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What the heck, who am I (fooling). Got that sweet Spire after all. Thanks guys.

I'm very, very, very happy with my purchase of Skybox Audio's Hammers + Waves - EP 145B I believe the intro price was about $49. Currently $79, but maybe back to $49 for BF? Simeon's video is available at: Let's Play The Legendary EP 145 B From Skybox Audio

Check your custom offers https://www.applied-acoustics.com/portal/offers/. They often give you 50% off the expansion paks on TOP of the 50% sale prices!

CLONE is a plugin for checking the mix in different rooms \ speakers (a la MixChecker from Audified). It is free with the coupon "BFFREE". https://www.thenatan.store/p/clone-mixcheker-plugin/

Genre/Style: Modern Classical/Virtual Concerto Creative Vision for the Track: To write a 3 movement concerto featuring a virtual oboe (I’ve written 3 other concertos using a live soloist but the pandemic made that difficult so I wrote this one without a live player) Composition Details (Tempo, Key, Main Chords etc): Score included, you can analyze it if you want Main Instruments used: Vienna Symphonic Library Orchestral Cube and softsynths Zebra & Dune PLAY

Cyber Weeks 2022 Promotion https://www.steinberg.net/promotion/ Upgrade from the free Dorico SE to Dorico Elements 4 for $37.50 (USD). Download and activate the SE version and you are eligible for the upgrade. Dorico includes Halion Sonic SE for playback, as well as there is an optional playback template available for the free Spitfire BBCSO Discover library (as well as playback templates for BBCSO Core and Pro). Get Dorico SE here: https://www.steinberg.net/dorico/se/ Compare Dorico versions: https://www.steinberg.net/dorico/compare-editions/ Playback templates for Dorico: https://blog.dorico.com/playback-templates/

Every year it's getting worse - they are prematurely Black Fridaying all over us earlier and earlier. And then they won't leave... Well, I got news for them - the only Black Friday that matters in my world is this one: Although I hear that man-made monsters are indeed on the loose in a lot of retail stores across the coutry on that day.

If a few more dollars can be coughed up Soniccouture's Broken Wurli can be had for $42 https://www.thomannmusic.com/soniccouture_broken_wurli.htm

“Chill” is a word that comes to mind with a number of Spire packs. They even have a category of preset packs in the Reveal store for Chill. I’m also a huge fan of Rapid. It sounds great! But like Avenger its preset packs are pricey. The Spire universe (it’s like a universe with so many preset packs) is way more affordable. The presets packs are pretty consistently full of very good sounds.

Yeah, this is when I realized I didn't have a lot of the new stuff!! Great prices too. I really like the sound of UA, always have.

Lovely. Now go try that Pianoteq Wurli

We do pass the project file location via the vst3 api and also another API. I'll have to check but Cakewalk itself doesn't create the melodyne sub folder. There must be some interop confusion. I can check with them..

Lee - with the zillion low cost preset packs - a wide range of styles are available with Spire, not just Trance. Sometimes I think of Spire as like having Vengeance Avenger-level amazing sounds - without all the out of control automation. Of course when I want all that pre-programmed out of control goodness I have Avenger or Dune. But to have great sounds at the fingertips and not need to turn off a bunch of automation, and at a very economical price, Spire always comes through for me with great sounds (and easily favoriteable presets). So I use it often.

Ultravox - Sleepwalk

R.E.M. - Letter Never Sent

Don't sleep on the preset packs, especially bundled. Fancy yourself some late 90s trance? Spire has got you covered.

So I got this as well as 3 extensions and I had no trouble authorising or downloading or whatever. One time, deleting the track BFD was on caused Studio One to crash (MBP M1 Pro, Rosetta) but I figured out how to avoid that (deactivating the instrument first). No further issues so far. This thing and especcially the Tama kit from the Modern Retro extension sounds so *****ing good that I pee myself a little every time I'm playing it. It's almost literally like playing the real kit. So much better than AD2 it's ridiculous. Worth every bit of trouble so far.

