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Most of them known, but a few may be new to some: https://blog.native-instruments.com/5-free-vocal-libraries-for-kontakt/

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Spitfire's FREE Instruments are better than most paid ones....so I'm sure not complaining! If they could get that Installer thing down that would be nice!

Regular Human prices ?

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Download this FREE preset pack for Olympus Choir Elements. From sweeping beautiful legatos to haunting reversed choir chants, this free preset expansion will be a perfect addition to your orchestral writing palette. You can order Olympus Choir Elements on sale now for only $66 (reg. $99) until May 5th. This is only available to existing owners of Olympus Choir Elements. LEARN MORE

Hi folks! As some of you may know, there is a new 'Arranger Track' feature in Cakewalk, so I've made this easy tutorial to get you started! WATCH HERE: https://youtu.be/_2e1SUcEpms

I like this setup myself very much! While GG's Spin (Leslie) is great, adding IKM's Leslie adds something really nice to Blue3 and takes it to a very similar feel and sound as B3X. You can pretty much tweak Blue3 and get that B3X vibe by using IKM's Leslie. If IKM was not having this sale where with Jampoints I can get it for $84, I would just use Blue3 +IKM Leslie, but for this sale price, I can not pass up this deal. Also, playing B3X is just fun and very full sounding. Blue3 + IKM Leslie is still less than 1/2 the hit on the CPU compared to B3X. I figure that I can use B3X on smaller mixes and handle the hit, but for bigger CPU demanding mixes I may use Blue3+IKM Leslie. [Also I may use "freeze track" with B3x more so to reduce the cpu load.] [Edit: Let add that B3X's high CPU hit is worse when the GUI is open, but when the GUI is closed, the CPU load does drop considerably.]

I was in Loop Cult at one time. I was forced to drink Kool-Aid over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over...

Spitfire gives away lots of excellent instruments for FREE and they have started up a new series of $29 instruments. So there's that. Then they offer Academic Discounts, have two sales each year that are generally 40% off, and then occasional deals for 50% off, and one at the end of the year that bundles three libraries for $100. They are always messing with their pricing so get ready for some new kinds of sales in the future. Maybe on May 7th? 😀 For me, they are the most inexpensive company in the business because I am almost certain I will never buy anything more from them at any price, even $29. For numerous reasons that have nothing to do with my respect for the quality of what they do. I love the ones I own. They make beautiful libraries that I don't need going forward with my music.

They have among the best customer service in the business. No question about that.

I fell in for syntronik. 50bucks including jampoints, not bad.

Free "snacks" samplepack by Samples From Mars, featuring MPC related sounds: https://snacks.samplesfrommars.com/mpc2000/

You have to stop that!!! I had my heart really set on getting a Mars sample pack 😖

I've been using it pretty extensively, but not for the "arrangements" feature. The main two applications I've been using it for are: As a navigation / cue tool - I name the sections with the first few words of the vocals to be sung, so not only can I easily navigate via the inspector, it's a good cue to remind me what part I'm about to sing as the now time approaches the section in the arranger track. As an editing tool - being able to copy/move everything around without having to resort to copy/cut/paste special makes editing much quicker.

Imagine a world where they made the guitar version of Trilian though............

I'd like to have an "Enya" vocal lib. Maybe she will read this forum and make one for us. 😍

I have really worked with Strum and have found it to be quit a capable guitar synth. If you learn to work all the key switches, you can make some really real sounding strumming. I am a guitar player, not a keyboardist. So my skills in playing a guitar are far superior than my skills at playing a keyboard, much less playing a keyboard to make it sound like a guitar, if you followed that. : ) Strum is made for a keyboardist (a good one) to play realistic guitar strumming while recording. That's it's strength. However, they give a lot of info on what's going on in the manual. I have learned I can use that info on a midi track to make some very respectable strumming along with say a piano or strings. And I am just scratching the surface.

Yes, I am still around, but rarely post. I come everyday to look for Larry's best and latest deals.

