Canopus

5 hours ago, Patrick Derbidge said:

One major downside but not a deal breaker is that the built in grid is only 16th note capable. You would think a software at this price would give you the option to go to 32nd notes or more.

There are two patterns, A and B, both of which contain 16 notes so you have effectively a 32 note grid. If you activate the FOLLOW button, XO will automatically update the GUI to show the current pattern. Also, the Chain switch can be set to either OFF, AB or AAAB which makes it possible to chain the A and B patterns up to 64 notes.

10 minutes ago, paulo said:

It was never worth $139 though. IIRC it was $29 at release and then went up a lot before being in some kind of "sale" more or less most of the time since. It was even "free" a while back. 

I don’t know. From the AAS press release April 11, 2017:

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Objeq Delay is available now at a suggested retail price of US$139 but until May 15th, 2017, it is offered at the introductory price of US$99.

I bought it in November 2017 for $44 and the regular price at that time was still $139.

If AAS is selling one of their best plugins for $10 (with a regular price of $139) they either desperately need money, or a version 2 is just around the corner. Hopefully the latter.

Indeed, some of the most recent additions to CbB seem to ignore user themes. Like the new Export dialog in 2021.09 EA1. It’s hard-coded dark so whether you open it in Mercury, Tungsten, or any user theme that’s how it will look. Even the Mute and Solo buttons in that dialog are home-grown instead of fetched from the customizable Mute and Solo buttons found in Track View. Same for the Add Track dialog as well as the Set Category dialog in the browser. Not a big issue if you’re using a dark theme, but if it’s bright it might look a bit awkward. Perhaps those dialogs are based on some third-party framework that makes it hard to extract properties from theme files. Or maybe it’s just a hint of the future.

It's California time I think. Ah yes, and it's Sunday today.

11 minutes ago, artturner said:

Would any of you fellow V8P members be willing to DM me the "exclusive" discount code, 8dio never sent me an email.

The V8P discount code looks very personal. I didn't get the code either so I went to 8dio.com started a chat. Three minutes later I had got my code.

3 hours ago, Keni said:

I found an "approved" seller on ebay selling SD3 for $50! Details claim it to be a digital download though it speaks of sending via USPS?. Clone from China? I don't know.

Do you seriously think that anyone would sell a legitimate license of Superior Drummer 3 for $50? A product that has a regular price of $419? Well, I don’t. It’s most certainly a cracked product. Just look at the top-level domain in the link you so generously supplied. Promoting such links in this forum is hardly in accordance with forum rules.

Meanwhile, at an undisclosed location in Kentucky, the true whereabouts of Larry.

When asking a question like that, you must realize that the answers are based on what people already have. Absolutely nobody will have all soft-synths available, so they can’t really compare to anything but own subset of synths and their personal rating of other people’s subjective opinions.

Having said that, UVI Falcon is the best. And I do like Thai food.

On 6/29/2021 at 4:23 PM, bitflipper said:

Yeh, there's that; no point in sharing an articulation map for a customized instrument. 

I agree that custom instruments might be a big part of the problem.

Case in point: newer libraries from 8DIO. I have a lot of virtual instruments from 8DIO and they are brilliant. All their older 8DIO Kontakt libraries have traditional fixed articulation keys so that once a library is loaded, pressing C1 will always trigger say Sustains in that library. But most of their newer releases are more versatile in that you have ten empty slots and it’s up to you to load those slots from a pool of available articulations. A key switch of C1 will thus trigger slot 1, but the actual articulation depends on what you’ve loaded into that slot. Once set up you can of course save it for future reuse.

The benefit is that you can have all the articulations you want available at your fingertips and only those you’ve selected will be loaded into memory (a scarce resource for most). But it also means that an articulation map is of no use for those that have loaded the slots with different articulations. Personally, once I’ve loaded the slots for an instrument to my liking, I’ve saved it as a separate Kontakt instrument and then created an articulation map in CbB targeting that custom instrument. As most instruments have more available articulations than slots, I have in e.g. 8DIO Anthology Strings - Cellos - Ensemble created one instrument called Cellos - Ensemble Short and one called Cellos - Ensemble Long.

It works for me, but is of no use for others.

5 minutes ago, abacab said:

I try to only buy games from GOG, for their DRM-free advantages. Since Obduction is currently $29.99 from GOG, only if you are really allergic to DRM, then that may be the best option.

I also purchase all my games from GOG. As for Obduction, it was a giveaway at GOG in June 2019. I was actually surprised that ZincT’s post drew so little attention at the time.

5 hours ago, Fleer said:

Benoît Sokal, the game designer, died a few weeks ago. Sad loss. 

