Brian Walton

agree. I usually end up freezing tracks , then pop them on the bus to reduce the load. Not the best workflow, but many times worth it.

My CPU will fully shut down Cakewalk if I use a few instances of Acoustica plugins along with other things, that is a legit issue on my systems. Never got along with any in the box amp simulations, so can't speak from experince on that.

Haven't used it, but the notion of presets doesn't sound like fully adjustable emualtion to me. Sounds like a snapshot (like with tweaks to those snapshots). That particular tool is about $90 US. As much as I loathe WAVES, Omni Channel I got for about $25. And I'd love to replace it with something like this, if it went on a nice sale. https://www.tb-software.com/TBProAudio/cs5501.html but even at ~$70 that is top of market pricing. And I don't even want to know what the CPU and RAM hits on an effects process that has 10GiGs worth of content in it. Especially considering it sounds like you might need multiple instances of it to get EQ, Comp, Reverb, Tape, Preamp

Would not agree that $70 is affordable in the current landscape of VSTs on sale. Not 100% absurd, but you can get 2 -3 plugins from other makers for that layout on sale. in the Comp, EQ, Saturation type of realm.

DId you pick up the Acoustica Audio Celestial while it was free?

They do make really nice stuff. Think the coding efficiency could be improved though, they tend to be on the upper end of resource heavy. A problem for those running older machines.

Haven't had any issue myself with the Delay. VST3 of Manic Compressor, I have seen immediate shutdowns of Cakewalk. VST2 version works fine.

This is standard operating procedure for easily 99% of people that learn to play an instrument.

USB C, more forward thinking than many of the other options on the market.

No clue about the demo version, but since 2.07 the production version so far has felt good on CW to me. I don't use any of the super fancy capabilities though.

Woops, should have known Larry knew about this 20 days ago. Mods feel free to delete thread.

For those that got in on the previous deals, available now. Is this 2 months in a row where they didn't really give us a free plugin? ?

Actually using a DAW like Cakewalk is hundreds of times more complicated than the offline activation process.

Basically looks like the updates are for MAC users and others that want to lose support. ?

WAVES is one of the leading sellers of VST plugins. Neither GUI is on the level that should dictate. I'm not suggesting it isn't an improvement it certianly is, but the old ones were horribly dated and for them to bring them "up to spec" with something like this just isn't good enough. Given other optio ns on the market for COMPs not sure who would actually buy this new as a stand alone.

Still looks terrible.

Just checking in, been in the "coming soon during quarantine" for a couple months....still making updates?

The GUI is not fully customizable. Essentially you can only change the colors and graphics/textures. The size of objects is fixed. I'd suggest learning some keyboard shortcusts (i..e play and stop is just hitting your space bar) YOu could also setup a midi controler to potentially have those large buttons you want, but that might be beyond your computer comfort level.

Studio One hasn't been around very long though. PA4 - Cakwalk 2005.05 is a couple decades worth of upgrade costs.

Oh, the $300-400 software package? ?

Something terrible must have happened, story time Larry! I've got $5 on Neutron Advanced. ?

Two computers, manually ran bandlab assistant (since the update failed related to the new version). Both says "up to date" open - with no new version available. But still stuck on 2020.04

Good #1 was brought up during the beta stage

I'd make the same argument about vst and vst2 though.

mine says Scaler 2.0b7 VST3 with the .06 install, seems odd.