Mánibranðr Studios

Well, I got Komplete Select, so in the future upgrades will be easier.

This is a pretty good one to grab. Especially in conjunction with the sequencer, you could get some interesting basslines this way.

I grabbed the ST Tonewheel, the demos won me over :3

26 minutes ago, cclarry said:

I believe I read that you can just drag the sample onto the instrument that you want to use it in,
and it will import it...

I am more asking about best practices. Like number of bars, BPM, etc.

Does anyone know how to make use of the User loop section of the instrument? I figured that it's a way for us to insert our own things into the instrument, but I am not sure how to prepare and integrate my own sounds.

FrontDAW is good for when you have to have some more drive and character to your tracks. The Pro Channel console has a bit of a gentler character that is good for general purpose, so it's one of those cases where having more tools at your disposal is better.

While we're on the topic of console emulators, Waves Abbey Road REDD is also on sale for $29.99 with code CREATIVE40, it's a no-brainer at this price point.

2 hours ago, PaulCW said:

A tempo view that uses vectors like automation lanes do. Let's say I want a slow rallentando followed by a quick accelerando to get back to the original tempo. With vectors, that's 3 clicks on the tempo line to create 3 control points and then one drag of the centre point. If I want to tweak things later, all I do it move the midpoint around. At the moment, I draw two lines and hope the ends match up nicely (so I need to zoom in) and redraw if they don't, and then I have to repeat the process each time I want to tweak things.

(Waits in hope for "you can do this already man")

I second this request

Y'all should grab this. I would have grabbed this myself if I didn't already own it.

Yeah, I stopped looking at the TH-3 series the day I found out about Audio Assault, which is really a shame because the guys really looked like they wanted to make the best amp sims they can.

This is a powerful synth for which I only begun to scratch the surface of. Highly recommended

As an early adopter of Paradox Lost Redux, I highly recommend anything this developer does. I absolutely loved what they did with Mountains and Allmosphere, Autumn Choirs is also very nice.

This is really tempting...

This is a company I would definitely recommend you check out, they put out quality plugins at practically dirt cheap prices, and are super helpful. They also worked with Wavelet Audio when they produced the seminal Cabal8 virtual guitar library for Kontakt Full, by also making an amp sim that goes with it, called the Bulldozer. If you're not convinced, Glen Fricker has reviewed their two recent ones Sigma and RVXX.

17 minutes ago, Tapsa Kuusniemi said:

I'm coming out again...and holy crap those sound bad.

Yeah I am inclined to agree, they do sound like amateur recordings that you'd find in soundfont files for GM 20 years ago, quite synthetic.

I am looking for a nice keyboard carrying case that will fit my Arturia Keylab Essentials 49

Now this is a better choir bundle. I like Impact Soundworks' stuff. :3

5h left on the discount at the time of writing:
https://www.kontakthub.com/product/paradox-lost-redux-kontakt/

ICYMI, the sale is also in the Triple Spiral Audio website, should at a less steep discount:
https://www.triplespiralaudio.com/product/beautiful-void-audio-paradox-lost-redux/

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Paradox Lost Redux is a unique instrument based on strange, beautiful, and bizarre soundscapes, drones and “simple” tones.

At times the sounds capture a fitting, paradoxical cross between evolving and static, beautiful and dirty, dark and light. Some sounds will seem familiar but foreign, like an old synth you once knew but can’t place.

Through the sound sources, we’ve also sculpted a wide range of sounds, including plucks, guitar like sounds, organ like sounds, piano and harp like sounds – which are in addition to the already beautiful and compelling drones and soundscapes.

Included in the purchase is the original Paradox Lost, which was released almost 5 years ago.

Contents:

Paradox Lost Redux

93 Samples (96khz, 24bit, lossless compression with NCW).

1.13GB (as NCW files) – uncompressed, 1.51GB

130 Snapshots in sevral different categories.

27 unique and enthralling Multis.

4 unique and strange NKI presets.

Sounds by Erick McNerney

Presets by Erick McNerney and Paul Lebküchner.

Engine and GUI by Paul Lebküchner (Sound Aesthetics Sampling).

Old version contents:

47 Samples (44.1khz, 16bit)

659MB uncompressed

48 NKI presets using the free Photosynthesis engine by Exotic States (Jeremiah Pena).

The Full Version of Kontakt 5.8.1 is required for this library to function correctly.

 

Playlist with a selection of videos showing the different aspects of the Paradox Lost Redux Library

This was a nice package, but I am very happy with Clip Studio Paint Pro

I would recommend, for now, that you get the free Kontakt player first, and then purchase any of the Kontakt player instruments that you'd like to use. This does 2 things. First, it will give you time to get a feel for using Kontakt in your workflow, and secondly, purchasing an official Kontakt player library will grant you a $150 discount when upgrading to the full version. This is going to compound when it gets on sale for 50% off during the summer sale, and suddenly you're looking at spending $125 for Kontakt instead of $399. Which, if you were budgeting $400 for the software, will leave you with $275, minus what you already spent for your first Player library, to buy extra instrument libraries.

It gets even better if you're looking for a drum library because these two libraries are free AND grants you the crossgrade pricing.

I still would love to see the return of old Cakewalk synths though. it would be nice to be able to get Rapture Pro since I missed out on that boat, or the ProChannel expansions.

On 4/22/2020 at 1:22 AM, Elmer said:

6) Remove the settings: 64-bit double precision engine...

...Why would a person not want to use all the cores of his CPU, divide the load of his plugins into all the cores and have an engine with greater precision?

I apologize for my bad english but I used google translator. I hope some proposals are accepted. Good evening.

NO

I have it turned off because for some reason my hardware couldn't handle it and would render garbage with it on. If you remove this, the app will become unusable for me. These options are there for legacy hardware support.

I would like to be able to access midi automation lanes on an instrument track, instead of having to split it into audio and MIDI, and then re-merging the two tracks once I am done writing the automation. It would be so much faster than having to go into PRV and opening the MIDI automation pane, plus you get to draw smooth curves of MIDI CC that won't be baked into the track as discrete MIDI CC values, but stored as vector curves..

Highly recommended as well as Sennheiser's DrumMic'a which also sits in the Kontakt player. They are both player libraries, and they both sound great for freebies.

Debating whether or not to get Synths I DX by Karanyi sounds and complete my Karanyi Kontakt collection.

48 minutes ago, Alan Tubbs said:

And you will  hear others not listed .  As well as  hardware synths.  And non virtual instruments, too.

Oh yes, I heard tales of modular synth racks the size of cathedrals.