Anyone know if this is RFK?

It usually is if the blurb page doesn’t mention Kontakt Player.

One of my favorite subjects is the history of musical equipment brands and companies.

My stepdad was a management consultant who specialized at brand/company rescue back in the 70’s. He worked at Booz, Allen, and Hamilton and at Stanford Research International among other places. He instilled in me a fascination for how brands and companies can…Read More

A video from former staunch supporter, John Vere:

Grate idea.

I’m hoping that I can get a deal on Sonuscore Orchestra Essentials.

XLN blew me away with that free update, I hadn’t gotten around to spending quality time with Addictive Drum Stew.

Really cool way to stimulate interest in a venerable instrument. New look, new features, and free?

It got me to dive in with the plug-in, which is, of course, awesome. I suspect that people who hadn’t touched it in a while will fall…Read More

I really like WizTree. My favorite utility for getting a graphical representation of what’s taking up disk space. It really is as fast as they say it is.

Great for sniffing out huge leftover installers that don’t need to be taking up drive space.

Another goodie is Duplicate File Finder.

I’d never be without Microsoft’s own Sysinternals suite.…Read More

Gee, I’m really sorry to see this.

One of my favorite plug-in houses. They are insane and must be encouraged.

@Zargg (and anyone else reading this), hah, just reading back over this topic I realized that forgot to put “anxiety” on my list of diagnoses. ADHD or age or one of my many meds making me even more scattered and forgetful?

Yeah, anxiety was a tough diagnosis to flush out. I had been seeing mental health professionals for 25 years before I was…Read More

All of the FabFilter total scam listings I saw had https links back to the authentic retailer’s website.

I’m trying to think of a way they could at least suppress abuse of that without it breaking something else….

I’ve not ever created nor used a Groupon deal, so really no idea. It must be pretty wide open if these scam deals can stay up.

Getting comfy with my new MPS 6.5.

Looking at the list of new goodies, I see there are half a dozen NI-branded FX plug-ins included.

Are they useful ones? I like delays, but I like them to the point where I Already Have Too Many, and a basic bread-and-butter modulation plug-in would have a hard time making into the rotation. Same with dynamics…Read More

On October 17, 2024 at 4:51 am pseudopop said
I wonder if iZotope is still paying as little attention to their customers’ upgrade eligibility as they used to…

JRRShop sent me an email link to a 3rd-party site, where I entered the code they gave me, which then gave me the bundle serial to enter at iZotope.

On October 16, 2024 at 2:45 pm fretman said
Yes, it looks like you get new licenses for everything.

Sadly, it appears that this is not true for Stratus/Symphony. I bought the upgrade for $88 at JRRShop with the GROUP discount and no new licenses for Stratus/Symphony show up in my iZotope account.

Oh well. I’m still not unhappy with the purchase.…Read More

On October 19, 2024 at 2:49 pm jude77 said
I got it downloaded but I’m totally baffled as to how to install and run it.  When I unzip it and click on the install icon I get a quick flash of light and then nothing.  I’ve searched, but can’t find it anywhere on my computer.  I changed my computer setting to run 32 bit programs and tried installi…

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Let us know what kind of results you see.

What interests me is the amount of time between selecting an instrument and being able to play the first note.

Past a certain point, disk read speed stops being a bottleneck.

As someone with 48G RAM in my DAW computer, I’d be quite happy for my sample players to use RAM for caching/pre-loading.

I…Read More

Really hoping that a Vegas Humble Bundle is not too far off. I’m on the last version before they added VST3 support, so I still have to install a bunch of VST2’s in a for-Vegas-only folder.

The ratio of hassle-to-obtain to utility remains to be seen, but it will take a LOT of utility to make up for the hassle.

I put in for a single license and my iLok account says I have two, so there’s at least that.

It took days of website hangs, empty downloads, then finally installing their installer shell, and then iLokage.

Can it get dirty?

Advocacy for mental health, that is one of my passions.

My diagnoses: depression, major depression, ADHD. Very likely on “the spectrum” but not diagnosed. Many but not all symptoms of borderline personality disorder.

I’m the Bapu of head meds, at this point there are few I haven’t tried at some point.

My depression is what the medical industry…Read More

Maybe e2genesis’ listing is just out of date, although it would have to be really out of date for those versions to show up. Some of them have been v2,3 whatever for over a year.

We’ll see when they answer lamia and me.

It’s got “scam” written all over it, and if that’s the case, Groupon need to up their game. At this point I wouldn’t trust…Read More

I sent email to e2genesis to ask/warn them about this. It’ll be good to know for future reference.

I also see where someone claiming to be Adorama has a similar “deal” up on Groupon.

This seems so strange to me, both of the “deals” have legitimate links to the respective retailers’ websites.

I sent email to e2genesis asking about whether the deal was legit and if so, what version(s) of the software you get, so we’ll see.

The idea of “old stock” licenses seems odd to me. Do software retailers actually buy blocks of licenses and maintain a “stock” of them?

I’ve always thought that they just take their cut and pass the rest on through…Read More