The Sound Board

... I can’t stand their videos. They are full of the most pretentious self-portrayal and all sorts of fake „we-are-not-a-company-making-money-but-we-are-here-for-music-and-ideals“-BS - and the opposite is true of course! Not to mention their trailers and teasers trying to present every new library ...

A bit pricey for me, but this kind of thing is something I've been asked to do by others on several occasions lately.

Have people seen Alex Knickerbocker? He's a film audio guy, and really knows his audio... I subscribed to his YT channel immediately:

I meant to ask - what WAS the dreaded library? The company was called Private Labs, the product was called Scream, the developer was an apparently well-intentioned but business-challenged guy named Olajide Paris. One huge issue was that Scream was released as one of those "exclusive" limi...

You have Sample Modeling’s “The Trumpet”, don’t you Guy? Actually I don’t, but I know I should. Indefensible behaviour - I seem to be permanently waiting for a sale from a company that never does them. Quite delusional. Haha... I'm essentially done collecting VIs except for a desire to get very hig...

Didn’t they do this with Albion I, only to bring it back a month later, rebranded? I’ve tired of Spitfire’s marketing schemes. Yes they did, and were I a gambler I would bet the baby's milk money that Loegria will be similarly rebranded. I also dislike their marketing schemes, as they come across a...

I'm intrigued too. I have a breath controller coming in the mail, and from watching demos I am anxious to get very high quality, expressive physically modeled trumpets, trombones, saxes and a clarinet. So I'm saving $$$$ now with an eye toward doing this, after which I think I will be truly DONE loo...

I have everything from them that I want, but they're a great little company and most of their stuff is of much higher quality than their prices suggest.

I agree that the cymbal rolls are stellar.

TAKE MY MONEY! For real! When it comes to buying free stuff, I'm financially set for life. Red Room Audio has set a fairly high bar IMO for free orchestral teasers. Their Palette Primary Colors - while containing only basic sus and stac strings, wind and brass ensembles - sounds lovely and is more ...

I use Plug & Mix's Degradiator way more than I thought I would, when I need to match crappy Skype calls to even-crappier Skype calls. As a VIP Bundle owner it was added to the bundle at no charge. BTW, that bundle is BF priced at $50. With 50 plugs it's pretty easy to find something you'll like...

Picked up FabFilter ProQ2 for a song at BestService (had some BestCoin to help). Thought I'd be happy with that and VIR2's Mallets but then Toontrack put EZDrummer2 on sale ($75 at TimeSpace) and since I'm already hooked into that ecosystem I'll probably get it. Anyone know anything about Digital B...

FWIW Best Service has a better deal on Fabfilter than either JRR or Audio Deluxe, at least in USD.

I bought L2 for $121.89, and am tempted by Saturn for $61.42.

I usually resist buying pricey plugins, but recently bought FF Pro Q 2. Although it is the most feature-rich + intuitive EQ I’ve ever tried, it’s their righteous cp that pushed me over the edge. I WANT to spend money on cool developers and vote that way. Were I wealthy, I would buy every righteous d...

I did the €9.90 crossgrade thing because I already have Frei:raum. But since I bought Frei:raum 1.0.3 they have changed their policy and now "support" iLok, which is doublespeak for saying that they require a PACE driver. So unless I install their "iLok License Manager", which ai...

The sale is advertised as "up to" 25% off, not 30. They used to do 40% discounts, and these days there are more competitors, not less. What's up with that? My guess is that they've extended it because it hasn't generated the interest and revenue they'd hoped for. The only two Cinesamples p...

The piano playing is lovely, and the instrument sounds fine, though I believe (rightly or wrongly) that I could easily pass a double-blind test between Pianoteq and a real piano... ... I already have Pianoteq Standard, Galaxy Vintage D, Una Corda, Fluffy Audio's My Piano, Woodchester Piano, the Spit...

Gee, tough crowd. I bought this and like it, as at the very least it "alludes" to a Celtic or old Appalachian-like vibe quite well. I did notice that when you play fast a couple of the notes seem to sometimes have an unnatural growling/fluttering sound, and I'm not sure what that is all ab...

Watched the 43 minute presentation, and I have to admit it's pretty damned impressive, especially for a free update. Four layers per patch, granular layout and the new sound sources & patches seem waaaaay cool. I'm fine with the current UI and the hw synth integration doesn't affect me. I contin...

VSTBuzz/AudioPluginDeals is a garage sale for libraries that failed commercially... at least that's my impression... you will never see flagship libraries on there! Of course that doesn't mean the samples are bad, I still have picked up a few things from there from smaller developers. But I doubt y...

Guy Rowland wrote: ↑Aug 24, 2018 5:46 pm
Indeed. I thought "gimme the fx / odd artics, skip the rest".

Perhaps they will do this, similar to the way much more inexpensive NOVO Packs 01 & 02 were released. I have NP01, & I'd quite possibly be interested in something like that.

It has a bit of overlap to the EVO's, but here you can play individual instruments instead of things stuck in a group. As I mentioned on VI you won't write your next concerto with this, but putting together medium to slow evocative cues is like nothing else. I am not having an issue with transition...

I haven't been this intrigued in a while. The workflow is fascinating. Sadly I do not think my keyboard chops are sufficient to take advantage of this approach. I may still buy it - the sounds are quite good, and definitely different than anything I own. Or they appear to be anyway. I haven't been ...

They make some cool plugins. Brusfri noise reduction and Esspresso de-esser are superb, and I like their Grand Finale for faux, quick audio finalizing. I was not impressed with the demo of the DAW Cassette, and discovered the wonderful & free Reaktor VHS: https://www.native-instruments.com/en/re...

I wonder what it was about newer Kontakt versions that meant Try Sound dropped it - was NI unhappy I wonder? To this day, the inability to demo libraries is one of the bigger issues that hasn't been resolved in the industry. Even though I'm pro end-user rights to the point of (arguably) extremism, ...

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 fo...

Very briefly - IMO the Orchestrator is the least useful of the range, I honestly haven't turned to it much. In Lumina you do have some control over the balance between strings and choir in the Stories. I don't have a great knowledge of all the Albions and Arks (I only have #1 of each). I tend to th...