anxiousmofo

dcumpian
That's always the risk with any plugin, but it seems often to be more prevalent with "giveaway" plugins, like the cut-down version of Melodyne or TH3. It's one of the reason I buy a plugin if I want to use it rather than rely on "freebies", even though we know they aren't really free. The plugin vendors don't seem to test the "free" versions as well, unfortunately.
 
Dan
 

I do believe Melodyne Essential normally costs $99.00.  Not free.

Free/included to those that bought SONAR Platinum (maybe Producer too? I dunno).

And here I thought the OP was gonna say Noel shipped him his CW Coffee Mug (washed of course).

bapu

anxiousmofo

dcumpian
That's always the risk with any plugin, but it seems often to be more prevalent with "giveaway" plugins, like the cut-down version of Melodyne or TH3. It's one of the reason I buy a plugin if I want to use it rather than rely on "freebies", even though we know they aren't really free. The plugin vendors don't seem to test the "free" versions as well, unfortunately.
 
Dan
 

I do believe Melodyne Essential normally costs $99.00.  Not free.

Free/included to those that bought SONAR Platinum (maybe Producer too? I dunno).

This is true, and that's how I have it.  I was just pointing out that it is normally an independent, paid product. As such, it should presumably be tested as well as the more robust, polyphonic-processing-capable version. Or perhaps be easier to QC, given that the feature set is more limited and straightforward.

anxiousmofo

bapu

anxiousmofo

dcumpian
That's always the risk with any plugin, but it seems often to be more prevalent with "giveaway" plugins, like the cut-down version of Melodyne or TH3. It's one of the reason I buy a plugin if I want to use it rather than rely on "freebies", even though we know they aren't really free. The plugin vendors don't seem to test the "free" versions as well, unfortunately.
 
Dan
 

I do believe Melodyne Essential normally costs $99.00.  Not free.

Free/included to those that bought SONAR Platinum (maybe Producer too? I dunno).

This is true, and that's how I have it.  I was just pointing out that it is normally an independent, paid product. As such, it should presumably be tested as well as the more robust, polyphonic-processing-capable version. Or perhaps be easier to QC, given that the feature set is more limited and straightforward.

Should be, but is it? I doubt it. I suspect they focus a lot more QA on the full-blown Studio version.
 
Dan

+1

Noel has reached out to me directly on a few occasions and been very helpful. A top notch engineer and company bloke

Noel talked to me at Winter NAMM 2015.
 
He said "Leave me alone or I'll call security"
 
At least he talked to me.
 

See my hand behind his back? That's when I grabbed his coffee mug and and it went downhill from there.

LJB
 
The lesson Noel taught me is that it only takes ONE plugin to wreck an entire DAW. Keep that in mind if you can, I certainly will :O) 
Hope this little post helps some of ya'll.
 
Ludwig

Worth a bump.

A very nice story.  Great of you to take the time to share it with the forum.

Some of us had projects that were corrupted and would no longer open if we dared save with melo 4.04 in there until we uninstalled Melodyne . I'm glad that didn't happen to you. I was working on getting some data to support for an unrelated issue and the morning after updating to melo 4 from 2 the test project would no longer open - for a few days, while what was wrong was determined. I remember that Saturday in the spring like it was yesterday. Been using V-Vocal all summer since.

This should be a sticky... Noel is a treasure...