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impOSCar2 also reduced to $65 https://www.adsrsounds.com/product/software/gforce-software-imposcar-2-virtual-analog-synthesizer/ Havent used nor tried this .. An 80s UK synth it seems

And what else is interesting is:

Probably cheaper on ADSR as there its $44 + you get the Diginoiz TrapDrive distortion plug chucked into the deal: https://www.adsrsounds.com/product/software/gforce-software-virtual-string-machine-highly-powerful-string-machine/

https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/1-Instruments/5-Sampler/4345-Palindrome Here is a review - https://andrulianblog.wordpress.com/2018/04/30/review-of-palindrome-a-granular-morph-plotting-sampler-vst-au-by-glitchmachines/ Anyone got this? Is it in general worth a punt for sound design etc?

@Bruno de Souza Lino Finding an audience is one thing, BUT finding an audience thats willing to pay for what they can get free elsewhere is the real biggy in my view

K .. but I think all this is ON TOPIC actually. we are describing what its all about and from all we describe is where we sold product and built a fan base .. and TBH that is still the way it should be because it is the only way. The live circuit, the hard but enjoyable hours travelling and getting your band out there. There is no silver bullet, 5 min solution that DOESNT take effort, if you think otherwise then forget it, its not for you

Yip though a good few out of town gigs we made 2 or 3 days of. A huge town for that was in WEST CORK, place called CLONAKILITY which was and still is Music Meca. Loads of international artists, bands inc Sting, Springsteen, many many others played local gigs there in pubs. Noel redding of hendrix's band lived there until he died in relatively recent times. EG - http://debarra.ie/about/

Actually in most cases .. locally anyway here in Cork .. we were allowed to leave the gear at the venue once we packed it in a corner and then collected AFTER NOON the following day back to rehearsal room .. this freed us up to go clubbing after the gig with our fans .. And no, the stuff wasnt nicked ever, lots of respect back then

And you know something @paulo ... THESE are the stories and times you remember and stay with you for life which is the exact point made in THE 1975 track I mentioned on page one: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/mar/18/why-bands-are-disappearing-young-people-arent-excited-by-them "The moment that we started a band was the best thing that ever happened,” sings Matty Healy on the 1975’s recent single Guys. The song is an ardent love letter to the band, and to the romance of bands in general: the camaraderie, the solidarity, the joyous fusion of creativity and friendship. It’s an old sentiment but an increasingly rare one. This is what it was all about .. playing the gigs, on the (local) road with like minded comrades, the craic, the buzz, meeting music fans .. Its what has been lost and what much of the disinterested youth of today are missing out on. Something that could last for a lifetime

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And have ye noticed .. Listening to the likes of THE 1975, The WEEKEND, M83 and lots of other artists these days in the charts .. Its now all unmistakenly 80s sound. And so much of our radio stations shows at weekends and evenings is 80s. I wonder why that is? After 90s it seems the music became unforgettable, probably due to its over commercialised manufacturedness? same can be said of TV Shows, Movies .. look no further than STRANGER THINGS for example or Wonder Woman 1984

Here are 2 different articles recently that also play into this topic: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/mar/18/why-bands-are-disappearing-young-people-arent-excited-by-them "The moment that we started a band was the best thing that ever happened,” sings Matty Healy on the 1975’s recent single Guys. The song is an ardent love letter to the band, and to the romance of bands in general: the camaraderie, the solidarity, the joyous fusion of creativity and friendship. It’s an old sentiment but an increasingly rare one. This is what has been lost and what much of the disinterested youth of today are missing out on. Something that could last for a lifetime And in UK which is and has been such a huge nurturing incubation unit for new bands and artists in the past: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/feb/08/european-touring-radiohead-brexit-colin-greenwood

@paulo I hear you .. I assume most of those bands were still covers bands in the "Charity" event? For widespread Paid in ORIGINALS bands playing in pubs etc every week I have to go back to 80s. As an aside you mentioned not great bands. I have a quick funny story on that. A local ORIGINALs band here in Cork did the circuit for a while .. there live set was about 12 ORIGINAL Tracks .. But here was the ingenuity .. They actually only had 4 songs and played them 3 times over at different tempo's and styles

