Vernon Barnes

They are setting up in competition with Cclarry.

Quick load is your friend. It's actually easier than searching the libraries tab as you can create folders and sub-folders and group instruments in a way that makes sense to you.

The vintage voice bundle is nice. The Juno 160 emulation in particular is as good a many a VSTi costing more. Plus you have the added patching options in the modular environment. I am tempted by the vintage bundle for $19

I think its worth looking at Bandcamp. https://bandcamp.com/artists I don't have personal experience with the artist functions but I think they are pretty much the fairest when it comes to charges etc. I buy quite a bit of music through Bandcamp and I like the opportunity to download in different formats including MP3 FLAC and WAV. You get to set what is effectively a minimum price which can be as low as zero. The customer can elect to pay more and I understand many do. So it could be a good way of making your music available if you are not too concerned about making money. That's the easy bit. Publicity is the bugbear particularly if you ar

I quite like that, I have been half considering Beam Ends. (while is part of a ship the phrase On one beam ends = in a bad situation)

I want a new "band name" for my current project, something nautical, so far searching nautical glossaries I have rejected. Cod End Bilge Buttock Lines Gammoning Hole Clenched Lap Jeer Bits Diminishing Strakes

If I did not have them already I might go for some of the M-Tron pro expansions. I don't have the sfx bank but I doubt if it would be that useful to me. And I am waiting on a quote from a session singer so I think I had better save cash for that,

Well, I missed that, I was looking for a button of menu item. Thanks for pointing it out.

Yet again Bandcamp is supporting artists selling through their platform today by waiving their fees so 100% of the purchase price goes to the artist. So its a good day to treat yourself to some new music. Bandcamp have my respect!

I made the mistake of watching the video. I nearly backed off when VAT was added but I reckon I will get my money's worth from this.

Is it free or is it $49? You can certainly download it and use it for nothing but there is the option to buy it. I must take the time to read the T&Cs.**** I went to look at it again and I can see the version I had install was quite old. It has been improved a lot. I doubt if I would have paid the full whack for the Arturia but I got it for $49 as I have V collection 7. The Arturia adds presets and additional modulation options both of which go beyond the capabilities of the original. As the architecture of the synth is very straightforward the lack of presets on the DiscoDSP is not the end of the world. also the Arturia has built in effects. Convenient but not essential if you have some decent VST effects. I have had a quick 5 minuets with the IK, scrolling through the presets. It has an immediacy about it and the presets sound very good indeed. It lacks the total tweakability of the other two but that won't worry a lot of people. The other down side compared to the Arturia is the load times when changing presets. Edit. *** The DiscoDSP use is unrestricted but they ask you to buy to support further development.

Interesting that this happened right after Arturia's release?. While I figure it will be pretty much redundant as I have the Arturia product I am downloading now. I think the Syntronic stuff sounds very good but I get frustrated editing sounds. One of the big things for me is you are stuck with an oscillator wave form in a patch. One of my first actions in tweaking a sound is often to play with the oscillator wave forms. On the plus side the ability to change filter types is a nice touch so it will be intresting to try the OB-Xa with Moog filter.

Yep - from the Toontrack website "Works with EZdrummer, EZdrummer 2, Superior Drummer 2 and Superior Drummer 3" If anyone is a Superior user and has problems installing a MIDI pack without EZDrummer they should take it up with Toontrack. EZDrummer expansions should also work if you have Superior but not EZDrummer according to the website with the caveat that if you have older versions of EZ or Superior some of the newer expansions could be an issue. For the recent Action EZX SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS. 1 GB free disk space, 2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended). A working EZdrummer 2.1.7 or Superior Drummer 3.1.2 (or above) installation. And the older Funkmasters SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS. 1.2 GB of free hard disk space, 1 GB RAM. A working EZdrummer 1.4 (or above) or a Superior Drummer 2.3 (or above) installation.

Icon. The late, great John Wetton. And a young Ann Marie Helder, I really waiting for new Panic Room material.

Tonewheel is great. Its absolutely filthy sounding so it won't be suitable for a lot of tracks but if you want heavy and distorted this is perfect.

I love OTS but it will have to exceptional. I have more virtual Rhodes than you can shake a stick at.

I saw them twice, once at Reading Festival in 1975. I saw the C-Beams glittering in the dark sorry - the lasers glittering through a torrential rain shower. The set list for that show https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/yes/1975/little-johns-farm-reading-england-63d81277.html I also saw them in Bristol but my memory is vague here. I am sure it was the Colston Hall, which would have made it 1975 a few months before reading, but I am also sure Wakeman was with them and it was the Topographic Oceans tour so it must have been the Hippodrome in November 1973.

65 module updates going on as I type.

And..... Just how good was Chris Squire!!!

And something completely different.

And if you ever thought Robert Fripp was far too serious.

I find that you have to open Voltage Modular stand alone, then close it and open it again to get the updates to start?

I see they have made is authentically hard to program. It really was pain in the **** in that respect. I had quick wizz through some of the presets and it sounds pretty good and the paraphonic architecture is captured so it requires its own special playing technique. The other recent release Tricent looks interesting.

I got a real one, but it no longer works. If I am brave enough to get my soldering iron out (I have been procrastinating for a long time.) I will try to replace the backup battery which is probably why its lost its memory. The presets were loaded from a tape cassette but I have downloaded the files and I hope they will load from the audio out on my laptop. Meanwhile I will be giving this VSTi a whirl!