Matthew Sorrels

It's already there, EzKeys and Drums. Links are in the first post.

Put your crash dumps (zip them up) on a file service (dropbox/Google Drive/what ever) and post a link to it. Someone (maybe me) will generally open your crash dump with a debugger and tell you what crashed. I can't guarantee it will be useful, but it might give you a direction to look. Doesn't really matter if Cakewalk is or isn't supporting Windows 7, your crash is almost surely going to be a plugin or device driver, but knowing what is crashing can often help. You could also send the crash dumps to Cakewalk or you could download a copy of Microsoft Visual Studio and open the crash dump yourself. Other ways of analyzing the dumps I don't really recommend, apps that claim to look at dumps rarely are that useful -- you pretty much need to read the call stacks by hand to get any decent picture. To save time ask yourself these questions: Am I using any 32bit plugins? Have I updated my audio and video card drivers and everything else I can (yes with Win 7 that's difficult but not impossible). Can I reproduce the crash using a minimum number of steps? Can I reproduce the crash repeatable with a specific project in a specific way? Software doesn't normally crash randomly (the kinds of hardware failures that would cause that will cause all kinds of problems in every app you run and just Windows itself), so you can play detective and work out how/why it crashes.

I don't think there is any upgrade path from the single products, other than M1LE.

The Triton demo is pretty awesome. Even I was impressed with all the sounds they included and the resizing GUI. The only thing wrong with it is the pricing and the crazy store they make you use. Since they really aren't offering any deals for me, I guess I'm going to wait. I'm far too stubborn to buy it without a deal. Maybe something will come up.

I think the only discount path from nothing (or just the iOS versions) is to get M1LE and then use the $199 upgrade. I'm not sure if they do license transfers/etc (so I'm not sure how easy to buy the M1LE is) And I'm not sure how you'd get M1LE (without buying some hardware). You might be able to find someone selling it unregistered though (check KvR). There doesn't seem to be an upgrade path from the single synths to the collection. The other KORG stuff isn't bad, but it's very tiny UI makes it pretty hard to use on my 4k monitor. The Triton is the first synth that has resize options. You could just buy it for $199 directly and skip the other stuff.

You may also want to try increasing your ASIO audio buffer size. Cbb and Cubase drive the ASIO engines very differently, it's possible if your using very low latency settings it might be causing the crash in Cbb and Cubase (which handles ASIO problems slightly better) wouldn't. The crash dump though is what you really need to have analyzed, it may offer more clues about why it's crashing for you and not for other users.

Works fine for me too using Cbb 2019.12 and Pro-Q 3.11 Pro-Q does use OpenGL which can cause problems with video card drivers, you may need to update them.

Happy New Year everyone.

Strings of Winter doesn't show up as it's own instrument in the Kontakt Library when you have the Orchestra Complete. But all the content is in Orchestra Complete. You just don't don't get a separate thing in the Kontakt Library list. But that's actually a GOOD thing, since it means you can use those Strings Of Winter instruments along with your base Orchestra instruments and build even more awesome patches. If the two things were completely separate you couldn't mix them together.

Melda only gives limited credit for single plugins that are part of a bundle. So if you buy three or four plugins and then go to upgrade to the bundle you get credit for them, but it's based on 50% of the price of the plugins if you bought it from a vendor instead of direct or whatever you paid if you bought it direct and then 70% of that. Which makes their upgrades from singles to bundles not so great, since it involves a 30% slippage. In addition owning a bundle doesn't get any discount or credit on another bundle even if they contain a number of shared plugins. The only exception for this is the MComplete bundles which the other bundles can help offset the cost of. But if you own the Mastering Bundle the Mixing bundle doesn't come at a discount even though they share plugins, for example. These "rules" aren't the end of the world of course but it makes buying single plugins when what you really want is the bundle not so great a deal. Total cost is always better to jump straight to the bundle when they are 50% off. Their transfer fees also make it somewhat unpractical to try and sell your plugins.

https://www.shazam.com/ It's an app you can run on your phone. Apple bought them out last year I think. It uses a very interesting way to recognize music. You just have it listen to a little bit of a song and if it's in the database it will recognize it. Works great when you are out and hear something you like on the radio or some loud speaker. The math behind how it works is very interesting, I read some really long detailed piece on it a year or two ago. Now that Apple owns them I fully expect the Android version to be killed any minute.

To get the Arp price I thought someone on KvR said the coupon was actually in their Korg Shop account and not the coupon from the old Korg user site.

TLDR version: KORG has software versions of some of their stuff. They just added the Triton. They are charging way too much for all of it. And their upgrade offers are complex and confusing and result in no significant discounts. Best move: stand pat this isn't a good deal.

