Paul_in_wales

23 minutes ago, Yan Filiatrault said:

Part of the description mentions a synthesizer: 

RG is a unique groove plug-in that is far more than just a "virtual Rhythm Guitar player !
By using the RG onboard sequencer it is possible to create classic Rhythm Guitar grooves, but beyond that you can use the synthesizer features and effects to make fresh new edgy guitar grooves.

Do you not grasp the difference between the "name of the product" and the description?

2 hours ago, Yan Filiatrault said:

Well, the word synthesizer is included in the name of the product, so I guess it should be that way to be an accurate description.

The name of the product is literally just "RG": https://www.robpapen.com/rg.html

10 hours ago, mibby said:

What other RP plugins do you have and like?

I had explorer 4 but sold that some time back.

Since then I've added some plugins back when there has been a solid offer:

sound design x bundle (punch 2 / blade 2 / blue 2) -  punch 2 is one of my favourite drum plugins, it doesn't get the love it deserves, and I've always liked the more unusual additive sounds  in blade. Blue 2 is nice enough, but I have better tools for FM.

Go2  - nice little synth for the price

sound design x counts as 2 products, so with RG I'm now up to the max discount of having 4 products.

Just bought from KVR at $19 - not that I have great interest in this specifically, but it's a cheap way to add another RP title to my existing, bumping up the discount for explorer to tempting levels.

10 hours ago, Fleer said:

My 2012 MacBook Pro still running fine

I have a late 2012 27" imac that still works fine too - I run ableton live 11 suite on it with a second setup (I use m1 mac mini with main).

12 hours ago, kitekrazy said:

I'd fear after paying it off, Apple will turn it into a doorstop.   I'd hate to be Apple brainwashed.    

So all those people who choose apple are just idiot drones in your mind. Seems you can't contemplate a world where people rationally weigh up the pros and cons and decide apple is the best fit for them. Either way, it's pretty sad that you seem to hold a significant slice of the membership here in contempt. 

5 hours ago, Plumbee said:

Been getting Computer Music and SOS for free from the local library for about a year or so.

yep, I'm in UK (Wales) and have done the same for a few years now: free library card done online + free libbyapp to read.   This isn't some kind of pirating or "hack",  it's literally what the library is there for:

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Borrow your favourite magazines from your local library service. Users with a library card can read digital magazines on Libby, the award-winning reading app from OverDrive, or by visiting your library authority website. Top titles include The Economist, National Geographic, Vanity Fair and many hundreds of other popular magazines from around the world previously available through the RBdigital app.

To use this service you must be based in the UK and be a registered member at a participating Welsh library. If you are already a library member, you can borrow e-Magazines using your library membership card number and PIN.

 

Back down to $49 - not sure for how long.

A nice thing with this is can map the drum hits to whatever notes we want and use that to trigger other plugins/hardware for drums and melodic.

Bear in mind that in the UK (and some other countries I believe), beat magazine english is free with a library card (which you should be able to get for free online in minutes from your local library's web page) and libbyapp.com.  That gives me access to back issues to June 2020. Also gives access to future music, sound on sound and computer music too (along with 1200 other magazine titles across all category types).

On 11/21/2022 at 1:40 PM, Spice3d said:

I wonder if this will ever see an upgrade. At least 1.1 with a better preset manager. 🙏🏻😬

not really an upgrade as such, but it is still actively getting updates. - eg this was from just a couple of days ago

Synlenth1 has 25% off its €139 EUR ex VAT price for BF from 24th to 29th November with code BLFR2022 - https://www.lennardigital.com/store/

On 8/20/2022 at 8:44 PM, abacab said:

If you spend 8 (or more) hours per day in a chair, you owe it to yourself to get the best. My lower back problems that had plagued me for years went away not long after I bought a proper chair! True story!

same story for me.  I'd spent silly money on an aresline xten to try and it did nothing for long hours except aggravate my back, so I bought an aeron miller in 2012 in size C (large) which gave me the extra height I needed for my feet to rest comfortably on the ground.  10 years in and my back has been much better and this thing still looks (and feels) like new despite 8+ hours a day for 10 years.  rock solid investment all ways around for me.

7 minutes ago, paulo said:

They are both listed as Ltd. companies so AFAIK that means that they are legally separate businesses with no financial responsibility towards each other even though in reality they might effectively be the right pocket and the left pocket of the same individual's trousers as it were. 

yeah, same registered address - looks almost like grandmother is director of both, time+space is shared with son and zero-g is shared with grandson.  Whilst limited companies don't have direct responsibility to each other, a personal guarantee can still have a knock-on effect.

