Starship Krupa

I'd give the reverbs a shot. The algorithms in Stratus (same as in Phoenix and Nimbus) are the best I've heard. I was skeptical about Neoverb, and it does display iZotope's usual cavalier attitude toward resource usage, but when I tried it it really does sound good. Not getting Aurora and Plasma licenses is a drag, but Logic's continued inability to support VST is a shortcoming of Logic. Speaking of which, when reviewers list pros and cons of DAW software, I seldom see Logic's inadequacy in this regard mentioned. Sometimes they list "Mac only," but I don't think I've ever seen a review mention its lack of VST support a a "con." Which it is, in at least two senses of the word.

I'd like this, because I love to customize, but I think most would agree that it's the purpose of the Custom module.

Do you mean RX and Ozone or Stratus and Symphony won't be upgraded? I don't really need the reverbs to be upgraded (aside from maintenance updates). As for Ozone and RX, aren't those kinda their flagship products? How could they not upgrade them? Also, which 2 new plug-ins are they leaving out? The new Trash maybe? Which other one? It does seem kinda weird to leave Trash out of something called "Music Production Suite."

The only way to invoke the split clip command is to either use a keyboard shortcut ("S") or right click menu (or Alt-click). Less common operations such as Bounce to Clips and Convert to Stereo/Convert to Mono are included on the Track View Clips menu. This makes Sonar more difficult for new users to learn, at least those users who expect commands (especially common ones) to be in the menus. Which included me when I first started using CbB.

I feel sad at the news. It has gone the way of all things. The people who created it created something really useful and fun and I hope they will go on and create other really useful and fun things. The use of computers to make music was a disruptive technology that they surfed for many years. Now Computer Music has been done in by another disruptive technology. So it goes. The Colt .45 revolver "won the West." For someone to win the West, someone else had to lose it.

I'm scratching my chin about this one, especially if there's a GROUP discount at JRRShop. Wouldn't mind having a couple more licenses for Stratus/Symphony to use on my laptop. Other than that it would increment my RX and Ozone to 11, no idea if that's a worthy upgrade.

This should help. Sampletank 4, the engine and player/editor, is the same in all versions, they just vary greatly in the amount of content you get with it. With IK, it usually goes, in order of content: CS<SE<Standard<MAX CS is the free version, limited but quite useful. SE is the lightest paid version, then Standard, then MAX. Your Sampletank 4 CS has 4GB of samples and 50 patches. If you pay for the $1 Humble Bundle you get the Standard version, with 100GB of samples and 6000 patches. So, yes, it very much gives you something else. If you pay $30, you get MAX,. which includes Miroslav Philharmonik 2, Syntronik 2, and SampleTron 2. Those products may be used in Sampletank or separately. Then there's a whole lotta Sampletank modules, like Neil Peart Drums, Terry Bozzio Drums, Alan Parsons Piano, their Rhodes, Wurli, combo organs, just a ton of content. So much that I've had Sampletank 4 MAX for over a year and I still haven't gone through it all. 600GB of samples, 18, 096 patches. Some of the modules (like the drum modules) come with libraries of MIDI loops that are designed around the sounds. I haven't even messed about with those. It's a huge buffet of sounds. Think of a vintage keyboard or synth and it's likely in there somewhere.

No, that's the same Sampletank 4 MAX that has been kicking about for $49. This is a change they made to the bundle, an excellent one.

I sent email to e2genesis warning/asking them about this but haven't heard anything yet. Kinda disappointed in Groupon for letting this kind of thing through.

On subsequent viewing, the listing shows a lot of older versions of the products, but then so does e2genesis' own website.

Can you elaborate?

If this is legit, this has to be the deal of the century: https://www.groupon.com/deals/e2genesis

I don't know what genre you're working in, but for electronic stuff, often what sparks an idea is choosing a synth I haven't explored in a while and running through its presets. Often enough, a timbre or arpeggio will suggest a melody, chord change, lyric, and then further filling out. A drum machine with interesting pre-programmed beats is also a good way to spark something. Running through the content in Breaktweaker, all the patches and individual variations in them can flush out an idea. With more conventional guitar bass drum keys pop, I start with a lyrical phrase, sing it to myself, make up a melody, add chord changes, etc. Whatever instrument(s), I put my hands on them and just make up shapes and patterns, without regard for whether they "fit." Thom Yorke and Brian Wilson are a couple of songwriters who I am sure do this at times, I can tell by the way their chords shift.

