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Fair enough. I had my share of emacs back in the day, and then some VI (some people swear by it, some people swear at it ?). They weren't for me, but I appreciate that old habits stick. Tools are tools; use whatever's most comfortable I say.

As you say, it's a modern marketing technique. By not letting someone have it immediately, it's supposedly making the audience think about it subconsciously: 'Won't it be great? I wonder what features it will have... I have to have it... I must have it!'. And then when it's finally available, people are more ready to buy. At the very least it helps initial sales numbers as those interested have some notice. Or at least that's my understanding of it. I'm not a marketing person though; I'm sure @PavlovsCat would be able to offer a better insight of this technique.

VS Code is better. I can't think of a single time in recent years where I've though otherwise.

Most probably; this came out after 14, so that's a good reason why it isn't in 14.

Not sure why anybody would be allergic to Kontakt Player 7 - it's free, and there are no intrusive copy protection systems (you're free to shut down Native Access after the installation too). But yes - avoid it if you don't want to run Kontakt Player 7.

I thought VS looked interesting, so I watched a few videos on it a while ago. Note that things may have changed since those videos were made, but VS is (or was at that time) aimed primarily at live performance - there is no way to export a video synced with your song. I seem to remember that one of the suggested workarounds was to get a screen recorder and record a real-time playthrough.

Most companies (say they) will provide all users with an unlocked version of their software if they pack up. I remember Accusonus did when it decided to discontinue their product line. Whether other follow through if something unfortunate happens to them will (probably) be dependent on their circumstances.

I've used iZotope products for years and have never had a problem with their copy protection system. (I don't use iLok.)

Minor-key synthy sounds with sub-bass drops, whooshes, and slams? (Just a guess)

The thing is, I get the impression that you're after libraries of realistic sounding playable instruments; Saxophone Explorations looks more like an abstract soundscape library. I don't think it's the frivolous bits of a sampled saxophone emulation - it's a different category of library.

Sorry for being OT, but what effect/filter did you use to mangle the codes in that screenshot? It looks like a pixelation, but not.

The channel strips are pretty good. I quite like the Focusrite one, but I've seen the AMEK get lots of praise (I personally haven't tried it). The Shadow Hills are pretty good on the master bus (make sure you activate the sidechain to let the lows go thorough if its pumping). I've seen praise for the elysia alpha compressor too.

Not sure where you're seeing that; presumably on GitHub? Regardless, it just means that the code/binary available there is licensed under GPLv3. As the copyright owner, Jatin owns the code and can do what he wants with it; he is allowed to license it to anyone under any license he chooses. I'm fairly sure that if anyone contacted him and asked for a non-copyleft licence, and offered an amount of compensation he deems appropriate, he would happily grant them a licence that supersedes the publicly available one. That's one of the perks of owning the IP.

Giving this a bump as this is (apparently) the last time Omnidrums will be available for purchase.

For anyone still waiting for their PA vouchers, NI are probably just inundated right now. I just received an email from NI with my PA vouchers; I bought from Best Service a week ago.

That sucks. I think when you see that dialogue, the setup program will still be running. You can probably find its path by looking in Task Manager and finding its .exe location. Make a copy, and then you should be able to run it separately.

I think that's an iZotope installer bug that's been there forever. I'm guessing your install path has spaces in it. It's not expecting any and interpreting anything after a space character as a command line switch. Try checking to make sure your install path doesn't have any spaces.

Fair enough. I just didn't want people who've never looked at Komplete before to get the wrong idea - there are some companies where you have to download your purchase fully or pay for download costs after a certain amount of time.

They only take up as much space as is needed: you can choose to install what you want, when you want. You can also remove it and re-install later if your project requirements change.

UI reminds me of Cakewalk Pro Audio 8

Too bad - I was looking forward to a free backup drive.

Baby Audio... oh wait, that's already taken...

I didn't mean the loop library itself so much. More like Artist A publishes a song that uses a (melodic) guitar riff loop. Then Artist B uses the same loop in a different song and tries to publish it. And then some (possibly AI powered) algorithm matches Artist B's song to sound the same as Artist A's. Edit: but yes - I guess there's some threshold, otherwise there'd be a huge number of claims.

No doubt these are good, but they're pretty pricy. I wonder how they'd compare with SWAM Saxophones, where you could get the whole bundle for less than the price of 2 from MOJO.

Is there any danger about getting flagged for copyright infringement (e.g. on YouTube) when using loops and your song sounds identical to someone else's?