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Are you kidding? I have the action figure!

Yes, it's not unusual to record choir and orchestra separately. Check out the composer's YouTube channel. It's a great educational resource for anyone wanting to dabble in orchestration or TV/film scoring. My favorite vids are the behind-the-scenes stuff and industry insights. She's done a bunch of AMAs, too:

Ya, I am the firstborn; my parents' anniversary was in April, my birthday is in October. There isn't much family lore about that period except that Dad, an unsophisticated farm boy of 21, often alluded to the many things Mom taught him early on. I do know that she bought him his first ever alcoholic beverage on a date. For all I know, that drink may have been a crucial part of my origin story.

Just another throwaway Hallmark Christmas movie, but check out the soundtrack...

I'd guess that includes many of us who are here today as the result of an ooops. I don't know if I am in that number, but if so then I am definitely in favor of serendipity.

The simplest, quickest and easiest solution to your existing clicky-splices is a slip edit. Wherever you clear a click, hover the mouse over the upper half of the leading edge of the clip until you see the triangle cursor. Then drag from the left just a little bit - as little as 1ms - just enough to hide the click.

Try re-installing version 6, but use the VST2 version. I've not upgraded Kontakt to v.7 yet, so I don't know if they've changed their file naming conventions, but in the past the major version number has been part of the DLL's filename. Consequently, I have Kontakt 3, 4, 5 and 6 all currently installed. That works because their filenames are like "kontakt 4.dll", "kontakt 5.dll". However, when I upgraded to version 6 I installed the VST3 version, and its name is just "kontakt.dll". Upgrading to version 7 would therefore replace the version 6 DLL and cause the problems you're experiencing. Hopefully they only changed the naming convention for the VST3 version.

@Keni, if you don't mind I'd like to move this to the Articulations subforum. Seems like the kind of tip others who are exploring articulations might find useful.

First time I saw Christine she was on a live BBC TV show with Chicken Shack, doing a cover of Etta James' I'd Rather Go Blind. Coincidentally, I was just listening to Chicken Shack the other night and reflecting on how good they were, and how un-British - they would have fit right in at the Fillmore or the Troubadour.

I just want to thank everyone for participating in BF/CM, thus continuing to making it profitable for vendors. I say this because it keeps alive my eternal - albeit naïve - hope that maybe next year there'll be a great deal on something I actually want/need.

Resistance is futile. The Borg has decreed it. I've been using Melodyne since version 2, and it pains me to think about how much money I've given them over the years. The good news is that Melodyne 5 is a significant upgrade with useful new features. I dragged my feet for a long time until Celemony eventually offered a reasonable upgrade price. But in the end I was glad I did it.

Imageline says it's a sampler. I'd guess it's locked to FL Studio and won't run in other DAWs. I'm also guessing that it's a VST3 plugin, meaning it gets installed in a common area that multiple DAWs access. Consequently, while renaming the file would solve the problem, it means that VI would no longer be available in FL Studio.

SampleLogic has never been big on sales. I think they've always tried to position themselves as a high end boutique developer. And that's not completely unreasonable given their history of innovation. Morphestra was unique in the world when it came along, and they do amazing things with Kontakt scripting such as Symphonic AI (multi-track intelligent sequencer). With SampleLogic you just have to be patient. I've never paid more than $99 for any of their libraries (that normally list for $250-$300).

Picked this one up, my one and only BF/CM purchase. It seemed right up my alley, as I'm always on the hunt for interesting percussive sounds but not a looper. Unfortunately, it's been somewhat disappointing and may not be as useful as I'd hoped. Fifty bucks is an OK price, though. The normal price of $200 is just unrealistic.

You might be able to get a decent upgrade price on version 5. I think I paid about $150 (Studio edition). Version 5's levelling tool alone justifies the upgrade. A couple clicks and you've greatly reduced the amount of compression you need on vocals.

I haven't bought a reverb (or a compressor, equalizer, exciter or any other sound-massager) in years. At some point you realize you've got more than enough. Of everything. That said, I admit to having purchased a delay not long ago. Did I need one? Nope. But I was curious about what Sean was going do with a delay plugin. I was not disappointed. That idiosyncratic Quartz mode finds its way into almost everything I do.

They are different (I prefer the sound of ValhallaShimmer), but given the limited number of use-cases for this type of reverb, I'd still consider them redundant. If you're intent on having more than one flavor of a regenerative pitch-shifting reverb, check out irid from tritik. It's got a couple tricks all its own. It's only 50 bucks, too, same as ValhallaShimmer.

Valhalla never goes on sale. Doesn't need to; their normal price is a fraction of what comparable products from other vendors go for.

Remember when everybody was worried that any day Microsoft might do something to break SONAR? Some even switched to Macs to prevent such a disaster from ever happening.

Don't ya just hate it when you get an email announcing a product update, only to read that their big announcement is "MacOS Mojave support"?

Just playing with the new modes. The Scorpio mode for SuperMassive is quite nice. The new RitchPitch mode for ValhallaDelay is wonderfully weird. Just watch out for the feedback setting - set it too high and the plugin goes into self-oscillation and the delays literally never end. Good thing there's a duck feature.

Free update to Valhalla Delay, with a new mode. Of all the delays in my collection, this one is my absolute favorite. Supermassive has also been updated, with two new modes added. Supermassive is a freebie, so make sure to grab it if you don't already have it. It's not a daily bread 'n butter reverb, but it's a pretty cool effect when you can find an excuse to use it.

You could rig something like that up with an aux send and a gate. A gate is basically an envelope follower.

Me, too. Whole lotta potential here. You could stick with the simple ballad format or go full Disney epic with orchestration and choir, or anything in between. It's already got a nice dynamic structure that would lend itself to a gradual buildup that goes big before dropping back into the intimate vocal + guitar that starts it.

The obvious first step is to verify that the files are indeed present, e.g. c:\program files\cakewalk\shared plugins\sonitus*.dll. Then run a scan with the scan log enabled. Open the log (%appdata%\cakewalk\logs\vstscan.log) in Notepad and search for any of the missing plugins' names. If they could not be instantiated due to a missing C++ library, there should be an entry to that effect in the log. You'll probably also get a messagebox during the scan.