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Full Bucket Music released Ny, a freeware VST plugin emulating the KORG Lambda ES-50 Polyphonic Ensemble. Info: https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2023/09/01/full-bucket-music-ny/ Download: https://www.fullbucket.de/music/ny.html

Yeah, he's talented and, of course, incredibly generous. It's hard not to appreciate that combination. I saw this posted at Bedroom Producer the other day and meant to check it out, so thanks for the reminder, @locrian. I've been collecting synthwave patches and synths over the years with the intention to do some very 80-ish covers and originals but have yet to do it. But I really love those 80s era synth sounds.

I just added several additional libraries to my list, along with a track of mine I used the free libraries on as an example.

And very little aggression, trolling and inappropriate behavior. A good place to be.

This forum is a win win for all of us, and there are great people here

And all the good software is free.

I would like to say thank you from all of us.

I love this developer!

I think if it starts to get a little out of hand then we'll be asked to step in, but I also think that no product is beyond constructive criticism either. Some of the best features added to SONAR / CbB (and I would assume Sonar, when it's out) has come from someone getting frustrated or annoyed that something isn't doing what they expect it should do, posting about it, and the Bakers taking notice and adding it in to a future release. But let's try to keep the complaints constructive at least.

A full installer may be made available when it's released publicly.

We've been gigging a lot this summer, pretty much nonstop since May. So naturally some gigs have been miserable and some pure joy. Varied venues, indoors and outdoors, big and tiny crowds, nice-sounding rooms and echo chambers. Half of them were with house PAs, half with our own gear. Of the former, perhaps 10% had both great gear and someone who knew how to use it. Last night was one of those. I hit it off with the FoH guy right away, being a fellow audio nerd and recording enthusiast. A few weeks ago we played a festival and I really dug the band that came on before us, who did girl-group songs from the 50's and 60's. I thought they'd be a great double-feature with a 60's and 70's band like us, and wondered how to reach out to them. While talking to Dan, the FoH guy, I described that band and he said "yeh, that's my mom". Kismet. The venue was a farm, but more like Knott's Berry Farm than Old Macdonald's, with kiddie rides and a brewery. We played in the brewery. It has roll-up garage doors, which were open because it was a warm evening and most of the audience was outside on a large patio. There were lots of little kids, dancing and grinning and thoroughly enjoying music older than their grandparents. I'd rather play for 5-year-olds than drunken geezers, even if the latter tip better. The staff treated us well, comping beer and food. And at the end of the night, directed us to the freezer section of the adjacent store to pick out pies to take home with us. Of all the perks I've ever received at gigs, getting a pie was the best.

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To the people who where in the middle of important projects who installed the early access version- why did you do that? Did you read the terms and what an early access version is about? It’s so long time users can test it and find bugs before the developers release it to the public That I’m afraid is you. So please don’t complain if you find what you think is a bug. Report it. That is what you agreed to do by installing it. Myself I’m also in the middle of an album and no way I’m putting that sucker on my main DAW machine. I’m testing it on a second computer and so far it’s actually very boring as there’s nothing really different in my world . This is really a maintenance release to fix accumulated bugs from 2022 forward . There’s no reason to install it other that helping the developers do there job.

THIS WEEKEND WE HONOR ALL WHO WORK FOR A LIVING Our music may be a labor of love but it’s labor none the less. We labor over our mixes. We labor over our chops. We labor over every detail. We work at the music and audio we create. As Americans it is our duty on this holiday weekend to party with our friends and make music! To meet that responsibility we offer all you working stiffs the following discount code to make your music making more affordable. Use this coupon code LABOR_DAY_2023 at checkout to receive an unconditional 15% discount off your entire purchase. This discount code may be combined with your KVR Point$ and may be used on promo items. You may use this discount code as many times as you like and you may share it with other KVR members. https://www.kvraudio.com/marketplace/

You can get Fantasy Voices for $84.15 with the code, which is the lowest price out there, and I have another 10% off with points making it $76.50! That's tempting me...

