Matthew Sorrels

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.

It's not a Kontakt instrument, it's using Spitfire's own sampler. That still only loads a single instrument right? No multis. I suppose it doesn't really matter that much, but I'm not sure I'd invest that much in their software developer chops just yet.

I have all of those and then some. Some are better than others but nothing in the sub-$30 dollar range would I classify as improving workflow. Even at the sky is the limit end of the pricing spectrum (Cubase Pro/Orb Composer S/Rapid Composer) you really don't get much in the way of really improving workflow. I only mention Captain Chords because it really does seem to replace all the functionality Waveform has in a DAW neutral way. There are a some free plugins that can help with various things though, the stuff from https://www.codefn42.com is very good. The pizMidi stuff is also pretty nice https://code.google.com/archive/p/pizmidi/

If you don't want to learn yet another DAW you might want to consider Captain Chords. https://mixedinkey.com/captain-plugins/ It's slightly more EDM centric than perhaps you'd like but it's become my favorite play with chords and rhythms without doing a lot of work tool. They don't list it but it works fine in Cakewalk (better than in Cubase actually, the resize works in CbB). The Windows version of Captain Melody may still be a beta. But I've been using it without a lot of headaches for a while now though. I guess the big downside is you have to be online -- copy protection requires a net connection or something. Doesn't effect me so I haven't cared, but if you are purely offline it might.

The real ATH-M50x costs less than this. It is the better version. That said I'm kind of unhappy with the pressure they put on the top of my head. Going to have to find something a little lighter I think. Maybe try the ATH-R70x

I went ahead and picked it up. In a nutshell the difference between it is this drop down (and a bypass button): The old 2016 Stereo Room reverb only has the Vintage Stereo Room. This new one has the other choices. Other than that they (seem to) have the exact same available settings. The new one has a bunch more presets. The GUI is also larger (though not resizable). I like the way Modern Stereo Room sounds over the Vintage Stereo Room, at least on the test Trumpet midi bit I fed into it. But I have to admit with so many reverbs I'm not really sure either of these 2016 based reverbs stand out. If you liked 2016 Stereo Room, you'll like this more. I could easily see using this as a solid choice for a simple go to workhorse reverb. On the other hand it's really not special enough for the full retail price ($249!) and to be honest I think it should have just been bundled with Anthology XI. I suspect I'll still be using ReMatrix, Fabfilter Pro-R, MeldaTurboMB, Spaces II and Reverberate as my workhorses (not that they have anything in common with this really). I could see this being a better choice than LXP or TSAR-1 though. Was it worth $29? My quick take (maybe too quick?) is it wasn't worth it for me. It's not an unfair price ($69 new/$29 upgrade) though if you don't have a workhorse algorithmic reverb.

Normally I'm loath to "undercut" the computer magazines, if they want people to enter words from specific pages I won't share those or if each copy has a unique code. But in this case they didn't do anything to connect access to this free version with the purchase of the magazine, which kind of devalues my buying it. I fully expect Tracktion to start offering this free version to everyone as soon as the various music magazines have ran their exclusives. The free version seems to be missing a few of the things I was actually interested in (chord tracks). Here's the list of what is missing from a post on KvR https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=530966&start=37 From that post: - Melodyne - AutoTune - Groove Dr - Actions panel - Edit groups - Track snapshots - Track editor - Subtractive - Artisan collection - Drum sampler - Macros - Modifiers (except LFO) - Faceplates - Chord track - Multi sampler - Master mix There are no track or plugin count limits in Waveform Free.

Or you could just go right to the sign up page directly http://tracktion.com/cmpromo