I have an EDIT re guitar sales, an interesting one because of the pandemic With respect to guitar sales plummeting, that was the last time I checked, but it seems a surge is now happening ( result of pandemic ) https://www.nova.ie/guitar-sales-have-skyrocketed-despite-pandemic-194702/ This pandemic also saw so many first time buyers of musical instruements generally. “JC” Curleigh has said that people have become increasingly keen on playing a guitar. People of all ages. He said, “A lot of people said, ‘Hey, I’ve always wanted to play guitar. “So, guess what? All of a sudden, beginners came into to it. Intermediate players who had sort of gotten to a certain level, picked their guitar up again and started playing. And advanced and expert players were like, ‘Oh, my god, I have a wish list for this guitar. Life’s too short not to have my dream guitar. I’m going to buy it”. He added, “I fundamentally believe, in the last year, more guitarists have been created and engaged with, than in the previous 10 years combined. If we manage this dynamic as an industry, we’ve got a whole new generation of guitarists for the next 10, 20, 30 years”. So the interesting thing is will this be like the dog is not just for christmas OR will it take hold? Will my point about short attention span bare true again? How many guitars bought during pandemic with the good intention of ‘Hey, I’ve always wanted to play guitar' BUT then the real work starts and fck, its just too much time, too difficult .. meh!!

Bought .. Downloaded .. installed. In my view ( from Cork, Ireland ) .. its crap. The way its setup and how it sounds + the GUI .. meh, popup windows cant be closed etc. The DATA/Samples file is only 225MB .. and it is not Kontakt, its some custom thing by librewave My advise, pass on this one. I would have been better of buying a 12 pack of pint guinness cans which is around the same price here ( €12 )

@PopStarWannabe PLEASE read this as pragmatic and from lived experience. Not doom gloom, just trying to say it as it is from my years ion the biz Back in the 80s, maybe until late 80s was when you could have a stab at making music ( as an artist, in the band scene ) as a profession. Up to then THERE WAS A PROPER SCENE in most places. Even as young wannabes there was a healthy local live circuit ( in Ireland and I imagine UK also ) where a band could do the local and national circuit on tour to pubs and the like and actually HAVE A COVER CHARGE at the door ( unbelievable ), build a following and actually get on radio stations for interviews and plays etc. Back then it was all about original bands, if you played a cover you were blanked. Fans of the local bands followed them from venue to venue and knew there bands songs, a huge hunger for new originals which bands created in the practice rooms during the week and played at there next gig. Demo tapes and the like were the thing. It started to end about then. Along came the 90s with its stock aiken and waterman type manufactured bands being commercially pushed to No 1 slot at Christmas and all that. the serious commercial engineering started. Locally bands started switching to covers and pubs started having acts in on a thur fri etc FOR FREE, no cover charge. This of course started the devaluing of Music as a product. Right up to late 90s i was involved in ORIGINALS BANDS but to survive they morphed to cover bands and for the next 10 years I stayed in that game and regret it .. it wrecked my love of music further wrecked by morphing into Wedding band to MAKE A LIVING. And then the birth of the INTERNET as we know it happened in the 90s BUT the big event for the demise of music as an earner came in 1999/2000 when NAPSTER happened. This further drove a nail into musics coffin further devaluing it because now you could download it all FOR FREE also. Onward we go through 2000s and napster died per say but then the whole online thing became commercialised via SPOTIFY ( founded 2006 ) and the like with little return to artists. This was the beginning of MORE touring needed to make a crust. Then Itunes and then of course the IPHONE where you could devour your music for free or for very little while on the go. Also we had/have YOUTUBE .. FREE FREE FREE why would you even be spending 10 bucks a month on spotify for, its all on Youtube for nothing. In parallel since the 80s another thing started to happen, the days where you bought an album with 10+ tracks on it and listened to it over time when the whole album grew on you .. that started to disappear, this was also the beginning of peoples attention span getting shorter and shorter right up to now where its absolutely about the SINGLE and even if you have your FREE music platforms all thats listened to for a short time is that one track from an artist. So ALBUMS as a money maker with all the ancilliary sleeves/jackets and inlays disappeared too. So its 2020 .. free music everywhere, why should we pay for it ( esp younger generation, they know no better ), the "charts" commercialised to the nth degree. Record contracts and nurturing bands GONE. Yes, we have the internet with its alleged democratisation where all bands/artists can be free OF THE MAN and setup indie labels and sell there own music. To WHO .. that younger gen who now see no value what so ever in music .. its all free now. As an aside to that when we were doing covers as a band up to 2010, yes we made a living ( soul destroying for a musician who was born out of original scene ) .. i was noticing a thing. Back in the day if a band was playing at a venue I remember being at pub gigs, concerts and many people who PAID to get in to see the local band standing in front of the band and watching on in awe at the musicians and meeting up after with the guitar player etc. A healthy interest. Fast forward to 2010, WE were/are very good musicians, born out of years of live live live playing .. I remember being in a very busy pub doing our covers thing, hits of the day .. Killers and all that .. I was watching the people coming in the door as we played, 90% looking down at mobile, NONE looking up and even noticing a band was playing, no music fans standing in front of us soaking up the playing, the technique and so on. It was not an age thing .. us and them .. the broader point is there is no interest anymore really of being a guitarist etc. Was reading an article recently about this, guitar sales and other instrument sales in last decade have plummeted .. likes of YES Gibson ( smilie for here at CW ) in trouble. Reason why by the way .. back to my point about short attention span, learning an instrument is just too difficult and takes too long, so why bother. So to the core point of the OP .. NO its not the pandemic that has caused where MUSIC finds itself, this has been coming slowly but surely for decades as outlined above. All the pandemic has done is accelerated further its demise by now getting rid of even that living one might make as a COVERS Music / Wedding band. the structures like labels etc and a healthy originals scene and a public that VALUED music are now gone, how one might see a return of this, I have no clue. Best you can do now ( as I am doing ) is in my case back to originals, and just recording and making new music, instrumental + also collaborating online with Singers and other musos I know and just getting back that feeling of creating. Sticking it up on likes of Bandcamp .. if it sells it sells if it doesnt sell, who cares. It aint a living but thats about it ( my living is IT and websites .. wolf from the door, just about )