Beat Magazine offers Chordjam Lite from Audiomodern for free with the latest issue. The English issue isn't out yet but I have the German one already. If you're a subscriber you'll find it at www.plugins-samples.com/downloads. I couldn't find a comparison chart of Chordjam and Chordjam Lite but when I compared the Lite version to the trial version of the full product, the only difference that I could find was that the Lite version doesn't have a sequencer. But you still have all the options for configuring the chord generation, like scale, chord type, inversions, number of notes, randomization, arpeggios and so on.

All products from Cakewalk require activation. This has always been a requirement. In preparation for our new products there have been some changes on the back end, hence the previous statement that older versions won't work anymore.

Best FREE KONTAKT Libraries - A Curated List of Recommended Sample Libraries (Updated May 2024) Why I Created This List of Best Free Sample Libraries for KONTAKT I previously created a list of recommended free sample libraries that play on free sample player plugins to help those on a very limited budget that didn't own KONTAKT. After I created that list, a number of forum members requested via posts and PMs, if I could do a similar list for KONTAKT libraries. I put this thread together after @ralfrobert asked if I could create even a modest list of ten or so of my favorite KONTAKT freebie libraries. As KONTAKT is my go-to sampler, and I've been using it since its early days, and purchased a great deal of sample libraries and picked up a lot of freebies along the way, I thought I could do a pretty good job of creating a list others would find helpful, so I started on it. This list is regularly updated. I invite others to comment with their own favorite free sample libraries for KONTAKT. My objective with this thread is to save people from having to sift through the ton of freebies out there to find the best free KONTAKT libraries available. If you add your favorites in this thread, it would be great if you could tell people the reasons why you like a library. I haven't done that perfectly below, but will come back and update this thread, as I wanted to get this out as soon as I could. Hopefully, all of us will end up learning about new, inspiring, totally free libraries for KONTAKT as a result. PIANO KONTAKT INSTRUMENTS 8Dio 1928 Scoring Grand - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! There simply isn't premium piano library with this quality and similar specifications for KONTAKT that is availabe for free anywhere else; the closest anyone comes is SonicCouture's Hammersmith FREE, below. The 1928 Scoring Grand is a beautiful sounding, highly detailed sample library with extensive velocity layers, round-robin based sustains and round-robin based staccatos, two mic positions, some very nice convolution reverb IRs, 23 presets -- and the presets are really good and include other samples that it layers with the piano that sound excellent including a marimba, a Rhodes electric piano, glasses, glockenspiel and more. There's a sound design patch and a lite version patch too. There's really not another piano library for free comparable to this one, and I suppose that's because 8Dio took a piano library they had priced at $249 US (but I've seen it on sale for as low as $49 prior to their making it free). Normally commercial sample developers free pianos are cut down versions of one for sale. That's not the case here. This library is also available for SoundPaint, but that version doesn't include the additional samples for layering and the sound design patch. https://8dio.com/products/1928-scoring-piano?variant=41309999792328 SonicCoture Hammersmith Free (KONTAKT Player) - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! IMO, the Hammersmith Free is the other must have acoustic grand piano freebie (the only reason not to download and install this is if you own the full paid version). It's not as extensively sampled as the 8Dio Scoring Grand, for a free piano sample library, before 8Dio released the 1928 Scoring Grand, there was no other free piano sample library for KONTAKT -- or any other sampler -- at the same quality and detail level of the Hammersmith Free. The sampled piano is a Steinway Model D grand piano. It lacks real sustain pedal samples and multiple mic positions, but it sounds great, and if you're comparing it to other free piano libraries, you really won't find any others except for 8Dio, with this level of detail. 