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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 ...

Fascinating, never heard about that before, well done Guy! How long did this go on? The KVR thread is from 2020, but I'm sure I had it quite a bit before then. It was so slippery, for me it always seemed a bit better after an update but would then rapidly get worse again. My guess is about 5 or 6 y...

This is golden, I have been using omni less and less in recent time due to a lag of 2 seconds when changing presets. This seems to have fixed that! Thanks Guy for being on top of it, I gave up years ago with support Glad it's had a happy outcome! Lots of people had said they'd got nowhere with supp...

This snuck out without much fanfare, but it's a big deal if you've been having sluggish performance in Windows. Update 2.8.6c finally fixes the mult-year issue. Spectrasonics isolated the problem for the first time a couple of months ago, they'd not been able to repro until then but they finally got...

soundbylaura wrote: ↑Jan 09, 2024 2:52 pm Get a free plugin from NuGen Audio for filling out their survey: https://nugenaudio.com/annual-survey-2024

Choices include: SigMod, Jotter, and more.

Sigmod is pretty essential here for hearing / speaker protection - well worth a survey imo.

I saw a lot of enthusiasm for Orchestral Tools' Salu, an Eastern European folk range of instruments and voices. I went for the string quartet - 30 euros inc vat with the Christmas discount 2023-holiday25. 24 articulations for that, including two legatos. But it was the more esoteric articulations th...

I admit to being somewhat mystified by the math. Maybe I have it wrong-you paid more for an “exclusive” permanent license (only 500 to be sold, or something like that?) compared to what they are NOW selling it for? Or is the present price a yearly subscription? If it’s the former and I had purchase...