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Nick Blanc

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  1. Not new, it's a 'polisher' for the master, 3 years old.
  2. Yep it worked. And where you can redeem your licenses I found a license key for United Plugins (which is basically Melda as far as I can tell) for FireMaster.
  3. As I read somewhere on the internets (source, trust me bro), the bad rep Soundspot gets is weird. According to this source Soundspot is under the same corporate umbrella as Baby Audio. As a matter of fact, Denise Audio, Baby Audio and Soundspot are the same developer, same DSP, same team etc. I can definitely see some resemblance between Baby and Denise. But can you say 'let's do some very bad coding and call it Soundspot'? Is that how coders works?
  4. Hey! Great news: The biggest sale of the year is active at PML! If you were waiting to buy a pack, course or a bundle, now is the best time of the year to buy. There won't be a better deal later, this is THE sale! 50% OFF every item in the store. We decided to keep the math simple! https://www.productionmusiclive.com/collections/on-sale ------------------------------------ Easily my favourite sample pack makers. Check out their co-ops with Orchestral Tools for example. For electronic music / techno, this is about the best there is.
  5. He mentions some guy named Fleer. Our @Fleer?
  6. Ambitious? Perhaps. Challenging? Yes! There was a lot of mixing to be done because there was a lot going on at the same time, most of the times. I think mixing took as long as setting up the livejam and recording it. But here it is, a jam using everything I have. This will probably be the last time I do something like this. Sometimes less is more, and I will try to keep things simpler in the future. But this had to be done 😝 I need to visit the barber...
  7. I'll bet the guys and gals at Warm Audio were following the whole Behringer 'clone' debate with sweat on their backs.
  8. I'm happy with my subscriptions to Plugin Alliance (the forever 29 one, which is kond of a hybrid? but I'm counting it), Splice and Arcade. The last one offers a LOT and has very high standards on what they offer. What I'm seeing here (I haven't watched any videos yet) is a synth with an online collection of sounds. Basically endless. If it's up to par with Arcade, it could be interesting. Especially when you haven't got a lot of other flagship synths. Still a bit expensive though. What's more interesting is watching the fallout in synthfluencer land. It seems nobody got the heads-up this was going to be subscription and all the usual salespeople are mad. I'm seeing them flocking to X, complaining that they feel they have broken the trust of their Discord or Patreon community. Even some are calling for (extra?) compensation. I'm not sure on which side I am. Probably somewhere in the middle. My boiling blood from the Behringer thing still hasn't cooled down, but they do have a point that Minimal Audio should have disclosed this information to the zero day reviewers. It's not a small detail. On the other hand, it doesn't/shouldn't affect the technical review part. And I wonder how many would have declined the opportunity to do a zero day review IF they had known.
  9. Alright I have the Studer and don't want/need more channel strips, I barely use them. I will hold out for a better deal on the 2A bundle.
  10. I already own a couple of these, but this would add the LA2A collection, Oxide tape and Century Tube channel. For €53. Tempting...although I'm really only interested in the LA2A. Any opinions on the Oxide and Century?
  11. Benn is a smart guy and uses his intelligence and creativity to make some awesome content. For example: who has the idea to learn about a speech jamming, explain it technically AND also build the thing?! So it struck me as weird he would frame it like this. He is also very vocal on X about this whole saga. He probably didn't intend to get pulled down, but he HAD to know that using these words would have some consequences. So that raises suspicion that he did it on purpose to get some conflict/attention going. Anyway, my previous remarks are indeed my take on this. It's like watching an argument between a burglar and a car thief about rising income tax. Ps: on the so called antisemitic thing. I do believe that was 'just' a f*ck up. The guy depicted isn't even jewish. They designed that guy with a big nose to sniff corks (aka being elitst). The nose would be the only link with a jewish caricature. Now Behringer had no business to attack someone personally, but that accusation was just silly to me.
  12. And the GEM has a 3A in it as well.
  13. The plot thickens. The latest Benn Jordan video is down (private). I saw it coming. He was really hammering the point that Behringer was "counterfeiting". I even googled what that meant in a legal context in the US. I'm guessing Behringer didn't like being accused of a criminal offence. Benn had to know this.
  14. Hit me up when you are in The Netherlands 😎
  15. Haha yes it is very easy. Luckily I have some pressure to actually make something and record. I want to continue my streak of weekly jams. I think I can go for a year (that would be the end of january when I posted thee first one). But also on the day itself because I want to record with daylight. The days become shorter and shorter so I have to actually get something done in a reasonable amount of time.
  16. I haven't really cared a lot until now. I think the whole Behringer thing triggered it for me. There is a whole group of so called synthfluencers (who have made great content which I've enjoyed!) who group together and form a united front against Behringer. And it's not that Behringer is the ethical one here. There's a group of disingenuous people who are in no position to lecture. I'm pretty much at a point where a plugin release which is backed by the usual names will mean an automatic "no" from me.
  17. What do you get when you fire up almost every synth you have? A ridiculous wall of sound. A wall of synths if you like. I love that sound. It's the reason I got all that stuff. Enjoy!
  18. If someone's interested, I came across a YouTube channel (well, the almighty algorithm did run it across me, but how did it know I was thinking about this stuff??!!!). https://youtube.com/@badhairdetective?si=Mp0QKXxva9rZLho0 He makes very bizarre videos, entertaining even and with a lot of effort where he calls out every shill in the business. Worth checking out.
  19. I bought it a while ago. Haven't tried it Ceiling of sound but did try out the AYAIC recently. Couldn't get a decent mix out of it, so maybe it was just a bad attempt or I didn't get how it works. Probably the latter because I hear great things about it. Just a caution for everyone (which you also mention), it's not 'ready steady go!'.
  20. Alright, it's useless in reference to the price they advertise then. "Here's a nice discount....aaaand it's gone". Sorry, this whole Behringer versus hypocrite influencers thing got me riled up against cowmanure and I'm taking it out on poor JRR. 😅
  21. Thanks for checking it out. Let's hope it's just a bug because I remember they DID feature tax at some point. I was just a bit aggrevated that they seemed to be going a questionable route with their pricing. Could be a European issue?
  22. AGAIN with the f****&ng tax thing. Checking out with paypal, no mention that tax wasn't included in the cart. Good thing I was paying attention, comes paying time within the paypal webpage, the amount is suddenly $25 more than anything you will see during the ENTIRE checkout process. Canceling the order and NOW the tax shows in the cart. This is very poor programming at best and malice at worst. So be aware, as long as you are paying tax, the GROUP discount is worthless. They seem to use it as a cover for not including tax in their prices.
  23. Vogue 49, Vibe 49 & Score 99. The bundle is 149. Minus GROUP it is 125. I don't think BF is gonna beat this. I think I'm going for it.
  24. Could it be wise to buy something and save the Tape Machine 80 serial in hopes of an IK group buy?
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