Jacques Boileau

It will be easy to gauge: we need one tier a day for the next 22 days... unless... they extend the group buy as they have done in the past! The suspense is killing me! Or maybe I should just take a few deep breaths and get a life! ? Maybe make some music with what I already have? Naaaa! Let's refresh the counters page one more time! ?

Yeah, we made it! 2006! You guys can pick your second freebie!

Nope, still stuck at 1953. Peter said it would be tomorrow for the next freebie. He is probably holding the counter 'till midnight to make his prediction come true! ?

Hey, who's counting anyway? ... oops we all are actually... 1657 this morning, I predict one more free item by the end of the day!

If you have got cash too loose, this is the place! I imagine you have already bowed to king Larry?

I didn't know we had to actually need something to enter!?!?!?! No one told me about that rule! ?

So for those waiting: you run the risk of missing the deadline if some more important stuff draws your attention towards the end! ? Why put off to tomorrow what you could do today! Geez I'm pathetic... ?

You realize you have to buy something, not on sale, to get free stuff? I have nothing to complain about this sale personally, I am very happy with it and participating in it, but you do have to buy something to get in. As the number of free items grows, you divide the cost of entry by the number of plugins you get and you get the price per plugin. This will be quite low and from previous group buy sale, probably the best deal you can ever get. As the saying goes: there is never a free lunch... but a very very cheap one is always welcomed! Thanks IK!

The OP never stated he bougth the Rocksmith cable for this. He may have had the Rocksmith game with a cable, learned and/or practice with it for a while and he is now moving up. He may have had the cable before trying out Cakewalk and it would be perfectly valid for him to think they could work together. It seems to me he is just learning like we all did before him.

I hope you can iron out some of the problems you are having and I sincerely hope you don't give up. We don't always have the cash to get the gear we need. But hopefully you will continue recording your songs the best you can. Sometimes it's in the not so good situations that we learn the most from. As for the Rocksmith cable, I have two of them and they have worked flawlessly since I bought Rocksmith 2014 when it came out. That would make them around 8 years old. Not bad for a crappy cable. I have played Rocksmith with my daughter quite a bit so they have gotten some mileage. But I do not use them for recording, so can't help you much with the problems you are having. They probably would work in a pintch, but an interface is certainly the way to go when it is possible for you. Have you tried using the cable with Rocksmith again to test it? I assume you have Rocksmith? Remember that 'nothing as change' is only valid until you find what has changed! You may think that nothing has changed, but on a computer, sometimes things change unexpectedly. You may want to try ejecting the Rocksmith cable, since it is usb, disconnect and reconnect it. Reboot your PC. Check the settings in asio4all, even deinstall and reinstall it. Its a pain, but if you make work again, you'll probably be able to do it if it happens again. Good luck!

It will, its the registration date not the bought date that counts. But there is no way to check this out beforehand, although you could ask IK support.

Is it just me or getting to 25 seems really out of reach? But we'll see how far we get... 4 or 5 free products would already be great, let alone 25! Anyone remember how far previous group buys went?

One more for Larry!

I'm in... for the first time!

Very pleasantly surprised. Great prog rock instrumental! A style I really enjoy. The title intrigued me and I am glad it enabled me to give it a listen. Great job!

I don't operate a studio, I do this as a hobby and for my bandmates. I would agree that probably no client, if I had any, would ever say I have used the console emulator or not... the same for what kind of EQ I have used or reverb type or etc. The client just want the track to sound good to its ears. I guess its up to us to know what is needed to make it sound the best to them. I do think that if you can't hear the difference you should not use it. It just doesn't make sense. For me, although my earing is aging, I could tell a difference in the @Home Studio Simplified video, more so on headphones of course, and decided to do a similar test. I took the latest song I was remixing for my band and did 4 mixes. You guessed it, one without the console emulator and one for the 3 flavors of emulation. I added the emulator on all channels and busses with the controls at the default. I submitted these to the other 4 bandmates without telling them what was the difference, a blind test of sort but with the ears. ?They all could tell there was a difference and they all picked one with an emulator as their favorite. And there are other makers of console emulator, not only Cakewalk's PC. I haven't tried any other. Distortion has always been part of recording (console, tape, exciters, etc) and when used judiciously it does enhance the experience. Overused it, and it becomes an effect that may or may not sound good depending on the song. Most plugins add some distortion in some way, even the simplest EQ does. Ok, maybe a gain or routing plugin is free from imperfections... ?

Who is Larry again? It's been so long... ?

I'll let @Noel Borthwick give more details if he wants too, but there is a lot of misconception about the CPU running at 100%. 1. If you are doing real time stuff, like recording for example, 100% CPU usage will be detrimental because it will not be able to keep up and will miss some samples and the recorded audio will have clicks and pops. This is to be expected. If the CPU is too busy doing other things it will not be available to catch every sample of the incoming audio. 2. If you are exporting, which is not real time stuff, 100% CPU is fine. Actually it is what you want. We all want the export to take as little time as possible. The fact that exporting is actually just a non real time calculation, it can go as fast as it wants without causing any degradation whatsoever. In fact it will be at different speed on different machines, depending on their respective CPU power, and end up creating the exact same export. Speed has no real relevance other than how much time you personally waste waiting for the outcome. 3. As for having a CPU sustained at 100% for the time of an export being detrimental, it shouldn't. Many virus checkers can run your CPU to a very high % for quite a while. Unless the cooling is deficient, it is just using what you have paid for. Edit: just saw Noel beat me to it. ?

This video by @Home Studio Simplified is what got me interested in the console emulator in the first place. Very interesting test of with and without. This article really helped me out to get a grip on the ProChannel console emulator by @Noel Borthwick http://www.noelborthwick.com/cakewalk/2014/10/07/console-emulation-in-sonar/I like and use his concept of using different emulator type for vocals, drums, etc. Also check out @Craig Anderton take on it: http://www.noelborthwick.com/cakewalk/2014/04/07/mixing-with-the-console-emulator/ and on YouTube

They are also at the bottom of the Plugin Collective page https://focusrite.com/en/plugin-collective You can scroll all the previous offering and hopefully not see too many you might have missed...

Here are the other two. Hopefully they'll complete the collection someday with Expand...

I have 3 now: punch, ignite and grow. They all came from the plugin collective.

Hum, I'm in Canada, maybe they add some tax here too, but it should be clearer. Like I said, no big deal. I am just curious by nature and always try to figure things out! ?

Not really a problem, but it shows up as 3,90€ for me. Still a steal at that price, but makes me wonder if there are different pricing scheme for different users...

I though the same thing, but it won't work. Both the Ozone offer and the current freebie end on August 1st. So if you wait for the next freebie, which will be on August 2nd, then the Ozone deal will have expired. Strange though that the current freebie is not ending end of July...