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I react also very sensitive to what is sold as AI nowadays! Most things that are called AI or the like suffer from the limited brain of its creators! It happens so often that they forget about a lot of situations in real life where it should behave differently and this leads to a lot of annoyance or even disaster! Don't ask me about cars!

It's only a pity that the operability is not so great, no mouse wheel usage, no direct value input and fine tuning is a bit coarse. As I have a choice of so many plugins I usually prefer to use the ones that are better in this area! For me this is very important, but YMMV.

Like the AR Brilliance Pack!

I don't want to list names, especially not on this forum! But I've had situations where some were controlling my system as it were their's!

Regrettably it is a login authorization and except for a few exceptions I avoid those like the plague!

But why do they make it that hard? It's similar with CbB's reactivation sh..! Really not user-friendly! And the explanations are more of a hollow excuse!

^^this! Startup and also updates go with speed of light! No other daw compares! Also there is a great batch processing included where you can run a plugin chain and loudness normalization ... on a couple of audio files.

One thing is completely different with this last version: Regrettably you cannot do offline re-activation! For this reason I'll stick with version 2022.11 as long as it runs and if then the offline activation is not available, I'll jump back to Sonar Platinum!

Free is a big word for this one that requires an account login! ? I uninstalled immediately! Wasted time!

This is the 1st Boz product that requires full online access for installation! ?

Such things happened to me only with MONO Vst-Instrument tracks that I had bounced in place. Though sometimes it helped to reload the project. With mono VSTi tracks I had regularily such problems, why I switched to bounce to new track then, that gave really another result!

Sometimes it's the question what is rude and aggressive and who started to provoke someone? But YMMV!

Still I prefer full Kontakt libraries payed or free! It's much easier to handle and backup, if you use more than 1 machine IMHO!

But better iLok than machine based challenge-response auth! It's much better and simpler when you have once to setup a new pc! But I agree with you that their former authorization was superior!

I am privileged, 'cos in 10 seconds I am out in Nature! In the woods with elks and other animals. And in the same time I am in my studio. What more do you want?

For a long time this has been the first plugin of any provider that beats its predecessor in performance! ? Great done, Audiothing! By the way, even the old version is a very efficient delay/reverb!

@Starship Krupa: You caught me! I wanted to avoid arguments like this! ? But actually it is my own fault!

Nice that your bugs have been fixed! ? It surely depends how you use the program! I mentioned the bug above in the OP that is new to CbB and was never in Splat. There are some other "new" bugs where the selection of things doesn't work as it should. Though I agree with you that Splat has a lot of bugs, especially with take lanes. But most of them (take lanes) are still there in CbB. There are also plugins (VST3) that crash CbB, but not Splat. And so on. New features bring always a lot of new bugs in the first place. You can see this if you look at the changelog of all CbB releases (e.g. after the introduction of the arranger). But overall if I use Splat it is not much different to me than using CbB. There are too many bugs especially when I am editing audio clips. So far I know how to work around most of them, but it is painful and elaborate sometimes. But YMMV as always, happy Xmas!

Mary-Chris-mess ! I hope they don't divorce! ?

It's not all about money! There are times when I enjoy driving my car more than playing my guitars! ? But actually you're right, it's hard to beat! ?

Me2!

That's completely right, in this sad time the future must be somewhere back!

Because I like to enter MIDI data in Cakewalk (PRV) and because we don't know what the future of Sonar of Sonar will be, I opened Sonar Platinum today to enter some MIDI and noticed all is very fine as long as I have Splat. By this occasion I noticed that a bug that has annoyed me since a long time is not existent in Sonar Platinum, e.g. if you change the time of a note in the Event Inspector with the little +/- buttons and then leave the time field, then the time is not changed (reset to its former value). In Splat that works as it should! In CbB it works only if you press enter. Though there have been some nice additions in CbB, I am not that much convinced that it has less bugs then Sonar Platinum. Many of the so-called bug fixes were caused of the new features like the Arranger, the new tempo track and so on. And frankly, some of those new goodies suffer until today IMHO. So is Sonar Platinum an option to replace CbB?

Does EW still have only 1 iLok activation per purchase?

Still I prefer to do a lot of plugin organization, even you are right about the downside (time sink!). The reason for me is that I am not really aware about all my (too many) plugins, thus what to search? But if I can organize e.g. all delays in a folder, then I have an overview and I am able to pick one of the choices! But YMMV!