Magic Russ

Musicradar.com just set up a page for it in the last 17 hours: https://www.musicradar.com/news/best-black-friday-and-cyber-monday-deals

in all fairness, the types of issues I have had on Windows 10 amount to no more than nag popups telling me I need to upgrade. I have not yet had an update break any of my hosts or plugins. On the other hand, if I were a mac user, it looks like Catalina would have broken them all.

That's true for me as well. My ability to score and for orchestra (and need to do so) doesn't currently justify having anything more detailed than Dimension Pro.

I have been playing with both of them. You can get some interesting results if you use Ringo with Bruford styles and vice versa.

And it's available now.

Bill Bruford and Ringo Starr in one month!

Good to know.

I usually put Amplitube in front of S-Gear for distortions, wah, etc. Post-amp I might put something like NI's Choral or Replika.

This is not apples to apples (and can't be), but I still prefer the gainier sounds from the Wayfarer amp from S-Gear to similar tones from Amplitube's MB Mk III or Mk IV. But IK has made some big strides. Compare the unlicensed Mk III from the core package to the Mk III in the newer Mesa/Boogie collection and you will see just how far they have come.

Anyone see this one yet?

Unfortunately, if you add too much stuff in then "watch out" is the key phrase there.

They put out a survey before the last update asking for priorities on what they should update. Multicore and 64 bit were listed as options. The user base voted for input quantize.

Nothing in particular. I feel I could use a better algorithmic verb, maybe the full BREVERB or MTurboReverb.

Ends in only 4 hours? I had 8 of the bundle already and it was still a killer deal.

IK Multimedia has a few things in their group buy that might work. Head over to the deals forum and Larry will be sure to find the cheapest way to get you in. Nomad Factory is also highly discounted right now.

Rayzoon has just released a new mini-pack called Odd Time, with a new drummer Bill, which caters to odd time signatures. They also have in the pipeline another one, NEO 60, which focuses on 60s pop and soul. Included is a new drummer called Star. It should be released in the next week or two.

How does the LA 2 mode compare with other LA-2A models? Also how does the 2 mode compare with the 3 mode and where would you use one vs. the other?

One of my favorite sounds is the Pinnacle distortion into the Princeton amp. Neither of these is in any of the bundles. I've also done a fair amount of patches with the Vox. And the Silvertone, Orange AD-30, Orange Rockerverb, Silver Anniversary Marshall, and various Fenders.

Don't forget that there are some nice effects in some of the collections. For example, I was recently going through components and found that the Chorus from Ampeg 1 sounds nice with guitar. In chorus mode, it has one sound which is between chorus and flanger (still a good sound), but I like its vibrato mode a lot too.

You can get individuals in the custom shop, but usually if you want a couple of things from a collection you may as well go for the collection.

SO4 is great in a lot of ways, but for me, CW allows me to get ideas down and formed faster.

It would also be spelled with a K.

NI listed the names in their Massive X Feedback/Support Forum today. https://support.native-instruments.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360006954818-Massive-X-100-Presets-Added-en-us- Massive X Factory Library version 1.0.2 new presets: All Luck Ancient Strings Apocalypse Forever Arena Hands Artocaster Ballers Ivory Balloon Time Bellody Bohrium Bracket Butterherz Calm Rocket Cathedralium Celestial Plum Circuit Celesta Club Tropics Crayon Cruella Crush Star Daft Dark Heart Deep Blue Digital Ghost Dodo Scream Dunkle Earthly Electra Fizzle Electric Flow Epica Extinction Now Fallen Crush Fancy Fist Front Forest Metal Funk Glider Future Switch Galaxy Quest Glitch Line Golden Age Goon Walk Granny Hang Ten Harvest Iron Ivory Kingson Brown Kong Donk Lately Lets Dance Lola Lost Lovely Eighties Mashed Melancholic Rims Melo Square Mini Ark Missing Beats Modern Funk Modern Slap Mystery Metal Naked Saw Neo Soul Noise Pulse Paloma Passive Phat Phase Pipe Man Plastique Plucky Port Meadow Puffy Quack Quantum Foam Rampenschutz Retrograde Rising Star Rising Sun Robot Wars Sagittarius X Shifter Spaces Sid Arp Sky Hands Slim Jim Smash Piano Spaced Spiked Stabbath Steam Pan String Bundle Sub Pop Subterra Summer Metal Sweet Heaven Techtronic Tuby Tuesday Wafty Whirly Gate White Wild Pitch Wobbly Orbit Woozle

That's great, but I was looking for the names of the new presets. The list of changes tells me that 100 new presets were added, but doesn't say which ones.