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- Aug 22, 2024 11:31 am
- Forum: The Gear
- Topic: 42 GB of strings for $39
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3538
Re: 42 GB of strings for $39
I was initially tempted at this price but then I heard the first 10 seconds of this official demo.
Re: Backup
Then last year they removed the "unlimited" space - 400TB dropped to 3TB each. I'm very wary of any cloud storage service that claims to be unlimited, because either they will go out of business, or they will yoink unlimited away to prevent going out of business. Unlimited just isn't sust...
- Aug 02, 2024 10:30 am
- Forum: News Flash
- Topic: IRCAM SPAT Revolution $99
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7857
Re: IRCAM SPAT Revolution $99
My main concern is the workflow though. It's not a VST, but a standalone program that connects to your DAW through an audio driver. Agreed. With all the gushing Piet has done about SPAT over the years I got very close on a couple of occasions to pulling the trigger, but once Revolution was released...
- Jul 29, 2024 7:56 am
- Forum: The Gear
- Topic: Streamtech Music Legacy Horn - Solo Horn intro price
- Replies: 17
- Views: 363614
Re: Streamtech Music Legacy Horn - Solo Horn intro price
Most of legato samples were adjusted in their volumes to make sure it's all cohesive and to remove some occasional bumpiness. Also, this update includes a new subtle filter envelope that helps making the legatos even more fluid & a new 'flexible' volume envelope from Kontakt that allows for mor...
- Jul 22, 2024 8:38 pm
- Forum: The Arts
- Topic: When you first listen to a song, how important are lyrics to you?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 13383
Re: When you first listen to a song, how important are lyrics to you?
I'm with Bill in the "it depends" camp. There are some songs that are very clearly meant to be more about the story told by the lyrics than the music. A solid example is Gordon Lightfoot's The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald : the music is serviceable, pretty good even, but it's repetitive ...
- Jul 20, 2024 12:33 pm
- Forum: The Gear
- Topic: Korg Collection 5 inc ARP 2600
- Replies: 28
- Views: 13894
Re: New Korg collection 5
Done. Thanks Guy.Guy Rowland wrote: ↑Jul 19, 2024 7:40 pm Mods, perhaps merge this with the other Korg thread here? https://thesoundboard.net/viewtopic.php ... c1143fefdc
- May 16, 2024 8:28 pm
- Forum: The Gear
- Topic: Spitfire: Air Studios Reverb
- Replies: 21
- Views: 11198
Re: Spitfire: Air Studios Reverb
Price is very high in my opinion, specially without surround or a demo version to check cpu usage. Agreed. Reverbs are commonly priced far beyond what I consider sane. On the other hand, the gimmick itself (impulse responses captured at Air Lyndhurst) is not something that's easy to come by, so fro...
- Nov 28, 2023 8:19 pm
- Forum: The Gear
- Topic: Incirios announcement - a new sampler and audio engine
- Replies: 21
- Views: 30916
Re: Incirios announcement - a new sampler and audio engine
Anyone else get 3 emails from them within the same minute? They're shipping upgrade codes for L&S CS to the new sampler and I got 3 different ones. Choose your own adventure, I guess. :) 5 points to Gryffindor for not having any tracking information whatsoever in their emails, which is refreshin...
- Nov 11, 2023 12:38 pm
- Forum: The Gear
- Topic: Crow Hill: String Murmurations (intro £149)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 34154
Re: Crow Hill: String Murmurations (intro £149)
Oops, String Murmurations uses Codemeter. I wish I had noticed Guy's comment before I bought it. Buyer's remorse even before striking the first note.
- Nov 11, 2023 11:53 am
- Forum: The Gear
- Topic: Crow Hill: String Murmurations (intro £149)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 34154
Re: Crow Hill: String Murmurations (intro £149)
Christian's argument is that straight, simple samples lose the richness and texture of a group of players performing together struggling with complexity and timing where the outcome is blurry and wonderful, using Hedwig's theme as an example. It's hard to disagree with that, but solving the problem ...
- Sep 27, 2023 5:16 pm
- Forum: The Gear
- Topic: UAD $39 sale
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6058
Re: UAD $39 sale
Can you download UAD plugins directly nowadays, or do you still need their UA Connect software?
- Sep 13, 2023 10:53 am
- Forum: The Gear
- Topic: NKS partner 50% off sale and new NI keyboards
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2384
Re: NKS partner 50% off sale and new NI keyboards
I wonder if they'll improve the keybed of the S88. I have the MK1 and I really don't like it. Creaky, plasticky keys. I do quite like the aftertouch though. I've had my eye on the Numa X Piano GT for a while as a possible future upgrade, but I'll be interested to see what reviews of the S88 MK3 are ...
- Aug 16, 2023 8:18 pm
- Forum: The Gear
- Topic: Avid to be Acquired for $1.4 Billion
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5561
Re: Avid to be Acquired for $1.4 Billion
I've not seen a single case of any company acquired by a private equity firm (which STG is) actually benefiting any consumer. Their singular goal upon acquisition becomes value extraction. Features get squeezed, monetized as much as customers can bear, morale within the product engineering team rapi...
