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by Tanuj Tiku
Jan 26, 2024 2:27 pm
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: ProjectSAM Lineage Percussion 1.1 update
Replies: 14
Views: 3800

Re: ProjectSAM Lineage Percussion

Tanuj-I assume you bought the Pro? Yes, I got the pro. The core version has one mic position and less number of instruments and for many people that will be useful. The premixes sound good too but I usually need to make adjustments. I am already using the library in a project right now and reached ...
by Tanuj Tiku
Jan 26, 2024 9:47 am
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: ProjectSAM Lineage Percussion 1.1 update
Replies: 14
Views: 3800

Re: ProjectSAM Lineage Percussion

My suspicion was right - it sounds fantastic! It's a massive improvement on an already good sounding library. The cymbals, snares, gran casa are much better now and brings it all into 2024 nicely. The Timpani is amazing and it will replace my existing samples immediately. The tremolos sound good too...
by Tanuj Tiku
Jan 26, 2024 4:33 am
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: ProjectSAM Lineage Percussion 1.1 update
Replies: 14
Views: 3800

Re: ProjectSAM Lineage Percussion

I might pick it up today. I LOVE true strike and I have never purchased another orchestral percussion library since 2005, except for the update. But of course I need to hear the demos/walkthrough. Incredibly excited because it’s going to be much better than true strike as the library shows its age i...
by Tanuj Tiku
Sep 21, 2023 8:46 pm
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Abbey Road Orchestra - Violins 1 announced
Replies: 70
Views: 38856

Re: Abbey Road Orchestra - Violins 1 announced

I have just seen Blake's video and it sounds to me like the best Spitfire library in a long time (orchestral). It is only violins 1 but I will be getting it for sure. It may retire CSS and Berlin for me, especially once the other sections are released. I actually think this is rather special. It see...
by Tanuj Tiku
Sep 17, 2023 11:27 am
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Abbey Road Orchestra - Violins 1 announced
Replies: 70
Views: 38856

Re: Abbey Road Orchestra - Violins 1 announced

I think that it was just a quick and joyous playback of an in development library. There has been a slight overreaction in my opinion. I am sure that the final version will sound much better than this as it’s obviously not finished. But it does seem to have the big ‘roomy’ Abbey Road sound which is ...
by Tanuj Tiku
Jun 14, 2023 4:00 pm
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Exit Soundwide, enter.. Native Instruments
Replies: 4
Views: 1595

Re: Exit Soundwide, enter.. Native Instruments

May be I am getting older but the first exciting point is having a single point of log in.

It never got better past that :)
by Tanuj Tiku
Apr 13, 2023 3:31 am
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Cinesamples Industry Brass and Musio subscription platform inc "Lifetime license"
Replies: 38
Views: 122237

Re: Cinesamples Industry Brass and Musio subscription platform inc "Lifetime license"

First the fake-mistake sale, now a "lifetime subscription". Sounds like a cash grab to me. Buyer very beware. I must admit the same thought had occurred to me. It’s pretty odd when you think about it - they’re giving away everything they have ever done or ever will do for $499. CinePerc’s...
by Tanuj Tiku
Mar 31, 2023 10:31 pm
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: East West Hollywood Fantasy Orchestra - Brass and Winds now released
Replies: 54
Views: 178937

Re: East West Hollywood Fantasy Orchestra Strings

I don’t think having developers aggressively defend their products from peoples’ opinions is a thing we want to have here. Key word “aggressively.” Hi Larry! hope you are well! Agreed and I was not referring to Nick's post specifically. I read a question somewhere above about whether developers wer...
by Tanuj Tiku
Mar 31, 2023 9:34 pm
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: East West Hollywood Fantasy Orchestra - Brass and Winds now released
Replies: 54
Views: 178937

Re: East West Hollywood Fantasy Orchestra Strings

Just to add here - Developers are in fact welcome here. There never was a policy to discourage or not have developers on TSB. We only ask them to refrain from very commercially driven posts. At the same time, we do welcome posts from developers talking about their projects in a way that would perhap...
by Tanuj Tiku
Mar 29, 2023 11:35 am
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Waves go subscription only (and back again)
Replies: 47
Views: 96909

Re: Waves go subscription only

Not surprised with the sudden shift and I don’t like their business practices. I only bought a few waves plug-ins some years ago and had since decided never to buy them again because of license issues, pricing disasters all over the place and paid upgrades for plugins that were in fact not upgraded ...
by Tanuj Tiku
Mar 25, 2023 4:39 pm
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: East West Hollywood Fantasy Orchestra - Brass and Winds now released
Replies: 54
Views: 178937

Re: East West Hollywood Fantasy Orchestra Strings

I think this will be very useful for lots of film and TV composers around the world because there are a lot of 'Fantasy' films, tv shows and games being made. Composers are always looking for new samples as using the same samples gets boring. It also allows for good writing tools to get the mock-ups...
by Tanuj Tiku
Jan 28, 2023 6:27 am
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Another new noise reduction miracle
Replies: 22
Views: 17333

Re: Another new noise reduction miracle

Thanks for sharing all of that Guy. I am a bit startled by the strides AI has made with sound in the last few years. This could potentially kill RX in a very short time as it learns from each file uploaded to its servers. Google has made public Music LM - https://google-research.github.io/seanet/mus...
by Tanuj Tiku
Jan 27, 2023 11:54 pm
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Another new noise reduction miracle
Replies: 22
Views: 17333

