Jacques Boileau

Strangely enough, looking at the Tape Machines web page, I realize that although the model 80 is shown in the GUI as a 2 track machine it is modeled after a 24 track machine. Weird...

I have 24 and 80. They are a bit heavy on the cpu. This precludes doing something like putting 24 on every track and 80 on the master bus to simulate a complete setup. That would make the tape effect additive and more noticeable. I have tried both of these on the master bus only and the effect is pretty subtle if not driven hard enough. I guess you must know what you are doing with the controls (bias, tape speed, tape formulation, etc) to achieve the correct enhancing effect. If you have a powerful machine you may be able to get better result than I did. I didn't try Saturator X yet, but it seems easier to use. And as @Zargg mentioned it seems to sound very good. Since it's an older plugin, it's probably easier on the cpu too.

It re-opens ALL your sound download for 6 months.

Yes, I know and I think its a great idea that IK include the MEMS in there so that it is useful more than just the setup of ARC. I don't own it though, I already had a measurement mic.

Nice idea, but if I run out of freebies and need to choose, I don't think this will make it then. Maybe next year GB! ?

Another quick question. Is the opto compressor worth getting if I already have the White 2A and the Comprexxor which has an opto mode?

Yep, worked for me.

Yep, I became an Orange amp convert when IK gave away the Tiny Terror. The Orange collection was one of my first freebie pick in the GB. ?

With all the freebies you have to play with, you expect to go anywhere with that car! ?

Is Mic Room plugin of any use if none of my microphones are in the list? I have a Rode NT1 and a pair of Lewitt 140 Air condensers. Any of the choices in Mic room close enough to make Mic room usable?

That's the look of someone who just received its free midi keyboard! ?

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Oh, my steps are to remove v11 and not reinstall it. If your intention is to keep both, that's different. Although I don't know why you would want to do this. Did you try to exclude the v11 version using Cakewalk's plugin manager? I don't know if you'll see both, but worth a look.

Didn't think of that! Same here, went from free v11 to free v12. Thanks!

Yes, you may not like it that much though. You have to go to settings / maintenance / uninstall. There you will be able to uninstall a complete version of plugins, but not specific ones. Uninstall all v11 plugins. If you have v11 plugins you want to keep, you must go to install products, select the ones you wanted to keep and re-install them.

Maybe, but we yap a whole lot more! ?

I know! It's like... like... people seem to think the GB is more important than this thread! ?

Happy birthday InstrEd! Hope you are taking time with all the new IK stuff you have gotten so far. Oh, and I want to take this opportunity to thank @Peter - IK Multimedia since I just received my free midi keyboard today! It's awesome, better than I expected! ?

This GB is really testing our decision taking abilities to it's limits! ?

I guess you are right! Who could have predicted IK would be so inclined to celebrate their 25th to extend a second time! ? I tell you what, you forego the next 4 freebies that will be past the original deadline and I declare you a winner. Deal? ? Now, I'll probably get a ton of replies from all those complaining that they already have more freebies they can use. Here we go... ? I could also start another contest though: 'guess the date we will achieve 25 for the price of 1!' or 'guess the total number of participants at the end of the GB' or 'guess if IK will extend the GB a third time just for the heck of it!'. ?

There was 1 day left before they extended. 31 + 1 = 32. We made to 20,000 a day early! ?

The path I was refering to is the path where the downloads are done. I have moved that around for sound downloads to another drive, but now it is back at it's default for now. I thought I was done with sound downloads but... maybe not! ? You can also change where the sound contents are installed. That is different than Product Manager dowload zip files. It can be done as you showed, or if you set the directory in SampleTank settings, they will always be installed there by default without any intervention. Mine are installed on my second drive hdd.

Well, there is less than 5000 more souls to join in before we reach the max number of freebies, or 25 for the price of 1, and @Peter - IK Multimedia breaks open the champagne! ?Since there will be an extension to the end of October, this means less than 1250 participants needed a week to get there! I can't see this not happening!

We made it to 20 freebies and an extension! Wouhou! ? This will now surely go to 24 freebies. Incredible! ? But we must say goodbye to my fellow Great White Northerner: @Doug Rintoul. Doug has now left the list of 'guess the number of freebies' tonight. ?‍♂️ Thanks for participating Doug! And thanks to everyone who helped us get to 20 freebies! 21 for the price of 1! GroverKen 14 Brian Lawler 15 Fleer 16 DeeringAmps 16 Larry 17 telecode 101 17 InstrEd 17 husker 18 Marc Cormier 18 Doug Rintoul 19 kevin H 20 Peter 20 Bapu 21 Eusebio Rufian-Zilbermann 24 Me 24

You still up? ? It's getting late in the UK. ? I know, you can't sleep without knowing if we're gonna make it! ?