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Almost any MF (Musicians Friend) post by Lars is a Deal of The Day or a Deal of The Hour. The OP was on Saturday. Gotta be quick. ?

Although I still like Ivory II and the Italian Grand, lately I've been enamored with Waves' Rhapsody Piano and/or Wavesfactory Mercury. Freddie Lives!

Yup.

Yeah, for years (like 15 at least for me) we've been asking for a better Drum Mapping system. Ent seen it yet.

Daryk, Wibbles suggested this.

Yes Wookie, I've been told I'm dense before. Thanks for the listen.

Which one is and which one is me (in your dreams)? Wait... I already know the answer to that one.

That sucks.

One other caution from my experience. ProTools on Windows is a dog when you start getting up to large amounts of FXs. ProTools on Windows is not as efficient as on a Mac. My Win 10 Pro Machine is 32 GB of DDR3 RAM & 3.4GHz i7 2600K 3.4 Quad Core My 2014 MacBook Pro is 16GB 1600 Mhz DDR3 RAM & 2GHz i7 Quad Core I have a tutorial project that will drop the audio engine after about 30 seconds of play in PT on Win 10. The whole song will play on the MacBook Pro. Maybe the Mac VSTs are more solid? IDK. Also, PT will does allow buffers over 1024. It tells you you're out of RAM and try switching to Native VSTs. Huh? Oh yeah, I have ProTools Native not HD.

My Dad worked for Snap On Tools once upon a time.

Ditto. I only use CbB to create a tracking shell with markers, tempo and time signature data for a few of my die-hard CbB collaborators and send along a tracking WAV or stems as needed.

James, I don't use Pro-Tools but I own a perpetual license. What I do with it thus far is export stems from (*cough* cough*) Studio One and import them into Pro-Tools and can send that session to my friend who is a Pro-Tools only guy. He's a live mixer and wants to learn record production. His live rig is 99% of the time an AVID desk so he can play around with mixes while on the road. The other thing I do is use when a tutorial offers the session in Pro-Tool format I can really study it. Gotta agree with @StudioNSFW that unless you want to open a for hire studio owning a copy may keep an adament "you user ProTools right?" client.

Request filled out in 3-Part long form, mebee.

Saw what was left of them (Graeme, Justin, John) quite few years back here in town. They had a few young bucks to bolster them a bit. An E-Drummer and a young woman on keyboards and flute. Graeme just tapped the drums, almost like he didn't want to be there. He did introduce his grandkids in the audience.

Are you saying I need to take the blue pill, then?

Naught.

The old juan is rusting to bits.

Is that 'deal' still on?

I like the more solid nature of the characters in the circular vs the transparency nature in the straight version. But both logos are excellent IMO.

? Probably for some, yes

I still use CbB occasionally, but as many say here, I'll use what works for me. {/snark-on} So far I've paid considerably less (maybe 1/6th less) for Studio One Pro 4.x than I did for all of my Cakewalk purchase/upgrades since PA4 through Lifetime updates. To date Studio One Pro 4.x gives me more of the features I want and use (that suits my workflow) than CbB does. {/snark-off}

Very nice Andy

Yes I Am stuppit. The Lovely Lady will tell you so. But, she says "You're good at trying".

Synths - meh