Matthew Sorrels

I'm willing to go $29. ?

I really hate iZotope's upgrade offer page. It's showing me 3 different deals for Ozone 9 Advanced, $299, $199, $149. Not to mention a ton of offers for the same product, products I already own. And the $399 Music Production Suite 3 Loyalty Offer has to be a joke considering I own Music Production Suite 2.1 and RX Post Production Suite 3.

They actually put this up last night before I went to bed. But I think Bandlab Assistant sometimes fails to get the version info and instead of telling you it doesn't know, it just claims everything is current. That's kind of common on updater apps. Creates slightly less tech support issues I guess.

I'm actually temped to use this and my voucher to pick up the few things they released recently that I actually want. Maybe I should stay away from the keyboard and go for a walk, I must be getting sick or something. I'll admit I'm kind of confused by how to play Plugin Alliance now. I have to assume they will keep doing flash sales. But I don't think any flash sale is going to drop new $300 plugins to much under $67. Older stuff maybe, but Shadow Hills/Lion/Focusrite?

Did you use Bandlab Assistant to install? It definitely is different from the pre-release. About box says 2019.09 build 60. I can't remember what the pre-release was.

As with most Kontakt instruments that support using your own samples, it's painful to use. Though Echo Sound Works does have a nice video showing you how to do it. It's pretty much open up the instrument and replace the mapping and wave file and resave.

I'd say this is a great deal. The list of fixed bugs alone makes me sing! Sadly I'm way out of tune and sound like a leaking faucet. Maybe 2019.10 will help with that. ?

That would make more sense.

Looks like it's been fixed. But it sure was funny. I think those "psych warfare" popups are really bad marketing too. Which makes it even funnier.

Something is really wrong with that Producer Spot web site. While sitting there looking at the Riffer page (which oddly enough I own but was curious about videos showing how to use it) I see this popup with what sure looks like a random generated password. Sit there long enough and you'll see a bunch of them. LOL.

From this page https://www.toontrack.com/toontrack-20-years/

Official, yes. Shipping yet, no. https://www.musicradar.com/news/namm-2019-toontracks-ezbass-promises-to-do-for-your-low-end-what-ezdrummer-did-for-your-beats 4th Quarter this year.

I think you are locked to one voucher per month for each dollar amount. So you could use one $25 voucher, one $50, one $75. But not two $50's. etc.

I couldn't get it to actually stop the audio engine but I did notice a giant CPU spike on one core at around the 4:20 mark (starting from an empty project, adding an aux track and turning off echo and then pressing play, on the empty project). That CPU spike was large enough if this project had any audio or real content it may have caused a total drop out, or if I had less cores/CPU power. Some sort of garbage collection/clean up maybe?

My want to buy list is a bit odd. Some may be things that never go on sale: Jack Smalley's books http://www.jacksmalley.com/books.html (Composing Music For Film was what I was watching but the new book looks interesting too) The Sampling Handbook https://www.thesamplinghandbook.com/ Hollywood Sound IR - Numerical Sound http://www.numericalsound.com/hollywood-sound-ir.html And Jaeger (Essential Modern Orchestra for Kontakt) (but I want it for $250 or less)

Paypal has recently changed their foreign transaction fee structure. https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2019/08/02/paypal-charges-more-by-raising-currency-conversion-spread/ Credit card companies can also tack on fees if you choose to use them through Paypal for the conversion. Some combinations may work out better than others but it's very hard to tell exactly what/how in advance.

I only bought Reason 10 because it was super cheap. Having spent all those years hearing about it but never being willing to invest in it. Had to give it a try. To be honest I'm thinking I might like it as a VST more though. Where is the best deal for this upgrade? I've seen it at JRRShop but no one else seems to have it, are they the only discounter? Or maybe I do need Ark 3&4 after all...

I too have/had ancient Fractal Design Painter. Once Corel took over the upgrade pricing never seem to be in my favor. I switched to Art Rage because of some deal, though I haven't even bothered trying to move it to the new machine. I did go ahead and get this bundle, but I won't be upgrading to Painter 2020. Installing this was kind of annoying, all the different places you had to download from and the endless serial numbers. But I didn't have any problems. Will have to see how much of it works in Photoshop CS. If you buy the complete Humble Bundle when installing the Paintshop Pro Ultimate, don't install the Painter Essentials and PhotoMirage Express since the Humble Bundle includes the full versions of both of those. I ended up having to uninstall them and re-install the full versions to get everything straight.

Any developer that signed the VST2 license agreement before last October can still make and publish VST2 plugins. I did it, took almost no time and didn't cost anything. Since Reason has support for VST2 they must have already executed the license agreement, long before the deadline. They aren't doing a VST2 version by choice, not because there is some legal reason. As for developers not supporting VST3, that's a whole other ball of wax, but it too comes down to choice.

If you had installed a test beta version you'll have to get Noel to send you a full installer. Or I think you can uninstall CbB, then reinstall the public release, then install this early access.

Hooray! This fixes Rapid Composer's looping problem (where it would not play the first note after looping). I had begun to think it would never happen. My test project that I have been using to see if this bug was ever fixed was created 7/4/2017. This rocks.

I really have to work on controlling this urge to complete collections.

It's very possible the problem is BitBridge isn't driving the old 32-bit plugin with the buffer sizes/types it likes when using the newer Focusrite drivers. 32-bit plugins may be very picky about how a DAW interacts with it. JBridge is in general a bit better at being compatible with more DAWs, drivers and plugins (but even it has limits). It's possible (likely) there are settings that can get Bitbridge/CbB to work the way the plugins your using expect with the newer Focusrite drivers but those things have never been documented (and may not even be exposed). It's also possible Focusrite could make changes/fixes, hard to say. The problem with these multi-vendor issues is it's almost impossible to get anyone that could analyze and fix the problem to do so.

I finally got through the checkout. The install was a lot easier. (Handy tip you don't need the MIDI driver if you don't have their iPad app). I only installed the VST3 version. The UI isn't that bad. I don't have any VSL products, always avoided them because of the dongle and the way they sell things in tiny pieces. The dongle isn't a problem any more though since I've moved to Cubase. I had been thinking about trying some of their stuff, so this was kind of nice. As for content, this is pretty much one giant full orchestra patch. Has some nice mic options. Sounds pretty good if you turn on every mic. Don't think you are going to get a lot of use out of it though but it's certainly a good demo and fun to play with.

Their site is totally slammed. I have the eLicenser but I don't think I'm going to be able to make it through the checkout process at this rate.