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by Piet De Ridder
Mar 23, 2022 3:08 pm
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Spitfire APEX sale / 50% off
Replies: 40
Views: 7647

Re: Spitfire APEX sale / 50% off

Mmm. I’m not going to try to dissuade you from getting it, Rob, but I want to issue a small word of caution nonetheless: in my opinion, the Studio Series doesn’t rank among Spitfire’s best work. Not saying these libraries are crap or totally useless, certainly not, but they’re not good either, I fin...
by Piet De Ridder
Mar 23, 2022 9:56 am
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Spitfire APEX sale / 50% off
Replies: 40
Views: 7647

Spitfire APEX sale / 50% off

Use the code APEX22 and you can buy most any Spitfire library at half the price. Until March 25th. Some libraries are excluded: Eric Whitacre Choir (currently on sale for 50%) - Albion Solstice - Hammers - Aperture The Stack - Abbey Road Two: Iconic Strings - Abbey Road Two: Iconic Strings Professio...
by Piet De Ridder
Mar 08, 2022 9:04 am
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Softube Vocoder
Replies: 3
Views: 1332

Softube Vocoder

https://cdn.softube.com/storage/B507507CD9AA5FA7DB47D177EF8D2FA1B35EEA98DD205E88CED0B2A2383E9B97/dbb3efac23b84db6b55a9070faa71166/1536-582-0-jpg.Jpeg/media/4dceb0cb50b34035b1849a5aa74779a7/vocoder-high-res-gui-for-product-page.jpeg The human voice seems to be on the mind of several developers these...
by Piet De Ridder
Mar 08, 2022 6:35 am
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Incoming / Straight Ahead "La Clarinette En Rose"
Replies: 8
Views: 1809

Incoming / Straight Ahead "La Clarinette En Rose"

From Straight Ahead: "We're pleased to announce our next release La Clarinette En Rose. Featuring our Smart Delay and the same sampling process our previous New Standard Horn Trio instruments (Birth of the Trumpet, Tenor Colossus, Eminent Trombone). This one has been really fun to make and we'r...
by Piet De Ridder
Mar 04, 2022 8:22 am
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: ADPTR Audio / Sculpt
Replies: 0
Views: 1759

ADPTR Audio / Sculpt

https://www.gearnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/ADPTR-Audio-SCULPT-Plugin.jpg ADPTR Audio, developers of a.o. the excellent metering tool Meter AB, have released a new plugin, Sculpt , a "dynamics, transient and tone-shaping workhorse". Sculpt consists of 4 modules running in parallel...
by Piet De Ridder
Feb 28, 2022 10:23 am
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: UVI / Plate (electro-mechanical reverb)
Replies: 6
Views: 2698

Re: UVI / Plate (electro-mechanical reverb)

If you hurry you can buy UVI Plate for 50% off. €64 instead of the usual €129.
(I'd have posted this earlier if I'd had known earlier. Today, Febr. 28th, is the final day of the sale.)

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by Piet De Ridder
Feb 23, 2022 2:22 am
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: G-Force / OB-E (Oberheim emulation)
Replies: 32
Views: 10583

Re: G-Force / OB-E (Oberheim emulation)

Just imagine it's a strings library, Sculp.

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by Piet De Ridder
Feb 22, 2022 12:54 pm
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: G-Force / OB-E (Oberheim emulation)
Replies: 32
Views: 10583

Re: G-Force / OB-E (Oberheim emulation)

The OB-E has been updated and v2 is now also available for Windows. Other changes: "The enhanced OB-E v2 is a pin-sharp emulation of the Oberheim® 8-Voice thanks to the new Vintage control and a highly refined Detune parameter. OB-E v2 also features a new reverb, 100+ new Patches (bringing the ...
by Piet De Ridder
Feb 20, 2022 5:13 am
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Audiothing / Noises
Replies: 0
Views: 1120

Audiothing / Noises

Audiothing has released Noises , an "experimental instrument with a playful and inspiring interface, designed to bring a vast world of noise into your music and audio productions" . Could prove a very useful thing to have if you're doing contemporary sounddesign-ish music for media. Or if ...
by Piet De Ridder
Feb 18, 2022 8:44 am
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Root-Sounds / Synclavier (Kontakt & Logic Sampler)
Replies: 3
Views: 1106

Root-Sounds / Synclavier (Kontakt & Logic Sampler)

http://users.telenet.be/re-peat/Synclavier.png "One of the rarest electronic musical instruments on the planet, the NEDC Synclavier performance instrument was the first all-digital instrument to reach commercial production. Production stopped at Serial #13, however, before the much more famous...
by Piet De Ridder
Feb 17, 2022 8:25 am
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Native Instruments / Prime Bass
Replies: 1
Views: 687

Native Instruments / Prime Bass

https://youtu.be/WSA19iRvCHc " PRIME BASS delivers the classic sound of one of the world's most iconic electric basses, captured from an original 1981 cherry sunburst solid-body bass guitar built in the USA. The new instrument brings a session bassist into the studio, with an iconic playable ‘7...
by Piet De Ridder
Feb 15, 2022 4:06 pm
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Kontakt 6.7.0 M1 and W11 compatible
Replies: 6
Views: 2056

Re: Kontakt 6.7.0 M1 and W11 compatible

I still wince when I think back on the move to High Sierra, Larry. It also involved a third party hack because my Mac is from 2009 and isn't supposed to run High Sierra. The OS upgrade itself wasn't so much of a problem, I seem to recall, it was everything else. It took days before I could get back ...
by Piet De Ridder
Feb 15, 2022 9:45 am
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Kontakt 6.7.0 M1 and W11 compatible
Replies: 6
Views: 2056

Re: Kontakt 6.7.0 M1 and W11 compatible

Guy Rowland wrote: Feb 14, 2022 5:48 pm CHANGED Minimum supported macOS version is now 10.14
That's me out. I'm on 10.13 and my Mac is too old to run anything more recent.

