The Sound Board

WTH is “unified memory” anyway? I understand that RAM isn’t exactly RAM anymore, but I don’t get how it works.

I don’t make enough use of the strings that I have but for $60 I will just buy these and assume I will find use for them.

If one is going to become a collector, at least one should collect at a price that is cost efficient.

“But then I remembered the work needed just to add the library into my template, and thought better of it. A few years back I wouldn't have hesitated to get a strings library at that pricepoint.” Linos, THIS I can relate to. What a PITA. However, listening through there seems to be a pleasing sound ...

Very sensible. Do you (can you?) unload the arts you don’t want to save RAM?

OT-I’ve always loved the mod wheel controlled French Horns shorts patch-because of the long portato option, I can often get a whole horn part out of it (non legato, but still.) The short shorts are nicely punchy.

Is it just strings that you’re changing Guy? I’d love to get a list of your chosen patches because my extreme laziness and general distress about EW patch naming have kept me from swapping out HOOPUS and instead letting Play versions remain in my template, and that’s a project that I plan to take on...

It took some years before Play finally got stabilized. Since then, the few times that I’ve needed tech help from them, the response has been superb.

Gotta go with the VSL on this one Jay. I’d be curious though-if you’re still in experimental mode, your Afflatus demo seems much drier. Can you give it a bit more space and not double the lead 8va? Sure, here it is, and I took off the compressor as well. Scene d'Amore sordini example 2.mp3 Much bet...

Gotta go with the VSL on this one Jay.

I’d be curious though-if you’re still in experimental mode, your Afflatus demo seems much drier. Can you give it a bit more space and not double the lead 8va?

If you do Rob I’ll buy the patch

Piet-listening through, the first piece you posted (“a little run through”) is gorgeous. It’s really my favorite and seems noticeably drier than the others. Was that the case or are my ears deceiving me?

With the F and F# being glommed together it’s not typical and i can’t tell if there’s a 7th in there. Interesting.

Wish I’d EVER had the range to sing “Maybe I‘m Amazed!” That B was B-yond.

Stridency is probably the wrong word, but between 1:56 and 1:4; of the first piece you posted, I heard more edge than I would have expected from a “sift” or “muted” piano. That’s not a bad thing at all, for it to have some range, and those softer passages have warmth and nuance (especially in the lo...

I also found it a bit more strident than expected, but your edited patch and your musicality in the piece you posted make the instrument much more attractive than the commissioned demos do. You should offer it to them.

Works on my old system. Good kit, smart marketing to Mae you want you to buy more.

I couldn’t find a way to tune individual drums-does anyone know if the basic player is crippled?

Sweet! I wonder what the minimum system is on Mac…

I think they’re going full Waves.

Still on Mojave, I have to update to at least Catalina to use the LA-2A. Fear and loathing.

Thanks for doing that, Guy. For my money, both versions become washy by the second or third ostinato repetition. Are you only using the built in room sound or also some external reverb?

Can you include an agile passage or two, Guy? Also, did you pay €395?

I use VSL woodwinds constantly.

Georg-have you owned any libraries that did a better job with the same pieces?

I’m still on Mojave and am perennially pissed off at being forced to update a practically perfect working system, to the point that I am willing to not purchase new tools that insist I update. Of course, the day eventually comes where I Simply Must Have Something. Hasn’t happened yet.

The price point makes it work. $6 as opposed to $100-$150 for human mastering is a sort of no-brainer gamble. I might try it as well.

Guy, Your string list is interestingly close to mine. I don’t have the Symphobias except for Animator and I have Albion 1 but not One. I also have CS2 which I find useful to this day and BBCSO Core, which I don’t. The rest match up. Oh, forgot Appassionata and the old EWQLSO. Probably forgot a few m...

You mean the overlapping releases? Yeah, sort of nostalgic

Sort of glad I’ve been too lazy to load into my template/use, but are you saying that it works ok in VEP?