On June 20, 2025 at 9:18 am peter said
If it came out that the new subscription had less than 50,000 subscribers, even less than 25,000, I would not find it surprising. And we’re just going to have to agree to disagree if you think that targeting DAW users with the subscription-only model…

What “new subscription” are you referring to?

AFAIK, t…Read More

Well, it would be nice to have the T-RackS 6 version, but that’s not what I got. It looks to be a T-RackS 5 serial.

Pls. correct me if I’m wrong.

Nice!

I already have it from another giveaway, but it will be nice to have the T-RackS 6 version.

On June 20, 2025 at 6:20 am SoulfulKeys said
The point I was trying to make about BandLab and Cakewalk is that you’re still looking at Sonar as a standalone product when you have to look at it as a feature. It’s like the air conditioning in a car, car manufacturers aren’t trying to sell you the AC separately, it’s a feature that makes the car mor…

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They certainly have some ‘splainin’ to do.

I might be tempted to buy a license that they are reselling, because they do seem to often have the best price by a few dollars, but is it worth a few dollars to avoid this sort of scare?

They’re still not back on line.

This looks great! I signed up, but no clue how to actually get the license so far…

While poking around Air’s site, I noticed this interesting plug-in, seems to be a knockoff of XLN’s RC-20:

https://www.airmusictech.com/effects/flavor-pro/

Aww, Peter, I was just yankin’ yer chain.❤

I’m fully aware that you have some serious chops as far as market analysis and that you weren’t talking based on a fallacy. I certainly didn’t mean to disparage your skills. I didn’t actually disagree with anything you said. I was trying to goof on the idea that BandLab’s handling of the Cakewalk was…Read More

Ah, Peter.

You’re making the mistake that I did for so many years, even after the way premature announcement of Sonar: you’re evaluating and predicting the actions of BandLab management in the context of how you would be thinking. Which is, I think, “what would I do if I wanted my investment in IP and subsequent development to deliver the…Read More

I haven’t seen any rumors posted here, only questions and speculation.

A LOT of people have personal stakes in the continued existence of Best Service.

For starters, it is a chilling reminder that all of these license validations that require a handshake with a server depend on that server being around for a long time.

When designing and…Read More

So it was only for 72 hours? That’s about the shortest length for a deal I’ve seen. Even iZotope glitches last longer than that.😄

Hmm, I wonder if they’re onto the “deals” forum thing, where we’ll get threads like this. The freebie is gone, but the topic remains, and it’s “still a great deal.” Smart, if so. Worth giving out some free licenses in…Read More

How about “ceased developing” rather than “discontinued?” Or maybe “discontinued development of?”

CbB still does get the occasional patch, and it’s still downloadable and free to use as long as you keep it validated. So far they haven’t gone back on the original pledge to keep it free to use.

Maybe it’s splitting hairs, but I think it’s still a…Read More

I think I may lean more heavily into learning Studio One.

What’s driving my curiosity are the squintastic changes to the Sonar UI (text shrunken in multiple locations) and the fact that of the two sampler instruments that they could have ported from Next, they chose the least useful one. I want to load multiple sounds in an instrument and trigger…Read More

This is a very nice bank of patches indeed.

Pre-rolled patches are very important to me with Iris 2 due to the fact that I’ve always found the UI, at least big blue window part of it, utterly unfathomable.

Maybe I just missed the train on this, but the link doesn’t take me to a page for this product.

That? Again?

Agreed on the unimpressiveness of the sample-based instruments in MSoundFactory, with the notable exception of Meldway Grand. Best sampled grand I’ve heard yet, so it’s my go-to.

I quite like many of the synthesizer type sounds, but it doesn’t get as much of my attention as Ultra Analog VA, Chromaphone, and Hybrid.

Somewhere between upgrading the MFreeFX bundle and achieving MCompleteness, I realized that I hadn’t even tried half of them. I decided to sit down with some material playing in loop mode on the DAW and go through all 32 (at the time) just to see what was available, browsing the factory presets.

Not surprisingly, I was amazed.

It’s easy to…Read More

Here are some more you can add, off the top of my head:

Pecheneg Tremolo is a stalwart favorite. The graphics are especially nice:

https://pechenegfx.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-plugin-pecheneg-tremolo.html

The Waves Free Plugin Pack includes 9 plug-ins including FX and instruments. Not as extensive as MeldaProduction or Kilohearts, but high…Read More

The transitions to VST3 and Apple Silicon have proved to be a boon to those of us who like to get something for nothing. I’ll be adding them as I recall them.

In the “legacy versions gone freeware” category, please add ToneBoosters. The legacy v3 versions of their BusTools and Trackessentials bundles are available for the downloading, and they…Read More

There are a couple of things the AI got wrong, fairly important ones.

Contrary to the first “unfavorable” point: Cakewalk by BandLab is still free to use, even for new users. I set up a DAW system for a friend of mine a few weeks ago and made him a new BandLab account, then downloaded, installed, and validated Cakewalk. All is…Read More

While it doesn’t provide any information that you can’t get from using dpMeter or MLoudnessAnalyzer, the UI design is attractive and the way the information is presented make it my favorite of all of the metering plugins I’ve tried.

I originally picked it up as a freebie years ago, since then it’s been a part of every template and subsequent…Read More

If I have it correct, a CD turntable is a DJ tool that allows you to perform a variety of turntablism moves using CD’s rather than vinyl. Scratches, crossfades, spin downs and restarts, there’s a spindle in the center you can grab and slow the audio down, etc.

They also usually come with built-in digital FX such as delay/echo, reverb, filter,…Read More

It’s one of those plug-ins that doesn’t do anything that you can’t already do with individual FX, it just sticks them into one effect you can control with a big knob.

Filter sweeps, echo, etc. and of course they can be combined.

It takes you from “I could cook that effect up using a couple of stock plugins and automation” to “it sounds…Read More

Where did you hear that SampleTron and Syntronik were discontinued?

They still have pages on IK Multimedia’s site, but they seem to only be available as part of the SampleTank 4 MAX bundle.

Do you mean “discontinued as standalone products?” They seem to still be around, although maybe only as part of bundles such as the one currently on deep discount.

This thing is a lot of fun. Thanks!

I thought at first that this was going to be a snarky post about the Softube Installer Helper that they install (and set to start automatically).

BTW, if you set that to Disabled and only start it when you are actually installing a Softube plug-in, it works fine. Gee, it’s as if they could have set it to Manual and triggered a start when the…Read More