The Sound Board

Yes, some of it sounds very good. But … I have drawn what might well turn out to be a final line under my VSL purchases. I have … let me see … close to 2 terrabyte of data in my VSL Content folder and I hardly use any of it, ever . Occasionally an old woodwind (weirdly, the ones I use most frequent...

Well here we are, UAD now bumping along with Waves for the ultra cheap deals. These are for the powered versions of the plugins, and you get a native license (or 2?) thrown in too if it's available for the product. All the following are $39 at Plugin Boutique until October 2: Lexicon 224 Digital Re...

The attaching a celebrity name is roughly equivalent to adding an iconic looking UI, it can distract from what the actual sound is. I certainly understand why developers drop it, I am sure it adds a lot of sales, but frankly, I am not a person who care about that. Pretty much of my favorites have th...

Boy Muziksculp, you are touting this more than I did Hollywood Strings when EastWest was paying me

As hard as I find it to make myself do, when I open a plug-in in Logic Pro using Controls view and work with it, it’s easier for me to objectively evaluate the sound, because the UI often makes me think it sounds better, or worse, than it actually does.

Another nice thing re VSL-I own VEP (a few versions), one BBO and SE winds and that’s it from Vienna. When the iLok transition happened, they turned SE winds into SE basic, giving me all of the instruments of the basic SE orchestra. Damn generous. The folks at VSL, like Paul Kopf, are really good p...

With the new VSL library seemingly underwhelming everyone with an over-familiar tone, maybe this is the right time to look again at Afflatus - 60% off at £342, UK price. There’s a lot I hear in the demos where I don’t really have anything that sounds like it, potentially that vital chisel to crack ...

I have Synchron Strings but never use them. Nothing I am hearing hear makes me think I would feel differently about Duality.

I own a bunch of sampled pianos I like. I don’t expect a $500 sampled or modeled piano played from a weighted keyboard controller to sound and feel when playing it like the really good pianos I have played in my lifetime. All of the ones I use sound better and are more satisfying to play than the Gu...

I love my M1 Mac Studio Max and the M2 is only 25 percent faster, so probably going to hold down the fort.

I am usually all over AcousticSamples products, but I just don’t need these.

I am staying out of this, I don’t want to have Nick come after me again:)

doctoremmet wrote: ↑May 08, 2023 7:57 am But… this is not a Moog, rather a Sequential Circuits synth?

Yes, Bill had a senior moment, it happens to us

I would be all over this if I weren't pretty darned happy with the U-he Repro 5.

Mike showed it to me at NAMM. Very unique and sounds really good.

Mike Greene, thoughtful? Puh-leeeze, he only comes here to avoid finishing Realivox-The Men.

Yep. Totally clear, and I think the rest of us all knew what you meant. And ironically, you weren't even being negative about Engine. But I don't know where else "you think ... our engine doesn’t work ..." could have come from. Meanwhile, go to work and finish Realivox-The Men already!

That person is the real villain in the piece. I still think this should be a developer free forum. (Sorry, Mike, aka big fella.) On the original topic (or rather, the original tangent), I wonder if part of what upset Nick is when Jay talked about the reliability of "Engine," and Nick may ...

The Sound Board has been, I think, pretty much drama free for a good couple of years now. Interesting who just joined and reset the clock to 0 days. Clearly, someone who visits here reached out to Nick and said or wrote something like, "Jay Asher just trashed your new library. Didn't that guy ...

I have zero problem with Nick disagreeing with me. I don’t claim to be an expert on anything other than Logic Pro, but like every sample library user, I am entitled to be interested in or not in what I am interested in and am not and say so. What he is not entitled to do is accuse me of having a gru...

Pretty much true. The comments are just silly and just show a disconnect with reality. Is it classy to post like 6 times about how you think we have lost it and our engine doesn’t work on his 2002 Mac? All you have to do is watch the walk through video to know. You know, Nick, are you talking about...

Guy Rowland wrote: ↑Mar 30, 2023 6:02 pm
Even today in 2023, hard drive space is at a premium, especially on those lovely Apple silicon models.

Portable external SSDs are now small, plug and play, and affordable, and HDs even more so. The developers know that.

Nick, of course it’s not revenge. I am always rooting for EW and continue to praise and recommend many of the libraries, especially the Hollywood series, to my Logic Pro clients. People here can verify that I still say that the Hollywood Orchestra is the best sounding and most complete, and how much...

I said goodbye to Waves years ago when I bought a UAD card. never regretted it.

They are, but I haven’t found Engine to be any less stable than Kontakt or UVI Workstation