21 velocity layers and 4.8 GB. https://www.soniccouture.com/en/products/p322-hammersmith-free/ Heaviocity Foundations: Piano* - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! Like most free pianos, there aren’t many velocity layers, but it sounds good and what’s really good about this are the snapshots and the effects, like the built-in arpeggiator. https://heavyocity.com/product-category/foundations/ Strezov The Creative Toolbox Piano* A lovely Steinway grand piano. https://www.strezov-sampling.com/products/view/the-creative-toolbox-piano.html Isolation Tubes and Tape Piano One of my favorite piano sample libraries on Pianobook. A Steinway Model O piano was sampled for this. https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/isolation-piano-tubes-tape/ Quarantine Piano A beautifully sampled Yamaha U3 upright piano. https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/quarantine-piano/ The Woodland Piano A Yamaha Upright piano with 4 articulations: normal, felt, muted and plucked. https://www.ockpii.com/instruments/woodland-piano Dan Keen The King’s Upright A lovely, soft upright piano. https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/the-kings-upright/ The Experience (Mason and Hamlin Grand Piano) Dore Mark has made a series of detailed piano sample libraries available on Pianobook that are at a very high quality level. But the character of this piano really just connects with me more than any of his others. https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/the-experience/ PREPARED PIANO KONTAKT INSTRUMENTS Preparato Piano Free - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! This is an amazing prepared piano sample library. A reflection of how talented this young developer is. Great work and it’s truly surprising this is free. Try it and you’ll understand why I’m so fond of this developer (FTR, I don’t know him, I’m just a paying customer who loves his libraries and read about him at his site). https://www.xperimentaproject.com/preparato-piano-free/ Production Voices Death Piano - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! A superb prepated piano sample library. https://www.productionvoices.com/death-piano-le/ ELECTRIC PIANO KONTAKT INSTRUMENTS Wavesynth Glow Three Rhodes-like wavetable electric piano patches from a Sequential Prophet 6. https://karanyisounds.com/product/wavesynth-glow-free-edition/ Fracture Sounds: Blueprint Electric Keys (KONTAKT PLAYER LIBRARY) - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! A beautiful, 1969 Rhodes Mark I Electric Piano library that's good enough to be a paid library. It allows you to adjust the key noise. It doesn't have a bunch of presets, but it lets you choose between direct input and amped and has controls for stereo spread, reverb, chorus, and atmosphere. It's pretty obvious to see the developer's rationale for giving this away free. Once you use it, you'll be interested in their other libraries. https://fracturesounds.com/product/blueprint-electric-keys/ ETI Roads A very detailed Rhodes MKII electric piano sample library. https://eti-roads.com/ Lo-fi Wurly Despite the name Lo-fi Wurly, this Wurltizer electric piano AKA Wurli/Wurly is a detailed sample library that sounds really nice, but unfortunately does have noise in it that a pro sample developer would have fixed. https://drive.google.com/file/d/15U99DL5BJdPAwj3SDOYvI2EPJ1_eaL8K/edit Premier Sound Factory Wurly G I want to put a caveat on this one, as I don’t love this sample library straight from the factory, however, I made my own user presets that I like a lot. So, if you spend a little effort, I think you can get some nice sounds of this, but I’m not in love with the sound straight out of the box. https://premiersoundfactory.com/wurly-premier-g/ ORGAN KONTAKT INSTRUMENTS SoundIron: Aquae Organ Two pipe organs performed in unison and were recorded with hydrophones in tall crystal vases for this sample library. https://soundiron.com/collections/free/products/aquae-organ Sonuscore Pipe Organ “An E.M. Skinner pipe organ.” https://www.sonuscore.com/shop/free-pipe-organ/ Hunter’s Tonewheel Foundations A well-sampled and beautiful sounding Hammond organ with a controllable Leslie speaker (I grew up the son of a piano/organ/guitar teacher and played piano/organ/drums and we owned an organ and a Leslie along with a Wurli, piano and other instruments so I fell in love with these sounds very early on in life). https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/hunters-hammond-tonewheel-foundations/ The Leeds Town Hall Organ Take me to church. https://www.samplephonics.com/products/free/sampler-instruments/the-leeds-town-hall-organ Orange Tree Samples Melodica* Okay, this developer has been a client and is a friend, but Orange Tree Samples’ is also one of the most talented sample developers on the planet and is literally incapable of producing a bad sample library. If you like the sound of the Melodica, download this! https://www.orangetreesamples.com/products/indie-melodica GUITAR KONTAKT INSTRUMENTS Heavyocity Nylon Guitar* A nylon stringed acoustic guitar. Very nice and delicate. https://heavyocity.com/product/foundations-nylon-guitar/ DRUMS & PERCUSSION KONTAKT INSTRUMENTS Drum Mic'A - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! This is an oldie but a goodie. A full acoustic drum kit with a mixer including built in EQ, transient designer, and compressor. https://web.archive.org/web/20200116200208/https://ru-ru.sennheiser.com/drummica For Windows :https://assets.sennheiser.com/software/drummica.iso or https://sennheiser-assets.