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16 minutes ago, PavlovsCat said:

They originally saw it as an entry into their sample libraries where they upsell to KONTAKT, but what if this thing goes gangbusters and they re-assess that maybe they should bring all of the features into Musio with some premium/pro level tier that doesn't exist today.

Potentially it's a case of not overpromising. It's a new player and they're still building it - they've only added keyswitching (I think), and I seem to remember some talk of different mics in the works (don't quote me on that though).

I hope it goes well for them too. They make some great libraries. And if the aforementioned companies and others like EastWest can do it, there's scope for Musio to work out too.

25 minutes ago, PavlovsCat said:

That is, If your product lists at $100 USD and you discount at 70% so that it's on sale for $30, you've just trained the market that the real value is $30 and a great deal of the market will now wait until the product hits that price again.

I think I've only seen one reverse of that trend: Toontrack drum libraries used to be so much cheaper than they are today. As with anything, you win some, you lose some; it all averages out over time.

3 hours ago, PavlovsCat said:

Maybe I didn't highlight it, but I wrote that the reality is, when a KONTAKT sample developer takes the leap to make their own sampler or player, if it takes off, there's no question that they're going to reassess their relationship with KONTAKT/NI and it makes a lot of sense.

Orchestral Tools' SINE Player and Spitfire Audio also come to mind.

1 minute ago, Kirean said:

I think when I bought Vikings Bundle from APD I got a voucher to 'buy' it from Keep themselves for 0 dollars. Thought that would have been the standard practice but good looking out for.

 

I do remember that was the case from one place I bought from (possibly APD), but not all. But that was a little while ago; they may have changed the way they distribute to their resellers.

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Have a great time!

This might be interesting

30 minutes ago, Zo said:

there's no files on HDD ? like usual IR ? 

When you buy a library, you get a single file in the download (can't remember the extension). You drag and drop it on REmatrix to get a prompt to authorise. Once you do, they appear in the built-in browser in the plugin; I admit I haven't searched my drive for files resulting from authorising.

I do like REmatrix, but would love to see a UI update to make the browser a bit easier to use.

3 minutes ago, Zo said:

cool now we can use those on PRO R 2 lol 

I think the REmatrix libraries use a proprietary format.

Remember you can get Freezr FREE with any purchase: if you already have their other apps, you might consider buying an expansion pack.

Welcome Back, Larry!

18 hours ago, craigb said:

I have no idea what's going on in this thread (and no time to read everything), but I DO like this image and am stealing it for use elsewhere! 🙂

Go for it. Just be aware that I didn't create it (I have no idea who did), and it's already floating around on the Internet.

1 minute ago, El Diablo said:

https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/profile/791-cclarry/

Usually posts every day... Stop posting for ten days now.

Is this one still flagged as malware?

29 minutes ago, Daniel Hulse said:

A wise decision. I jumped the gun and wish I hadn't. Just not a usable library for me.

Could you elaborate a bit on that comment please? I know everyone has a different way of working, but it might be helpful for us who are still deciding.

From Wikipedia (green text colouring added by me to highlight the relevant text):

In the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, the standard practice is to display on magazine covers a date which is some weeks or months in the future from the publishing or release date. There are two reasons for this discrepancy: first, to allow magazines to continue appearing "current" to consumers even after they have been on sale for some time (since not all magazines will be sold immediately), and second, to inform newsstands when an unsold magazine can be removed from the stands and returned to the publisher or be destroyed (in this case, the cover date is also the pull date).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_date

7 hours ago, Vst0nE said:

december issue in october? glad they have it under control. 🤣

The date you see on magazines is the date that it should be removed from shelves, rather than when it becomes available for purchase.

51 minutes ago, Bapu said:

At my $89.99 price my $75 voucher is useless to me this month.

Remember the min spend went up too - I think it was $125 for the $75 voucher.

2 hours ago, Jim Roseberry said:

14900k is basically a 13900ks (tiny bit lower power-consumption).

Really, Intel shouldn't have released it as "14th Gen".

How do you mean, Jim? Is it that it's not much faster, or does it lack new features?

Have a great time, Larry!

On 10/18/2023 at 11:24 AM, Nick Blanc said:

As a matter of fact, Denise Audio, Baby Audio and Soundspot are the same developer, same DSP, same team etc. I can definitely see some resemblance between Baby and Denise.

If that's true, I'm not sure what to make of this:

https://babyaud.io/blog/baby-audio-has-acquired-denise-audio

7 hours ago, PavlovsCat said:

wait is it actually 127 or is it 128?

127. It derives from using 8 bits to represent numbers where the largest bit is used for negative values (two's-complement). As there are only 7 bits remaining we can represent 2^7 non-negative values. Including 0, the range is 0-127.

7 hours ago, PavlovsCat said:

I believe that there isn't a piano sample library that has 127  velocity layers all fully sampled

That sounds about right; the disk and memory requirements would be enormous. 8Dio love Ultra Deep Sampling their instruments and I don't think even they do it.

27 minutes ago, PavlovsCat said:

I'm just looking for something that will tell me what the chord progression is for a song I recorded a week ago and completely forgot to write down the progression for.

You could try Studio One (I know; it's a DAW rather than a plugin), or Pianoteq. It probably depends on what the notes are doing though - if they're dancing around, it might be difficult for them to recognise the overall chords.

14 hours ago, PavlovsCat said:

Anyhow, this really isn't controversial, but I think it will be important to some sample library users. 

Thanks for sharing this. I was interested in some of their other libraries. But (I'm fairly sure) I have enough Kontakt libraries to cover the areas, and I don't really want to install HALion.

I was recently looking for a MIDI controller to replace an aging IK iRig Keys (1). I ended up with an MPK mini plus: 37 mini keys, a great feature set, and a small footprint. I thought about an NI one, but it either had too few keys or was too big for the small space I have.