The Sound Board

Linos - that's a tough question. Spitfire Symphonic Woodwinds is a darn fine library, and it can be a pleasure to work with. Personally, I find it to be at the same level as BBCSO. It's wetter by nature, sounds a bit more artificial than BBCSO, but it's especially good if you're using it within 'orc...

Hmm - perhaps it not running for a while is also because I haven't tried running it for a while! Might go try it out again after the weekend

Any updates on the copy protection that will be used? Something about my system makes codeMeter (that's what they're on now, isn't it?) it is think that it's constantly a new system, and I haven't been able to get Avenger running for a while.

Cards on the table. Who uses Berlin Brass regularly? I read that it sounds classical, and that should be right up my street. And I like that it offers individual players rather than just a soloist plus ensembles. However, I also have Hollywood Brass and Cinematic Studio Brass, as well as the Sample...

I posted as well, although I thought I'd post here and see if any of our German friends can speak more on this. There were additions to the BGB in the last year or two requiring the maintenance of digital products through update, and codifying the requirements of companies to update and service thos...

Actually, Guy, navigating a track importing list is super-easy, barely an inconvenience. There's a file-structure list organized in folders on the left side, so at the start of a project I open the 'Winds' folder, click on the folder for each winds library I want for the project, click it closed aga...

Raises the question that you probably can't answer - as you don't use this method - but it begs asking anyway, just in case: One way around the bloated file sizes has been to use a master disabled track source, then make a new track from a template that just includes the expression maps (so that tho...

Guy - correct me if I'm wrong, but you can see multiple tracks worth of clips, but you can't select which clip within the group of clips you want to edit in 12.5, can you? That's been my experience at least. So - I too use a 2nd monitor for key editor, but going back and forth between the main windo...

Hey, Guy! I thought just in case you'd tried out some of the new editing features, those are the ones I'd love to hear about. All of the 'unification' of knobs, button icons, etc. feels like the thing that will grate at first and then MIGHT end up feeling better than it was before, so I'm on the fen...

The most interesting thing about this move - trying to distance myself from my initial response of anger, and shouting vulgarity at the computer and off into the ether - is just HOW cataclysmically disliked this is. Most 'controversial' business moves have at least some apologists talking about what...

Dang it, Guy - I'd managed to hold off on buying any actual samples/VI's this time around, and then you mentioned that there are rx2 loops, and the discount, and - I'm ruined!! Just wanted to mention - the discount code is personal, so the one Guy posted won't work. If you did purchase from them, th...

Hey, Guy - I know that you briefly mentioned the Nexus 4.5 upgrade recently, but with the inevitable 'Holiday Season' thing they do, I've finally had a look and - it sure looks like the lid is taken off the mechanism in there a bit more. Considering it's $80 for basically a ticket to get more access...

I didn't realize this morning that I was going to spend the afternoon lusting after some saxophones. Funny how the world works. Honestly at the price (and the exchange rate, unfortunately for my European colleagues) I don't know how long I can go on not having these in my life. Honestly, the only th...

Yup. There are a number of Tone Models in the SE version that...[should]...offer something like that, if they're done well. All those '57 on 57,' '57 on 87,' 'Blue Twin,' 'Bold Twin,' 'Deluxe Rhythm,' 'Dr. Brit,' etc. - [should] give some options. Everything mid-gain look like American amps (except ...

Edge-of-breakup is always the hardest thing to model - so those slightly crunchy Deluxes, or cranked Twins that give a sustained but more full than raunchy tone have always been a bit naff on things like Guitar Rig or Amplitube. The good news is that, usually, profiling things do a much better job t...

No connection - AXE-I/O is IK's line of interfaces that they've had for a while. Their schtick is the variable impedance thing to make up for dull-sounding direct guitars. Came out in 2019, so well before ToneX was a glimmer in the eye of an IK engineer eyeing up Kemper.

I was thinking about this later yesterday - I should of course have mentioned the Kemper Profiler, which is sort of a similar thing. Although, TH-U's Rig Capture thing sort of mimics that in software form. Not as well, IMHO. Guess should just say that the whole AI profiler thing is no flash in the g...

This one's not too curious if you follow guitar hardware - their "Machine Modeling" is trying to duplicate what Neural DSP's Quad Cortex does with it's "Capture" functionality. In Neural's case, they provided a number of factory captures for various pieces, and because Neural alr...

Is it strange that my main drum tool is Superior Drummer 3, but (having owned EZD2) that I see the $80 for a varied set of MIDI, for 7 kits in 3 or 4 rooms, and think that's enough content to warrant picking it up? To be fair, I could see using it as the first tool to combine MIDI sections until SD3...

Had my own VSL revelation this week. I thought now'd be the time to get the SE Synchronized Dimension Brass, to have a lighter, leaner version of the VI Dim Brass that I already had - and found that there isn't a discount for 'downgrading' a library. I confess that I don't understand this in the sli...

I know it's a gimmick, and it's just a handful of convolutions packaged together and promising much, but I sure have used a lot of that Sunset Sound Studio since I picked it up. Maybe it isn't instant magic, but it does give me some tools to turn direct recorded guitars, bass and drums into a room t...

Not to be that guy, but doesn't this feel like selling individually what would in some parallel universe (i.e., one where this was called Albion Abbey Road instead of it being imagined as some new series with a new 'pricing scheme') be the legato patches in a comprehensive ensemble-patches orchestra...

@Muziksculp: I don't necessarily disagree, to a point. Honestly, if it were me running Spitfire, I'd grab the biggest Orchestra I could legally socially distance and put them in Studio One and make sure they blow the doors off the place. Really the biggest thorn (as I see it, of course) in the Spitf...

I'd bet anything that if there is an announcement, and it involves Abbey Road, that it'll definitely be an Orchestral library. How long was the thread for BBCSO? And how long was it for the Joey Santiago guitar thing? Nope - if they've got AR Studio 1, they're going to record some flautandos there. ...

I wasn't going to reply on this since I don't have much that would (I'm assuming) be of value, but I do have the thing, and you're looking for other opinions, so: here I go. I don't know if I'd say that BBCSO is better, across the board, than VSL - SE even. In the same way that VSL has a 'sterile' q...