Doug Rintoul

My experience is very similar to yours, predating you by a couple of years, at least in terms of Redhat. I started with Redhat 5.1 in 1998. Punch cards programming in Fortran IV with WATFOR and WATFIV was my gateway drug to the computing world. I really was excited to be able to use a dumb terminal when I hit university because I could play Colossal Caves and Trek.

Just tried it with Carve EQ (Issue 295)

Sounds like my experience with Windows.? Command line, registry editing, force loading drivers, Googling a dozen websites, etc, etc. I was a long time Linux user, mostly Ubuntu. I did not find Linux maintenance any more onerous than Windows maintenance and in some cases easier. There are certainly some things harder to do especially in the area of audio software which is why I mostly live in Windows now. But my 86 year old mother-in-law uses Ubuntu just fine and prefers it to Windows. I am not a Linux evangelist but I think Linux's reputation as a hard to use OS has been overstated. I think it's reputation has more to do with lack of familiarity than with it being inherently more complex. On the other hand, I flounder and curse when in front of a Mac, and it is supposed to be the gold standard for usability.

The "empty" zip file is not really empty. I was not able to open them directly in Windows Explorer but I was able to extract them with 7Zip.

You can still download the videos for issues starting from 303 via the "SPEED ISSUE" file. It actually looks like you can still download the videos for issues 277 and before.

Video tutorial for Future Music seem to be available back to issue 312. Anything before that gives a critical error.

Larry left? I hadn't noticed!

Not only is it fully open, it is actually usable. Performance is really reasonable. I wonder if they have switched providers and in the process, accidently left things open.

Long Live da King.

This has great potential. I purchased it this weekend. I do wish that the progression was larger than 8 chords. Also it would be great if the rhythm editor was more than 1 bar, and supported triplets and different time signatures. It is not quite ultimate yet, but it could be. I do like the way you can audition chords and quickly add them to your progression. I find this easier than in Scaler.

You actually don't need to do this. Hexcel already produces MIDI which can be recorded by any DAW. Hexcel does not produce any audio. Its MIDI output is meant to be routed to another synth.

The update is from any previous version of Pro. The upgrade is from any version of Artist.

Likewise. I have not bought anything since the voucher change. I used to buy a plugin a month on average. Now I used every voucher during this sale except the second $25 voucher, which probably brought my average up to one plugin a month again. Damn you Dirk!

Probably the shifting exchange rate.

Ya, that is probably it. It problably should have said "without the need of an iLok dongle".

Price is now $ 119.14. Should have got it yesterday?.

I deleted all my aax plugins because I had no use for them and they were taking up space. Now whatumigonna do? Good thing I have no use for Pro Tools.

Musicradar is wrong. I read the same so I decided to try to download Pro Tools Intro. It asked for my iLok account before I could download it.

Correct. And Neoverb is in the list. So SK should have been able to use the voucher on Neoverb. Though, now that I reread Erik's messages, I see that he was taking a pass on Neoverb. So he may have had a plugin in his cart that was not on the list when he tried to apply the voucher.

That is strange. At least you got something that you wanted!

Love Guy and all his manic energy!

Oh. Are we suppose to use these libraries once we buy them? I am just here for the deals! Seriously, I like these a lot. They sound great to my ears and in the right hands, they can bring tears to your eyes.

I know, right? Still, it is ~$168 CDN from Best Service as opposed to $210 direct from PreSonus.

I got this last year when 8Dio was giving it away with purchases over $100. At the time however, there was a glitch in their system where the list price of an item was used, not the sale price, so I ended up buying The New Ambient Guitar and Bottles for $35, and having Anthology strings thrown into the deal. Note that you have to contact support to get the legacy Adagio library for $8. I did that, and they sent me a coupon code to reduce the price of the Adagio Violins from $70 down to $8. After I purchased the violins, they added the rest of the Adagio library to my account.

I thought about this too, but as ALC has stated, you can get at least two years out of a Studio One release. I not sure I would use the extra stuff in Sphere to make it worth spending more money. I already own Notion.