Brian Walton

I agree for a modeled piano which equals low CPU and disc space it is usable...but if those factors are of no concern, sampled pianos tend to sound far better and there are many on the market for free or way less than the sale price. Pull up something like Meldas free offering and TruePiano and with the same midi playback there is a pretty substantial difference in tonal quality and realism.

Seems they do it at least once or twice a year. Only reason I think anyone would want to consider it is they they need low CPU usage and small HD space. Many superior sounding pianos for cheap or even free.

It is a normal sale price. Usually see that pop up a few times a year a various sites.

Purchased - even though I can probably do everything it can do and more in MSaturatorMB I'd imagne. As for the comparison with the new VSM4. Seems like different tools, and with the pricing strucutre (with VSM3 being on the market for 6 years now), clearly they are looking at a different customer with a $140 price difference at the time of the current sale on both.

Ahh yes, sorry. THey have multiple versions. This is what I use. https://www.ehx.com/products/micro-pog/ The full Pog is cool to for those really serious about it. The Nano is a nice space saving one. https://www.ehx.com/products/nano-pog/ I think there are some demos showing the slight tracking variations between the 3. But each should satisfy just about anyone.

I think we are looking for insight into the upgrade path and if it will match Gig Performer's tiers based on date of purchase and price points.

POG doesn't care if you play sloppy. ? OC-2 I used it on guitar and it would even glitch out on a low E. Demo does show it has some filter options well beyond what an OC-2 can do, but they also didn't fix the glitchy drawbacks either of the basic circuit (but they also let you know that pretty clearly in the marketing)

Love Audiority too, also watched that video. But as someone that owned an OC-2 not one I ever wanted again. Too glitchy. I personally like the POG stuff from EHX becuase it tracks like you want and expect it to. Yeah, it is digital and doens't add any warmth or any of that....but the tracking is excellent and can do polyphonic too.

Well it looks like they are modeling the Boss vintage monophonic octaver. If it is an accurte emulation...it will be "flawed" on that front. If you have ever used one, you will know exaclty what I'm talking about.

$49 within a year is some wishful thinking, hope you are right though. Don't think we have seen the SSL-J get that low yet, have we?

Yeah, that 2098 is great, only critiqe really is I think the UI should be resizable.

Curious about your thoughts on the Acoustic Pickup system he designed for Taylor that is fairly heavily critizied by some. (at least the early ones, not sure if they corrected the problems). I thought it was an interesting idea, but perhpas not the perfect system they thought they made. I am a fan of Neve's consoles, prefer the sound over SSL for sure. The "N" console from PA is what I use the most these days, but still do not feel anywhere close to efficient with it....something like the SSL plugin layout is much more intuitive, I think. Absolutely agree everyone doens't need 10, but getting just a couple that are "just right" on all fronts seems like a pretty difficult task. Either the UI is cluttered, unclear or unintuitive or the sound doesnt' quite suit personal taste. This one looks like it has a fantastic UI, and I'd be shocked if it doesnt' sound great based on all the Brainworx plugins I've tried, honestly view them as one of the real leaders on the market.

Does sound really matter on this one, just look at that beautiful thing! (ok if I'm nit picky, I'd argue that the artifical shadow the virtual knobs are casting is too strong - yeah it would look like that on a console, but we shouldn't have to deal with the darkened text in the box)

It isn't even that hard. Just give us more ilok authorizations. I already bought an extra copy of each, but still woudl like to not have to transfer things around as I use more than 2 computers. That said, after getting MeldaTurboReverbLE, not sure I really need the exponential audio ones...and it doesn't have those terrible authorization limitiations.

Confirmed, kinda lame since the non-NFR do give you 2 seats.

I think you were correct in your first assessment, I'd have to check the serials, but I'm pretty sure the new one is NFR.

Is it? Seems odd they don't have a website up, so you would have to actually install bandlab assistant on the "on-line" computer to get the offline one to work.

Since the Cakewalk app itself no longer relies on BA for updates, I no longer see the point as well.

Not set in stone but those are screen shots I took from the beta. So I'd expect we might see something like this in the next release. Similar idea in the TurboCompLE as well.

No guarantees with what the release version will look like, but the current beta has new UI for this, which I'd image some would find to be an improvement over the non-descript current version: Of course I think the color of the knobs on the SSLs should correspond with the real world coutnerparts, but I'd say the idea is moving in the right direciton.

Way better deal than the thread title indicates. ?

Correct, but that doesn't actually cause any errors.

I had error when I was using my file name 01, but I've tried this 04 file on two computers after the 04 upgrade without any error thus far. I'd try switching to a different theme and them back to this one and see if the problem goes away. I can confirm it works as this icon wasn't even a part of 01 AFUI 1.5 - BW Pro_2021-04.sth

This will depend dramatically on your physical makup, how you use or abuse them. I've seen tons of them break in a work environment. Waranty is reasonable if you are close to an authorized repair facility, and if they actually respond to you (not all stories on this front are rainbows and unicorns) but the stated warranty itself is better than industry average. Chairs are not cheap to ship. Has to be new from an authorized dealer though, they won't help with a 2nd hand purchase or new from a non-authorized dealer.

Chair is a legendary classic and a pioneer of design, but there are plenty of other high quality ergonomic chairs on the market at this point.