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by Ashermusic
Mar 27, 2024 1:40 pm
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Hollywood Strings 2
Replies: 8
Views: 266

Re: Hollywood Strings 2

Since I have Composer Cloud, I will get it when it's released and see how I like it.
by Ashermusic
Feb 14, 2024 7:08 pm
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Cherry Audio CR78 Drum Machine
Replies: 9
Views: 1108

Re: Cherry Audio CR78 Drum Machine

I have had a tough couple of weeks and sometimes I am a cranky old man.

Guy doesn’t deserve to be written to as I did. My apologies to he and the forum for my boorish behavior.
by Ashermusic
Feb 14, 2024 6:25 pm
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Cherry Audio CR78 Drum Machine
Replies: 9
Views: 1108

Re: Cherry Audio CR78 Drum Machine

Guy, it was an ill-advised joke and I deleted it but apparently you read it already.

That said, I have little love for a lot of music you love and I suspect you feel similarly.

Which is fine, so again please disregard my bad attempt at humor.
by Ashermusic
Feb 14, 2024 5:59 pm
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Cherry Audio CR78 Drum Machine
Replies: 9
Views: 1108

Re: Cherry Audio CR78 Drum Machine

Seriously though, there may be a customer base for it. Btw, if you read Malcolm Gladwell’s “The Tipping Point” he has a section on how drum machines re-emerged after having mostly been abandoned.
by Ashermusic
Feb 14, 2024 5:08 pm
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Cherry Audio CR78 Drum Machine
Replies: 9
Views: 1108

Re: Cherry Audio CR78 Drum Machine

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.
by Ashermusic
Feb 14, 2024 2:03 pm
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Cherry Audio CR78 Drum Machine
Replies: 9
Views: 1108

Re: Cherry Audio CR78 Drum Machine

Ok, here goes :) Thanks to their ubiquitous use with Hip Hop, then modern R & B, and now virtually every other kind of contemporary music genre, as soon as a song starts and I hear Roland type drum machine sounds and sub bass, I lose interest. And Logic’s Drum Machine Designer is fine for when I...
by Ashermusic
Dec 13, 2023 12:25 pm
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Arturia V Collection X
Replies: 15
Views: 21526

Re: Arturia V Collection X

I guess I'm in between, because I've never felt strongly about a CP-70 one way or another. Back in the early '80s, I was happy to play one on stage because they were the next best thing to a piano; but during the sampling era, I've never sought one out to buy as a library. (I do have Keyscape, but ...
by Ashermusic
Dec 03, 2023 2:54 pm
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: IK multimedia Pianoverse
Replies: 6
Views: 10913

Re: IK multimedia Pianoverse

Sounds good to me but I have so many good pianos that it would take a miracle for me to buy another.
by Ashermusic
Nov 24, 2023 9:16 am
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Incirios announcement - a new sampler and audio engine
Replies: 21
Views: 24505

Re: Incirios announcement - a new sampler and audio engine

The monophonic stuff does sound good. Playing the sustains polyphonically sounds like an organ, but to be fair it always does with woodwinds. Maybe it’s because I was trained classically to write for real players but it just wouldn’t occur to me to ever play a solo woodwind sampled instrument polyp...
by Ashermusic
Oct 31, 2023 9:22 am
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Audio Ollie Nashville Scoring Strings - $60 sale
Replies: 14
Views: 12248

Re: Audio Ollie Nashville Scoring Strings - $60 sale

I honestly cannot imagine ever buying another strings library, no matter how good, unless it comes with paying work for me.
by Ashermusic
Oct 31, 2023 9:04 am
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Fluffy Audio / Cartoon Maestro
Replies: 11
Views: 6462

Re: Fluffy Audio / Cartoon Maestro

Good work Paolo.
by Ashermusic
Oct 26, 2023 10:09 am
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Strezov / Afflatus Brass (available for pre-orders)
Replies: 5
Views: 9871

Re: Strezov / Afflatus Brass (available for pre-orders)

If it’s as good as the strings, I will use it a lot.
by Ashermusic
Oct 18, 2023 1:23 pm
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: VSL : Synchron Duality Strings (Sordino) Released !
Replies: 63
Views: 41835

Re: VSL : Synchron Duality Strings (Sordino) Released !

Glad to have been helpful, Guy.
by Ashermusic
Oct 17, 2023 1:11 pm
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: VSL : Synchron Duality Strings (Sordino) Released !
Replies: 63
Views: 41835

Re: VSL : Synchron Duality Strings (Sordino) Released !

Guy, as you know HS legato patches use cc11, so in my version I recorded cc11 and cc7, no cc1. CC1 is vibrato, no? So adding 7 (or 11 - same thing imo) to the modwheel tends to work pretty well for me - as the playing gets louder it has more vibrato intensity. It has more flexibility to have it as ...
by Ashermusic
Oct 17, 2023 12:45 pm
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: VSL : Synchron Duality Strings (Sordino) Released !
Replies: 63
Views: 41835

Re: VSL : Synchron Duality Strings (Sordino) Released !

