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Love it Mark. You've got some great playing there.

Great playing Makke - you've got a really cool, laid back tone - really nice.

Great song! Really like the intricate guitar playing, and the contrast it makes with the relatively sparse verses.

You've done it again Bjorn! Really atmospheric. I agree too that the guitar actually sounds good in there; it seems quite normal that clean(ish) guitar tones are used cinematically to convey a sense of emptiness, and so that's why I think it actually sounds 'spacy' in this context. Well done!

This is an amazing song Gary - both the music and the message is beautiful.

I think the limiter might be a bit hot in the remix. For this type of music, I personally prefer the extra dynamic range and cleaner sound of the original, though I thought the vocal stood out a bit from the piano/strings in that mix. It might be an idea to gently compress the piano/strings, and also the vocals as two separate groups, and then gently compress them again in the final stage; please ignore if I'm telling you something you already know - no malice intended.

38 minutes ago, abacab said:

SoundPaint installed, authorized with serial number, & downloading piano now (6.3GB @ 70Mbps).

Let us know how it responds please (e.g. load times, playing experience, CPU/memory usage)

21 minutes ago, PavlovsCat said:

Their greatest weakness, by most estimates, is their scripting

I think I've found their greatest weakness to be long loading times - hopefully soundpaint can load a bit more quickly

USB and SD cards are actually viable though; almost no-one has a floppy drive anymore, and the data limit is 1.4mb - some hyper compression needed there ?

Love the fact that you can answer Floppy Disc to On which media do you release your music/tracks?

It's nice - sparse but effective arrangement. The lead guitar might benefit from a tiny bit of humanisation/randomisation, and the note attacks sound quite rigid on the faster phrase openings. I enjoyed the listen though - well done!

Nice blues shuffle, with a good story. Great playing too!

Comet's my current go-to for lush and long tail reverbs. I get the idea that Eventide's reverbs may be more versatile, but I don't want an iLok.

You've got a great sound there - tight timing with lots coming through the mix well. I like the contrast between the almost retro/atmospheric sound of the intro/outro, and the rocking main part. Great tune!

I like how it starts quite instrumentally and rhythmically thin, but then builds up over time and becomes quite energetic and bubbly in the middle - sort of like travelling from the less dense fringes of a nebula, through the centre where there'd be more activity/material, and then out again towards the end. Great tune Wookiee.

8 minutes ago, Reid Rosefelt said:

Does anybody know if this is sampled or modeled?

This is from their Soundcloud page:

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This master demo was composed and produced with Soundpaint. No additional effects were added. This is what it sounds like out of the box. All instruments rendered at with 127 dynamic using real-time velocity morphing.

Soundpaint is an analog-style sample engine that real-time renders samples as you play them. The end result is lightning fast and truly realistic experience with the instruments. Shortening the distance from your musical thought to its creation.

I don't fully understand their marketing spiel, but I think it's either modelled, or is something like a wavetable synth.

Interesting... I originally thought Soundpaint was like an all-in-one synth. Seems like it's more like Kontakt, or Pianoteq - i.e. an engine with sound packs?

Welcome back, Larry! Hope all is well.

ok... so it's not what I'm thinking - that doesn't mean it's not what I'm hoping. I guess I'll hope for something like either VocalScape, or GuitarScape, but I guess I think it's a collection of Spectrasonic desk/shelf ornaments. ?

4 minutes ago, Paul Young said:

IS there a code?  $99 in my cart.

Get the one with the expansion pack - it's cheaper, and you get more

Very cool, jazzy tune; I like it. Nice key modulation about half way through too.

The mix is good. I might suggest bringing the cymbals up a little. Also, I can occasionally hear some subtle compression pumping artefacts. There are no rules about mixing, but as this is a jazzy tune possibly try easing up a little on the compression ratio and letting the mix breathe a bit more naturally.

1 hour ago, fret_man said:

Riff Generations still seems a little steep. Is it that much better than Scalar 2?

They're different beasts. Scalar is a music theory tool that's useful for beginners and the more experienced too, which lets you experiment with different chords with chord substitution suggestions; Riff Generation is more of a 'press for magic' generator with some very nice built in sounds.

Disclaimer: these are simplistic descriptions to show the difference between the two programs; both can be very effective tools

12 hours ago, Brian Lawler said:

During the sale the "base price" for the full library was $10 or maybe $20 (by using $190 "Deluxe Bucks", which are kind of worthless, and most of us have a lot of them).

Just checking - do you mean Rewards money? Deluxe Bucks are the reward points at AudioDeluxe that I personally find quite useful.

12 hours ago, PavlovsCat said:

But isn't Muze the same developer that people in this forum regularly claim uses pirated libraries repackaged as their own and have operated under several different names in recent years? 

Now that you mention it, yes - that sound's vaguely right

Loving the shuffle-rock groove, and the 'passive break' (not really sure what to call it when the instruments thin out a bit and slow down) in the middle! Really good mix too.

My thinking:

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Tuesday

Whispers... a vocal library?

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Get Ready...
BIG News!
but...
...it's not what you think...
It's not Hardware
It's not Rhythm

A Halloween/Black Friday sale? ?

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It's more than one new product!

A new product... A vocal library, or are the whispers to throw off the guesses?