- Jul 05, 2023 8:35 pm
- Forum: The Gear
- Topic: Spitfire Audio BBC SO Piano
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7747
Re: Spitfire Audio BBC SO Piano
What‘s your problem with HZP? It's ultimately the same as my criticism of 90% of other piano libraries I've tried: it feels all wrong, like I'm hitting a mechanical switch that triggers samples. Which is of course fundamentally all a sample-based piano library ever is, except some libraries do a mu...
- Jul 03, 2023 11:34 am
- Forum: The Gear
- Topic: Spitfire Audio BBC SO Piano
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7747
Re: Spitfire Audio BBC SO Piano
It does sound nice. But I fell into this trap with HZP, which is perhaps one of the biggest wastes of money I've spent on sampling yet. (The honeymoon phase was rather significant as I recall, but very short lived.) So I kind of do understand how one could fall into an initial starting point of nega...
- Jun 26, 2023 8:39 pm
- Forum: The Gear
- Topic: Spitfire Audio Albion 2: Loegria retired and 50% off [2023 - now unretired]
- Replies: 23
- Views: 12968
Re: Spitfire Audio Albion 2: Loegria retired and 50% off [2023 - now unretired]
Well, being charitable, the reason is usually that the vendor doesn't want to continue supporting it and be obligated to release bug fixes (and security patches, which is less of a relevant factor in this industry). In Spitfire's case, they handwave this away by saying "it's not a bug, it's a f...
- May 02, 2023 7:07 pm
- Forum: The Gear
- Topic: Zynaptiq Orange Vocoder IV released
- Replies: 5
- Views: 18905
Re: Zynaptiq Orange Vocoder IV released
I had fun just playing around with using it as a vocal harmonizer. Now if only I could sing. (Even pitch-snapping can't save me.) I did find that synth channel was too loud even at its lowest setting. I wanted to mix a subtle synth layer, but with vocoder at 1.0 (max) and synth at 0.01 (lowest value...
- Feb 28, 2023 12:23 pm
- Forum: The Gear
- Topic: Synthogy Ivory 3 / German D
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3844
Re: Synthogy Ivory 3 / American D (new version)
Title/body should presumably read "German D" here, Piet?
- Dec 24, 2022 12:17 pm
- Forum: The Gear
- Topic: Merry Christmas!!!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5221
Re: Merry Christmas!!!
Merry Christmas, Happy Festivus, Joyous Solstice, and here's to 2023 being an improvement over 2022 in all ways.
- Nov 26, 2022 12:04 pm
- Forum: The Gear
- Topic: Virharmonic Bohemian Cello v4 released (not UVI)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3871
Re: Virharmonic Bohemian Cello v4 released (not UVI)
The installation process remains completely hopeless -- you will be confused by it and do something wrong, I assure you -- and the CodeMeter copy protection stuff seems even more intrusive than it was with the violin -- it launches CodeMeter Control Center on startup occupying Yet Another Slot in yo...
- Oct 22, 2022 6:56 pm
- Forum: The Gear
- Topic: Strymon BigSky Reverb Plugin
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3843
Re: Strymon BigSky Reverb Plugin
It definitely does things none of my current reverbs do. I do like the sound. At $275 CAD I simply can't justify the price though, so I'll hold out for a sale.
- Oct 18, 2022 10:51 am
- Forum: The Gear
- Topic: Products soon to retire - 60% off sale till 1 November
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3732
Re: Products soon to retire - 60% off sale till 1 November
Definitely tempted by a couple of these. Good timing!
Also, new directions, interesting! Not to derail this thread, but curious if you want to share.
Also, new directions, interesting! Not to derail this thread, but curious if you want to share.
- Sep 18, 2022 3:28 pm
- Forum: The Gear
- Topic: Incirios announcement - a new sampler and audio engine
- Replies: 21
- Views: 30916
Re: Incirios announcement - a new sampler and audio engine
Excited by the prospect of a legitimate Kontakt competitor. This "node-based scripting" looks accessible to non-programmers, but I just can't see it scaling well at all once things move beyond the trivial. And anyone who's comfortable with coding would go mad within minutes trying to muddl...
- Aug 02, 2022 2:13 pm
- Forum: The Gear
- Topic: Production Voices 300 Grand (Full Version)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 9369
Re: Production Voices 300 Grand (Full Version)
I find I get a lot of clicking when pre-attack is enabled, particularly with the Inside mic perspective. Other mic perspectives aren't nearly as bad, but still too problematic to use. Example with the pre-attack level at max to better hear it. (It doesn't seem to be a clipping issue because the clic...
- Aug 02, 2022 9:54 am
- Forum: The Gear
- Topic: Production Voices 300 Grand (Full Version)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 9369
Re: Production Voices 300 Grand (Full Version)
Wow Piet, that's a rare endorsement nearly up to the level of your infamous Emotional Cello review. :) Having the option to adjust the low, mid and high registers separately, for instance, would greatly increase the musical powers of the instrument. I can imagine, to give an example, that some playe...