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5 hours ago, fret_man said:

Well that stinks! I may have to switch over to OrangeTree to get my mandolin (in the plans for Ample Sound after they get their banjo done).

According to Jason, iLok is only being used for the Chinese instruments; there are no plans to use iLok on the other instruments.

12 minutes ago, fret_man said:

Just to clarify, I bought the pre-order but all I see in my account is El_Clapo_1.1.1_Windows. Does that  contain Das Boot?

You have to 'buy' it. If you're logged in, the price will be $0.00.

3 hours ago, Bruno de Souza Lino said:

Get ready to unlock a whole heap of performance issues, thanks to Softube's copy protection that relies heavily on encryption and decryption on the fly while the plugin runs.

Softube use iLok for their copy protection so I wouldn't expect a performance hit much different from other iLok plugins (purely from a copy protection point of view).

Epic have been giving away a free game every Thursday this month. It looks like Galactic Civilisations III is coming next on 21 Jan. I tend to forget, so I've set a weekly reminder to check the offer on their home page every Thursday.

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/

16 hours ago, telecode 101 said:

i tried this today. i dont get how thats angel sounds. maybe i messed up the install. i hear synth sounds mostly.

You expected a deep-sampled angel? 😁

5 minutes ago, slartabartfast said:

What is a "watermarked" Free Angel?

Not really sure, but I think it just means that if you share your copy of the library on dodgy sites, 8Dio can identify who did it (and subsequently do something to their account?).

Some good ideas in there Reid - thanks for the video.

Just a small comment about the video itself - I personally found your voice was a little too boomy. Were you trying out Voxessor by any chance and turning the voice type all the way to man?

It kinda looks like a Rigid Audio loop instrument

58 minutes ago, Bruno de Souza Lino said:

If I recall correctly, mixing with headphones was supposed to be a compromise, not a complete replacement for actual monitors.

Yes, that's right. However, the point isn't to simulate what other mix engineers would hear with their equipment (or even to simulate what someone might hear if they spent more money on their own audio monitors/acoustic treatment), the point is to simulate what the end consumers of your music would hear when listening on their consumer equipment - this might be e.g. some ear buds that come with a phone, some high end noise-cancelling headphones, some mid-priced consumer headphones that hype bass, a car stereo system - all of which would translate a studio mix differently. The simulated monitoring environments listed on the product page are:

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• NRG Recording Studio

• Archon Recording Studio

• Howie Weinberg's Mastering room

• Electric car stereo

• Luxury SUV stereo

• LA nightclub sound system

• Audiophile listening room

• Classic reference boombox

• Various pairs of studio and consumer headphones, including earbuds

It's very unlikely someone would take their DAW to an LA nightclub and then do their mixes on its actual sound system, but you would want to have confidence that a mix would sound good on it.

Might be a good idea to turn on 2FA for PayPal too

Does anyone have this? It looks interesting, but...

There are no audio demos, I can't find a single screenshot where I can read what the plugin control dials are for (the text is blurry), I can't find any YouTube videos on it, their privacy policy looks like a template, e.g.

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Source of collection: Collected automatically when you access our Site using cookies, log files, web beacons, tags, or pixels [ADD OR SUBTRACT ANY OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES USED].

On 1/8/2021 at 11:12 PM, Bruno de Souza Lino said:

Uh... Why do you need a pair of headphones that emulates other headphones?

Because not everyone listens to music on the same pair of headphones that the producer mixes it on. Different headphones (and speaker systems) have different frequency responses - what might sound like a good amount of bass on one set might be massively overpowering on another set; what might sound like a good treble on one set might end up causing ear fatigue too easily on another set. The emulation lets you switch between different sets so that you can mix in such a way that it sounds good on all.

The NI forum:

https://www.native-instruments.com/forum/

Now that I think about it, yes - your right: Free Orchestra was a one-off finite set. I had read the video description

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In 2021, we’ll start a subscription service. But not a regular subscription service: Sign up to SINEfactory and you’ll get a steady stream of exclusive free instruments delivered straight to your mailbox. These instruments provide a solid foundation for sketching ideas and building tracks—they’re effectively a curated factory library for SINE. Kick-off is late January!

and assumed each instalment was a patch from one of their libraries.

This looks like OT's version of ProjectSAM's The Free Orchestra

Impact SoundWorks now use Pulse as their Downloader of choice

I watched the promo videos a while back, and couldn't really tell what it was. The impression I got was that it was some kind of standalone plugin instrument, possibly with a granular synth engine.

Very nice libraries. I picked them up a long time ago, back when Best Service used to do an annual buy-one-get-one-free offer.

3 hours ago, LAGinz said:

For the first time, I received a $75 voucher which I assumed would be useless. Looked at my account though, and there was a $100 price deal on Streamliner

Me too, though I get a choice of Streamliner, or Knifonium. I said I won't get another synth, but I am leaning towards Knifonium.

If it's not on the website, how do you guys know about it? (unless there's a newsletter I'm not signed up for)

Looking at their website, there is a new image:

I'm guessing there'll be another - Veevum Lunar? Maybe this is why the trilogy was discontinued a few months ago - to make room for a six-title Veevum collection?

4 hours ago, Matthew Sorrels said:

I have the Steel String version of this, but it doesn't seem to work right (the UI is all goofy) in Kontakt 6.  I even re-downloaded it.  I really wish 8dio would do something about updates. 

Did you try contacting them? I was using a library that was a bit wonky in Kontakt 6 (think it was one of the intimate studio series), and they deposited a new download in my account with the fixed version.

1 hour ago, Yan Filiatrault said:

5 vouchers. Obviously they need money, or they like the money that they get

My guess is they're trying to maximise their 2020 Q4 results

27 minutes ago, Tezza said:

I don't know if 4 and 5 are the same or whether they've changed things. 3 wont play the last half or so of a midi file if the transport is started halfway through the midi notes in the chord, something I find really annoying, I like to hear the preceding chord or what is left of it before the rest of the passage, don't know if it still does this, maybe there is a setting somewhere.

There definitely is an option to play midi notes from part-way through. I can't remember when it appeared though, as I've used 3, 4, and 5. There's a demo you can try as well.

4 minutes ago, Tony Carpenter said:

I've never understood why Native can't make instruments they didn't make show up normally. Is it them, or is it the third party companies. Always seemed like it should be something they included in the kit for making the instruments.. lame after all these years!!.

In order to make instruments appear in the panel, you need a license so that you can 'wrap them up'. The instruments that you open from the file browser are like opening up the instrument 'project' that they've been working on.

A very rough analogy would be like a .zip file - you can 'wrap it up' and turn it into a self extracting .exe, or you can leave it as a .zip file (in which case you need a copy of WinZip/7zip/etc. to open it).

Changed my mind - it's quite a good offer, as you can get multiple sale items with it, e.g. I could get two $29.99 plugins for $19.49 each.