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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 ...

I've been using SuperPlate all week in production work, primarily on percussion instruments at the moment, which interestingly goes against the advice of a few articles I read that said plate reverb always makes things sound more metallic and thus should never be used on percussive instruments or in...

Wow, I am SO glad that I upgraded tonight! The feature that I most need is present, even though not listed in the lengthy Release Notes, unless the way they talk about it is so obtuse that I didn't notice! My extracted parts are all now the best of any of my gazillion notation options (although admi...

Same here. This 4.1 update installed faster than the 4.0, for some reason.

… Are plates allowed to be uncolored? Maybe not in a pure sense, but compared to algorithmic reverbs (vs. convolution or hybrid verbs). At least to my ears, as I use low dosages anyway. I'm using the "plate in a room" setting in IKM's Fame (Muscle Shoals) for some stuff in this project.

I'm hoping to get heavy use of SuperPlate this week or coming weekend, as I am finalizing production on a project where LittlePlate was the main track0level reverb for almost any acoustic instrument recorded with a mic.

Arturia's the "worst" in that regard, as updates are frequent and usually across the product line, so it can take well over an hour to do "one" update, all of which requires constant intervention and thus multi-tasking is nigh impossible. I like how Plug-in Alliance and some othe...

I was surprised how well Overture 5 imported the Music XML output from Dorico 4, actually. It's a pretty easy app to use and looks nice, but I think I found it lacking feature-wise, though I may be thinking of Dorico itself as it is heavily crippled in some pretty important areas. I won't have time ...

Here's a review of the new version. I don't have time to read it in depth as I'm behind on production tasks, but I skimmed it, and am leaning towards the upgrade now.

https://www.scoringnotes.com/reviews/do ... c-forward/