Re: Another new noise reduction miracle

Real magic!
by Tanuj Tiku
Jan 22, 2023 6:42 am
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: sonicPlanet's "Creation" / sound design
Replies: 5
Views: 3208

Re: sonicPlanet's "Creation" / sound design

I watched a couple of the videos you posted Piet - looks similar to 'Dust' from Soundmorph. I was not taken by the sound of it but I will revisit again sometime later. Looks like a useful tool for generative sounds that you can then integrate into a piece of music. Took me back to the days when I us...
by Tanuj Tiku
Dec 26, 2022 7:09 pm
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Performance Samples - Pacific Ensemble Strings
Replies: 22
Views: 16156

Re: Performance Samples - Pacific Ensemble Strings

Almost any library from Jasper is very useful for composers who dive very deep into programming. It is a collector item and a very useful tool in the kit. I don’t think any of his libraries have been ‘complete’ solutions. Not until recently anyway as he is expanding into more complete standard libra...
by Tanuj Tiku
Nov 29, 2022 4:49 pm
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Samples From Mars Collection
Replies: 8
Views: 3623

Re: Samples From Mars Collection

Incredible value, truly! Purchased!

That makes my total Black Friday spend to $98 so far!
by Tanuj Tiku
Nov 26, 2022 11:12 am
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Black Friday 2022 deals of note
Replies: 68
Views: 83626

Re: Black Friday 2022 deals of note

Universal Audio running a sale on their new Spark (Native) Subscription: https://spark.uaudio.com/ For new UAD customers it's 99 cents for 3 months. Some really nice plugins there, including newly released Hitsville which I have just listened to - it sounds great! I might look back into Universal Au...
by Tanuj Tiku
Nov 26, 2022 11:09 am
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Black Friday 2022 deals of note
Replies: 68
Views: 83626

Re: Black Friday 2022 deals of note

Tanuj - I've spent years fighting the horror that is Waves Central. It was a horrendous piece of software. But over the last year I have to say every single thing I've done with it has been seamless. It just works in the way it never did. It's kept all my old v9 licenses intact too, which I need fo...
by Tanuj Tiku
Nov 25, 2022 5:22 am
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Black Friday 2022 deals of note
Replies: 68
Views: 83626

Re: Black Friday 2022 deals of note

I can’t say that I would recommend buying any waves plugins. Their whole scheme makes no sense to me. They sell many plugins at extremely low prices and then ask for money to update it. Licensing also doesn’t work very well and I just don’t like their waves licensing system. It’s not smooth and intu...
by Tanuj Tiku
Nov 23, 2022 6:08 am
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Black Friday 2022 deals of note
Replies: 68
Views: 83626

Re: Black Friday 2022 deals of note

Trackspacer is useful for many other things besides vocals, Tanuj. In any situation where you have to temporarily make room for something by suppressing something else, or when you want to avoid ugly build-ups of frequencies, Trackspacer is the tool to reach for. Yes, you can get equally satisfying...
by Tanuj Tiku
Nov 22, 2022 4:34 am
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Black Friday 2022 deals of note
Replies: 68
Views: 83626

Re: Black Friday 2022 deals of note

Thanks for posting about Wavesfactory. Spectre and Tape sound really, really good. Going to get these.

I am a little confused about Track Spacer and trying to think of applications outside of vocals but I am going to spend some time today to demo it and learn about it in detail.
by Tanuj Tiku
Mar 31, 2022 7:36 am
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: UAD Spark - no hardware, but…
Replies: 19
Views: 8379

Re: UAD Spark - no hardware, but…

This is a good decision over all. Not many people will buy their hardware in the future. My guess is sales are down. Now it depends on how quickly they can pivot to the native world and eventually just rely on the strength of their plugins and not worrying about the SHARC DSP's. That is done with it...
by Tanuj Tiku
Jan 21, 2022 2:07 pm
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Spitfire / Appassionata ("Impulse Legato" Strings)
Replies: 70
Views: 136812

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

Malachistos - I opted out of their emails quite some time ago! And I agree on the rebows, I thought the same thing in the hairpin demo. It sounds great but is timed, so not really that useful. Tanuj - you don't think tonally this and CineStrings are pretty similar on the basis of that little test? ...
by Tanuj Tiku
Jan 21, 2022 11:46 am
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Spitfire / Appassionata ("Impulse Legato" Strings)
Replies: 70
Views: 136812

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

I don't think this library is comparable to Berlin or Cinestrings etc. This is in direct competition with Con Moto series from Jasper Blunk. In fact, I would argue that he has caused quite a serious dent in the strings marketplace along with CSS which is a wonderful library but sometimes lacks the s...
by Tanuj Tiku
Jan 20, 2022 7:48 pm
Forum: The Front Page
Topic: Spitfire / Appassionata ("Impulse Legato" Strings)
Replies: 70
Views: 136812

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

Sounds nice and I think that finally Spitfire has caught up with modern sampling - similar to CSS and Performance samples. The legatos sound comparable and anyone who wants this sound should be happy with it. This is incredibly useful for jobbing composers who need to impress directors and producers...