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There are some cool suggested uses for ShaperBox in this video. https://youtu.be/lO47Hjx08Wk

Did this just happen (in the last few hours)? The reason I'm asking is b/c I'm seeing a post from MSD from just 8 hours ago? What am I missing?

@Music Software Deals ... Thank you for creating such a useful website! Have you thought about adding something akin to a suitability analysis? People use this technique to identify the optimal place to live by 'stacking' (adding) features in spatially-registered maps. For example, you would: 1) obtain maps containing numerical values for things like school district rating, mean temperature, air quality, crime-rate, etc.; 2) add the values at each location across maps; and 3) sort the aggreate values in descending order to get a list of locations with the highest overall scores. You could weight each category equally or weight some higher than others. Since some of the examples above would not be desireable, like crime, you'd encode those values as: value = 1-crime-rate (such that low crime rates would score close to 1 and high rates close to 0). For plugins you'd give us the ability to add together different factors (possibly with different weights and different signs [+/-]) so that we could zero in on just the few plugins we're really likely to buy. For example, we could look at the combination of discount (encoded as: value = discount/100), price (encoded as: value = plugin_price/max_price ...or... value = plugin_price/mean_price), and offer-recency (encoded as: value = 1 - num_of_days_on_sale). The reason I'm suggesting this is that -- although your website is very useful -- it still involves a lot of scrolling through stuff that we're not really interested in. A suitability analysis feature would enable us to find what we're looking for very quickly. Cheers...

Same here. I picked it up on sale for $12 last year from JRRshop and have been surprised at how useful/cool it is; especially on drums, as you mentioned.

Actually, that's exactly why I bought it. I regularly use all the PSP plugins I have: B-Scanner, HertzRider2, Lotary, and Nexcellence. They're very easy to use and sound great!

Just picked up PSP stompFilter for $12 and got UVI Model D for free. Nice.

Agreed. K14 is a great value. But, for me, getting the additional content that comes with K14U/K14UCE for just another $100/$150 is worth it. Especially the ones in bold. ACTION STRINGS 2 ASHLIGHT CHOIR: OMNIA (K14UCE) EAST ASIA LORES (K14UCE) PIANO COLORS SEQUIS SESSION GUITARIST - ELECTRIC VINTAGE SESSION GUITARIST - PICKED NYLON

Sure, that's another option, but the difference between, say K14U and K14UCE (during the summer sale) is likely to be just $50. That's a trivial amount compared to what some would pay for just one library from other plugin companies. Of course, my logic doesn't apply if you're sure that you only want/need/will use what's included in the lower-tier K14s. But given that you already own K13UCE, I assumed you probably want/need/will use the additional stuff in K14UCE.

Same here. Rather than spend $99 now for just the K7 update, why not wait until next year's summer sale where (I'm assuming!) we will get everything in KU14CE including K7 for a mere additional $100 to $150? It doesn't seem like K7 offers any important improvements over K6, so that's my strategy. Let's be honest here, most of us will probably eventually buy some version of Komplete and, in those scenarios, we would double-pay for K7. Right? ?

Did the "BOOM-20-OFF" voucher expire?

https://youtu.be/sGLAPu20H5k https://youtu.be/Favv7VkGov4?t=21

MonsterStringsVST is a Free String virtual instrument that sounds great but is still lightweight in RAM usage. In this first version, Monster Strings has 13 Presets, divided into 2 main categories: ACOUSTIC and SYNTHESIZER. ACOUSTIC has 2 sub-categories, ENSEMBLE and SOLO. https://agushardiman.tv/monster-strings-a-good-free-string-plugin-with-small-ram-usage/

TugGlicento is an audio effect plugin for Windows (VST3) and Mac (VST AU) that can play multiple effects simultaneously. Feautures: Variable speeds for each line 5 Band independent moog filter (edge of self resonance) 5 band ADSR and LFO (syncable) for filter Effects for each line Variable beats for each line. Variable duration for each line. Matrix. Randomization. Presets. REVERB, DELAY, CHORUS,,DECIMATOR, DISTORTION, PHASER ,PITCHSHIFTER, COMBFILTER, REPEATER, VIBRATO, TREMOLO, RINGMODULATOR with many parameters https://www.audiopluginsforfree.com/tugglicento/

My Ozone 10 Advanced update says "Full Trial". Does anyone else have this?

Lots of free stuff on their site now...

When you said "Jim helped me build my last DAW" does that mean you paid him for his parts list and then you built it yourself?

https://heavyocity.com/product/foundations-nylon-guitar/

You can do that too (with some plugins). For example, I moved all my Acustica plugins to an SSD in a external drive enclosure (that's the "VST3-Mobius" link in my screenshot above).

I've been moving the .vst3 files to a company-specific folder for years without issue, except for SpectraLayers and, now, XLN:

Unfortunately we can't choose where to install the VST3 plugins (on Windows). I always move them into a company-specific folder. Hopefully they'll make that user-selectable too.

Version 14 seems to have eliminated the Preset Browser (introduced in v12).

You can hear demos of a few of the patches here:

I received this in my inbox this morning:

It's over...

Unfortunately Aero is quite heavy on CPU usage. I can run just *one* instance and nothing else; it drives my Cubase realtime meters to overload. I have yet to use an Acustica plugin in a project. They sound great (though not this one) but are way too CPU-intensive. Oh well...