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Developer here! Quickly made an account to join the discussion. First of, it is really nice to see the resonance this library is getting right now. I already had to switch from hosting the files on Dropbox to hosting them on Google Drive, as Dropbox had at one point locked my account because of too much traffic. I hope that Google won't do that too. I also appreciate all the feedback that I am getting from different sides, and would like to adress some of the issues regarding the ETI ROADS. File Size and File Format: When I started the recordings for this project, I had to make decisions real quick. One of them was choosing the sample rate for recording. I wanted to leave myself open regarding if I want to use a higher sample rate or not. I could go and downsample everything at a later point, but during the rest of the production it escaped my mind, as there were other, more serious issues. The reason for that would be that the production for the first release candidate had to be done in 3 months, from the conception, preparation of the instrument, recording, de-noising and editing of samples, Kontakt integration, scripting, GUI design, ect ect... as this was part of a bachelors thesis, which leads to the next issue that was brought up: Budget and Payment: As this was created with recording equipment from my university, I am not allowed to use the recorded samples for any commercial purposes. That is why this sample library is free and always will be. I will not take any dontations for this project either. This doesn't mean that I won't might take my time and work on an "Ordinary Mortals-Res" version of the ETI ROADS in the future, it just might take a while. The sample rate conversion itself isn't a huge issue, but because I want this library to work down to a Kontakt 5 version, I cannot use the Kontakt Developer Tools, which would allow me to replace samples automaticaly in a few minutes. Instead, I have to drag and drop sets of the samples into Kontakt, then MANUALLY enter the pitch and gain correction values that I need. And this will be hours of hours of entering numbers for each samples. I have already done that once, to make this available for Kontakt 5 users. I am really looking forward to more of your feedback, suggestions and general resonance. It makes me really glad that this won't be another project, that just disappears onto some university archive computer and will never see the light of the day again, as has happened with other projects from my uni. Cheers, Eduard

It's always been free...so just a reminder https://youlean.co/download-youlean-loudness-meter/

I do not see why not. I do not think that there was ever such a case in the entire history of our university of "2nd hand" usage of recorded material for commercial purposes... We are talking about a sample library after all. This clause is mainly to not take jobs away from other studios, by offering high quality recordings basically for free. Other studios have to pay for their equipment ect... us students don't. Use it freely It was impressive enough for them to give me the highest grade for it, soo.....

A new KONTAKT developer is giving away a really nice sounding Rhodes electric piano sample library for free. I haven't downloaded it yet, but the demos sound great. The developer states: For use with:KONTAKT 5.6.8 * (or newer), (NOTE: This is for the Full Version Only) Detailed sampling. 5790 samples in 96KHz/24-bit .wav 42 velocity levels, dynamic release pedal and instrument noise. Instrument:Rhodes MKII, 1980 Recorded Keys:73 Velocities:42 sustain, 37 release Other Samples:Pedal noise, instrument noise Effects:Tremolo, amp simulation, reverb Download size:9.3GB (9.9GB uncompressed) https://eti-roads.com/

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Totally I bought the paid version to support the author

Great meter for free. I still reach for it over some of my paid ones at times.

To head off any speculation, a dev mentioned in a recent thread that the latest update of Cakewalk by Bandlab is more or less baked but they're waiting on some back-end changes from HQ before they can deploy it. And I presume work continues on the upcoming Cakewalk Sonar and Cakewalk Next products. Sonar especially is getting a huge UI overhaul which is not an easy job changing something that's been in place for decades, so it'll take time. Cheers to Meng though, we've gotten 5 years of free use out of what we thought was going to be a dead product (thanks for nothing, Gibson...!) and the dev team brought back into the fold to continue work on it.

Plugin Boutique sale on various Softube plugins till August 31st. https://www.pluginboutique.com/manufacturers/125-Softube For what it's worth here's the whole sale: plugin, price, code Transient Shaper for €10 / $10: STUPG1 Tube-Tech Compressor for €119 / $119: STUPG2 Bus Processor for €89 / $89: STUPG3 Weiss MM-1 for €69 / $69: STUPG4 Tape Echoes for €39 / $39: STUPG5 Harmonics for €45 / $45: STUPG6 Model 84 for €59 / $59: STUPG7 Wasted Space for €19 / $19: STUPG8 There's been better sales recently on a some of these for example Softube Harmonics for $39 that ended Aug 23 or pieces of the same sale posted e.g. Nike Serrano posted same sale on the Transient Shaper

