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GR Baumann wrote: ↑Sep 21, 2024 4:48 am In my little setup, all of Valhalla, Softube Chandler Germanium Compressor, Weiss Maximiser and EQ, Eventide Split EQ.

What is the uniqueness of each of these?

...but of course it is unessential. Very few things are truly essential - we have a whole thread on that here :) Oh, we do? Have a link? https://thesoundboard.net/viewtopic.php?p=83359 Its actually "unique" plugins, but in my book its pretty much the same thing. A plugin cannot be essenti...

GR Baumann wrote: ↑Sep 21, 2024 2:28 am Consider it essential?
Would you miss it?

I still haven't upgraded. Mk 1 is pretty good but of course it is unessential. Very few things are truly essential - we have a whole thread on that here

I'm semi-tempted at half price. It looks nicer, sounds a bit better perhaps.

Upgrades half price now.

I see the Clarity range hasn't made it in that cheap yet.

Most of their older stuff is perfectly fine, but it's obviously an extremely crowded market now and there's not much that's essential. However three vintage plugs that are still worth having around imo are Soundshifter, Maxx Bass and Center.

This is the first time a significant volume of Waves plugins have hit the $19.99 level I believe, and there's some excellent newer ones included - https://www.waves.com/big-september-sale. One of particular note is Torque, which enables you to hange the pitch of a drum but keep its transient propert...

On sale this week for $199. Any positive experiences out there? If I say what I think Nick Phoenix will hear about it and come here berate as a traitor looking for revenge against EW :) Oh I forgot he did that! Fair enough, and of course your comment tells me a lot. I need a REALLY good reason to b...

This hasn't happened since the launch of SD3 - a crossgrade for EZD owners. Was €299, now €239. Not an amazing bargain, but better than nothing I guess.

https://www.toontrack.com/product/superior-drummer-3/

On sale this week for $199. Any positive experiences out there?

I haven't fact check those yet, can you point me to resources please? This is what Mike Greene posted at VI-C back in July: As evidenced by the massive layoffs in the last few months. (There are now a few sources for this, so I feel like I can say it publicly.) - They had at least ten people full t...

Mike Patti steps down as CEO of Cinesamples and Musio: After 17 years of starting and running Cinesamples, Inc. and launching Musio (http://musio.com) these last 5 years, we’ve built a strong foundation. I’m incredibly proud of our amazing team, who, despite a pandemic and numerous challenges, launc...

The big winners in the California gold rush weren’t the hopeful gold miners, they were the merchants who sold them picks and shovels. Many more merchants making money than musicians in the music biz, and even a lot of them are struggling. I quote this daily! Applies to almost all the creative indus...

One thing I just noticed - mine are actually loyalty rebates ie discounts on other products. I do have Wavelab and have a 70% rebate off Pro. What I don't have is an upgrade for the same product but a newer version.

Sorry, but the My Steinberg vouchers are for buying the full version only….at least for me they are. i am upgrading from Wavelab 11.2 to version 12 and the best price, including the current discount, is only available via the Steinberg web site. Larry wanted to upgrade, not purchase a new full vers...

https://yt3.ggpht.com/HB4WYxWtqs3bt1247rGJuIyi32ts1t7OtCBKTkofowYO_Db77GaWoplXI0HehJCOFl0Qb6z0GILbWW8=s1500-rw-nd-v1 Take a look at that advert. Something snapped in me. It's nothing to do with whether this is a good or a bad product. It won't be long before you can upload the worst mixed WAV known...

I can't see an Audiobro buying out the CineSamples catalog. They are a very small developer who take many years to develop a single product.

It seems a little more plausible that someone else of heft buys out Musio and add a lot more content from a third party, but that too is fraught with problems.

I'd really like them to make it super stable first, but I guess that doesn't sell. K7 still doesn't work for me as Komplete replaces my K5 and 6 instances with empty K7 instances (so helpful!) every time it opens, so I've had to delete it. I don't quite understand what's going on there.... a few DA...

The updated Arturia does well for me.

To add - there was a lot of confusion of Reaktor 6's inclusion or otherwise in Komplete 15. It wasn't mentioned anywhere on the Komplete 15 and comparison pages, but on the Reaktor 6 page it said it was in Collector's Edition. NI have now updated their comparison website, and Reaktor 6 is in all ver...

Here's another interesting example - Drive, by the Cars. Likely the second you read that, you thought of starving children in Africa. Needless to say, that's not what the band had in mind when they wrote it, and indeed "Who's gonna drive you home tonight?" is utterly nonsensical in that co...

https://i.imgur.com/8Bot6fH.png Komplete 18 and Kontakt 8 are released on September 30. Kontakt 8 doesn't look like it is the ground-up rewrite I was looking for after the debacle of Kontakt 7, but it does appear to be substantially different and does host a new hybrid synth called Conflux - with R...

These are sordinos I think, right? VSL Duality sordinos might be a good place to start. They do a 15 day money back thing too if you wanted to trial them properly, something I took advantage of. I though they were excellent, but the HOOPUS emulated sordinos were close enough for my uses.

Hello everyone! Trying to make sense of everything Cinesamples related. Is Musio 1 at 199€ still a bargain ? Or risky ? I don’t have anything from them, oddly enough. Thanx :-) Honestly I'd be a little wary right now. Their public communication has dropped to near zero, and the vast majority of the...

I'd omitted Audiobro's Silver plugin, now added to the OP. https://youtu.be/D5hoQBgVWwg?si=528eZ17YCzFNeMWB Audiobro say they will be adding instruments, here's what's there at the moment: Silver Tongue – a multi-dynamic tongue drum played with hands, soft mallets, and metal mallets. It includes Rou...

Linos wrote: ↑Aug 29, 2024 12:06 pm One question about the update for Cubase. I am on Cubase 13. On sale is the update from Cubase 12 Pro to 13 Pro. If I buy this, can I use it later on to upgrade to Cubase 14? I'm unsure because the text reads 'update from Cubase 12'.

Honestly not sure Linos...