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by jast
Thu Jan 25, 2024 5:53 pm
Forum: Fight Discussions and Reviews
Topic: A song of a ballad of a tale of (Blood and Fire prefight)
Replies: 13
Views: 1126

Re: A song of a ballad of a tale of (Blood and Fire prefight)

Nick Cave famously described AI-written lyrics as "a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human" in a post from January 2023. I just discovered that he doubled down on this later when someone asked him what was wrong about "faster and easier": https://www.theredhandfiles.com/cha...
by jast
Sun Jan 21, 2024 2:54 pm
Forum: Forums
Topic: Pronouns profile field added
Replies: 25
Views: 6725

Re: Pronouns profile field added

I've never really had any reason to be confused about my identity (for the most part, but this isn't about me), but I do have a lot of empathy for people who struggle with that, and have to deal with all of the friction with, well, less understanding people on top of that. I don't think anyone wants...
by jast
Thu Nov 09, 2023 8:04 pm
Forum: Help and How To
Topic: Deals On Gear and Software
Replies: 624
Views: 108747

Re: Deals On Gear and Software

All editions of Auto-Tune are currently 50% off. https://antarestech.com/
by jast
Wed Nov 08, 2023 4:03 pm
Forum: Help and How To
Topic: Deals On Gear and Software
Replies: 624
Views: 108747

Re: Deals On Gear and Software

BFD3 is once again at its cheapest: $49 (regular >$300). Also all expansions are on sale, up to 75% off (but most more like 50%). https://www.kvraudio.com/marketplace/deals?brand=bfd-drums&type=0&sort=price-latest-discount or via the BFD website, https://bfddrums.com/ (check both places, not...
by jast
Thu Sep 21, 2023 4:53 am
Forum: Help and How To
Topic: Free Plug ins
Replies: 417
Views: 126814

Re: Free Plug ins

Don't have a bass/guitar amp sim plugin yet? This one is free for another 19 hours with coupon code FREEYOURMUSIC:
https://www.positivegrid.com/products/bias-fx-2
by jast
Tue Sep 19, 2023 5:39 pm
Forum: SpinTunes
Topic: SpinTunes 21 Round 1 Challenge - 'Y-Axis'
Replies: 19
Views: 1517

Re: SpinTunes 21 Round 1 Challenge - 'Y-Axis'

No, a single plugin can do this sort of thing just fine, it's just that Cubase's Limiter sucks, and Cubase's Maximizer sucks for different reasons. :) One thing I notice different between our two experiments - besides the nature of the plugin used, of course - is that the waveform you used appears t...
by jast
Tue Sep 19, 2023 8:10 am
Forum: SpinTunes
Topic: SpinTunes 21 Round 1 Challenge - 'Y-Axis'
Replies: 19
Views: 1517

Re: SpinTunes 21 Round 1 Challenge - 'Y-Axis'

This is getting a bit off topic but I figure it's kind of important to know... If we could just run the whole song through a limiter to keep it from clipping and then boost everything by a few db, it would be easier to listen to, right? [...] So I tried that. [...] You can see on the red version tha...
by jast
Tue Aug 08, 2023 7:27 am
Forum: Help and How To
Topic: Free Plug ins
Replies: 417
Views: 126814

Re: Free Plug ins

iZotope's Nectar 3 Elements is currently free: https://www.izotope.com/en/products/downloads/nectar_elements.html Nectar is a voice processing plugin that features automatic EQ, dynamics processing, pitch correction and de-essing. The controls in this version are quite limited but hey, can't beat th...
by jast
Mon Jul 31, 2023 2:55 am
Forum: Help and How To
Topic: Deals On Gear and Software
Replies: 624
Views: 108747

Re: Deals On Gear and Software

KV331 Audio's SynthMaster 2 is currently 78% off - $29 instead of $129. If you want to do some fairly involved synth tinkering but not drop a lot of money on something like Omnisphere, HALion, Reaktor, Falcon or some such, you could do a lot worse than this. Sale ends tomorrow. https://www.kv331audi...
by jast
Mon Jul 31, 2023 2:52 am
Forum: Help and How To
Topic: Free Plug ins
Replies: 417
Views: 126814

Re: Free Plug ins

KV331 Audio's SynthMaster 2 Player currently has a free version with 550 presets (which you can tweak on up to 12 predefined parameters each, but not fully edit). https://www.kv331audio.com/synthmasterplayer.aspx
This might end tomorrow.
by jast
Thu Jun 22, 2023 9:31 am
Forum: Help and How To
Topic: Deals On Gear and Software
Replies: 624
Views: 108747

