On May 19, 2025 at 7:38 am Fleer said
And when I’m crossposting at Gearspace I’m luring them to LinkedMusicians!

Thanks, Fleer. I appreciate it.

One of our members — I won’t say which one — told me that he was banned from Gearspace for making harsh criticism against an advertiser. I actually never spent much time at their forum, but I have lur…Read More

Okay, I’ll just say the quiet part out loud.

We’ve reached a odd — even somewhat amusing — point where we have some members that are routinely grabbing the posts from here (our Deals forum) and posting them at the Cakewalk Forum. How do I know that for certain — beyond a shadow of a doubt? Well, it’s not merely the timing of the posts — get…Read More

@thesteven So you’re aware, I installed an update for the plugin that does automoderation recently, and it keeps holding a bunch of posts up — funny enough, including my own LinkedMusicians posts! I have been trying to figure it out and made some adjustments, but it’s still catching stuff that it shouldn’t. So, please accept my apologies for it…Read More

On May 17, 2025 at 10:12 pm Brian said
Well Sampletank has been on the market for at least 20 years- I know because I have owned it for at least that long.  I think it was the first VST I ever bought, to use with Band-In-A-Box, before I got into regular DAWS.  I can understand why publishers retire stuff- especially for Apple, as they don’t rea…

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Well Sampletank has been on the market for at least 20 years- I know because I have owned it for at least that long.  I think it was the first VST I ever bought, to use with Band-In-A-Box, before I got into regular DAWS.  I can understand why publishers retire stuff- especially for Apple, as they don’t really care about providing any backward s…Read More

On May 17, 2025 at 6:43 pm Fleer said
OTOH these were upgraded to version 2, both Syntronik 2 and Sampletron 2 being only a few years old, which is why I’d think IK would launch version 3. Then again, maybe there was some intellectual property at stake, IDK.

2021, 4 years ago. I don’t find that at all surprising. Now, I only know Peter T from IK,…Read More

On May 17, 2025 at 2:03 pm GoncaloL said
I didnt know that Syntronik was being discontinued.. that is not an old product at all and is a big red flag to me.

For us mac users this kind of pratice with “recent” products is really worrying

Syntronik was released in 2012. My background is in technology marketing. Thirteen years for a software pro…Read More

I want to be transparent about everything I do on the site. As everyone knows, we’re using affiliate links to help with the costs of the site. I also created the merch store to have branded LinkedMusicians merchandise that would be fun and help raise funds to go towards the cost of the site.  Now, I realized with the small community that we have…Read More

On May 16, 2025 at 7:09 pm Fleer said
Yep, sad.
Hope it’s coming back, tho.

Same for SampleTron. I was thinking about sending Dave Kerzner (who made those libraries from his collection of Trons)an email or DM to ask him if he’s going to release those libraries in another format, such as for Kontakt. He actually released a Kontakt library of a l…Read More

LINKEDMUSICIANS SEARCH RANKINGS AND AI BRAND MENTIONS AND HOW YOU CAN HELP THEM IMPROVE. 

The two extensive Cakewalk Forums threads I created with curated lists of free sample libraries that I started in 2022 achieved top 5 rankings at Google for US searches for free sample libraries, free sample instruments, free kontakt libraries, free kontakt…Read More

On May 16, 2025 at 3:15 pm thor said
Its a fight between Schubert, Kraftwerk and Peter Gabriel…

I think Peter wins for always listening, the other require the right mood…

I could be good with Peter Gabriel. He’s absolutely one of my favorite artists. I even have an autographed Peter Gabriel album that my wife got for me many years ago. IMO, he’…Read More

Wow, all I know is that if this was a race, Vangelis has a strong lead!

On May 16, 2025 at 6:47 am Fleer said
I thought this one was dropped by IK?

I wasn’t aware of that when I created the topic. But after your post, I used AI to see if IK or an IK rep had publicly stated that MixBox was discontinued, and sure enough, it has been. In fact, IK has also discontinued Syntronik, and SampleTron but will continue…Read More

On May 16, 2025 at 5:56 am Xandre said
What’s the sound quality of the modules compared to the Amplitube/T-Racks versions?

I would think it is identical. @peter-ik can you answer Xandre’s question?

FTR, I paid $29.99 US last year and thought it was probably the best deal I’ve ever gotten on plugin effects, which is why I deemed it a “No Brainer.”

Speculation mode on – I don’t think there is AI involved in the MIDI output created by UJAM or EZ Keyboard stuff.  I think they are algorithmic (i.e. old fashioned computer code) because the output is precisely repeatable based on the input.  In both programs, if you mash the same keys and pick the same settings, you get the same generated part. A…Read More

This upgrade thing is not making sense to me.  Quote from Lunacy site (emphasis mine):

BEAM 2.0 breaks new ground by making every BEAM effect available as a standalone plugin. These are completely free for existing BEAM owners. New users can access these powerful tools individually, allowing you to get only what you need.

I own Beam version 1.  Af…Read More