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No. The odd thing was a day ago there was this slight hum and it was not audio related. I also run diagnostics every week. I use Seatools but after the crash the Intel and WD app caught the errors. I was able to recover the drive by using a drive dock on another system with Acronis. Funny how bad drives seem to appear on external devices. I think a new rule for me is if your OS drive is a SSD buy an extra drive. No RMA is fast enough for me. I'm going to Best Buy and get a Samsung and wait for this Intel RMA. This EVO 650 500GB is $80. I'm surprise this Intel failed. From now on it's going to be WD since most of their drives are now 5 years. I had to RMA WD platters and WD sends you a replacement and you send the other drive back. This is the first OS drive that failed for me. I don't have 100% faith in SSDs and would only buy if the warranty is 5 years or more.

1st time I ever had to RMA anything with the Intel name on it.

I watched the more extended video and changed my mind. I'll wait for the prices to drop on the individual ones. If one is for Kontakt bloat and interesting instruments I would suggest the HG Sounds group buy for $20.

I'm guilty. This is the only reason why I don't miss PA vouchers.

Did you buy it yet? I'm slightly curious about Hypernode.

Next is the never ending collection of under $20 Kontakt libraries that are cinematic or synth emulators.

You're a lightweight.

You will need an eLicenser dongle. The drawback to VSL is you will have to pay to get your licenses back if you dongle is damaged or lost. The other option is to pay their mob protection fee for 2 years which is more than buying 2 dongles. Don't invest too much money in their libraries unless you are getting paid for your work. Their fan base is dwindling.

Only if you like going down the street to fetch some coffee while a DAW is doing a plugin scan.

Ha!Ha!Ha! You probably thought only IK did that.

My first complaint would be here https://www.facebook.com/fullcompass

Yamaha SW1000XG was $500. Drivers weren't the so much as not being able to run on a nForce 2 chipset or Intel 900 series. The latency on them was 32ms by default Outside of a wind or string instrument I'd never buy anything with the Yamaha name on it. They are too quick to create legacy products.

That seems like a great deal. Not for me as I have too many plugins. Waves has started a price war.

That pretty much how I sum it up. The delusional Linux user would disagree,

Yamaha is the king of doorstops. For what I paid I could have bought a RME Hammerfall that would still be running,

I can do all of that on Windows and W10 didn't cost me anything. It would suck to have that limited choice of DAWs. Reaper isn't technically supported. I use to check the ALSA site to see if they ever had drivers for my Yamaha SW1000XG and then have a Linux box. No chance.

BTW can Mint be run on an external device? I guess that would depend on what you want to use. Anyone I know that uses W7 for multimedia just keep it offline. I don't know how much support one needs for W7. I have one machine with W7 for Virtual XP. I can still run my Canon Scanner that only have 32 bit drivers in virutal XP. It's an older system that can't be upgraded. Any other virtual OS doesn't work for my scanner.

Not a fan of 3 year warranty.

https://hgsounds.com/product/circular-for-kontakt/ Anyone on this? I participated in the last one and never really used any of it.

There's always someone requesting a Linux version of some DAW. Scott from Image-Line made a truthful reply that they wont devote time to an extremely small amount of users. Unfortunately delusional Linux users don't get that. Sure there is Bitwig, Tracktion, Mixbus. I have those and don't care to use them. I could build a DAW from scratch and have it up and running before attempting to use Linux. Some things that are often annoying about Linux users is they don't know how small or difficult their world is. Some people think they are really cool because they can use it. Others feel like they are giving the middle finger to MS. They like to argue with Windows users more than Mac users. Apple had a marketing ploy one time as how simple a Mac is. While I'm a fan of open source software a developers webpage makes it obvious they use Linux. There average person just wants to find the download with less tech speak. Opening Mixbus has audio/midi setup. Like I'm going to change that often? Aesthetically it's not really appealing. I've tried the Linux train before. Once I forked out $80 for a modem just to use it. One time I couldn't understand their geek speak and erased Windows. Another time when I used USB wifi adapters there was this "easy peezy" way to get one running was to type characters in a command line (had no clue what they meant) only to have run but had to do this every time I booted it up. Hardware support is lacking but don't tell the delusional Linux user that. Linux is a failure in the retail market, Wal-Mart had the Licorice PC, a Linux system by Dell was offered at Best Buy. No buyers. A large amount of computer users are still ignorant of how things work on a computer. If someone like my mom could install and run Linux then it has reached prime time. The Linux is easy crowd claim to fame is using a browser and email. As for the world of multi media is like a male not having a prom date at a school where the female ratio is 10-1. Let me know when Avid starts making the industry standard available for Linux. The options for Linux are lame. Let me know when that famous producer starts using it. Then again I use a form of Linux everyday with a phone. There is no real advantage over Apple. There's an app for everything thing and it doesn't take much for you to run out of space. Some developers haven't figured out use that flash drive you added. So if you run an Apple or Linux device there's on guarantee that developers will make your phone obsolete. I've bitched a Fry's Food for their inept developers making their app obsolete while competitors like Basha's and Alberton/Safeway still run and update on my phone. So my purchases are now 70/30 in favor of Safeway. Never give your developers that much leeway. The Fry's technology dept. is a great example of clueless developers out of touch with consumers. I've heard all of the pro Linux arguments ,YAWN! I could copy and paste them all day. They have the whole planet to convince it's the best but it aint happenin'. It's like Charlie Brown wating for the Great Pumpkin to arrive after the bloody violent war between MS and Apple and they will be the survivors and rise above the ashes. Even with the headaches of the evolving Windows 10 and Apple's pricing it's not going to happen.

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/AcidPro8--magix-acid-pro-8 Free version 9 upgrade from MAGIX upon release! Purchase this Magix item at Sweetwater and receive a free version 9 upgrade from MAGIX upon release. Software must be registered by May 05, 2019. Did they really do anything with Acid 8?

Interesting that Spire and Chromaphone has updates.

We need a separate forum for this.

Definitely if I didn't have too many plugins. I'd snap one up and wait for one of those freebies to be $29 and save money in the in the long run. The Abbey Road Plates are probably the only thing I'd want from Waves.

So you would have to buy 2 of these to get that free plugin? I keep these on my EP wish list and check the prices regularly.