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No thanks then. That's a shame. I was really looking forward using it again. I will never use any software that I can't buy a one time license for and keep using as long as my hardware supports it. I've always said it and I meant it, Sonar was always my DAW of choice. I would have gladly switched back to it from Studio One. But not like this. The second Studio One pulls that, I'll use what I have as long as I can, and switch to something else. And if they all go that way, I'll switch back to tape.

I thought it was a joke that Sonar is back so I took a look at their website. Apparently it is back. The only way I could find to get it was if I signed up for a subscription. Is that right or am I misunderstanding their website?

Sonar's back? Why didn't anyone tell me?

Ah. I see. They're preventing everyone's new interests swiftly by daw-blocking us.

I just checked out their website. They are really putting the final nail in the coffin. You won't be able to reactivate it as of 8/25 if you need to reinstall it, get a new PC, etc. etc.. They are offering a massive discount to crossgrade to the competitor they recommend though. If I were in Finale owners' shoes I'd do that immediately and get it over with to nip that learning curve in the bud as soon as possible. Sorry to hear this is happening. ☹️

This guy's channel has a lot of AI altered vocals of songs. This video explains how he does it and shows the software he uses. Please skip past the first part to where he gets in to how he does it. Basically he sings the lyrics of one famous song to the backing track of another famous song and uses AI to alter his vocal track to sound like someone else. It's pretty good but you can tell it's AI. I imagine it will be impossible to tell in a few years once the technology is improved. Imagine our daws one day being capable of offering you the option to make your voice sound like another singer. A licensed add-on you would pay for that offers you famous singers voices to choose from, built in to the daw one click away.

I was happy with dos 6.22 and the supplemental disk.

I'm still waiting for Sonar 9.0.

This reminds me of that show ... "Could the ancient Egyptian pyramids actually be built by ancient technology passed down from the Ringo Nebula some 40 trillion light years away, or did a giant race of Bigfoot like humanoids from the core of the earth lift the billion ton rocks in 2 days. Ancient alien theorist believe both!". Cue the guy with the blown back hairdo and the Peruvian rocket man necklace.

Thanks. And I agree with the fugly part. I won't use anything DAW related that requires a sub. I'm not against subs, I'm just against the people that want to force you in to them. That whole slippery slope thing. They can be great and have their place, as an option ...

After reading that thread this morning, been up since 4am, I'm left scratching my gray haired balding head. Fake accounts, name calling, arguing, asterisks galore. We ask a question wondering why some things got deleted, there's some deep, inciteful, friendly conversation and we get the 🪓. I think I'll go listen to some Yoko Ono albums to cheer me up. Lol. Anyway, back to my original question, please, can someone tell me what happened that was so bad with "them". Nothing has changed that I can tell. Did someone steal their sweet roll? (Gamers are laughing).

Hey, at least she had some #1 hits out of it. Seriously though ... she does have some #1 hits. Look it up. I lost all faith in humanity when I saw that. Lol. Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Ono_discography

Can someone please tell me what they did that what so awful?

Yeah, but I hear they only record in 16bit. They should try 32.

I don't know. I try to avoid the ban/delete/censor/mod intervention side of it anymore and just try to be as vanilla, harmless, non-confrontational, and agreeable as I can and I have become, comfortably dumb. I mean, numb. It ain't what it used to be and it never will be again. We've literally turned in to a bunch of aging men screaming at the kids to get off our lawn. But the kids are far worse these days. I got a post deleted and I was banned one time over something that was taken wrong by a few people here and it was reported. Many years ago. Me and the other person I said it to were both banned. We emailed each other and laughed and said what the heck just happened to us. Anyway, I stopped trying to figure it out and caring a long time ago. Or, it's some kind of technical glitch and humans weren't even involved. Either way, it's all good. Don't care anymore.

I like to listen to my music to compare the mix to professional tracks once in a while but I get bored liatening to my stuff a lot. The last 4 songs I mixed and mastered when I got Ozone 9 Advanced are excellent compared to professional tracks and I do listen to then a lot. I'm astonished at how well they turned out. And I take no credit for that, it was 99% the software. But I normally only go through my library if someone is interested and I'm playing it for them, or it's been a long time since I listened. I really like Soundcloud. I can listen anywhere through my cell. I recently got a Bose Soundlink Revolve + Series II speaker to listen while working and stream Soundcloud and YouTube Music through it. Those are very revealing, just like their Wave Radio's. If anything is wrong in the mix they over-emphasizes it. And they do sound great. A shocking amount of bass. My last 4 masters fit right in with pro masters. So does my stuff from when I was 100% analog. The stuff in between analog and O9A needs a major revisit. Hah. I found out the other day that I can get a second one of those Bose Revolve and use their app to set them up for stereo. Been dying to get a second one now. When a song speaks to me, I obsess over it and have to record it and get it out of my system. Then I seem to lose interest in it for a very long time and come back to it eventually to see how well I mixed and mastered it. Sometimes I'll pull it back up in my DAW and make changes then it will sit a long time again. I've gone back and remixed and remastered songs that were over 15 years old. Especially as my listening equipment improved over the years and I could hear my errors better.

