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I’ve never seen that. I always use Dark, which is the one in the OP. Then you might wonder, why didn’t they do that in all colour schemes? Personally, I would have kept the gray circle and put an additional black circle around it, just like in my mock-up. None of the colour schemes have that, but I think it would add some depth to the knobs for even better contrast.

Being a UVI aficionado, I bought Shade when it was released five years ago. When I now see this video again, I’m reminded how much more there is to learn. Shade is incredibly versatile when it comes to creative sound design. When released the price was $149, but I bought it for the introductory price of $79. At $29, it should be a no-brainer. Seriously.

Exactly.

The only time I've ever used a registry cleaner (Norton Utilities, some 10+ years ago) I ended up having to restore my system using a cloned disk copy. That was fun. Not. Simple rule: If it works, don’t clean it. And even if it doesn’t, don’t clean it.

Depending on selected track colors, the knobs sometimes almost disappear into the background due to lack of contrast. I know we’re all waiting for enhancements to the color settings, but in the meantime, maybe just a simple black circle could be added around each knob? I think that would improve the contrast quite significantly without that much effort. Something like this:

Even at $74, that's a truly incredible deal, so I had to go for it. The only thing I already had in that bundle was Lacrimosa, so not much overlapping either.

G'day cobber! I just checked if Crowded House came from Melbourne, and, indeed, they did. Had to have a squizz in Wikipedia. So, I guess that expression must be ridgy-didge down-under. Or, at least in Melbourne.

I was once in Melbourne, and people I met there claimed they had four seasons a day.

An intro price of $828 on August 28. I think I see a pattern here.

Hm, creative sample recycling. An extra €10 off for owners of Sonic Bundle, which would make it €59. But then you’d already have the full version of all included instruments (except for the now discontinued PlugSound Pro, which wasn't included in Sonic Bundle).

I can confirm that. I have also written a formal bug report concerning this issue, in the beginning of June if I'm not mistaken.

I upgraded to the whole UJAM Music Creation Bundle earlier this year, once I had reached 30 plugins. To qualify, I had mostly bought a single cheap one in a series, and then used their reoccurring deals to upgrade to the whole set for a heavily discounted price. I had also for instance bought cheap Beatmaker instruments during 808 day for €8.08 each. In the end, I paid €119 for all the remaining plugins. That included all pianos and all orchestral instruments, none of which I previously had. As for the pianos, they are definitely different to normal piano plugins when run in Player mode. Pretty fun! Of course, they've also got a more playable Instrument mode (but then you need to have more than one finger).

My old backup desktop had a Core i7-3770 and was thus not officially supported for an upgrade to Windows 11. Being a better safe than sorry guy, I didn't want to gamble. A few weeks ago I replaced it with a refurbished office desktop with a Core i7-8700 CPU, which just meets the official requirements for Win11. After moving the disks and the graphics card over from my old PC, I now hopefully have a backup PC for many years to come for not that much money. As an added bonus, the i7-3770 CPU didn’t have AVX2 extensions, which some applications nowadays require. A regedit hack would never have fixed that. I would never buy a used PC from eBay or such, but from firms with the business idea of refurbishing hardware bought from offices, I don’t really see any risks. Bargains can definitely be found.

But the local help file is not the pdf reference, but a file called Sonar.chm, stored in Sonar's program folder. It was initially not available for Sonar Free Tier, but, according to a recent post, support has responded to a request that it was "actively working on resolving it for a future update." I don't know if that has happened yet.

The paid version and the free version of Sonar is the exact same product. Whether some functions will be blocked at runtime, or not, only depends on the logged on user's credentials. If you've got a paid membership all functions will be available. If not, a few functions will be blocked. After having installed Sonar through Product Center, you have to activate it. If you during activation select NOT to pay for a membership, Sonar will work anyway, but, as I said, with a few functions blocked.