Nick Blanc

I've been trying to get in touch with UPS from friday until now. There is no response. They left my package at my doorstep while I didn't give them permission to do so, They made a delivery photo where the conviently didn't show how they damaged the whole box. So I dropped my complaint to Thomann, and gave UPS a last change te respond before I take it out of the DM's and into the public domain. The Edge seems fine at first glance, but I will have tot test it to be sure. Really, f%$#k UPS.

That was the case for me too. But when you google it, you can get to the right website.

I enrolled. You have to enroll today and the course expires 31 july. Knowing my previous academic experience, the 6x2 hours of study time will be crammed into 1 session starting July 30th 4AM.

Great fun, I decided to dust off the Launch Control XL for some live arranging. So less live playing, more button pushing. More techno-y vibe with a lot of drums (hence the better possibility to arrange live), some drone synths and a nice chord progression if I may say so myself. The way the bass (Subsequent 37) interacted with the song was truly something. Enjoy and let me know what you think!

Well, update time. I was supposed to get my Edge today. Just in time to create a jam video this weekend. I was REALLY looking forward to it...but as usual UPS f$#@s everything up. I might be wrong, but the last 4 shipments were messed up. Too late, saying they were at my door but not being anywhere near, delivering at my door while I clearly stated I didn't want that, saying they are going to deliver but in reality the shipment is still in ANOTHER COUNTRY. Ok ok Germany is right around the corner, I'm there in an hour. But still. Launched my complaint already on Twitter, hopefully they will respond, but I'm not counting on getting it this weekend. Which will be a problem next week when not at home. And of course I can't change the delivery date because I can't create an account because their website has groundhog day syndrome or something. I'm at the point of not ordering anything from stores which ship with UPS. Rant over ??

I like the Delay, Filter and Saturator. Haven't really tried the rest. Be aware, I'm a Moog fanboy and very biased.

Those are indeed strange offerings, where the sale price is higher than the regular price.

Yes, and the codes don't work on this plugin unfortunately. I'm not spending my Forever-29 on another channelstrip I won't use. I'm not that big on channelstrips. And I have plenty to choose from already.

I'm mentally saving this for when I have/want to move my samples folder. Ableton doesn't like it when you do that. For now, my solution was to only move my full Kontakt libraries to a different drive. I don't use them that often so it's basically your solution of prioritizing stuff you use more regurlarly. So my main take-away from this is that moving Kontakt Player libraries is very easy, moving full Kontakt libraries is also very easy and moving my samples will be very easy using your simlink method.

FYI, none of the Fire series plugins are included in the sale.

I've been eyeballing that one too, in case a Prophet 6 becomes a no-go. I should deepdive in the differences. Still, both very expensive and a long term wishlist thing. My point was, I haven't seen much or any negative consequences regarding that particular acquisition. Is this the same? Maybe, maybe not, I don't know. I'm just keeping my torch and pickfork nicely tucked away for the moment.

I get you, you probably know you can set the default installation path, but indeed it is not possible ot change it per product. Or you will have to change the default path every time and install them one by one. But I get it though, how many people are spreading out the installation across multiple locations?

Rob Papen uses offline authorization. You do however have to generate the necessary keys in your account (online). Spectrasonics works the same as far as I know. I will check when I'm at home, I keep a list of VST's and one of the things I keep track of is the authorization method.

Besides Native Access having trouble with installing something like Komplete in 1 go, I have little issues. The one gripe I have is that I delete the VST2's and it keeps saying I need to repair. That's a PITA. I'm going to move my Kontakt Libraries to a different drive and tested this out with a couple of libraties. Worked very smoothly. I could do a mass action in NA were I can update the path for the moved products. Just move everything to a new drive, open NA, it says which are missing, select 'Relocate All' and you're good to go. My logic says it shouldn't affect any projects which use those libraries, am I correct?

Oh btw, not quite the same but still worthy of attention, what did the acquisition of Sequential by Focusrite / Novation do 2 years ago? Besides making it damn near impossibly to purchase a Prophet 6 desktop ?

Nope, just did it. And I made the happy little mistake of putting it on a hihat track instead of a synth track. Immediate lovely shiny top-end ambience. Didn't even change the preset, if there was any selected. This will be very useful!

Checked and no problems here. So far. Loads just fine, works, pretty fast even. I might actually use this ?

I agree, that makes a lot of sense. The same with the MPC sound packs from Air. Knowing that they also have AKAI, it makes sense. Seems they are set out to combine products/brands that complement eachother. And not just to get a bigger marketshare (Soundwide...). As an owner of several Moog products (software and hardware) I'm curious where this will go. But I'm not afraid for the future.

It doesn't. The guy behind it (Steve Duda) stated that his products will never go on sale.

Had some virtual cash around, enough te make me try it out for €3. Let's see what it can do against the likes of LFO tool or Shaperbox.

Even there I'm not so sure. Perhaps they lack in support for some of their older products (Xpand!2, TheRiser, Loom2, Hybrid 3, etc.)? But I never viewed them as high end stuff worthy of much more development other than keeping it working. If I look at the website of Air, they have been developing quite a few new products, stuff for MPC (now it makes sense), both VST fx and VSTi. So they are certainly not standing still. On the contrary, they are expanding their catalogue quite a bit. And from the look of it, not for the worst. And now my brilliant move to make this topic suddenly in the right forum section, they have a sale! https://www.airmusictech.com/virtual-instruments.html

It's a mixed bag really, so I'm not sure this is a bad thing, as InMusic seems to let companies run themselves as they were. With a lot of brands you wouldn't know they are part of InMusic nowadays. Let's take a look at some, and this is just what I observe so I might be wrong. - Numark? Seems to be where they always were, cheap mid-low range gear which is not bad, not great. - Alesis? Still doing what Alesis did, mostly drumkits and MIDI keyboards. No devalue. - AKAI? Gets some love, gets some hate. Mostly in the MPC range, which is still a staple in beatmaking. Although the Roland SP404MKII is gunning for that position. - M-Audio? No change at all and their latest MIDI keyboards have me looking at them again (I'm in the market for a small 32 keys MIDI keyboard). - Denon? Still a very worthy competitor to Pioneers reign in professional DJ equipment. - Stanton? The STX seems like an upgraded copy of the Numark PT-01 Scratch and now I know why. They seem to have slimmed down, but I think that happened under their Gibson period in the last 5-6 years. They always were at the top of turntable cartridges and they may still be, I don't know. - Marantz even managed to 'upgrade' their line/image to more high end stuff. And that's the brands I'm familiar with, not counting Sonivox and Air. I think people stare at those 2 more than they should, looking at all the rest. So, they let Moog do Moog, profit from having that brand under their wing and Moog profits from their...distribution? That was an issue? I don't know.

I will check this evening to see if i run into any problems.

Another $50 2023-06-50TK27SEDW8K

Amen to the cherry picking. The only products I don't already own and want to, are the icons compressor collection, the Dyna-Mite, Mutator, the bus processor, the Overstayer and the Mike-e-comp. And I think none of those are included.