Bruno de Souza Lino

Mike Bradshaw was dying to have several conversations with you...

I can see some uses out of Solaris because I don't have ValhallaShimmer, but I have other plugins which could make a shimmer type reverb if combined right... I'll give it a try mostly because of the low CPU consumption, as Shimmer type reverbs tend to be resource heavy...

The worst offender of that are workarounds for bugs or things which are design flaws with the feature/software in question. Those are essentially admitting the problem exists without telling it so. And when these are defended instead, it's even worse. It begs the question as which of those adjustments actually present a performance benefit in many cases, especially considering the extreme varying hardware and configurations PC users have. It's naive to assume all the optimizations one made in one system will have the same positive outcome in a completely different system, but people love to do that. Then when challenged, will proceed to back up their claim not with evidence, but with the amount of certifications they have, which mean precisely nothing in practice.

REAPER only has anticipative processing if you set it to do it in the settings. It is off by default because some plugins don't play well with it.

At least on BBCSO Discover, you now have a grand piano.

Is this for Reaktor or it just copies its interface?

The vast majority of YouTube producers' teachings have two objectives: - Selling you a product. - Selling you a service.

This video is misleading in the sense that it's well...Clickbait. None of the issues listed have anything to do with the amp sims themselves, but with a musician who needs to be more disciplined and learn some self-control. Just because you have all the options, doesn't mean you have to use them. And if you are one of these people which cannot control themselves you should either work on that or limit your options. When was the last time you tried to make music using just what your DAW offers instead of having to navigate through hundreds of plugins which do more of less the same thing but you have to have them because what if you just need that plugin you only opened once just to register it and have never used? It could be the right one for your current project! It's not uncommon to find people surprised to learn that their DAW has an effect of a feature they've just spent money to have but they never noticed it because they were too busy with their sea of choices. This is also one of the reasons some people have moved away from making music in the box and migrating to DAWless setups. When you have less choices, you have to focus on making the best out of them, rather than just replacing one tool which the exact same tool, but with one control or feature that solves a specific problem, then accumulating those tools over time. When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail. Then when every problem you have is a nail, everything starts to look like a screw.

Also, it's good to see you citing every single blanket statement corporations have attempted to spoon feed people over the years. Not only some of those statements are questionable, some of them also come from people that understand very little if anything about how piracy works nowadays. There are also many instances where the whole "malware" and "malfunction" argument is actually practiced on legitimate customers by the companies themselves. A few examples: - Sony BMG was the target of several class-action lawsuits in 2005 because their original CDs installed a rootkit in your PC and that just created an entry point for malicious agents to enter. For a more technical explanation as to the event and how it was gonna be much worse than that, retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer (creator of the Task Manager) made a whole video about it: - Here's another example of how anti-piracy measures can screw the legitimate customer. Strong language: But make of that what you will. The biggest downfall of all anti-piracy campaigns and measures, as demonstrated, is that they fail to differentiate cases and just flat out calls everyone a criminal, including legitimate customers.

I'm taking about scientific studies, one of them being 20+ years long.

If I remember, there were a few studies on the subject and they concluded piracy either causes a negligible impact on sales or no impact at all.

The funniest part from that particular video is the music from it was commissioned off a Dutch composer under the agreement that the ad would only be played at specific film festivals. Then they put that video in DVDs, played it in theaters...I also heard that sometimes they would wake you up in the middle of the night and play it right in your face. The composer in question took them to court and won.

Presonus was criticized all the way until they gave plugin support in Artist, especially considering all it came with in terms of instruments was a Sample One, Presence, Impact and Mojito. Then later you could use either the free version of Komplete or the paid one for some extra stuff, which then people used to replace Kontakt with a plugin wrapper and load their stuff that way until Presonus patched it.

One way of doing that would be using a group with a custom setting to toggle both at opposite states. This may sometimes not work.

Based on these compelling statistics, screw Linux. Where's the FreeBSD version of Cakewalk?

That won't happen because FabFilter rather spend time making their plugins better than planning the most efficient way of shafting the customer by doing the bare minimum. That's Waves and IK Terrritory.

And then we're gonna find out later you already went through 12 pairs of HD650 before considering using that VSX you bought as a backup.

Sure. Let's see the definitions for stealing then: 1: to take the property of another wrongfully and especially as a habitual or regular practice 2: to come or go secretly, unobtrusively, gradually, or unexpectedly 3: to steal or attempt to steal a base Are you gonna tell me these two are the same thing? Sure, robbing and stealing are synonyms, but not when you refer to software piracy, whose definition is well explained in 3a and b of the bit of text you copied from Merriam Webster. And that pretty much goes in line with what I said in my post. The problem with that statement is that theft is defined legally in many places as "depriving someone else the use of an item by physically removing it from them." Infringing someone else's copyright is not that. And this is a bad idea which was proposed by anti-piracy movements across the years. If you think piracy is as bad as theft, fair enough. That's your opinion. Now, saying that piracy is theft creates a disconnect because if piracy is so bad, why do they and we have to pretend it is something else? Which goes back to my post. For example, you might think having an ear infection is as bad as having athlete's foot. But if you say "athlete's foot is an ear infection," people will probably look at you weird and not borrow any creams and ointments from you. Are you seriously gonna tell me not paying someone money you owe and stealing money from them are the same thing? Never said it didn't. I just think people have to call software piracy for what it actually is instead of riding on the RIAA and MPAA train of calling everyone thieves and likening software piracy to theft. You're not gonna get people to understand what they're doing has negative effects by calling everyone a criminal.

When you steal someone's car, that person no longer has ownership of that car. Pirating software is simply copying without authorization from whoever owns the IP. Waves doesn't magically lose property of their Mercury bundle simply because you downloaded a cracked copy off torrent or a site. Likening piracy to stealing is like claiming athlete's foot is an ear infection.

Depending on how much of a Beatles fan you are, you might say this should be in the Hall of Shame instead.

I think he said he did the vocals as a person tripping on acid. Although, the only person tripping on acid was him.

The sad part is, making your software inconvenient to use and activate legitimately actually encourages people to pirate it in some cases. Several groups use that as "sales pitch" to why their cracked version is better, citing how much less memory it uses because of how measures are circumvented, encryption schemes deactivated and so on. But I think the biggest middle finger to intrusive anti-piracy measures can be demonstrated in two scenarios: - When Ubisoft wanted to make a digital distribution version of Tom Clancy: Rainbow Six Vegas 2, they forgot they had anti-piracy measures in place and were stumped to find several people locked out of their legitimate copies because of it. While they tried to remove the measure as good as they could, they failed and the only solution was for them to use a cracked version of the game as the official release. - Rockstar used a cracked version of Max Payne 2 for the Steam release because they were either too lazy to remove the measure or couldn't do it.

Keep in mind that any audio sample can be used as an impulse response. As for free ones, I have a few microphone ones and a few I made myself from various rooms of my house. Making them is incredibly easy.

Be thankful you didn't have to reinstall Windows 10 on top of itself because of one update which refused to install.