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"I need another channel strip like I need a second *****" vs "that Neve is really nice at that price"

I should have specified "with low effort". Off the top of my head I know my UVI stuff would not work. I think we discussed this before. Akai's big errors were abandoning project and shutting down the exchange. I think most of us are willing to manually input a fav synth or two, but nobody is going through all of their native instrument expansions or kontakt libraries. I have mixed feelings about nks. I like that it actually works but hate the restrictions.

I loved old cakewalk instruments too, but I agree with. abacab. There are too many free products that are probably better AND less likely to crash your current setup. Vital and Surge alone cover most of the synth options. Almost every drum and sampler option is superior to what cakewalk offered for . Beatscape at best was a not finished instrument that never caught on. Granted, finding a vast rompler like dimension pro for free is a challenge in an all in one product, but bbc discovery, labs, sine player, ample guitar/bass lite, kontact player, and decent sampler will give you overall better sound quality. I still have the installers for a number of cakewalk instruments and the only one i bother with is zeta+2 and mostly because it's one of the few synths i have that VIP software works with.

So glad you were able to solve it. I agree the old version was more usable . the newer version is not bad but there is so little control. I will look in my account and see where my installer is

If you registered it, it should still be in your izotope account. You have to look in the legacy installers area

Kind of. I forgot the details. If I'm not mistaken it was not directly from Cakewalk. Forgive me if I am wrong , but I believe when Cakewalk first started including Addictive Drums, during the registration with XLN they were giving away the original version of Elements and we got in on deal.

The idea is not god awful. I am a firm believer in not giving yourself extra work for repetitive tasks. Pop music has been using same chord progressions forever and having them handy is a timesaver. I just hate the concept that it's that simple. Plenty of awful songs used the same chords.

They finally released the update for beats and it is working great in cakewalk for now.

Sounds like one of those awful unison chord pack ads

I use this feature all the time now

I think sidechaining might work wonders. best of luck

I'm using it in camp today for a "found sound' project. My son and i have been listening to too much John cage lol

I also want to emphasize that the mix issue is minor. i loved it as is

I believe you can keep balance and get baas and kick better.

I got Rbass free about 8 years ago, didn't pay WUP until this year and only because I wanted interface update. It still worked fine. Waves rarely makes major changes to software. I would not stress it at all.

I think "best" is not only subjective but will vary based on a number of factors like your skill in sound design and end goals. If your goal is to get out of the box sounds used in modern hit pop songs, Omnisphere is a strong candidate . Serum also goes in that category but will be even more dominant among EDM producers who prefer designing own sounds as opposed to great presets. If a more vintage sound is your goal, one of the many quality emulations of classic synths may be up your alley. Right now my go to synth is Pigments 3. It does everything Serum does and more. Another quality candidate is Vital, which is free and similar to Serum. Another great free candidate is Surge. User interface is kinda blah, but it packs a lot of capability. Bottomline is that best synth is one that is most useful to you. Watch some videos of creators making the type of music you make and see if there is a common denominator. With that said, just because the same products come up often does not mean you must use them to get good results. Experiment and best of luck.

This has a very modern feel to it. Love it. so clean!

This sounds great, but I think the bass and drums should knock a little harder for this type of song. remember, this is dance music. If that thump isn't there, it won't flow with the rest of the songs people are dancing to in the club. You have a great base. just tweak that mix to give a bit more thump. It's making me relax, which is good, but a few tweaks to mix and I will be dancing instead.

Maybe it's he fact that i was brought up on old school reggae, but I don't mind the slightly off notes. it adds a bit of human passion to the song that makes it feel very heartfelt. great job

It has potential but as is, is more effective for mobile imo. Like much of bandlab, it favors convenience and ease of use over power user features.

I have viewed this video. He does a great job. Unfortunately as of the time I posted this, it was not working consistently. I heard the new update works better

And just for clarity, I did not mean that as a slight. I think the target market that the sampler in bandlab is aimed at it is awesome. It's very intuitive and nice for found sound type work

Koala is actually very functional for what it's designed for. It is basically an app version of an sp404. Koala's functionality in sonar would have went a long way in making it more useful to modern pop production. It's not kontakt, but kontakt is useless for what koala does despite being exponentially more powerful.

It's like a stripped down version of koala. It's not bad at all

I got it yesterday. It's pretty extensive. Have not tried in cakewalk yet