Doug Steinschneider

Good to hear, maybe Microsoft is being more generous with Win11 licensing.

Just spent half an hour playing it. Pretty sure it will go into regular rotation. Good sounding piano for sing/songwriter rock multi-track recording.

I bought it - had some credit on PB so was $8 plus I chose UA PolyMAX as freebie. I usually use modeled pianos, Mrs Mills is the only sample based piano I use regularly. This piano was on my short list because so many people on music forums have mentioned they like it. Did you guess I'm not a concert pianist? ?

I've used Reaper for years but decided Cakewalk was better for a band/studio I'm working with. We've been very happy with the results. Reaper is good for accomplishing certain recording/mixing/editing maneuvers quickly though it's scripting ability. I'm hopeful Bandlab rolls out an inexpensive perpetual license that you can elect to upgrade annually for an also reasonable price. I'm allergic to monthly subscriptions.

These licenses work only for the hardware first activated on. If your motherboard dies you would need to purchase again (or any change to hardware significant enough to confuse the licensing server). I've used these types of licenses before, you're activating against a volume license key.

I was hoping for a sale on New Bee earphone tips ?:

I'm working with a studio that moved from analog to digital this past year. I've been collecting freebies as we go along and we bought a few IK products on deep discount. I've found some of the older Waves products are useful (like Renaissance plugins). It's annoying that the 2 additional free plugins are from a list that omits plugins we would like to get such as Vocal Rider or the live autotune. I think in our position of not having bought many plugins that this bundle is well worth it. Interested in any comments on this decision. Thanks

It worked in Kontakt7 Player. Agree with several others here that it's an acquired taste ?

Worked for me - when I got the cart I logged in as I have a Melda account

I've got Kontakt 7 player and use it for several instruments. I could swear I read that Aquae Organ required the full Kontakt.

Good catch, I installed it but didn't test - I only have Kontakt 6 Full so no Aquae Organ for me.

I just got a license and installed.

I bought their wah-wah pedal emulator (WF3607) - it's very good - surprised it's not in the list above

I'm a long time user of DD-WRT going back to the old blue and grey Linksys units that predated N WiFi. For this R7000 though, I reset it back to factory and then reconfigured it as an AP and it's working well again.

I'll take one - thanks - Happy New Year!

I went for Masala 1 this year. Last year Angelic. I'm a long time Lounge Lizard user - I think their instruments are innovative and they have some good sound designers. The Swatches collection is generous as are the yearly gifts.

Since my music day job (not my actual day job ?) is playing bass I limit what I will spend on tools for music creation and recording. This forum has helped me build up a pro quality set of tools on a shoestring budget. It also helps in avoiding shiny objects that aren't all that useful. Finally, I use many of the freebies discovered here on a regular basis. I get the collector mentality, years ago when I had my Roland D10 and later Korg M1 I was always desperately looking for useful patches which were few and far between but very rewarding when found.

I was able to buy aIR Rack for $5 - thanks for the tip. I think it's the right one for my usage.

This one probably aligns better with what I'm hoping to accomplish. The Amp and EQ sections of the Nembrini product are probably very good but I would probably use an amp sim instead. The Nembrini IR Loader looks more like a tool to create a very custom unique amp replacement more than just an IR tool

Unpredictable - one of the IR's might scorch my mix ? (recently read Three Body Problem trilogy)

I love the AXE I/O Solo. It replaced one of my Behringer UMC202HD's (moved it over to keyboard duties) that I was very happy with but the AXE I/O helps my bass and guitar sound and play better. I use the Passive/Active switch depending on which bass I'm using. The Z-Tone knob is helpful when moving between a Strat and Les Paul.

CYBER10 at checkout brings it down to $14

I have been using Vegas Pro 14 that came with a Humble Bundle several years ago. As a user of DAW's I found after watching a bunch of YouTube videos that I could accomplish everything I needed. To create a live video of our band I took video from multiple phones and multitrack off the board and synced them up and edited it into a nice live band video. I'm going to buy this bundle to get up to v19.

I've collected some free bass cab impulse reponses from Dr Bonkers. I also have some that are supposed to be good for acoustic guitar. I've played with IR's in AmpliTube 5. I use Nembrini amp sims on a regular basis and like the product line. My IR use will be supplemental - mostly to improve the sound of amp sims while recording guitars and basses in DAW's. While reading reviews I see that users who have enormous collections of IR prize a good fast browsing system which apparently isn't one of the strengths of the Nembrini IR loader although they respond to comments about this that they will be addressing that. They include an EL-34 power amp section and a six band EQ. I see people who demo it are using preamp VST's and effect pedal emulations instead of an amp sim. Is anyone here using Nembrini's IR Loader? If so, how do you use it? I have downloaded ChopTones IR Loader , STL Nadir, Melda MConvolution EZ and Lancaster Pulse

Welcome to Unify - I think you'll be pleasantly surprised, especially with synth plugins you already own. I've learned a lot from John's weekly livestreams. Many of them involve Unify libraries for products I don't own like Omnisphere but it's a good way of learning more about those. The U-he Zebra2 Unify library is good.