Ultimate Midi Plugin has announced the release of another update to its UChord MIDI effect that creates chord progression based on a chord table and rhythm editor. 70% off now. Version 1.6.5 adds slashed chords. More information: Ultimate Midi Plugin

Sound libraries are on sale too! 1/2 price with additional discount at JRR

Even sharper pricing via Thomann https://www.thomannmusic.com/soniccouture.html

Well, if you think about it, the only guaranteed way to know you have the best Wurli library is to buy all of them ? I do like the fact there's a 140b in this Purgatory Creek collection, as I don't have one of those yet. I spent a fair bit of time comparing my Wurli libraries yesterday and realised what I don't like about the Broken Wurli is the mechanical noises so when I turn those down, it actually can end up sounding pretty good and surprisingly close to the e-Instruments one. But I still currently prefer the e-Instruments, mainly after watching an interesting comparison of some virtual Wurli's against an actual Wurli yesterday and then comparing those tones to the ones coming out of the libraries I already own. When I get the Broken Wurli closer to the tone of the Wurli in that video (by giving it some bass boost in the EQ), it readily distorts at high velocities. Whereas the e-Instruments one takes a bass boost more in its stride. I was testing them with some midi files, in particular Steely Dan's "Do It Again". Broken Wurli has a preset for Steely Dan's "Do It Again" and it doesn't really sound much like the tone used in the song to me. It took a lot of tweaking to get to a serviceable sound. I'm not really that interested in the sound design type presets in the e-instruments one either but it least the bread and butter stuff is totally serviceable without the need for tweaking. The default e-Instruments preset worked perfectly for Do It Again. I'm definitely going to be buying all of these Purgatory Creek libraries, and the VReeds and VTines from Acoustic Samples too. What I'm not sure about currently is whether I should try to get the sampled AcousticSamples libraries first, because at one point owners of the Wurlie library got 50% off VReeds and if that discount is still in place and stacks with BF pricing then it might be worth the extra expense. I obviously also need to get Keyscape. ?

I'm loving some of the demos of the Canterbury suitcase, and it will someday be mine. For now, I will have to do make do with some of the marginally less glorious-sounding Rhodes VIs I already have.

I'd completely forgotten about that and picked it up at the same time too, so thanks for the reminder!! I did think I'd end up with Phase Plant and here we are ? Actually also had a Ghost Syndicate pack free along with another free one from Kilohearts. Info here: https://kilohearts.com/blog/sonoae_borealis_announcement Direct download link here: https://kilohearts.com/files/banks/sonoae_borealis.bank The Ghost Syndicate one is here: https://www.ghostsyndicate.net/product/flo-free-phase-plant-presets/ I didn't have Phase Plant, so not sure what they're like, but could be worth a download.

Yep

Well, in all honestly, its more like I don't sing at all, and my guitar playing is, well, Mrs. Husker is very glad for earphones....

Not specifically a BF sale, but the timing of this one evidently qualifies it as such. Udemy typically marks down courses to $9.99 USD throughout the year. Create an account and they will alert you to sales. No subscription required, and once you purchase a course, it remains in your account permanently and you will be notified of any updates to it, as well as any new courses being offered by the instructor.

I started a new project just for exploring all the new soundsets. 24 instances of Zebra so far - and this is one of the reasons I like Zebra - the project takes 3 seconds to load. btw, a rough count of all these patches comes to around 3,000. I reckon I'll have thoroughly explored them all just about the time Zebra3 is announced in 2025.

The Sabian Digital Vault looks pretty nice ($49 right now). It's on my short list because it includes cymbal brush samples.

I may be out on a limb here... but I would guess that most of us can agree that Maroon 5's Moves Like Jagger is a terrible song -- vapid lyrics, boring instrumentation, and lazy production. It is an archetype of overly-commercialized pop music. But then I heard the arrangement below from Project RnL. Some of the guys in this band are behind Beat Scholar. What an incredible difference! The song now has soul and passion. Its harmonically interesting. It changes from section to section. And they so wisely omitted the soul-cringing whistling intro from the original song. I'm grateful to these guys for replacing that song in my head with this amazing rendition. That feat alone is worth the $50 for Beat Scholar. Alas, they didn't change the awful lyrics.

