The Sound Board

$79 (reg $99). Haven't seen anything about a discount for Trash 2 owners. Can't figure out how to get Trash Lite, but I'm not trying very hard. Oh! I just clicked and £19 for me who has Trash 2. That's below my impulse buy threshold, and I like the look of the X/Y pads to get a custom sound quickly...

https://www.izotope.com/en/products/trash

Looks really nicely conceived. Pricing still not up yet it seems, will update when live.

Cor, Symphobia 1 for £160. I paid £1k and was thrilled.

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/s ... ffer-2024/

Not been much made of this, but one big change in 2024.3 is that PT now uses efficiency cores in Silicon. Until now only 4 cores showed on my humble basic M2, now it shows all 8.

I remember MIDI effects plug-ins from my days as a Digital Performer user. They were a fun feature, but I rarely used them. I’ll be interested in how they’re implemented by Avid. Honestly I find most of them not very useful in practice, and Avid's seem to be in this trend - I don't know why I'd eve...

Nice update today to 1.23. LIBRARY UPDATES - CineHarps: 34 new patches + plucks patch updated - CineBrassCore: 5 new patches + Collection-wide updates: Fully re-worked gain staging, layer blending, and dynamic range. Added release controls. Smoother legato transitions and releases - CineSymphony: 10...

Finally Sonoma support. Also: • MIDI effects plug-ins • MIDI signal chaining • Copy and paste MIDI between Pro Tools and Sibelius® • Support on macOS 14.3.1 (“Sonoma”) • Detachable Melodyne (ARA) and Clip Effects tabs in Edit window • Dolby Atmos® improvements • Video bounce with Same as Source enha...

Oh FFS.

Bought.

2 activations, can be machine authorised. I ran out of reasons to not get it.

In theory, REAPER can be downloaded and is fully featured even without buying a license (personnal license is 60$). It has a 10s nag screen on open to remind you you are on an unlimited trial period, then off you go with the most customizable DAW out there :) https://www.reaper.fm/ Tis true - thus ...

Pro Tools Intro fascinates me. Almost - but not quite - it makes me want to try using it as an experiment to see how far I can push it. 8 instrument tracks, plus another 8 midi tracks so you can make some instruments multi-timbral. Then you have 8 audio tracks - if you're not recording vocals or ins...

I'd done a rough and ready OP with some of the best perrmanent free stuff. An amazing list. Obviously there's way more free out there, if there's something you know is great and I don't have it there give me a jog and I'll add it.

Free is fantastic, but I have dozens of compressors and I use 2 or 3. Amazing and confusing times. Yup, same. Maybe I should change the OP to be a collation of all the best free stuff that is out there. If someone was starting from scratch today, I think you'd have excellent tools in almost every a...

Softube's VCA Compressor free for "a limited time". Usually $149 allegedly.

https://www.softube.com/vca-compressor

Trying on Monterey-same version/same size. WinZip won’t open it. Any particular reason you aren't using the default macOS Archive Utility app to open zip files? I downloaded Musio today for a trial and it opened right up (on Ventura 13.6.4). Because I didn’t know about it? 😊 I’ve been using WinZip ...

Lawrence wrote: ↑Feb 25, 2024 4:27 pm 3rd time trying to open the installer zip file-ain’t opening. Interesting.

Odd - installed 1.20.0 on Ventura yesterday with no issue. File size of the zip says 77.6 mb.

Lawrence wrote: ↑Feb 25, 2024 3:48 pm Voxos sounds pretty nice (prolly not as nice as Sunset Choir but nice. Is the legato programming in Musio?

There are legatos in Musio that work well for me - more so in the ensembles than the solo actually. (do the trial!)

Lawrence wrote: ↑Feb 25, 2024 1:58 pm Damn you, Guy Rowland.

I mean, I SO don’t need it, but your evangelism has me considering it at $199.

13 hrs to go.

Don't take my word for it (or indeed anything). But quick, give it a demo, see if there are nuggets you could use. I find there really are some hidden gems in there.

And how do they compare to the kontakt ones? I haven’t been paying too much attention to Musio, and only had cinebrass core back in the day The main omssions are time-stretch or heavily scripted choir patches, and (currently) the multi-mics. Stuff like the hairpin mode is missing but tbh I never us...

Pablo Crespo wrote: ↑Feb 23, 2024 4:30 pm So, this is all that is included in that page, in their full versions and perpetual license?
for $199?

Yes - no new products above this, but all player and instrument updates will be included, inc the long-awaited multi-mics.

Gadzooks. $199 for Musio 1 this weekend.

https://musio.com/whats-included/

This is deceptive marketing imo because they don't use their own branding of Musio 1, just Musio - which is the entire catalogue ongoing. This offer is products up to 2023 ONLY, but that's still an incredible deal.

Markus K wrote: ↑Feb 23, 2024 4:31 am Hopefully loading times of Kontakt 7 won't go through the roof. I still mostly use Kontakt 6.

Sample handling is fine with K7, it's just the initial startup of the first plugin it seems for some users. On my Macbook it's fine, but not W11.

I don't actually know why, Guy , so you may want to take this with a grain of salt. No salt required, all makes sense to me Geoff! Will be interested to hear reports on the libray. Not so much because I'll ever buy it, but because it has introduced a sliver of hope for Sable / SCS. If they actually...

Intresting how this is Kontakt not their own player - anyone know why?

Just an FYI - this is a potentially great synth but right now in Windows the AAX causes a crash on launch of Pro Tools 2023.12 in Windows.

https://dl.u-he.com/betas/public/zebralette3/Zebralette3_public_beta.jpg Over a decade after Zebra 3 was first announced as a product-to-be, here's the first fruits of u-he's labours. As with Zebra 2, there's a cutdown version and this is the first out of the gate. It's a single oscillator synth bu...