel like a newb whenever I use it.

I have now briefly tested it in Studio One Pro, Cubase 10 and Reaper 6 and they all seem to work more reliably than CbB, especially where selecting things in one part is supposed to be sync'd to the other parts. The shared top part of the interface seems to be easiest to work with in Studio One where each part appears on a tab of the same window although I'm not as familiar with Cubase and Reaper as I am CbB and S1 so I might be doing them a disservice. I also tried it with Amadeus in Kontakt using Cubase (Chords - piano, Melody - Trumpet, Bass - Double Bass, Arp - Harp) and got some nice results but as you say the lack of velocity variance and articulation switching can make the sections sound a bit robotic. I liked the idea of themes and got some nice variations using them. I would like a bit more in-depth manual to be able to get the most out of it and understand what all of the various options do. Do you think owning one of their previous products made it easier to use Orb Producer or does it work quite differently? If I were to buy it I think I would probably use it mostly to generate initial ideas and then drag out the MIDI to refine by hand also adding articulations and other expression variations. I didn't notice any timing issues in Cubase but I probably had it set up differently to you due to my lack of in-depth knowledge of Cubase. For me I think the jury is still out.

FWIW I just tried it in Studio One Pro 4, Cubase Pro 10 and Reaper 6 and the DAW sync remained reliably selected on all 4 plugins. Seemed to work fine apart from the crash scenario mentioned above which is easy to avoid.

Boy this is frustrating! Trying to get these 4 plugins to play at the same time is a PITA! When I click on "DAW" for one plugin it de-selects DAW on one of the others. The actual generative part does look promising but flaky usability means that I am giving up on this for now.

That must be 6 free preset packs now! Just got to get around to using them.

Looks pretty nice for free, thanks! Here's a list of what you get... You get standalone, VST, VST3 and AAX plugins. When you run it for the first time it downloads all of the included modules.

Reason 11.2.1 Release Notes Fixed a bug where “Create…” menu items were unavailable Fixed some cases where a Player would not auto-create an instrument Fixes to the VST crash protection on Windows for increased plugin compatibility Fixed a bug where the latest Authorizer would not be installed when updating Reason on Windows Fixed a bug where joining cross faded clips would render parts of the audio with insert effects Fixed a bug where device images in the browser could become corrupt with many plugins installed Fixed a bug where browsing patches could temporarily remove browse focus in Reason Rack Plugin Fixed a bug where Reason Rack Plugin could play 64 samples too early Fixed a bug where the Wash algorithm in Audiomatic could self-oscillate indefinitely Fixed a bug where the delay length of DDL-1 was not updated on sample rate changes Improved auto-routing when replacing MIDI Out Device with an instrument Improved error messages for file handling exceptions Added MP3 export https://www.reasonstudios.com/en/reason/updates/release-notes You will get an alert at the top of the screen when you run Reason and can download it from there.

I installed the demo and I have to say that I like the results I'm getting. Initially I was only getting Arp and Chords playing but I went into Bass and Melody plugins and set them to DAW mode and they then played. I just put in a random MIDI event at bar 16 on a muted MIDI track in CbB so that it would playback the Orb instruments. I quite like the UI and how things are laid out in each plugin and the randomisation and Orb options seemed to produce musical results quite easily. Unfortunately I did get a crash when I tried to delete the last "Theme". I can only assume that there always has to be one "Theme" but the error handling should ideally detect and prevent attempts to remove the last one rather than crash... Not a showstopper as I know how to avoid it but reading over on the KVR forums it seems users of the previous ORB products were frustrated by the lack of updates and bug fixes so it makes me wonder if they will be better at updating this new suite. Well I guess I have 15 days to demo it and make a purchase decision.

Thanks Matthew. I'm downloading the demo! I avoided Captain Chords after they added the unnecessary (IMHO) Captain Beat and then charged more for the bundle. I have been using ChordPotion to good effect and was considering getting Sundog Song Studio to go with it but I will certainly give this a shot. I also have RapidComposer which looks impressive but also a bit daunting so I'm hoping the new version will improve usability (the UI isn't the friendliest I have come across).

Thanks Matthew. I had avoided the previous versions based on your comments so will definitely try the demo for this. Will also be interested in your views after you have tried the plugin version.

Glad you got it Larry - I have updated my post with the location of the 20% off code for anyone else who wants it.

Thanks @Mesh It's also on Overloud's website for 69 Euros inc VAT but then I checked my Overloud account as I already have the GEM EQ 550 (a freebie) and there is a 20% off coupon there making it 46.40 Euros inc VAT. May be even cheaper for folk that don't pay VAT. The 20% off code is in your account under "serial numbers" where your other GEM EQ is located.

Yup it certainly looks like it Fleer! I am guessing that if I cave and do the cheap upgrade to full Reason then at some point in the (near?) future there will also be a cheap upgrade from full to Suite?

Thanks. Despite Reason Studios emailing me the offers when I look a these links it says "Not available for this account"! I am still on Intro so presumably I need to be on the full version or Suite to use these? I was going to upgrade to the full version until I found it wouldn't let me use the rewards that I have. So I am spending the money elsewhere now. Come on Reason Studios! 🤔🤨

Here's a quick demo using the melody instrument of Session Guitarist - Electric Sunburst Deluxe to play the guitar part... https://soundclick.com/r/s8c915 (It's the opening of a Porcupine Tree song I'm learning to play).