Marc Cormier

Geddy Lee has been pretty emphatic in interviews (check out the one's from last year on Youtube) that there's more music to come, but hasn't elaborated. It's so interesting to watch/read the interviews now, knowing what he and Lifeson knew about Neil's condition.

Whatever you do, don't search for "Neil Peart tribute" on EBay...they're already pushing RIP tee shirts.

The fact that he had already passed three days ago only made it worse.

Absolutely gutted.

What are you using now, Larry?

Happy New Year from Deeeetroit, just down the road from King Larry, where we're too busy buying plugins to shovel the snow.

Yup. Scheps Omni Channel for 20 bux. That's as low as I've seen it, anyway. Thanks, Yan.

Yeah, I'm going to jump on this as well - putting faith in the new ownership at this point but I've never seen it going at this price. I was tempted by PG as well but if I have to pay extra for using my own IRs when Revalver lets me use them AS WELL AS third party plugins, they'll get the nod.

Anyone have this? Wonder how it compares to Amadeus which is also on sale right now. This is over half off at $67.45 in the cart. Expansion for VSL's Big Bang Orchestra The Big Bang Orchestra (BBO) from VSL is a library consisting of an orchestra playing all together, aka "Tutti". The first tier of VSL's Big Bang Orchestra is completely free (and remains so) and contains very basic articulations with limited tonal flexibility. BBO: Andromeda gives you all the articulations of the free Big Bang Orchestra, newly and uniquely recorded with more sonic and expressive flexibility, along with many more articulations that were not included in the free version. Please note: You do not need to have the free Big Bang Orchestra previously installed to use BBO: Andromeda. Massive “tutti” orchestra for super-quick large orchestrations More than 7 times bigger (11 GB) than the free Big Bang Orchestra Multiple microphone positions, additional close mic positions Shorter notes with precise attacks, optimized repetition notes Wide variety of long notes, more dynamic articulations Removable piccolo https://www.audiodeluxe.com/products/studio-tools/vienna-big-bang-orchestra-andromeda

Loyalty Rewards?: Existing customers get 20% off new orders. New customers get 20% off orders of 2 or more products. FYI: guys at Neural say this is in place until further notice. https://neuraldsp.com/ Pick up the Nameless suite this time or finally bite the bullet and see if they've fixed all of the broken stuff from Bias FX 1 in the new version (FX2)? Anyone able to compare the high gain sounds in both? No trials for Bias FX2 so not sure...

I think a lot of us jumped at this deal earlier in the autumn. Even though it had "expired," if you put it in the cart the sale price still showed up. I got it for the Groove 3 annual pass.

I don't remember seeing Insolidus at $98 but I did pick it up earlier this year during a flash sale for $128. I wish I knew how to use it more fully so I could give an opinion, but I can't.

Thanks for letting us know, Zo. I tried getting them on chat but they're closed. I'll see if I can get lucky on Monday.

I use this on every channel. Like Piotr said, it gives me a frame of reference across the project that is consistent...but perhaps consistently inaccurate! There's a video I followed to calibrate the initial channel for gain staging and ensuring there is headroom left for each channel. I think it was in Groove3. From there, I just drag that little thing over to each channel and, voila!, done. Man, I hope I used that voila! correctly, Zo. I'll keep using it for directional purposes, but to your point, Zo, it would be great if they could look at this.

If it's $29 Peter, you'll find customers for AT UIKG here.

+1 on the AXE I/O purchase. I just got mine a couple of days ago ($249 + Amplitube MAX) and I'm loving it. It replaced a TASCAM US 122 Mk II that just refused to die...until it did. The impedance matching noticeably impacts the signal in a cool and noticeable way. I'm not a huge Amplitube user but have found some nice emulations that I didn't have before (ENGL, Orange, Ampeg, etc.) that complement the other sims I use.

Back to our originally programmed schedule, nothing's changed. Yet.

What Brian said.

I uninstalled, re-downloaded, re-installed, and it still looks for the dongle. Hopefully this first experience with support goes well but I could imaging they're getting lots of inquiries at

No love with the dongle at my end. Keeps prompting me saying its found a license and needs the associated USB device. Just sent a note to support.

No change from before. Hopefully they'll put some money into the platform; there's good tones to be found but it definitely needs repackaging.

OK - thanks, Larry. I'll have to give this a go when I get home. I've looked around the site to see what is included now in the base version but don't see one.

Revalver was always "free" if I recall correctly, offering a few of the many amps/pedals for all. The demo "D" has been there all along, as well as the demo beeping. Not sure if anything has actually changed here, outside of ownership.

Black Sun by Dead Can Dance. Mic drop. OK, maybe not. Sounds like sleigh bells, but not sure. It's close. I'll pick the mic back up.

I went a little bonkers and may delete this post to hide the evidence. IK Total Studio 2 Max earlier in the month (which I regret as its way too much for my needs. Selling on KVR for cheap!) AXE I/O (which, with bundled software, is all I really need from IK at the moment) Neural DSP Plini (thanks for coordinating, Zo!) Instachord and Instascale Scalar Soundspot Union