I've tried the LA2A and 1176 on electric DI guitar and bass, mic'd acoustic, vocals, sampled drums. I've never gotten in to recording live drums properly. At the time there weren't DAW's and I didnt have access to the hardware.

There's so many to choose from in VST format that it gets difficult to decide. They don't all sound the same. In the end I landed on the one that came with the DAW I use. I think it was a reasonably priced add-on iirc. I always liked the one that comes with GR too, but it's too difficult to use wrapped up in the GR package. There was a free one floating around for years that the internet forums raved about saying it was identical to the hardware. It sounded awful to me. Maybe I just don't like what they do and the one I ended up with was altered enough to where I did. 🤷‍♂️

Nice rack. Pun intended. On a serious note, what does the distressor do? I've never seen or heard of a unit like that.

I think the reason desktop sales are slowing is because of the obscene cost of the graphics cards caused by bit mining. If you want a decent 4K-UHD PC you're going to drop $5K easily. Then add a 4K-UHD capable monitor on top of that. Then spend that again in two to three years when the newest games and software come out that requires a better GPU than you have. You may be forced to upgrade the CPU so it is capable of unlocking the full potential of that new GPU. And you may be forced to upgrade the MOBO to unlock the full potential of the CPU you had to upgrade. But you can save some money by buying RAM that is overclockable, although you may have to replace that every one to two years. Sorry, no warranty on overclockable RAM, but they'll sell it to you anyway and give you free software to do it in real-time from your desktop without going in to BIOS. In other words just throw it all out and spend five grand minimum every 3 years to keep up with the software. On second thought, just buy a cheap console for gaming with crappy graphics and use a much less expensive PC for not so demanding tasks.

I could see the white fuzzy dice on a red one. A love bead curtain with tassles across the front. I see where you're goin' with this. My brother had a red one back in the day. I had the opportunity to buy that exact model amp and cabinet combo a few years ago. Same color and all. I didn't because my wife would have killed me if I spent a penny on musical gear. In hindsight I should have let her. Haha. It was an incredibly clean and full sounding amp. And extremely loud.

Why oh why did I not buy one of these when I had the chance. What an incredible sounding amp it was. ?

Same here. We had 3 channels growing up. Then there was a period where they couldn't scramble the cable signals and we had a TV with a built in tuner. Got all of it for free for a few years then they started scrambling it again. About that time I got in a band at 13 and played out till I was 28 every weekend. I don't ever recall even turning on our TV during that period of the mid 80s till late 90s when I was in school and eventually working and playing out at the same time. I seem to remember TNN was good back then and MTV. USA and the WWF and the late night horror shows they had but I never got in to TV series'. There's nothing wrong with watching TV. It's a great escape. Now days you can pick and choose. You aren't limited to what's available on a set amount of channels. I wish I could be recording or playing live, but I've lost my mojo. I tried to pick up my guitar quite a few times recently but just sit it back down after a few minutes. I was really excited when I bought a house recently and was planning on seting up a nice studio but I just can't get back in to it. Music consumed my life for so long I think I'm just burned out on it now. I still love listening to music. I have almost 100 albums downloaded from YT Music, but I just can't seem to get back in to playing or recording.

I liked MTV in the early days when I was a kid, but it started changing and I got away from it. I haven't had cable or satellite in well over 20 years. The last time I had satellite I had a service called Voom iirc? Their slogan was All Horror All The Time. It was it's own service seperate from Dish. The installer came out and installed their own dish and box. HD horror 24/7 with a box that let you record. Dish Network bought them out, took over their satellite, shut it down, and morphed their channels in to a "Premium" package through Dish Netwok. I got rid of all of it at that point and haven't missed it one bit. From time to time I've paid for streaming services but I've gotten rid of them all now and just have YouTube Premium mainly for the music. I get way more out of youtube, picking and choosing what I want to see. Between that, Amazon Prime's free movies and series', and the plethora of free streaming channels out there now, there's more content available than you could ever watch in your lifetime. I have a pretty large collection of movies in 4K on disc. I really enjoy older movies that have been restored and watch those when I want.