The Sound Board

You know, I haven't bought anything for BF/CM. Yep same here, except I couldn't pass up the Embertone Steinway Walker D Lite for $10, following arcana's post about it. Now dammit the genie is out of the bottle and I've come across Orange Tree Samples absolutely gorgeous-sounding Jazz Archtop for $1...

Thanks Arcana, hell of a deal.

Arcana wrote: ↑Nov 26, 2018 4:53 pm Cyber Monday bargain.
Embertone's Walker D lite is on sale for only $10 this week til Friday.
https://embertone.com/

Thanks gsilbers & wst3! Lots of great stuff in there by the sound of it, for a steal.

Daryl wrote: ↑Nov 21, 2018 3:06 am .. my main gripe with many orchestral sample library developers is that the QA is terrible

Yep.

Thanks for the info!

Sounds great. Well-put-together video.

Nice review Guy, thanks. I think that's the thing - don't know if this is the case with this product, but I've always found it terribly time-consuming and creativity-sapping (not that I have that much of it to start with) to have to program drums / percussion from scratch - I think what I would like...

Thanks for your thoughts on it Quasar. Guy, don't worry - as you say, what can you only play through the thing! And try to make it as interesting as possible - which you've done brilliantly, with a lovely splash of humour and good form. And I don't think that anyone could argue that they haven't hea...

After three days of listening to Guy's dulcid tones, and being wracked with indecision, and it may be madness, but I finally decided to get S1 plus S2 plus Animator for a total of €667. Still quite a bit of money, but it's a hell of a lot of good sounding content I think. Maybe it is more suited for...

Oh no... feeling a GAS attack coming on...
(S1)
Resist...Resist... You are powerless to Resist...
(...Damn you with those fine videos Guy...)

Hi Bill, well I haven't had a chance to download and play with it (S3) yet, so I can't give it a proper assessment - I bought based only on the various demos and walkthroughs, I'd been on the fence for years about it, maybe it was just to put me out of my GAS misery! I loved some of those sounds and...

Great prices - I bought Lumina at Christmas for 350, it's now 290 - I thought it was worth it then.
However I haven't had time (or space) to download it yet !

Yeah I dunno, it's hard to figure out what it is - playing digital samples back though a bunch of pots and filters?

It's not for me as I could do a lot more with the money, but interesting 8dio moving into hardware, software saturated...?

Interesting development https://8dio.com/instrument/prophet-x/

$3999 on the 'Add to Cart' button

Tempting because of that $50 off, but feel a bit like Monsieur wst3! Came across this just now:

Good observation re the duller close mics. It does sound rather lovely in general I thought, but indeed I wonder how it might mix, and also how it might stack up versus the C7 in Keyscape for example (which I don't have).

Hey bbunker - thank you so much for taking the time to write up your thoughts - exactly the kind of thing I was looking for! - much appreciated. I'm definitely not the type to want to have to start fiddling with parameters to get the instruments balanced across the kit etc and to get the velocity re...

Cheers for the info Bill

Anyone have this? Thoughts? Seems like a good deal...

https://vstbuzz.com/deals/70-off-realid ... 9cebb5cca5

Ah good observations, if you discover any more let us know.
Yes at that price, it indeed bypassing the impulse control!

Nice felt piano and 3 accompanying atmospheres at a nice price. http://fracturesounds.com/product/woodchester-piano/

Thanks for posting Alex - this looks really dinky (i.e nice) ! Do you have it? The video says it takes control of your mouse pointer - does that mean your mouse is disabled? I presume not? I'm guessing it's like having a trackpad and a mouse active at the same time, but with the trackpad routed to d...

That is indeed a lovely teaser.
I think most of it is in the composition and the arrangement / sound design though?
I reckon you could get reasonably close to that with Omnisphere, the $2 Spitfire Felt Piano, and some FX ? (might take a little longer)

Indeed. Not to mention Christian's youtube video entitled (as only he / SA would):
"How to add Swagger to your Silky Symphonic Pieces with the Bernard Hermann library".