Canopus

Yeah, I had hopes for an Addictive Keys update, but no.

14 minutes ago, Nitrate Audio said:

what a joke. i am pretty sure I saw some of this for $15 or $20 in past. 

Pics, or it didn't happen.

Believe it or not, but XLN Audio has released the first AD2 Expansion since, well, I think, the dinosaurs roamed the Earth. It has appropriately been named Vintage Dead.

A beat-making powerhouse for any style

Equally perfect for beats and breaks, psychedelic indie pop in the vein of Tame Impala, Khruangbin, and Glass Beams, or hard-hitting rock like Queens of the Stone Age, and Death from Above 1979, Vintage Dead packs the punch you need. Make your tracks slap with mix-ready, tweakable presets created by the scene’s best, and beats performed by amazing drummers and beatmakers.

https://www.xlnaudio.com/products/addictive_drums_2/adpak/vintage_dead

Additionally, this was my post number 1K.

We are gathered here to celebrate the spookiest day of the year! Summon your creative soul and get inspired by our selection of 31 products, from vintage synths to effects plugins and more, specially priced at $31 | 31€.

https://www.uvi.net/halloween-sale

Edit: I just noticed this was my post number 999. Spooky.

The metric version.

34 minutes ago, Mr No Name said:

Unable to embed a bandlab player on here for some reason?

There used to be a button in the post toolbar called "Embed BandLab Post". After clicking, you simply pasted the URL to your song and the player with the song was embedded into the post. Apparently, not so anymore. Pretty strange.

Maybe try SoundCloud instead.

To me the GUI looks somewhat similar to NI Massive X, but with a brownish tint. Although I liked the old GUI, I can get used to this. It’s modern, but without the boring, uninspiring flat look so many plugins seem to strive for these days.

I’d guess Addictive Keys will be the next surprise coming from XLN Audio. However, the current version is 1.7.1, so I’m not sure if a GUI update by itself will qualify for a version number of 2.0.

Addictive Drums 2.5 has been released. It's a free update for existing owners of AD2. Who would have thought?

A fresh new look with a modern interface focused on ease of use. Brand new features, performance improvements and bugfixes.

• New improved interface
• New Trig Gate effect
• New compressor mode: "Boost!"
• Improved EQ with spectrum analyzer
• Beat Transformer more accessible
• Help tips in the bottom bar
• Bugfixes & performance improvements

https://www.xlnaudio.com/products/addictive_drums_2

At least on my laptop, where space is of great concern, I will simply skip some of the things I got with MPS 6.5. All reverbs will stay seated in my iZotope and/or iLok account, and I don’t intend to install the NI Effects Collection (duplicates) or anything from Brainworx (mostly duplicates). After having updated Neutron, Ozone, Nectar, and RX11, I think I lost around 11GB.

The jury is still out when it comes to Guitar Rig 7 Pro, but if I first uninstall Guitar Rig 5, I doubt that would cause a space problem.

I had MPS 3 and at a price of $87.91 I simply couldn't resist an update to MPS 6.5.

Bad boy. Baaaad boy.

4 hours ago, Amberwolf said:

Is this something that applies to everyone here?  Just asking because I haven't seen anything of mine that needed approval after I posted it; it just showed up wherever I posted?   (unless we can always see our own posts even if they're not really "there" yet?)

I’ve been in this forum since the day it started and it has never happened to me. I guess it has some connection to what you write. Pay attention to the few, simple rules there are, and you’ll probably never experience it.

31 minutes ago, JT music said:

The best deal ever 👍

Yes, I don't think I've ever seen UVI Falcon go for as low as €149/$149 before.

UVI Falcon 3.1 has been released, featuring a new tag-based browser. A specific Tag Library needs to be installed using UVI Portal for the browser function to work. The tag library is accessed through Falcon’s Search tab.

Until November 4th, UVI Falcon can be bought at 50% off, for €149/$149. Free update for existing users.

https://www.uvi.net/falcon

46 minutes ago, Cobus Prinsloo said:

Hi, I'm interested in buying the updated Z3TA+ 2 vst synth from Cakewalk and wanted to download a trial version.

As far as I know, Z3TA+ 2 hasn’t been available for purchase since 2017. As for Cakewalk Command Center, it's used to download software from the legacy Cakewalk site that was bought before Gibson left the building.

45 minutes ago, Kawika said:

This is what I see across from "Templates: C:\Users\David \AppData\Roaming\Cakewalk\Cakewalk Core"

You seem to have a space after David in your path. That space should probably not be there.

21 minutes ago, Mr No Name said:

more ideas welcome, lets get to 20 pages.

Only 19+ pages to go, then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsive_buying_disorder

Walk out of your comfort zone. Do something in a musical style you’d normally never consider.

Also, specifically for plugin hoarders, create at least one song based on each sound library or synth expansion pack you’ve ever bought, before you allow yourself to buy yet another one. That might boost not only motivation, but also inspiration.

I can see that you quoted the first version of my post. Soon after I realized that I hadn't been clear enough, so I updated it ten minutes later. But, apparently, that wasn't soon enough.

I agree that it could have been made easier to rename a theme from within the Theme Editor. But, realistically, I can't see most users ever having to rename a large number of themes.

6 hours ago, sjoens said:

I just cleaned up my theme folder of unwanted/unused themes.  Then I renamed several.  After a system reboot CbB still lists all the old names in Preferences.   Not sure which is which now.  Since Theme Editor is no longer updated is there a way to fix this on my end?

Theme Editor itself sees the new names as expected.

It’s not clear if you by Rename mean that you have changed the theme's file name using File Explorer. If so, the file name is not what’s displayed in Preferences. You’ll have to load each theme you’d want to rename into Theme Editor and then select Save As to rename the theme. That will create a copy of the file with the new file name and also update a string located inside the theme sth file. It’s the latter that determines the name being displayed in Preferences.

46 minutes ago, Pat Osterday said:

I don't see it for $5 at PB.  Was this a time limited thing?

You're right. The price seems to be back at regular $69.99 excluding VAT. Maybe it was a temporary glitch at Plugin Boutique?

When looking into that PDF, I see that it was written in 2017 and I soon realized that some of the things being said there were no longer correct. A better way might be to watch this video, as it was uploaded only 6 months ago.

4 hours ago, Doug Rintoul said:

Where did you find the manual?

I found it here: https://rigid-audio.com/RA_Kontakt_GUI_Maker_Manual_EN.pdf

So, you've tried? I've downloaded the separate 75 page pdf manual, in case all my future attempts to do it in true WRTFM fails.

Installed.

When Kontakt GUI Maker was released earlier this year the price was $59.99, and I said that I'd wait until the price was $4.99. Never thought it would happen this quickly, though. Also, getting Zynaptiq Orange Vocoder Nano included for free doesn't hurt either.

My initial plan is to see if I can make the extremely boring GUIs of SampleTekk's Kontakt libraries a bit more exciting. I have no idea if it will be possible to update an existing third party Kontakt library, but for roughly €5 I'll take my chances.