Nick Blanc

In The Netherlands we have a couple of those as well. When those articles are suggested to me in some kind of feed (like the Google on on your phone), I actively try to click somewhere along the lines of "this is not interesting to me". When I'm on the train to work, I have 25 minutes of time to kill. And I will not kill them by dodging subscriptions, half articles or payment plans. The amount of times I have wasted my time on 'you', warrants me to send you a payment plan. For just €10 a month, I will allow you to send me your half-***** content with a payment link for when I want te read further.

Oh the irony...

I'm gonna be wild and not buy them. I already bought a couple of Behringer ADA8200's this month and the Behringer Edge is due any moment now. Better save my money. I will however bite on that Mastering the Mix deal, seems interesting.

Oh why do they have to do this to me?! I've had my eye on some of those Big Fish libraries for some time now.

I use a lot of loops, phrases less so? If there's any difference. Well yes there is, but it's in the nuance. I think it has to do with volume. I make (amongst other things) beats. That in of itself is a heavy loop based genre. So what I like to do is listen to loops and phrases, try to see if I can play it myself on the keyboard. Or something similar. I record that and then chop it up or loop it. Sometimes with a 'hard cut' at the end to give it that oldschool loop feel. Back to 'volume'. I make somewhere between 3-5 beats a week. I'm not laying down an original drumtrack, basstrack, guitartrack, pianotrack, etc. every new project. Loops and phrases are there for my convenience. I get the feeling that something doesn't feel like your own, I have that same issue with presets. And the statisfaction is indeed much higher when you created everything yourself. I just can't do it. I can't play guitar besides Smoke on the Water type of riffs. I can't play drums apart from some shakers in my mic. I can't sing, so I use a vocoder and autotune. I'm a mediocre piano player at best. * Liam Neeson mode on: what I do have, is a particular set of skills. */off. I can create and arrange pretty well if I say so myself. Long answer short: I use these kind of libraries, sometimes as a centerpiece in beats/loop oriented styles or in the background as a stand-in for my musical shortcomings. And besides all of this, when you play a track of yours for your friends (or even peers) where you used a loop or a phrase, there is absolutely no-one who will judge you and say "hey hold on a minute, that's just an EQ-ed and compressed and slightly altered version of a phrase from Session Bassist by NI, you big fraud!" Even Arcade has so much stuff that you can use almost everything freely. Even the 1000 Youtube video's warning you about using vocals from Splice are nonsense as far as I'm concerned. Yeah so what that anyone else can use that vocal? Listen to the current EDM charts, it's full of re-used samples from 10-20 years ago.

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Thanks! This could be very useful for me. I use a lot of synths and I have a oldschool pen/paper notebook to take notes of patches or I take photo's with my phone. Then I have to remember when I took the picture and look for it. There are other notation tools out there, but when I have to jot down 12 parameters, it gets cumbersum.

You have to sign up I think, and this is what I got: "There was an error trying to send your message. Please try again later."

Looks like an ok tool for the job. But I'm missing a free range rate (in hz) which you could modulate with an LFO or envelope. The modulation part doesn't necessarily have to be in the plugin (since it's a freebie), there are tools for that too. But it would have been nice.

My previous synthwave jam didn't do so well on Youtube, so better try that again. The track is cool, there are a lot of synths playing but the "live" element was limited to some filter noodling. I didn't really see a thing I could add or do live without messing everything up. But I DID design about every synth patch, no presets (a synthline played by Diva as the exception), so I had a lot of fun sounddesigning. I'm learning a lot about sounddesign this way, so that's a cool bonus. Anyway, here it is:

Haha same here. UJAM scratching their head why there weren't more sales. "All they had to do was use the co.....damnit! I knew we forgot something".

Their Fastspring checkout is not working.

According to their email there are some hiddens eggs on their website (https://www.ujam.com) which will give you a change to get 50% off. You need te be logged in. The hunt is on until April 11th and the coupons are valid until April 30th.

Haha indeed they did. I am at work so I wanted to wait until I got home. A little voice said "just do it now, they will adjust it" and darn they did and I didn't buy. Ah well. Saved me €49. Maybe another time.

So if I understand this software, you buy the full version which includes the engine and a ton of factory MIDI. You choose a soundset to go with it. You can then 'upgrade' your package with other soundsets and other MIDI packs. You can also route EZ Keys to another track as a MIDI generator or drag & drop. How would this distinguish itself from, let's say Scaler?

Awesome! Will do that. €49 is a price I can do. And do they ever do sales? In case I ever wanted to stock up on MIDI packs...

I've never given his much attention, but it seems this is a quality product. Now I could buy into the ecosystem for 179, that's still a lot of money (too much right now, do they do sales?). But the upgrade is only 79. Is that from an instrument expansion? Or do you need the basic software, choose a soundpack to go with it, and that would be your package for 179? As they seem to have 17 versions? I'm confused.

I think $15 is still a lot of money for a notation tool. I can see it being useful when collaborating. Sort of. Nothing a quick phonecall couldn't handle.

But come on, who wouldn't use them? The Matriarch had some very pleasant surprises for me. The oscillator behaviour is absolutely great. I figured out what went wrong in the latest jam (some stereo issue) and that made me understand it more. The piano makes for some nice contrast and I keep coming back to the Roland SE-02. It's a great little machine. Sometimes the melody it a bit wonky, that's because I had A LOT of midi notes going on and I decided to make some changes to add a bit of contrast and interest. But when you play around 30 notes at once and are changing things on the fly, there is going to be some accidents. Ah well, part of the process.

Not to mention the updates they did (and do) on their hardware. The Microfreak is a gift that keeps on giving.

I like Spiff more than Soothe. It's a very underrated plugin in my opinion. Well, it gets overlooked because everyone talks about Soothe perhaps. Anyway, I mostly use it on my master. Works wonders.

They can't get back what they didn't have. Their perpetual sale tactics and their sprinkling of free plugins all over the place made me distrust their system. But for me, this whole thing was just a big 'meh'. I could see how other people were affected and that is shameful at least. But for me personally? Nothing. They have nothing I would really want (perhaps Clarity) and don't already have, I don't do WUP and my Windows machine pretty much ensures me I will never have to. So, come to think of it, I was already done with Waves haha. Nevermind. Carry on.

Haha yes got the same one. Made me chuckle ?

I better get that Clarity plugin soon, before they turn subscription again. Sorry guys, I have a feeling this was Waves' plan all along. My bad.

He makes a good suggestion.