Nick Blanc

Checked and no problems here. So far. Loads just fine, works, pretty fast even. I might actually use this 😜

I agree, that makes a lot of sense. The same with the MPC sound packs from Air. Knowing that they also have AKAI, it makes sense. Seems they are set out to combine products/brands that complement eachother. And not just to get a bigger marketshare (Soundwide...). As an owner of several Moog products (software and hardware) I'm curious where this will go. But I'm not afraid for the future.

It doesn't. The guy behind it (Steve Duda) stated that his products will never go on sale.

Had some virtual cash around, enough te make me try it out for €3. Let's see what it can do against the likes of LFO tool or Shaperbox.

Even there I'm not so sure. Perhaps they lack in support for some of their older products (Xpand!2, TheRiser, Loom2, Hybrid 3, etc.)? But I never viewed them as high end stuff worthy of much more development other than keeping it working. If I look at the website of Air, they have been developing quite a few new products, stuff for MPC (now it makes sense), both VST fx and VSTi. So they are certainly not standing still. On the contrary, they are expanding their catalogue quite a bit. And from the look of it, not for the worst. And now my brilliant move to make this topic suddenly in the right forum section, they have a sale! https://www.airmusictech.com/virtual-instruments.html

It's a mixed bag really, so I'm not sure this is a bad thing, as InMusic seems to let companies run themselves as they were. With a lot of brands you wouldn't know they are part of InMusic nowadays. Let's take a look at some, and this is just what I observe so I might be wrong. - Numark? Seems to be where they always were, cheap mid-low range gear which is not bad, not great. - Alesis? Still doing what Alesis did, mostly drumkits and MIDI keyboards. No devalue. - AKAI? Gets some love, gets some hate. Mostly in the MPC range, which is still a staple in beatmaking. Although the Roland SP404MKII is gunning for that position. - M-Audio? No change at all and their latest MIDI keyboards have me looking at them again (I'm in the market for a small 32 keys MIDI keyboard). - Denon? Still a very worthy competitor to Pioneers reign in professional DJ equipment. - Stanton? The STX seems like an upgraded copy of the Numark PT-01 Scratch and now I know why. They seem to have slimmed down, but I think that happened under their Gibson period in the last 5-6 years. They always were at the top of turntable cartridges and they may still be, I don't know. - Marantz even managed to 'upgrade' their line/image to more high end stuff. And that's the brands I'm familiar with, not counting Sonivox and Air. I think people stare at those 2 more than they should, looking at all the rest. So, they let Moog do Moog, profit from having that brand under their wing and Moog profits from their...distribution? That was an issue? I don't know.

I will check this evening to see if i run into any problems.

Another $50 2023-06-50TK27SEDW8K

Amen to the cherry picking. The only products I don't already own and want to, are the icons compressor collection, the Dyna-Mite, Mutator, the bus processor, the Overstayer and the Mike-e-comp. And I think none of those are included.

Seeing the amount of 'not a deal' topics lately, I thought this was a sarcastic title and the topic would be about how slow their customers service would be. My bad, carry on...

It seems to depend on some expensive items I think? I'm 19 products shy of the Volume 6 price (also 629 for me), which comes down to around €30 per plugin. That's a great deal on singular products, but a lot of money in 1 go.

I got my activation code yesterday evening. Will install somewhere this weekend I think.

Another Tyson gem and my personal favorite: "Social media made y'all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it." The stage was set, but I have the feeling that since covid this holds an insane amount of truth.

This reminds of a discussion I was never part of and have no use for remembering, but here we are. In the Beatmaker community, Fruityloops (FL Studio) is basically king. And a lot of (well known, multi platinum etc.) producers use a particular older version which "sounds better", harder, snappier, etc. Turned out that version had a limiter on the master under the hood. One of the issues I have with Ableton (besides the current erratic CPU behaviour), is that sample previews are much louder and I believe compressed. Oh the continuous dissapointment when I drag a great sounding kick in my project to have it flop away somewhere in the distance of my lowend. When all I have to do is turn it up a bit. The 'same' goes for old MPC's, which have 'that mojo', but a lot of that magic was that they worked on 12 bit. You can watch hours of beatmaking tutorials but rarely do you see someone say "just use a bitreducer on the drumbus" as if it's some kind of secret. Clip your kick to mush, bitreduce the transient back to life and filter the high-end (or use a good tape emulation)...done. It sounds like doodoo on its own, but in a mix it's perceived as much louder and harder than a clean kick.

I did everything right: outfit, lighting, background stuff, cameras...and I forgot to change my flipflops for some shoes. Ah well, it is what it is 😅 And after 20 or so recorded jams, I FINALLY got the idea to pose for some thumbnail material. I'm slow to pick up on these things. Perhaps it helps in views, perhaps not. Anyway, enjoy!

Why did you do this?! Please do not show how (d)awesome this plugin is, that will cost me money 😢

Don't sleep on Bassynth, I use it quit regularly.

We are ever so slowly creeping up to version 1.0. That will unlock the golden Hans Zimmer.

I'm surprised that something like Renoise hasn't gained much tracktion (ha!), being a modern tracker with VST support. For only $75. I'm sure all of us 80s-90s kids can still read hexidecimal.

Jup, I've read that too and I'm fine with that. I'm recording livejams where my screen is mostly visible in the backgound, so it would be nice to have some visuals there instead of just my Ableton screen. And perhaps a screenrecording can be a nice touch to splash in now and then.

I always wanted to try out VS, which is €99. So I have to spend €90 to get VS for 10% which is €9,90. In total that is €99,90. And that would get me VS and some other product I don't really want. Sorry, I wish them a very happy birthday, but they will have to celebrate without me.

Update time, I'm an idiot. Blackbox was the 'secret project name' and it eventually became the Raummaschine. They were the same plugin. So I ordered the same plugin twice. Once for 59,90 and once for 79,90. Good news and good show of customer service: I contacted them and they immediately offered a refund. They even let me choose which one I wanted a refund for.

I know I know, it is 'just' a Splice sample, but man did the vocal fit in with the jam. Moogs taking center stage, or so I thought. I was missing something, so I started playing with the Behringer Crave and some granular FX plugin. Voila, thát was the ticket to make it interesting. I really love how this one sounds, so I'll probably release it with Distrokid. Anyway, enjoy!

This is basically porn.

Update, I received my PA codes in my email today.