Magic Russ

Most of the 3rd party products they have included have either been reincluded (Overloud), those that haven't I have either gone with the full version or decided I don't need if I haven't forgotten about altogether. On the other hand, there are a lot of products developed by Cakewalk which were in Platinum era Sonar but don't exist in the new iteration. I wouldn't mind seeing most of these plugins updated and added back, if only that it will make my life easier the next time I do a clean install. Even so, there are a handful of features I'd rather see. First would be some sort of painless method of updating stored instances of Kontakt to the latest versions. Other hosts can do this. Second would be some sort of tagged browsing system for track templates and FZ chains. Third, in most cases I find the containers for FX chains to be an encumbrance and would like to have the ability to drag and drop from the browser without having to extract plugins from the container.

Which patch banks are people liking here? It's kind of hard for me to remember which were ones I bought vs the random freebies or bundleware. I'm pretty sure that things like Synthetic Trap aren't ones I would have purchased on their own. I do remember having bought the Shofuku Cartridge series. It's impressive programming from a DX back in the day, but there's nothing here that stands out in comparison to all the other sounds I have. I like the Witcher tribute for it's fun creepy atmospheric sounds. So far I have been less than impressed with the Artist tribute packs that I have. Autretech is an exception, mostly because I don't know their music and can appreciate the sounds for what they are.

I think I mentioned earlier in the thread that I found a compatible DXi version of Rapture on a backup drive. I did check my original account, but I don't believe that specific version was available there. That is good advice in general, though. All's good, not much need to post to this thread any further.

Thanks. Although my issue was a bit specific for the spreadsheet this will be helpful the next time I replace my DAW with a new one.

Most of us didn't get this as a gift though. It's a pretty cool update. The servers are getting hit pretty hard now.

I like it a lot for post-rock type delays with a bit of modulation, as well as rhythmic delays. I also can get a cool fake chorus sound out of it. I don't remember if it does a Binson but for a blurry delay I go with the oilcan echo from Echoes anyway. It also gets into some of the sounds Objeq Delay does, although I think that one is easier to use. There are a lot of cool models in it and a few that just sound metallic or overly distorted. There's a lot to figure out in that one. I'll confess that many times I'll choose a simpler delay like Replika or Echoes to avoid option paralysis.

MTurboDelay is the effect of theirs I use most. There's very little in the way of delays that it doesn't do. There aren't a lot of things that do what MRhythmizer does either.

I was getting issues where the file path was too long so I had to move the zip files up. This is really not turning out to be worth it for me.

These guys are annoying me. They put zip archives inside zip archives. Then on top of that, I had to actually reset permissions on some of the files so I could extract them. That and how many subdirectories do they need? This is literally the path of how far I have to go to find the midi files in one library. F:\Downloads\MIDI Klowd\synthwave-midi-kits-vol-1\MIDI Klowd - Synthwave MIDI Kits Vol 1\synthwave-midi-kits-v1\SYNTHWAVE_MIDI_KITS_V1\Synthwave MIDI Kits V1\Kit 1 B flat 90BPM\MIDI

Not any more

Does anyone know if they ever offer cheaper upgrades/crossgrades to Essential users?

It's free with rig library purchases. It also has been given away from time to time, but it's been a paid product.

If they come out with a Max 5, the only things they could add are T-Racks 6 and the Morley collection for Amplitube. I think they will probably release something else in the meantime, otherwise it would be a pretty lean upgrade. As for the second question, I wouldn't count on it. It's questionable for the people who have come in under the group buys and have most of the included gear. It's a spectacular deal for someone who didn't have any of the included products. Even for someone who was only interested in any one of Amplitube or T-Racks or the MODO series it would be a pretty good deal.

1.2.2 is the version where they stopped supporting Rapture on DX. And when I say stopped supporting I mean the installer went out and removed the existing DX. In other words 1.22 is the root cause of the problem I had.

Actually I was in the process of converting some old P5 projects to Sonar. All I needed was to be able to load it to see which presets I was using and then export the patterns and recreate in Sonar with a 64 bit version of the plugin. For what it's worth, I don't remember which version I ended up loading but it was either 1.2 or 1.2.1. I don't believe that version was available through my legacy account but I found it on a backup drive.

I am actually talking about the OG version of Rapture which came out in 2006 or so which began life as a boxed product and eventually was included in Producer edition. Yes, I can load the projects but these are old projects from before I was in the habit of exporting incomplete projects to audio. Rapture is great for creating the proverbial one finger groove and I'm pretty sure that's what I was doing in these projects. So getting the projects to open is of limited help with that.

I am going through some old projects and I have run into some issues where I created the project with the DX version of Rapture. At some point when Cakewalk upgraded Rapture they decided to not support VST. Unfortunately this also meant that the installer removed any existing DX installations of Rapture, and I now have a few projects that I can't open because of that. Does anyone know which version of Sonar has an installer for the latest DXi version of Rapture? Or do I have to go back to install disks?

The newest version of Kontakt has a long requested feature which allows you to import 3rd party content as searchable libraries into their libraries page. That's a great feature because lets me find content without having to search through the file system. Unfortunately, in order to take advantage of that feature you need to perform a batch resave to resave the existing content in the current format. Which means that you cannot take advantage of that feature without breaking all your existing projects which were saved with earlier versons of the software.

If they ever bring back plugins that would effectively kill this particular subforum.

I only just got EZBass and have only the bass pack. So far I prefer the sound of MODO, but as people will tell you, EZBass (and EZKeys) are really all about the composition features.

I added the Jazz Bass Midi to my account. It also gave me the option to add Acoustic Songwriter for another $9. Nice.

I've seen that they have expansions and midi packs for EZBass. The sound expansions come with MIDI. Is there overlap between the MIDI provided in the expansions and that provided in the MIDI packs?

You might get better deals on some things from outside vendors if you wait. You aren't going to get better deals on the 3 day deals from Toontrack, and many of these deals you won't see from vendors. Now if you are interested in a couple of Toontrack offerings and only have the budget for one, it completely makes sense to wait.

The also have EZ Bass for $114.67

They built up Sonar to be a sweetener to subscribe to their community and made a subscription the only way to get the product. But the existing Cakewalk/Sonar user community wants nothing to do with the community and even less to do with subscriptions.