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https://www.ikmultimedia.com/news/index.php?id=nammslam2019 There will probably be additional mark downs showing up shortly at your favorite reseller. https://www.audiodeluxe.com/taxonomy/term/240/?f[0]=bm_field_on_sale_now%3Atrue

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Lifted from Larry's post in the great beyond This physical model of C. Bechstein Digital Grand is originally derived from a C. Bechstein D 282 concert grand piano. Authorized by Bechstein, the Pianoteq model reproduces the outstandingly brilliant and powerful sound of this magnificent instrument with its singing, richly coloured voice, suitable for many different music genres. More details: https://www.pianoteq.com/bechstein Buy it now: https://www.pianoteq.com/buy Offer until 31 January 2019: buy the new C. Bechstein Digital Grand and get 50% discount on one additional instrument pack of your choice

C. Bechstein Digital Grand for Pianoteq available This physical model of C. Bechstein Digital Grand is originally derived from a C. Bechstein D 282 concert grand piano. Authorized by Bechstein, the Pianoteq model reproduces the outstandingly brilliant and powerful sound of this magnificent instrument with its singing, richly coloured voice, suitable for many different music genres. More details: https://www.pianoteq.com/bechstein Buy it now: https://www.pianoteq.com/buy Offer until 31 January 2019: buy the new C. Bechstein Digital Grand and get 50% discount on one additional instrument pack of your choice.

The electric company seems to have sent their final notice. You are visiting the legacy Cakewalk forums, which will freeze on Wed, Jan 16, 2019 Once frozen, these forums will become read-only. But thanks to the many valuable contributions of this amazing community over the years, the forums will remain in place as a vital information resource for legacy Cakewalk products. Most importantly, we have a vibrant new home for Cakewalk by BandLab to better serve the community! Please join us at discuss.cakewalk.com.

If you are running any computer with any OS in 2019 you need an SSD, LoL. As a rule of preventive maintenance and data preservation I always replace hard drives around the 5 year end of life mark at the longest before they get semi retired to a server bay and used for 2x duplicate data backups and FTP server for closed collaborations. Only exceptions would be if a HD started making abnormal noises or became corrupted and flunked a ScanDisk test, then I'd replace it immediately and trash it. "-Erik "If a technical discussion on a DAW forum goes on long enough without a solution, someone will eventually tell the OP that they need more RAM, an SSD, or a Waves plug-in." These are actually all great suggestions, though as much of a fan and advocate of Waves plugins as I am, I would highly recommend being very careful and judicial in using them with less than powerful computers as many are very CPU intensive. Waves TrueVerb is one of my all time vintage favs and really a great one and easy in the CPU. I was also a big fan of Waves IR-1 convolution reverb which was a CPU hog even running in "lite" mode, it still used massive amounts of memory for "Impulse" samples. These days my all time #1 go to fav is Waves HReverb which can be very easy to quite CPU intensive depending on how many and how much internal processing modules (built in plugin FX loop) are turned on. But on the downside of using Waves plugins having older release versions of Waves with v10 plugins on the same system can cause a mine field of problems from tediously slow VST scans, and as far as I know to date, you cannot run v9 and v10 plugins together in the same DAW project with any DAW. Waves support is second to none, but I don't believe they have much incentive to correct this condition and offer much support to those who won't support them back. But on the upside, your old vintage Waves plugins will always work as they always worked, there just won't be improved functionality and refined for the latest Windows or OS X drivers, go from VST to VST2 to VST3 and or have ARA support and so on and so forth. In other words, they will eventually become obsolete as did Win XP and soon to be Win 7.. All things must pass..... R.I.P. @mdiemer I think I'm on my 5th year using PC Matic and absolutely LOVE IT! I run it once a week on Saturday morning on all 4 Windows computers all at once. I start it up, go have a cup of coffee, then go back and reboot the computers then run it again if I'm not satisfied with a noticeable boost in fresh boot up speed. It cleans the Registry, defrags mechanical drives, optimizes SSD's, checks drivers, graphics and HD health diagnostics, performs a full virus scan, checks internet speed, and makes all changes and tweaks when and where needed. It would take me at least ALL DAY Saturday to perform all these PITA maintenance tasks, it takes less then a minute to start it up on all my PC's and PC Matic has been doing it all for me during breakfast. Since using PC Matic I have NEVER had a crash nor have I ever had to do a fresh clean install of Windows. Not only have I had all good upgrade experiences from Win 7 to 10, I had 100 % success rate CLONING all my mechanical hardrives to Western Digital SSDs with the free Acronis software. And the last time I cloned, I didn't even have to reregister any plugins, not even with the XLN Audio AD 1 or 2 or Addictive Keys plugins.. 😍

There will be a total lunar eclipse coming our way, beginning on Sunday, January 20 2019, and lasting into the 21st! The darkest shaded areas of the globe are where the entire eclipse is visible from start to finish. Moving outward from that region, portions of the eclipse are visible. Where can I see it? Totality of this lunar eclipse can be seen and experienced everywhere in the Western Hemisphere, as well as extreme Northern Asia, Ireland, England, and portions of France, Spain, and Scandinavia. When will this event be taking place? The eclipse will begins on January 21, 2019 at 0236 GMT and will end at 0748 GMT. For those who don’t want to convert GMT to our time zone(s), the eclipse will run from 9:30 p.m., on Sunday, January 20, 2019 until 2:45 a.m. on Monday, January 21, 2019, for those on US Eastern Standard Time. Why will this be happening? The moon will pass through the Earth’s shadow on the far side of the Sun. When that happens, the moon will appear red (what is known as a Blood Moon) and get very dark before emerging from the shadow on the other side. For more info check out: B&H Eclipse Info

Hey Meng, Noel, Jesse, Hoping you have a great NAMM show !

