Balance/ IK. What will you use yours for?
- crimsonwarlock
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I have an M-Audio Fast Track Ultra 8R in mint condition. Driver support ended like 8 months after I bought it new. No driver support after Windows XP. Avid (who bought M-Audio around that time) simply says: just buy something else from us. It's a pretty expensive doorstop now.
It is not the only equipment/doorstop I accumulated over the years of using music gear.
It is not the only equipment/doorstop I accumulated over the years of using music gear.
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Analog tape ⇒ ESQ1 sequencer board ⇒ Atari/Steinberg Pro24 ⇒ Atari/Cubase ⇒ Cakewalk Sonar ⇒ Orion Pro/Platinum ⇒ Reaper ⇒ Reason DAW.
Analog tape ⇒ ESQ1 sequencer board ⇒ Atari/Steinberg Pro24 ⇒ Atari/Cubase ⇒ Cakewalk Sonar ⇒ Orion Pro/Platinum ⇒ Reaper ⇒ Reason DAW.
I use balance all the time.
I purchased the Stanton Scratch Amp, just before NI & Stanton parted ways, I also have a bunch of CCTV gear from a company that use to be called 247 before they shut down, perhaps in 100 years these will be considered valuable collectables or just end up in a land field somewhere but for now they are dust collecters in my loft.
@MrFigg, love the windows comment
@MrFigg, love the windows comment
Dust collector's items
Somewhere I have an original Diamond Rio - a 32 MB MP3 player. It's bigger than a pack of cigarettes and about as stylish but, woo, a whole 32 million bytes to play with. That sure sounds like a lot to me - I'm never going to fill all of that up! I also remember the truly dreadful headphones that came with it but it didn't matter that they were dreadful because you had to use a really low bit rate to get more than a handful of songs on it. Maybe one day there will be a crap retro tech resurgence and I'll get a tenner for it.djsmex wrote: ↑24 Mar 2022I purchased the Stanton Scratch Amp, just before NI & Stanton parted ways, I also have a bunch of CCTV gear from a company that use to be called 247 before they shut down, perhaps in 100 years these will be considered valuable collectables or just end up in a land field somewhere but for now they are dust collecters in my loft.
@MrFigg, love the windows comment
@MrFigg, I ignored the terrible windows IK comment
I got and Ensonic Paris system back in the days next computer upgrade and the card did not fit inside computer and Ensonic had gone out of business too. about $5k of useless hardware
My IK has been in a drawer because I just registered my computer with Reason
My IK has been in a drawer because I just registered my computer with Reason
Yeah that. I always wait at least 2 years anyway before adopting a new major Windows version. But the IK not supported anymore? That blows completely.
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I'm running 11 Suite using IK authorization on Win 11 all seems fine. Key gets found, RE's get updated no problems.
Should I be worried?
Perhaps this is just about different levels of "support"?
- Reason Studios said they would stop supporting the Ignition Key, which only means that RS won't update it and it might not work if it isn't supported by the OS.
- Now it's supposedly not supported on Windows 11. Which might just mean that Wibu says it isn't supported on Windows 11 without such-and-such update, but it happens to still work? Maybe just from a tech support angle it isn't supported by Wibu? Maybe a few quirks you haven't encountered yet?
I think the red alarm people will need to keep an eye out for is "does not work on..." ?
- EnochLight
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We're still talking about Ignition Keys? I thought RS stopped supporting them a while ago?? As for Balance, that was probably one of my most favorite audio interfaces - hated that it failed as a product line. Would loved to have seen a Balance II (more inputs/outputs, lower latency drivers, and no more of that GOD AWFUL RUBBERIZED COATING CRAP)!
Win 10 | Ableton Live 11 Suite | Reason 12 | i7 3770k @ 3.5 Ghz | 16 GB RAM | RME Babyface Pro | Akai MPC Live 2 & Akai Force | Roland System 8, MX1, TB3 | Dreadbox Typhon | Korg Minilogue XD
Yeah thanks, I kinda figured it had to do with support, well I won't notice a lack of support I suppose, I've not asked for any for years...
Also I think I'll keep the authorizer and codemeter software from updating to the newer versions that came with R12, being as it ain't broke with the R11 install versions.
- pushedbutton
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I put my Balance back in the box because the rubber coating was starting to get tacky and it didn't play nice with windows 10.
Still got my IK plugged in for now as I'm not upgrading to windows 11 for a while.
Still got my IK plugged in for now as I'm not upgrading to windows 11 for a while.
@pushedbutton on twitter, add me, send me a message, but don't try to sell me stuff cos I'm skint.
Using Reason since version 3 and still never finished a song.
Using Reason since version 3 and still never finished a song.
I like the rubberized coating crap! It feels.... Comfortable. I touch it when nobody's looking.EnochLight wrote: ↑24 Mar 2022We're still talking about Ignition Keys? I thought RS stopped supporting them a while ago?? As for Balance, that was probably one of my most favorite audio interfaces - hated that it failed as a product line. Would loved to have seen a Balance II (more inputs/outputs, lower latency drivers, and no more of that GOD AWFUL RUBBERIZED COATING CRAP)!
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Mine is sitting in a display cabinet along with an Atari 2600 and other gadgets.pushedbutton wrote: ↑24 Mar 2022I put my Balance back in the box because the rubber coating was starting to get tacky and it didn't play nice with windows 10.
Still got my IK plugged in for now as I'm not upgrading to windows 11 for a while.
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- EnochLight
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Win 10 | Ableton Live 11 Suite | Reason 12 | i7 3770k @ 3.5 Ghz | 16 GB RAM | RME Babyface Pro | Akai MPC Live 2 & Akai Force | Roland System 8, MX1, TB3 | Dreadbox Typhon | Korg Minilogue XD