Brian Walton

The more I've used it the more annoyed I've become that DAWS don't have the option to turn on that feature set within the DAW itself. Also disappointed that BOZ never released a Pro Channel version of it. Adding it in the fx bin of any DAW is certainly not the best workflow.

I own both the Free one and the Paid MB one. I think the control differences are far smaller than you are implying for most purposes. The ability to load 2 IRs in the MB version and even have the multi-band on them is certainly useful sometimes, but the knobs to tweak are very close to the same. Things like, EQ, Saturation, and Modulation are items that can be handled by another tool. A feature such as time (related to decay) while this is something we are used to in algo verbs, typically has a detrimental effect on an impulse. As for the libraries included, a large portion of the time, I'm importing 3rd party IRs. The efficiency and sound quality of Melda's offering make it a great option. I haven't used Convology in a while (no longer installed on my machine), but I thought I remember it being more CPU hungry than Melda when I tried it.

I wouldn't trust any consumer drive for 10 years. But it is possible it will last that long. I'd always recommend at least a backup copy of anything important when using a format that doesn't have redundancy built in.

This time last year they did 65% off all bundles and then first time buyers could get 20% off after the discount and the $10 sign up bonus was the best I remember in recent memory. For some reason I was thinking it got in the $550 range close to when they started offering it many years ago with some sales Best deal ever was submitting guitar recording for credits plus the sale at the same time last year. If you owned recording equipment and a bunch of guitars / amps could easily get it free in a weekend worth of recording.

Yep, I have MConvolutionMB - which seems pretty good at the convolution thing. But this was an interesting situation that I've never seen before with an email field not only that short but had problems viewing and copy and pasting into it with two different browsers.

Other option appears to be using a shorter email address. Agree this is crazy.

Sadly the transfer fee is ~$450 for complete.

Lots of non-millionaires also drive Toyota and Honda, and many non millionaires also drive luxury vehicles. The point I'm making is that studies have shown despite the normal person expecting the rich to drive high end cars. The majority of millionaires don't invest heavily in depreciating assets and do in fact drive Honda and Toyota and hold on to these vehicles for a long time. Judging someones net worth by the car they drive may not have the results you would expect. As for Craig's comments, yeah I would not expect DAW worker bees to have ridiculous income but also no the source is not a survey of income me above $250k a year...that also isn't an indicator of millionaire status. Only a percentage of net worth individuals make that kind of yearly income. The majority do not.

Fact check. The majority of millionaires drive Toyota and Honda not luxury vehicles and usually older ones.

Don't know a single person that uses Audition that isn't paying for the Adobe subscription related to other products. i.e. it is the Premiere Pro crowd that uses Audition as a by product instead of subscribing to Audition to only have a DAW.

This is perhaps the best resource with some threads here https://forum.scalerplugin.com/t/how-close-are-we-to-scaler-3/15297 https://forum.scalerplugin.com/t/is-scaler-3-0-available-as-a-standalone-version/15351/2

It has tool for people with more than 1 yr of music theory. Yes it can offer chord sub suggestions. Not sure about the demo but plenty of YouTube videos show what it can do.

If it was me, I'd buy 2 on the deep discount. That way you have a great program at all time low price. Who knows if Scaler 3 will have the revolutionary features at the premium price. No way the intro price is going to be $30 for a new user. We don't know what they will do this time, but as per my story below the v1 to v2 upgrade special was a wash between buying the EOL discount + upgrade and the "intro" price of v2.

I think a lot of us know how business works and are disappointed they didn't take on the liability of the company when purchased and took the easy way out now they decided a for profit strategy after indicating it wasn't a money play when they took over and they were committed to a "free model". For some of us the lifetime was very short lived before the announcement they were ceasing operations. As for the analogy, well they also kept on the mechanics that made the software, so it sure felt like a change of ownership of the business. And not just someone buying the car. Hopefully they are taking the time to add in some AI feature integration so it all heads towards the logical conclusion where we no longer make or mix the music. ?The delay is confusing given how long this has been in the works. I do think they have a tough sell given mostly a UI overhaul which isn't themeable

Or just avoid them all together. ?

Yeah, this is also what they did with Scaler 1. Price drop that that plugin had never seen before and then a few months later Scaler 2 drops (and at a reasonable upgrade costs that basically made it equal to buying the product at either time. I just hope this higher drop doesn't mean a higher upgrade cost.

Daws dont come with Tonex or MSooperlooper.

Anyone get that scan to actually do anything? VST limitation certainly looks like a cripple hammer to a plugin junkie.

Seems a pretty obvious move to me. Bundles are geared at new customers....they know us old timers are not buying any more at the current tiers.

I always thought Elements 3 was powerful enough to make people 2nd guess if they needed the far more expensive versions. This one makes me 2nd guess if it is useful enough to even install it. Odd considering they give away the EQ module as a separate plugin.

They sound good but very different user experience than other plugins. A whole lot of knobs where you have to read the manual to figure out what it should control. A whole lot ot plugins doing esoteric things. But some are pretty straight forward. Haven't tried this new front end but seems like a good idea, but they should let you hide all the ones you don't want to see given so many of them do similar things or random esoteric stuff. Historically they are also light on the CPU as they have no GUI to speak of taking up resources.

So of that gets chalked up to subtle differences. With a null test you won't hear a lot of differences as eq saturation usually is going to be very small in most plugins on a single track. Id agree that we don't need a large locker of digital EQs but even with the most feature rich eq on the market sometimes I want a different UI or limited options and has less to do with actual sound differences. That said, some EQs do sound different when you really push the settings.

Haven't used it but I'm not sure I really understand the whole compete with other DAWs concept. Many people only need a glorified tape recorder that has the ability to record audio tracks and VSTis and add VST based effects to those tracks and the ability to do the most basic of editing on those tracks (volume automation, MIDI note editing and dynamics). Advanced arrangement and key change tools (ala Studio One) are a more advanced feature set - and certainly the minority need them. Once you enter the "free" class - basic functionality and support for 3rd party addons is all that is needed to be competitive with a good workflow and UI. I've used Cakewalk / Sonar for decades now and don't need 80% of what it is theoretically capable of. I'll be interested if Bandlab comes out with Sonar at a price point that doesn't make sense for me. Otherwise would love to stick with it.

Infinite setting only gets like 80% wet when set to 100% wet with ducking and pre-delay set as low as they can go.....who designed this thing?

That is only for certain plugins, this reverb shouldn't be one of those. That Acoustic Guitar and Royal Comp do fit that category.