Brian Walton

It is, but still a very powerful tool set for $20 while retailers have codes left. Just have to be aware it won't be getting updates.

The product when it started felt like the same old UI that many can't bond with. With the UI overhaul the instruments got different interfaces that we see now. In fact I think MSF with all the different UIs was such a project I recall Melda putting out a job opening to help with them.

Sweetwater has total studio max upgrade for $100 for anyone eligible which is a much better deal. Personally, I'd try to get the ToneXOne pedal for close to the $130 mark and even though it doesn't come with max, the physical pedal and what it does come with I think is a more useful package than software only. I also never open amplituble now that TONEX has some basic effects.

Good to know. Will reach out.

Agreed. Supertone Clear keeps crashing Sonar every time I load it which does not happen with CbB on the same machine(s). Support doesn't have a fix yet. So other than giving up my custom themes, this does make the move frustrating. Would be nice if they just kept the auth sever going or got rid of the short phone home until Sonar feels as stable and universally compatible.

Humble Bundle is legitimate. I didn't buy this one but have a few other corel products purchased through HB over the past 10 years that all registered with Corel directly.

I'm a huge TONEX fan but recently ran into a real annoyance. I own multiple TONEX pedals, and let a friend who has a paid TONEX software tier borrow one of my pedals, I ASSUMED that the pedal would be recognized by his software and would allow him to run the editor on it to adjust it to his taste. Nope, pedal not recognized as the serial is tied to my account. Pretty absurd. The pedal comes with the same tier of software he has.

I have both an older version of Vegas and ProX. ProX has a more modern interface. None of them are perfect, but I found ProX did the main things I needed to do quickly (for more advanced color grade projects, it would fall short). But things like auto aligning audio between audio sources and video sources with the push of a couple buttons is really handy for multi-cam work. Vegas might have that by now - but at they time you would have to buy an expensive plugin like Plural Sight to do it. I haven't upgraded but it was interesting to see that ProX has been adding in AI elements to the application with the last versions, so someone is at least doing something n the development front.

I've done troubleshooting and also supplied steps that are repeatable to the support team with the Dump logs. Thus far they have been unable to resolve. The issue won't be widespread for everyone but users of Supertone Clear as part of their workflow should be aware it could impact them (the same vst works flawlessly with CbB as well as Reaper and a couple others on my same system)

To surf the internet you can get a computer that costs $150. I'm betting your phone was a few hundred dollars. Assuming you live in America, the options for having an extra computer that just needs enough resources to surf and download things is very minimal. This isn't 1988. People donate/recycle perfectly usable computers literally daily all over the country and there are businesses that are in business simply to accept, process, redistribute or recycle these machines.

I've done professional work across a number of the major fields. Photography, Audio Production, Video Production, Design Work, etc. I've also been in charge of IT security for companies that work with some of the largest companies in the world. I've seen other companies experience massive data loss and security breaches every year. Just because people "stay online," doesn't mean it is a good idea. Every single loss I've seen wouldn't have happened if they were offline. Graphic Designers also deal with small files that are easily backed up in a variety of places compared to these other fields, so that is a poor example.

"Most" people also do not create terabytes of unique copyrighted material / files they should protect from the outside world like us "creatives" do. Anyone really serious about their work should not be creating and storing said data locally on a 24/7 online machine. This is a very niche market and need. Overall protection is much better than it was in the past, but the bad actors attacking end user via phishing campaigns that target individual users (not hackers into corporate systems) is truly mind numbing. If you haven't done much research in the current IT security landscape, I would imagine the reality of the world we live in would shock you.

Fair to the customer is a single sided coin. You legitimately pay for the software you should be able to use it on your personally owned computers without any real hinderances. Anything other than that is putting a burden on the customer who paid good money for a product. We had software for decades literally that did not need subscriptions. There are ways to generate revenue and continue to build a product without them. New customers and making the product better and charging for perpetual seats to get the new features. The only reason subscriptions became mainstream is companies forcing on customers and was a byproduct of effectively stagnant software updates. I knew professionals that continued to use Photoshop CS6 for more than a decade instead of "upgrading" to CC. It wasn't until the last couple years that Photoshop made any real changes to the software. The free version of Sonar is pretty good, overall but my concern is I'm running to show stopping repeatable bugs that were not in CbB and that is a problem

Same, I'm also a Video Pro X user (they have two "pro" NLE suites, Video Pro X and Vegas) so wondering if the PE firm that bought them a few months ago is going to keep the rest of this going or try to sell it off or part of it. Hoping it all has a good future. Now a PE firm is involved I'm more doubtful we will see Humble Bundle deals.

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