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Jaap wrote: ↑Mar 27, 2023 10:08 am (...) and leave Waves what it is. (...)

I've left Waves behind when I upgraded to my current computer a few months ago. I do miss one or two plugins (from the small handful I had installed) but I can't miss them very much because I don't even recall what I'm missing.

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Another nice-sounding and useful release from Musical Sampling: the Orb Trumpets . "Orb Trumpets is a proof-of-concept release that is created entirely out of performances. Recorded in Orb Studios in Austin, TX – the goal was to create a trumpet patch that took our Adventure-style programming t...

Yes, it sounds great. No doubt about it. All the more a pity, I find, that they’ve focused, yet again, almost exclusively on the slow and very slow side of things. With Andy Blaney increasingly out of the picture — I don’t know whether that is actually true, but that’s definitely how it looks — ther...

smc0495_cinemascope-home.png.jpeg Spitfire have released a new 'Drama Toolkit', this time focusing on rounded; mellow brass and reed tones, augmented with an ensemble of recorders. "(...) The Brass and Reeds toolkit features an intimate selection of solo brass and woodwind instruments — from c...

After watching the video below, I have to retract much of my lukewarm first reaction:

An outstanding set. And it keeps surprising you. Which I always like. There’s one thing that spoils the fun occasionally for me — but as I’m still running Logic in Rosetta-mode on account of BFD3 still not being M1-compatible, I don’t know if the Moog-code is entirely to blame — and that is that, so...

Good update, I find. Everything's there in one window, programming adheres more to familiar standards and the thing seems to load much faster too.
Never reached for CineStrings much before, but that might change now.

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Oh yes, you're right, Jason. I'll correct it.

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ivory_3.png Synthogy are introducing Ivory 3 , their updated virtual piano playback software, with the release of the new German D. Ivory 3 now includes Synthogy's RGB Engine, a "powerful, expressive new technology that behaves like modeling, yet with the realism of digital sampling." The...

OTWWBundle.png Orchestral Tools have ported all their woodwinds collections over to SINE. The complete Berlin Woodwinds Bundle is being introduced at a price of €799 (€1,507 sold separately) but owners of one or more of the original libraries that make up the bundle are of course entitled to discou...

I have nothing negative to say about LABS as a concept and series, Anders. Got four or five LABS instruments installed and occasionally find very good use for them. It's just the way these recent LABS pianos are programmed that I just don't understand. That's all. How anyone would think it's a good ...

(...) Piet are you sure? (...) Quite sure in the sense that the library doesn't respond or behave like a piano at all, yes. On my system, cc11 (expression) merely acts like a volume control so when that fader is down, I don't hear a thing. Have to have it up to get sound out of this plugin. And wit...

https://youtu.be/W_EqkJnj5zg Spitfire have released another one of their inexplicably weirdly programmed pianos, the Autograph Grand . The good news is that it’s free and that it’s got a great sound. The bad news is that, like the Glass piano of last year, it doesn’t respond (or hardly responds) to ...

Apologies, Piet - my memory had you recounting an experience with their support regarding the bespoke series that would have had me reaching for a rocket launcher had I spent that amount of money on them. No problem, Guy. You’re right in remembering that the Bespokes suffer from a few shortcomings ...

(...) Piet says here elsewhere about the terrible experience he had with their early bespoke library which cost a fortune (...) It’s true that I did express a few frustrations, misgivings and disappointments regarding the Bespokes, but I can’t recall ever referring to the purchase as having been ‘a...

https://www.sonicplanet.com/wp_sonicplanet/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-18-at-22.57.06.png If you’re into creative/experimental sound design and you're not put off by marketing blurb like “The user gains an architect's role by creating dialogues in a 3D simulation scene based on g...

Any thoughts on Monofilter? Seems potentially worth the risk at $29. Monofilter is no risk at $29, it’s a very useful and high-quality tool. That said, if all you would need it for is narrowing the image of the lower frequency range and you’re not too fussy about how it’s done, you could just as we...

Tomofon has been updated to v 1.1.0 with the following changes and fixes: - Added window resizing functionality. - Channel Aftertouch now available as a controller input source. - New plugin parameter: Pitch Zone Lookup Offset - Decouples the relation between output pitch and pitch zone. - Added mas...

Potentially interesting, but it is to be hoped, for Rhodes’s sake, that it is capable of a better sound that what is heard in this presentation, because that all sounded a bit flat and dull and in no way beyond the capabilities of other fine virtual Rhodesoids to me. But perhaps forthcoming demonstr...

(...) I'm curious how good it is for playing orchestral instruments very expressively, be it Physical Modeled like SWAM, or traditional Orch. sample libraries. i.e. Kontakt, or other sampler based ones. (...) I suppose that would depend almost entirely on one’s willingness to map all the relevant p...

https://www.perfectcircuit.com/media/wysiwyg/articles/expressive-e_osmose/ExpressiveE_Osmose_01.jpg Expressive E's Osmose was first announced in 2019 and expected to ship a year later, but things having been what they've been, the whole production agenda and process had to be completely revised sev...

I’m sure that to many people, Pacific may be the ideal stringslibrary, or close to it, for any number of very good and totally sensible reasons — which I don’t want to take anything away from —, but there’s something in the Performance Samples’ sampling recipe that makes for a result which, sonicall...

People, it's Toots Thielemans . Not Thielman. We Belgians may not have a lot to offer to the world's music stage, but what we have, we like to see spelled correctly. Did the graphic design for the Toots 100 commemorative 4LP box-set last year, which includes my favourite photo of Toots, together wit...

Sometime ago, I vowed to never again buy a sample library that is been introduced by way of Keynote (if you're reading this: sorry, Thomas) — it might be just me, but I find these things unbearably blasé, exhibiting exactly the type of corporateness that I’m allergic to, and out-of-all-proportion pr...

https://www.embertone.com/instruments/honkytonkharmonica_files/stacks-image-86e8683.jpg After a considerable pause, Embertone has released the Honky Tonk Harmonica (Kontakt), a virtual harmonica that seems to lend itself rather well to smokey, bluesy performances. (The 'Edelweiss' demo is less conv...