KVR Audio

Trancit · Post by **Trancit** » Sun Apr 03, 2022 1:18 pm

Ryan99 wrote: Sun Apr 03, 2022 12:36 pm I didn’t know that my purchase at the end of 2021 entitled me to a free upgrade to Epic. I bought at 29$ the upgrade, but I reach out to them and they refunded me.

I bought it too end of 2021 (dec, 10th)... when did you buy??

Ryan99 · Post by **Ryan99** » Sun Apr 03, 2022 1:33 pm

End of 2021 too.

Trancit · Post by **Trancit** » Sun Apr 03, 2022 10:10 pm

And what did you do??

Did you wrote a mail to the support asking if you could get it for free??

dusted william · Post by **dusted william** » Sun Apr 03, 2022 10:33 pm

Is the new Epic version M1 native? I can't find the info on their site.

Ryan99 · Post by **Ryan99** » Sun Apr 03, 2022 11:47 pm

Trancit wrote: Sun Apr 03, 2022 10:10 pm And what did you do??

Did you wrote a mail to the support asking if you could get it for free??

I asked for refund for the paid upgrade and they did it. Seems the current VIP code should be working on the new version.

Trancit · Post by **Trancit** » Mon Apr 04, 2022 7:54 am

Ok, thx for the infos so far... while I am still confused

tatanka · Post by **tatanka** » Mon Apr 04, 2022 8:27 am

Spitfire31 wrote: Sun Apr 03, 2022 11:14 am Wonder about your system, then. Mac, 10.14.6, Live 11.1. Chords Epic and Deep Epic saved with project with no problems.

Maybe thats it, I am on windows 10. Maybe as it was originally develloped for mac first and then the windows version the bugs might be win specific. Written to support but no answer so far.

Trancit · Post by **Trancit** » Mon Apr 04, 2022 9:52 am

Just got my refund as well as being elegible for a free update... thx Ryan99 for pointing me to this!

4damind · Post by **4damind** » Mon Apr 25, 2022 3:29 pm

I tend to be very sceptical about such plug-ins. Cubase also has a chord assistant, but I'm quicker without it

David Guetta seems to love the plugin, he probably uses it often to find harmonies and chord progressions. I also heard about the plugin for the first time when Guetta mentioned it, I didn't know it before.
If I've seen it correctly, the plugin is not available individually, but you basically buy a whole bundle (which is not very expensive). There is no demo either, but a 30 day money back guarantee?

fantayt · Post by **fantayt** » Tue May 03, 2022 8:24 pm

dasen wrote: Sun Mar 27, 2022 5:45 am Hey,
Is Captain Chords by Mixed In Key worth it if I need chord progression generator or do you recommend any better alternatives?

Scaler 2.5 its 1000x better at least, take your time to check good Scaler videos and you will understand that Scaler its totally from another league.

4damind · Post by **4damind** » Tue May 03, 2022 8:33 pm

I bought the Captain Plugins Epic...
The first versions were very buggy! But within 2 days there were already 2 updates (I had also reported a bug). Currently it works without any problems.
To be honest: Deep, Melody, Beat, Play.. I personally like the idea, but I didn't like the results.
Chords is very good, you can try different keys and scales, also inversions or build your own chords. Many of the well known chord progressions are included as presets. What is missing is a direct key detection of audio. For that you need the "Mixed in Keys" additionally. David Guetta "the godfather of EDM" swears by both plugins and not without reason.

Chords I find at least very useful and certainly helpful if you are not so well versed in music theory.
I can't say anything about Scaler 2, but I will install it out of interest (I think they have a demo version).

Kalamata Kid · Post by **Kalamata Kid** » Wed May 04, 2022 4:42 am

Here is the Captain Chords search in the thread "Your fave MIDI fx, arp, mapper, mangler, generator, chorder, controller, utility. VST or MFX":
search.php?st=0&sk=t&sd=d&sr=posts&keyw ... 0&start=30

commerce · Post by **commerce** » Wed May 18, 2022 8:22 pm

flori89 wrote: Mon Mar 28, 2022 12:16 pm There is actually a closed beta going on right now where they invited people who already own the plugins to test the new ones.

Instead of the final version in December 2021.

tatanka wrote: Sun Apr 03, 2022 10:31 am Wonder about your experience. For me its buggy as hell and really not useable at all cause the state of the chord plugin is not saved with project (a lot of other bugs but thats the one really no go), so you have to start again evrytime. Mixcraft is not officially supported but I had all the version before and never any problem

Yes, it was buggy in April, in my case with Studio One.
It has been updated 3-4 times since then.

mcnoone · Post by **mcnoone** » Thu May 19, 2022 9:54 am

dusted william wrote: Sun Apr 03, 2022 10:33 pm Is the new Epic version M1 native? I can't find the info on their site.

Don't know about native, but it was updated to work with the M1 chipset, and it does work on that. It also works with the latest version of Live as well.
It's worth it if you can get it at sale price.

vitocorleone123 · Post by **vitocorleone123** » Thu May 19, 2022 3:27 pm

fantayt wrote: Tue May 03, 2022 8:24 pm
dasen wrote: Sun Mar 27, 2022 5:45 am Hey,
Is Captain Chords by Mixed In Key worth it if I need chord progression generator or do you recommend any better alternatives?
Scaler 2.5 its 1000x better at least, take your time to check good Scaler videos and you will understand that Scaler its totally from another league.

I find Scaler too complex for my simpler needs and rarely use it vs these plugins. And I’ve watched all the videos as I’ve had it since early v1 days.

Therefore, it’s actually about 1/2x as good as these plugins for me, at best, not 1000x better.

Captain Chords worth it?