Brian Walton

A few do this very thing and agree it is annoying. IK does this for the other products to, but at least with the VST effects outside of the "bundle" you can use the manager to not show them. Within something like Amplitube, it is an annoyance to find what you actually own. Nice freebie, but I do agree I tend to not even opening Amplitube with regularity for such a reason (I also don't tend to use in the box amp sims) If you own legacy WAVES products you are downloading a 3+ gig file, it is nuts with them as well.

Pretty sure 8.1 is the bizarre thing, not Win10. 8.1 was a niche OS only around for a short time. Though I certianly understand the frustration, imagine being a MAC user and having almost everything break with an OS upgrade.

It was an amazing achievement back in the day. However, I have it and I'm not convienced the original B4 is still the top of the food chain Something like this, I think is better. https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/hammondb3x/?utm_source=forum&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=hammondb3x

I certianly agree that some old 32 bit plugins are still great. But I think the point is they are severly devalued becuase they are already not compatible with many programs (Cakewalk is actually an exception at this point due to the fantastic way they keep legacy products compatible). You won't find people wanting to spend retail (or more) on those old plugins, even if they are great.

I think it is logical. Hardware are both limited in availablity as well as have a cost to produce them (the ones that are coveted were already pretty expensive to begin with) and they have maintained compatiblity for decades. Plugins (old ones) tend to lose compatiblity, were written for older hardware/software, had to work within the confines of lower techonology. They have proven to have a far shorter life span, only sound as good as the techonology at the time avaiable in the digital realm, which constantly progresses. Plugins have only recently starting hitting a sweet spot of good UI , sound quality and efficiency.

At $20, I'd only recommend them to a beginner. Nothing wrong with them but they are dated and I'm sure you have newer + better tools already.

I haven't had any VST3 issues in Cakewalk (but I did have a bunch with Manic Compressor - which is also unresolved) It is one of the better delays on the market. Not perfect, but a great all around delay and a good "go to"

Aware it also works with the Managed Authorization manager as well. The only advantage there is if you are doing studio hopping where you don't have full access to the machine and installs. If you are working on machines you own (as many as you like) then Auditory's Method is far far superior. Honestly most studios I've been to are going to have the set tools. Just having the authorization key on an Ilok doesn't mean you can install anything you want on the machine in the studio.

Pulsar look fine other than the ilok liscencing system. If Echoes is like the other Auditory offereings I have, then I'll take that all day long.

I really like xenoverb and tube modulator (though I wish there was a transparent settings option for tube modulator, as the spectral EQ change doesn't always work for me). The Echoes T7E is about the only delay I still have my eye on if it goes on an even bigger sale.

Honestly I'd think the Dark Aqua one would be among the easiest based on the preview image since all the text color and buttons seem to use the same aqua color. It is far more difficult when there is an actual color palette that needs to blend and remain continuous in various areas. As for your fader length quesiton, the answer is "no" can't be adjusted to be physically larger, you can only change the "read out" of db range.

As mentioned, theme would need to be updated. One of my favorite themes was one that had not been updated so I made some updates and then also customized it further to integrate both my own ideas and those I picked up from other themes. A theme like the one you mentioned - with all the colors of text and buttons being the same, seems like it would be really difficult to actually want to work with. But everyone has different taste and aesthetics.

I've been creating music for something like 25 years and find Scaler to be a breath of fresh air and an easy way to come up with things I might not have on my own. I personally think it is one of the best additions to a DAW you can buy for a non-keyboard user. While I can play multiple instruments, guitar is where most of my experience and learning stemmed from and that generally provides the framework for a limited set of chords and inversions .

Most come with 2 seats. Thus you authorize one to a dongle, then the other can be authorized to your main computer. Or the other way around. Main computer gets the dongle and and you move the "other seat around" as needed. With 2 seats if your computer crashes or the dongle breaks/goes bad you will be without your software until the manufacture decides to help you out and give you a re-authorization. This can be days or longer. If you have two seats, you at least have the option to move one around to the machine you are working on, as it is unlikely for someone to have 2 flat out failures at the same time. USB ports can be scarce especially on a mobile rig.

