The Sound Board

I think I might wait till I hear some more , or newer, sound collections that indicate its new features are worth the €80,- upgrade price. I guess eventually I will do it, but for now I am still happy with the current tools, and the new few sound sets that require version 2 didn't yet convince me. ...

Tutti Free is, well, free from Sonokinetic - Aleatoric orchestral phrases and hits. This is part of their 12 Days of Christmas thing - I don't know if it's just free for a short time or forever.

Thanks to Jay's tip, Cheery Audio have their SEM Expander free. Not sure if this is a time-limited offer - https://cherryaudio.com/products/synthe ... der-module

Markus, I've added a video of how I often work with XO in this thread if it's of any interest / use - viewtopic.php?p=80280#p80280

Since I have next to zero experience with most of the machines here but like to use some for commercial work: Is there any kind of tutorial or comparison of the different characters, use cases and such where you can get a quick overview? I made a quick walk through but it would be helpful to get so...

Hi @Guy Rowland, Hmmm... So, Are you liking the EW HOOPUS Strings Sordino (fake emulation), more than the VSL Synchron Duality Strings (real) Sordino Library ? I find that a bit hard to believe, but curious to read a bit more about how you are comparing these two libraries. Thanks. I certainly like...

Linos wrote: ↑Nov 28, 2023 1:32 pm The strings are all Light & Sound Chamber Strings Guy.

Well have to say - this is an incredible demo for those! And are these Incirios too?

during expressively shaped sustains, it often sounds like two instruments instead of just one. The old x-fading problem, in other words. Alas I heard it loud and clear too. It's a lovely arrangement of a gorgeous piece though Linos. And the strings, whatever they are, really shine - I'd have them a...

Had 20 minutes to try out Silk Vocal. Honestly... kids these days. It's now so easy to make something sound good, they don't know they're born etc. This is another machine-learning tweakathon. In practice it's a bit like soothe, only you have three controls - low, mid, high, and it's clearly designe...

If anyone still doesn't have it, HOOPUS is now $299 with Forbidden Planet thrown in.

I honestly think HOOPUS might be the best complete Symphonic orchestral package out there.

Is it me or were BF sales unspectacular this year? Not just you. For the most part it was deals we'd seen before. UAD was a crazy exception, and OT's Berlin series and u-he's stuff had slightly steeper reductions. I was really hoping for a discount on the Ryzen 9 7900 but alas. So far my roll call ...

An enthusiastic thumbs up here. Those extra 4 kick and snare faders are great for dialling in just what you need. There's a huge variety in there as you'd hope, my personal fave is the popcorn snare. The basic kit is a good solid one, and there's a few hi hat choices (though I think they're all twea...

Apollo 13! Very nice, Zee.

My name is Nobody wrote: ↑Nov 24, 2023 5:25 pmI cannot get to my account at all....servers down still?

They're being slammed for sure. Just keep trying. I put it on the macbook this evening and it probably only took 20 minutes all in. Had to refresh a fair few times mind, waiting a day or two might be sanity-saving.

Well don't be fooled - of course this can do all the EDMs, but this is also a highly capable sound design synth. The new spectral synthesis gets some very interesting tones, similar but different to granular and less over-familar to my ears. There's a lot of good raw material in the factory library ...

https://media.wavescdn.com/images/products/plugins/hero/silk-vocal.png?auto=format&fit=crop&crop=edge&w=2560&h=900 Waves' freebie this year is Silk Vocal - https://www.waves.com/plugins/silk-vocal . Free today only though I think, so get on with it. Silk Vocal is a smart EQ & dy...

Maybe it’s because I was trained classically to write for real players but it just wouldn’t occur to me to ever play a solo woodwind sampled instrument polyphonically expecting it to be the real performance. Not classically trained here, but quite agree. It never works, especially on woodwinds for ...

The monophonic stuff does sound good. Playing the sustains polyphonically sounds like an organ, but to be fair it always does with woodwinds. Actually at 5.30ish the Oboe transitions sound horrible - the monophonic legato still sounds good though. What's the deal with this as an engine for 3rd party...

It's out, but quelle surprise, servers are down. Price for new users seems to be £133 with a Black Friday discount. Upgrades are circa £73 with the discount I think, but until their servers are back up I can't be sure. While we wait, here's a nice no-nonsense 8 minute overview of some of the new fea...

Well it's time for a thread revival. This is a classic, so good to have Chris Whitten contribute here. Anyway, Kicks And Snares is now 70% in the Black Friday sale, and I think I should probably do the decent thing after all this time. I'd forgotten about the extra layers of electronic elements whic...

NI has added a preference option in 7.7.1 to entirely remove "New Instruments For You", out today.

Good. Next, the ability to restore double-click loading into an empty slot on the rack please.

https://audiobro.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Eternity-Legato-2_00x-Sharpen-Skewed-2-800x622.png Pricing to be released on Black Friday, launch day. Video and audio demos on their webpage: https://audiobro.com/eternity-adult-choir Built on our exclusive Audiobro orchestral engine, the Eternity Ad...

Pretty much everything half price at u-he - plugins and soundsets.

https://u-he.com/specials/autumn-sale-2023.html

Any updates on the copy protection that will be used? Something about my system makes codeMeter (that's what they're on now, isn't it?) it is think that it's constantly a new system, and I haven't been able to get Avenger running for a while. It's no longer Codemeter, hasn't been for a while. It's ...

Manuel has indeed this ‘almost stereotype’ ( south) german feature to look like he doesn’t enjoy what he’s doing, but clearly he does, producing soundbanks after soundbanks, including his participation in Refx. A contrast appears clearly in his video’s with Dr Mix. Although for my side I quickly ha...