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Just watching the walkthrough video now, it looks like Insolidus is, essentially, a phrase library. There are separate instruments for 2, 3 and 4 syllable phrases, which are tempo-synced. I think that's actually a pretty smart way of doing it, so you can get the totally natural phrasing and swells. ...

Indolidus choir for $98 this week. Have to say, lovely demos (as usual "do I need it" blah blah"



https://8dio.com/instrument/insolidus-c ... x-samples/

Listening over at VI-C, I have to say I’ve rarely heard so many fine sounding user demos. There are some very good writers writing them, but still-through a number of variations in settings and layering with other libraries, SAS still sounds pretty great. I think I’m in. That's good to hear, and I ...

You mean, Reunited at LASS? Seriously, you think the pieces are similar? Or just that they present mile stones in the history of demos? The latter - just so we're clear, this gorgeous piece: https://soundcloud.com/audiobro/she-was-a-fair-lass?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaig...

Lawrence wrote: ↑Jan 21, 2022 9:25 pm ...and this is the charm of the Dan Keen demo.

Anyone else thinking of "She was a fair Lass"?

That's not meant dismissively, incidentally. That demo showed what LASS can do in the right hands. It wasn't a trick.

FriFlo wrote: ↑Jan 22, 2022 4:20 am

Muziksculp wrote: ↑Jan 21, 2022 11:12 pm Any idea what "Impulse Legato" is all about ?

Maybe it is related to impulse buying?

Oh that's genius.

Careful, Piet, or you’ll start doing orchestral mockups again…

wst3 wrote: ↑Jan 21, 2022 4:12 pm OK, yeah, that is a big deal, but the fact that it can not host VST3 plugins is making me just a little it crazy!

It’s inexplicable, that. After all this time… when you need to use it’s own VST3 version and yet it can’t use anyone else’s it’s quite perverse.

There is very little meaningful difference between 2 & 3, at least for me, but I know a lot of people really like the VST3 format. That’s just the thing, eh. It makes stuff all difference to us in practice. The lone exception is - ironically - VE Pro’s DAW plugin, where the VST3 version has 8 s...

Yes, agree with all that Tanuj. Tangentially, I wonder what CineStrings 2.0 will bring - the library is routinely overlooked but has a lot going for it, and it also has the Runs library alongside it. And I agree that all hyperbole and soliloquies aside (and with some of Malachistos caveats), this se...

OK, thanks Mario. Will have to dig around what I'm actually using at some point.

Malachistos - I opted out of their emails quite some time ago! And I agree on the rebows, I thought the same thing in the hairpin demo. It sounds great but is timed, so not really that useful. Tanuj - you don't think tonally this and CineStrings are pretty similar on the basis of that little test? O...

That nicely backs up what I often think with these kinds of releases: the hyperbole of the presentation makes you hear things for a moment that are just lightyears ahead of what anyone could do before. But then you compare to a few of your favorite libraries (not enough people do that even, I belie...

Well... I don't want to be too difficult, but I don't hear this tone as revelatory. It's nice for sure, lovely even. But I just did a very rough A/B with the oft-forgotten CineStrings, and they really don't seem a million miles apart to me... it's just the first few notes from the walkthrough, follo...

Thanks Muzikscukp, however that didn't really answer any of my questions.

I think you’d like it Jay, it really is very good and terrific realism. Why not try the demo?

To be clear, I may very well buy this if I decide it competes favorably with, say, Soaring Strings. I’ll shoehorn it into my template and try to blend it with the outstanding SCS ensemble shorts. Once again though, I find the marketing REALLY annoying. Clearly this ensemble should be marketed as ex...

Will be interested to get folks’ experiences. Specifically how it blends with either SSS (hopefully well) or SCS / Sable (probably less well). Without any shorts at all, that feels quite important.

@Guy A wrapper of sorts will be available, it will not work as well as things use to... but really, what does? Most of my stuff I have both VST2 and 3. Hopefully I won’t need a wrapper (much) - the main thing is if Cubase will see a VST2 thing, saying “I can’t load that, but look here’s a VST3 thin...

Ashermusic wrote: ↑Jan 20, 2022 10:44 am

Guy Rowland wrote: ↑Jan 19, 2022 9:12 am
Full disclosure - I own MODO Bass. It's really good, and I never use it.

OK, what do you turn to instead?

Either Trillian or - usually - the real bass hanging on the wall behind me.

https://www.gearnews.com/steinberg-discontinues-support-for-vst2-plug-ins/ This has been on the cards for a while, and the release says it will phase out support in the next 24 months, so unclear at the moment if Cubase 12 will retain VST2 as a final version to do so. Most stuff seems to be VST3 the...

Various deals here for Bass - https://www.ikmultimedia.com/news/?item_id=12084 and Drum here - https://www.ikmultimedia.com/news/?item_id=12117 . There's crossgrades if you own one but not the other, and a bundle deal if you own neither. Full disclosure - I own MODO Bass. It's really good, and I nev...

Perhaps the MUSIO catalog has very boiled down versions of their instruments you can download and use quickly, and then the Kontakt versions are the deep sampled ones? Who knows.. It’s hard to see it any other way, IMO. They’ve said the Kontakt range is continuing, and there are NO CONTROLS except ...

https://www.sampletekk.com/

Use the code 22special in coupon field when checking out, valid til Jan 23.

Any favourite SampleTekk products out there?

Looks like a subscription cloud player. With no controls... except a reverb send.

Um....