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/software/drummica.iso Strezov The Creative Toolbox Drums and Percussion* A full drum kit with cymbals, a drum machine and percussion samples. The drum kit is nice, but it sounds really small like a picollo snare. It would fit well for R&B and hip hop, but I wouldn't use it for most rock situations. https://www.strezov-sampling.com/products/view/the-creative-toolbox-drums-and-percussion.html DS RCS Essential Demo - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! It’s called a demo, but it’s a complete drum kit with cymbals and it’s a very good rock drum kit. https://www.redpackdrums.com/dsdrum-kontakt Heritage Percussion - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! Assorted percussion -- shakers, claves, rattles, djembe… -- well recorded and highly usable. https://impactsoundworks.com/product/heritage-percussion/ 8Dio Cajon and Bongo Check out the bank labelled "Bongos 4." They sound really good. https://8dio.com/products/the-new-cajon Fruit Shake* - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! Contains four shakers. Very nicely recorded. https://insessionaudio.com/products/fruit-shake/ Red Room Audio Snaps, Claps, Stomps and Shouts I have a bunch of sample libraries of snaps, claps and stomps, but I most often use this one. It's epic! https://redroomaudio.com/product/snaps-claps-slaps-stomps-shouts/ ORCHESTRAL/STRINGS/BRASS KONTAKT INSTRUMENTS Musical Sampling: Solo Trumpet - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! A very well done legato solo trumpet. It's 760 MB and sounds very, very good -- far better than I'd expect a free trumpet library to sound. https://musicalsampling.com/trumpet-freebie/ Westwood Instruments: Roots - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! This is a extremely lush strings -- specifically violas -- library that sounds gorgeous to my ears. Only 5 presets, but they sound wonderful. Works in the free KONTAKT Player. https://www.westwoodinstruments.com/roots/ Pacific – Solo Cello Legato – Performance Samples - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! A solo cello patch with slurred legato. This is a beautiful sounding cello library. "One dynamic with espressivo vibrato (the vibrato isn’t controllable)." Three mic positions – CL (close), SC (section), and AB (spaced far pair). 48kHz / 24bit. https://www.performancesamples.com/pacific-solocellolegato/ Fracture Sounds: Gentle Strings - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! A "chamber-sized string ensemble was captured in a large studio hall playing with mutes to produce a long con sordino articulation. The library includes three microphone signals and a bespoke atmosphere layer produced from the original samples." This developer has been putting out some beautiful free libraries. This is compatible with the FREE KONTAKT Player, so if you don't own KONTAKT, you can still enjoy this. https://fracturesounds.com/product/blueprint-gentle-strings/ Fractured Sounds: Textured Violin "There are four textural articulations alongside effects such as Delay and Reverbs which can be found in the full Trails library, allowing users to get a flavour of what Trails is about." It's lovely. https://fracturesounds.com/product/blueprint-textural-violin/ Project Sam: The Free Orchestra* and "The Free Orchestra Part Two* - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! From the developer: "16 free cinematic instruments ranging from soft strings to thunderous drums; Includes sounds from our acclaimed Symphobia series." https://projectsam.com/libraries/the-free-orchestra/ https://projectsam.com/libraries/the-free-orchestra-2 Heavyocity: Staccato Strings* - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! Love it and it has an arpeggiator that's lots of fun. https://heavyocity.com/product-category/foundations/ Red Room Audio Palette Primary Colors - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! Strings, woodwind, and brass ensembles. https://redroomaudio.com/product/palette-primary-colors/ Dan Keen: Soft String Spurs - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! Dan Keen creates some of my favorite sample libraries on Pianobook and this is probably my favorite of his. Really, it’s just beautiful. https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/soft-string-spurs/ Pocket Blakus Solo Cello - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! I own a bunch of paid solo cello libraries, but end up using this freebie a lot. One of my all time favorite freebie sample libraries. https://vstbuzz.com/freebies/pocketblakus-cello/ Dan Keen Solo Cello Spurs - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! I’m a sucker for strings, especially the cello. https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/solo-cello-spurs/ Strezov Afflatus Mimilist Violins - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! A beautiful violins section sample library, Excellent. https://www.strezov-sampling.com/products/view/afflatus-freebie.html TUNED PERCUSSION KONTAKT INSTRUMENTS 8Dio Copperphone - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! I'm a sucker for percussion, tuned percussion, metalophones...I love the way this custom instrument sounds. It's made from modified copper pipes and recorded struck with hard and soft mallets (some of the demos are gorgeous). This is a deep sampled, 1.36 GB library that easily would be worth paying for if they weren't giving away free. https://8dio.com/products/the-new-copperphone?variant=41310010278088 8Dio Polyphone (Music Box) - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! There are certain instruments that are just magical, the piano, acoustic guitar, mandolin, the Wurly, Hammond B3, Les Paul, celeste, Dulcitone, glockenspiel, hang drum...and music boxes. I own A LOT of music box libraries and this one still brought something new to the table. https://8dio.com/products/polyphon?variant=41309927178440 Frozen Glock A beautiful glockenspiel library. https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/frozen-glock/ Mister Rogers Celeste* - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! Yes, that trolly sound from Mister Rogers (if you’re an American and grew up in that era). But if you didn’t, it’s kind of a plain sounding celeste, but it has a certain charm. https://store.cinesamples.com/products/mister-rogers-celeste Toy Xylophone* What can I say, I love glockenspiels, xylophones and all sorts of tuned percussion. https://store.cinesamples.com/products/createseriestoyxylo Create Series Kalimba* There are a ton of free kalimba sample libraries on the interwebs. This is one of the good ones. https://store.cinesamples.com/products/createserieskalimba Tongue Drum* Beautiful tone. But I do wish it was more than 1 octave. Still, I love it. https://store.cinesamples.com/products/tonguedrum SonicCouture Music Boxes* - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! I’m a sucker for music boxes and this library contains two music boxes: one uses punched paper and the other an embossed metal cylinder. https://www.soniccouture.com/en/products/p43-music-boxes/ Soundiron Desk Bell - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! Don’t let the fact that they sampled a desk bell fool you into thinking this library isn’t special, it is. https://soundiron.com/collections/free/products/desk-bell Jonathan’s Glockenspiel A well sampled, very nice sounding one and half octave glockenspiel. https://vstbuzz.com/freebies/jonathans-glockenspiel/ Dave Hilowitz Reonator Glockenspiel It’s a different sounding glockenspiel that contains resonator bells, like orchestra bells and vibraphones have. https://www.decentsamples.com/product/resonator-glockenspiel-free/ 8Dio Smiley Drum This sounds like a tongue drum, and I think,technically, that it is a tongue drum. Noice! https://8dio.com/products/smiley-drum Deagan Vibraharp Vibraphone A beautiful sounding vibraphone that is nicely sampled by one of the most talented sample developers on Pianobook. It is as good as a commercial (paid) vibraphone sample library and I even like it better than some of the vibraphone sample libraries I've bought. https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/deagan-vibraharp-vibraphone/ Shulmerich Handbells A really beautiful set of Schulmerich handbells from samplist Jon Myer. https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/schulmerich-handbells/ Music Box DLX I'm a sucker for music box sample libraries and this is a very nice one that is as good as the paid music box sample libraries I own. https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/music-box-dlx/ Splash Sound Music Box The straight default music box sound on this is nice, but where this really shines is when you push the slider to double. https://splashsound.org/musicbox.html Spring Chimes - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! This library, which was created by combining 14 bells and metallophone libraries together (all free libraries from Pianobook) is pure magic. If playing this doesn't inspire you, I don't know what will. https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/spring-chimes/ VOCAL / CHOIR KONTAKT INSTRUMENTS Jacob Collier Audience Choir - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! Jacob Collier recorded his audiences at various concerts singing (doing ahs, oohs, mmms, and various vowels, stomping, clapping. it includes finger snaps as well. This is a must have, IMO. It's small, but fun. Works with the FREE KONTAKT