I first want to say thank you Bandlab for making Cakewalk free and the hard work you guys have done for the past 2 years to make it more stable and faster. Looking at how good things are going I can see the potential of Cakewalk competing with the big DAWs like FL studio, Ableton, and logic pro. My main issue with Cakewalk is the lack of essential instrument plugins needed to make modern music . I understand that Cakewalk used to be about $500 which meant that beginners were not who they were appealing to, but to the pros who did not really need built-in instrument plugins because they can afford to buy or have amassed a lot of plugins throughout the years or pros who mostly used Cakewalk for recording, mixing and mastering. However, the Cakewalk Sonar then doesn't have the advantage the present Cakewalk has, which is a loyal fanbase of people who haven't even used Cakewalk before : "Bandlab Users." Let's use logic pro for an example: Logic pro's success can be seen in their business model which is, "Attract beginners with Garageband and hope that they would eventually upgrade to Logic Pro." Cakewalk now has more than 3 million people using Bandlab and some of them have upgraded to Cakewalk. In fact I was one of them. I used Bandlab for a year then came to Cakewalk. During my first year using cakewalk, I and other Bandlab users had issues with Cakewalk which was that Bandlab had more ready mordern sounds than Cakewalk, which did not make sense. It took me two months to get some free instruments that I can use and it took me 6 months to find a drum sampler and a normal sampler which is an important plugin used to produce almost every mainstream music we've heard now. You would expect that the flagship daw of Bandlab to have more sounds than it's beginner daw. I know these are two different companies that have joined but it doesn't make sense to get this frustrated and consider downgrading back to Bandlab when you not want to level up your skills as a music producer. There more than 3 million users using Bandlab and I can guarantee that a lot of them would upgrade to Cakewalk. This is an advantage no other daw except for logic pro has and can put Cakewalk on the map as the daw to use in the years to come. I understand creating plugins is tedious and might take time to make but I believe that like how Cakewalk was partnering with different big brands, Cakewalk should try to create a relationship companies that are providing already made free plugins to bring these plugins to Cakewalk to make it the default plugins. Some of these companies are even ready to help if anybody who wants to add their software to anything. Here are the free professional plugins from companies I believe Cakewalk should try in creating a relationship to put these plugins in Cakewalk by default. Drum Sampler - Sitala by the Company Decomposer Sitala is the vst which made me stay in Cakewalk. It took me 6 months to find this software but it has make drum pattern making so easy to make and program the pads easily. It is fast it is light on cpu. It essentially has pro-level sample features and it is free. Even many people using logic and ableton use this sampler. Another important reason is the pads start at C3 which is the same key the step sequencer in Cakewalk also starts by default. They are also ready to collaborate with anydody who wants to distribute their software and are willing to create content for the platform which wants to partner. Synth Bundle Vst - Syntronik free by IKmultimedia - This is one of the best synthesizers I've heard. This took me 2 years to find. This plugin is similar to arturia's analog log lab. These guys are so underrated. They have their own proprietery emulation software to emulates 17 famous hardware synthesizers: Minimod, Prophet V, J-8 (Based on Roland Jupiter-8, Jupiter-6, Jupiter-4), OXa (Based on Oberheim OB-X, OB-Xa) etc, Basically every synth arturia has emulated they've also done it. The reason Cakewalk should consider them is because they have a free version and a paid version of their software. I think they will be interested in having new customers using their free software to hopefully buy the paid when they want more sounds. So I see this as a win-win. Sample Sounds Plugin - SampleTank 4 Custom Shop by IKmultimedia - It is a free expandable sound and groove workstation. Includes over 4 GB of samples and 50 sounds. They sound really good and it has an upgradable version. I believe IKmultimedia should be contacted to partner with Cakewalk. Sampler - Grace by One Small Clue - This is another important sampler Cakewalk needs to add. It is different from Sitala because it allows to change the key of the sample in the piano roll . It is the fastest free sampler I could find and has many helpful features such a built in file manage, lfos and many more I've never used. This is essential for sampling and it should be in Cakewalk by default. Acoustic Sounds - Ample Guitar, Bass and Cloud drum - These are free plugins a lot of producers have in their plugins . They sound amazing and life-like. This is another company with paid guitars they would like more people to buy. So think Cakewalk should contact them. Keyboard - Keyzone Classic By Bitsonic - Another widely used plugin in Cakewalk. A Sample Based keyboard emulating the Yamaha Grand Piano, Steinway Grand Piano and other presets. I have a lot of paid pianos but this is still one of my favorites. I spent a lot of time writing this because I remember wasting 6 months trying to set-up Cakewalk whereas it took me 3 days to start making music on Bandlab. The new generation is the future of Cakewalk and I can see the potential of Cakewalk. It just needs instruments for beginners.

You probably know this, but if you don't... 😉

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I am still evaluating IKM B3X. From what I have read on other forums, the top contenders are B3X, GG Audio's Blue 3 v2, UVI's B5 and GSI's VB3-II. There are trial versions of IKM B3X, Blue 3 and VB3-11. I would highly recommend you downloading all three and comparing them. They are all very very good, but they are different. B3X has a much bigger CPU hit than either Blue 3 or VB3-II. The latter two are modeled and load very fast, but B3X takes longer to load up and to switch presets. I have been hoping to get B3X and this price is very good; so I will probably get it. One thing I will say is that with both Blue 3 and VB3-II you can completely disable the leslie/cab and then use whatever other Leslie or Amp you wish; I loaded IKM's Amplitude Leslie and it sounds Great However, on IKM's B3X you can bypass the leslie amp, but not the cabinets. You can use either the Leslie amp or the Amplitude Amp (included) but you can not completely bypass the cabs completely. [Edit: This is wrong. See Ryan's post latter in this thread]. I recommend downloading the demos and comparing them on your system. [I wish that UVI's B5 had a trial demo, but it does not and so I can not comment on it, --others rave over it.] Also google Blue 3, UVI B5 and IKM B3X and you will find several threads where they are compared.

I'll pick up the upgrade to Syntronik Deluxe for $34.99 before this is over... I'd be Krazy NOT to! That would complete Syntronik...and leave only the Amp Satch and the B3 out of the collection...