The coupon is for the $199 price. Without the coupon you can't even get that. It doesn't lower the price any more -- just allows access to the $199 price. Which I guess is a limited time special, since normally the upgrade from M1le is $299 Which of course is a problem since the whole bundle right now is on sale for $299. Which is most likely why they are offering the M1le users this deal. But for legacy owners without the Arp the normal upgrade price is $199 and they are sticking with that, no sale price. For users with the Arp they are using $149 and sticking with that.

To get the upgrade offer you have to add the "upgrade" product from https://korg.shop/software/korg-collection-series/upgrade-products.html There is one for people that have the collection with the Arp. One for people with the old Legacy no Arp. And one for people with M1le. Once you add it to you cart you can't checkout until you add the correct coupon code to match.

If you want to demo the Triton you have to install their software center, KORG Software Pass. When I did that it showed all my legacy stuff (I never bought the Arp version upgrade) and claimed there were updates to them. When clicking the update button it would download and open a zip, running the setups inside those zips seemed to make the KORG Software Pass think I had the current versions. But inside Cakewalk the plugin still has the older version number and not the number the Software Pass is showing. The demo of Triton is pretty good. The GUI has some size options (thank God) and it sounds pretty good with all the expansions. It might be a viable GM Midi replacement (it has a bunch of GM soundbanks). But the best upgrade the offer for owning only the older legacy is $199 for the Arp and the Triton. And that's a bit much. Half off and I'd do it.

I think there is an update to the plugin today, FIN-MICRO_win_128.exe. Maybe they fixed it? I certainly couldn't get a vocal out of it. Didn't see anything in any of the files it installs that could be a vocal either. Post a Cakewalk project using it that makes the vocal, I'd love to see it.

Shazam matches that vocal to "Hold On" by Elefant Man & Mister P & DJ Slam, about the 3:25 minute mark (On Amazon Music's copy) Here's a YouTube of it Is it from a vocal loop pack maybe?

My legacy order is stuck "pending" as well. But it's in my account and installed, so I'm not sure what's up with that. To get the coupon code for the upgrade I had to go to the old Korg site ( https://www.korguser.net ) My account there had the coupon code for getting the new upgrade including the Triton and the Arp. At least I think that's what it is, I didn't actually try it since I don't think the upgrade price is all that great ($199) I'm also really confused because I download the current versions of the legacy synths and the zip's have higher version numbers as part of the filenames than what it installs. If they drop the price to $99 or less I'd most likely do it.

Here's links to last 2 years bundles https://sonniss.com/gameaudiogdc19/ https://sonniss.com/gameaudiogdc18/ Those they are a lot bigger than 1gb. I think they have monthly give aways around 1GB, though I only have a few of them so perhaps they aren't doing it anymore.

https://sonniss.com/ They do an game audio bundle giveaway every year for GDC

Their website/shop is kind of "difficult" but this offer seems pretty decent if you have any interest in film making https://store.ascmag.com/product-p/sub_dig_12-issues.htm $9.99 for a year of digital American Cinematographer Plus you get full access to previous issues (to at least 2015, maybe more) and they can be downloaded as PDF files. Normally I guess this is $50/year. Their store shows two similar products (the one linked above) and another that looks the same but talks about a July 30, 2019 deadline. I ordered the one above. While I had some difficulty getting an account setup and working through all the password issues it definitely delivered (you might want to setup your account before you order, might go better than it did for me). The web version is a little wonky, to get to the archives you have to click on a suitcase looking button that says "access more functionality and features" then click on archives, but that only goes back to 2015. On this page https://theasc.com/your-account at the bottom it lists issues back to 2011 but I can't seem to read/access the PDF/digital version of anything before 2015. Full version of Kontakt isn't required. Crazy priced prime lens set and camera to match recommend.

The cash-back won't show up till Jan 3 their website says. So there is no way to be sure just yet. But it seems pretty likely, given how Waves have ran things in the past.

While I do think this may be a price error, technically they got $5 more than Abbey Road Studio 3 is actually worth (using $29 as the reference price for all things Waves). After playing with it a bit, I kind of think NX is the better product. What S3 changes vs NX doesn't seem to be a whole lot more for me. But I don't have the head tracker, so perhaps that changes things. I also haven't been impressed with the Waves ATH-50X headphone settings vs Sonarworks. But you can use both NX/S3 and Sonarworks at the same time (turning off the headphone EQ option in NX/S3) so that's all good. I do like NX when using headphones and S3 does seem to do the same head transfer trick. But if you have NX I'm not sure S3 brings a whole lot more to it really. If I had to pick one of the two, I think NX sounds more neutral. The monitor choice options in S3 I'm not sure help me all that much. Someone with much better ears might hear something I'm missing.

Now the real question -- on the Waves site the Abbey Road Studio 3 plugin after the HALF coupon is $64.50. Which would qualify for a $15 cash back offer on Jan 3. So will Wave's site credit the MF purchase at their price point or at what MF actually sold it for? Though I'm not really sure what good a $15 credit would do me. But if they give it that would make this a crazy good deal (assuming I could find a use for the $15).