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Thanks for all the replies. She is not an "audiophile" (not that there's anything wrong with that!). SO I got something from Best Buy. An Audio-Technica turntable, a small Sony receiver, Sony 5" 3 way speakers, a Sony 10" active subwoofer, a record cleaning set, and three new albums. She should be good to.go for a little while. The turntable is Bluetooth. Which when paired with our Bose Bluetooth Soundbar would have worked fine. But she let me know she didn't want any digital/Bluetooth BS in her turntable. She wanted an "old-fashioned record player" So I ordered the other stuff to go along with the turntable. I will update ya'll with my opinion as to the CD/Vinyl thing. I thought this was gonna be easy!!

EZD3. With the addition of the Grid tab and the ability to finally edit a EDX midi clip, I am in lala land!! UA Apollo and the channel strips that I can use with it.

Got: UAD 3 Bundle that got me 3 free UAD Manley Tube Preamp Rigid Audio Everything Bundle Two Notes IR's Audio Assault IR's EZD midi pk EzD UK EDX Cube Mini And a very nice mic for half price, but it doesn't qualify as a BF/CM deal. And I think that's it. Had 5 PA amp sims in my cart and with the dynamic discount could have gotten them for less than $10 each... but didn't pull the trigger. All in all I didn't go overboard. Glad for that. Almost pulled the trigger on the Positive Grid Smart Amp with the Carry Bag and Foot Switch. But I am hoping the wife gets the hint and picks it up for me for Christmas!!

They want more of your money!!! Never enough!! Gotta love it. :)

Yep. I think I am tapping out too. Just nothing that's grabbing me at all. I thought there would be some more cuts on the EZX for ED and EB, but of the few they offered I only got one. And one midi. That was it!! Was expecting so much more. Reminds me of a great video: Constantly Disappointed Toleration - Devine Lie

My thoughts exactly. They got very little of the money I was willing to give them.

That does seem to be what happened to me!!

Not the title bar. The plugin itself. I know you said 'the plugin' but me in my infinite wisdom thought that the title bar would qualify. It don't! Yeah I forgot about that. It was enabled too. Maybe by default?

Yep. So did I. Will have to check it out. Thanks Jesse

I am having fun with this!!

Looks like a nice mic

But it's still a great amp sim. Still one that I grab from time to time. I am using the UAD version.

@telecode 101 yep. EZK really needs the "Add Track" feature of EZB and EZD3.

Oh yes. I have used it more than several ways. 1. I took a piano part I like, created a song verse with it, wrote some lyrics, then form a whole song around that idea. The hook of the song ends up being a guitar part!! It allowed me to create a song without a guitar. I did it on a Surface Pro 3 at work!! 2. Used a chord progression that I had made up on guitar, stitched some piano parts together (that was a lot of work) from different midi clips I found in the EZK midi libraries I have and got a great song. It was like I had an accomplished piano player sitting right next to me, and they were able to hear exactly what I hear in my head, so they knew what I wanted, and was able to play it. Which I can't do!! I was able to tell them, no not that note in the middle, this note" "Play a fill at the end like this" "Don't go to that chord, stay in this chord". Actually it's kinda fun. 3. I have taken different chord progressions from the EZK midi library, put them together, tweaked a lot of the lines and notes to what I wanted it to do, then handed that to a very accomplished piano player. He was able to listen and see what I had done, was able to easily figure out where I wanted the song to go and hand me a very well done version of the song I wanted. The ways to use this stuff is really limited by you. I have learned to take parts of one midi clip and stitch it to another part and with a little modification of some note duration/placement have something that you would not be able to tell came from EZK. I expected EZB to work the same, but it's a totally different instrument and took some new skills to make that work. But any of the ideas I just mentioned above can be fed into EZB and come up with at least a good starting point. (A finished product takes some work!) And now with EZD3, that bass can be fed into EZD3 and it will have something useful to work with. Feed the EZK part into EZD3 and then combine the parts from the EZB and the EZK feeds into something that will give me some very good ideas on which direction I would like/could go. They are useable. Very much so. [Rant] Downfall of EZK right now is the UI. That needs updating. Everything I described above is made worse by the UI. I would be happy with everything else staying the same (which it won't) when EZK2 comes out. Just give me a better UI!!! Like a midi grid! Piano Roll!! Something that I can edit the midi in EZK and not have to drag back and forth. [/Rant over!! :)

Couldn't have said it better. Great little program that's ALMOST a PITA to get to the IR's. It has some great little modules that really allow a lot of flexibility for the IR's you do load. BTW, it's on sale for $5 right now. Not a bad deal at all. And you can get IR's for $2.50! Agreed. But recently I gave it a shot again and was really floored with the results. Really a lot of control if you take a minute to figure it out. And it allows you to load a IR you don't own and try it out. The only catch? You get a moment of "silence" instead of the white noise thing. Which I wish more devs used instead of that damn white noise!! : ) I do have those, and was a user of Recab since the first one. Redwirez too. Used them before they had their own IR loader. Ken (RIP brudda) with ABG had a IR loader called iFace that was designed to use Redwirez to their fullest long before other IR loaders came on the scene. And I just recently came across Overlouds IR program.

Looking at them now. Thanks

I forgot about the Melda offerings. I have them! Thanks for reminding me.

Do they use iLok? Looking on the website now. Looks interesting. But I don't have any Nembrini stuff and I am wondering why! [edit] Yes they do and that's why I don't have any Nembrini stuff.

I am starting to explore this more and more. Haven't settled on a IR loader yet. BUt I have looked at the one from Audio Assault, Kuassa has one too that I have been using. And I have the stuff from RedWirez, Recab, and some Two Tones.

It's what I feel like doing. And I belive, regardless of what you believe, that this amp sim is worth $20. I n fact well worth $20!!!! : ) And what do you mean by that?

Just a heads up on this little talked about amp sim. These really sound good. And at this price are a great deal. PRS Amp Sim Waves price at everyplugin.com is little over $20!!!

Yep, exactly my first thought when I read about computer recording. Never thought I would use midi, until I read the manual and realized I could automate stuff!! Then I learned about "Sequencing" Yep, jumped right in that rabbit hole!!!

IDK, I sent my wife a link to the Spark amp telling her it would make someone a great Christmas present!!

Yep. I got the updated SSL channel strip, and it would still cost me the same price to buy the "SSL Collection" which would only give me the Bus comp. Which I would like. But I ain't paying for the Channel Strip three times!!

I got the smaller version of that, the ME 50. Never really got on with it. But I am about to give it a second, (third?) chance and see if I wanna keep it.