Someone just made an incredibly toxic, inflammatory post violating the community standards, accusing me of doing marketing research for Plugin Boutique. Nope. I do not advise Plugin Botuqie. As I’ve clearly stated all over this site and shared in numerous posts, I am in Plugin Boutique’s (APD, Best Service, and a few other) affiliate programs to…Read More

@Thor I remember you and I DMing about SSL Drumstrip and maybe VocalStrip2 a couple of years ago. Do you own one or both of these? If so, what’s your opinion? I know you’ve spoken very highly of SSL plugins in the past. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen these go this cheap.

When I was posting about the updated free Convology XT convolution reverb today, it occurred to me that Wave Arts Tube Saturator Vintage wasn’t on our list. That was definitely an oversight on my part. It is an excellent tube saturator. I was looking up reviews and what well known folks have said about it and the BPB guys said:”…Tube Saturator…Read More

You saw it here first! 🙂

On September 10, 2025 at 8:21 am mibby said
It looks like you’ve got my favorites on there that jumped to mind, except I don’t see Isol8 by TBPro Audio.

https://www.tbproaudio.de/products/isol8

Here is their page of freebies. The Gear Space clipper (GSat) is excellent too. It’s a little “fiddly” if you just want to clip and move on, but it ha…

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As one who not only has aged hearing loss, I’ve had multiple ear operations over the years and I can now only mix with over the ears headphones, with my hearing aids in. I use Sennheiser HD650s.

This looks interesting in that maybe I could run its tests without my hearing aids in and see what it does for me.

Fortunately I’m on their subscription…Read More

On September 10, 2025 at 11:29 am Brian said
I feel your pain @superabbit – It IS happening to others. Just happened to me a couple days ago.  There must be a bug in the parser whereby it is not properly sanitizing the input.  The “faulty” post doesn’t go to moderation, it just disappears.  After it happens to me I will copy my future posts into…

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RIP, Keith John Moon August 23, 1946 – September 7, 1978.

It was hearing the Who’s Next album that made me decide that I was born to play drums (I had been taking piano lessons and playing drums in my family band as a little boy, but it was hearing Moon on that album that made me want to stop everything and go find a drum kit and play). Of cou…Read More

Just a reminder that Andrea is knocking off $20 on his price just for this community (and no, this isn’t affiliate marketing or a referral link; there’s no commission back to LinkedMusicians, just an indie dev giving our community an exclusive discount, which I love, BTW).

@pettinhouse-com how long will this special deal last?

I just tried it on electric piano and synth (leads, bass, plucked strings) and really like it. I can definitely see myself using this in productions. Give it a try.

On September 6, 2025 at 8:06 pm Brian said
This IS good news.  I am curious how you learned about the update.  Did they send out a press release?  I subscribe to their Discord channel where they had been posting release details, but the last one was around the end of July.  Great idea for them to offer ala carte.  Anything that bumps up thei…

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@doug I just heard back from 8Dio with the code. As it’s only for people who own the 8Dio version, I don’t want to post it publicly, so I’ll DM it to you.

Haha, thanks for that, @lamia6. Now how shoud I modify the title? “The second best price ever?” Hmm… I suppose that I’ll just take out the “Maybe the best price ever” part.

On September 5, 2025 at 10:41 am Andrea Pettinhouse said
I don’t know how to edit the post… 🙂

@pettinhouse-com, there is a series of links in the upper right hand side of each post. To edit any post that you’ve made, select EDIT and you’ll be able to edit it. See the screenshot below.

Welcome, it’s great to have you here, my friend, @pettinhouse-com. You posting about your early days reminds me of chatting with you right before my daughter was born. You insisted on paying me for marketing consulting and I refused to accept it (I just reread our email thread!)  — I even turned down NFRs (okay, there’s no way I’d be so generous…Read More

On September 5, 2025 at 8:47 am doug said
I received a response from 8Dio. They said that I should apply the the crossgrade discount code I received in the email. But I did not receive a crossgrade code in an email. Did any of you?

@peter, thanks for the offer to replace your referral code with mine. I would rather you get the the benefit than…

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Installed!