Magic Russ

Pay $199, get NADA? Probably not the best sales pitch.

Crystal is pretty old but still a classic. https://www.greenoak.com/crystal/dnld2.html Komplete Start has a nice selection https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/bundles/komplete-start/included-products/

I don't have that kind of time anymore. Plus, the bugs they are fixing are usually not the ones I have.

Which ones? S-Gear is the only vst3 causing me problems.

I have. They haven't responded yet, but it seems they have a few more pressing issues. Of course most of my vst3 plugins don't have resource directories and I wonder if this might be a problem with the wrapper. I also forgot to mention that the VST3 works fine in Bitwig and Studio One, so likely a Cakewalk issue.

I have not been able to get SGear 2.9 to work as a VST3 plugin in Cakewalk (The VST2 version works fine). When I initally scanned SGear, I got errors on three files: FlxComm64.dll, FlxCore64.dll, and SonuusTuner64.dll. These three files are in c:\Program Files\CommonFiles\VST3\SGear2.vst3\Contents\Resources. The first time, I clicked to disable these. On a rescan I clicked to enable these plugins. I am able to pull up an instance of the VST3 version of S-Gear, but it does not make any sound nor show any movement on the input meters.

That's actually nice. For a version 1.2.1 I would have expected it to be a bug that only affects the Mac version of Pro Tools.

I ran Native Access last night and didn't see anything. What did they update?

Not to mention how much of a pain it would be if every developer decided to put their stuff into wherever they wanted, especially for people who had multiple hosts.

No

I installed the new version tonight. Unfortunately, the standalone was not working correctly. There seems to be a bug in selecting the correct interface. If this happens to you, you will need to find the registry where the name of the interface is stored, and enter the correct interface. https://www.scuffhamamps.com/forum/7-bugs-issues/8949-s-gear-2-9-standalone-asio-devices-selection-bug I also had a problem getting the VST3 to work in CW but it works OK in SOP4.

Click on the name under Available Updates and you will see a sidebar appear on the right with tabs for Product Description, Changes, and Installation Path. 1.3.1 FIXED hanging Midi Notes issues in ProTools

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if you're talking about Mercuriall - refresh your browser cache. I meant Revalver. I thought someone said the bundle sale ended Friday, but it is still going on.

Still showing the sale price...

In addition, the upgrade price was around the same as the BF sale price on the full version BREVERB.

You're a few months early with that one.

It's an emulation of an EMT plate reverb. A lot of multimode reverbs will have a plate algorithm and there are a lot of impulses taken from these devices available for convolution reverbs. Even with a lot of reverb options available I think this is still worth having.

If I'm not mistaken, the Melda turbo delay can do some similar stuff. I do like the way Objeq delay can turn a simple percussion loop into a full fledged drum circle.

Their servers get slammed whenever they do giveaways.

There are two things about Mixcraft that really turned me off when I last looked at it. One was having the transport in the middle of the screen where it will get obscured whenever you view a plugin (it sounds like that might not be an issue any more). The other was the lack of MIDI file preview.

I still have the same issue. Also tried Bitwig, could not see them either. At this point it's not worth the effort. Ampire is really nice for an included plugin, but I don't need it. And I usually don't get far enough in projects these days that I need to worry about which compressors are best.

Was dealing with that last night. They said the installer app was supposed to install vsts but no joy for me either.

https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/2-Effects/54-Vocal-Processing/2263-MCharacter

Don't laugh, but I'd be more interested in that than the Satch pack. Don't get me wrong, he's an extraordinary player with perfectly good tone. Most of his amps and pedals, though, aren't that much different from what Amplitube already offers. That's the reason I suggested the Nels Cline pack. It doesn't matter if you are in awe of his playing or are someone who has never heard of him or Wilco. There's some good stuff in his rig that's worth having that isn't already in Amplitube, and that's way more interesting to me than trying to get any specific player's sound.