Brian Walton

JRR hasn't sent my serial number yet but based on my research this suggests you should be able to https://support.guitar-pro.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000825529-GP7-6-Can-I-install-Guitar-Pro-7-6-on-more-than-one-computer-#:~:text=YES.,computers at the same time. If it didn't allow it, I wouldn't have pulled the trigger.

Really expected this would happen (though I agree a rant is in order). Thanks for confirming I didn't miss out on the opportunity of a lifetime with the Forever 29.

I picked it up for $10 a few months ago so matches previous pricing.

I thought that might be it also until I played it. Didn't sound like what Chandler was getting to me though it might be in the same genere. I thought Chandler's was more Natural and dynamic than this one.

Thanks Chandler. Where exactly is the Taiko instrument? I'm on v16.0. Did it get renamed to something other than Taiko?

What do you find made the expense worth it above the free Tux guitar?

Same, got all for for less than the cost of this plus a whole lot more.

Yikes, even worse. TAPEBUNDLE-9999 is the code they sent out to anyone on the email list.

Well it happened, but without vouchers to stack with it, I can't believe anyone would pay $99 for the 2 plugins. And yes, I like Tape Machine 24.

Yes "Player" owners could buy instruments if they are made available to purchase such as the Dream Machines, but no way to access the "core" instruments outside of the two freebies without paying for at least the LE version, so with player you are stuck with piecemeal. If they do offer Meldway as a purchase, I'd had to imagine anyone that wanted both meldway and dream machines would be better of just jumping in and getting LE on sale "now" I have not used any 3rd party Sampletank libraries, but my understanding it is technically supported and a few actually exist somewhere in the wild ex. https://esoundz.com/landingpages/sampletank.php

Correct. Chandler is obviously hired by Melda so I could see his contributions being added to the official package. But as a MSFLE owner he would have to do that as I have no edit abilities to follow the tutorial and create the same thing he did. If they shared it officially I could have access to it. Or if someone else created an instrument using the Full version, they could give away or sell it to those that have the LE version. Given the complexity and unique nature of the Melda interface and development, while very powerful, a developer would also have to be comfortable with that workflow to create products for it, and I think you are correct in that the future there isn't as bright as I might like it to be.

The SoundfactoryLE will depend a fair amount on the instrument loaded related to the processing needs. Even with a list of instruments it would honestly be hard to judge what you are actually getting honestly. I will say that the star of the show is the beta Meldway Grand Piano. It is a massive 40 gig download thanks to all the mic positions. And as such it can be sluggish to load, etc. That said, it a fantastic sounding piano VST. MSFLE isn't a "go to" for me personally as a VST outside of the pianos as I'm not a massive Synth sound player and while MSF does straddle both "sampler and synth" lines, it has a larger synth package today. But this is also Melda and I bought it a little while ago knowing it is going to get updates for life. The Meldway Grand once they get all the kinks out I expect to be worth the discounted admission price alone and this new drum machine model suggests the door is finally open for more attention to the platform. I also heard some things Chandler created in terms of instruments that were impressive which I hope makes it to production as an instrument so that LE users can have access to it....since as an LE user I can't follow the tutorial to make and use it myself) I don't have the MAutoEQ but do have the AudoDynamicEQ. I'm not sure how much I'd personally go for the Linear-Phase maybe that is based on previous experience with others that are resource hogs though, not sure.

Sounds great and some nice well thought out controls. That said for a "premium" drum instrument the lack of sequencer in the interface seems like an area that could use improvement.

I'm aware but all the ex store stuff has been small developers. IKM is one of the largest in the industry and don't exactly need the "marketing" the pop up store provides. Audiority is awesome but also not exactly a household name and even they are bigger than some of the others that hit the store.

Got a press release on that? Would be pretty surprised to find out that Soundwide (the PA, NI and Izotope collective) is now owned by IKM.

Alreaday have both but this is pretty shocking news having IKM in the PA store if true.

I haven't bought much in the last few months, but I still think some of the sales they had were outstanding for those just getting in and had some basic vouchers. Ask yourself if you would have jumped on some of these deals 2 years ago before you went on the pandemic sales buying sprees? 1) The economy changed 2) The amount of plugins we have changed 3) The Plugin market changed As for the $15 plugins, they recently offered Black Box MS and Mastering A at this price point. But I'm guessing most of us already bought them for more than that previously, thus we say "who cares"

Clip 2 has a more open top end and depth I'd expect with the 87. Clip 1 while impressive feels a bit more like a 57 with very impressive processing added to it to me.

It has hit $32ish before but this last sale didn't have the 50% off for that particular one. Lots of others were 50% off though. This and the Binson Echo had a smaller discount. I may pass for now though it has been on my get eventually list. When I test drive it I kept thinking but would I ever use this instead of others that I have (the CPU hungry but amazing Binson included)

I think they ran it around $45 for that sale. Xeno is what started my journey with them years ago when it was $10 at PB.

Does this come with the pro channel version of purchased above? https://www.cakewalk.com/Products/Softube-Mix-Bundle/FET-Compressor

I really like Audiority but this one has hit 32.50 ish sales quite a few times. I expected a lower guaranteed lowest price given the lack of voucher stacking this month. Sadly this also suggests we won't see it hit the $10 PB bin soon.

I won't try this new one until it is dirt cheap but as much as I respect iZotope that very old freebie(upgrade was lipstick on a pig). I never thought that one was worth more than free.

Let me guess "free" but they only give you a single authorization and it also is part of the dreaded waves shell vst scans? Or did they make this product an exception so it would be worth dealing with?

It is pretty well documented that the tracks are basically created most of the time and then it is given to MJK to come up with lyrics. Drums being "last" in the creative process wouldn't be accurate....in some cases it is pretty clear that the time signatures/drum grooves are the foundation of the idea in the first place. The other piece to the quote is also that you can't acutally trust what the band says about a lot of stuff and they are notorious for taking that kind of approach when asked about the music or creative process. I've been following their creative output for literally 30 years now. In the early days interviews were super rare and the few they would give had quotes similar to the above. While I don't agree with a lot of the lyrical content itself, the band is musically briliant. Ironically I find it feels quite emotional despite also tending to be unusually technical (especially for a band that lives in "drop-d" ). For those that don't "get it" try listening to orchestras and the like doing covers of their work. I'd tend to assume radio stations are playing the new stuff (or perhpas something like Sober) it seems fairly unlikley that a Radio Station is going to play one of the tracks most fans are really actually going to be into. Who knows though as I don't listen to the radio.