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Taiko Drums is a virtual instrument featuring the sound of taiko drums. A synthesizer has been used to create this traditional Japanese instrument in virtual form. The result is epic and cinematic! Available as a VST/VST3/AU plugin for Windows and macOS. Also available as a Decent Sampler and Kontakt libraries. Merry Christmas! https://www.samplescience.info/2022/12/taiko-drums.html

This holiday season we want to extend our heartfelt appreciation for your continued support for Orange Tree Samples! Thanks to you, we're fortunate to be able to do what we love. As an expression of our gratitude, we've just added a new sample library to the downloads section of your Orange Tree Samples account, where you'll also find the serial number to activate the instrument in Native Access. If you happened to participate in our Group Buy sale last Summer, this instrument was the reward that was unlocked when reaching the highest discount tier. However, we've now licensed the free Kontakt Player for it, so you don't need to own the full version of Kontakt to use it. While we were at it, we also made the instrument NKS Ready for Komplete Kontrol and Maschine users. We hope you enjoy the instrument, and have a wonderful holiday season! https://www.orangetreesamples.com/account/downloads

Happy Christmas from Auckland, New Zealand! (I guess I'm the 'other' Antipodean Craig on the forum!)

Happy Holidays from Bellingham, WA (somewhere between @bitflipper and @Doug Rintoul ) 🎄

Two lite plugins free from PB. PBGIFT1 - PUNISH LITE PBGIFT2 - RIFT FILTER LITE Valid till: 31st December (23:59 PST)

A holiday thanks for everyone who makes this forum so friendly and valuable. I've been using online music-making forums since the early days of KVR and I find no other music-making forum as friendly, helpful and user-centric as this forum, and specifically, I'm thinking of the Deals subforum. Unsurprisingly, @cclarry is the first person who comes to mind when I think of this subforum. No one else has worked as hard at making this subforum so valuable and stocked with deals as cclarry. I've told him many times that he could stop posting deals and retire as an all-time Cakewalk Forum MVP and Hall of Famer -- the Michael Jordan of the forum. The other MVP and Hall of Famer is @Wookiee, the forum moderator. Like cclarry, Wookiee isn't paid to do what he does, but he does it better than most paid moderators, IMO. Woookie is a volunteer who helps this community out of the goodness of his heart. He keeps the forum on track, and in the rare moments when someone exhibits less than civil behavior or goes into undesirable territory, Wookiee is there to keep this community healthy and he's clearly doing a great job. If you've ever interacted with Wookiee, you know that he's very helpful, kind and considerate. I couldn't think of better qualities for a moderator, a community member -- or for a human being in general. Beyond our MVPs, we have a community -- it's not big, but it's big enough, IMO -- of really nice, helpful and encouraging people that make this forum great. Personally, there's been a good deal of people who've gone out of their way to provide helpful advice when I ask for advice on effects plugins, on sample libraries or post a song and solicit mixing advice. I want to give a big holiday thank you to all of you -- whether you've shared a deal, posted a funny remark or story, shared insights, gave a recommendation for or against a plugin or library, encouraged someone else or taken a thread in a new direction (sure, at some forums that call that "off-topic" or "derailing a thread," but here, it's an honored tradition; we'd say something, but anyone could expose the regulars here as hypocrites in a few clicks!). Whatever you celebrate, Christmas, Hanukkah, etc., I wish you and your family the happiest and healthiest of holidays and all the best in the year ahead.

I know there was an earlier post about the Ghost Hack Advent Calendar, but a reminder that all of the freebies are still available, AND there is a full acapella kit available for day 24, AND a 10 dollar/Euro gift card off of a $15 purchase Coupon code CHRISTMAS10, good until 31 December! https://www.ghosthack.de/free_sample_packs/advent-calendar-2022-day-24-acapella-gift-card https://www.ghosthack.de/Service/Free-Sample-Packs/Advent-Calendar-2022/

Merry Christmas from Detroit! Thanks to everyone (especially you, Larry) for the great deals but even more so to the group for the banter, great stories, sage advice, and occasional group gripes that make this such a great family. Whatever your faith or persuasion, I hope you have peace at the end of yet another year. OK, I admit it. I'm just procrastinating and should get back to wrapping. Dammit.

