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One thing I have noticed is IK makes their top tier program the most visible on the web site making it more difficult to find the lesser programs. For instance they tout the full version of Sampletank when searching "Sampletank SE".  Eventually it can be found buried deeper on the site. I think it's potentially misleading to the customer. Yes the info is there, it just isn't  always readily apparent.

I looked at my customer products list and admit to being confused about TrackS in general. I know it's a shell that runs either stand alone or in the DAW. I have a bunch of the modules for it...after than I'm not entirely getting  the whole picture. My scan list shows a bunch of stuff I either can't access or I don't have. It's just really annoying to click on a reverb to be told I either don't have it or I need to re register it. I don't have the MAX version. TBH I just want to be able to easily access the programs and use the plugins.

Here's what shows on my products list.

- TrackS 5 Custom shop

-Tracks S  Custom shop ( I have two of these showing on my list. )

-TracksS 3 Deluxe

-TrackS Standard

Is the Tracks custom shop merely the portal to buy TrackS gear? If so, this would explain why I have multiple copies of what looks to be the same thing.

Another thing that isn't so clear to me is I'm pretty sure I remembered upgrading my ARC to 2.5 not long ago, yet on my products page it shows ARC 2.0 with a "2.5.0" release notes icon under it. Did they round up the numbers here?

 Or do I only show 2.0 instead of 2.5? If this is the case, why are they showing me 2.5.0 release notes?

Kingston 240gb SSD  29.99

As is customary, does not appear cables are included.

57 minutes ago, Zo said:

guyz what makes you think sub ? factual statement or guess ?

I think it's an educated guess since it's happening with so many other software companies. Not factual. They certainly have a reason though. Could be making  a subscription look good through corporate mumbo jumo....(translate that BS), to butter us up for that.

WE HAVE SOMETHING AMAZING, AWESOME TO ANNOUNCE!!!!! 

I'm not worrying either way. If they do that I'll stubbornly hang on to what I have that works right now and use other program that allow me to do similar things. I use a lot of stand alone synths and smaller mixes. I don't need the cinematic instrument stacks.

Hmmmm....maybe I will pick up Sampletank. Sort of like comparing apples to oranges. Still..... I need an excuse to buy Sampletank

Thank you all for your comments. Come on out for the next one Aug 31st 2020 and I'll provide the beer and hamburgers!!  Not quite as warm as Louisiana here. The trees are beginning to drop their leaves. Heading into fall.

I designed and built the porch with a little help . The round poles are reclaimed antiques from an old house that was demo'd. I refinished those, seven in total. Floor is Azek. I built a gazebo on the corner. That's what I'm sitting in. The only thing we still need is an outlet or two so Kenny can plug his electric in. 

Oh, and I am planning to come back and listen to these other tunes. Can't break away for that long right now, but I'll be back!

Here's my small contribution to the day.

The 4L4000 rocks. GI is a little clunky. The main thing with these guys is ilok. I've been using the cloud and don't like what it does to my computer. I like the plugs that much that I'll probably eventually buy ilok.

Hang around Husker....you will.

Kenny I'm going to leaf that whole rake thing alone.

Lancaster County Pennsylvania. Here's a video I made of the area with a tune I composed and recorded.

I think one counts for two here.

I love these group buys.  Sure I know IK wants a long term customer, so does Waves and all the rest. What businesses are you familiar with that sell to a customer only once and stay in business lol. Well ok , maybe if you sell jets to oil  rich Arabs the markup is so high you can afford to  wait awhile before you sell again. In most companies this isn't the case. I don't know how Melda manages to do it.

Whatever you buy is going to need  an eventual update or upgrade. Maybe "they" will come up with a cool feature or another product we can't do without. 

Similar to the fast food business, they sell a lot for little but they make most of their money on soda. Waves wants a "reup" every so often. Just so you know, this isn't a rant, just the observations of a possibly deluded mind  

A little trickle coming in from a large customer base might just be enough. Value is what value means to you and no one else.

I remember when TRacks mastering plugins first came out, mid 80's? early 90's? They were cutting edge.  They were indirectly emulated by many. You can't do that stuff overtly or you'll be sued. Sadly back then cracks were easy and abounded. I'm glad IK has a better way now to manage this using a portal.

I bought all of the Amplitube stuff up to v4 including Slash and all the rest. The only reason I haven't upgraded it is I'm not mainly a guitarist even though I released a guitar album on Amazon. I tend to stay in acoustic territory most of the time.  I love the Stealth limiter. It's been around awhile and continues to shine in that category. I upgraded ARC to 2.5 during a sale last year. I highly recommend it. The single plugins,  compressors and such aren't over the edge but work well, probably better than most that come in DAWs. IK's mastering plugins are some of the best IMHO.

The way I see it, might as well buy it on sale and upgrade later as to buy it while not on sale and upgrade later  I like the Lurssen but don't need it. I have a bunch of mastering programs and signal chains to get me there. Still, this and the Leslie are very tempting, and this is what IK are good at with me. Throwing in one or two things that make me reconsider. If I reconsider I'll probably eventually have it. 

21 hours ago, henkejs said:

I started this up with the sound off and wondered what was going on. Then I turned the sound on and I still wonder.

It made more sense to me if I imagined that maybe she has used this technique in another application.

I can hardly bear to watch this.

Cool! Thanks for sharing and congrats on the soon to be wifey.

The only thing I sometimes wish my studio had is a urinal.

Gotta love those Russians! Like this guy who makes his own jet engines in the garage, you know, for fun. He made a model that could easily be a drone. Also made his own jet bike.