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by Piet De Ridder
Feb 03, 2022 5:02 pm
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Orange Tree / Django Jazz Guitar
Replies: 14
Views: 4071

Orange Tree / Django Jazz Guitar

https://www.orangetreesamples.com/images/products/screenshots/EvolutionDjangoJazzInterface.jpg "Evolution Django Jazz was recorded using a recreation of Django's own Selmer 503 acoustic guitar. Constructed by a master luthier, the replica includes details like the zero fret, omitted bottom bra...
by Piet De Ridder
Feb 02, 2022 8:11 am
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Spitfire Audio - Free Philip Glass piano
Replies: 4
Views: 1697

Re: Spitfire Audio - Free Philip Glass piano

Strange indeed. You get access to the Glass house to sample the composer's piano, and then you come back with this ? I don't get it. It's also programmed very weirdly, I find: first virtual piano I've come across that requires the modwheel to change dynamic layers (producing something very unplayabl...
by Piet De Ridder
Jan 27, 2022 10:28 am
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Orchestral Tools / "Igudesman Solo Violin"
Replies: 3
Views: 1025

Orchestral Tools / "Igudesman Solo Violin"

Orchestral Tools have released Igudesman Solo Violin . "To celebrate the launch, we’re offering the collection at a very special rate: Only €129 (regular price €199) until Feb 9, 2022. This is not your conventional solo violin collection. That’s because it comes from a completely unconventional...
by Piet De Ridder
Jan 21, 2022 4:50 pm
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Spitfire / Appassionata ("Impulse Legato" Strings)
Replies: 70
Views: 136825

Re: Spitfire / Appassionata ("Impulse Legato" Strings)

(...) you don't think tonally this and CineStrings are pretty similar on the basis of that little test? Obviously functionally they are totally different, but I was really addressing the idea that this is some new tonal ground. I’m sure if you look long enough, you might find samples in other libra...
by Piet De Ridder
Jan 21, 2022 5:07 am
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Spitfire / Appassionata ("Impulse Legato" Strings)
Replies: 70
Views: 136825

Re: Spitfire / Appassionata ("Impulse Legato" Strings)

Nothing revolutionary here, nope.(...) Perhaps not, but what, for me anyway, sets this library apart from everything else, is the recorded timbre. The oak-y, amber-y, beewax-y sound of these strings. I've never heard it quite like this in any other strings library, including Spitfire's earlier rele...
by Piet De Ridder
Jan 20, 2022 3:34 pm
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Spitfire / Appassionata ("Impulse Legato" Strings)
Replies: 70
Views: 136825

Spitfire / Appassionata ("Impulse Legato" Strings)

Spitfire have released another strings library, Appassionata , which features 30 players recorded at Air, and has as its biggest selling point the brand new "Impulse Legato" technique that Spitfire debuts in this product. "Referencing the aesthetic of classic melodies from the scores ...
by Piet De Ridder
Jan 10, 2022 10:26 am
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Plughugger / "Cellos Of Darkness" (for Omnisphere)
Replies: 0
Views: 1093

Plughugger / "Cellos Of Darkness" (for Omnisphere)

https://youtu.be/I8hKLvwRvQ0 "Plughugger's "Cellos of Darkness" for Omnisphere is a cinematic and ambient collection entirely based on the psycho-acoustic recordings of cellos in Omnisphere, but expanded with recordings of synthetic cellos, such as Mellotrons and old Yamaha toy keyboa...
by Piet De Ridder
Jan 10, 2022 10:18 am
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Spitfire / Cinematic Frozen Strings
Replies: 5
Views: 1428

Spitfire / Cinematic Frozen Strings

"A miniature version of Tundra", that's what the new strings library from Spitfire can be described as. More or less. Cinematic Frozen Strings , a release in Spitfire's "Orig!nals" series, features ultra-delicate textures and articulations performed by 8 players and was recorded ...
by Piet De Ridder
Dec 21, 2021 5:53 pm
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Arturia / Tape MELLO-FI / free gift (until Dec. 31st)
Replies: 4
Views: 1128

Re: Arturia / Tape MELLO-FI / free gift (until Dec. 31st)

There's more to Tape Mello-Fi than the tape-stop, Bill. Probably much which you can do already with other plugins, but still.
And it all sounds quite convincing.

Try it, I'd say, I'm pretty sure you'll want to keep it.

Here's a quick video, going over the options.

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by Piet De Ridder
Dec 21, 2021 2:18 pm
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Arturia / Tape MELLO-FI / free gift (until Dec. 31st)
Replies: 4
Views: 1128

Arturia / Tape MELLO-FI / free gift (until Dec. 31st)

https://medias.arturia.net/images/products/tape-mello-fi/tape-mello-fi-image.png Arturia ends the year with a nice free gift: the Tape MELLO-FI or "deluxe lo-fi bliss" as they also call it. Freely downloadable between Dec. 21st and Dec. 31st, if you have an Arturia-account. https://youtu....
by Piet De Ridder
Dec 20, 2021 5:24 pm
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: VSL / Synchron Harp
Replies: 11
Views: 8816

Re: VSL / Synchron Harp

A very fine library, I agree.
And convincing across the dynamic range which was less the case with the old harps.

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