Guy, as you know HS legato patches use cc11, so in my version I recorded cc11 and cc7, no cc1.

Please understand, I am not trying to dissuade anyone from buying VSL’s offering. Because of my lack of paying work that involves anything I can’t already adequately do, it just isn’t an option for me.
by Ashermusic
Oct 17, 2023 11:43 am
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: VSL : Synchron Duality Strings (Sordino) Released !
Replies: 63
Views: 41835

Re: VSL : Synchron Duality Strings (Sordino) Released !

Interesting, thanks Jay - I might try the same trick here too to restore the shorts and the V1s down an octave. I did switch to the shorts in places, but since the original MIDI file is all set to 1 MIDI channel, there's no obvious way to know by looking at the notation where you intended them to b...
by Ashermusic
Oct 17, 2023 10:59 am
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: VSL : Synchron Duality Strings (Sordino) Released !
Replies: 63
Views: 41835

Re: VSL : Synchron Duality Strings (Sordino) Released !

Oh wow, obviously a bigger sound, but HS with the instruments set to "Soft", Vintage and Mid mics, with the sordino script, sending to EW Spaces So. California Hall-Strings, sounds gorgeous to me.

See what you guys think.
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HS Sordini example.mp3
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by Ashermusic
Oct 17, 2023 10:32 am
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: VSL : Synchron Duality Strings (Sordino) Released !
Replies: 63
Views: 41835

Re: VSL : Synchron Duality Strings (Sordino) Released !

While the VSL sounds great and is more articulation rich, I can’t spend that kind of dough on it when between Afflatus Chapter One and CSS I can get the music done. And now that I think of it, I should see how Hollywood Strings sordini sound, especially with the vintage mics. I may post that later....
by Ashermusic
Oct 17, 2023 9:20 am
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: VSL : Synchron Duality Strings (Sordino) Released !
Replies: 63
Views: 41835

Re: VSL : Synchron Duality Strings (Sordino) Released !

While the VSL sounds great and is more articulation rich, I can’t spend that kind of dough on it when between Afflatus Chapter One and CSS I can get the music done.

And now that I think of it, I should see how Hollywood Strings sordini sound, especially with the vintage mics. I may post that later.
by Ashermusic
Oct 16, 2023 5:46 pm
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: VSL : Synchron Duality Strings (Sordino) Released !
Replies: 63
Views: 41835

Re: VSL : Synchron Duality Strings (Sordino) Released !

Guy Rowland wrote: Oct 16, 2023 5:41 pm Also perhaps worth noting that SDS is in another league for sordino articulations. Most of the alternatives are extremely limited - Jay and I had to dive to alternative non-sordinos to flesh things out.
True dat.
by Ashermusic
Oct 16, 2023 5:45 pm
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: VSL : Synchron Duality Strings (Sordino) Released !
Replies: 63
Views: 41835

Re: VSL : Synchron Duality Strings (Sordino) Released !

Lawrence wrote: Oct 16, 2023 5:32 pm 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
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by Ashermusic
Oct 16, 2023 5:25 pm
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: VSL : Synchron Duality Strings (Sordino) Released !
Replies: 63
Views: 41835

Re: VSL : Synchron Duality Strings (Sordino) Released !

Thanks so much for taking the time to do that, Jay! Well I expected VSL to be sweeter than all the others, but I'm kinda shocked at the margin by which it distances them. All these other libraries can work in the right contexts, but seems to me if you need butter there's nothing else that comes clo...
by Ashermusic
Oct 16, 2023 4:44 pm
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: VSL : Synchron Duality Strings (Sordino) Released !
Replies: 63
Views: 41835

Re: VSL : Synchron Duality Strings (Sordino) Released !

Guy, could we download the MIDI so that I can heat what it sounds like with the Strezov Afflatus Chapter One Scene d’Amour instruments, which are con sordino? Sure and thanks very much - I'd love to hear how those patches sound, I've really liked the sound of them in demos. Here you go. Bear in min...
by Ashermusic
Oct 15, 2023 11:55 am
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: VSL : Synchron Duality Strings (Sordino) Released !
Replies: 63
Views: 41835

Re: VSL : Synchron Duality Strings (Sordino) Released !

Guy, could we download the MIDI so that I can heat what it sounds like with the Strezov Afflatus Chapter One Scene d’Amour instruments, which are con sordino? Sure and thanks very much - I'd love to hear how those patches sound, I've really liked the sound of them in demos. This should be just the ...
by Ashermusic
Oct 15, 2023 10:36 am
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: VSL : Synchron Duality Strings (Sordino) Released !
Replies: 63
Views: 41835

Re: VSL : Synchron Duality Strings (Sordino) Released !

Guy, could we download the MIDI so that I can heat what it sounds like with the Strezov Afflatus Chapter One Scene d’Amour instruments, which are con sordino?