There is a HARP at the Sonuscore offer here - €9.90

https://www.audiothing.net/effects/things-motor/ - $9 ( $19 ) MORPHING ROTOR EFFECT Let your signals dance like courting birds on fermented cherries. A new collaboration with Hainbach.

UPDATE - My code just arrived

If you buy Loc-Ness over weekend you might find you dont get a coupon code for Tone Empire yet. I did not .. so I emailed them. The response from AudioPlugin was "We've just run out of codes for LOC-NESS and expecting a new batch shortly." So patience

https://sonuscore.com/shop/magic-spring-bundle/ Was €217.00 .. Now € 9.90 Inc: ha•pi – Concert Harp Lyrical Cello Phrases Origins Vol.2: Music Box & Plucked Piano FREE Ethnic Flute Phrases Sustained String Chords Have the Flute and the Sustained String and Music Box & Plucked Piano from previous versions of this

In the plugin version anyway I really like this focus section. ZOOMS in all the various parts of the UI + the reset to full view

Yip @Hatstand ... I have to say this Samsung Evo 870 2TB is excellent so far in my 6yr+ old dell i5 16gb Ram 17" laptop. Made it into a new system I studied these SSD drives a bit to find not all are the same. Crucial are great but it seems the Samsung EVO range in general tops the lot for the "trad" type SSD drives ( closest in SSD drives you will get to the NVMe Drive cards ), you pay a bit more but ... ( Samsung also do a cheaper version - the QVO range ) The difference for my audio stuff - CW etc is huge .. for all plugins also especially KONTAKT, samplers & the like. So far its been a top investment I mentioned NVMe SSD cards above. I call them cards because they are a circuit board very close in look to RAM. Thing is though, for us with older systems, there is no NVMe interface so we have to go with the "trad" SSD type drive

@Eusebio Rufian-Zilbermann posted link above .. at everyplugin .. price down to $24

At the rate these guys are adding new retro synths I am beginning to wonder will I need Arturia any more ... CA stuff is way "lighter" on the system resources / fast to load etc and they begin to cover that niche. Next up a DX7?