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https://www.sonarworks.com/summer-sale Just picked up the Apollo monitor add-on for a nicer price than normal. Didn't know they had a sale. I was pleasantly surprised.

Machine activation was added today (v. 1.0.1)

Got an e-mail yesterday about this. Looks interesting. $59.99 https://ownhammer.com/products/studio-standard

This is pretty much the only thing I use from iZotope these days.

I believe it does but you can authorize it to your computer with the iLok software now.

It’s a de-esser! In 99% of times you slap on the track in the correct place in the FX chain and it does exactly what you need it too! No need to pay attention to it. The video is well made, it makes de-easing look like art, but de-essing is not and will never be. I have de-essers that left me with wanting nothing, that needs less tweaking than what this thing seems to require! So screw this thing. After a couple decades doing this sound and music stuff professionally, a damn de-esser has never been anything I wished anyone improved upon. This is a product-dumbing-down-its-users, not an audio tool. Save your money and buy Soothe or Scaler or a week’s worth of Starbucks. This is snake oil IMHO. I’m sick of iZotope. I’ll get my coat…

It’s greedy on the CPU but it sure is fun modulating its parameters. For the price, go nuts. This is an elegant sound design tool.

Hmmm for some reason I was expecting more than just a collection of flutes from this one. But I’ll keep it in mind in case the right project turns up. The demos sound great!

Not a bad deal. Old but still very good, and I have never found anything like their Focus Equalizer.

You can’t beat $9 MIDI!

I feel that this would make Cubendo the ultimate eJay. I’m glad I’m not that into loops.

Damnit…

I bought a cheap preset pack for €5 and got this. It’s actually a pretty cool tool. Tried to beef up some old drum samples with it and the difference was significant. I’m going to see what I can do with some mediocre recordings of an acoustic kit in a production today. So far I’m quite impressed!

I stepped on a Lego and upgraded from K12. I needed the Double bass for a project and also wanted Noire for quite some time. Those were $100 more than the upgrade so now I have a heap of Play-series instruments I’ll never install. Always happy to have some more expansions, however.

Oh I’m not going down that rabbit hole again!!

Well I managed to get Cosmos and KeyFX for $/€/£/¥0 including taxes, so I feel like a leech! Never checked out the company before so at least they sparked my curiosity for future visits👍

This is one fine release👍👍

Wow! I completely missed this! It will be a day one upgrade for me. Thanks!

I certainly agree with that! 😅 That’s why the first one I got was the SD+ with the four dials. I use one for jog, one for volume on selected tracks, one for pan and the last one for zooming in the project in Cubase and Logic. One swipe on the screen and they control sends. Buttons changes things like snap value and grid on/off, opening the UAD console etc. The SD6 I have opens and closes plugin windows instead of that tedious clicking with the mouse, opening close mixer, channel strips, some transport and so forth. It’s kind of neat. They are what you make them into I guess😎

That is pretty much what I was thinking the first time I noticed them. Then I was working in a studio where they’d set one up for repetitive tasks, which was great. And then the Stream Deck + came out and I was drooling over the dials. I got one, and then I wanted more buttons. Never looked elsewhere. But they’re not for everyone. Check out the free version of their mobile app if you are curious👍👍

I have two, one Stream Deck+ and a 15-button mkII positioned in front of it - and I use the hell out of them both! Best and most reliable DAW controllers I have ever used. I use them for numerous applications and various types of work, even for controlling or operating several apps in the background while doing things on the app in the foreground. And easy to reconfigure as you go along and what you need them for maybe changes. I love them and think everyone should have at least one 😉

This looks like a useful tool to me and I will probably use it just to keep an eye on things. When mixing and mastering in the good old days, you just needed to listen to the speakers. Now there’s a ton of numbers to pay attention to and none of them makes sense😝 thanks for posting about this, now I have more numbers to look at but they will probably tell me something when I need them to 😎👍

That’s 1000+ gold stars for him. What a guy

It can still be good, but everyone needs to put in an effort and not just rely on one hardworking fellow gear junkie. (p.s. I don’t know what IBTL means)

Hey buddy! Glad to see you’re still around here. 1: Damn that’s a beautiful studio! 2: I really miss my TriggerFinger… 3: How many Mac’s do you need?? 😝