kitekrazy1

These are not for the hobbyist unless you want to brag to your DAW buddies on forums.

Well I like to collect DAWs. If it's Mixcraft or Reaper pricing - sold. Of course there is licensing that is the big one for me. I don't buy 2 machine limit software. Let's keep the sub pandemic going.

Didn't those come with Humble Bundle recently? I think I'd rather slow $39 on a DAW I might not use when I almost pay that a month on some more plugins or sample libraries I will forget about.

Staff view sucks, bundled instruments suck. Not sure it's worth it if the staff view is the same. Bundled instruments suck in most DAWs anyway. Be like Reaper, just the DAW please.

I'm one of those fools who install everything because I paid for it.

I don't need another synth, eq, compressor, reverb, delay..........

Sometimes I debate on these deals knowing TS Max is a good deal but how much of that do you really need. I even started to evaluate this after upgrading Komplete.

Speaking of ignorance and not taking time to read these will be paid for apps. Still as for pricing there are too many fish in the sea.

I'm gonna take a stab here and think not much will change. It could be Bandlab now has the rights to call it Sonar. Something that was free turns into something paid for isn't going to be accepted. How many of us know how big Bandlab really is? We are just a small part of it. I guess their phone app is big overseas and it's free. But I'm pretty ignorant about the whole organization. Maybe they will do what Reason and Tracktion does and rely on selling sound content.

It's kinda sad the regression of Wusik. It was popular at one time. He blames issues on mental illness and I don't think people are buying into it. Forgiveness is hard and he needs to do something to change that. I left Wusik are no updates and into a paid upgrade.

That's the Magix trademark. You do get to other nice apps. Now if they threw in Acid Pro I'd give it look.

Those Terminator movies don't seem so fiction any more.

We got off topic. When you fork out $200 for Komplete U that last thing I want to hear is how "cheap" drives are. I prefer SATA SSD because I can use 6 SATA ports. I still run Komplete of HDDs on some systems. I started to delete plenty of never used Kontakt libraries. I practically have all of Sampletekk pianos and thinking no need for the Giant, Maverick. Granduer. and Gemtlemen. I'm not really into pianos other than sketching for synths. BTW those libraries load fine on a HDD.

I'm trying to avoid that. Maybe try less sample hoarding.

The next question is what pianos to keep that go back to like Komplete 10. I do keep Alicias Keys. I will install the new ones.

I have a lot of their loops. Good stuff. Find ones that included midi.

Only reason why the have the iLok option was doe Pro Tools users. I makes no sense otherwise. You can install Izotope on every machine you have.

OP gets a major thumbs down. The warranty should have told you it's not a SSD. I haven't seen a WD ext. SSD yet.

The beauty of PA is you can download each file. Hornet does that. Melda you can pick. It get the idea of the all in one installer when you have as many products as Waves and IK. The biggest headache for me was NA 2.

As developers seen to use more disk space I'm starting to use more scrutiny and what do keep on drives. I've gotten away from free stuff. When you have all of the popular synth VSTs I don't think there's a point in synth romplers for me anymore. BTW Kontakt is also a synth. I still keep a lot of stuff on spinning drives.

from Music Production Suite 5

Your forgot to say INSTALLED.

I don't have enough space to install all of it. Some of it is bloated as well. Debating on what old pianos to keep. Deleted Symphony Essential since I can't keep track of the other developers beginning orchestras. Action Strings 2 worth installing? That solo violin rivals Soundpaint for bloatness. Not gonna install that.

I only buy drives with 5yr warranty usually WD and Crucial.