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If you're not going to publish the track composed via BiaB (just using it flesh out ideas), then save your money and go with the UltraPak. Besides, the audiophile edition takes up WAY more drive space. I have BiaB installed on an external 2TB Thunderbird 3 drive, along with all of my other sample libraries (like for Kontakt). Take the money you save by buying the UltrPak, and buy a 2TB external SSD. I have 2 Samsung T7 2TB USB3.2 drives in addition to the Samsung X5 2TB TB3 drive. The T7s are excellent and very fast, if you have a USB3.2 port to plug them into. They're still plenty fast on a USB3 port.

OK. I just added these two preset packs. I then went to the Audio/MIDI Settings to check my config in the standalone version of AL5. This is the first time that I noticed that the Settings dialog DOES NOT SCALE, even though I have AL5 set to scale to 160% on my 4K display. Sheesh.

Oops. Didn't see that. My first name's John, so this is appropriate.

Modalics (two musicians and professional coders) has released a new app, the EON Arp. It is currently free, but will be $29 after the intro period. This is their second app. The first, Beat Scholar, is very cool. Currently $79, down from $99. Modalics Audio

Same here. Still waiting for EZKeys v2 with a scalable GUI.

In your request, you might add that they allow a BPM range in the search bar. I just checked Toontrack's forum to look for any mention of "Feature Request". Sadly, the search box at the top only searches for different Toontrack products. I didn't find a search option for looking for a specific topic within a subforum. A new forum member is supposed to scroll through hundreds of pages looking for existing threads on the topic s/he's interested in? Lame. Another "Feature Request"?

Have you tried Tap2Find? If so, how did it not meet your needs? Inquiring minds...

Click on the Grooves tab and enter 132 (or whatever tempo you're looking for) in the search box and hit Enter. That will set a filter for the tempo and display matches. Easy peasy.

I just tried the AD2 VST3 in latest versions of Studio One Pro, Reaper and Gig Performer. It loaded and ran just fine in all three. So, it seems like the issue is unique either to Cakewalk or your Win11 installation. I'm running the latest version of Win11 Pro.

If you have the full version of Kontakt, Red Room Audio's "free" (with a fee of 4,69 € ($5 in the U.S.?) to help cover the bandwidth costs for the download) Snaps, Claps, Slaps, Stomps & Shouts library is excellent. Snaps, Claps, Slaps, Stomps & Shouts

I saw that review on KVR, but not the video. I also have InstaComposer, so that quick 6 minute video might be interesting. Thanks for sharing.

And we know how that turned out. ?

Pepper Pot indeed! I first saw this Boston-area band at the Ace of Clubs in Nashville almost 30 years ago. They're still kickin' patootie.

The Orb Producer 3 Suite is 50% in the Orb Plugins store at the moment (49 € vs. 99 €). Orb Producer 3 I'm interested to see how these compare to Captain Plugins Epic.

Now that I see the naming convention for the MIDI files, it's not even a $24.95 value for me. ?

When I buy MIDI, I don't want WAV files. Pass.

I have been seeing EZD MIDI pack updates for the last couple of weeks. Today, it was just two: Basic Rock and Basic Rock Fills. Whatever they're doing, it looks like they're releasing them as the work through the entire catalog of packs.

This is a case where I finished ahead of the Mighty Fleer. ? When I replaced my desktop with a laptop before I moved, I did NOT install any of my many Waves plugins. The primary reason was the cost of WUP. The secondary reason with the proliferation of Waves shells (you get a new one each time you install a new Waves plugins, so you have multiple shells for the same general Waves version). Plus, some plugin scanners had trouble scanning the shells. And then came the proliferation of new versions, trying to force you to WUP your existing plugins to stay compatible with the most recent version. I have been Waves WUP free for over two years now. Many of their plugins are actually quite good, but I don't miss them. I have survived four divorces: three wives and one plugin developer. EDIT: Oops. Make that five divorces: three wives and two plugin developers. I forgot about Slate.

Sub'd your channel so I make sure to go back and listed to all of your videos. Really enjoyed this one!

I've got to remember to do that next time. I've always just clicked on the "Authorize" link. In Gig Performer, I've got to remember to deauthorize before updating, and then reauthorize. I admit to having forgotten to do that, too. Good thing they also have excellent customer service.

Does Microsoft have to change the machine ID when it updates Windows? I mentioned Melodyne, but I have a couple of others that lose their authorization status too. I prefer soft-licensing to dongle licensing. Peeps have differing opinions on iLok. I hate them as a company, going back to their Centronics parallel port dongles that were app specific (I had two, but only the one directly connected to the computer worked; I was swapping them all the time), but I have to admit that their soft-licensing works well. Their USB dongle was never reliable for me, so I wrote off my Slate plugins as money down the drain. And I would NEVER go near their cloud licensing. Even Steinberg has migrated away from dongle use. How do the new Steinberg apps that use soft licensing respond to Windows updates that change the machine ID?

I had audio driver failures when I upgraded from Win7 to Win10, but none from Win10 to Win11. The one main ongoing issue I have is not with Win 11 per se, but with MS's major updates every six months. They change the machine ID and blow up some of my software authorizations. Melodyne is a good example of that. I have to reauthorize Melodyne after every major update. After the last one, Melodyne wouldn't allow any more reauthorizations, telling me I had authorized it to too many different machines. A review of my account showed that the PC name was always the same. Celemony tech support were very nice and quick to resolve the issue, acknowledging the problem and resetting my authorization count to 0. Melodyne Studio is back up!

Great price for an excellent master buss compressor. Will be nice to move up to the GE version from the free one. I also have Limiter 6 GE. Also excellent.

SkipPy mentioned that he recorded all of the samples on his iPhone at 24 bit, 48K (or 96K?). But how good is the mic input? From what I've heard so far, pretty good. He did mention that he'd considered rerecording using a good mic, but didn't have the time or feel the need (or maybe both; can't remember which).

Thanks! I also missed the AX73 v1.2.0 and AX Chorus v1.1.0 updates. Downloaded them as well.