Maybe,soon?

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"Stay With Me" by Dave Owen is a pop song that features lots of vocals and vocal harmonies, guitars, horns, and other stuff. Not your typical electronic nor EDM material, so it may come off as something different. https://www.bandlab.com/user6579478426077420/stay-with-me-dave-owen-namm-2019-c094b

Greetings Dimpro experts. Doing a bit of clean up for 2019, I noticed that I have multiple Multisamples folders to support DP 1.5. One on the Correct C: drive and one on another...I probably toyed around with moving the library in the past, but a more recent build installed to C:, which Is fine for now. I was intrigued by the older Multisamples folder being much larger and comprised of Wav files vs FLAC for the more recent......was that a Cakewalk change that I missed? No worries, doesn't seem to compromise the sample sets, just curious if it's worth keeping. If not...out the door or through the window! Thanks in advance .

I actually found a VST that reports how many FLS slots are left. I loaded it into a project I have that doesn't have all that many plug-ins and it said that I had 79 slots left. Now I know I don't have 50 plug-ins in this project, so some of them must be using multiple .DLL's, Cakewalk itself must use several (I count 14 .DLL's in the Core folder, if that means anything). Very interesting, and I never heard of this limitation. It seems to be something that film composer types would run up against moreso than audio recorders like me. Nice that Microsoft are addressing it and announcing it right ahead of the NAMM Show.

8-Jan-2019: Voxengo is pleased to announce the release of Warmifier version 2.2, a valve warming/harmonic enhancing plugin for professional music and audio production applications, available in AAX, AudioUnit, VST and VST3 plugin formats (including native 64-bit support), for macOS, and Windows computers. This updated version includes the following changes: · Added ProTools 12+ AAX64 support. · Redesigned the infrastructure controls. · Implemented color scheme editor with load and save functions. · Added several new color schemes. · Made the user interface scale switchable without host reload. · Added 90%, 110%, 150%, 175% visual scales. · 29% lower CPU usage on AVX2-capable processors (in 64-bit mode). · Added Retina support on macOS, and automatic high-resolution UI size adjustment on Windows. Warmifier is a special audio effect AAX, AudioUnit and VST plugin for professional sound and music production applications which processes audio signal in a way similar to analog tube/valve equipment. By using Warmifier you can achieve valve warming and “console” coloration effects. Warmifier is applicable both to the complete mixes and to the individual instrument tracks. You have several parameters at your disposal that allow you to control the strength and the color of the effect. Also, you have several tube/valve types to choose from. Each valve type offers a different overall coloration. While the effect of this plugin is definitely subtle, the difference it makes is similar to the difference in sound between various analog mixing consoles. In most cases it boils down to adding a subtle “sparkle”, “presence”, “warming” or “solidifying” effect to a sound track it was applied to. Warmifier features: · 7 valve types · 2 processing modes · Stereo processing · Up to 8x oversampling · 64-bit floating point processing · Preset manager · Undo/redo history · A/B comparisons · Contextual hint messages · All sample rates support · 41 ms compensated processing latency · User interface color schemes · Resizable user interface · Retina and HighDPI support Warmifier is available for purchase on-line for US$ 39.95. Demo version of Warmifier can be downloaded freely at the Voxengo web site: http://www.voxengo.com/product/warmifier/?eref=ml

As long as you have rights to the material. This will be played in a public place so covers may not be permissible. It could also be featured in our NAMM feed. I updated the OP to indicate this.

Free GROW and LEVELS plug-ins from Mastering The Mix This month we’ve teamed up with Mastering The Mix to bring you GROW (worth £17) and a free 6-month licence to the trouble-shooting tool LEVELS (worth £49). To access both plug-ins simply log-in to your Focusrite account before the 7th March 2019 - 4pm UK time). https://customer.focusrite.com/register

Hi folks, We're looking for some cool content to showcase at NAMM. Please link any of your music if you have potential submissions you would like to share in this thread. Thanks!