Oh, I didn’t know that. So sad to hear. Benoît Sokal was a fantastic game developer and also a great artist.

Not a traditional deal in this forum, but GOG currently offers Syberia I and II as a giveaway. Sure, it's been around for years (Syberia I was released in 2002 and Syberia II in 2005) but I think it’s still a very good point-and-click puzzle-solving DRM free game. Also, I find the musical score really beautiful, particularly in Syberia I *). Those episodes actually managed to keep my interest long enough to make me continue to the end without stop playing in the midst of it (a rare event indeed).

Claim a free copy here: https://www.gog.com/game/syberia_i_ii

Additionally, Syberia 3 came in 2017 (yes, I’ve got it in my GOG account) and Syberia 4 is just around the corner.

*) That was the musical connection for those of you about to call for a moderator.

Edit: This offer only lasts for 72 hours and ends on 17th July 2021, at 1 PM UTC.

1 hour ago, FrankyCHAMBERS said:

Nice Theme

Thanks, glad you liked it.

As for the T over the W on the Write Automation button (I saw your post pre-edit); as you may have found out, it's not a mishap. It simply indicates which automation mode is currently selected for that track - Touch, Latch or Overwrite. Read more here:

https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=3&help=Automation.04.html

Behringer use real ASIO drivers for all but their cheapest interfaces. Here's a screenshot of my own Behringer UMC404HD Control Panel. Take note of the logo.

Same here. Although I do have my own custom template, I’ve made it my default so I just press Ctrl+N whenever I want to create a new project. I never go through the Start Screen. Guess it was the puzzle-solving that intrigued me.

For the first time ever, I got a message from 8DIO saying that some of their instruments have got an update in the last few months. As awkward as it may seem, there’s normally no way of telling what version is the latest even if you go into your 8DIO account. Anyway, this might be one small step in the right direction.

The instruments they mention are these:

• The New Century Solo Brass - Solo Trombone v1 (June 24)
• The Bible of Salsa Volume 3 v1.1 (June 24)
• Ostinato Woodwinds Volume 2 v1.3 (June 18)
• Studio Percussion Orchestral v1.1 (June 18)
• The New Solo Taiko v1.1 (June 18)
• Hybrid Tools NEO v1.1 (June 2)
• Ostinato Woodwinds Volume 1 v1.1 (May 4)
• Century Ostinato Strings Chapter II - Advanced Patterns v1.1 (April 27)
• Anthology Strings v1.3 (April 23)
• Liberis Angelic Choir v2.1 (April 21)

Oh, well. I only got two of these and my internet connection could be worse.

*) NaD = Not a Deal. Yup, I just invented that acronym.

In a recent post Glenn Stanton described a solution where you can use any icon you want in a template without having to include magic words in the file name. After adding the image you simply save as a normal project and then change the file extension to cwt. I tried it out and it seems to work flawlessly. See his post here:

1 hour ago, Glenn Stanton said:

@winkpain @Syphus so, in re-reviewing this, you save the template source file (with image, copyrights, etc) as "normal" in the "project template folder". this is a .cwp file in the template folder at this point. then rename the file as .cwt. now the template file has the image in the header section of the file (which is what needs to be read from the start screen display) as well as embedded in the file notes.

Yes, thank you! That was it! Just for fun I created a couple of templates and added some images from the Rapture Pro thumbnails folder. The result looks better than the default icon, I would say.

Recently Meteor and now Asteroid. Am I beginning to see a pattern here? I guess the next one will be called Comet.

Take note that this is the old UVI Retro Organs that UVI hasn’t sold since 2015 when the current UVI Retro Organ Suite was released. Also, take note that the SoundCloud examples on the JRRShop page actually references the instrument UVI Mello (Mellotron). Oh, well.

2 hours ago, sjoens said:

Version history is empty...

The release history of Lead is included in the pdf linked to in the Gran Vista & Carbon theme thread, but of course I should have added a link in this thread as well. I have now expanded and restructured that document a bit to make its dual nature more obvious and also added a link in the OP of this thread. Enjoy!

5 hours ago, locrian said:

Me too.  I plan to stay with it [1909] as long as possible given it's rock-solid stability.

Windows 10 1909 reached the end of servicing on May 11, 2021 and won’t receive security updates after that (link). I had 1909 on my old ThinkPad and saw no option but to try to update to 20H2 as suggested. It succeeded on the second attempt last week.

1 hour ago, V3TO said:

Maybe  bandlab can add a bpm tapper to cakewalk. Now I always have to open my browser to do so.

Go to Project > Insert Tempo Change and tap that big button called “Click here to tap tempo”.

Interesting . That’s the first sound pack ever for Lounge Lizard. I never thought I’d see one. And it’s not even visible at AAS' site yet.