37 minutes ago, abacab said:

Waves might be next! $9.99 for a brand new sampler! 🙈

very different thing when you make something once and sell it over and over vs resellers that have to buy every unit they sell and compete with others selling the exact same thing.

the "listen to samples" link in the original email: 

This has now hit - shows in my wave alchemy account as "Kontakt - Wav_Format" - 2.8gb of drums  clean/tape1/tape2 - 44.1kHz/24bit.

@Jim: Why do you feel empowered to reframe the definition of professional so favorably narrow here given your original post of  "Those who think most professionals are using Mac..." was in response to a clearly more general definition of professional? 

You've taken it from the original "professionals" to "top tier professionals" and now to  "high level professional composers for TV/Film".   

You are railroading this discussion to suit your own agenda. 

How about this: pro tools expert did a poll with 4,000 responders last year.

out of those that responded, 70% (2,800) were using mac and 30% (1,200) windows.

Given macs are traditionally more expensive than windows computers like-for-like and a lot of hobbyists have windows computers for other reasons, especially gaming, isn't it a reasonable expectation that a mac user will be more likely than a windows user to be using it professionally?

https://www.pro-tools-expert.com/production-expert-1/not-all-creatives-use-macs

It's far from perfect - but at least it's data of a reasonable size and spread.

2 minutes ago, bdickens said:

The Mac fanboys are trying to move the goalposts now.

care to explain?

Jim said "Those who think most professionals are using Mac:" and then provided a few bits of anecdotal evidence. You treated that like it was an unassailable truth that had come down from on high.

Which parts of this are you struggling with - that anecdotal evidence isn't proof, or that "most" is not the same as "many"?

btw, I wasn't saying I know that macs have the "most" professionals using them over PCs - just that anecdotal evidence isn't proof as it's statistically insignificant weighed again the whole.

I like mac, it works great for me - but I won't lose any sleep if PCs are "better" or more professionals use them.  

It'd be interesting to see the results of a well-constructed survey showing which system professionals are using - can anybody point to one?  

How about just bringing a touch of objective common sense to it?

A smaller percentage of a large number is still a significant number in absolute terms - making it easy to cite individual examples without proving anything one way or the other.  

I'd also venture that a man that builds and ships PCs is likely to have his experience skewed towards the group of professionals that are using PCs.

I think we're roughly on the same page - I'd rephrase what you wrote as "if/when you need to upgrade to the version of macos that kills off rosetta, all your legacy plugins become toast".

6 minutes ago, Doug Rintoul said:

Past experience has shown that when Apple pulls support for an older OS, they also pull support for software that runs on the older OS. Just try finding a copy of Microsoft Remote Desktop for anything older than Mojave, or Garageband for anything older than Big Sur. 

you're moving goalposts here - that's not the same as "As soon as Apple pulls Rosetta, all your legacy plugins become toast".  ableton 11 runs fine on 10.13, which is from 2017 - but you're missing the point about people not necessarily needing to upgrade.   If you have to resort to edge cases, then this isn't a real discussion at all.

11 minutes ago, Doug Rintoul said:

As soon as Apple pulls Rosetta, all your legacy plugins become toast.

past experience is apple support old OS versions for about 3 years, so if they did pull rosetta there should be a decent buffer rather than being an overnight switch being flicked.    that's assuming the owner wants/needs to run a maintained OS - if not, it doesn't really affect them at all unless/until they have a need to run a newer OS, but even then they may be able to run a later but pre-rosetta-kill macos version.   

It's a weird setup they have going with how it links to the  library card, rather than being a simple username/password login  - I've never tried logging out of it and wouldn't be surprised if you can't.

12 hours ago, Hugh Mann said:

But that didn’t happen.  I could use pretty much all of my software, via Rosetta , right off the bat. And the few that didn’t work, got Rosetta updates like in a month. Out of all my software, d16 lush 101 is the only one that didn’t work. And they said they will charge for an M1 version. But the rest all worked. I’ve got too much software to list, like many of u I’m sure. But they worked. Now there is a  very small performance penalty when using Rosetta. So Mac user were waiting for M1 native versions.  But I don’t notice any difference between Rosetta and M 1 native. actually it’s  a very impressive technical accomplishment.  

I can add  g-force's oddity 2 and minimonsta (imposcar 2 does work) along with D16's sigmund to that.

I do see enough difference using m1 native plugins in the m1 native ableton 11 beta to make it worthwhile, especially resource hungry stuff like DIVA - but rosetta 2 is extremely impressive.

The automatic rosetta wrapper used for audio unit plugins inside the m1 native ableton version works well too - even allowing me to run p900 modular from nothing but a straight copy over of the plugin! - but AUs don't allow midi out from midi effect plugins that run as instruments, so I find myself using both versions of ableton, depending on the plugins I want to use.

Overall I have been very happy with my 16gb mac mini m1 - I expected far more issues than I've actually had with it.  It just sits there silently running (almost) everything I throw at it.