Mánibranðr Studios

See if you can mess with legato/portamento retriggering.

3 hours ago, Alan Tubbs said:

You can hear massive x all over movies etc.  if you listen.

Not exactly, what you hear in movies as far as synths and hybrid scoring are synths like u-He Diva, Zebra (Regular and Hans Zimmer editions), Omnisphere and Serum. Unfortunately, Massive X had been received not as well as expected, due to it not leapfrogging Serum in terms of features and UX design.

Gotta hand it to them, they make really good instruments that make me giggle with joy when I play with them.

I have Gh'nuhan, it's a very beautiful library, and the arpeggiation engine is deceptively powerful. Elixer - The Lost Tapes is also a very beautifully gritty library of tape-saturated and distorted sounds that allows for some complex movement and modulations.

Just want to drop in to mention that Geist Lite is still free rn and can be used as a Drum Sampler.

I have to wonder how much of is recycled from their Fluide free pad collection that they offered when they went by Sonex

Have they improved the MIDI editing system?

I have a lot of respect for the developer, they do go out of their way to help customers, and their plugins are very uniquely good. I have found features in unexpected places with their plugins, which made a lot of sense from a sound designer's standpoint.

50 minutes ago, cclarry said:

Others are $6 or $8...
https://www.pluginboutique.com/deals/show?sale_id=6516

*Sweats profusely*

Oh this is perfect!

5 hours ago, kitekrazy said:

I hate to look a gift horse in the mouth since they are very generous in giving away stuff.  One time they gave away 30gb of their stuff.  That should also tell you something there.  I'm not really into hip hop, trap so it's rare I find anything of use.   They've done this deal before.   I don't think I went through their midi collection yet.  I bought it some time ago.    I did get the 808s and FX.  If you don't have Serum it's worth getting a pack for free just for the wavetables.

Really, if anything, it's better if you have another synth like Sektor or Pigments and dabble in sound design, because it will inspire you to make your own spin.

7 hours ago, ZincT said:

Same here. Actually I think I only have their free stuff (first one was a Halloween pack from a couple years ago) but I think it has all been useful. 

Yeah I have been coasting along with their free stuff, thanks to Ed Talenti on Youtube giving them a shoutout, (Highly recommend his videos if you're into Trap, Hip-Hop and Dubstep music) and have found that Cymatics' stuff is very good and usable on a wide variety of other EDM genres.

So yeah, I decided to go beyond the $10 voucher this time and grab the Topaz MIDI collection, Golden Guitars, Vocal Essentials, Python and the Essential MIDI Collection

21 minutes ago, Fleer said:

So, are they any good, Lord of the Manor?

I've used their packs before, they are of very good quality if you are needing something organic and analog sounding.

Is it me or does it keep putting me in a loop of asking me for my email, and then getting an email with a link back to the page that asks me for an email again?

8 minutes ago, kitekrazy said:

Wow!  So tempted to make some uplifting Trace with this.  Overkill some reverb and delay with this.

This is another developer I want to own everything.  

Now that is what I call GAS, hehe

For a small library, this sounds pretty good, the astronomy photographs are a nice touch too.

I tried the patches and....wow, oh my god it was breathtaking how I can just play random pentachords, walk them across a scale or even transpose them to different scales and get a satisfying arpeggiated soundscape. This is way more than I expected, it's worth the full price, but and it's a real steal at this price point.

Go grab it if you have Kontakt Full, you will not be disappointed!

Oh wow, this is an insta-buy!

3 hours ago, balinas said:

I already have  a bunch of folks running around in my head. What chaos could inviting 4 more cause?

Not much actually, speaking as someone who has DID.

Take the Dorian scale, remove the 2 and 6, add a #4. Do 2-5-1's and variations of such. Bonus points if you can ride that #4.

17 hours ago, JoeGBradford said:

Are the sounds in these VSTi's as good as or better than those in Miroslav Philharmonik 2 CE and Garritran PO?

I don't own either of those, so I don't have a reference point to compare with.

Heck, I am grabbing Synferno. I loved Cinematrix enough that having an additional library like it would be a good upgrade.

It would be nice though, if each of the 4 channels can be routed to different outputs via the interface instead of having to edit the instruments themselves and then routing the 4 instrument buses to each output.

Quick note, Orchestools 306 and 153 are versions of Orchestools ONE that are standalone from Sampletank. A lot of the sounds are based on samples provided by the VSCO CE.

https://musictop69.wixsite.com/orchestools/news

About 8 months in the making, this is something that started off with me playing around with a few loops, and ended up with me exploring the more electronic side of music genres production. I gained a lot knowledge and wisdom throughout the production of this one, and I have y'all to thank for the advice and feedback for the various pieces I've posted here that got included in this EP. So yeah, thank you.

https://ladyfuzztail.bandcamp.com/album/signals-from-the-heavens-ep

Hello, I am an animist, and I have a bit of advice for you.

You cannot expect to reach any sort of inner peace if what you have to do to please your god is to maim your own spirit, and deny yourself things that have made you pneuma. If that is what Yaldabaoth wants from you, then he isn't very good to you. He is more interested in gaining hylic followers than he is the personal growth of those who worship him.

And it shows, you're more focused on the effect your actions have on the people you think hate you, than you are considering the effects on those who value your presence here. This is not something someone who is spiritually healthy would be so concerned about. You're kept spiritually staved by this standoffish "us vs them" attitude, and your decision to cut off a big part of yourself to please a jealous god is only going to make it worse.

I hope you reconsider your decision, you deserve more inner peace and happiness than what Yaldabaoth could offer you.

On 3/27/2020 at 4:30 AM, Fleer said:

... Sonex

I KNEW IT! I knew my hunch was right!