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Drum notation is displayed in treble clef. Changing clef to the correct and even specifying that this is a drum track doesn't help. If MIDI keyboard performance isn't quantized, notes that are slightly off the beat look funny and there is no setting to "quantize" the displayed notes. Haven't checked TABs, because the "score" , although it looks beautiful, is not really useful. I understand that. Score editor is supposed to make piano roll data humanly readable. Both Cakewalk's and SO's viewers leave a lot to be desired in that area and are more like toys than tools.

Just demoed SO5. It's definitely not worth the upgrade price. Pretty much the same functionality as SO4. No jacket required No new bells and whistles have had any use in my mixing/recording workflow. Channel monitoring is buggy as hell. I had to toggle its state between takes just to be able to hear what was recorded. For some reason the Tape style monitoring setting has no effect on its behavior. Score view is a joke. Recording to takes works fine, but why on Earth the last take is not selected automatically? Why do I have to hear all takes playing back simultaneously? The only thing I liked is the mix scenes feature - it resets mixer settings instantly, smoothly, without any dropouts. Huge disappointment overall. I'm glad I demoed it first.

Thanks, mibby! I wouldn't have missed that sale had I been able to walk and talk. That's a good question! In my case, it's different workflows and sets of tools. Like Laravel vs Vue.js, for lack of a better example.

Doesn't get cheaper than this, does it? I guess it's time to upgrade.

Maybe you are too sharp because you're way past 11?

Nice metering and fresh looks! Me likes!

Did I? Of course not! One of the advantages of staying clean and sober is the ability to tell a penguin from a lynx. Just saying.

Hmm... I just googled 'lynx for coding'. Did you mean this? I still fail to see how lynx sprays, lynx online coding platform and studio time are related to what is being discussed. I was genuinely interested when you mentioned Lynx in this thread. Now it seems it's a waste of time, just as you said.

What Lynx? This Lynx?

ID44 isnt' easy to configure for reamping and loopback. When it's set and starts working I tend to forget how it was done. I wish they had user presets, like Focusrite interfaces do.

I have ID44 and was able to use it for reamping. You surely do. Try this first and let us know if it helps. https://www.gearslutz.com/board/low-end-theory/1267458-reamp-audient-id44.html

Is this legal? Call the police!

Noramlly, since it's a Debian based distribution, running "sudo apt install package_name" is the main approach, if the required program or utility exists in the repository. Depending on the package, you may need to use other installation methods, described somewhere in READMEs and/or HOWTOs. But AVLinux used to have a utility to install software provided and supported by distro developers. Not sure if it's still there.

Linux is great for software development. I also use it for my University studies, online classes and web-surfing. For audio recording or video making even remotely close to professional quality one should use Windows or MacOS based machines. Linux audio production, while not completely impossible, is a major PITA. I gave up on this many years ago.

Sunshine looks good, functionally, but I really can't stand looking at it, either.

Currently I use Linux platform way more frequently, than Windows 10 and all the awesome audio stuff I've paid for. Once in a while I need to quickly sketch my musical ideas or edit audio. Waveform just makes my life easier. I don't fancy running a full-blown audio production on Linux. Not anymore.

Plays back demo project on my Ubuntu machine using ALSA driver without glitches, dropouts. I'm impressed.

Pardon my ignorance and thanks for proving me wrong. I've heard it through the grapevine, that plugins from other developers surpass SSL's own version. But that's merely a more or less common opinion. I was hoping to read first hand experience shared by users owning both SSL plugins and at least one of the competing products. Sorry for disturbance.

Let's see. I have this combo in following flavors: Cakewalk ProChannel modules; Nomad ASR; T-Racks 5; Waves SSL and CLA MixHub; Plugin alliance SSL ; maybe some other versions I don't keep in mind. I doubt these "late-to-the-party" products from the original hardware manufacturer can be a game changer. I might be wrong. Any good reason to add them to the collection?

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Hey Pete, thanks for chiming in! That's what I feel about this instrument, too. Sounds somewhat artificial and liveliness, normally associated with guitar performance, is not there. Also, it seems like there are no key-switches to play arpeggios or control articulations.

To buy or not to buy? With $25 voucher it will cost me only $14. Is it better than popular Kontakt guitar libraries, like Impakt Sounworks or similar?

Just installed it but so far can't tell if there is any audible difference. No fancy UI improvements, still ugly and confusing. I miss Cab presets feature form previous versions (not sure if it was still present in TH-3).