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Couldn't stand those nitwits. Especially the kid. He had the kinda face ya just wanted to slap. It's ok, I can say that being from the NJ/NY/PA Tri-State area where they're from. It's a thing out there.? I've been binge watching the old Ghost Hunter show's with Jay and Grant from around that same time. My wife got the Discovery + channel/app on sale for $.99 cents a month for a year. They have every episode from the Season 1 (Edit: I meant to say Season 1 till the final season). Plus they just rebooted the show with Jay, Steve, and Tango. It was all B.S., but very entertaining. Especially when it started and they had that kid Brian on the team that everyone hated and picked on all the time. It started to suck after he left. It became very sterile and 'corporate' friendly as in, over the top too serious. It really made the fakeness stand out. Hah.

I won't mention any names coughkennycough, but I caught him cheating on us with another forum. Non DAW related! *gAsp* I was actually surprised to see several familiar names there. I mean, I just accidentally clicked on an old link, I wasn't hangin' out there or anything like that. And I certainly didn't post there. Although I do admit, I was tempted. Seems we can't get traction like we used to here. I guess our breath or feet smell bad or something? I took a bath just before Christmas so I know it ain't me. Excessive heavy handed censorship? Boring old farts? Too many bass players? I mean, even poor Baps can't get a hit on a thread he started hours ago and it only has 12 views. Oh the humanity. You'd think with it being winter and all plus the big C and everyone being stuck home there would be a tad bit more activity here. Oh well. Maybe it's just me and my hatred of change. It's kinda how we Republicans are. We kind of agreed with Henry Ford when he said the Model T was the perfect car and there would never be a need for anything else. I know my uncle had one in the 80's and it ran like new. *shrugging my shoulders*. Or perhaps@craigb was right and I am down in the dumps. I guess sometimes you just have to let go of the past.

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There's no polite or politically correct way to respond so I'll refrain. (See, I kept it music related. LOL!). I find it best not to stroke their ego and just ignore them, whoever 'they' are. There's been a couple of things I've seen happen here lately that in the past would have ruffled my feathers, but I truly don't care any more. I actually feel sorry the people with power here whereas before I would have felt anger. I was just looking over at the old forum to do a screenshot of my old forum avatar. I couldn't get any of my old posts to show up in search except for a single one I created before I was banned. Normally everything with "Bub" attached would come up whether I created the thread or responded. BTW, I'm flattered at all the "Where's Bub" threads. Seriously, I never knew. I kind of got chocked up. Seriously. Anyway, seems there's been a purge of the damned, er, um, banned. I don't know. Maybe just a bad day for the Google search engine? Maybe I searched wrong by accident? Honestly, it took me like 5 minutes to find a post, any post, with me in it. And I also noticed nobody else with a banned symbol was showing up. It could very well be just coincidence. I don't know and I just don't flipping care anymore. I guess the world is expected to be like the dad in Liar Liar now.

I'm seriously thinking of freezing my system for now. Heck, I would still be happy with Sonar 8.5 on an XP system up until this latest incarnation of Ozone 9 Advanced. It was a great DAW. Fully customizable graphics ... grrr. I better stop. LOL. And only because O9A won't run on XP. I imagine O9A will run for several generations of Windows beyond 10, but I'm seriously thinking of unplugging my DAW and only popping it on the net to keep things like CbB and other net authorized software alive when forced to. Right now I'm using a little USB Wifi stick to connect it to the net and it's working flawlessly. I can move my DAW anywhere in my house now without worrying about how I'm going to get an ethernet cable to it and it's super easy to just pop it out when I don't want it on the net. I'm getting ready to take the plunge back in to the gaming world and I'm looking at a gaming PC I'll use for net and just keep my DAW off the net from now on and frozen in time.

Trying re-installing 5.5. This has fixed weird stuff like that for me that started when I upgraded from V3 to V5. I skipped V4. So far it's fixed a lot of weird midi behavior and other things I ran in to. I don't use Vocalign so I can't test for you. But so far everything else they touted in the release video is working for me and I see people on their forum saying they can't get it to work. HTH. Good luck!

I'm happy with the EMG's I put on my Strat back in the mid or late 80's? Can't remember exactly how long now. I've had it since 84 and suffered with the original pickups' noise for a while. I got them because real neon signs in bars caused terrible buzzing and humming. The EMG's totally eliminated that. I think I have a cap going bad now though after all these years. There's a constant distortion and not in a good way. It almost sounds like digital clipping. I'm thinking of going with some of the Presonus/Fender (LOL) passive noiseless pickups now. The EMG's I have require a 9v battery and I never did like that, but I've heard great things about the Fender noiseless pickups. It's great to see you back. It's me Bub from the old forum. I know I don't look the same. I lost a lot of weight, went to a dermatologist. But it's still me. Still love horror movies and I still watch The Nightmare Before Christmas regularly. I think I'm the only guy to ever wear out a Blu-Ray disc. ?

