EastWest Composer Cloud. Anyone using it with 9.5?

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bxbrkrz
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15 Jun 2017

Any feedback welcome when used with Reason 9.5 exclusively.
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15 Jun 2017

I'm looking into it. It's a great way to try out the libraries. I was thinking of picking up a hard drive, using the service, and perhaps later purchasing the ones that I find I use the most. http://www.soundsonline.com/CCC-Gold-HD

Here's a response from EastWest about some questions I had:
Hey Joey,

You are correct, the ComposerCloud subscription is the best way to try out our products. The regular ComposerCloud is $29.99 on a month-to-month basis and you can cancel it at any time/reactivate it at any time. These are subscription licenses, and do not function on a rent-to-own basis.

When your payment has stopped renewing, you will lose access to the sounds (at least anything you haven't converted to Audio in a DAW), though you will still have all of the files you've created/libraries you've downloaded from us so should you choose to reactivate you don't need to get those again.

If you purchase a ComposerCloud HD, you can absolutely purchase an individual license for any product to keep in perpetuity. The only reason you would need to purchase another hard drive is if the content on that drive differs from the library you've purchased. For example, the CCX HD has all of the Gold libraries found in both the ComposerCloud and ComposerCloud X Subscriptions, while the CCC PRO HD has the Diamond/Platinum Orchestra, Pianos, and Choirs libraries.

Everything included with the ComposerCloud and ComposerCloud X subscriptions is available to download online, but the ComposerCloud Plus has some libraries that are too large to download consistently (Hollywood Strings Diamond, for example, is 330 GB).

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bxbrkrz
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15 Jun 2017

joeyluck wrote:I'm looking into it. It's a great way to try out the libraries. I was thinking of picking up a hard drive, using the service, and perhaps later purchasing the ones that I find I use the most. http://www.soundsonline.com/CCC-Gold-HD

Here's a response from EastWest about some questions I had:
Hey Joey,

You are correct, the ComposerCloud subscription is the best way to try out our products. The regular ComposerCloud is $29.99 on a month-to-month basis and you can cancel it at any time/reactivate it at any time. These are subscription licenses, and do not function on a rent-to-own basis.

When your payment has stopped renewing, you will lose access to the sounds (at least anything you haven't converted to Audio in a DAW), though you will still have all of the files you've created/libraries you've downloaded from us so should you choose to reactivate you don't need to get those again.

If you purchase a ComposerCloud HD, you can absolutely purchase an individual license for any product to keep in perpetuity. The only reason you would need to purchase another hard drive is if the content on that drive differs from the library you've purchased. For example, the CCX HD has all of the Gold libraries found in both the ComposerCloud and ComposerCloud X Subscriptions, while the CCC PRO HD has the Diamond/Platinum Orchestra, Pianos, and Choirs libraries.

Everything included with the ComposerCloud and ComposerCloud X subscriptions is available to download online, but the ComposerCloud Plus has some libraries that are too large to download consistently (Hollywood Strings Diamond, for example, is 330 GB).
How easy or hard it is to automate is what I want to know (with anything not orchestral oriented). I need to get a new ssd before contemplating it, but CComposer is a good deal.
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13 Aug 2017

I have it myself..the controls aren't as intuitive as reasons being a vet but it seems to work well..however I have to say I have only used one in the rack at a time so far

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mcatalao
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14 Aug 2017

I have composer Gold not the Cloud... But the only difference is that the products licenses are perpetual.

Play stil has a problem that happens with some hosts, where when you bounce down the tracks, the midi data is cut (long notes are turn into Staccato). This is not a problem exclusive to Reason, as i could reproduce it in Reaper.

There is a workaround for the issue, but it's not effective for large lybraries,specially Multiple Key Changed ones using lots of HDD's as the workaround is disabling hdd Streaming.

However, you can either do this for small projects, or if your project is big and there isn't enough ram (on one of my orchestral projects it would load up to 40 GB Ram), you can do a real time bounce from the master channel. It's really easy to do.

Mind you folks this issue does not happen in normal playing and i tested with Kontakt and there are no issues.

It would be interesting to test these with other DAWS, if you folks have any. I uninstalled all other daws besides Reason and Reaper that i still have because a client used to bring Reaper projects.

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