Brian Lawler

11 AM Central Time

Presonus used to do a "live video" event for announcements of releases. Has a time been mentioned for that on 9/29, or perhaps they aren't doing those any longer?

I married a musician. I may have "x" guitars but she has two pianos and a marimba. Either by tonnage or floor space, I will never catch up

Ahhh. Bummer. Too good to be true ?

Looks to me like Vintage, Experimental, and Percussion are the only bundles at $29. Other bundles get a discount based on what you already own. Phooey. It was a pricing error on the three bundles above. They are fixed now or in the process.

WOW- Percussion bundle is an absolute no-brainer at $29. I already had all four though ? EDIT - Pricing error fixed now.

10th Anniversary Sale. All Plugins are $29 and get SQUASHIT for FREE with purchase. https://klevgrand.com/

https://www.lootaudio.com/category/plugins/melda-production/msoundfactory Sale ends Oct 15, 2022 I think this is still Melda's 50% off sale, but the GBP has taken a beating vs USD lately. Use a payment method with no transaction fees. I think Paypal adds @ 5%

Completely agree Reid. I skipped over Cube last year on release as "yet another sample blending player". Your and other's comments during the last sale convinced me to purchase (after a trial). It is very easy to customize patches and in my experience on Windows 10 Ryzen 5 has been very resource friendly. Audiomodern gives amazing bang for the buck. Chordjam still gives me fits- I can get good output but don't seem to know how I got there Playbeat is a real gem though.

https://lunacy.audio/products CUBE player VST plus libraries. Sign up for the newsletter to get an extra 10% off (I think just new customers). New release pack RUMBLE ($29 sale price). Sale ends October 20.

@John Maar and I must be of similar vintage. My first entry into "programming" was a Sinclair programmable calculator in college, and that got me hooked. First real computer was an OSI Superboard (6502 based). Only used cassette for data storage. CPM and floppy drives were out of my price range Remember wire-wrapping? I designed and built a RAM expansion and a simple synth for the OSI. Synth was based on a TI chip- don't recall the part#. Sure wish I still had that. Years later I bought one (sans customizations) at a flea market as a keepsake. My first foray into MIDI on a PC was the Amiga. I started doing some simple programming to make use of it, but commercial products soon appeared and I didn't feel like reinventing the wheel. I never got into sampling or non-oxide based recording in the early days. I just could not justify the $$$$ for those huge cards full of RAM chips.

I had hoped that UVI's new "Portal" program would handle patches without forcing a dl of the whole thing over again. ?

Certainly worth $30 for guitarists, even if you prefer standard notation to tabs. I am a bit miffed that my Arobas upgrade price from V7 is also $35 though. Cheaper to just buy it as new from JRR.

$25 Upgrade price from I<3NY here: https://babyaud.io/upgrade I<3NY was free @ Dec 2020. My free key works for the upgrade price. NOTE: If you are on the email list for Baby, they give a code for an additional 10% off. IDK if they stack- I have not checked.

https://www.uvi.net/ Walker 2 Footsteps Foley $129 until 5-Sep, then $199. Upgrade from v1 available Falcon - Changelog 2.5.8 ------------ - Fix crash in offline WaveEditor effects - Fix regression in AAX mono - Fix bug in IReverb related to predelay - Fix possible crash with Logic on M1

https://www.jrrshop.com/reason-studios?dir=desc&order=special_from_date Upgrade to 12 for $70.31 among other offers. Use code FORUM.

Guitar libraries for Kontakt FULL. $99 full bundle. Individual $39+. Ends Sept 8 2022 https://www.pettinhouse.com/

Summer sale 35% off plug-ins. Email didn't give an end date. https://www.audiothing.net/plugins/

Summer is here! Time to soak up fresh sounds and bask in musical inspiration with 50% off individual software instruments, FX, and sound banks until August 11th. https://www.arturia.com/summer-22

OMG.... I guess this appeals to apartment dwellers? I have an acre and half of yard here. Hard pass! (but thanks for posting the Epic deals- I keep forgetting to check) ?

I can't believe I am going to defend Reason, but I like their new Chord Sequencer. I have a TON of MIDI utils including Scaler (which is the best chord tool). I also don't use Reason as a DAW all that much, but I am actually dipping into the DAW side more lately. Based on stuff like this, the Bass line generator, Friktion, and other recent releases, I sprang for the Reason+ sub for $99 when they did a Christmas sale. IF they keep up the new toys coming, and keep offering the sub at $99, I can see sticking with it. I still have my v 11 suite to fall back on, with 95% of the tools. True- That % continues to fall as they pursue the subscription model. Based on my hands-on and reading/watching YT= CS is quick and easy, provides full interesting chords with inversions and extensions "baked in". Definitely not up to even half of what Scaler can do, but it is fast and easy to get working progressions. The bar view at the bottom is also pretty cool, and unique, as far as quickly building rhythmic multi-bar song parts. I think for people who only live in the Reason DAW, this is a must have. Rack only users- maybe not.

I think they have been putting more time in on the Cherry Audio side. Mixcraft is a neat little DAW, but I can't live with the poor MIDI routing. Hope when 10 comes out that it will be addressed.

LOVE my Ryzen machine that I built two years ago (after a 7 year run with my last one). No regrets. Software install was less of a PITA than I expected, and I did do a clean install. Biggest hassle was iLok software. I had to ask a couple providers to "re-set" my accounts with them. iLok said if one company resets, they all do automatically, but a couple stayed locked out for a couple weeks. I deauthorized everything on my old PC first, but it happened anyway.

Nice thing about Tracktion stuff- 90 day full featured trial. How many times I have laid out the $$ for a "ohhh shiny!", and moved on before three months went by ?

$90.22 at JRR with "group"