"Can't apply coupon to already discounted order"

I created the Wikipedia page for Cakewalk by BandLab, but when the new name semi-reversion was announced, I threw in the towel. I suspect the page for SONAR could stand to be updated at this point.

Wow, I didn't know there were so many visual artists on the forum. I will be asking for advice. I've only briefly tried the freehand painting/drawing functions in Painter. I made a couple of abstract things that I liked. Painter locked up and crashed at one point just as I was digging something I had done. It feels kind of "fragile," so saving is important. I'm hoping that Rebelle is more sturdy. I need to get used to the feel of the pen and what it can do, how to quickly correct when I make mistakes, etc.

Thank you Brian. I almost pulled the trigger the last time a sale was mentioned here, this is a much better deal, 7 instead of 6 and Pro for $15. It will be interesting to compare it to Painter, which I Humble Bundled. I got good results with Painter, using it to morph a photo of my mother's dog into a pastel drawing. She loves it. Thanks to the local Salvation Army thrift store, I now have 2 Wacom tablets.

Try running LatencyMon. Let us know what it says. Also, run Task Manager and see if you have any background processes using up resources. If your SSD tests good, it's very unlikely that the SSD is the problem.

The product currently known as Sonar (mixed case) doesn't have a 32-bit version. Rex is gushing about the very latest release of Sonar (mixed case). It's the latest incarnation of Cakewalk (a product of Twelve Tone Systems Inc.)>SONAR (a product of Cakewalk Inc.)>Cakewalk (a product of BandLab Inc.)>Sonar (a product of the Cakewalk group of BandLab Technologies, a division of Caldecott Music Group). Did I miss any names? I tried to stick with the main product rather than including Home Studio or whatever. It is all a bit confusing (pun intended). It can make a person feel out of their depth (pun also intended).

I recently moved a 500GB C drive to a 1TB drive using Clonezilla, a favorite of Mark MacLeod. With Clonezilla, you make a bootable disk (CD or USB stick), boot from it, and then follow the prompts to clone the disk. Then once you have the system booting from the new drive, you can use the Windows Disk Manager to extend the partition size to take up the unused space on the new, larger drive. E-Z P-Z.

I didn't notice it because I only use it to dirty up dialog samples. Seems odd, worn vinyl records certainly have noise in between sounds.

The topic title makes me think of Morrissey. "Interesting plugs, the ones that you tried, it really really helped you...."

LEVELS is just a meter, and Bass Space tells you if the rest of the mix is making room for your kick and bass. It's then up to you to highpass and/or duck the other elements if you want to. Things like Curves Equator, Trackspacer, MSpectralDynamics, MAutoDynamicEQ, Equivocate and Neutron both analyze the mix and provide the tool(s) to make space. Either statically or dynamically.

Hey, I sympathize. Just saying that iZotope acquired an unfortunate situation as far as how the product line was set up. The line should have already been down to just 4 reverbs. I too have a couple of Excalibur licenses kicking around although I no longer even bother to install it. I only picked it up because $9.99 and Phoenix knocked me out so hard I figured it had to have something going for it. Turns out it just never made the rotation. As you point out, the Exponential abandonment should be less of an issue on Windows. Mac users are used to being treated as money-filled piñatas, hung by their feet and beaten until the cash falls from their pockets. At least MTurboReverble finally managed to equal the Expos in quality (IMO).

They didn't abandon them, they consolidated them. Except for that multi-fx one whose name I can't even remember. Stratus and Symphony and their 3D counterparts have been updated to run on Apple's new processors and are still being sold. Phoenix, Nimbus and Stratus could have been called Phoenix, Phoenix 2, and Phoenix 3. Or even 1.1 and 1.2, the newer features really weren't all that. The presets from each previous one work in the later ones. Same with R1, R2 and Symphony. That was the Exponential guy's doing, for whatever reason he decided that each revision should have a whole new product name. He did seem to be into wringing as much money as possible out of the products, Stratus and Symphony are STILL single-seat licenses. iZotope at least put them in the iLok Cloud so you can use them on multiple systems, just not at the same time. iZotope probably decided that there was no reason other than price to maintain 12 products instead of 4. There was some outcry about old project compatibility for Phoenix and the rest, but If Phoenix and R1 stop working for whatever reason and people still have unfinished projects that include them, they can export presets and use them in the newer versions. Sux for Mac users, but if anyone's used to forced upgrades, it's Mac users.🙄