Re: Deals On Gear and Software

Native Instruments is doing 50% off on almost all products (both new licenses and updates/upgrades unlike in previous years where only updates/upgrades were discounted): https://www.native-instruments.com/en/specials/summer-of-sound-2023/ That means: KOMPLETE 14 new license: Select: $99 Standard: $1...
by jast
Thu Jun 22, 2023 4:47 am
Forum: Quality Control
Topic: forum error every time I quote somebody
Replies: 5
Views: 390

Re: forum error every time I quote somebody

FWIW I still have capacity on my server, provided that the forum (attachments in particular) doesn't take up too much disk space...
by jast
Thu Jun 22, 2023 4:42 am
Forum: Help and How To
Topic: Deals On Gear and Software
Replies: 624
Views: 108747

Re: Deals On Gear and Software

BFD3, the virtual drum plugin, is currently on sale over at Audio Plugin Deals for $99. That's the cheapest I've ever seen it, by far.
https://audioplugin.deals/product/bfd3/

(edit: never mind, I posted a sale price of $49 in the past. Still, it's significantly cheaper than full price...)
by jast
Sun Jun 18, 2023 4:22 pm
Forum: Quality Control
Topic: Fixing typos in the archive data
Replies: 51
Views: 7498

Re: Fixing typos in the archive data

fluffy wrote:
Sun Jun 18, 2023 10:34 am
and I still don’t have a good explanation
I don't know, that seemed like a fairly good explanation to me.
by jast
Sat Jun 10, 2023 7:55 am
Forum: Help and How To
Topic: Least-shitty distribution and manufacturing channels
Replies: 100
Views: 18822

Re: Least-shitty distribution and manufacturing channels

The songtradr website shows nothing about free + % options. Is it an option once you create an account? Also, the monthly cost is $19.99 which is less than the $22.99/month currently charged by distrokid. I wonder what, if any, differences there are in the services. Side note, they're yearly costs,...
by jast
Sat Jun 10, 2023 7:42 am
Forum: Help and How To
Topic: Least-shitty distribution and manufacturing channels
Replies: 100
Views: 18822

Re: Least-shitty distribution and manufacturing channels

Huh, I guess Songtradr's free plan is no longer available for new users. Must be a fairly recent change; some of the search engines still show the free option in their snippets. That leaves the following free options: Amuse (limited to 1 release/month; release after ~4 weeks; 0% commission; fairly l...
by jast
Fri Jun 09, 2023 8:29 pm
Forum: Help and How To
Topic: Least-shitty distribution and manufacturing channels
Replies: 100
Views: 18822

Re: Least-shitty distribution and manufacturing channels

Sounds good, haven't tested it. Of course for non-cover songs, Songtradr is still the better deal (free/song, 10% cut which you can get rid of at any time with a subscription).
by jast
Mon Dec 05, 2022 11:05 am
Forum: Help and How To
Topic: Online collaboration technologies
Replies: 23
Views: 1135

Re: Online collaboration technologies

Every file storage service has built-in ways to share links to files to people via email, or at least, Dropbox and Google Drive definitely do, and that seems like a very basic function that ought to be pretty in any such service. You shouldn't need to use any additional tools other than the file st...
by jast
Mon Dec 05, 2022 9:26 am
Forum: Help and How To
Topic: Online collaboration technologies
Replies: 23
Views: 1135

Re: Online collaboration technologies

Side note, there are plenty of web converters from MP3 to WAV, your drummer can just google one and put the MP3 file in there. There are also free tools you can download for doing this, e.g. fre:ac (https://freac.org).
by jast
Mon Dec 05, 2022 2:54 am
Forum: Help and How To
Topic: Deals On Gear and Software
Replies: 624
Views: 108747

Re: Deals On Gear and Software

SynthMaster 2 and SynthMaster One, both among the more affordable and fairly powerful synth plugins, are currently on sale for up to 70% off, plus an extra 15% off (so up to ~74.5% off total) with the coupon "YMLP15OFF". Both plugins have the same audio engine but SynthMaster One is a litt...
by jast
Wed Nov 16, 2022 7:08 pm
Forum: Help and How To
Topic: Deals On Gear and Software
Replies: 624
Views: 108747

Re: Deals On Gear and Software

IK Multimedia are selling their complete software bundle for $/€149 (regular price €999 as I recall); if you have any of their MAX products you can upgrade for $/€99 and if you have maxcoins you can bring it down to $/€69. BFD3 is currently on sale for $/€49 (regular $/€329 or some such). This is th...
by jast
Fri Oct 28, 2022 11:17 am
Forum: Help and How To
Topic: Free samples and loops
Replies: 9
Views: 821

Re: Free samples and loops

Free synth things worth checking out: Crystal: https://www.greenoak.com/crystal/dnld2.html (a decent bit of experience with synth concepts will help a lot, but it also has a few hundred presets) Vital: https://vital.audio/ If you like messing with a virtual rack and cables, Voltage Modular has a fre...