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I can recommend DynaRide2 of TBProAudio as alternative for Waves VocalRider and BassRider. DynaRide2 is much more flexibel, 'cos it allows more control over the riding process. By the way, It is also very good for vocal levelling!

Great idea! I didn't know that the voucher could also be used like this.

For me they don't rock at all! I don't like that they do not support any offline authorization. Recently I came even to the clue that I should not add any plugins anymore that have some kind of machine authorization, I had so much trouble with that kind of sh... (PA is an exception, never had trouble with them and their auth is for all plugins at once). Thus my target are plugins/libraries that don't have authorization (e.g. full Kontakt!), that have an offline key/file or iLok authorization.

Sorry, but this description really scares me! It reminds me totally of feudalism in the Middle Ages where many people didn't own anything, they were only working for the leaders (almost like slaves). It seems history is returning! Everything is very similar, but not that obvious!

I think this represents only the company and investors view! IMHO you're missing one important thing: Competition that serves the customers! Most subscription services today reduce competition substantially. They bind the customer and thus remove the possibility to influence the business target (e.g. if you only use the plugins of 1 vendor). Like this there is the risque of overpricing and idleness. In the end this leads to something comparable with the former soviet system. Just look at music streaming services, they have ruined the music market. The big ones in music business (with a lot of money in the background) can issue whatever they want and newcomers have almost no chance and the audition has not a lot of influence! Or if I look at the food market in Sweden where the 4 biggies define the prices and what is available, or the do-it-yourself shops, or ...

I did the survey, too. Immediately got the 670 in my account (?). But the authorization on my offline machine did not work at all ?! Furthermore the installation takes up about 3GB and that is a lot for the 2 compressors that I own (Vintage 670, Black 76). It's the same crazy philosophy like with Amplitude, they always include everything in their packages! Totally idiotic! Will remove it again! By the way I also got "Orchestral Percussion" in 2021, but I never succeeded to authorize it (offline). I give up on IK, I hate their installation/authorization circus. Syntronik I don't like it, it is so slow to change presets. The only thing I will keep alive is Amplitube for the collections that I own!

Yeah, that's great! But on the other hand I miss that there is not a dedicated Mono track setting, i.e. it is more complicated to set it up using mono plugins. I use mostly CbB, because I prefer the totally zoomed in audio view, the Radius stretching and I am also more fluid in working with it. On the other hand I am absolutely a fan of Reaper's great batch processing (can even be used on a folder outside the daw) light installation (I like the portable install, no Windows hassles) performance (very light on cpu, run's even on my old i5 laptop without issue) user-friendly authorization super-fast plugin scan absolute reliability (I never had an issue for years, except with plugins) possibility of tape-like stretching (naturally affecting the pitch; I used it to fix old tape recordings)

You see, nowadays leaders do not differ to the despots of the history! It's no joke, it's also dead serious!

I guess that there will be a winner! It's the other plugin providers like PA ... For them it is great that Waves leaves such a saturated market, it's those other companies that will make the future business!

Sadly ADSR applies European VAT! That raises the price awfully for me (25%)! ☹️

Maybe it ignores any threats! ?

I use TB_Equalizer from Toneboosters and IMO it is excellent! It is absolutely enough for my purposes. And then again, I also have the dynamic EQ of Ozone! I think I'm covered!

How you use T-Racks and sub of course! ?

I totally agree! But I still wonder how many companies try to go the sub-way ?! Recently I had 3 surveys and all were more or less about "subscription"! This is crazy, if I look at the reactions here on this forum! There are not many who are sub-enthusiasts!

Thanks Mark! I have checked my recent projects, all have source set to "Audio" (and of course all do contain audio, cos it happens during comping with a lot of takes). One thing that I have noticed: If I stop the audio and wait until the meters go totally down before I restart play, then the metronome runs fine. It is only when I stop and very quickly restart playing (spacebar) that the metronome is sometimes not in sync. Another thing is that I always have an active loop selection during this procedure, maybe this has an impact, too?

That would be great if they went back to iLok IMO. No more hassle of an additional non-iLok USB(**) and a clear, reliable authorization path! This would be one of the 2 most important steps for me to buy Waves plugins again (the 2nd one would be the drop of the shell plugin). (**) E.g. lately I forgot to insert the USB with the Waves licences and accidentally opened a Waves plugin. There was no other way to stop it, than killing CbB!

I just use the standard Audio metronome. And as I have no issues with audio playing/recording, I guess there should not be a problem with the metronome. But maybe I am wrong? But it is a good idea, I could try to use the MIDI metronome.

Most plugin managers Give you no OPEN chance to save the downloaded files for the use on another machine (thus redundant downloads on every machine) Don't give you full control over the installation (what to install (for each plugin), paths, claims you have a broken installation if you remove Avid/Vst3, ...) Have themselves always updates (very annoying if you have just 1 or 2 plugins of the vendor) Tempt the vendor to omit full changelog information (it gets more and more misty what has been changed) Has its on logic that you have to learn Don't support offline installation I am sure there is more that could be listed that I have missed at the moment!

Oh no! Not ANOTHER plugin manager! ☹️ I just hope that it will still be possible to avoid it, else Nembrini is dead for me! Maybe those central managers are cool if you only own plugins from 1-4 providers, but if you like to have a varicolored plugin set, then this is mostly annoying IMHO!

I don't think so! You gain almost nothing if you have RX9 Advanced and RX10 Standard (it is also my situation). Edit: I had checked the differences of RX10 Advanced vs. RX9 Advanced and they are all included in RX10 Standard. Thus they want us to pay $199 for nothing! Very odd!

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It would be cool if it was possible to exclude the selection range to be saved with export tasks and instead use the current selection, because: I often have a couple of clip selections that use the same export settings and I don't want to create that many tasks. The selection range is not clearly visible in the task list (even with recall task settings). I had quite some trouble when I had saved a task with an invalid selection to change this one. If you have to create for each selection another tasks, then the list of tasks might be growing and it is getting confusing (what task is for what). Now if you want to change the selection for a task, it is quite complicated. You have to Open the export dialog Recall the task settings Close the export dialog Make the new selection Open the export dialog again Change the task with the current settings

That's the reason why I talked about sample standards that could be used of multiple providers. Me too, I don't like that NI has such a monopoly position in sample playing, even if I own Kontakt Full! I think common, open standards could help to provide more competition and would reduce absolute monopolies like this.

Thanks! But I dare to say this is just another sample player! There are now so many out there! The problem is if I am in need of an instrument I only look up in my vsti catalog and in Kontakt! Most of the time I forget about the samples in other players! That's why I avoid adding more samples that are out of the most common players. It is sad that there are not, say about 3, sample standards so that any player could use them and you would be free to choose 1 single player (yeah, I am dreaming of a positive future, but I know that it goes exactly the opposite way! That's progress in the 21st century! ?).

And it requires the terrible CodeMeter authorization!