MusicMan

TE100 is very good ?

Very good call. Love that one ?

Hard to say, but all I can be sure of, is that I needed one more than I had yesterday it seems ?

Looking forward to seeing SPL PQ as I quite like PA's SPL Passeq.

This is really helpful! The forum in particular makes it really easy to see what versions there have been previously and what's current. I'll save/remember that page as well. Thanks ?

Haha... thanks Lars and seems there haven't been any point releases since I bought it, which is why I haven't seen anything from them. I currently have Mixbus 32C 7.2.0.

Do these guys ever do updates/patches/improvements etc, or only major versions? I own 32C V7, but since I've owned it, I've never seen, or known how to get updates...

I've thought about these ones a few times, but they just don't seem to update them..

I paid for Plus to support the dev as well as he's open sourced and made free things in addition to Vital, like the Helm synth. It's good to support these type of people ?

From memory, more wavetables as well as presets. But otherwise not limited in functionality.

SurgeXT synth is quite a good free synth and pretty cool seeing some of the Air Windows effects built into it. Before Vital it was probably the best, now it's still good, but Vital might just have the edge. Definitely good to have though and it still sees use here ?

I've generally considered them to have reasonable products, although I'm not sure if I've bought any as of yet. Without getting into the politics side, is it possible to get a summary of what these "interesting" views/comments were seeing how they're now deleted? I can somewhat guess, but I'd like to not assume. If not PM is fine too ?

IZotope tools are very capable, so you'll be fine ? With EQ, the best thing I learnt was making space for each sound and dynamic EQ with sidechain, so when a vocal for example plays at the same time as some keys, or whatever, that may share some of the same space, you can duck the keys just in those clashing frequencies to allow space for the vocals. Also comes into programming and trying to avoid that collision, but otherwise try and bring out the main essence of each sound and not have two clashing. A number of EQs like you would likely have with IZotope allow you to overlay them visually so you can see where they're fighting. Can make a much clearer track. EQ is also just highlighting what you like about a sound/instruments, so that's a good place to start ?

I haven't personally used Mixroom, but for some weird reason Bassroom is really good at sculpturing the bass, so it wouldn't surprise me if Mixroom was good too. You don't really need any of them, but they're just tools that can help. It's worthwhile spending the time learning the theory and being able to use any EQ. Lots of good free resources to point you in the right direction. It's easy to get stuck in the loop of thinking we need another plugin to solve something, when we've all probably got more than we need and it would be better to spend the time learning and practicing with what we've got ?

Well.. if you haven't seen it, then it's safe to say it hasn't been on sale ? The upgrade price direct through them isn't far off just buying the full versy on sale too.. it's a shame though, they would actually sell a lot more of them.. I don't think they get the whole loyalty pricing thing.. Don't overlook Bassroom.. it's a surprisingly good EQ for lower frequencies ?

It would be nice to see the upgrade for Expose 2 go on sale at some stage. I don't think I've ever seen it discounted...

But don't they even warn you of that when you're checking out? ?

The price you posted was right ? I saw it before they fixed it. Not 100% certain it said "Collection", but it was definitely the compressor at the lower price either way.

Well.. it did take a little while, but Cubase Pro 12 up and running ? Mine wasn't exactly standard though, as I was upgrading from Elements to Cubase Pro with an upgrade I bought back in one of their previous sales so it would qualify for the grace period, but not owning a dongle / eLicenser.. they sorted it all out and first impressions are it looks pretty good!

Thanks Craig. I know it did go on sale at least once in 2021, but that was for €99 instead and I believe that's because they bumped the RRP to €499. It's now been changed back to the original RRP of €399 which makes me think it might still hit €79 in the not too distant future... but then for the sake of €10 it's probably worth just jumping in and getting to have fun with it now anyway ?

Do you think it's going to get back down to 79 Euros any time soon?

As much as I wish this wasn't the case.. I slightly preferred the Waves CLA-3A. The BRA version was still good though. I might end up getting it just so I can move that one away from Waves.

Nice seeing this one. I already liked the original one, but just on some quick tests, this thing is pretty nice and great to see it's free for existing users.. looking forward to taking it for a bit more of a spin ?

Agreed on their piracy paranoia. That's why they stuck to the dongles. But I think in most cases, people that are going to use cracked software, probably weren't going to buy it anyway. I'd hazard a guess to say that their anti piracy protections cost them more than saved. To even need to buy a dongle to trial some software would stop a lot of people from even considering Cubase. As for never getting a reply from support, that's totally unacceptable. Long wait times and useless answers aren't uncommon, but no reply at all would be appalling for any company and they should be called out for that. The forums do seem quite helpful though at least ?

They would've known for quite a while if the direction was going to be to get rid of the dongles, so I dare say they've just been hoping the thing wouldn't fall over completely! Totally a business choice and the call was probably wrong back then to not scale them, but at this point in time the spend wouldn't make sense. As for the multiple apps, I thought that was a bit weird too.. almost had an IKM type of vibe to it.. ? The download one is odd, as if you register the download code in there it shows it, but apparently if you redeem the download code on the web, it doesn't, or something along those lines. One app for download, register, authorise would be way better. To IKMs credit, even they have made some headway there ? On doing the flagship first, in ways I somewhat support their choice. They were always going to have a 0.5 release due/expected around then, so to develop and then stick to the old licensing meant it would delay Cubase being dongle free for quite a while. I would think that the majority of the people with other Steinberg products that require a dongle, would likely have Cubase as well. So if they did the others first, the majority of people likely still would've needed a dongle, whereas by doing Cubase many of us that only have Cubase from Steinberg and new customers can use the new licensing without a dongle. So I expect load would likely been similar, or less. That means more sales and new users, which is great for all of us. In software development it often makes more sense to make release as you go, which is what they've done too. For support, can't really argue that.. I've only ever used it recently and I'm still waiting ? But I expected this to be the worst period and I could easily just have waited a few weeks before logging a ticket, or trying to upgrade anyway and the queues would be much better... the support may still suck.. but the wait shouldn't be as long! From what I've heard recently, their dev and support team is surprisingly small. Sounds pretty clear they need to invest more there.