Hi folks, BandLab is going to have a big presence at NAMM this year and Cakewalk has a dedicated booth where we'll be showcasing the product and new features. Generally for product demos, we have a few real world projects on hand that we use to show various features. I have a few projects that I had set up for the AES show but need a few more for variety. We'd like to put out a call to anyone who would like to have their project showcased as part of our materials. In the future we can also consider using some of these for downloadable demo songs (all with permission of course) To kick this off: If you have some great sounding projects that were produced primarily in CbB and showcases the application please post a link to the music in this thread with maybe a screenshot of the loaded project if possible. An easy way would be to publish a mix of your project to BandLab and embed the BandLab link. (click the bandlab icon on the toolbar in the post editor to embed) Important: We need a project file for a submission so please don't list songs that you cannot submit as a project. Also if you list something from a collection / album please indicate which song you would like to be considered. We won't have time to listen to albums and pick something appropriate. Requirements: - Since everything will be played from a Surface Book 2 with generally stock plugins (SONAR plugins are ok) tracks using 3rd party plugins would need to be frozen. - We're looking for some diverse material so things like modern electronic music, film scores, jazz, contemporary rock/pop are all viable. - Project's that showcase certain types of features would also be useful. e.g vocal comping, multi tracked drums, vocalsync, melodyne, advanced mixing, etc. - You must have rights to share the music and may need to sign a release form - If accepted projects will need to be uploaded to a shared folder For NAMM we just need a few more projects but feel free to submit any candidates since they might be considered for other uses as well. Time is short so we'll need these by mid next week to get prepped. thanks!

NAMM 2019 will be where the BandLab VST/VSTi store launch will be announced.

MakeMusic is committed to providing free technical support for current Garritan products. Two years after the release of Garritan Personal Orchestra 5, technical support for the previous version, GPO 4, will be discontinued effective March 1, 2019. We encourage GPO 4 users to continue to find alternative support through our Help Center, which includes links to our Knowledge Base and Community forums. GPO 4 users are also able to upgrade to GPO 5 for $49.95. Because these changes impact support, we are contacting all GPO 4 users, including those who have opted out of email in the past. Please take this opportunity to make any desired updates to your email preferences via My Account. https://makemusic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us

Interesting - any CbB coders ( @Noel Borthwick ) know if this would affect performance? https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2019/01/09/announcing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-18312/?fbclid=IwAR1ycVXxAedMN3u0ejLugykUTrquurZc8LKHJXPznFGcDOn1MemXwtly5K4 Here's the excerpt of interest: Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18312 FLS Slot Limit Increase As PCs get more powerful, musicians have created increasingly complex projects with more tracks, more instruments, and deeper effects chains. As a result, some of those musicians were running up against a FLS (Fiber Local Storage) slot allocation ceiling that prevented them from loading into their DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations) as many unique plugins as they’d like. This build greatly raises that per-process FLS slot allocation ceiling, allowing loading potentially thousands of unique plugins. Beyond musicians, this change will positively impact any application that dynamically loads hundreds or thousands of unique DLLs that have statically-linked Visual C++ runtimes, or otherwise allocate FLS slots.

January 16, 2019 per a post Jesse Jost of BandLab posted in the old Cakewalk forum.

I bought them because Devin Townsend got some cool tones out of them at NAMM... Haven't had the opportunity to spend time with them, unfortunately

Last week I mentioned to CD Baby that they haven't had a sale on their standard single song distribution in a long time. Well they listened to me & posted this today! "Start your year right by releasing your first single of 2019 for only $5! Flash sale expires Jan 11! Use code: FLASH5 at checkout" https://cdbaby.com/

Lush, Organic Soundscapes For this exclusive product, the Vienna team went straight to their vast treasure trove of orchestral sounds. The core of Vienna Smart Spheres is entirely organic and acoustic, with all the liveliness and vibrancy that comes from live performance. The breath, Bows and body movements of Vienna’s famed musicians shine throughout the range of each patch. After Vienna’s sound design team experimented with their raw samples it became clear that their acoustic recordings would provide uniquely vibrant sounds with tremendous depth and interest. Using the possibilities of Vienna’s new Synchron Player with its powerful integrated FX plug-ins and routing options, Vienna Smart Spheres offers a shimmering and impressive collection of sounds that will be useful in any musical environment, from film scores to the more experimental side of electronic music. The Vienna team’s goal was to design soundscapes from various sources, recorded over the course of many years, with the highest attention to detail. As always, the included presets are a suggestion, a starting point that ideally inspires any musician to explore, modulate and expand sonic boundaries within the traditional symphonic realm. You may tweak the presets and the FX amount simply by moving pre-configured Continuous Controllers, such as CC1 or CC3. If you want to go further, the flexible and open structure of the Synchron Player’s user interface easily allows for far more detailed editing. Whatever your personal approach will be, Vienna Smart Spheres will guide you through a variety of settings, from fearsome dark drones to heavenly ethereal spheres. Ambient symphonic explorations Hand-picked sound-design presets Organic, living, breathing sounds from the finest acoustic sources Flexible routing and sound-design possibilities Experimental sounds for Basses, Leads, Pads, Plucks and Pulses If you’re a registered or new user of the Vienna Smart Orchestra, your crossgrade price to Vienna Smart Spheres is €85, only through January 31, 2019! Starting at just $95. For more information: https://www.vsl.co.at/en jrrshop: $97.00 https://www.jrrshop.com/vienna-symphonic-library-smart-spheres-for-owners-of-smart-orchestra Best Service: $105.00 https://www.bestservice.com/vienna_smart_spheres.html