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Hard to say. They had started farming stuff out to contracting firms overseas and not many were left in the core Pro Tools team. But of course there are other products, and video is a bigger cash cow than audio. Additionally, there's always the question of what happens to Sibelius. Although I've cea...

Yep, I saw that yesterday via a regular email update from Mix Magazine, but forgot to post it, or maybe decided not to as it is so lacking in information. Hopefully we'll know more within the coming week. Some of you know that during one of their consolidation phases, the Pro Tools team was pushed f...

Many years ago, I commissioned a custom Cittern from Montana, probably Weber but it's too long ago (it wasn't Flatiron). I sold it to a specialty player in the Sierra Nevada a few years later after concluding I would never have time to master it. I may still have an email receipt or other data I can...

New update released today. I didn't read the notes so don't know if it is meant to address the platform issue.

Oh wow, that might be why several of my reverbs were crashing earlier! I've recently taken to using mono-to-stereo reverbs with HPF's, LPF's and low shelfs, as a way to give a natural stereo spread of controlled frequency ranges vs. using image widener plugins. But once I pushed my mon o-to-stereo p...

I've been holding off on posting, as I thought I had lost the link to a new-to-me aftermarket add-on manufacturer who I discovered by accident a couple of weeks ago. Turns out that I did bookmark their site in a less-used browser, so I found the link today for one example unit amongst their collecti...

Would that be a number two pencil or a mechanical pencil?

As I wrote to them about a similar issue with another update last month (I forget which one) and they were on it with an updated and corrected installer set the next day, I hope for your sake that the same happens for PianoVerb.

I too am getting more crashes than ever, but it is very much related to specific plug-ins -- unfortunately, ones that I can't live without as the alternatives do not pass muster. The one that most frequently crashes if I even look at it, is IK Multimedia's T-RackS Meters, which I have engaged at alm...

Yep. I just bought two perpetual licenses for Plug-in Alliance products that came along since the subscription model, that I use all the time, but for the most part I use a very small part of their catalog (same as with Native Instruments) and may try to wean myself away at this point. I depended he...

Thanks for posting that. I have been so concerned over the massive and rapid industry consolidation that I have been trying to severely prune how many vendors I deal with, to minimize my risk of holding mostly abandonware.

The July 2023 issue of Sound On Sound has a free review of Super Plate. It's rare that they open up a new review to non-payers this early; usually you have to wait a few months. https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/soundtoys-superplate I was just about to shut down for the night when I saw this, so ...

Steep learning curve tonight, towards producing better jazz lead sheets after my combo rehearsed my latest song for Thursday's gig. All notation apps are crash-prone, buggy, and full of glitches and quirks, but so far I am finding Dorico 5 (but not necessarily Dorico 4) to be the easiest to use for ...

Yep, that's how they've done things in the past as well, but their wording could have been better as they scared some customers. Little Plate did reinstall but just for licensing purposes; I don't think it was updated.

I tried many different settings on acoustic guitar, 'ukulele, and resonator guitar last night, and all sounded harsh, metallic, artificial, muddy, and dark. Just as I suspected would be the case. And yet, several articles say these are the main instruments you should use Plate Reverb on, aside from ...