Keyboard libraries for Kontakt, Kronos/Nautilus, Kurzweil Forte, Montage/Modx https://www.purgatorycreek.com/ Note, 40% discount applied at checkout / in the store which is after you hit the Buy Now button on the product pages. Here are the details for the Kontakt library bundles, but they're available individually if you're only after a single one eg at $11.97 down from $19.95 originally. Tine Collection for Kontakt $39.95 $23.97 Four tine-based electro-mechanical pianos. The Collection includes all of the instruments shown below: Mark I (1975) Mark V (1984) Mark II (1980) Sparkletop (1965) Please note: This library requires the full version of Native Instruments Kontakt. It will only run in demo mode when using the Kontakt Player. Reed Collection for Kontakt $39.95 $23.97 The collection includes all of the instruments shown below: Reed RP 200a Reed EP 140b Pianet N Pianet T Please note: This library requires the full version of Native Instruments Kontakt. It will only run in demo mode when using the Kontakt Player. Clavinet Collection – Kontakt $24.95 $14.97 The collection includes all of the instruments shown below: Clavinet D6 Clavinet C In all, you have two deeply sampled clavinets in a single collection at a very reasonable price. Please note: This library requires the full version of Native Instruments Kontakt. It will only run in demo mode when using the Kontakt Player.

And that 140b in Keyscape is a mighty fine one. It’s even included in the 30GB Lite version, so so can run it ln my lappie while keeping the full 80GB home.

Technically 999.99 is still 3 digits in price...

Sakura ?

You can demo it to help make up your mind.

Yeah, it's an older style GUI and a comparatively basic VA – but just really nice sounding for certain things – which helps you get to certain sounds faster than a kitchen sink type synth. May not add much to what you already have though

Don't also overlook their fx

FOMO got me, so I picked up Phase Plant. Last year a bundle of presets was released for free; they're excellent as tutorials/sounds. And yes, "Additivity" requires too much CPU. I needed to reduce polyphony to "4" to play chords without clicks.

used the technic at 2 min 39 for those having issues

These should be available for ten to fifteen percent less from JRRSHOP using the code group or forum. Try them both as sometimes both work but with different discount amounts.

24 instances of Zebra ? are you doing the soundtrack of the next batman ?

I have it already - but a reminder some had interest in Broken Wurli and were waiting for a sale.

Same here. I finished the Live master class. He also has an organization of trainers that just isn't for Live. I'm going to go through some FL ones.

Agreed, timing (and a little bit of luck) is everything. In case others are interested, I tracked down the expiration date for the Loot Audio code on reddit/APD (I'd post the link here, but it expands into a huge widget that I don't know how to tame): "10% off anything site wide until 20 November with code PREBLACK10" Looks like I'm in for a couple of quick decisions!

https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2022/11/19/xynth-audio-le-phonk/ https://www.xynthaudio.com/plugins/lephonk

Actually, I did this and I can download the PDF version of both German and English version of the magazine via Plugins-Samples.

That dude gives me Elon Musk vibes

@Fleer - this is a "by the way" - but I just looked and I have 4 of the at least 10 Reveal Sound preset libraries that are all Plucks. So you can roost in your chicken house with Spire. For some suggestions for others (I would suggest firstly that you get Spire when it's on sale, and then wait for a Reveal Sound store sale when everything is substantially discounted to grab some presets). But who I have a bunch of presets from each for Spire: Howard Smith, Reveal itself, Bellatrix Audio, Freak, Freshly Squeezed Samples, Patchbay And then I have a bunch of one-offs, and two-offs - like from the usual providers like Luftrum, Plugin Guru, New Loops, AZS

I'm pretty sure we're using v3.73 at the moment. The latest version is v3.76, however it's important to appreciate that a lot of enhancements/fixes in the SDK affect the VST plugins themselves, rather than VST3 hosts such as Cakewalk.

If you’re going to do that, wait until Waves has the spend $90 and get two free plugins promotion.