Wow, yeah time for an upgrade.
I moved everything over to VST3 to try some mastering suites that required it. It was a royal PITA, but now that I just install everything VST3 by default it’s not so bad. It’s nice that everything has to be installed in the same folder specified by Steinberg, so no weird plugins with their own folders off god-knows-where anymore.
The deed is done.
ooooh sweetie… i hate to tell you this but… Live 12 does not support VST 2. so yeah. maybe don’t throw away your Live 8 (you can use both!)
yeah when I couldn’t load original NI Massive, which I meant I couldn’t load ANY of my project files original bass sequence tracks from like 2008-2016, i was depressed for like… a week. Serum and Massive X just don’t fill that void, i’m sorry. It’s not even about the software, it’s that the plugin won’t even load and ALL of that hard work and automation is gone.
freeze/unfreeze your tracks you guys. get that processed audio stem. like, seriously if you use heavy automation on your MIDI anything, go ahead and flatten a few instances of that sucker, and render it to audio. fuck, do it all the time. inoperable when you reopen that project.
Oh you know what twists the knife even more… looool. NI actually offers the “classic” Massive :
…I’ll give you 2 guesses what format it ISN’T.
falling asleep.. i’ll continue this later
Wow. I bought the OG Massive a few months ago and am lucky enough to use a DAW that supports both. That would’ve grinded my gears.
Is there some bridge you Live people can use? That’s pretty terrible imo
I think it’s a misunderstanding. Live 12 still supports VST2, it just doesn’t support 32 bit plugins of any kind (VST or AU). As long as they’re 64 bit they work just fine in my experience. In fact v12 was nice enough to use my v11 settings and pulled my VST2 folder in on first launch.
sorry yes, this. I got caught up in my rant and forgot to explain that..
So much awesome-ness has happened this week but two nights ago was the fucking cherry.
A few years back, I had a critical hard drive failure that took all my other drives out in the chain. So my two back up hard drives and pc in an instant were corrupted. I contemplated very seriously if I was going to sell my gear and hang it up, I lost well over a decade of files and back ups in an instant.
I eventually upgraded my pc and started trying to get my drives to at least work enough to get some files, slowly over the past 4 years I got my music files back.
The main thing I wanted was my 2 1/2 TBs of photos and footage, especially since it was me and my son together on hours and hours of adventures in deserts, mountains, snow, etc. but the drive was too fucked up. I took it to a couple shops and they basically said I’d need a data recovery service.
Well fellas through grit and determination, I fucking figured out a work around and now have 3,800ish photos and videos to sift through!! Couldn’t be happier, I’ve had big plans for this footage for years!!
If you don’t like cheeseball shit, you’re going to want to skip this one. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Apparently I’m (very likely) getting hired to solo-develop an indie / edutainment game over the long haul. Honestly, I can’t really believe it; I don’t talk about personal stuff too much because my life was in the absolute gutter of alcoholism up until 5 years ago, and rebuilding / reshaping it has felt like a slow and gradual process ever since I quit, but whenever something starts to pay off, I realize just how meaningful it all is, or why I decided to quit in the first place (not that that part is ever in question; it’s just extra validation).
I mean, it’s kind of weird that I don’t have a lot of vivid memories prior to 2020, and especially not in the span of 2010-2020 (good thing most of my shitposts are gone, am I right?), and not a whole lot to show for my life like a lot of you guys do, but I’m so insanely grateful for the small things that could’ve only been achievable in sobriety. I was on the brink of destroying my marriage, and I still feel that guilt and pain deep inside of me, but I can’t believe just how much better things have gotten. Sometimes I feel like I’ve been given a second chance to do things right, and I’ll never forget what that means.
Alright, do your worst. Cue the Creed videos 
This post is beyond inspiring. thank you for sharing and you deserve every bit of greatness you desire for yourself, but ps we already think you’re great. so happy for you brotha
I’ve lost several close people do to addictions but alcohol mostly. So glad to hear you made the change before we lost you too!
