Starship Krupa

I have MPS 5, and I'm not sure I can see much that MPS 6.5 updates save for RX. Shine some light? Of course, if you're into iZotope, that plus more licenses for Stratus and Symphony are worth it. I glitched in on that $149 thing late last year, and I have to confess, most of it has just sat there while I've used my MeldaProduction and Plugin Alliance FX. Don't get me wrong, not a bit of buyer's remorse; having the whole MPS shebang, even laying in wait, is something I'd not have dreamed possible a year ago. It's my woodworking tools analogy: my Hitachi miter saw can sit for years without being touched, but when I need it, it pays for itself every time.

https://www.kiiveaudio.com/products/xtmax In their words: "Make your drums explode with this renowned, gritty compressor, and make use of its 3 release modes to add edge and punch to any mix." "XTMax may be XTComp's (Plugin Alliance Exclusive) little brother, but it's more than capable to stand on its own for any mix!" It looks from the copy that it came out of research into what's so great about Distressor, so if that piques your interest, get it.

And you subsequently lucked back into getting what it said on the tin. IMO, it's a better product now than if it had continued under Gibson management. Mucho respeto for those (and even I was one, 25 years ago) who invested in Cakewalk/SONAR back in the day. CbB and Cakewalk Sonar would not have existed without our buy-ins.

XTMax is a free compressor from Kiive Audio. In their words: "Make your drums explode with this renowned, gritty compressor, and make use of its 3 release modes to add edge and punch to any mix." "XTMax may be XTComp's (Plugin Alliance Exclusive) little brother, but it's more than capable to stand on its own for any mix!" It looks from the copy that it came out of research into what's so great about Distressor, so if that piques your interest, get it.

Did you maybe intend to post this in the Songs forum? Is it yours?

Okay, just grabbed a new d/l and now I can see String It is in Swatches, but not Exodus. Either I downloaded the wrong thing earlier, or installed from an old installer or something, because now we match, and "String It" is the newest one. I remember getting the email about "Exodus".... Are you going to write them?

Same here. I'll try downloading it again and see if the missing ones show up.

Hold up. Rather than just going by what the website had been telling me, I just checked A|A|S Player and I don't have sounds from Velvet Chic, Split Personality, Exodus, String It, Real Illusions, Bass Factory, Hop Riffs, or Love Lost.... What the hell is up with that?? Every time one comes out, as I said I check the page to see if they've put in the latest sample sounds and I only download if they do. I guess I should tell them. Maybe they have the wrong build up on the website.

Yes, a month or two ago, or whenever it was that Exodus was released. Once a soundpack is released it's unusual for them to wait to include a dozen of them in Swatches and announce the new version. Whenever they send me email saying a new soundpack has shipped, I go straight to the Swatches product page and check to see if they've put the treats in there for downloading and I can't remember ever being disappointed that they hadn't done it yet. At this point, if I sat down with Swatches and spent only 30 seconds auditioning every sound in it, I think it would take me 4 hours or so to finish, if my math is right.

Free powerhouse instrument A|A|S Swatches has been updated to include sounds from their new String It soundpack. Swatches is over 730 sounds from across their range of modeled instruments. IMO one of the best free virtual instruments out there.

Some of them are probably redundant, but I just installed them anyway to make the toasts go away. They do no harm.

I listened on headphones and I concur. Great-sounding track, nothing I would change except for maybe one thing. I was especially impressed with the drum programming, and I'm a drummer. On your hard-panned guitars, have you used any ambient reverb? Bu this I mean a full stereo reverb that's in a bus rather than the instrument's FX rack so that it isn't hard panned. The reason I ask is because during the few times when one or the other is heard in isolation, there's something odd about the soundstage. They sound isolated, which may be deliberate, but I mean isolated not in the sense that there's an imaginary space with a hard-panned guitar in it, but more like one side of my headphones cut out. If that's deliberate, then, well, you nailed it. But if it's not, I'd try maybe sending a little bit of guitar to a reverb bus.

