Bargain Center: discussion, gossip, etc.

[DJMaytag]

I've held off for a long time on the Black Box plugin, but those two labor day coupons brought it down to the lowest I've seen it yet.

1 Black Box Analog Design HG-2 $129

Subtotal $129
Labor Day $25 Gift Voucher (Code: Labor-Day-25) -$25
Labor Day 18 - Black Box HG-2 $89 (Code: LABOR-HG2-89) -$40
Total $64

What are the odds of this price point coming around again for Black Friday? Saving a $25 voucher for the HG-2, or else using it for paying an activation fee for Maag EQ2.

[escalona]

If HG-2 is what you want wait until the end of the month and save your voucher. My guess is that either BF or Christmas it will be back at a reasonable price.

[mtelesha]

Waveform 9 does in fact run on the Pi. I did it the other day. I think that will be my new pad playing machine.

https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform

Would you mind posting details of the hardware/OS spec as I'm interested in replicating it but know practically nothing about Pi, besides having a few books. Thanks

I would go to this store - https://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main ... &cPath=105

I would also just get a Raspberry Pi 3 B model for $35 use an old phone charger as a power source and buy a simple case $5. Just hook it up to any old monitor, slap in any old micro sd card and your good to go. Follow the guides and you should learn a ton and its a lot of fun personally. It should take about 10 hours of learning to get to the point where you have Waveform installed and running.

[squibs]

Waveform 9 does in fact run on the Pi. I did it the other day. I think that will be my new pad playing machine.

https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform

Would you mind posting details of the hardware/OS spec as I'm interested in replicating it but know practically nothing about Pi, besides having a few books. Thanks

I would go to this store - https://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main ... &cPath=105

I would also just get a Raspberry Pi 3 B model for $35 use an old phone charger as a power source and buy a simple case $5. Just hook it up to any old monitor, slap in any old micro sd card and your good to go. Follow the guides and you should learn a ton and its a lot of fun personally. It should take about 10 hours of learning to get to the point where you have Waveform installed and running.

Be careful about the power supply - the pi can reset randomly and corrupt SD cards if the charger can't supply enough juice. Needs 2.5A IIRC. If youu have a decent power bank you can have a mobile solution. Some powerbanks have a pass-thru so you can use them while charging and get a cheap PI UPS.

[VariKusBrainZ]

Waveform 9 does in fact run on the Pi. I did it the other day. I think that will be my new pad playing machine.

https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform

Would you mind posting details of the hardware/OS spec as I'm interested in replicating it but know practically nothing about Pi, besides having a few books. Thanks

I would go to this store - https://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main ... &cPath=105

I would also just get a Raspberry Pi 3 B model for $35 use an old phone charger as a power source and buy a simple case $5. Just hook it up to any old monitor, slap in any old micro sd card and your good to go. Follow the guides and you should learn a ton and its a lot of fun personally. It should take about 10 hours of learning to get to the point where you have Waveform installed and running.

Thanks, I have done a little research since

What OS distro and audio interface are you using with it?
Have you found any other plugins besides Overtone DSP?

[mtelesha]

Waveform 9 does in fact run on the Pi. I did it the other day. I think that will be my new pad playing machine.

https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform

Would you mind posting details of the hardware/OS spec as I'm interested in replicating it but know practically nothing about Pi, besides having a few books. Thanks

I would go to this store - https://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main ... &cPath=105

I would also just get a Raspberry Pi 3 B model for $35 use an old phone charger as a power source and buy a simple case $5. Just hook it up to any old monitor, slap in any old micro sd card and your good to go. Follow the guides and you should learn a ton and its a lot of fun personally. It should take about 10 hours of learning to get to the point where you have Waveform installed and running.

Thanks, I have done a little research since

What OS distro and audio interface are you using with it?
Have you found any other plugins besides Overtone DSP?

Luckily your distro doesn't matter that much, Raspian is fine.

Audio interface is the included 3.5mm plug to a direct box in my live use case.

Linux plugins work but the CPU isn't anything to write home about. I use mainly just audio wav file stems and only basic gate and eq plugins from Waveform.