I have noticed that. I should sooner or later wrap my hand around the most cost efficient method of hosting those files, as this library seemingly is gaining tracktion right now. Grüße zurück and a lot of fun with the thing. I wanted to tell you, that the link to the thesis is on the webpage, but after checking, it seems that I have forgotten to add it. Sorry for that, now there is a link in the "History" section of the webpage, unforunately it's all in a strange and peculiar langauge called "german". The thesis basically deals with the exact issue that you are putting out here: What information do we get from sample library creators, and how do we deal with aspects of the production of a sample library, that are not mentioned anywhere. If for whatever reason the information detailed in the thesis are not enough for you, feel free to ask me! After all, the purpose of research is also to enrich public knowledge. Storage sales are not my thing really. As you may have noticed, I have not earned any money from this product (even though I had opportunities to do so), nor am I planning to. Your argument is of course valid: The difference between 96kHz and lower samplerates could be called marginal, mostly when you record with microphones that do barely reach over 20kHz, listen to speakers with barely a range above 20kHz and, of course, listen with ears that in young age only percieve frequencies in that range. However, you should ask yourself another question: Why do a lot of plugins and DAW features work with internal oversampling? Nyquist is of course right, but we cannot forget that aliasing and imaging artifacts still exist in recording, even more so if you use cheaper A/Ds and D/As. The same goes for digital processing. I do not have really much time right now to go through that process, but would you be willing to download it, once I have a 44.1/48k - 16 Bit version ready for distribution?

Same here. And he's still working on it! v2.4.3 is the last stable release, and it's been around for awhile. But...you can d/l the current beta v2.5.4, released a little over a month ago. Here's a page the describes the new features in beta v2.5.3. It includes an interesting discussion of the problems he's had/having with the AAX Pro Stools version. Youlean Loudness Meter beta v2.5.3 changes and new features

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Thanks for taking the time to post here and answer questions. Most of all thanks for making and sharing your sample library, it sounds excellent. So kudos to you. I think you have a future as a sample developer.

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I'm not sure its a necessary add to your guitar sim arsenal. If I really knew the sound of the Celestion speakers and was trying to emulate that, it would be great. But I don't. I bought it for $39. It's nice that it integrates with amp room, but I think the other Softube IRs sound really good already. I'll tell you what I have found that it does really well. I set the speaker diameter low to medium, 1x12 cabinet, whatever speakers, whatever amp set to medium dirty (not high-gain), a distortion pedal up front, eq out the lows/boost the highs at about 1k, and then a spring reverb (not Softube's, which to my ears sounds too springy for this application), and I get a very reasonable lofi 80s punk/hardcore sound. Guitar volume at 50% for Minutemen; 75-90% gets Black Flag/Circle Jerks/Minor Threat, 100% get my absolute favorite - Iggy Pop Search and Destroy.

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I wonder what he is listening to . Kenny

That's good to know! I like it best when we stay friendly and respectful and ideally, keep the good vibes going. That's a huge part of what makes this forum such a nice place.

jngnz didn't catch "someone being two faced before the edit." He was just making a humorous post where he edited a quote of Fleer's for humorous effect. Fleer was definitely not being "two-faced"; Fleer's been very consistent in his posts. He's also one of the friendliest, most amiable people in this forum. jngnz is, IMO, pretty funny and can be downright brutal with opinions. He is the antithesis of a shilling influencer looking for free products and money from developers. And it is his combination of directness, authenticity and humor that I really appreciate. That doesn't mean I always agree. He clearly doesn't think this library is worth downloading due to the large file size -- I get that and I respect his perspective; 10 GB is pretty big for a Rhodes library (did you catch my 8Dio reference earlier?). Personally, I actually don't have the file space to download this library at the moment (I have a new hard drive I plan on installing this weekend or during the week). So both jngnz and Fleer have been sincere, and I sincerely appreciate them both. Anyhow, while I think it's very generous for this developer to have created a website to give away his work at no cost and think he deserves our gratitude, I also get while some people find a 10GB Rhodes library too big. Finally, if you want to go after someone for editing posts, I think I'm the king of editing posts. After someone likes one of my posts, I'll re-read it and inevitably find a grammatical error or think of something I really should have had in the post to make it more helpful to someone reading it later. But it's not for some nefarious reasons.

Arturia's is the closest. This one has little punch and the modulation has noticeable differences. Just an update: As a low-cost CZ soft synth, Virtual CZ worked well for most of what I wanted it for. However, I have since gotten into the Arturia V Collection and really appreciate their modernized CZ V version.

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Reminiscing – Little River Band I like how it opens with a very slightly altered quote from the theme song to “I Love Lucy”. Quite appropriate for a song about reminiscing.

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In July 2021 MAutoAlign was £17.49 in Plugin Boutique. That was a great deal IMHO (that's why I snapped it)!

I am not a network expert, but I know enough to NEVER allow UPnP services to run on an Internet facing router. To do so opens your network to a world of pain. Dig out the router manual and learn to route port forwards, or better yet, VPN client/server.