I suspect that's a "look the other way" thing. After all, they're charging little to nothing for the license to begin with in the hope that you'll someday move up to S1 Pro or at least do as I did and drop $50 on an update.

Albini was a gold-plated jibber-jabberist, so it's appropriate. It's a loss to the long-winded, opinionated "everybody listen to me" community. Page after page of how we feel about it is what he would have wanted.?

Even if all it had was Meldway Grand..... Be sure to download the presets from the Online Exchange. There's some great stuff in there, and it's the only way I know of to get 3rd-party presets for Melda's synths. I think it's up to 280 or so for MSF, over 400 for MPowerSynth.

I was going to suggest that Larry check his VST scan paths....

I've never bought any PreSonus item new, and they've all allowed me to register them and harvest the software titles. Maybe most people don't bother with registering. I recently bought a set of Eris 4.5 monitors and guessed the sale date at 2012 and registered them and the software titles showed up in my PreSonus account. No Studio One Artist license, but some nice plug-ins. Anyway, it's worth checking if you buy PreSonus hardware used. There might even be an unclaimed Studio One Artist license attached to it. And Studio One Artist, after they enabled 3rd-party plug-in support a couple of versions ago, is a POWERFUL piece of software. They do check the serial numbers of your gear and only supply versions that match its age, so for instance when I registered my Studio 2|4 I was given a license for Studio One Artist 4 even though the current version of S1 was 5. Cost $50 to update it. Total outlay for Studio 2|4 interface plus Studio One Artist 6.5: $80. Smart policy on PreSonus' part: honoring that Studio One Artist license ultimately got them another $50 straight to the bank account in addition to whatever they got for selling the interface new.

I swear on a stack of MeldaProduction referral credits that before I read the caption, I thought "Ha ha, Ed's making some joke about Kontakt..." ?‍♂️

This showed up in a cluttered Microsoft Edge newsfeed thing that I accidentally opened.

I wasn't aware of the io24. Built-in DSP, still retains the traditional PreSonus MIDI jacks? Phone app control of the mixer? Very nice. Not too long ago I paid $49 to get a Studio One Artist 6 license and was/am happy with the purchase. This tosses one in for free.

Maybe a modifier key to mute all clips in the lane if you hold alt while clicking the mute button. It might be better than not having it at all, but there are times when I wouldn't want it to do that, unless it un-muted any that weren't muted before I muted the lane. Simpler to just be able to hide everything that's muted, whether it be at clip level or lane level.

There's another topic where I am recounting my adventures beta testing AIR plug-ins. Basically, if you are of the mind to try them, and you do so on a system where your installations of the VST2 versions of Hybrid 3, Vacuum Pro, and XPAnd!2 are working, after you run the beta installer, you'll lose your factory presets. Back up your Program Files(86)\AIR Music Technology folders before you start and it will be fine. I've reported the installer bugs to AIR but have heard nothing back from them, as is customary with AIR in all matters. At least so far, the only thing that has changed about the plug-ins is the addition of VST3 and Apple Silicon versions. On my systems, the VST3 versions work perfectly, so I suspect they will be made available to currently licensed users at no cost.

In light of the impending release of the VST3 and Apple Silicon versions of this soft synth, here are some new sounds. https://www.beatstars.com/mikebeatz/sound-kits/buy-hitmaker-xpand-2-preset-bank-40844

Sometimes qualities that pi55 us off in someone else are ones that we also share and I'll fully cop to that in the case of Mr. A.? If they put "basically okay guy with a mouth that got him into trouble" in my obituary I'd be fine with it. I'm sure that if someone called him on the no-no in what he called Bob Mould, he would have been mortified. BTW, Bob's retort when asked about it was....entertaining. The fact that you praise him elevates him even more in my esteem. I already thought he was A Force For Good In The World.