Player. https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/vocal/jacob-collier-audience-choir/ Heavyocity Emotive Choir* - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! “Evolving, sustained vowels and textures paired with a layer of our signature sound design.” https://heavyocity.com/product/emotive-choir/ SonicCoture Tape Choir* - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! They nailed the choir sound from 10CC’s “I’m Not In Love.” Yes, you can buy the real thing, fairly inexpensively from SampleTekk, but this free version does the job well at no cost. https://www.soniccouture.com/en/products/18-exclusive-free-content/p170-tape-choir/ Micah’s Choir by Cordaro Rodriguez - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! A beautiful, soulful solo male vocalist that you can play chords to make into a choir. I wish there was a commercial version of this. The developer (and musician) and singer are very, very talented individuals. https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/micahs-choir/ Embertone Arcane - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! This contains 5 small sample libraries, but the ones I like best are the vocal ones. https://www.embertone.com/instruments/arcane.php ALSO SEE Project Sam: The Free Orchestra under Orchestral SYNTH KONTAKT INSTRUMENTS Stephen O'Connell: Mellow Saw - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! Analog 80s type synth brass and strings with a twist, retro sounds, tape effect -- I really like this. The samplist said he was channeling a Rick Wright, Pink Floyd vibe, I think he attainted it. https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/mellosaw/ Peter Flint: Dictaphone Loop Synth- - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! This is a lo fi synth library that captures a very Mellotron-esque vibe. The samplist made the recordings using an old dictaphone micro cassette recorder. I really love this library and it made me a fan, which turned me into a customer. https://www.musicbypeterflint.com/product-page/dictaphone-loop-synth-kontakt-version Rhythmic Robot: Commodore 64 Sessions Deluxe - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! If you appreciate 8Bit sounds, Ryhtmic Robot's Commodore 64 Sessions Deluxe is going to be right up your alley. I find it pure fun. Thirty patches. https://www.rhythmicrobot.com/product/c64 Stephen O'Connell: Amalgam Analogue - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! If you love retro, lush layered analog synths, this should be right up your alley. https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/amalgam-analogue/ Native Instruments: Analog Dreams - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! "Analog sounds from vintage synths of the ’70s, ’80s, and beyond." This sounds really good to my ears and a lot of it has a very synthwave vibe to it, although it's certainly not limited to that genre. https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/play-series/analog-dreams/ Native Instruments: Etheral Earth Great for very rich / lush pads. https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/play-series/ethereal-earth/ Various Retro Synths from Hollow Sun Like a lot of others, I suspect, I used to have these little friendly chats with Stephen Howell, the developer behind Hollow Sun. I was a customer, who sent him my bio and offered him free advice (not in exchange for NFRs, I just appreciated him as a developer I bought from and offered it completely free). Anyhow, we had a bunch of really nice chats and I thought he was a really nice guy who made some really nice synth libraries for KONTAKT back in the day. He gave away a series of synth libraries used by Gary Newman on his song "Cars." http://hollowsun.com/HS2/freepacks/index.htm ETHNIC KONTAKT INSTRUMENTS World Color Clar Duduk* A well sampled and beautiful sounding duduk. https://www.evolutionseries.com/product/world-colors-clar-duduk/#:~:text=Welcome to World Colors Clar,a bit of worldly magic. TRON KONTAKT INSTRUMENTS Sinewavelab: Mellotron for KONTAKT I am a sucker for Tron sounds and I own the M-Tron Pro, Sonic Reality’s various Tron libraries (from Dave Kerzner), UVI Mello and a bunch of Tron KONTAKT libraries and this freebie is still worth having. It contains unlooped, 7 second samples of the following libraries: Combined Choir, GC3 Brass, M300A, M300B, MkII Brass, MkII Flute, MkII Violins, String Section, Woodwind 02 and Cello. https://sinewavelab.com/products/free-mellotron-library-for-kontakt/ SOUND DESIGN KONTAKT INSTRUMENTS KLANG by Cimematique Samples - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! Everything. I’ve downloaded all of their freebies and bought numerous paid libraries from the series and they’re just small sound design sample libraries that I think sound really good. https://klang.cologne/ An asterisk (*) denotes that the library plays in the free KONTAKT Player and does not require the full version of KONTAKT.