[VariKusBrainZ]

Waveform 9 does in fact run on the Pi. I did it the other day. I think that will be my new pad playing machine.

https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform

Would you mind posting details of the hardware/OS spec as I'm interested in replicating it but know practically nothing about Pi, besides having a few books. Thanks

I would go to this store - https://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main ... &cPath=105

I would also just get a Raspberry Pi 3 B model for $35 use an old phone charger as a power source and buy a simple case $5. Just hook it up to any old monitor, slap in any old micro sd card and your good to go. Follow the guides and you should learn a ton and its a lot of fun personally. It should take about 10 hours of learning to get to the point where you have Waveform installed and running.

Thanks, I have done a little research since

What OS distro and audio interface are you using with it?
Have you found any other plugins besides Overtone DSP?

Luckily your distro doesn't matter that much, Raspian is fine.

Audio interface is the included 3.5mm plug to a direct box in my live use case.

Linux plugins work but the CPU isn't anything to write home about. I use mainly just audio wav file stems and only basic gate and eq plugins from Waveform.

Thanks, very helpful

[krabbencutter]

Waveform 9 does in fact run on the Pi. I did it the other day. I think that will be my new pad playing machine.

https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform

Would you mind posting details of the hardware/OS spec as I'm interested in replicating it but know practically nothing about Pi, besides having a few books. Thanks

I would go to this store - https://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main ... &cPath=105

I would also just get a Raspberry Pi 3 B model for $35 use an old phone charger as a power source and buy a simple case $5. Just hook it up to any old monitor, slap in any old micro sd card and your good to go. Follow the guides and you should learn a ton and its a lot of fun personally. It should take about 10 hours of learning to get to the point where you have Waveform installed and running.

Thanks, I have done a little research since

What OS distro and audio interface are you using with it?
Have you found any other plugins besides Overtone DSP?

Luckily your distro doesn't matter that much, Raspian is fine.

Audio interface is the included 3.5mm plug to a direct box in my live use case.

Linux plugins work but the CPU isn't anything to write home about. I use mainly just audio wav file stems and only basic gate and eq plugins from Waveform.

Thanks, very helpful

Geez, I found the analog audio output of my RBPi 3 Model B to be pretty horrible, even for playing Super Mario on RetroPie It gets the job of outputting an audio signal done, but any simple 2 channel USB soundcard will easily outperform the onboard RBPi output in terms of audio quality and latency! I'm using a Behringer UFO202, but basic support for audio interfaces is pretty great on linux! Support for more complex I/Os will vary, but getting a low latency stereo output from whatever audio interface you throw at it works nearly 100% of the time without any effort at all.

[Feelshallright]

Maybe this is already in this thread - UVI (!) launched "The Walker", its a foley designer. Unfortunately it doesn't include either the Moonwalk, nor the stepping presets. But gave anyway an excuse for the UVI sound designers to dress in high heels...

https://youtu.be/pORINfT0Hsk

I usually UVI products, but I will not walk, but run away from this one. Too niche for my taste.

[Feelshallright]

Better stick to the usual: JRR, EveryPlugin, AudioDeluxe, Time+Space and BestService.

Can't go wrong with any of them.

[Feelshallright]

Does Toontrack historically have sales on Superior Drummer in November? Interested in the main program (SD3) not the packs.

Since it's the last time to get the upgrade price, I expect they will wait after the end of the upgrade period before a sale on SD3.

[Feelshallright]

How're people who own Izotope Music Production Bundle 2 + 08N2 approaching the upgrade to Music Production Suite 2? Do you sell Ozone 8 adv and Neutron 2 adv licenses and then upgrade to MPS 2 from MPB 2?

I've emailed Izotope but no answer thus far.

Great idea! I also wrote to Izotope about that.

[epiphanius]

"Better stick to the usual: JRR, EveryPlugin, AudioDeluxe, Time+Space and BestService."

Would you not add pluginboutique to that list? They have had good prices, and some nice freebies.

[dzilizzi]

When I asked for a better deal since I have Ozone 8 adv, Nectar 2 Production Suite and RX7 Standard, they told me the $299 was the best they could do, but I was welcome to sell all but the product used for the upgrade (I'm guessing O8 as it is the only "advanced" product. Though technically, I guess Nectar Suite is advanced as well.

[dzilizzi]

"Better stick to the usual: JRR, EveryPlugin, AudioDeluxe, Time+Space and BestService."

Would you not add pluginboutique to that list? They have had good prices, and some nice freebies.

He forgot it. It was mentioned and corrected a couple posts after.