Starship Krupa

I think you missed my earlier post where I said: I'm not objecting to installer/manager apps (when they do their job well). I would HATE, for instance, to have to either run installers or unZIP and copy the over 100 MeldaProduction plugins or even the 40 or so Kilohearts plugins I own, and that's not even considering authorizing all of them. What I don't want, and don't see the need for, is plug-in installers that install constantly running services along with the plug-ins. I haven't run into any yet, but if I found a plug-in that wouldn't function without its company's service running, I'd uninstall it/them immediately. If by some chance I had paid for it, I'd demand that I be allowed to surrender the license and get a refund.

Oh get this, get this. One of the more underrated sound design tools, I think. Absolute powerhouse, very useful presets and top notch A|A|S sound.

They must be disappointed in me, because as soon as the install is done I disable the service. Then I try instantiating them in Sonar. So far I haven't had any complain, but if I did, I'd just uninstall the plug-in. It only happens with freebies because the companies where I actually spend money on plug-ins don't use install helper services. No coincidence, that. The only running service I tolerate for plug-ins is Waves, and even their stuff works fine without it. It seems to only be used for their kluged-on preset browser.

These services that are only used during installation are part of an authentication mechanism then. So many companies manage to do it without installing a friggin' service. A|A|S, MeldaProduction, Plugin Alliance, IK Multimedia....

I hold out hope that Sonar's visibility troubles can somehow be addressed. We've been promised more access to visual customization.

Very nice products, and it's hard to beat the price, but why oh why do we have to install yet another service just to install the product(s)? I got the free Antelope EQ and it installed a service. I think Softube installs one too. None of these is necessary in order to use the plug-ins, they're only required during the install process. <rant> These are plug-ins. All an installer needs to do is download the VST3 package and copy it to the VST3 directory. If your installer needs to install its own service just to perform a download and file copy, something is WRONG with your installer. And they never install with manual startup, always automatic, so they're always sitting there waiting for another installation. I don't mind a well-designed omnibus installer shell, in the case of companies whose plug-ins a have many of I even like the ones that work well. But I draw the line at installer services. In practice, it just means that I have to go in and set the startup to manual, or in the case of really aggressive ones where instantiating the plug-in(s) triggers a start, disabled. Then the installer pitches a fuss next time I try to install one of their products. None of this rigmarole is endearing, really the opposite. My computer is probably capable of running these stupid things without my noticing any performance hit, but as with any running program, it's just another thing to go wrong, another bit of complexity that nudges the system closer to error. No matter how benign they think these things are, if there's a mistake in the code they could have memory leaks or any number of other issues. Or someone else's program could have a conflict. I used to work in the commercial software biz, I get that the corporate ego says that one's own product is the most important program on a user's computer, and that the user should welcome multiple entries in the Start menu, etc., but if you really must flex, just dump an unasked for shortcut on my desktop like everyone else. </rant>

Not me, I'm already amazed.😊 I'm sure I'm not the only one to see the added humor in the name of the product most of us are interested in: Lunacy Time.

That did the trick. What I had been doing was trying to load it directly from the .ZIP via the File/Load menu. One of the file types that the dialog supposedly accepts is .ZIP so I thought it would work.

Has anyone else managed to get this working in Decent Sampler? I installed it, but when I try to load the patches, I get a message saying that it failed to load.

In the US, up through at least sometime in the 1970's most news programs broadcast on TV and radio had a sound effect loop of Teletype machines rattling away in the background. This practice gradually faded out, so slowly that I can't think of actual dates. I remember it was sometime in the 1980's when I noticed its absence. I guess they thought it added a feeling of urgency or excitement? Someone started doing it then they all had to do it? I remember Monty Python spoofing emotional manipulation via music in a sketch about a couple going in for marriage counseling where the wife ends up making out with the counselor. It's played for laughs with "zany" music until the husband steps out of the office and they flip the music to "sad," and sure enough, I started to feel sad for the guy. Then, being Python, they drop a giant weight on him.

I know that the Saffire Pro 40 works with Sonar in Windows 10 and 11 because I have two of them myself, using a Texas Instruments PCIe card. You must use the driver as downloaded from Focusrite's website.

Nice. That's something I forgot to emphasize: whenever bundle sales come around, ALWAYS log in to your MeldaProduction account and check your upgrade offers. Current ownership of a plug-in in a bundle never fails to result in the cost of the bundle being reduced more than you think it would. In my experience anyway....

So much less so that they apparently started calling themselves the less miserables. Like the untouchables, less misery instead of lack of touchability. Seriously, considering the plaintive cries I've read on this forum regarding z3ta+2's availability, it seems like an installable copy could be a rather valuable commodity.

Sonar Free Tier includes every feature of Guitar Tracks 4 and many more, so I must ask why.

The ability to double click on the EQ display when ProChannel is closed and have it show the expanded EQ UI is a long requested feature. So long requested that those who requested it despair of it ever actually being implemented.