Magic Russ

Actually the cheapest I am seeing is FM8 for $10.50.

My main DAW is a desktop with a decent interface. However, there was a time where I would use my laptop to compose on during dead time, where I dropped one kid off at an activity and it's not worth it to do anything else but kill some time at a coffee shop. In these cases I might not have wanted to lug around a spare interface and didn't have a ton of USB slots to spare. On top of that I wouldn't want to bring my guitar with me and I doubt anyone in the coffee shop wanted me to sing, giving me no reason to need audio input. In that case ASIO4ALL was a perfect solution.

The Arkhis + Sequis bundle is $99. It looks like either of them are $99 on their own.

I had a lot of fun playing this.

That was a problem I faced long before this offer.

I went through the hoops on the VSTAlarm page to find they gave me a coupon code and a link to order on the Vicious Antelope page and am still waiting on the email to download. That's a lot of hoops to jump through to save EUR 1.75

So you're saying it's a 10?

It was actually available as part of a 5-pack bundle a while ago. I had to look that up because I have it but never would have paid full price for that. Of course I don't often pay full price for anything, so that's not a jab at the product.

OK, so there are those three that are not free but included with V Collection X and the other three that are truly free. Got it.

Hypha 1.1.1 - Missing PolyAT tagging.

I am current. I needed to be to have been able to do my 3 line review of the new Minifreak soundsets.

When I logged in it said I had 3 free freebies from the store but when I clicked on the Free link it only was showing. Curiously there are 3 new libraries going for $29.99 each. Hyper Rave, Inner City Soul, and Inward Universe. Maybe the program got confused. Maybe I did.

My thoughts here:

SONAR is what Cakewalk by Bandlab used to be. Sonar is the upcoming replacement for Cakewalk by Bandlab. Hope that clears things up.

Audio demos are not available on the site, but are still on his youtube channel. I'll confess that I usually ignore free Massive presets because it is such an old synth that was never a favorite and in my experience there are a lot of crappy, lazy and underdeveloped presets for that synth out there, even being sold commercially. The demos for these sound all right though. Hopefully he will have better luck with his Serum and CS80 presets.

I notice that they made the bonus soundpacks available for Analog Lab users. All three of these are made with MiniFreak. The fist one is Euphoric Grooves. This is a pack for EDM sounds and it sounds fairly generic with the most simplistic programming of the three. The second, Deserted Lands, advertises itself for dark soundscapes but could work for a moody pop or rock tune. The third is called Synthetic Trap, but could be useful for a variety of styles. While there are some useful sounds there, none of the three packs is going to get me gassing for MiniFreak. There isn't a sound here that sounds like I couldn't have gotten it with one of the other synths I already have.

Yes you can, but it requires the manual step of moving your image into whichever directory it goes into. It would be nice if they could have the images saved and imported with the bank in a way that requires no user involvement.

I got v9 just a year ago. While the new Augmented instruments seem to have potential, it will be quite some time before I feel like I have exhausted the possibilities on V9.

This has been a bit of a resource hog on my system. However, I have been able to get some pretty good results with this product pretty quickly.

Mine's tied to my interface. If that goes I doubt that not getting into Revalver is going to be at the top of my list of problems.

Yeah but you'll end up having to download everything several times for compatibility updates anyway.

It's weird because there are a lot of presets where there is this harsh short ambience, even when it's just the amp engaged. Also there are a few times where the volume fluctuates as if a slow and shallow tremolo were engaged. I generally prefer the new Headrush effects over the older ones. As for the Headrush effects, they mostly are pretty good, except that the Multi Chorus is a bit brittle and the Shimmer Reverb is by far the worst attempt at that effect I have ever heard. Also, having previously updated from Revalver 4 Producer to the free version of 5, it did load all of the effects I had from 4 into the free version, but not the ACT profiles. It doesn't seem like there is any new functionality in it apart from the new Headrush components.

It seems that you can import presets from the Headrush floorboard in Revalver 5. At $79 for the full version (I think it goes up to $129 after new year) that's a lot cheaper than the Helix Native which is $399, half off on BF sale.

https://revalver.headrushfx.com Includes discounts for upgrades from Revalver 4 Producer pack through end of month Packages include models from Headrush amp simulators.

ProAudioStar occasionally has some insane deals that make one wonder how they manage not to have their manufacturers dump them. Or maybe they do that when their vendor agreements expire. They have been around for years though.