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3 hours ago, paulo said:

How about a nice group sing-a-long?

Altogether now  2...3...4

 

And how did he know that?

They look ugly but I would still eat one.

I just went to see Natalie McMaster in concert with her family. She doesn't play in this video but they all can play well......Lots of great talent and people in Canada!

The music from their area has blended with Traditional Irish and Scottish folk music and has become it's own genre.

Tell me if I am wrong. Software will NEVER be stagnant in any way shape or form. Sometimes the changes are purely cosmetic, sometimes the changes are necessary updates, improvements to glitches. Changes are going to happen though because they need revenue.

Some customers unrealistically expect eternal use of a plugin free. If you saturate a market that means you can't sell any more unless you collect revenue through improvements, bug fixes and revisions. This is why I see plugin ownership as an ongoing periodic expense. I wait as long as I can between changes though which is why I'm not in a hurry to load the latest Waves portal.

The home mixing engineer can slide by this if they download free plugins and/or use the ones provided by their DAW(s).  This isn't to say a plugin you bought and never updated won't work in 10 years. It's more like an insurance policy. Similar to small local businesses, these companies will go the way of the dodo bird if they don't have any support. Waves makes great plugins. 

May I ask what you are replacing Waves with ?

I guess I'll be waiting ( from a distance) when that deal hits the fan.  I picked it up for 9.00 on sale Flatulus thanks to the deals thread and cclarry. I did actually use it to compliment augment a Beethoven piece. Gave a really different sensation to the whole thing. There are some real whoppers in that library. I could imagine a guy on roller skates going sonic.

Back to the Hyperion deal. I get the amount I spent on micro deducted from the total For Hyperion Elements. In my case 49.00. Sweet. Thanks Soundiron!

I hope we still get Canadian posts after this. 

I have a high degree of tolerance for everyone. I even eat Canadian bacon.

I know that was last year, but still. HYPERION

I was given the option for a 10% coupon since I own micro. If you are a customer already just maybe........

I emailed them to see what my upgrade price would be to elements. No reply yet. I looked on my account and was forced to admit that I actually bought the Flatulence library last year on sale.....hey it was on sale what was I supposed to do? I don't think there is an upgrade path for that one.

I don't think we should bully Canadians. They are nice folks. 

I mean, unless they bully us. Then all bets are off.

And 10 dollars then is like 30 dollars now.......or more. At today's prices those would be some salty HDDs indeed. No room for GAS....heck the systems wouldn't handle a plug in then.

You are dating yourselves here. Don't worry I'm old too if that helps...ok it doesn't.

pwalpwal I can't deny the inevitable. I reckon there is no getting around it. I have no less than 4 Alexa devices, oh wait that's 5 because I have the Alexa TV remote with the Alexa dongle plus one Google home in the same house .  This doesn't include my android smart phones.

Google Home has the most info for calling phone numbers and doing things like ordering pizza. Better weather and traffic info  which is surprising because  Alexa is the product that is catching on the most. The good news is you can get Google home for a great price now. Alexa doesn't seem to know as much about the things I want to know, like my commute time in the morning. Maybe this is because I'm primarily tied into the Google browser, Google drive etc. My home automation is mostly controlled by Alexa. Alexa is great for adding shopping lists like "Alexa add bread to my shopping list". I then get that on my Alexa app in my smart phone. No wonder kids can't write any more.

I became involved in Google Home because I received color changing smart bulbs for Christmas I put in my studio. An app in my phone changes the colors. I have them on a nice purple color right now. The person who gave me the bulbs didn't know they were Google. I seen a great deal for a Google Home AND two more smart bulbs. They were almost giving the Google home away with the bulbs, so I bought it. There is an app you can get that allows the two to cross pollinate but Google keeps changing the code on it because the two companies hate one another....a developer had it working until that happened.

I don't doubt that they probably listen when they shouldn't be listening. One day that might become very important since I could yell Alexa call 911 or Hey Google, call the police.....just a thought.

This might apply to a few who jumped ship when they thought SPLAT was forever gone. Luckily things took a turn for the best and the rest is history.

In this case the backup plan was  updating Acronis to the most recent 2020 version. 

My backup drive is 1TB which wasn't large enough to back up my system using Acronis.

Remember when hard drives were 500mb?

Those Canadians get up at the crack of dawn.

....................imagine being that stone mason, " Hey Lupo we have a job for you".

Alexa, Google and an unnamed android walked into a bar........................

Haven't tried the demo yet. The thing is, there are so many other good software synths out these days that are  on par or better for less $$.

Unless someone specifically wants the Triton experience in software there are plenty of other options along the same lines as the Triton if we are only looking at sounds and sound quality. Is that a pessimistic view? It wasn't intentional.

I know. So did I. Chomping at the bit and missed the deal you got.  Might still be some benefit to the HD when not using the consoles. Prolly not. I could go back and try to get the other deal. I'm not going to bother. I'm ok with my 58 and change. Would have been better with 41 and change.......I'll just back off the coffee next week?

When they said a one day sale they weren't kidding. No mo. Like my good friend Mo when he left....ain't no Mo no Mo.

I'll roll with that.

The HD version says it's VST and AAX. That's the one I bought. I maybe falsely  assumed  that it was a higher resolution. In any case it's still a good deal so long as it plugs into my system as vst. It is advertised as such.

I almost missed this one.  5 hours and counting left on the sale. The 6050 Ultimate channel strip 249.00. Today 69.00....or for a few more hours.  LINK

All plugins are on sale but this one caught my eye.  The 6050 sort of looked like a Scheps Omni channel in that you can add and re arrange modules. 

The 4L4000 is 79......not the most intuitive as in a bunch of presets. If you can learn to use it though it rocks.

Coupon code HOLIDAY 2019 brought my purchase down to 58 and change.

ilok is required. Can use the ilok cloud but the dongle less demanding on your system.

Thanks Cristian.

Also some great deals of very usable but smaller libraries around. If money is tight no need to go spending a king's ransom on libraries. One in particular comes to mind

Soundiron's Hyperion strings. 49.00 US clams buys you a lot of string power. HYPERION STRING MICRO

Just used these on my last project.

If a person has Kontakt they have some decent strings included too. Just sayin'.

I like that the default setup colors the track tabs as you add them. Do you like that?

Thanks Larry for the FYI. I hope you keep em' coming. Even iffin' it isn't something I would use...you just never know. Like others I'm covered pretty well in drums. Addicted Drummer, BFD 2, BFD 3, BFD eco. The ones in Platinum. After hearing the comments I guess I'll pass. I should be ashamed that I haven't really made very good use of all the drums I have...but you know how it is.

On 12/31/2019 at 9:27 PM, craigb said:

 

 

Hope this plan goes off ok. Shot dad and Waldo ate him, figgered we would get in the tub in case Waldo gets sick.

I really like the McDSP ML4000. I know it's been around awhile but it does a few things in combination the others don't.  I picked it up for a good price. Tired of having to boot up the ilok cloud to use it and Cakewalk hanging on it every time I scan.  I like the Softube plug ins but I think they are locked to Presonus.

I like PSP Xenon which is ilok. Some pretty good East West deals show up now and then. I am curious about Slate's stuff.......but honestly I would buy the ilok just for the 4L4000. Here's shot of my ilok plug in licenses so far in the cloud. Nothing too spectacular but some of them are decent, especially the softube plug ins.