Nah. I'm good man. I wake up every morning and look at my own 50 yo sagging boobs for free in the mirror and tell myself, self, it could be worse. You could play guitar left handed, get hit by a runaway speeding school bus, and be out of work for 9 years. Then I cruise the forums and talk to you guys's and I'm happy as a clam.

The only thing real in that photo was the 123RF watermark embedded in to the picture.

I used to get this regularly too. I always caved and clicked where they told me to click and they would simply ask me to re-enter my security code I enter when booting up Windows 10. After 5 or 6 times of this happening it hasn't happened again in months. I created an account long ago and just yielded to their demands. They know who and where you are anyway. And since I have no interest in pron, questionable web sites, or cracked software, I don't really see what it matters anymore. I'm tracked by Google on my cell phone, General Motors via Onstar in my GMC Sierra, the mandatory $600 dollar GPS tracking device the GMC dealer installs on every car to thwart stolen vehicles in the KC area, Honda in my wife's rice burner, my Ring camera, Studio One, CbB, Ozone, Melda, NI, all the free VST's I installed with spyware hidden in the .dll's, my refrigerator, dishwasher, washer/dryer in my laundry room (all newer appliances have a microphone built in and some have wifi), all the smart switches and outlets in my house, the wifi controlled fireplace I built in my bedroom with perfect view of my bed, Asus via the built in mic on my motherboard, my sleep apnea machine that has built in wifi so they can report when I sleep, how often, what room, and they can remotely cut off my oxygen and turn the machine off while I'm sleeping and kill me that gives the information to BC/BS under the guise of 'so we can make sure your insurance covers it and you don't get stuck with a $5,000 dollar bill', all my TV's that I had to agree to let access the microphones and report everything I watch, when, for how long, in order to actually use the TV for more than a PC monitor and something to hook my PlayStation up to, my PlayStation account that I was forced to provide all my personal info and credit card info to, the list of 36 websites and "Portals" with passwords I have written down to cover all the sites I shop at, pay through, buy software through, pharmacy, doctors, cloud service for my house thermostat with camera and mic built in that the power company made me install else my bill would go up, power company, trash pickup, internet service that rides me worse than an unwilling drunk co-ed from the U.S. who staggered two blocks east of the 'tourist safe zone' in Tia Juana, all with all my personal information including bank account, credit card, s.s. #, d.o.b., address, mothers maiden name, street I grew up on, what school I went to, name of town I grew up in, where I was born, first dog's name, best friends name, I mean, what's the point of fighting it anymore? LOL! Game over man! Game over! LOL! If the people who started all this whose software is what all this runs on (Microsoft) wants my name and address, well, I figure they already have it and I might as well just play along and maybe I'll skim under their radar if I don't rock the boat.

This kind of weird behavior happened to me when I initially installed the prior update. Other people had odd behavior too and we were talking about it on their forum. Just for the hell of it I reinstalled Studio One and all the problems I a few guys reported it worked for them as well. Maybe give that a try if it keeps giving you trouble. I've seen weird behavior after installing an update in S1 since I upgraded from version 3. I skipped 4 and went from 3 to 5. Re-installing has fixed it every time so far. HTH. ?? Side note: The thread I'm referring to over there has been purged. They have a nasty habit of doing that especially in the "official discussion" threads they start after every new update and upgrade. I'm actually shocked my 666 error code thread is still there and allowed to continue since 2015. They really don't like older threads being restarted. It's not as open a forum as ours is here.

I've used a few but most I only ever try out then never use again. I love downloading the free synth's and tinkering with them. I've used a few on recordings but most I never touch again after trying them out. I leave them on my system so I know which ones I've tried and which ones I haven't. They take up very little room. I have all my free stuff in a single folder and point Studio One and CbB to it and that's how I keep track of them. And I never install things that require an install.exe. I only use them if they have a .dll I can drag and then quickly delete if it gives me any trouble. Here's a list w/links of free stuff I use on almost every project: Auto Double Tracker (Best used as an FX Send.) Bass Professor Mark 2 Blue Cat's Free Chorus, Flange, and Phaser. There are more free synth's out there than you could ever use. I've used several on recordings to fill in for what I couldn't get out of the included synth's with CbB and Studio One but I can't recall their names. I got 99.9% of the free synth's from Plugin's 4 Free.

There's definitely some nice new features. I like how you can draw strumming patterns on midi chords. I do a lot of rhythm parts with acoustic and it's really hard for me to record acoustic in my crappy room. There are a lot of great acoustic guitar samples out there, some free. I'm anxious to give the new strum drawing feature a try with it. I also really like the new Loudness Export settings but they screwed up and made it only available in the Project page. It needs to be in the Song page too. They also have a new proprietary dithering algorithm they made and they claim that you should use it for making MP3's. That's the first I've ever heard anyone claim you should use dithering to make an MP3.