And only one single authorization at that.

Don't recall actually seeing it for free recently. But it has had some cheap sales for many months. 8 very well could be on the way, but I don't think that is much of an indicator. They seem more focused on gett ing you hooked and then play the Standard or Advanced upgrade price. Which is always real money. They offered the latest Ozone Elements for free within a few months after it came out.

Not everyone already has multiple compressors with "real" parallel built in, I don't think it is fair to assume a plugin maker is trying to take advantage of our GAS. As my post points out, I have no interest in it based on other plugins I do happen to have. They also just gave away what now looks like the baby brother to this plugin. So are you really going to fault them for putting out a more feature rich version that looks better and charging for it? A $20 upgrade price for those that got the free one isn't totally outrageous. If it were $5, they might have gotten my $5 even though I don't need it. I also like wet/dry/mix knobs. You of course could do as you say and put different and multiple Comps and Saturators on the buses. But again that points back to both what you have already and workflow. Setting up a bus, multiple comps and saturators takes way more effort than loading a single plugin setting it and moving on. It also assumes you have already purchased (or have the other tools). I'm at the point where I clearly don't need anything else, but I buy the occasional toy. I don't need another comp, but I also do really like the new Toneboosters one and that price isn't crazy.

They have powerful tools, but I would not recommend them for a "beginner" which I beleive you refered to yourself as one previously. Melda offer so many options and a layout that can be combersome even for more experienced users. Autoalign mentioned is more straightforward than most though.

Not something I'm interested in....however, this offers both paralel compression and the seperate saturation signal. SUre you can do the same thing with two effect sends to two different buses and having a comp and a saturator on the respective bus. But that also seems like a sloppy way to work. I have a couple paralell compressors (including one from Baby Audio, and Boz come to mind) but adding in the extra channel of saturation is a bit unique. Again, not interested myself, but I would say I much prefer Paralell comp workflow within a plugin than setting up a bus and routing. Especially if you are using it for more than just a single drum track or something.

This seems like a pretty epic freebie and deserves a mention in this thread:

I'll say it again, you have more /better tools than many pros have already. Do you get much use out of the TAL-FIlter? Is this is plugin you actually use all the time? This is the kind tool that you might not really use enough to need an "upgrade" especially for $60, when as noted above MComb is pretty powerful and you already have the well respected TAL-FIlter.

The example posted looks like an eyesore. Can't stand looking at that for a couple seconds let alone the hours I spend in front of a mix.

All depends on the workflow you want and how you want to achieve it. As mentioned, I have Camtasia, and personally I think it is a chore to use it for the NLE and vastly prefer Resolve or Premiere Pro. On that front. (unless I need to obfuscate information which Camtasia does have far better tools for) I personally record video with an actual video camera and use an external mic. Using a headset or computer audio is reserved for a "I don't care" teaching video. I personally don't find that opening up a different app and lining them up takes more than a couple minutes, not exactly a big deal to me personally. And the time saved during the editing process of using something that doesn't' feel clunky makes up for it very quickly. The actual editing is the time consuming part, not the application opening and bringing files in based on my experience. The other major consideration is the rendering time. Camtasia is quick for the screen sharing stuff. Other programs treat it as normal video and can take quite a while to render.

Davinci Resolve is free for the actual editing part. I haven't used the free options for the screen capture (outside of using Zoom and Skype) OBS might feel like it is aimed at the broadcasting side, but it is one of the most popular screen recording products out there. https://www.bandicam.com/free-screen-recorder/ https://screenrec.com/ https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/geforce-experience/shadowplay/ https://camstudio.org/ https://www.flashbackrecorder.com/express/

WAVES is bad with emails, though I don't get pop ups on the machine itself telling me about updates (to my old WAVES plugins) even when I'm not using them. But if you haven't unsubscribed from WAVES emails and can tolerate that, you are likely just fine here.