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It appears that for me, MPC Beats is unuseable in Cakewalk, as it goes unresponsive and crashes as soon as I try to load anything into the plugin's interface. Templates, programs, plugins, etc. Not sure what's going on there.

Hmm, I wonder how long it will take for some of the modules to be Blocks-ready.

Woah, this came at a perfect time.

This is a pretty good analog plugin for when you need a track to come in hot.

I am not sure anyone noticed this, but this bundle of 3 libraries for Iris 2 is on sale for 45% off at €28.93.

https://www.triplespiralaudio.com/product/iris-2-soundset-bundle/

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The Iris 2 Soundset Bundle contains the 3 soundsets from Triple Spiral Audio: Desolate, Pagan IV and Zodiac with a total of 209 sounds with a dark ambient character.

It should also be noted that Iris 2 itself is currently $9.99 until the end of the month. So now would be a good time to capitalize on this deal.

If you're willing to spend a bit of cash, these deals are active this month and you get the Reason Lite Rack plugin and Reason 11 Lite DAW for free. (Also check OP for a no-brainer deal!)
 

On 7/12/2020 at 7:24 AM, Zo said:

lol why , ain't that the truth ? you see sales and then you figure out , damn i have this , gonna use it lol !!

That's a mood, I definitely feel ya there

There could have been some sort of setting that I had missed that prevented the creation of instrument tracks, I just got around it by just saving the multis in an empty project, deleted the instruments in the project and just remade the instruments in another instance. I then manually copied everything over from the orphaned MIDI tracks.

I have found Manjaro easy to install and use. The only real issue is that it's just as easy to hose your system if you're not paying attention during something like a kernel update.

8 hours ago, Matthew Sorrels said:

So I take it the Cabal 8: Cinematic isn't part of this bundle.  The other two elements are included with this flagship but not the Cinematic since it appears to be a different instrument (soft semi-acoustic guitar).  I'm not sure I really need another heavy metalish string guitar.  What is the included MIDI like?  I really like Heavier 7 Strings not just because of the tone/instrument but the included MIDI library of guitar riffs.

To be fair, Cinematic came out after the Full version with the Direct DI, Crunch and Hi-Gain, and it's really just the Direct DI run through an effects chain and then resampled. You can probably get a similar sound by running the DI through a transient shaper, tape saturation, clean amps, a soft LPF, a couple of reverbs and then delay.

I have found a lot of inspiration playing around with Reaktor 6's Blocks platform.
NI's Raum and Replika are pretty creative reverb and delay effects that I have found a lot of use for.
If you need sounds, I have found that the Mosaic series by Heavyocity are pretty damn good.
With the full version of Kontakt, you might find a lot to like from Karanyi's scoring instrument Continuo, Triple Spiral Audio's Gh'nuhan and SonuScore's Origins Bundle.
I also used RA's Cinematrix to great effect with this song.

 

15 minutes ago, Starise said:

Not my thing. I've taken the red pill.  In a nutshell the Cabal is a lot more than just a friendly religious group. It's a real rabbit hole. It begins with child trafficking.Yes, it fits for those people doing that music I agree.  If that's your clientele' then by all means cater to them. I have good reason to be upset by it....nuff said. Gets into religion which isn't allowed here. I have info but it doesn't apply here. 

Oh I agree. Cults imagery and story telling involving the cults is cool, but being a part of one? Not a good idea.

On 7/6/2020 at 9:30 PM, Starise said:

I just bought UJAM IRON and their drums called HEAVY on a deal for 74.00 US. That was for both. It is similar in that it has drop D and doubling. You can get some heavy sound from it, I just need to work better with it since you don't play it like a piano or like a guitar. Has it's own technique. That deal went off on the 5th. Might get lucky and use code SUMMER could still be accepted. UJAM

I'm not cool with the "Cabal" name and the occultic connotations attached to it.....though I might buy the plugin and use it for opposite purposes. Sort of like using their own tools against them 😉

I mean it does fit, considering that a lot of metal goes into the subject of satanic worship and the occult. Being upset by it is like taking the classic Doom game from 1993 and making a breakfast cereal advertisement with it...

...oh wait, someone already did that.

Sometimes, you just gotta take every day as it comes. Every single sunrise heralding a new beginning of what could be, the morning waves washing away the anxieties of the past, as you enjoy the moment of just being, renewed and determined.

Καινουργια Ήμερα!
 

Unfortunately, they only process tip payments through Stripe, which I don't have. Maybe that will change and I would be able to enter my paypal info for tip payments.

In any case, here https://www.bandlab.com/ladyfuzztail/albums/9ae569e0-11bf-ea11-9b05-000d3a919c95

Isn't this the same company that tried to sell us Neverland 2 through APD with its embarrassing marketing campaign?

Definitely a no-brainer at that price.

Alternatives if you already have Hybrid 3:

• Vacuum Pro $9.99
• Xpand! 2 $14.99
• Babylon + Expansions $9.99
• Iris 2 $9.99
• Sonivox Twist $9.99
• Sonivox Wobble $9.99
• SynthMaster Player $9.00

Okay so here's the situation, I had a mega rack in Kontakt with 13 instruments loaded, and I wanted to split the tracks into multiple instances of Kontakt to modularize the workflow. So I opened another instance, deleted the loaded instruments, then reloaded the instruments in another instance, before splitting the instrument tracks to properly assign them to the new synth. Then when I tried to re-emerge the tracks, I get an error message telling me that they need to be assigned to the same synth. This is confusing, because they are.

What am I missing here?

13 hours ago, ZincT said:

Thanks Freyja, looks interesting. Will have a play. Would you mind also sharing your Blocks "monstrosity" patch? I know it's off topic for this thread but you could pm it to me if you don't mind sharing. 

I'd gladly oblige, but you'll need Blocks Primes

Polysynth 1.nksr

Oh back on the topic of Voltage Modular, I made this, it's a 3 layer arp patch that you play chords with.

I included the preset for anyone willing to play around. Put it in <User>\AppData\Roaming\Voltage\Presets\User Presets\Arps

3 Layer.voltagepreset

14 hours ago, ZincT said:

I also thought Nucleus was a pretty nice freebie. Good call @Lemar Sain re the free module add-ons.

Reaktor 6 is excellent too  Prism is one of my favourites for organic, evolving sounds and Monark's an oldie but goodie. On the subject of modular syntheses you have also reminded me to take another look at Blocks.

Blocks is amazing. Like in just a couple of days, I've learned to make this monstrosity. A monophonic polysynth with cross modulation options.

3 minutes ago, cclarry said:

You made the right move....there are ALWAYS good deals on great Kontakt instruments...but NOT always on Kontakt

You can find plenty of smaller, but also fantastic deals on PluginBoutique and KontaktHub, to name a few.

I got Nucleus, it's great. What you can do with what's available is quite impressive. I'd explore more, but right now I am playing around with Reaktor 6 which I just got from SoS

Tempting, but I am gonna go with my Reaktor Full upgrade this time around.

4 hours ago, cclarry said:

Oops...my bad....fixed

Were you thinking of women with a little extra again?