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I think I remember Mike Greene doing a Black Friday Sale where he briefly RAISED the prices on all RealiTone libraries. But you had to move fast-- or the prices would go back down again. Maybe I dreamed this. Does anybody remember if this really happened?

It's not about that.. it's about the getting.. whether it gets used or not is not our concern

I'd like to pick up some or all of these types for Labor day or some other sale. I like those piano libraries that have something cool/strange about them, often with other additional layered sounds added to the piano sound.. thanks abacab for sending me down this ??️ w/ Shipwreck piano the other day. Then Peter mentions Death Piano and Fleer mentions Halfling and now I must own them all apparently. Below is what I know of so far. Is this pretty much all there is or are there more worthy mentions? Happy Saturday! Shipwreck Pianos: https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/stshipwreckpiano/?pkey=sampletank-sounds-cinekinetik-shipwreck-piano The Halfling: https://www.productionvoices.com/product/the-halfling/ Death Piano: https://www.productionvoices.com/product/death-piano/ Pain Piano (already own this): https://silenceandothersounds.com/products/pain-piano/

Are you tired of sales that apply only to some products? Are you tired of sales that have ending dates? Wouldn't it great if there was a company that lowered prices on all their products? Permanently? You bet it would! https://realitone.com/ Here at Realitone, we hear you. So we've permanently lowered prices on all products ... by 95 cents! That's right! So instead of Realivox Blue being $149.95, now it's just $149! Sunset Strings was $299.95 - but now just $299! RealiBanjo? Say goodbye to four digits of messiness with $59.95, and say hello to $59! Now, I know what you're thinking: "But Mike! Sure, this looks cleaner. But how are you going to stay in business with such a drastic drop in income???" I hear you! Heck, I'll probably have to start buying off-brand ramen, instead of the fancy stuff. But when you're as dedicated to your customers as I am, then by golly, these are the sorts of sacrifices you have to make. But Wait! There's More! Sure, I take pride in going my own path with this permanent price-slashing thing. But it can be lonely being the leader in the cause of Pricing Justice. So if everyone else is having a Labor Day Sale, then ... well, I want to have one, too. So with our Realitone Labor Day Sale, we're slashing prices even further! And ... with the extra 95 cents off, that makes these are our lowest sale prices ... EVER! (I'm hoping the people who bought during the last Black Friday sale don't get mad!) Sunset Strings - Was $299.95. Now on sale, but not at $199.95. We're talkin' just $199! Realivox Blue with Wordbuilder - Was $149.95. So is it on sale for $99.95? Heck no! We're slashin' it to just $99! Realivox Ladies Lite is on sale for as low as $99! That's how much we care about you, our valued customers! Hip Hop Creator and RealiDrums are each half off! Just $99! Amazing! Fingerpick as low as $79! RealiBanjo is just $39! RealiWhistle is just $29! Acoustic Lite is just $29! Screaming Trumpet - Featuring Wayne Bergeron is just $99!

I'm a big fan of Dream Audio Tools A lot of great libraries, very reasonably priced. And their are sales that make them even more reasonable. I'm a big fan of their Indie Fingers series, which are libraries composed of contemporary pop/rock guitar arpegggios, which you can combine. You can make amazing tracks just combining some of these arps. Also, +++++`1 for Indiginus. I think that Tracy Collins is one of the greatest makers of virtual instruments ever, along with Tarilonte, Alex at Cinematic Studio, and Eric Persing of Spectrasonics. He makes instruments that sound great and are also a lot of fun to play. The thing I particularly like is that he has an auto-harmony feature. You can bring this in and out with keyswitches or velocity or other cc, but I am lazy and tend to just leave it on all the time. Do NOT make the mistake that because Indiginus products are so cheap that they are not number one. I have excellent guitars by Orange Tree Samples and AmpleSound, but I generally reach for my Indiginus ones. Or... I try them all for a piece and the Indiginus ones sound best. The problem with a company like Indiginus for a forum like this is that there are no sales--therefore there is no sense of occasion, like "I have to buy now!" I never miss a product introduction, and I've tried to pick up one or two a year. Here's a little thing I did using the harmony effect on both Indiginus's The Fiddle and The STEEL, the amazing Indiginus Lap Steel, that I use all the time. With tools like this even a shmo like me can get beautiful sounds very quickly. (Guitar is NI's Picked Acoustic.)