They are notorious for this. Try running an external hardware loop through one of their interfaces. ? There's tons of video's showing people at Presonus doing it. I thoroughly RT*M, many times. Asked for help on their forum, from them, nobody had any input on how to make it work other than RTFM. Turns out you have to disable the software mixer in their Universal Control software that they force you to run for the drivers and it is not in any manual anywhere. I was just about to return the interface thinking it was defective when the search algorithm on YouTube made some obscure tutorial video pop up from a guy who could barely speak English. "Step #1, turn off the virtual mixer in Universal Control.". Boom. Problem solved. I'm really glad you go it figured out although it took so long! Took me almost 3 weeks of trying before I finally gave up and was about to return the unit.

I have one of the longest running threads on their forum about the 666 error. I started it May of 2015. Been trying for literally YEARS to get this fixed. A lot of people have. Up until right now they completely denied it existed. Up until like literally 30 seconds before the update was released if you've been following the current thread over there on page 1. Unreal. I'm glad it's fixed, but it's still unreal. Well guys. CbB's running great. Studio One has been exorcised. 2.5 decades of complaining and my job is finally done. I guess I'll say my goodbye's and go slither off in to the woods and die now. LOL!

It's live now. I just installed it. So far all I see is automation in the Project page. No changes to metering or anything like that, that I saw at first glance. Took like 20 seconds to download. It's around 200Mb.

Is this an "Update" or an "Upgrade"?

That makes me wonder now, Melodyne has always been clunky and unpredictable for me. I see now in CbB that it is not a DP VST. I wonder if it would work better if I turned off DP in S1's audio settings. I guess I'll give it a try and see. If a VST is capable of DP, does it use it even if you have DP turned off in audio settings? IOW, does DP have to be turned on in the host for it to be activated at the VST level?

There was something funky about that O8A deal I got. I actually think they just gave me O9A and didn't upgrade me. I bought O8A and literally a few days later they released O9A. I stewed on it a few weeks and finally got mad enough to write and ask if there was anything they could do about it and they gave me O9A. It shows I have both full versions in my account directly from them and that I paid $0 for O9A. So I can't complain. I mean, I'm cheap but I'm not that cheap.?It's worth what they are asking for it. I got an email on Friday saying they had something new coming soon. We'll all probably be upgrading to O10A next month ... or forced to subscribe, in which case I'll be using O9A for the rest of my days.

I did some digging this morning. S1 doesn't tell you if it's a DP VST but Sonar does. They both tell you if it's VST2, or VST3. I have them both set to DP in audio options. I guess I've never looked at a VST and said, "You don't support DP, I'm deleting you.". Hah. FWIW Melodyne doesn't use it, according to CbB and I'm sure not getting rid of that any time soon ... ?? It is interesting though. I thought all VST3's by default used DP but the free stuff from Blue Cat is VST3 and CbB shows they are not DP. I also thought VST2 was 32bit only but CbB shows a lot of them as 64bit. But I do admit, it's been a long long time since I dug in to this stuff so I'm probably wrong. If memory serves me correctly, I had a discussion about this a very very long time ago with, I think, Jim R.? IIRC the only time you'll actually hear a differences is in effects like reverb in the tail of it as it's fading out and only at volumes you would never listen to. At least more than once because you'd blow your ears off. LOL. But I say, if it works, and theoretically it makes all the math's/audio better even if we can't hear it at safe levels why not use it? I could absolutely see it making an audible difference in a large project with a lot of VST's going. There was a time when processing power was limited and I had to turn it off for latency sake, but I've had it on for a very long time now and see no performance issues. I'm kind of surprised it's even an option now, especially in S1 because you can't choose which dither to use in it. It uses Triangular with no noise shaping which is what I always thought sounded best to my ears and what I always used in Sonar. Sonar never specified if it used noise shaping with Triangular though. That said, I turn it off now and use Ozone 9 Advanced. Never had to deal with any of this shtuff when I recorded on a Tascam 4 track and mastered on to my Dolby B HXPRO cassette deck. *sigh*. ?Of course, I could have used Dolby C, but when played back in cars which I've only ever seen B supported it sounded too harsh. So I guess there were those kind of technical decisions to be made there too. Oh well. What do ya do. ?

I've been wondering about that. I already own the advanced versions of some of the software the MPS4.1 upgrade came with. I wonder if I would be able to sell the ones I already own since I upgraded a second time? When I upgraded from O8A to O9A they left O8A in my account. I did have both on my system at the same time until a couple weeks ago. I uninstalled O8A just to get rid of it in my plug-in list and to see what would happen. I never actually used it before I upgraded to O9A. O9A seems to be working fine without it but I hope it's not one of those situations where if I ever have to set up a new DAW I have to install O8A then install O9A. So far I'm still using the same system and haven't had to reinstall since the original purchase installation.