Brian Walton

As you can tell by reading the statement it is phoning home constantly and requires an internet connection. It isn't about the manual process. It is about the fact I have to refresh activation via the internet periodically or the software stops working.

I'd agree, but at the same time I also don't think it is more than a day or two of work to make it (I've asked for it for a couple years now). He already has the plugin on the market and clearly knows the pro-channel workings as he is one of the only developers that already created some 3rd party ones, including one that was bundled with the program. Given Bandlab has talked about the overwhelming response to new users using Cakewalk now. This is a plugin that is also very affordable and ripe for a budget concious DAW user.

Yep, the 6 month refresh requirement is about my only gripe coming from an easy unlimited off-line install scenario that never needed to check in or phone home.

I was going to mention Boz, but his lack of developming the pro-channel PanKnob which should be an easy addition to the product line makes me sad. Otherwise he treats customers well.

They wanted something like $300+ for people to upgrade to Superior Drummer 3 even if they purchase 2 in the last year and only even offered that outrageous pricing for a few months then took away the upgrade option. I own a number of TT products, but they are average at best, not worthy of mention.

Yep, still hoping for that also. But if we got one today....then that would increase changes for the double reset I was really hoping for..

Who else woke up disappointed there wasn't a voucher reset last night? ?

Melda Production Audiority I'll include Plugin Alliance because the quality/sale with loyalty is about as good as it gets if you are patient. Authorization fits in the acceptable category but I'd prefer more freedom. Toneboosters has a lot of bang for the buck, compare features and interface of EQ4 to anything on the market to the price. Upgrades at IKM are terrible but they are responsive on the customer support side even for the free products. And the number of products they have given away over the last 2 years is pretty amazing. And 9 authorizations with the ability to deauthorize is pretty good (expiring downloads for purchased products is also terrible)

Yes, I agree you can. But simulating that also means doubeling up on the console emulation. And it within a DAW freeze process seems like you would then be freezing, taking that track and moving it to antoehr track to then potentially freeze it again if you need to based on the extra effects needed. You are correct, but in my experience (which might seem limited) I'd say most people do not record straight to tape without making some other adjustments before getting it there. That said, I stopped using tape years ago and perhpas modern methods changed dramatically.

Tape is LAST in a typical channel /effects workflow if you are trying to simulate a real world scenario. You don't plug your guitar into a tape machine then add EQ, Comp, Reverb after that....you do all that and then you run it into tape to record it. So you are freezing after everything else is set...thus the fader comment. It isn't a slight of your mixing abilites, it is a workflow consideration.

Thats fine as long as mixing to you is only automating faders. As for me, I prefer the freedom to continue to make changes with out having to freeze/unfreeze

AirWindows ToTape does it easily ToneBoosters Reelbus v4 seems fairly light for a Tape Emu also The IK Tape Machines sound great, but I'm with other posters pretty big CPU hog where I'm looking at only BUS work. I also don't need ALL of those machines, I'd love for just the singles to go on a nice sale.

Really want the LE version. Hopefully next time it goes on a nice sale. Got it the player when they gave out Montastry Grand. Not really ever expecting to buy into it (though I think the Grand is excellent), but I expect this will be a powerhouse of an instrument at some point and would be nice to have and now is at the top of my list of Melda plugins I want but don't have.

I haven't upgraded the G8 (they have a less feature rich version free with Computer Music Magazine) that has been my go-to for years....and don't have to deal with 3 machine authorization limitations. I've got Sandman Pro and BYOME but need to spend with them. Haven't tried SpecOps yet, but seems interesting too.

the Ozone Elements and Spred plugins don't need a sub (I posted that deal in a different thread). We liklely all have Elements, but this was the first time I've seen Spread for free. I gave it a test spin and seems pretty cool. Reminds me of Boz Mongoose, Pan Knob, and Ozone imager. The "multiband" style spreading is interesting. Haven't done testing to determine the mono mix down impacts, but seems like it could be useful.

That one wasn't even on my radar really and now I wonder if I can resist buying it, even though I just got "spread" for free. ?

Need is a dirty and smelly word. ? I'd certainly agree that most of us have any "needs" well covered, but these deals make it so that added another tool in the box is fun. As a guitarists these become reasonable price points to grab another amp flavor. Other effects such as compression and EQ start to come down more to workflow. I'll keep collecting them as long as the price is right. I've got a number of them and have bases covered in virtually all areas more than once, but I'm open to buying more given the quality PA offers. If they had a WAVES style 1 seat per purchase system, I wouldn't bother even if the price was low. PA (along with others) helped me ditch WAVES.

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That is the base sale price. If they have vaild loyalty vouchers at the same time period (those of us that get them) would have extra savings on top of the sale. However, they timed this one so that no-one has loyalty vouchers. They ran the Lindell 80 on sale at the start of the month, and some of us had $25 vouchers which would have made it about $25 out of pocket. I passed on that but picked up BOME for $15 later in the month. I'd still like to get Lindell 80 though.

The queestion isn't related to how powerful your headphones are. Many "better" quality headphones are a higher Ohm and need more juice than a phone/computer pre-amp is going to supply. Thus the need for an external pre-amp to drive the headphones to make them sound like they were designed to. If your headphones are over 32 Ohms you would benefit from a headphone amp. Even 32 can usually benefit from them.

You are correct!

Depending on your headphones you might want to get an external headphone amp to drive them. That can help the signal you get from a $2 interal headphone pre-amp on a laptop. But even a cheap one is going to be $20-30 at which point you would start wondering if it just makes sense to use a cheap/old single channel interface.

I used mine previously. But they timed this sale to not overlap with the voucher which strategically ended on the 29th of March according to the email. Would have been nice. ?

PM sent, thanks!

Lots of rust on that plugin. Seriously though, starting to wish I had a Focusrite interface. They have had some nice add-ons including this one I'd be happy to have.