Back at you, southern neighbours, from the snowy land of Abbotsford (just to the right of Vancouver). Hope you all have a blessed Christmas and a great New Year that you may or may not remember.

Now I am hoping for 1.4.7. Changes: Added: Scalable interface....

I guess the $25 voucher hasn’t been reset.

Wishing Happy Holidays to y'all, and a prosperous 2023 full of interesting new plugin releases at amazing deal prices!

Merry Christmas from Thousand Oaks, CA #2!! (I live near CLU - across from the Rams practice field) I post rarely, but read often... thanks for this great little community dedicated to music production and wallet deflation.

Happy Christmas from Thousand Oaks, CA, USA, Earth

Merry X-mas from France !!

Hollo Sound Winter Sale 40% off Joseph has some pretty tasty patches. Here are demos of his Hive libraries...

Thanks to all that contribute here, you make each day a little easier for many.

We should have an option to batch react to all people in the thread lol

Happy holidays from the central mountains of Arizona where it is a balmy 62 degrees and sunny! Don’t miss what’s going on for most of the US and hope everyone is safe wherever you are!

Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas from Finland! 🇫🇮

They had much better freebies in the past! I pass!

I'm still enjoying the product line they introduced in 2018:

Amazing gift. Thank you @Greg Schlaepfer!! OTS is one of my favorite sample companies - quality product, and one of the most customer friendly developers out there.

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I won't be using this so hopefully someone else can make use of it 16821661J1351 https://www.bigfishaudio.com/2022-Christmas-Sale-Event.html

Thanks to all the creators of this great DAW and giving us 4 years from yesterday of this GREAT FORUM

I don't remember ever saying that 😉🤪

New plugin free of Aurora DSP A pedal that could be interesting Made for chugging, the Unified Preamplifier will make your amp scream. Based on the original unit, used by 8 string pioneers. It's perfect for boosting medium gain amplifiers or unleashing hell in your high gain setup. Whether you use this pedal as a clean booster, or tone warmer, it'll always remain transparent to your tone. Clean boost with EQ Well-known sound and tone AU, AAX and VST recreation of the classic pedal More details https://auroradsp.com/preamplifier Download page https://auroradsp.com/download-files

I updated some NI synths on one of my PCs a few days ago and AV kicked up a red flag. So maybe 1.4.6 also fixes what I assumed was a false positive. I agree with Promidi--would be nice to have a scalable interface. But if we now have vst3, maybe scaling is in the works!

I agree with your observations. I've posted similar observations in the past. So far, SoundPaint libraries aren't in the same league as my best KONTAKT libraries. But SoundPaint libraries are inexpensive. Consequently, for me, I'll pick up another SoundPaint library if I like the character enough or if I think I can program something cool with it, but don't see them as at the same level as better KONTAKT libraries I own. What I like about SoundPaint is that it's fun and easy to create programs/patches. I would spend $20 USD for a SoundPaint library, like a piano, if I feel the tone is desirable and can imagine programming possibilities with it. I don't think I'd spend $50 on one of their libraries. When it comes to realism, I find SoundPaint doesn't make the cut and 90% of the time Im looking for realistic sounding sample libraries of acoustic and electric instruments like pianos, guitars, strings, percussion, etc. I bought their Soul electric guitar and it's the first sample library I've ever returned. I didn't expect it would be in the same league as an Orange Tree Samples library, but I expected it to be a lot better than it was. The samples lacked the ultra realism that I have from OTS libraries and their soul library was so far off the mark, I immediately knew I'd never use it. It was like an old sample patch without sophisticated scripting. There's no question, IMO, that the libraries are grossly overhyped. To date, THERE'S only one SoundPaint library out maybe a dozen I've bought that I love, Bazantar. The Wurli library is one dimensional (they've since pulled it for some unknown reason). It lacks the great dynamics that a real Wurli has. Skybox Audio and e-instruments Wurlies blow it away. I have, I think, three of the pianos and I think they're okay, but nowhere close to the quality of a Galaxy Instruments KONTAKT piano library like Noire, or piano libraries from Production Voices or Embertone to my ears. I don't think I've used any of SoundPaint's piano libraries in a production. They're like SampleTank piano libraries, IMO. They sound okay, but I find they fall far short of my KONTAKT piano libraries in terms of dynamics (and the quality of the tone) and ironically, dynamics are the area Troels boasts that SoundPaint libraries are superior.

