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That's great value scook! I also went for the Year Two Collection as I didn't own any of it and I'm loving it so far. Plenty of new goodies to play with. There was also an update to 2.0.30 which I'm sure wasn't there yesterday (maybe I missed it).

Well that came a bit out of left field! I have to say that it's got a lot of presets for a freebie and some very interesting sounds. They even give you some different UI skins (I like Twin Turbo). I initially thought it sounded a bit "flat" but then realised that there are no effects included. After putting some reverb and delay on it the sounds are transformed. I also wondered what a polyphonic version would sound like so fired up Unify to make a polyphonic version which worked really nicely on some patches. Thanks a lot Newfangled Audio and Eventide! ?

Now that's what I call efficient coding!

https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/2-Effects/53-Multi-Effect-/5698-TimeShaper-2

Yes indeed! I predict it's going to be an expensive few months ahead ? Come to think of it that's the same as last year and the year before that and...

Strange; I was working with 6.4.0 for a few hours on a Kontakt library in Unify without any issues. This morning I load up Kontakt standalone and get the BETA message. Looking forward to the fix!

Thanks Larry! It also works fine on my phone (which has Kaspersky mobile installed). Go figure To anyone else who gets this: I contacted Kaspersky support who were able to reproduce it and are investigating but suspect a false positive.

Thanks Larry. Kaspersky has been blocking JRR since yesterday - it says "Threat of Data Loss". Anyone know why and if this is a real threat or just a Kaspersky oddity?

Makes you wonder what level of testing they are doing before releasing updates.

Yes I'm also looking at a few things on the Cherry website --> https://store.cherryaudio.com/ The advantage there is that if you login you can get further reductions on the sale price based on what you already own. For example, if you already own some parts of a bundle then the sale price of the bundle is further reduced (see the KVR link below for some more examples of how they calculate this). I'm also looking at the Polymode, or maybe get the Year Two Collection (which includes Polymode) and the PSP Ultimate Modular Collection which is a third of its normal price! There's some more discussion about this on the KVR Forum --> https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=498351&start=1755

Maybe try a VPN? I'm in the UK and the site seems to work for me without a VPN but I haven't ordered anything from them yet. I created an account with them a few weeks ago in preparation for a repeat on a previous 50% off VPS Avenger and expansion packs deal.

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Guitarist--sugar-bytes-guitarist

Oh boy the demo sounds fantastic. Now I see what all the fuss is about with Neural DSP stuff. Trying to hold out though for a splurge on Omnisphere (they never have sales but I'm happy for them to make an exception this year ).

Black Friday is just around the corner .. I'll wait. ...unless I don't! ?

Hey Mesh, there's a demo for each product on the individual effect webpages. I'm probably going to demo them first as I probably don't really need them (yeah, right, heard that before ?)... https://www.arturia.com/products/software-effects/modulations-bundle/chorusdimension-d https://www.arturia.com/products/software-effects/modulations-bundle/phaserbi-tron https://www.arturia.com/products/software-effects/modulations-bundle/flangerbl-20

Same link as in my post.

Just been trying that and yes it does seem to work alongside it with Scaler 2 on chord duties and MS creating the melodies.

Good point Mesh. I think they were up to 5 free add-on packs when I last looked.

I don't think you will regret it Mesh. If nothing else it's a fun plugin to use I have added a couple of videos to the post above.

We need a King /Crown reaction!

Yes tried it with CbB and S1Pro and both worked fine Mesh. The resulting melodies were very musical and quite a variety on offer. Many of these types of plugin tend to randomize everything which can be a bit hit and miss but this gives you some control over complexity etc and scale but also seems to come up with very musical rhythmical elements. I was able to use it on the fly and also drag and drop the midi to the DAW. It's supposed to come up with something new every time and that appears to be the case so far with limited testing. For what it does it is certainly worth 30 bucks. There are plenty of YouTube videos on this e.g.

Yes I have it and really like it (more so than iZotope Vocalsynth 2). It just seems to have more immediately usable presets than VS2.

Been waiting for this one ... https://www.jrrshop.com/evabeat-melody-sauce-midi-melody-creator Normal price $49 but $30.26 with code FORUM at JRR

@John CallI'm not a drummer but there are some free country "Train" MIDI patterns on this page near the bottom of the list which might help to understand how to put one together. Just download, then drag and drop one onto Cakewalk without any projects open and it will make a project with the MIDI and TTS-1 for drums. If you want to use SI-Drums just insert the SI-Drums instrument and point the MIDI track(s) output(s) to SI-Drums. Some of the tracks are type 1 with a separate track for each drum type and some are type 0 with all on one track. By examining each track in the PRV you should be able to see how the beats were made. Hope this helps.

I used them loads! ...not Well they are actually installed (I just checked). In fairness it looks like Ignite is integrated within HitFilm so I might have used it without realising. They also work in 3rd party video editors like Resolve and they appear under Open FX (stored in C:\Program Files\Common Files\OFX ).