Magic Russ

Added new preset pack with 200 patches, plus MAC updates and bug fixes. As always run Native Access.

Mostly KSP additions and bug fixes.

One thing that is nice to know is that if you buy in at one level, you are not locked in to that level. If for example, you have the Ultra Plus Pak from a few years ago, you can simply update to the new Pro Pak without losing any of your content from the Ultra Pak.

Mine actually showed AD2 needed an update.

VST does sound cool.

The deal ends tomorrow night. I have a copy of BIAB 2018. I pull it out from time to time. I was wondering how much value there would be in upgrading. Are there any features from the last few years you guys consider indispensable?

Only in Ableton format unfortunately, but the samples are at least wav.

The Karanyi Vapor Keys turned out to be pretty nice.

van Buuren's class spends a lot of time on composition and sound design. There are 33 lessons, 6 of which involve mixing and mastering. I haven't gotten to the mixing and mastering chapter yet, but he does use Ozone, FabFilter stuff, L1 Limiter, G Bus Compressor, Kick2, LFO Tool, Bark of Dog, Noveltech Character, Valhalla Room and ArtsAcoustic Reverb. For Synths, it's Serum, Massive Sylenth, Omnisphere, Nexus, Kontakt and Avenger.

My wife and I took advantage of this last year. The cooking classes are really good. It's surprising to see Gordon Ramsey in a show where he's not freaking out. The music classes vary. Tom Morello was the best I had seen so far. He knew what he was talking about and presented an interesting method of coming up with new riffs. Carlos Santana came across as a bit of a flake. Deadmau5 had some good information, but I didn't feel like he knew how to communicate that well. Armin van Buren came across much better. I only saw a couple of episodes of Timbaland, but I liked his idea of building ideas from sounds you could vocalize. My wife seemed to like the business classes they had. And even though she's a historian, Doris Kearns Goodwin's class had a lot of lessons that would be applicable to present day organizational communication and leadership.

That's fair. There are some well done libraries I may or may not use, like Embertone's recorder or NI's Yangqin. Also, after I posted this, I saw the Nova Keys freebie. 9 short samples of someone playing random notes on a piano. Definitely a good example of one to avoid.

This is a zip with 9 wav files. Not particularly useful.

There are a lot of holiday gifts available right now. However, I have spent a lot of time downloading things I'll never use. So which products should I download and which aren't worth the time?

And probably only used a fraction of them.

Edit: at least your kids aren't getting directed to a certain similarly named site.

Remind me again, which is better, "deeply sampled" or "sampled in exquisite detail"? If I'm going to have the piano take up 75GB on my hard drive I want to have whichever one is better.

Impressive, considering they are closed for the Holidays.

I emailed support last night, haven't heard from them yet.

I've done a few compares patch vs patch. So far I mostly prefer the AT5 version, but there are some exceptions. For example on the patch, "Back In Red", it sounds fuller in AT5 but has more bite in AT4. At least using my guitar.

I don't know if this helps, but with my Komplete Audio 6, I was not getting any sound either. I use a mic into input 1 (L) and guitar to input 2 (R). Swapping the inputs on the Audio/Midi settings page worked for me.

I hadn't received mine either. Went into my account and saw that I was not receiving emails from them! So much crap from everyone else that I did not realize I hadn't seen anything from them in a long time.

Requires Studio One version 5.1.1 or higher.

The Replika effects are pretty sweet though. Replika GR has a different feature set than either Replika or Replika XT. It is a single delay but has all the delay modes of XT. It doesn't have all the modulation modes, only offering a pitch modulation. Replika Shimmer does shimmer reverb/delay effects, and does them very well.

Sorry you're having problems. I'm on Win10 and downloaded it Friday. If it's any consolation Driver isn't that good as a guitar effect.

If you had left it at the afternoon of 16th, some people might have complained, but most would have understood. I'm sure you meant "it's the 15th somewhere" as a joke, but the joke fell flat and a lot of people read it as being weaselish.