The Sound Board

I’m glad I don’t have a dog in this fight. The studio I worked at for 20 years had ProTools 3 and a complicated method of syncing it. I’ve been far too involved in wrangling Cubase since 1997 to bother with PT, but with the work I do I haven’t had to. I feel for those who have had to worry about Dig...

Guy Rowland wrote: ↑Aug 15, 2023 2:02 am
I was still heavily into music in the 90s,

The 90’s rekindled my love of electric guitars and bravura, semi-cynical rock. Nirvana were rocks gods for me, much along the lines of Zeppelin but with more Beatle-influenced writing. Same with Oasis. The rest was just a Blur

Whenever the seminal moment in your music history happens, your heart will always lie there. I was 26 in 1980, had just gotten off the road and moved to NYC. My influences were hard wired. BEATLES, Simon and Garfunkel, Joni Mitchell, straight ahead jazz, Steely Dan, Hendrix, Zeppelin, a few progs li...

Listened to the walkthrough, and after a while tried to imagine how I would feel if it was a new retro collection from a no name company. My conclusion is that I’d think it was ok but not worth buying to add to my current sounds. I think the synth pads are generally replicable in Omni and most of th...

I’m also looking at VSL solo strings “full” at $162 through Ilio.

Another nice thing re VSL-I own VEP (a few versions), one BBO and SE winds and that’s it from Vienna. When the iLok transition happened, they turned SE winds into SE basic, giving me all of the instruments of the basic SE orchestra. Damn generous. The folks at VSL, like Paul Kopf, are really good p...

Another nice thing re VSL-I own VEP (a few versions), one BBO and SE winds and that’s it from Vienna.

When the iLok transition happened, they turned SE winds into SE basic, giving me all of the instruments of the basic SE orchestra. Damn generous.

Thanks-I do hear the intimacy in some of the demos. I don't like them much when they're louder, feeling they have a sort of "buzzy quality to them. Maybe, as you say, it's just a matter of hearing them more prominently.

Thanks for the review, Piet.

I have no experience with Synchron strings, but in listening to the demos I found that the softer side of Duality appealed to me more than the louder side. Any thoughts along that line?

So, so interesting. Overall, the piano and pianissimo sound much better to me than the forte and mezzo forte , which sound sort of buzzy.

Lots of possibilities and options here though.

Impressive sounding. I look forward to a thorough walkthrough.

Caught up in the hype, Piet. No excuses. The Holy Grail continues to elude. I have my standard (VGP2), my few specialties like OBG, Piano in Blue, Spitfire Felt, the Abbey Road uprights, the clanky old Braunschweig (I know how you love that one!) but the Grail.... no. On the other hand, I have quite...

As immune as I am to Spitfire’s marketing, I take a flyer now and again. Strangely enough after all the ones I’ve bought, I’ve not found the piano of my dreams. The most expensive one I’ve bought recently was the 300 Grand, which I find to be largely disappointing. I doubt I’ll consider the new Spit...

Spitfire feeling obligated to provide bug fixes-what a concept.

As I posted on VI-C-why does a digital product ever need to be “retired”?

I priced out the Ultra with 128 GB RAM and a 4 tb SSD. Came out to around $5500, video monitors not Included. Not too bad considering a composer friend bought a Mac Pro with similar specs about 3 or 4 years ago-for 20k. We banter back and forth about a lot of things but I don’t have the heart to go ...

As with all keyswitched instruments, I just keep pressing low keys until something magical happens. Or doesn’t.

Thanks for doing that Guy. I found that I had to drag tempo and it still wasn’t consistent. Yours sounds better. I wonder if it’s the difference between AS 1 and 2 or just user error on my part.

Guy, do you find that Action Strings 2 sync to tempo perfectly? I used the earlier version once on one piece, and sync was a real struggle.

Ashermusic wrote: ↑May 30, 2023 10:39 am I am usually all over AcousticSamples products, but I just don’t need these.

What a curious notion-“need.”

I’ve only listened to the oboe tracks, but they all seemed to be played forte with a hard attack, which I find curious.

Thanks Jason. That could be a problem-I’ll trial it, but forewarned….

This seems like the “easy button” vocoder I’ve always wanted.

Thanks Guy. I finally found the switch to turn auto-divisi off under “Ensemble.” This wasn’t obvious to me.

I bought CinePerc for $81. Great stuff. Then I had a rare moment of profligacy and bought CineBrass (both versions) and CineStrings, which are fine but totally unnecessary for me. Does anyone believe that the $499 Musio deal will be limited to “the first 100 buyers?” I don’t. Still-I think Cineperc ...