probably need some more: KVR, Fender Studio One, Avid Pro Tools, Home Theater, AVS 🙂

ditto on the no need to win for me, i think my drives are nearly full with samples and vocal synths LOL. but i do want to say – the low noise, intelligent and thoughtful interactions with people who have a real interest in music and production sets this forum apart.

cheers!

i have a bunch of 8Dio stuff, and the nice thing is a lot of it can be used in their SoundPaint app vs solely in Kontakt. plus it looks like they’re planning on making more of their catalog available on SP because of the issues with NI… https://8dio.com/blogs/news/soundpaint-%E2%84%A2-vs-native-instrumets

maybe report the spammer to law enforcement – cyberattacks are illegal as is product misrepresentation, and possibly identity theft…

thanks, for me, 40+ years of working with giant evil corporations seeking world domination (aka wall street etc) when i say “operations” – i mean as the corporate executive whole, not the folks on the front lines creating the products and maintaining them. 🙂 irresponsible compounding of debt is (in my speak) an “operating issue”.

anyways, i am…Read More

the “New Owner” is legally obligated to honor existing licenses, but you are responsible for proving you own the products.

unless they sell off the IP versus the operating company(s)… for example, if the reason NI is going under is poor operations, then one could wonder if a smart acquisition would be to buy the ops, vs just the IP and re-…Read More

hmmm, so they’re saying that non-productive holding/shell companies, indiscriminately buying popular companies using leveraged corporate debt instruments, results in unsustainable debt which cannot be repaid to the shareholders? lol, go figure…

GEOFF DOWNES?

very cool. i use the original insight all the time and wanted to update to v2 but it was way too much money… problem solved

Saturation knob and Sonar Pro Channel Console emulation for quick and dirty results. a variety of tape emulations from Softube, Wave, and some freebies when going for “tape”. also sometimes the Izotope Neutron has some nice saturation, Izotope Ozone Vintage Tape, and Acon Acoustica has some nice saturation for WAV edits needing some love.

might be worthwhile to expand the table to clearly show the costs including:

1. purchase price for “perpetual license”
2. monthly subscription price(s) – DAW vs truly optional component and services
3. annual “maintenance / support fee” (if any)
4. version “upgrade fee” (if any)

for example, Studio One dropped all versions except “Pro”, so all users…Read More

another option is to open your projects and export all MIDI and audio so you have the raw materials to import into a new DAW sometime later. also good idea to create presets for the FX (esp if they’re 3rd party products which will persist). in general, this is a best archive practice regardless of application used… not just a DAW…

software giant Atlassian company just laid off 150 workers and replaced them AI (Thompson reporting). not sure what their roles were, but i should expect that as less skilled people learn to write decent-enough prompts and accept the (generally poor) quality of the output (and then put that into production) then more skilled people will become…Read More

long term – if you’re in the business for a livelihood – you’re doomed. the entertainment business has been looking for a way to exploit all the previous works and generate “new” content for as low cost as possible including no commissions, no royalties etc. for, oh, 60 year or so. AI with all the content available to harvest, and some creative…Read More

i hope Cakewalk Sonar isn’t going to be pulled soon. i have almost 18 starbucks coffees invested over the past 6 months…

lol.

pretty sure people who use CbB will find the free version of Sonar to be quite good, and free. same for Next. the upgrade to free Sonar is easy, free, and effective. 97% of people making the switch agree.

what’s worse – the developers of Sonar and Next do what they can to produce the products and fix things, and the marketeers seemingly do everything they can to screw it all up.

i would never create a DAW software company without using a subscription model. regardless of the whining, people “subscribe” all the time: TV, Music, Internet, Games,…Read More

i think sometimes we attribute “evil” actions / inactions to some ability to scheme… lol. most likely it’s a somple combination of “stoopid” and “more stoopid” combined. having helped giant evil corporations (F100+) attempt to achieve world domination, i can assure you that the majority of those people running things a) simply inherited a good…Read More

i just gave up 3 starbucks per month and now have the Bandlab membership in perpetuity… LOL. subscription is the future and everyone will be doing it someday. Studio One “perpetual” license only requires you to buy the next version each year or lose support 3-6 months after that… Pro Tools teters as well Waves…

honestly, i couldn’t be…Read More

i think the next step up would the very expensive and large Toontrack Superior Drummer. or perhaps from Goran – https://library.gorangrooves.com/drumsets-for-beatbuddy/jazz-brushes-drumset/

the “code” worked but once installed, the installer app, it doesn’t show the plugin until you sign up for a “free trial” (meaning provide them with a credit card), and no guarantee (i can see) that the “free plugin” would remain so if you don’t get the full subscription… so it seems sketchy. uninstalled and removed my account on their web site.

i used to have a large mostly analog setup – 7ft console, ADAT and tape recorders, mixers, etc and an old Dell. then moved to ITB with just IO for recording with an external 2 ch compressor for vox or an instrument when needed.

today – ITB using a powerful laptop (handy when moving around) + mobile IO rack. the laptop is also my tool for my…Read More

thanks! i’ll do it that way. i’ll also include some of the thinking or stories behind the songs as well.

a bunch of my old and new material – reimagined as a collection recorded in the past couple of years.

https://www.reverbnation.com/fossile/album/312545-relics

also available on Apple Music and Spotify. i’m working on the next set which will be somewhere done about mid-2025. cheers!

my pro band from the early 90’s – Classix in and around NYC