Magic Russ

Not at all. In most cases these tracks originated with track templates I made for Reaktor 6, or Cakewalk renamed the track with "Reaktor 6" when I performed a Replace Synth operation on the track. Cakewalk says it is loading Reaktor 6 when loading the track, the plugin window says Reaktor 6 and the interface looks like Reaktor 6. I haven't seen a problem with older projects where I still have Reaktor 5 on tracks. Two months ago NI added a VST3 version with auto migration from VST2. I wonder if it is possible that that confused Cakewalk.

The problem with AAS demos is that Thiago could make your mom's old fan organ with a broken F# key sound like anything from a choir of angels to the sound of the apocalypse. The packs never can live up to those expectations.

I have retested with some recent files and they appear to be pulling up patch information correctly. The issue I have seems to be mostly with some files from about 2 years ago.

I was going through some projects and noticed that in all of the instances of Reaktor 6 I could find, the state of the plugin was either not saved or not loading correctly. Every time I tried to open an instance of R6 in an existing project, it was empty with no ensemble loaded. Is this a known issue?

So how is it I go away for a couple of days and half the posts are "Not a Deal..."?

Just turn on the news.

Sorry, just had to ask because there wasn't one with P5.

Since you are describing Next as a creation environment and Sonar as a production environment, it seems that you might have a number of users who decide to do creation work in Next and move production work to another environment, such as Sonar. Can we expect that Next will include appropriate export options?

They actually had both back in the day.

CA-2 is still pretty good, as were the Linear Phase plugins and Adaptive Limiter. The original Z3TA+ was pretty groundbreaking. Triangle II has an ob9 patch that I prefer to a number of current Oberheim emulations. I'd love to see them make a few tweaks to Pentagon to make it a little more stable and take standard wav files. Rapture is still a fairly powerful synth, and while Dimension doesn't have the power of Kontakt, it has a pretty solid library. While I will be the first to say they made some really dumb missteps with Rapture Pro (especially releasing a 32 bit version when a not insignificant portion of the content would not load in memory), if you take it as a version of Sound Center instead of the next iteration of Rapture, it actually is a mostly worthwhile product. And obviously nobody has asked for Guitar Rig LE because the version of TH3 is much better. I have fond memories of these because I had a tighter budget when starting and plugins were much more expensive in the early days. If I had to spend a month with only plugins included with versions of Cakewalk I purchased I could do alright.

I think at this point any reasonable person has discerned that outside of an official announcement, anything more said on pricing and licensing will be nothing more than FUD, venting, ranting, or possibly virtue signalling. With that out of the way, let's talk about the direction these products are going in. "Less work, more flow" is an awesome slogan, but what's in the pipeline to actually achieve that? What is Next? Is it just a port of BandLab software or something more? Is it going to be competing with FL, Ableton, and Bitwig? What else is in store for Sonar? The change to vector graphics might not be enough to open everyone's wallet. What about the instruments? What gets included, outdated, updated?

I don't think it's fair to blame Cakewalk's demise on the update plan. I recall having read that they were losing money as early as the Roland days. Besides, if it's such a terrible idea, why did Bitwig take it up and why are they having success with it?

I think you may be giving many of the people who misunderstood the message a bit too much credit.

Like I said in the upstairs thread, I don't think anyone in the DAW world can get away with that. Those who have tried have been shown the errors of their ways. I would be shocked to see that happen.

Thank you for reminding me why I don't spend time on Nextdoor.

Come on, you know the pricing model is going to be an issue for someone, even if it is free.

The entry for Sonar on the KVR site is $99-499 for Sonar X3, not the resurrected version.

I used to use vi back in the days of doing Pro*C on UNIX. I had half a dozen perl scripts that would automate a lot of the drudgier stuff like doing the cursor and statement creation for embedded Oracle.

That may be one of the more interesting things I have heard today. I see that Next offers tagged browsing of plugins. Is this something coming to Sonar as well? Will Sonar import files from Next?

I get the impression that where they are going is similar to how things worked at the tail end of Cakewalk where you choose from a) Buy the software plus 12 months of updates (which Bitwig does now) and you keep software at last updated version covered under the plan. b) A rent-to-own plan. It seems to me the DAW market is competitive enough that nobody can get away with a pay-or-quit subscription model anyway.

It would have been cool if Next was a revival of Project 5....

That will probably be me as well.

Thanks for clarifying that. I remember some time back someone telling me that you could shift-drag to do this, but that wasn't working. I didn't realize you had to click shift after you started dragging.

I wonder if this means their next library is a Celtic entry into their Spotlight Series.

Thanks for that but for me what is as important is the ability to drag them without the container.