You can download your new installer from here (32-bit only): https://webshop.oz-soft.com/en/order-history Login. Click on “Details” of your order. Click on “Genesis Pro VST Plugin – (click to download)” under product. Please read the notes below before installing Notes: THIS VERSION IS 32-BIT ONLY – If you have a working 64-bit Jbridge Genesis Pro version (from our launch version before we removed it) do not install this version. For those users (and those that want 64-bit) we will have a version ready soon (see patch notes) If you have the full/standalone version of Jbridge – you can install this version. Please make sure you completely uninstall the previous version. The new version requires a clean install. Any existing projects will give a few errors at first (due to the changes we made). These errors will not affect your sounds in any way. You would only need to save the project 1x time with the new Genesis and the errors should not occur anymore. Genesis Pro V1.0.2 Patch Notes – 3nd of May, 2020 A new patch is now live for the Genesis Pro GENESIS BUG FIXES Fixed the issue where it was needed to run the DAW as administrator / Fixed “Connection lost to this plugin” issue Fixed custom skins not loading properly when restarting Genesis. Fixed custom knobs not loading with correct values when restarting Genesis. Fixed first note not playing when running transport in DAW. Fixed the ROM oscillator not properly loading presets – sounds are changing after reloading a project. Fixed the live dashboard analytics and it now shows correct values Fixed Init preset as it’s now set properly. Fixed XP counter as it would reset at random times Removed unnecessary dropdown menus GENERAL UPDATES The following problems related to downloading are fixed as we have upgraded our servers: Users with slow/bad internet connection could not successfully complete the download Download does not start Download gives errors The following problems related to the Installer are now fixed: Setup is corrupt No .dlls installed in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steinberg\VSTplugins The user can now select the directory they want to install the .dlls in Incomplete installation of system folders resulting in various types of errors The following problems related to Serial Keys are now fixed: Serial key authentication failure during install Serial key authentication failures in DAW after install WEBSITE UPDATES Added the OzSoft forum providing more customer support Added additional payment methods (Apple Pay, Credit Card) FUTURE DEVELOPMENT GENESIS PRO The Genesis Pro Manual will be added within 7 days on the website + forum. A 64-bit Jbridged version is being tested and is our top priority. We hope to have a stable version ready in our next update. A Mac version is being worked on. It is in its very early stages and we hope to provide more news on that in our next update. Continued support for The Genesis (optimizations, bug fixes and soundbanks). FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OZSOFT PLUGINS Our goal is to provide everyone the tools needed to produce music for very little expense. This will be more clear with our future plugins that will be in the same price range as The Genesis Pro and on par with expensive plugins in terms of quality, stability and supported systems (it will support all platforms unlike the Genesis Pro, which is an exceptional case). Kind Regards, Ummet Ozcan / Oz Soft

First, I would thoroughly read the installation section of the motherboard manual that came in the box to familiarize with the connector locations and functions. Then I would tag or label any cables attached to the existing motherboard as to what they are connected to. I would ask questions for any that you cannot identify. Depending on how tight the fit in the case is, you may need to remove power supply, graphics card, drives, cooling fans, etc. Those tags will really be helpful when putting humpty dumpty together again! Good luck!

Less than 1/20th of that size.

No - Omnisphere/Keyscape use their own engine.

Do those require FULL Kontakt too? 🤨

Which all sound better, I bet. I was impressed when I got the decade-old ST2 libraries converted and working in ST4, how smoothly the features were migrated. Each SampleTank patch/instrument has the usual oscillator/filter/ADSR information, but also comes with information regarding their extensive effects rack. When I open the effects racks, they are populated and have settings, and since their FX have improved the instruments all sound better.

Personally I don't really see myself having much use for it, but at least this guy knows how to make a video watchable. I started watching another one a few days ago and that guy was so long winded that I never even made it as far as him actually showing what it did.

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another thumbs up for the m2 - although no ASIO direct monitor drivers for those using cubase...you can direct monitor via the unit itself but cubase won't control it.

I bought a M2 about 3 months ago. So far its working really well and the latency is lower than my focusrite 2i4. So far so good. It also has a loopback feature, which is useful for me since I make youtube videos. I liked the focusrite, but IMO the M2 is better.

Africa's just sitting there saying "Spank me!" 😁

I think I'd rather reverse the two and have Mutley swinging his head with the girl bouncing on my bed... 😁

Well done, but I bet he still wonders why he's single! 😆

I did that yesterday, 550mb of goodness.

Lol I came in here hoping I wouldn't regret buying Hollywood Backup Singers earlier today. These are cool though, and that reminds me I still need to download the free M-Tron choirs we got

Now THAT is funny!

If you own Novo (full version) you should have a discount coupon under your Heavyocity account that knocks the price of Essentials down to $25 If not, is Novo showing up as one of your licensed products? - you can add it using your NA Kontakt lib serial#.

*A few rings and I'll be right there!*

Rawhide!

"Old Faithful" 😂