Starship Krupa

Not only that, but notice that it popped up on a Friday, so they probably figure that they'll get 48 hours of larceny before being shut down. I see that they also claim to resell MeldaProduction and A|A|S products at steep discounts. As a loyal customer of both, I think they should be informed that their newest dealer's promotion is reaching a wide audience. I'm sure they'll be excited to know.

The "unfair" seems to refer to the price tags on these products?

Was it that there were bigger a55holes than his dad in rock music? (it's okay for me to speak ill of dead people because I'm going to be one myself)

Yeah....the price is just too close to the $49 ST 4 MAX price. So unless somehow you are missing exactly the instruments in the HB deal you get way, way more for your money by just getting ST 4 MAX. And you may be able to use JamPoints or JRRShop to knock that down a little further. Big fan of $49 ST 4 MAX here, I got it last year and am still discovering useful sounds. Miroslav 2 may not be the absolute best orchestral library out there, but it's great for seasoning pop songs and is a fraction of the cost of just about anything else. For me, SampleTron 2 was the hidden treasure, and Syntronik 2 makes it so that I don't long for any vintage synths.

Did you: The idea I'm getting is that just uninstalling DaVinci Resolve won't set things right. That will just leave you without Resolve and no Sonar either, because it doesn't address the problem of the Microsoft redistributables needing to be the latest. Follow the link, update the redistributables, and see what happens. Installers that just go ahead and overwrite the MS redistributables without checking to see if a newer version is already installed should be categorized as malware for all the damage they do.

I had the privilege to see them live in Oakland back in 2000. Transcendent. Vintage drum pr0n: sweet Rogers kit.

I really have to go with "the art, not the artist" when appreciating Oasis. I think What's the Story is a masterpiece of songcraft. De gustibus.

It would be helpful if you would tell us what model of interface, speakers, and headphones you are using.

So the video is just this guy talking about who could be in the band? I'm pretty fond of the What's The Story, Morning Glory lineup. Especially Alan "Whitey" White on drums. Bonehead always seemed like too nice a guy to last in a band with the bros. Gallagher.

A very nice free drum machine. Pity that the free version doesn't allow editing the sequenced loops, but if you can import the MIDI to your DAW, I guess you can still use their loops as a starting point.

Who is "they?" BandLab never published Project5.

Cool gig. Fun song to play when you hope your opponents will be trampled underfoot.😄 I like the project shot, 5 arranger tracks. Nice use of that feature. I guess arranger track 5 helps when it comes time to export.

The kinda ironic thing is that NuSonar now runs more efficiently on the same hardware than SONAR or Cakewalk by BandLab did, so the system requirements are lower than they were 6 years ago.

The trend I'm seeing is for computer systems to have longer and longer usable lives. Used to be if you went 3 years between upgrades you were babying it along. Now I'm seeing ones in demanding roles like DAW or video production going for 10 years. If your tuning skills are good, they'll last even longer before being "retired" to A/V server roles. My main system is I think one "tick" or "tock" newer than your Haswell and I find it very difficult to trip up. Plays every game I throw at it at ultra graphics, etc. I can get it to glitch if I crank the audio buffers way down, but that's about it.

I get them for free from my neighbor up the street who works as a facilities manager at businesses down in Silicon Valley. These places ask him to take them to e-waste facilities, they're perfectly good, functional high quality Dell monitors. 3 days ago he gave me a 24" and he currently has 3 22" in the back of his truck on their way to be scrapped. My main DAW system up until a year or so ago was a Dell Optiplex i7-3770 system that he gave me several years back. Since these just replace smaller ones I already have, I have 3 or 4 nice Dell monitors to get rid of myself now. If you were anywhere near the SF Bay Area, you could have them. I run 3 monitors, the biggest one is a 42" Samsung TV I got from a friend who replaced it with a 55" 3D one that a neighbor was putting out on the street before a move. The other 2 are 24" Dells I got from the neighbor. If you have Craig's List or something similar where you live, 22"+ LCD's are often on there for $20-30.

You mean a GM soundset virtual instrument supplied by Cakewalk? I've never seen a BandLab/Cakewalk employee even hint that there will be, and considering that the GM file format seems to have fallen off in popularity, my guess would be no.

I've had okay experiences and I've had....challenging experiences. The one that makes steam come out of my ears is when I patiently fill in their stupid form with all of the information, including the requested "detailed description" and I get a reply, possibly a series of replies, that indicates beyond a doubt that the person responding to my ticket didn't read it, rather they plucked a keyword or two out, made them into a new, simpler inquiry, and answered their made up inquiry instead of the one I actually submitted. The worst ever was an ISP I used about 25 years ago. The email "exchanges" were so hilariously moronic I used to forward them to my friends so that we could share in the astonishment. I think what they did was send your first inquiry to one sub-literate person, then send your reply to a different one, and each iteration was the "eternal sunshine of the spotless/empty mind." Paying absolutely no attention to any previous effort to explain the issue, just continued boilerplate from a very limited palette of boilerplate. Mostly of the "restart your modem" variety. And no amount of spelling it out to them pre-emptively that I had already tried everything on their standard boilerplate menu could stop them from repeating it. Each iteration quoted all of the previous ones, so with each support person who replied as if all of the other questions and attempted suggestions in the exchange didn't exist, they looked stupider and stupider. And I of course did not hold back from making sport of it, but at some point, you almost start to feel bad, because you're making fun of someone who is obviously....challenged, or at least behaving like they are. It had the effect of momentarily making me stop being concerned about my internet connectivity and start being concerned that these unfortunates might be allowed to do things like drive automobiles. Good for a laugh, though.

