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I didn't notice it at first, but $202 is for the Core collection. There are also two expansions, which are also on sale.

https://www.skyboxaudio.com/products/hammers-waves-ep145b

https://www.skyboxaudio.com/products/ether-preset-expansion

If you subscribe and get to pick any X plugins to own, can you truly pick from any in their catalogue? or is it the limited 'any' that means just their old ones?

This channel has some free sounds:

https://www.youtube.com/@GravitySound

9 hours ago, Carl Ewing said:

WinAero Tweaker is also a miracle for many of Win 11's annoyances.

It sounds small, but the one thing that truly drove me insane was the lack of seconds on the clock - I don't care about it on the taskbar, but I'd like to see them when I actually click on the clock so that I can sync up watches, etc.

2 hours ago, pseudopop said:

Assassin's Creed Syndicate is free until December 6. See the first post for details.

Highly recommended, though I am a bit biased; I do like the AC series.

Odd... I can't seem to pay with PayPal; I'm sure I did previously. Oh well, just a sign I've stretched my budget too far and that I shouldn't push it any further this time around.

13 hours ago, Carl Ewing said:

AudioBro: Eternity Adult Choir
AudioBro: Eternity Adult Choir Expanded

When you get a chance, let us know what you think of these please.

• Fuse Audio Labs Flywheel, VCS-1
• Best Service Era II Vocal Codex
• Bome Network Pro (5 devices)

27 minutes ago, Carl Ewing said:

They seem much more suited to big pop mixes, but not for intimate soloing. They do not sound realistic to me (at all).

Compare to, say, Tina Guo Acoustic Cello (from almost 10 years ago): 

I'm not sure that's the best comparison to Tina Guo, as that's that newer (small) ensemble instrument. They've got solo instruments too; here's a demo of their solo Cello (at 13:32)

They definitely need more work to play though (in that you'll need to control multiple cc at once for the various aspects, rather than having the performance baked into the samples).

2 hours ago, Carl Ewing said:

New solo orchestra library: Can't decide. I'm not inspired by anything I currently have except Tina Guo cello from Cinesamples and the solo brass in Cinebrass Core / Cinebrass Pro. I really don't like the scripting in most solo stuff I have, or find them dated sounding.

Just a thought - have you considered the AudioModeling SWAM instruments?

On 11/23/2023 at 6:31 PM, Carl Ewing said:

AudioBro's Eternity releases tomorrow at noon (EST). I'm hoping for sub $300 intro price, or cheaper with crossgrade from Genesis Children's Choir.

https://audiobro.com/eternity-adult-choir/

Eternity Complete (Eternity Choir and Eternity Expanded)
$499.00 (38% Off $799.00)

Eternity Adult Choir
$399.00 (20% Off $499.00)

Looks like there's a further discount if you own some of their other products, but it doesn't seem much.

As I understand, VI-C is the successor to the Northern Sounds forum (but I could be wrong on that). Back in the day, NS used to have a free orchestral scoring guide that was based on a Rimsky-Korsakov text. I remember following that course; they said they'd eventually make an offline version of it too, but that they'd always keep the online version available. Too bad it disappeared  (along with NS) before the offline version became a thing: I don't in any way claim to know how to write for orchestra, but I did find the material there very useful.

Get 53 premium sound effects from Slava Pogorelsky for free.

https://www.asoundeffect.com/sale/#freebie

Be sure to check your emails: I got a 20% discount code on an EZKeys Midi 6-pack. Not sure if they send one to everyone though.

15 hours ago, Carl Ewing said:

Ya, I have a lot of adult choirs, but most of them are either old, or I don't like them. Except 8Dio choirs - which sound gorgeous (especially Insolidus / Silka) but they aren't very flexibile.

Have you tried Fluffy Audio's Dominus Choir Pro?

1 hour ago, Brian Lawler said:

Sneaking on a rooftop at night and hearing the headcrabs scurrying up the drainpipes to attack you.  Still an unsurpassed horror/suspense experience in gaming IMO.

Have you tried Alien Isolation? A different genre of game to be sure, but it is really atmospheric.

5 hours ago, kitekrazy said:

Who is the company were their pianos are sample modeled?

Do you mean Modartt (Pianoteq)?

8 hours ago, Fleer said:

Been looking at this AI synth when it came out. Interesting indeed. 

You might be interested in this. Not saying I agree or disagree; just bringing it to your attention.

2 hours ago, GoncaloL said:

Musio 1 is really appealing to me and i dont think i would miss them, just a hobbyist here, but curious about your opinion

Musio 1 is just the 2023 instruments; it won't include next year's. That said, it's still a good deal.

12 minutes ago, Bapu said:

I'm confused. Was Kontakt7 in K13UCE or K14UCE (or both). I have Kontakt 7 and I never upgrade just Kontakt.

I believe it was in 14 (though could be wrong). I remember having 6 for a while after 7 came out and waiting for the Summer of Sound to upgrade to the next Komplete (i.e. 14).

4 hours ago, Brian Walton said:

Last year they had tiers based on what you own (to a degree). Not this year.  An unreasonable $900 for everyone!

Too bad. I was hoping there would be tiers, and that I'd got left out of the emails (like last year).

55 minutes ago, PavlovsCat said:

 Additionally though, if there's a huge discount on a Toontrack drum library I'd absolutely snap it up.

Chances are their classic SDXs will go on sale (though not sure if it'd be classified as huge). For the newer ones, your best bet will be to buy the 3-pack serials. Personally, I'm a bit low on both disk space and wallet power to go for the new expansions.

Thanks @Peter - IK Multimedia

I got an email for this that went straight into my spam folder. I didn't recognise the from address either, so thought it belonged there until I saw Audio Imperia in the sender's physical address at the bottom.

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.