aidan o driscoll

Of course some of us may already have the MELLOTRON V from Arturia .. I do https://www.arturia.com/products/software-instruments/mellotron-v/overview Recent ( though may be slightly out of date already ) shoot-out on ARTURIA Mellotron V vs M-TRON PRO IV over at kvraudio forums: https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=594408

Yip @MusicMan .. same as you, have LE/Select and i get the ST£29.99+vat price also once I add the product to basket

Yip - Too be honest its more about the music than lyric for me. Having a good verse chord sequence but looking then for an AI tool to suggest a Chorus chord sequence that lifts a track. More for ideas that you yourself might not think of

Rather than bitching about AI destroying music .. Just wondering has anyone come across some nice AI tools that would assist with writers block or where you could feed a verse chord sequence into it and it would spit out a few options for chorus chords and so on? Aidan

"This collection includes 80 Serum presets, 80 Sylenth1 presets & 75 Spire presets. " Interesting they dont have KONTAKT presets

On a more curious point .. the forum down for the weekend with 502 error. Any idea why?

In reaper one has the ability to right click on a midi track or an audio track with EFX and to create a duplicate stem track while it mutes the original in the process, all within the project. I dont think CW has this ability from a right click menu? Yes it has freeze the track which is a different thing So I can see 2 ways as a workaround: 1. Duplicate the original track and them FREEZE the 2nd one 2. Select the original track, go to File, Export - create the wav version of the orig track, then drag drop the resultant wav back into the project in its own track Is this it? Any other ideas? Cheers - Aidan

Yip - To date I think, nothing has come close to HalfLife game universe, in my view anyway. Its got something very unique about it, the atmosphere etc. I would really love if NETFLIX or other streamer picked up an option to actually make a series or a movie out of it. I would say it would attract a big audience

The HALF LIFE Complete pack is also available at Knockdown price - about €6 https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/231/HalfLife_Complete/

Great games .. AND I have the actual tee-shirt to prove it also .. still wear it, got it in an actual boxed edition of Half Life way back

Playbeat is $37 at JRRSHOP with the coupon GROUP https://www.jrrshop.com/audiomodern-playbeat One wonders with many of these BLACK FRIDAY deals at the mo is one better waiting for the day itself where you might get an on the day further reduction %. Especially as most are now coming out early with there BF deals

This is true .. 22 efx in 2, 30 in 4 I think

I have V Collection 8 and also have SQ80v. The augmented stuff doesnt interest me, I also found them system hogs, so for $99 upgrade I would get KORG MS-20 V + a few of the existing instruments upgraded. Its a hold off for me anyway I also have FX Collection 2 and can upgrade to 4 for $69 .. seems it has 4 new additions https://support.arturia.com/hc/en-us/articles/9023960780700-What-s-new-in-FX-Collection-4- Again I dont think so However for €87 I can upgrade my ableton 11 to the new v12 .. so most likely thats the choice I will make

I have Live 11 Standard so my upgrade to 12 standard is €87 ( €109 )

Also remember if you have a version of reason, even reason intro 11 and the like you would have got the REASON RACK PLUGIN, so you can use Reason plugins inc this inside Cakewalk and any other DAW

And they can be a cpu hog, i think, for one reason in certain presets - when it has this MAX VOICES option or similar and its dialed up: Otherwise I find there vsts quiet good and dont take up too much resources inside projects vs other vsts like say Arturia

I have CW and then also have Reaper, Ableton, FL Studio, Reason Intro 11. I ended up with Reason Intro 11 purely because it has a plugin where all its instruments and efx can be used inside other DAWs. I use Reaper because other band members have MACs and cannot use CW so great to pass projects from CW to Reaper on there MACs and back. I bought ABLETON at a reduced price, probably via Black Friday because I really like its Session view for creating ideas. Closest in CW is the matrix view but that needs alot of attention still I think. I then picked up FL STUDIO, again at a sale like currently .. I like some of its internal EFX and instruments and again use it for creativity. I think its worth the punt for the price and lifetime updates, new versions etc

FOR WINDOWS USERS - The download you get via email ( earlier anyway ) was for an INMUSIC download util BUT for MAC only. Way around this is go here https://www.airmusictech.com/virtual-instruments/bassline.html Scroll down to the download links for PC/MAC. Once installed you need to either register or login to an INMUSIC account when you open the plugin in standalone mode

To get the windows installer go here: https://www.airmusictech.com/virtual-instruments/bassline.html Scroll down and download the "Bassline Version 1.1.0 Update for PC" .. you will be asked to login / create an account at INMUSIC The email you get ONLY has links with INMUSIC MAC installer app

And also remember if you do use loops and FL Studio Cloud does not cut it as good as Loopcloud, you can still use loopcloud in FL Studio via its usual VSTs. So integration of Loopcloud is pretty much sameas FL Studio Cloud really

@satya Just had a look while installing fresh copy of FL Studio on a system with new SSD. From inside FL STUDIO it Looks like I get FL Studio Cloud ANNUAL for €19.99 ( vs the €49.99 ). Bit of a no brainer considering I dumped LoopCloud recently as the best they could do was €80 for the year Mmmm thats interesting. If i click on CHOOSE THIS PLAN on right I get this:

@GoncaloL I have a good few of there plugins for drums, bass, Guitar etc. I find them uselful for ideas creation and started things. A recent synthwave track we are doing - it started with a drum groove from the obviously 80s VICE ( drums ) plugin. Synthwave style being what I call new 80s music ( eg the 1975, The Midnight, FM-84 etc ) https://www.ujam.com/beatmaker/vice/ I am a guitarist but like the idea of again using them for even guitar ideas / inspiration - even the presets - which I then might transfer to me actually playing a similar line after or a mix of both.

I have sparkle 1 .. interestingly the upgrade to Sparkle 2 on UJAM site is €49 .. while a full version on PB is €29 Anyone here upgrade from Sparkle 1 to 2 .. are the changes worth the upgrade?

In a nutshell @PavlovsCat .. the music industry in general got repeatedly destroyed from late 90s on once the MP3 ( Napster etc ) came to the fore. The concept of FREE Music was born. The rot set in further as the years passed and Music as a product lost its value completely. The expectation of Music being FREE is now well and truely embedded. Why should I spend my cash on Music i can get it FREE at xxxxxxxxxx ... I dont think there is any way to turn this around now