Did someone say Nordic crime drama?

But they were not usable on sale items before, until we made them usable on things like software that's already marked down $110

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Personally I think you have them in the wrong order, but each to their own.

This thread is becoming something like a Wurlitzer-palooza ? I am sitting on a plane in Dallas for the past hour because of lightning heading home and catching up. Lot’s of things to consider here.

That's why I plan to add a 3rd output from the splitter to be DI. That way if down the road I'm not happy with the amp sound, amp sims or FX Chains I can go back and re-amp the DI.

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So far no one has mentioned two very interesting (older) Kontakt library developers: Hollow Sun - Stephen Howell was super interesting, creating unique synth libraries. Unfortunately he passed away and his company Hollow Sun stopped at that point. But the libraries are still there, and still work and sound great: http://hollowsun.com/ Pulstar from the many libraries is a first good one to look at if unfamiliar with Hollow Sun: http://hollowsun.com/HS2/alien_devices/pulstar/index.htm Hideaway Studio - Dan, who worked with Stephen on some Hollow Sun projects, started Hideaway Studio which has a number of low-cost, fantastic sounding libraries. I have used a fair number of patches from these libraries in my songs because they sound quite nice and hit the spot. It appears Dan is now selling his products officially through Loot Audio: https://hideawaystudio.net/ From Hideaway Studio a good first one to check out is the Blue Zone collection: https://hideawaystudio.net/category/the-blue-zone/ Here's one sound example from the Blue Zone:

Just when you thought you were out …

Well I already spent $12 of that on a silly product at Plugin Boutique so that I could get a free silly product for free! ?

Is there a VST version available?

Look out for audio plugin deals/vstbuzz deals on Gospel Musicians, I got a great deal on a bunch of good stuff and then there are quite fair upgrade offers and deals on GM own website. It helps a lot to login to see the offers. For Wurli there's one more library worth checking out: Session Keys Electric W from e-instruments.com Also there's Broken Wurli from Soniccouture but that one, I think, was already mentioned in the other thread.

Reminds me of the time I went to Graceland to see Elvis! (They wouldn't let me in with my shovel though... ??)

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GG Audio Blue 3 is growl incorporate

I'm still waiting for this IKM announcement: "Today, NOTHING is on sale!" That day will never come. ?

I thought ramen was already off-brand by design

The two-piano pack from Xperimenta is really worthwhile, especially for the Yamaha C3 (intimate preset is lovely). I also think it's really cool that the library was produced for a university project!

Great sounding piece Jeff ! I listened on my small iLoud speaker and it comes across as a great and balanced piano sound. Never understood trying to get a "good" sound on teeny iPhone speakers, as you mention in your original post . . . maybe not engineered for high transient material like a piano ? One thing I've always used to zero in on high transients is to turn on Cakewalk's Peak Marker (in the meter settings) . . . which seeks out and actually flags the rogue peaks . . . then you can go in and destroy them all as needed, and actually saves some time in finding them. Maybe this will help what you're hearing ?

Talking developers and Wurlitzers I have to mention Teletone Audio. Here is a video I did for their Vesepertone which has a Rhodes and Wurli. Here is the part of the clip I look at the Wurli. Far out!

He may have had to put his Alembic up as collateral to get all that gear ? Kenny

Interesting finding something cheap to buy that you wont use and getting a freebie you wont use.