I know firsthand how hard addictions are to overcome, that is a huge accomplishment that unfortunately many don’t achieve. Keep pushing yourself.
Only fine aged cheddar and creamy brie cheese here - That’s great news and a great message to go with it. Good on you. I hope your pillow is extra comfortable tonight.
JFC how did that even happen??? I’m guessing those were all internal drives & did not include any external drive that was plugged in?
How did you go about it?
The worst I had to face some years ago was one of the top 5 viruses of the time that wrecked my then desktop tower PC. That fucker was basically a death sentence - it would start by replicating itself everywhere & go on to effectively prevent Windows from booting up. No other solution than wiping out everything. While almost everything on the PC was destroyed, I managed to salvage some documents (pics, pdf/word docs/text, music) using a Ubuntu disc (Linux). While Windows would not masterboot anymore, Ubuntu was the only way I could boot into it and salvage some files. It was a real life saver!!
"Things I’ve learned”:
Anyhoo, glad you managed to get your photos back! Those are the only files that really matter 
Every six months… hmm this is just me but If you’re on your computer all the time making stuff I highly suggest backing up much more frequently. automating a weekly backup to an external HD and disconnecting between is what I do.
Also for HD recovery of all kinds some might remember I have used Disk Drill but not sure if Windows runs it… there is most certainly a comparable option
I have 4 externals 2-4TB:
You can get a western digital 2TB for like $60 now.
I use google drive as my cloud for auto saving ($10/mo for 2TB). I’ve used many cloud services over the last 15 years and I’ve landed on Google for compatibility, speed, and integration. I also use my SUBQUiRE FTP as storage too.
On top of all that, most of my ideas that matter to me are written down by hand in journals or sheet music.
I don’t fuck around.
It was an external lol. I was transferring a file from it to my other external and it went corrupt. I was still able to access it for short periods of time to slowly remove my files.
I had to reinstall windows on my pc because it too was corrupted, luckily I had that backed up, unluckily it was between the two drives lol.
Also the external it was transferring too went into some sort of protection or safe mode.
It also would work for very short burst but the download speeds would drop to 0 and I could hear what sounded like the disk drive failing. It wouldn’t let me delete files or add anything new to the drive. Everyone thought it was mechanical failure with the drive including me since I could hear it.
I spent the last few years scraping a file or two here and there. It’s nerve racking because when it drops to 0 on dl transfer, if I do anything with the drive my cpu freezes up and wigs out and I have to hard boot it.
I recently tried renaming the files it would drop transfer on and realized it was just a shit ton of corrupted files and if I stayed at it I could get them back, I also realized if it dropped to zero I had to unplug the drive immediately, than plug it in, rename the file, move forward. When you have thousands of files in video format with shitty labeling, it’s quite the task lol. It was hard to diagnose because so many things were happening with the drive.
Either way, 4 years later and I got all my footage back! Getting that many hours of footage back is a relief. Now I can get back to my video project and watch all these adventures my son and I did.
I’ve had three catastrophic failures lol. The first one was my dip shit buddy. I knew this stupid site he liked, and when I was going to bed I told him don’t go on that on my music computer. Next day my pc was corrupt and what do you know. The search history showed him on that exact site. Wiped me out. Can’t remember what wiped me out the second time but I had backups so it was fine, than this last time.
Urggggghhh
Of course. Usually I’m not making music on such a regular basis that it would warrant even monthly full backups… Being unemployed has definitely made my music creation time spike and I realized yesterday that I really needed to stop procrastinating on my backups 
I don’t trust cloud backup companies whatsoever. Especially Google. External hard drives all the way for me.
He had some weird fetish with a fucking mom or some shit, I think the site was called like ‘The amazing thai’ or close, this was like 2006. Dipshit lost me a lot of audiofiles
What could go wrong? 
Halfway of the way to a new stratocaster. I’ve only got about 4 more shifts worth of work and I can buy it 
