Brian Walton

Yeah, I certainly don't need anything...but placed an order anyway. Seriously though that should be it for a while as everything else would either need to be dirt cheap or see deals that are unlikley to happen in at least a year (i.e. the new AMEK console).

Yes, I've used vouchers very month for over a year now. Not sure what I spent to get here but I'm now on the $50 voucher plan (which I mentieond in another thread feels like a major downgrade)

Right, but the question in my mind is are those things really needed? Again from someone that doesn't push the limit of even what "CM" can do, $40 (without vouchers) isn't exaclty free and also there are lots of other options on the table.

I keep wondering if Thorn is worth the money over the "free" Thorn CM version for someone that isn't a synth junkie. The CM version is pretty feature packed.

There are honestly so many of them, depends on what other tools you might have that PA potentially has a better option.

They did add the 80 channel to the sale, but bus comp is still full retail for some reason.

I'm kind of expecting they will add some more tomorrow. Odd a few of the usual suspects are not included.

I think it used to be free on their own website but they removed it a while ago from some reason, so PB is the place to grab it.

I just like watching pretty colors bounce around to the music that passes through it. ?

Wish it was for a melda product I don't have. But at this price certainly suggest others give it a demo. Would be a little more useful with an EQ built in so you wouldn't need another plugin to make the adjustment that are revealed with this one.

Haven't tried but I've seen post of others in the past that suggest they don't as the whole process is automated. Realistically I have so much good stuff from them, maybe this setback will curb the temptation.

It was a sad month this August getting "downgraded" from a $25 voucher to a $50 one. I hoped this day wouldn't come but here we are. I wonder what the tier was in spending I hit that triggered it. It is a very rare occassion the $50 ones seem worthwhile, as the mega sales where everything is discounted heavily they seem to skip on sending the personal vouchers. The $25 vouchers plus regular $40 sales are the gold mine.

It is worth $15, but do wish they give it a re-sizable update.

I bought Melodyne 4 studio with the hopes of #1 working well with Cakewalk, but kept finding there was way too much garbage to clean up for practical use. Any tips to get this to work as expected?

Some claim this is even better than many of the physical pickup coverters and doesnt' require a hardware ad-on. I ran the demo and though it was pretty impressive. https://www.jamorigin.com/ unfortunatly they raised the rate again by another $50

I already have MAutoDynamicEQ (which is suposidly this thing plus more features). I'm curious if this one actually runs any more efficiently than the "auto" version. Even though the Auto version seems efficient, I wonder if that would give me an excuse to grab both. ?

I'd run a demo and see. I own both. I think the Focusrite is a more intuitive/better layout and features. But the "N" sounds different and also has a different workflow. Both are quality plugins.

This plugin is the one that started my PA/Brainworx collection. Hard to go wrong with it, though the controls feeling a little backwards on the EQ takes a few min to get used to.

Related to owning a previous version.

It is also nonsense to charge $300 for a DAW these days when Cakewalk is Free.

They seem to have gotten better about it as of late, but they have historically had Waves Central updates that can "break" plugins that previously did work (v9 to v 10 was the worst offender that I recall), and without WUP they won't lift a finger to help you. This is relevant as you add plugins over the years. If you literally never run a Waves Central update - once they are working they should continue working. But if you add plugins or run multiple versions - from experience and from seeing other posts there are instances where you should have a working plugin but don't. I have machines that have v9 plugins that won't work and also even have a v12 plugin that won't work on one machine (but will work on the older machine). Waves isn't all rainbows and unicorns despite being one of the leading sellers of these things.

If your Taylor has the fishman matrix, you might try to test drive one of the fishman aura pedals with it. If you match it up with the same model and pu used for the capture - it can transform the piezo into something closer to a micd guitar. It isn't perfect of course, but quite a bit different than your typical acoustic preamp toys. If your guitar doest match the pickup used for an image, it won't sound great though.

What is the DRM like on this through epic games, do you know? Obvious GOG is paid at this time, but is DRM-Free.

Right and you can also run a pre-amp pedal like the Ethos (and bypass the cab simulation output) to get the cab sim from this new pedal. But my point being honeslty not anywhere near the value that putting an amp sim plus optional cab and mix sim would have been. My thought wasn't that it was totally worthless, just isn't anywhere close to what it could have been and really only provides potential benefit to a very small seletion of users. Most amps DI out do not sound great even though really good IRs.

Unless I missed something the obvious lust worthy pedal (Amplitube AMP/Cab simulation) in a pedal is missing from the line up. Honestly we have plenty of options for reverb, delay, modulation, distortion....what we are missing that is generally unique to IKM would have been the AMPs in a box instead of being tied to a computer (which makes you run your computer if far lower latency than most of us can do once a number of tracks are down) which would have been an actual value add to the recording process - not to mention the live application which is what most of us buy pedals for. It also says included 5 cab impulses so you can go direct to PA. Uh...without amps included what is the point?