Tracktion Attracktive. Is a free sound pack player. Just pay sound pack prices. Intuitive adaptive UI. No subscription - add sounds on your terms. If u have Biotek it can load soundbanks and has its own sample pack too https://www.tracktion.com/products/attracktive

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Did anyone get a volume discount? Apparently the $49 sale didn’t allow for it. So happy I got Niky’s code to make it $24.50 then

Please keep in mind it's a very small company of three people or so. Once in the past, it took a day longer, but you will be talking to the bosses directly. 😀

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Nothing wrong with voicing an opinion or not agreeing with what a company is doing, of course! I don't think anyone would want to step on that right, even if it might not be what they want to hear necessarily. I don't think anyone here is going out of their way to crap on Cakewalk though, or there's any nefarious agenda trying to promote other products or anything. I don't reckon we'd be asked to step in on any kind of chats like this unless it was consistent and ongoing, and especially in the main CbB forum. I'm still wearing my mod n00b hat but I'm really not seeing anything here personally that's making me want to chat to the team about it.

That's great to know! There's a bunch more I'll be adding in the future. I know there's a lot of more obscure free libraries I like that I didn't put in. I tried to start with the more bread and butter stuff and plan to add the more unusual libraries in the near future. I again want to invite others to post their own favorite freebies for KONTAKT and we may find even more free libraries we enjoy. There's a ton of freebies out there. There's a ton of talented people out there. It just takes time to sift through them to find the real gems. While I don't have the patience or talent to make a great sample library, I do enjoy finding and using them and then sharing my experiences and what I've found inspires me with others. It's like finding a new great band or musical artist and sharing them with friends. It's truly enjoyable to share libraries that have brought me joy and inspiration with others in the hope that they'll also find the same.

If it makes you feel any better, I've got one of those stories too. In all of Komplete's discount-sale history, I've only known for upgrades to ever be discounted during NI's Summer of Sound. One year, I received an NI voucher for a fairly small amount - something like $10, but it could have been a bit more generous (I can't remember). I thought "I've always wanted to get Komplete (mostly for Kontakt), and this is going to be the best discount I'll ever get; why not?", and went ahead with the purchase. Then on the next day, and for the first; last; and only time I can remember, NI included first-time purchases of Komplete in their sale alongside the upgrades. I just accept it as you win some; you lose some...

Not sure but honestly if you dive in with SE you may realize you really want the pedal which comes with Max. I own both SE and Max and it may surprise you that out of the 50 patches on my pedal I think about 6 of them are IKM ones. The rest are either my own creations or 3rd party either from ToneNet or 3rd party purchase. All of which SE can handle.

But depth is not retained between sessions. You have to save a preset if you want specific settings.

Maybe the Cakewalk bashing should be turned down a bit? I wouldn’t be surprised if the introduction of Sonar and Next in due time would also result in a reorganized forum. The Coffe House sub-forum is in no way Cakewalk related. If the core products are constantly being bashed, here and in the Deals forum, the future existence of those sub-forums might be questioned by the owners. Just my two cents.

Oh man, the new interface makes this infinitely better than version 3, at least for me. I bought SA3 about a year ago, played with it for a few days, and then it just sat there. I just couldn't get into the way it worked. I liked the sound but not the process. So far, SA4 feels much more inviting for discovery where the last version I felt like I was constantly being held back. I'm obviously in the honeymoon phase having just bought it today, but I'm so far I'm liking it a LOT more. But then again, I'm just a hack, banging away at the keys and coming up with cool sounds and not someone who's deep in synths, so..... who knows how it'll hold up in a few months. Worth the 50 bucks though.

Installed! With my bundle upgrade and my Orange Slices = $73.60

Agree with @ToneDeF and point out that if you are upgrading, you will still have Anthology 3 (with its unique patches and samples that still use the Anth-3 interface) unless you uninstall it.

Woo-hoo! Congratulations on getting this one out (or, nearly out). Look at all those fixes.

I check every day. I know, I know, it'll be ready when it's ready. 😒

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Same here, no iLok serial yet, but I'm sure it'll follow soon.