I guess they've moved all of the brands' tech support under one roof. When I recently had the issue of the latest version of elysia alpha master not being able to load its factory .vstpreset files, it took me a good bit of time to figure out how to contact support for Plugin Alliance, and part of that was sending email to the old support address and getting the reply saying that I had to use the form. I think I mentioned it in a different topic, once I filled out the form, I got a boilerplate response from a tech that indicated that he hadn't read my full description of the issue, he only pulled "presets" and "Cakewalk" out as keywords. That's a case for keeping a license for a "Big 6" DAW current when your primary is not a Big 6 DAW: I could have been shunted before getting a resolution if I hadn't been able to parry with "it's not just Sonar, your instructions for Studio One don't work either." (I eventually promised him I would leave him alone if he would just send me the installer for the previous version)

Since it's T RackS, I have to wonder if you can do it mid-side as well. 😄

Aw, c'mon. Satya gently ribbed and Peter gently ribbed back. I have a dozen T-RackS 5 FX which work as well today as they did yesterday. And they work quite well, no TRackS processor has ever crashed on me (wish that were also the case for SampleTank 4🙄). If they stopped working I might feel hard done by, but they haven't. The usual pattern for upgrade deals is that there's a discount at first release of a major upgrade, then 6 months or so later a repeat of it, and after that, any number of greater discounts as the market for licenses slows. IK is no different in this regard. After their products mature, they seem to be available at steep discount, which is nice. Not gonna be losing sleep over whether my T RackS 5 compressors have sidechain inputs or not. If I want to sidechain I don't need to do it with a meticulous emulation of a vintage hardware unit (I don't even want to do it, sidechaining tends to work better with more precise compressors). So far, I can't figure out how to get TRackS 6 Intro into my account. I clicked on the "Free" button last night and my browser just sat there in a state of loading. Today, I click on the same button and it sends me to the download page for Product Manager, which I already have installed. Whatever, I can probably limp along without Classic Compressor until such time as I (or they) figure it out. Suffering can make for better art so it's all good.

Read-the-thread-ing is best practice. In the post you quoted, my first sentence was "The thing to do is try it and see." I can't put it any more simply than that. There is no risk in trying it. It's as easy to turn it back on as it is to turn it off. Either you will see performance degradation or you won't. Just be sure to change ONLY that parameter, otherwise, you won't know if it was the hyperthreading or something else that made a difference. Every time I have tested it, my systems performed better with hyperthreading enabled than with it not enabled. Others say the opposite is true for their systems and their projects. If I were to guess, maybe the fact that I use so many MeldaProduction plug-ins helps? They work hard to squeeze every last benefit out of processor technology. Maybe it's not a factor at all. I don't know. I don't tune for theory, I tune for observed performance. Sometimes I've tried things that should have improved things in theory, but in practice, they either had no discernable effect or they degraded performance.

I loved Time Tunnel when I was little, so I loved seeing him as Vic Fontaine. Time Tunnel was such wonderful Irwin Allen cheese. The time tunnel itself was like the TARDIS, the lads were never randomly transported, it was always some famous historical event like the sinking of the Titanic. When they'd travel to the future, it was always to some important nexus like a journey to Mars.

This is really cool. It relieves the load on the host system, obviously, and I can see where the server systems don't need to be powerhouses in order to do their thing, they don't have to do any of the heavy lifting of drawing the GUI, etc. They can even be headless. I have a nice fast hard-wired ethernet network in my home and always have another system sitting there for file server/backup duty. Didn't realize that I could also utilize its otherwise mostly idle CPU to offload audio processing. I thought GPU Audio was an interesting concept, but now I see why so many people think it's kind of superfluous. If you really need to offload number crunching, hook up another computer to your network and the sky really becomes the limit. I'm going to try this out, I'm very curious about it. Among other things, I set up and managed a high-availability Citrix Winframe cluster, so this stuff is right in my wheelhouse. I wonder how it handles things like load balancing among multiple servers, how much admin must be done either at console or via remote desktop, etc.

I seen people refer to this, plug-ins running on servers, but I've never seen a company offering such things for sale. I know about hardware coprocessors a la UAD. I've heard about server clusters for rendering video FX. I'm interested to learn about it. I used to be in IT so I'm familiar with client-server applications. How do you offload audio signal processing to a server? Who makes such systems?