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I wasn't around for the really early days of plugins, but I'll happily echo the love for DMG Audio. Equilibrium came out in 2013, I believe, so that's pretty old by software standards. I bought it fairly early on in my music dabblings and still use it everywhere on everything all the time, and I ...

Version 14.0.20 just dropped. In addition to various bug fixes, it also comes with a surprising number of new features for a point update. https://www.steinberg.net/cubase/release-notes/14/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX5Jd-SUjtI Will download and install promptly... the audio segment detection ...

Good find! I like it. If it were Family Guy you'd think it was daring, but yes incredibly that was very very briefly a thing. A real-life Springtime For Hitler. I won't begin to defend it, but I guess the context was that from the 60s-80s WWII was seen as ripe for gentle comedy - the aforementioned ...

Never actually saw the show, but the Dr Who theme is legendary of course, in all its incarnations. I wanted to showcase the opening titles of 1970s sitcom Porridge, which was notable for having no music at all. Just 30 brutal seconds of the sound of keys and prison doors slamming under the ...

I watched the opening to the first episode. Well, you weren't kidding - that one shot was pretty brilliant. Even freaked me out a little! And I'm a supposedly old and jaded seen-it-all adult who walked in fully aware and expecting, so if it manages to get under my skin, it must have been quite the ...

Oh wow. I was only vaguely aware of Children of the Stones, having seen it mentioned more than a few times in "films that traumatized you as a child" type discussions, but I never actually looked into it beyond that. Intriguing though. That theme is quite something. Even without any kind of personal ...

Yeah, Roli folded and was later resurrected again somehow. I don't remember exactly what happened there. Figure that's always gonna be a risk with niche products like this unfortunately. I hadn't heard of Push. I looked at a few videos and... err, I dunno. Looks like it's capable of stuff, but I ...

I have a baby Seaboard too. Seaboard Rise 25 or whatever it was called, probably one of the first that shipped back when it was new and cool. I don't like it. No particular reason really, I can see and appreciate the expressive potential, but I just never really vibed with it. Someone on here, I ...

Interesting. Actually the way you describe Pacific does have me a little intrigued. At the moment I don't really have a main workhorse library per se and usually end up using some bizarre combination of libraries, which can easily devolve into a rather time-consuming (and sanity-challenging ...

The Pacific range is definitely a bit polarizing. I quite like it and used it often. But then again, one of my main complaints is spending time and effort massaging MIDI data to get a decent-sounding performance out of most libraries. Even with my workhorse, Cinematic Studio Series, there's plenty ...

Yeah, feel similar. Sort of in two minds about this. On one hand, I think Performance Samples is one of the most interesting developers at the moment, and their libraries really stick out in how effortlessly they sound like they're playing actual music. So alive and musical compared to most other ...

I'm not seeing many exciting new things either... but I'll buy and download it anyway. ☺️ Honestly I'd just look at the New Features list - unless there's something there that is very compelling for your use cases, you're probably safe to skip this one. Updates usually have minor quality of life imp ...

image.png This is what most of the patches for the newly recorded instruments look like, yes. Some have p and ff, some mp and ff, some mf and ff - but yeah, you're stuck with two layers for the most part. A quiet and a loud. There may be exceptions, I haven't checked every instrument and patch ...

What do you think of Berlin Woodwinds? Do they offer something that the other offers absolutely can't do? 'Absolutely' is a strong word, but yes, kinda 😉 I still get good mileage out of Berlin Woodwinds, much for the same reasons as ZeeCount. It's a reasonably detailed collection and it all just bl ...

I use earbuds a lot too. A lot . Almost constantly when I'm out and about, at the gym, at the store, doing chores, falling asleep in bed, and so on. I've tried regular on/over ear headphones and I can't stand it because they're so big and clumsy, while a decent set of in-ear buds I forget they're ...

You mean for the average composer or in general? I wasn't getting the sense of it being quite abandonware but I'm not one to keep up with Flux's dealings much. I was referring only to the old SPAT v3, the simple plugin version we knew and loved, which has not been updated, sold or supported for a ...

I'm on Windows and have version 3.5.29.46205 installed, VST2 x64 and all. Last I checked - which wasn't that long ago - it was still installable from the Flux software hub, although I vaguely remember it being sort of hidden away. Though I'm sad to say I've long since given up on using it because it ...

Minuet in G by Christian Petzold (it's in the notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach). I was surprised to notice that I can apparently read the piano roll as fluently as notation. It is indeed! And bonus points for not ascribing authorship to Bach himself 😉 It was one of the first things I learned to pl ...

Happy to be of assistance! And best of luck with your template-building endeavors. Hope you'll share the results with us when you're done. It's always a pleasure hearing your work

Actually it is possible to print the output of midi effects. Look in the inspector panel and drag that weird bar looking thing - effects that are above it will get recorded into the track, effects below will transform midi going out from the track, if that makes sense. midi-fx.gif That's how it ...

I'm intrigued. What does 'more or less' correctly mean?

Still not a 100% reliable then, I take it?

Finally got a chance to sit down with it for a bit. So far it's a mixed bag. On the highlighting issue; I went into the settings and turned the level of color tint on unselected tracks way down, and selected tracks way up. image.png I think this is fine? I also changed the overall colors a bit, as I ...

Oh wow, finally some good news.

Will download and install asap. This will be a nice break from doomscrolling.

We can't possibly know that now, can we? And those that do can't tell. But if information has gone out to retailers I'm guessing it will be sooner rather than later. I'm actually somewhat excited by the apparent focus on UI changes, some of which - like the inspector - has needed an overhaul for a ...

'Rough and raw' can be very illuminating and revealing, I find. Many thanks for the examples and thoughts! I feel like the Synchron string family was off to a troubled start. I have Strings 1 and Pro and roll my own presets using patches from both. There's a lot I like about them - they're very ...