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I never got on with those sounds either.

lol

Upgrade prices seem to be the same as they've been since 10 released.

simple experiment - collapse a stereo track into mono - level? collapse a stereo clip into mono - level? generally collapsing stereo into mono is a 3db gain. track, clip, buss, etc. of course final level is determined by content of L+R. so do the test with noise to assess the new level correctly - note that pan laws (like -3db center) can also impact the perceived results. 🙂 e.g. i take a -18db stereo noise clip, bounce to mono = -15db noise clip.

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When comparing guitar sample libraries, I personally feel obligated to share my background. Because I have a lot of history in that space, having given several developers of guitar sample libraries advice over the years and having been closely involved in the ideation stage for the line as well as marketing strategy for Evolution, I feel the need to disclose my background and, understandably, some will write me off as to close with Orange Tree Samples (I'm also friends with other guitar sample library developers I've given advice to, like Andrea / Pettinhouse who has some freebies that should be on my list, but the truth is, I just haven't been using them, so I don't have them on the list right now). If you look at my other "Curated List" thread you'll find that both Shreddage and Ample Sound are on that list. Why? Because I wanted that list to be as comprehensive as possible to help someone who is completely without money find all types of musical instrument sample libraries. But, personally, I don't use either of those libraries. I've tried both and deleted them as I've found the comparable Orange Tree Samples (paid) libraries are vastly superior. So, as I'm very transparent about advising Orange Tree Samples and a number of other guitar sample library developers, I understand how many people will write me off as too biased to have a valid opinion. If that's how someone feels, that's okay, I would likely do that in the same circumstances. But here's why I think I still am able to maintain a level of balance in evaluating guitar sample libraries and remain as critical as if I didn't have that relationship. I've given advice to several guitar sample developers and count one of OTS' competitors (Andrea / Pettinhouse) as a friend. Andrea Aversa (Impact Soundworks, maker of Shreddage) and I even had a series of chats when in the early days of Shreddage and he told me that Evolution was his inspiration and considered it to be the best there is, but that he was never going to make a sample library as detailed; he wanted to focus on genre-specific guitar libraries that had things like chugs or recorded power chords that typified a genre that were easy to use and had the instant gratification factor as opposed to rivaling Evolution's level of realism/detail. And I think that Andrew has done that with Shreddage. I think it's decent for its intended purpose and market. But if you've been using Evolution libraries or Ample Sounds plugins and are a very discerning sampled guitar user -- and especially if you are a professional and comparing the various guitar sample libraries on the market, Shreddage will fall far short of the realism that you'll attain with Evolution or Ample Sounds; those are the two major players for ultra-realistic sampled guitar libraries. I think when you get to those two, the choice comes down to which workflow/plugin/scripting you find more intuitive and which guitar tones you prefer. Now, if you're just throwing a ton of distortion on the guitar and not paying attention to the details, that may not matter to you. Shreddage may work just fine for you. But I'm a critical enough user that it does matter to me. When I do use other guitar libraries in addition to OTS, it's for two reasons: (1) Rhythm guitar patterns. Evolution's engine is incredibly detailed. But when I'm in creative mode, I don't want to start using my mouse to click things and spending even 15 minutes to put together a realistic strumming pattern using an editor can really disrupt the creative flow, so instead, if I can't pull off a good enough performance playing Evolution live or using the strumming keys, I'll often turn to NI Session Guitarist Sunburst (a paid guitar library containing loops of rhythm guitar strumming patterns) for the rhythm guitar parts (not for single notes, riffs or leads). Sometimes I'll later replace them with a pattern using Evolution's strumming engine, but if they sound good enough, more often than not, I'll leave them in. (2) I'm looking for a very sound design guitar type library such as reverse samples, heavily treated samples; the kind of libraries that I've found Cinematique Instruments excels at that. There are other sound design guitar libraries I also use, including some freebies, but I want to go through them before adding them, as I only want the list to contain libraries I can strongly recommend. I included the Heavyocity Nylon Guitar even though Evolution's Nylon Acoustic library is incredibly more realistic because I just like the tone of the Heavyocity Nylon library and the arpeggiator and effects are creatively a real pleasure to play around with. IMO, Heavyocity is great at putting together inspiring libraries, so it made my list. In fact, every Heavyocity library I've ever tried has been really, really good. I love their libraries.

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I always thought, why don’t they just use a drummer and a bass.

You and me both.