Magic Russ

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.

How does that new Kareem Riggins compare?

When I drag a track template from the browser, the only place it will let me drag it is to the bottom of the track list. It would be nice if the drag and drop functionality would function so that it shows a red line where it is going to drop, or highlighting a track if it is going to replace it (and giving a dialog to confirm replacement of the track template. Of course, that means the replace functionality has to work, but that's another topic).

Over the course of time, I have made a few track templates containing a simple instrument track. If I add an instrument track into a project, and then decide to right click on the track and select "Replace From Track Template" and select one of my single-instrument track templates, I always get an error similar to the following Track template 'R6 Monark Lead' is incompatible with this track type. Why might I be getting this error? I might understand if it got confused by sends or routing but this is a situation where you have an instrument track going straight to master.

"My Account" shows a $69 upgrade from FX Collection 3. It seems the team that sets up the promotions got ahead of the team that puts content on their website.

In order to do things in a plugin like search for a preset or save or rename a preset, you have to be able to type that in. Unfortunately Cakewalk seems to impose an extra step on the user, that you need to first click on the keyboard icon in the plugin window to send keystrokes to the plugin. Wouldn't it make sense to have Cakewalk assume that if you have just clicked your cursor in a text box, that you want your text going to the plugin?

Their Play-along series is great for the artists that they cover. One chapter covering the main parts of the song, one part a play through where you can see the instructor playing along with the tab, and one part full "Music Minus One" mode. Groove 3 is owned by Hal Leonard Publishing, so you have a huge collection of their instructional materials for a variety of instruments as well as songbooks. Every week they add more.

Even better.

Echo thief has some unusual impulses. You can use 7 zip to extract them from the exe to use in your favorite convo verb.

I definitely agree that it still is a bargain to get the update for $99 as opposed to just Kontakt for $49. There is an awful lot that is included that I have already used. However, I think the Play series tends towards filler. I also think the expansions are as much trouble as they are worth if you don't have Maschine. It's nice that they throw in presets for Battery, Massive, and whichever, but they don't install them in a directory where any of those programs normally look for presets.

I don't know if they have updated this, but earlier versions of the manual left out how to do Tap Tempo.

All I want from them is two things 1. Ability to rout midi input in browser to tracks. Right now, if I try to audition a midi drum track in BW, it just plays a bunch of discordant sine wave tones. It's not like this is rocket science, in fact Project 5 figured this out over 20 years ago. 2. Support audio input on the WASAPI drivers.

Oh, look, new icons for Kontakt and Native Access!

It's also in Guitar Rig and FM8 (including the FX version)