It's left handed and has a handful of wasted frets.

thanks for eggsplaning but now I'm completely lost

She would be fine, and we had our days at nude beaches when we were younger. However, there is an unwritten rule at nude beaches around here, not to point anything out. We don't go to the beach much anymore, too busy doing other things that are also enjoyable. We played at a nudist 'camp' (it was actually a mobile home and RV park) for quite a few years, until a hurricane came and destroyed the clubhouse. Neither Mrs. Notes nor I had a problem with that. Mrs. Notes has no problem with me looking at pretty girls, she knows I think that she is beautiful, and she knows I have no intention of being unfaithful. Before marriage, when I was gigging in singles clubs and later on the road, there were babes-a-plenty, and I hope they all look back on the experience as fondly as I do. But right now, as pretty as those flaunting their youth are, I wouldn't take the chance even if it was offered. I'm sure she appreciates looking at young, fit men, but I don't point them out to her. Notes ♫

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I'm hoping there are still some FW-1884/FE-8 users here. I have the FW-1884 and a couple FE-8's and they seem to be working fine in Cakewalk. There is an issue I'm trying to resolve however. On the FW-1884 to arm a track for recording, you hold down the REC key and press the Select key for the track you want to arm. This works fine on the 1884, but not on the FE-8. If I hold down the REC key on the 1884 and then press a Select key on an FE-8, it won't arm the track. Does anyone know how to correct this? --- Shoot. I just answered my own question. I was using the devices in Mackie mode. I just realized the old Sonar plug-in from Tascam still works in Cakewalk. Running the 1884 in Native mode seems to work perfectly. The Master fader is even doing what it's supposed to.

From Deals | 50% off BFD and Expansions ... cut down a recent project to create a custom template for how a basic kit in BFD3 could be used with CxB. NOTES: > use case: basic acoustic kit and rolling your own MIDI grooves > assumes the latest version of BFD3 > most, if not all kit pieces should be from the BFD3 Core Library (not confirmed) > the direct kit pieces and OH, Room, Ambient, Master Out channels in the BFD mixer are routed to discrete channels in CxB. > the FX in BFD might be used to get a kit sound for the "tracking" stage but in general, all mixing done in CxB > general approach: get a basic kit sound using OH/Room/Ambient channels, then add/mix in direct channels and fine tune with additional ambient channels thru Ambient or Master Out. BFD supports additional auxes if it helps organize things. > the original project used a parallel drum buss for compression/harmonic distortion. Left in the sends and aux for that. > MIDI channels are broken out per a preferred workflow. A CxB drum map and BFD keymap are included for the BFD preset with a screenshot of the PRV. FILES: CxB template: > copy CxB BFD3 template.cwt to your CxB Project Templates dir CxB drum map: > copy SM BFD3 5Cym 4Tom 4Perc.map to your CxB Drum Maps dir BFD preset: > copy SM Baseline.bfd3 and SM Baseline.png (file icon) to your BFD user preset dir (i.e. Documents | BFD Drums | BFD3 | Presets) BFD kit: (Not sure this is needed, included in case it is.) > copy SM Baseline.bfd3kit and SM Baseline.png (file icon) to your BFD user preset dir (i.e. Documents | BFD Drums | BFD3 | Kits) BFD keymap: > copy SM 5Cym 4Tom 4Perc.bfd3map and SM 5Cym 4Tom 4Perc.png (file icon) to your user keymap dir (i.e. Documents | BFD Drums | BFD3 | Maps) NB. These all work with my current ecosystem, but were not tested anywhere else. CxB BFD3 template.zip

Ya! He do! ?

That's why the discussions here on the "Deals" forum can help us decide what to proceed with or to avoid. Obvious axe grinding rants are to be ignored of course! ?

There's no shortage of bad ones either. I'm not sure what really defines a small developer these days. For some reason I decided to buy everything from https://hideawaystudio.net/

Just wait till @Christian Jonessees the Death Whistle. He's been looking for some creepy stuff! ?

Man, that GG Audio Hammond Blue3 and Spin Leslie. How could we forget.

Nope :-(

Tips from the experts save me time.

I tried using pink noise but I fell asleep before I found out what happened.

I put them through a noise filter and they are now truly unwritten.

Of course, they're unwritten.

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Those almost look the same as the three unwritten rules of professional music production Kenny! (?)

You have good taste ?