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Gadzooks. $199 for Musio 1 this weekend.

https://musio.com/whats-included/

This is deceptive marketing imo because they don't use their own branding of Musio 1, just Musio - which is the entire catalogue ongoing. This offer is products up to 2023 ONLY, but that's still an incredible deal.

Markus K wrote: ↑Feb 23, 2024 4:31 am Hopefully loading times of Kontakt 7 won't go through the roof. I still mostly use Kontakt 6.

Sample handling is fine with K7, it's just the initial startup of the first plugin it seems for some users. On my Macbook it's fine, but not W11.

I don't actually know why, Guy , so you may want to take this with a grain of salt. No salt required, all makes sense to me Geoff! Will be interested to hear reports on the libray. Not so much because I'll ever buy it, but because it has introduced a sliver of hope for Sable / SCS. If they actually...

Intresting how this is Kontakt not their own player - anyone know why?

Just an FYI - this is a potentially great synth but right now in Windows the AAX causes a crash on launch of Pro Tools 2023.12 in Windows.

https://dl.u-he.com/betas/public/zebralette3/Zebralette3_public_beta.jpg Over a decade after Zebra 3 was first announced as a product-to-be, here's the first fruits of u-he's labours. As with Zebra 2, there's a cutdown version and this is the first out of the gate. It's a single oscillator synth bu...

Another instrument from Lineage has been added to the Free Orchestra - the Melodic Ensemble, a "unique blend of marimba, vibraphone and celsta". Just update via Native Access.

Oh goodness, only just seen this Jay - no harm done, wishing you the very best.

Thanks Guy, for confirming that you have awful taste in music 😆 Jay, this is pretty weird. You said you have no interest in the product whatsoever because it's all hip hop sub bass and RnB. (post 1980s black music). I pointed out that this particular drum machine is synonymous with a bunch of old w...

I am well aware of the history of drum machines, and have owned several, none of which I miss, and none of which I care to hear again 😆 But as you say, to each their own. I am over them, unless someone pays me to use them. You must hate them so much you're a little rusty on how they got used... I k...

Uh-hem - hip hop was the TR808, which came considerably later. The CR78 predated it by some way, launched in 1978, and it came nowhere close to sub bass. As the 2nd video shows, musically it's most synonymous with Phil Collins, Blondie, Joe Jackson, Peter Garbriel, Hall & Oates, Ultravox and Tea...

Have to say this looks and sounds smashing. It's a faithful recreation of the Roland CR78, but with added flexibilty to tone shape, program and add effects. It's not samples - the first audio I heard the snare didn't sound right to me, but it sounds like you can get it pretty authentic with the righ...

This was such a fun thread. If anyone still wants to be swayed by Trevor Horn's alleged Jupiter, it's currently on sale for £54. I was saying to someone the other day that the first half of the 70s is probably my least favourite era since the 50s. I seem to find a lot more I like either side of it. ...

Just a heads up for Cubase 13 users - projects are getting corrupted with the latest version if they exceed 2gb. I'm a zillion miles from this but just doing a PSA. Here's the full info from Steinberg: https://forums.steinberg.net/t/a-critical-announcement-about-cpr-files-larger-than-2gb-getting-cor...

A preview of some coming UX changes https://twitter.com/mpatti/status/1754931133358182769?s=20 A few other updates came the other day, including the alll-new Forbes Pipe Organ. 36 patches here and it's pretty impressive - it does the huge pipe organ you'd expect, but some of the other tones are welc...

I've just been giving the demo a spin (30 days). It is a good bag of tricks, but I think I'm going to pass. The UI feels quite cluttered (there are a lot of tricks) and I wasn't overly inspired as I was mucking about. Here's the thing. So many delays now have all these other things crammed into them...

https://youtu.be/ZSjBx6YN7g0 Yes, it's another "yes it's another delay but with a twist", but with a twist. As well as filters, dynamics, ducking, transient designer, distortion and reverb, what caught my ear was more unusual stuff like granular spray, pitch warp and delay tricks like upbe...

This month's instrument is a sample from the new Linage Percussion. Downloading now. Wow, this is quite a freebie - not only is it a full kit, it has the full velocity range and the same grid as Pro for full mic positions. Unless I'm mistaken, this is actually better than the paid lite version for ...

It's £150 for the next coupla days and I thought "oooh". Looked up and saw I resisted it at £99 last year.

(Linos, a year late but your demo linked above is gorgeous).

FYI - new buyers get 3 new expansions thrown in, and existing owners can pick these up at £20 for the lot. These expansions - Beats, Expressive and Liquid Explorations - now appear on the Pigments and Analog Lab in-app stores with 20 or so presets each that you can try to see if you like them. The £...

Yeah, with the full CinePerc in Musio along with all my other stuff, it's hard to justify but it looks and sounds fantastic. Looks incredibly well conceived, and the variation in dynamics sounds particularly good. I think they did miss a trick not giving TS1 owners a discount, that would have tipped...

https://youtu.be/XMmlkkgQ378?si=5cRR255p1DvuFBTN New in version 5 Reduced CPU consumption Pigments now utilizes multi-core processing for greater CPU efficiency, allowing more users to explore this powerful softsynth with ease. Melodize any sound in 1 click Explore the new generative sequencer, feat...

NOTE 1.1 update released on March 25, 2023 - scroll down for info. https://youtu.be/exXtWsc0eYY?feature=shared https://youtu.be/YAaK3l1U36Y?feature=shared 70 Instruments (45 Core) including 300 varying articulations (190 Core) 2 comprehensive kit builders (Pro only) to create, customise and save cu...

Brace yourself one and all. On the Spectrasonics website, Stylus RMX has entered the Legacy zone.



NAMM is a week away.

https://youtu.be/j3BPdwInhFM?si=nEuIGUfi0R4fbvNU On the plus side, it's only $29. But some of the audio demos aren't good at all compared to the competition. The denoise pumps like mad. It feels like one of those plugins that would be okay in moderate use but you can't push. Pretty disappointing in ...