Ohhh.  I am not so pleased.  In Music has orphaned a LOT of hardware over the years. and I own a NI S61 Mk3.  Wait and see I guess.  On the plus side, I really like my Akai MPC and Headrush hardware that is excellent mainly because of integrated software support, but I have also owned M-Audio and Alesis hardware that they promised future sof…Read More

My nickel’s worth-  Back to Reddit is what I was hoping we would pivot to.  I like seeing all the deals in one place, sure, but there are other places you can do that.  What I come here for is the engagement with intelligent creatives.  I realized over the past few months I completely stopped visiting KVR and VI- just rarely if I am looking for…Read More

Category #1)  I can’t really think of any off the top, but I probably tossed and forgot about them.  I will say that (AND IT COULD BE ME) that the Izotope stuff never really “hit” with me.  BUT I still consider myself very much a “student” (a really OLD student), so I still try to use “manual” fx rather than auto-magic ones, just to further my…Read More

Well, you caught me @Peter.  I don’t actually OWN it.  I bought a year of the EW subscription last year when JRR had it for @ $80 just to get a taste of everything that I DON’T have, and I still have some time left on it.  I only own HOPOUS and (I forget the title) “Soul Singers” or similar.  At some point I will pop for Fantasy, but I just hav…Read More

Just a heads up on this deal.  You are only getting HF STRINGS, which is one of SIX libraries that make up “Hollywood Fantasy Orchestra”.  If you buy the full bundle for $159 from JRR (use code ‘forum’), you get all six libraries for an average price of $26.50 each.  ALSO, very important-  Orchestrator is one of the six libraries and is NOT inc…Read More