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Well, it's a link to the "what is new" page, not "what is it" page. Let's see the "what is new" pages of other DAWs: https://www.bandlab.com/products/cakewalk/whats-new https://www.presonus.com/products/Studio-One/new-in-studio-one-6 https://www.steinberg.net/cubase/new-features/ https://www.image-line.com/fl-studio-learning/fl-studio-online-manual/html/basics_new.htm https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207735 https://www.bitwig.com/whats-new/ https://www.reasonstudios.com/en/reason/updates/release-notes

Pretty good!

I have, in the past. I actually recommend people Unreal's SFZ libraries when they need guitar/bass. I should try again thoroughly. Thanks for reminding!

SynthMaster is awesome. I got the Everything Bundle as well. I like both One and 2 versions. Many people who purchased SynthMaster use only presets. So, this free SynthMaster Player is a pretty good deal.

https://ardour.org/whatsnew.html

https://audioassault.mx/products/hellbeast "The Amp From Hell"

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SoundPaint keyboards and guitars are okay. They're always around $20.

I'm still open to suggestions, though.

You know what, you're right. Transposing two-note guitar DI signal by one step is no biggie. There are even pedals doing that in real time. And I don't even know I'd need to reach to that D note in every song. I also got the JBass from AcousticSamples that plays nicely with their other guitar VIs in UVI Workstation.

That's an idea. Even DAW's own transposing (usually uses zplane's Élastique algorithms) would work. How does this one sound to your ears? https://www.iamlamprey.com/products/achromic-aggressive-rhythm-guitars

I have Tele and Strat VIs from AcousticSamples, and they sound just great combined with a decent hi-gain ampsim. But they're limited to E Standard tuning. I should either find a rhythm guitar VI that goes down to Drop D, at least; or I should just adapt to the E Standard, which works for many metal bands.

I have Waves GTR, few ampsims (with pedals) from Audio Assault, and several freeware ones. I can get the tone I want with my guitar. Heavier7Strings and Hellraiser would be overkill, don't you think? They sound great, but they also went over all the frets with many articulations needed for lead guitar work. Something smaller (and cheaper) with only power chords would work for metal rhythm guitar, I guess.

One-knob chiclets don't count.

Ze Germans

I have metal needs. ?

Oldies but goldies.

Bummer, I missed the vote. How come Guitar DI didn't make it to the list?

Wait for a few months to see this stuck in a $50 plugin. Just like how Stagecraft Simple Stems used Deezer's free and open source software Spleeter.

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Bluegrass time! ?

That's one heck of a hedgehog.

Which Waves plugins you got, and what new plugins you replace them with?

I don't regret my Waves purchases at all. Always on sale approach (or never on sale, if you will) saved me a lot of time I'd spend collecting bits here and there.

And I consider myself a good musician. Everyone laughs when I play my guitar.