I bought the instrument based on what I heard in the demo video and b/c I was (and still am) looking for good solo woodwinds. While playing through most of the patches I realized it was lifeless. And this is particularly true given that this single instrument now consumes 23.6GB of space on my SSD! Frankly I've lost faith in Troels and Soundpaint at this point. I greatly admire his passion and vision but, based on what I'm hearing when playing the instruments I own, I'm not sold. I haven't completely written Soundpaint off, but I'll not buy anything else for quite a while. Bottom line, the sounds just don't live up to the hype. BTW, if you peruse this thread, you'll see that there are others not completely enamored with the platform. Cheers...

Happy Chrimble to all from Alameda, California, USA.

This is good news. FM8 (if I'm remembering correctly,) was one of those Instruments in the list to be discontinued a couple years back before users rebelled in mass. Good thing to see they're still developing it somewhat. Absynth wasn't so lucky.

Yeah I knew you were in Everett. Last time I was in Everett I got kicked out of a bar, some bar out there that's known for having a train track that a train comes barreling down just a few feet behind the building. In a couple years the light rail should be able to get me back out there to that bar to finish what I started.

Have Yourself A Very Merry Mistletoe Free Christmas Kenny

Just about any lyric Roger Waters ever penned. One of my favorites is... The paper holds their folded faces to the floor, and every day the paper boy brings more - Brain Damage, Dark Side of the Moon

Lawajava's in Kenmore or Bothell. dubdisciple is in Auburn, or thereabouts. DeeringAmps is in the South end, Tukwila maybe? I'm in Everett. None of those are within the Seattle city limits, though. Now, there is a longtime user named jkoseattle, but I could be reading too much into that handle.

You sound like my ex-wife.

Unless you ask boxing gloves for Christmas.

A lill score for you pleasure. I hope you will like it.

Yep....which I already had

So, I downloaded a demo. Within an hour I found it to be a really good Plug-in. It beats Waves WLM Plus! So, I bought it. It's now in my plug-in collection!

Not really. Seems equivalent to Musician's Friend selling deeply discounted software with a physical delivery (a code on a slip of paper inside a DVD case). The software may not be obsolete, but it is out of date, superseded by a new version, which you have to pay extra for if you want a version that gets bug fixes and feature additions. That's where Mickeysoft gets you. I finally gave up on that model and did what MS wanted me to do all along...buy an Office 365 subscription. I use Word, Excel and Outlook. I was a heavy user of Powerpoint, but no longer need it. Never used Access or Publisher or the IMO bloody awful Note, or any other parts of the Pro Plus package. The sub price turned out to be less expensive than paying to update the three apps I still use.

I bought this one 2 months ago. This and Ik T-RackS Tape 24 are my favorites I can make close results with both.

Exact ... and i will add , original cakewalk forum was exellent , after the gibson debacle we were kinda in the wild and lost even if some mvp made actually alternative places .... The challenge to create something similar is not only reached but to some extend , correct me guyz if i m wrong , surpassed .... and yep same for me , here and gearslutz are my go to s but only one i feel at home ..... Take care of you guyz and your fam ."... and make some organised noise !!

Having purchased over BF/CM, this neither makes me a happy penguin nor have a warm fuzzy feeling towards SA . . .

Enjoyed the listen & the visuals/ video..eerie & conceptual..both worked well together.

Wow, you look exactly as I imagined Sheens! 😆

There's also a new Xtra Styles Pak 15 https://www.pgmusic.com/xtrastyles.php?pak=all&os=win#pak15 All of these paks are now $29 (normally $49) and you can get 1-15 for $199. https://www.pgmusic.com/xtrastyles.php?os=win My whole video I did on BIAB would not be possible without me buying all the xtra styles paks at the time. This upgrade is going to cost me $99, plus another $58 for the two Xtra Styles I don't have. 😡