Paul P

20 minutes ago, Byron Dickens said:

Lemme get this straight: people are so upset that they are going to have to start paying for Cakewalk/ Sonar that they are going to abandon it and switch to another DAW. That they will have to pay for.

It might be that if you're going to have to pay for your daw, might as well look at the other ones which, you have to admit, have bigger reputations than Cakewalk.

And do some things better as well.

3 hours ago, Byron Dickens said:

So why are you here?

Larry !    ....uh...  I mean deals !

2 hours ago, bitflipper said:

That orange actually looks pretty good here, on a dark-themed browser, on an actual monitor. I don't know how you guys can do anything on a friggin' phone. I tried that a couple times while killing time in a doctor's waiting room. That lasted about 2 minutes before I looked around and found a two-year-old copy of Time magazine. Since then I take a book with me.

I'm on a big dell monitor and light theme and the logo is thin and a sickly orange.  Not attractive at all.

The system is falling apart...

Or Plogue which is free.

I notice recently that sfz has made a sort of comeback after I'd completely forgotten about it.

2 hours ago, Bapu said:

Will the old SONAR Lifetime Support/Updates Customer be grandfathered?

That's why I'm now on Studio One.

And pretty comfortable there, if truth be told.

Got mine overnight.

Native Access updated itself to 3.4.0

Don't know if it's any better than it was so I re-killed NTKDaemonService after installing the harp.

I just got a response from Plugin Boutique  after an exchange with them about the issue with SoundSpot :

"The trading of SoundSpot is currently changing over hands, so there is support for the product line although it is limited at present due to a lack of resources, hence why their website is no longer active."

The response then went on to ask me a bunch of questions about my system/brower/etc which have nothing to do with SoundSpot's activation server being down.

There's a LOOM II, also on sale at 29.99$.

Or you can upgrade from LOOM to LOOM II for 19.99$

I got the upgrade for 10$ back in 2019, and maybe without LOOM beforehand, but for some reason JRR has lost my purchases from 2019 ?

I have the emails, but nothing shows up in my account for 2019 (everything else 2017-23 does).

33 minutes ago, aidan o driscoll said:

Davy Spillane is your man for Uilleann Pipes

That was beautiful.

For those like me wondering why he wasn't blowing into anything, the Uilleann Pipes are played with bellows between arm and waist.

The sound itself is pretty weird...

I just realized that my tower computer was making more fan noise than usual and checked the temps which were quite a bit above normal (I'm just idling most of the time).

So I check processes and Native Access is the only active process and it's chugging away at 16% doing nothing at all.

It stopping having anything do to about 10 hours ago when I finished updating everything but forgot to close it.

One apparent difference between Factory Libraries 1 and 2 is orchestral libraries.

Factory Library (1) has a bunch of VSL instruments (Legacy and otherwise) plus a bunch more.

Overall, there seem to be less orchestral instruments in FL2.

3 minutes ago, kitekrazy said:

Just curious if anyone installed the new factory library.

If you mean the Kontakt Factory Library 2, I still have 18 minutes left on the 40gb download.

I had to uninstall Native Access and then manually install NA2 and it seems to be working ok.

It already installed Kontact 7 without problems.

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[if only it was accessible...]

I just ran into problems trying to install the big 40gb Kontakt Factory Library 2.

Apparently Native Access doesn't update itself to the latest verstion (Native Access 2) so  if you haven't done it manually in a while Access will still download first to the system drive (which then requires a massive amount of free space) and there's no way to change it.

I had to uninstall Native Access first and even that wasn't easy since it didn't show up in the installed programs list in  my Windows Programs and Features panel.
Searching for it in the panel found it (weird).

Then install latest version of Native Access from the NI site.

Finally change download folder in Native Access preferences.

Looks like a pretty slow download...

I'd stay away from anything by SoundSpot.  I haven't been able to determine if their site has been up since october 2022 and currently can't activate my Union synth that I got cheap a while back (activation server is unavailable).

Other unencouraging posts are to be found in various forums.

Don't know why Plugin Boutique can sell things from a company that apparently no longer exists.

Lounge Lizard EP-4   v4.4.4

Multiphonics CV-2    v2.0.3

1 hour ago, cclarry said:

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/pricing/kontakt-7/

This is the one thing I've been waiting for (I'm on K5).

And for a price lower than I expected.

Will it be even cheaper elsewhere ?

5 hours ago, cclarry said:

Healing 2 presets issue fixed

A space in the instrument/presets folder name was preventing communication between the presets and the plugin.

When I fired it up the first time it said it couldn't find the instruments, but I was able to tell it where they were (right there in the subfolder) and everything was fine from then on.

Thanks for this, Larry.

Just a couple of years ago I bought an authentic old bowl from Nepal, I think it was, as a gift to someone close.

Mesmerizing just to hit it once and listen to the sound evolve through difference phases while it faded slowly away.

I no longer have access to it so this plugin is a nice reminder.

I would have been happy with just the least processed samples which seem to be the "The Mornings After" preset.

Well, that was fast.  Best Service offer great service.

Yes, it is indeed Transgressor 2 and the licenses comme straight from Boz, so the latest version.

I want to buy this, I'm just a bit uneasy because they say Transgressor, and not "Transgressor 2" like everyone else.

Great deal if in fact it's 2.

Anyone sure ?

Edit :  I've sent the question to Best Service and will update when I hear from them.

3 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

I would like to see this video. Is it on YouTube?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmxoeqcwbyg

2 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

 I probably got each of them for $10 or less.  ...  If someone's getting Hybrid 3, those half dozen preset packs are nice to have, I picked them up one at a time as $5 eligibility for PB freebies.

I watched a video on Hybrid 3 yesterday [nothing to do with this sale, I've just been infected with a psytrance virus] and the guy said it's like you get over a thousand (factory) loops and there's a synth thrown in for free.  (for Loom it's more like 1500).

2 hours ago, bitflipper said:

Unless, of course, you're doing microtonal music, which seems to have been the inspiration for the effect, seeing as it's from an Indian developer.

Still sounds like a great idea, though.

This makes sense.  I was wondering what use constraining to scale notes could be on a pitch wheel, when its use (at least in my mind) is when you want to vary a pitch off of a scale note (bends, etc).  Why not just use the keyboard if you want scale notes ?