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I believe JohnnyV had the best option - exclude in CW using the plugin manager, they're still available (in case you need a VST2 version if the VST3 is misbehaving) but hidden w/o being uninstalled. many plugins updater apps, if you uninstall the VST2, will see the configuration as "broken" and reinstall them. so, by excluding them, the updates can happen as expected, but the exclusion setting in CW means they're not visible. and it also means if you have apps which only support VST2 (but not VST3), they still have access to those plugins...

lots of cool stuff here https://www.youtube.com/@johnpeelarchive/videos

Plus she knows how to use all those wonderful toys! 😊 I can't help but wonder how much time was spent designing her setup though! 😮

She sounds like someone I'd like to meet one day. I wonder, does she live in Eugene, Oregon? The song she's playing kinda reminds me of the theme song from "Wheel Of Fortune". And I looooooooooooooove the fact that like me, she loves jazz.

Cool John. Btw, I was watching one of ur videos yest that showed how to view audio track controls in Piano Roll View. It's already improved my work flow. Thanks a lot man!

Thanks @Kirean I've not received an email, so I will keep an eye out for it. You have to use iLok, but soft is acceptable. You also have to install their UAD installer app, which will run all the time in the background BUT after everything is working, you can uninstall the UAD app.

I only own the Polymax freebie as well and didn't see the discount earlier today. Just checked again after getting an email from UAD and it was now there. Haven't installed Polymax, but what's the activation/drm situation for UAD plugins? Simple ilok or some 'jump through the hoops' kind of a thing?

96KHz is not going to impress anyone except those in storage sales. I have the 8dio VIP versions of their libraries. I switched back to their lower bitrate versions because I would delude myself thinking there was a difference.

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Without a referral code the price leaps to a wallet-emptying $16. If they have another of those crazy 65% off all bundles sales, the thing to do is use that first-time referral to get the FreeFX upgrade and MEssentialsFX, which has their best processors in it (Also, the extra "s" in MEssentialsFX is where the "s" at the end of the company's name wound up after it was misplaced).

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I was going to say to lock the clips. That is a great way to protect them some. I like folders better than hiding clips. That way all of the other tracks are only one click away. There are several ways to level the different take. First, you should use the volume to adjust them as close as you can. Some people use compressors and limiters to help level audio. These are good, but my favorite plugins are an all in one solution. There are many on the market. Some of my favorite are Waves MV2 and Vocal Rider (these two can be used together) or WA Productions Outlaw. Be sure to check out the deals forum before you buy any plugins! Outlaw will let you set a LUFS range which might be a plus later on. There are some good tools built into the cakewalk pro channel as well. Others - Waves - playlist rider Plugin alliance - Master Desk, Master Desk pro Sonible - Smart Limit Hornet Audio - several inexpensive gain rider plugins You should probably look at Outlaw 1st! https://www.waproduction.com/plugins/view/outlaw Good luck with your project. There is plenty of good help here.

Google has already temporarily blocked downloads but it seems to reset every 24 hours so you can probably leave the files there.

It's not bad, I've had it since release, IMO and to my way of thinking it's fairly limited, in speakers, I mean what you got is what you got, it's not as if you can add anything. I never use it. The Spring Reverb is not bad, I get some use out of it, but I have better ones which get most of the use. The Mutronics Mutator, now there's an interesting beast, goes very nicely on the Guitar Buss, or even an insert, depending. Once you get it settled in on the Guitar Buss it's very hard to evict him😉 Takes a bit to get a grasp, well for me anyway, but once you do it can be very nice. A bit of Mutatin' is good for the soul 👻

Congrats. Nice to get listeners from all over the world! Still blows me away to see that someone in, for example, Jakarta listened to a song of mine.

If you are using a VST3 and they have a VST2 version, do Bank Switch Commands + Program Changes work with the VST2 version? I don't have the Sound Canvas VA, but I have found with some plug-ins VST2 version work even if the VST3 version doesn't. Note: I have used several Roland Sound modules (hardware) that use variations of the Sound Canvas tone sets. I think the only software version I have is the old Edirol Sound Canvas.

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None of the synths in the video are vintage. Her full setup in that consists of: 1 One. (large one on her left) 1 Subsequent 25. (on top of the One) 1 Subsequent 37. (beside the Subsequent 25) 2 DFAM. (to the left and right of the Modular.) 1 Subharmonicon. (under the left DFAM) 1 Mother-32. (under the right DFAM) 2 Grandmother. (the two on the right) 1 Matriarch. (on top of both Grandmothers) 1 Modular. (in the background)

Yeah, I'm pretty sure you could get that out of a laptop running just CbB with a copy of NI Komplete Standard and a 49-key MIDI controller. ;^) Just don't ask me to troubleshoot "No sound" from that setup 😦 More than 'shades' of Vangelis.

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Will they honor the lifetime licenses sold a few years back? Will they give Sonar to the people who purchased lifetime licenses?