I liked this music. I can tell you still have the chops.   If you feed me a T-bone steak dinner I'll sleep to AC/DC. I'm a little drowsy now but that is no fault of yours. If you're playing this at 2am though it might be helping the neighborhood unwind. It's great unwind music., and believe me, I need to unwind.

Hope ya keep sharin' wit us.

I picked up a very annoying hum in my studio interface. After spending hours crawling under my desk  re routing cords, checking grounds in my power panel, the hum was still there. I invested in a good power strip with EMI/RF interference protection. I had my interface pegged as the suspect and was ready to replace it until I remembered my cable company recently replaced the line running to my house. Initially I discounted this as a potential problem because my cable worked fine and all of the connections in the house were grounded to each other.

Just so happened that the cable tech called to see how it all went ( they subbed an outside contractor to install it underground). I mentioned the hum issue thinking the whole time it couldn't be the problem. The tech came by to check the work and found the earth ground coming into the house was not ran.He added the ground. Problem went away. I wasn't under the impression that cable lines were capable to transmit that much if not grounded.

So if you get a ground loop type of hum FYI don't eliminate this as a possibility.

Hang in there Ken. It's tough for sure.  There really aren't words for a grief like this.  It just hurts. You will get through it. No, life won't be the same. I'm sure she would want nothing more than for you to go on and live life to the fullest. I'm sure there's a lot of life left to live. Best to you. In my thoughts and prayers. Don't hesitate to PM me if you need someone to listen. I'm no expert in this but I can  sympathize and listen.

This one is really odd and I can't seem to solve it so far. I started to get whats sounds like a ground loop hum that comes and goes but mostly stays  coming from my studio monitors. I have a background in basic electronics, so I knew all of the things to check...or thought I did. Any additional ideas or insight much appreciated. 

Things I have checked:

- Focusrite  Scarlett I8i8 2nd generation interface, changed sample rates, tried various software I/O configurations. Tried re routing wires, removed all input cables. Plugged power supply into multiple outlets. Turned down all inputs.

- Tried different monitor cables. Moved monitors in relation to where they were. Moved electrical items in close proximity to different locations.

-Removed florescent/LED light bulbs from space. Powered down all routers and audio recorders.

-Checked the basement below studio for any appliances running. Checked elsewhere in the house to make sure nothing was running.

The hum seems to come and go. FWIW my monitors are plugged into the same  power strip as my computer. I have a well grounded electric service, modern 200 amp. I put it in. The only thing I can determine is maybe recently something is somehow feeding interference into my main power. This shouldn't be happening. 

I ordered a WattBox that has EMI/RFI interference protection. I hope it helps. I haven't changed my setup though and it's been like this for a long time with no worries.

Suggestions appreciated.

I kinda wonder sometimes, maybe in the way some like to follow baseball team stats. We all have opinions in everything. I see nothing wrong in either case. Truth be told there are probably a few more who might like to know more than they do about CbB. I guess mine is a passing interest.  I don't have a lot invested in the program as a mainstay. I really want to see these guys continue to do well as they have been. Many people have worked hard over the years to make this program what it is. Many more continue to share their knowledge with us, people like scook and Noel try to help and clarify when they have the opportunity.

In the beginning I believe we were sort of kept in the loop more because things were changing and Meng wanted to keep everyone up to date.  While it would be nice to know what's going on behind closed doors I don't expect this is something  that will be a regular occurrence.

It would probably matter more if my income hinged on decisions made at those levels. I'm always interested to hear what they care to share with us.

Here's a guy I follow  who really keeps up on this kind of thing. 

https://www.mrmbb333.com/

 So sorry to hear this news. An event like this has to be devastating. Words can't properly convey how sorry I am to hear of your great loss.  You are in thoughts and prayers. 

On 6/14/2019 at 10:29 AM, Leadfoot said:

My first interface in '98 was an Aark 20/20, and Vegas Audio 1a was the recording software I was using.

 

I had this and could never get it to work so I sent it back. Love the concept though.  I also had the Yamaha 1000XG board which I never managed to use the full capability of it. Since I did a lot of stuff with midi and outboard sound modules. I would write the midi and them send it to an audio recorder. Later I bought a Roland VS880 used. That was probably my first entry into more audio based recording making terrible noises that eventually ended up on a cassette tape. Hard to imagine I viewed that as some kind of a finished masterpiece at the time lol!  When I dubbed copies and never heard back from those I gave them to I should have known then lol. The target at the time wasn't terribly high....80's pop was on the airwaves. Sorry if you like 80's pop. It wasn't my thing.

Sorry to hear that. I know you'll get er back on. 

We moved our electric service last year to make room for a small addition out back. It's an underground line that the electric company was going to go halfway up my yard and cut the cable going out back to add a new cable going to the side of the house instead. My end of the deal was to dig the hole and install a new service, which I did, by hand to within a few inches of the feed. I hired a guy with a digger to dig the hole larger and make a trench. He had a bucket with 4" teeth on it.

I'm standing by him saying pretty loud you're getting CLOSE to the service line. He nodded he understood and proceeded to hit the line. He had somehow misjudged his distance. POW!!! Half of my lights still worked because he only snagged one side of the feed. All ended well for me though. The short blew an opening in the line under the street. This made replacement mandatory all the way back to the underground transformer. The electric company replaced the whole line without digging using one of those moles that tunnels under things. Still billed me though. I was happy that the line wasn't spliced which was their original plan.

No worries bayoubill you should get a new transformer unless it only popped the fuse. That's an easy fix for them.