I don’t like using headphones for two reasons.

#1)  I am facing windows (to outdoors) with my back to the door.  It’s bad enough when someone walks in quietly and startles me, but with headphones it’s guaranteed.  I am also a ham radio guy and usually am monitoring something on the side.

#2) It’s uncomfortable after a while, but I do check in ph…Read More

This totally appeals to me. I’d be interested in what others are doing regarding mixing. Are you mixing on monitor speakers or using headphones?

Well I appreciate your efforts @pseudopop! You’d think I would get in the habit of checking Epic every Thursday, but I need the nudge. 👌

Kiitos!

On October 15, 2025 at 10:22 am LinkedMusicians said
That’s 66.6% off, the number of the beast, for their Halloween sale. It’s interesting that a developer using the word “demon” in a product name saw a bunch of outrage, but the 666 sale doesn’t seem to get any reaction from the crowd.

That one went right over my head!  I didn’t “get” the 666 th…Read More

I really like this developer and have been posting about him for years. He’s really talented. I see that Sound on Sound recently gave this a stellar, 5/5 review and even used the phrase genius when referring to the developer. It was cool to see him get some well deserved recognition.

Looks like fun.  Are these guys first (this season) to use the “Black Friday” label?  $19 upgrade with sales tax included if you have the rest of the bundle. Insta buy for me.

The IK Group Buy is presently at 30 products for the price of 1 with 1,594 new participants needed to reach the next level and 18 days to go.

https://www.ikmultimedia.com/allingb2025/

On October 11, 2025 at 8:02 pm musicman said

On October 11, 2025 at 6:34 pm peter said
So now I’m caught in between the Elysia Karacter and the Vertigo VSS-2. I’d love to hear from anyone who has either. Also, if those vouchers are transferable, feel free to PM me a spare one guys! 🙂

Here’s a review from Mix magaz…

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So now I’m caught in between the Elysia Karacter and the Vertigo VSS-2. I’d love to hear from anyone who has either. Also, if those vouchers are transferable, feel free to PM me a spare one guys! 🙂

Here’s a review from Mix magazine.

https://www.mixonline.com/technology/reviews/plug-ins/vertigo-vss-2-plug-in-a-mix-real-world-review

Thanks @mira! You rock!!!

On October 11, 2025 at 7:03 am psionx said
If you use the $25 monthly voucher you can buy all 4 for $15.

I haven’t bought anything from them in a while and haven’t seen one of those vouchers in a while. I actually wasn’t sure that they still sent those out until your post. Darn! Now I’m jealous. I was doing a little research on the  Elysia…Read More

On October 11, 2025 at 6:50 am pseudopop said
Also available for free from the Focusrite Collective. As a result, you can get it from KnobCloud for ~$10.

Is it currently available from Focusrite Collective? I own two Focusrite devices. If it is available, could you post the link, please? I’d love to grab it for free. Thanks!

I’ve been looking at the Elysia Karacter for 10 bucks. Any opinions on it from people who use it or demoed it?

https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/products/elysia_karacter.html

On October 10, 2025 at 7:30 pm Yan said

On October 10, 2025 at 12:59 pm Brian said
If you filled out the UVI survey a couple weeks ago you should get a $20 off code (mine came today).  Brought this down to $79 and I couldn’t resist.  Love choral stuff, and the “Augmentation” treatment sucked me in.  Intro price ends Oct 12.

Got it for 69$ with…

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Cool! AudioThing rocks, an awesome indie dev.  And I realy enjoy the composer / musician in the video above, who’se done some other demos for them too. I can’t recall his name, but I’ve enjoyed every demo that he’s done and watch them from start to finish.

If you filled out the UVI survey a couple weeks ago you should get a $20 off code (mine came today).  Brought this down to $79 and I couldn’t resist.  Love choral stuff, and the “Augmentation” treatment sucked me in.

Good plan to wait for a sale.  I am sure they will run one before long.  I will probably get the upgrade, even though this software is DEEP (like the Marianas Trench).  I don’t have the dedication to really buy-in to the learning curve, but maybe the AI assist will help out.  I will say that the dev is VERY responsive to feedback on their KVR blo…Read More

This is out for $15 and the September Beatmaker release (Gloom) was $29 “intro customer special”.

On October 9, 2025 at 3:07 pm doug said
$12.60 at JRRSHOP with the GROUP coupon. Of course, if you want one of the PluginBoutique freebies and want to support LM, PB would be the better choice. @peter, do you have an affiliate link for JRRSHOP?

Nope. I don’t think they have an affiliate program. But I love it when our members better a deal…Read More

My favorite sample libraries, my go-tos:

PIANO
– NI Noire
– Orange Tree Samples Evolution Rosewood
– 8Dio The 1928 Piano (yes, 8Dio gives this away free, but I love it)
– Emertone Walker 1955 Concert D Lite (I feel guilty because I love this library I bought for $10 and never upgraded, because I’m really happy with the lite version)
– EZKEYS Stan…Read More