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Back in the day every producer, engineer & artist was trying to the cleanest, punchiest tracks they could and it was a constant battle. 2" 24 track machines gave you more tracks but with the narrower tracks you had more crosstalk, higher noise floor & less dynamics. 2" 16 track was considered to be audiowise superior but for more tracks it was a sacrifice most people were willing to make. Once 30ips tape machines became available (which had a lower noise floor and better dynamics) - people didn't record at 15ips because they loved the sound they did it because magnetic tape was expensive and they had tight budgets. Some producers would even mix on 1/2" 2 track (30ips) because the wider tracks had less tape noise & better dynamics than 1/4". In the '80 I worked at the only studio in Southern California that had a 2" multitrack (Ampex MM1000 16 track) that could run at 7 1/2 ips. That speed was utter total garbage but the studio owner loved it because anyone who used it could never go to any other studio to work on their project. IMHO while there are some artistic uses of clipping/ saturation/ distortion /tape emulation, etc. most of the hype is snake oil - misrepresenting the efforts and technology of the past to push plugin sales. If this was the food industry they'd be advertising: "Now days, food has lost its flavor. Everything is too clean and sanitary. Bring back that vintage taste of farm cuisine! Just add a touch of Farm Magic! A delicious blend of vintage ingredients (American soil, excessive salt and sugar, that touch of cow, hog, & chicken excrement that granny couldn't remove because her house lacked running water, plus minute quantities of lead from buckshot and paint chips). Farm Magic brings back that taste of great grandma's cooking where it took her half the day and she still sometimes scorched half the meal on her wood burning stove. Yum Yum! Use it on every dish!"

At the moment my feelings are that this should have been free to Pitchmap owners. Has anyone here tried Pitchmap Colors? Not much of anything yet on the web about it. IMHO the demo video they have on the website is garbage - sounds like something my nephew would come up with if you allowed 8 year olds to drink hard liquor. Common Zynaptiq - show us at least one practical or artist usage of it... Maybe someone will post a decent walkthrough at some point. If I have to base a purchase decision solely on the video, it's going to be a hard pass. Looks like you can get a demo here: https://www.zynaptiq.com/pitchmapcolors/pitchmapcolors-downloads/ If I have time and can get motivated maybe I'll check out the demo. As always YMMV but if you find or create an example of Pitchmap Colors being lovely please share it with us.

Yes, as long as I pay for them... (I had a $29 offer for this one)

The audio industry is trying so hard to make Dolby Atmos relevant so that it can inject new revenue into market (what can we come up with that will make the consumer replace their hardware and force them to once again repurchase their entire music library?). How many of us (and I don't view us as the average music consumers) have audio systems that can even play Dobly Atmos encoded audio?

I'm just glad that society has matured to the point where we can openly discus your period without moderators censoring the subject or people getting upset.

$199 for me... and I already own it.

Free update! Cool. If you have older VST2 version you'll need to upgrade your license (fire up plugin and select authorize) but that's fairly quick and painless.

I anticipate that we're going to see a lot of developers doing this i.e. adding Dolby Atmos support to their plugins and charging premium rates for that upgrade because so many of them have run out of ideas on creating anything really new/unique for the market.

So they add Dolby Atmos support and suddenly it's a new plugin? meh.. Eventide should have thrown this in as a freebie to the Anthology XII bundle.

I like Heavyocity stuff but taking a hard pass on this. 9.5GB in size and way more than I'd be willing to pay even if I liked it. Of course YMMV, if so enjoy.

I don't need another hardware synth, but $99 it looks nice. Behringer | Product | PRO VS MINI

I still got the floppies somewhere but my 286 with the Roland MPU-401 interface is long gone. (LOL I might actually have the MPU-401 buried in my garage, at some point gotta clean that sucker out)

Thanks for the reminder - I had missed seeing the coupon code in my email and it expires tomorrow (? wording says valid until Oct 26, 2023). I was able to pick up the Spectralayers 10 update for $39.99.

I too paid Gibson for the Sonar Lifetime license. Gibson screwed us not Bandlab. It's really not that hard a concept to grasp. As such I don't realistically expect Bandlab to offer me a free lifetime license to the new Sonar. I'm thankful that Bandlab has been providing free updates and support all this time. I look forward to seeing the new Sonar.

@El Diablo thanks - you got me excited about a post that's been dead for over a year. ? I read it and thought maybe I'll wait to see what examples @bitflipper posts before I realized the posting date...

Thanks for pointing that out, corrected OP.

Quoting EvilDragon on KVR "UVI stuff is generally very high quality, which is a pro, but it often comes at a cost of CPU usage, which is a con. Falcon is extremely flexible and while it does sampling, creative sound design is its main selling point, and as such it's a different beast compared to Kontakt. Kontakt is much much more optimized regarding pure sample playback and disk streaming, however in Falcon you can do so much more with additional oscillator types, very flexible modulation, stellar effects... it's not a Kontakt replacement. It's an adjunct." Note: Kontaky is multithreaded but Falcon is not - a factor that can impact usability. If I could only have one it would be Kontakt, but having both is nice. If you're a preset player kind of a person then definitely take the time to audition UVI's library demos for Falcon before buying. If the libraries aren't your cup of tea then you'd be wasting your money on a Falcon purchase. If you're into sound design Falcon offers a deep rabbit hole for you to lose yourself in.

If you don't any Zero-G libs it's on sale intro price $111.95 vs $139.95 If you don't own Atlantis 1 or 2 but own another Zero-G Ethera (thanks @Yan Filiatrault for correction) product use code ETHERALOYALTY and get it for $89.56 (a further 20% discount)

Kind of a ridiculous question. If you know anything about Kontakt you know there are hundreds if not thousands of 3rd party libraries both $$ and free available for it. There are not thousands of available 3rd party libraries currently available for Falcon.

Here's a review https://synthanatomy.com/2023/10/resampler-pro-free-m4l-adds-an-autosampler-to-ableton-live.html

and give up Windows 8? Surely sir you jest!

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Yes, but perhaps only for the moment. They are making it sounds like it's a temporary thing.

Looks like the $35 for adding Pitchmap Colors to Pitchmap is a fixed price (i.e. no intro special). As such I'm saving my pennies for upcoming BF (or preBF) sales, or if it goes on sale. As I have the Orange Vocoder their offer of including OVNano with PMColors doesn't factor for me. Edit: I installed OV Nano and it appears to recognize the installed Orange Vocoder license - not coming up as demo/evaluation copy.

@balinas bit of a rush? No links No pricing info No formatting - bullets etc. make things easier to read and so easy to implement.