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Requires Studio One 4 😜

Some really great instruments in these bundles!

Feels like the 'season pass' marketing technique for video games 😕

Was thinking of grabbing Mallet Flux, and might just have justified the purchase if it was based on the $ price with the current conversion rate; logging in gives me a £ price that's just a little bit too much for me after Black Friday... Oh well, I managed to pick up In-Session Audio's Fluid Strike.

46 minutes ago, reginaldStjohn said:

Are there libraries that are requiring 6 right now?

I've seen a few, though the only one I can remember right now is Zero-G Ethera Gold

Komplete Start is a good (free) option to begin with.

It's quite expensive, but I would recommend saving up for Komplete. The standard edition has quite a few different instruments as well as the full version of Kontakt; Kontakt libraries can be quite expensive though so from a starting point it may not make that much difference. Native Instruments generally have two sales a year: their Summer of Sound, and their Black Friday sales; they usually discount their upgrades, not sure if they discount prices for the full versions.

Alternatively, if you're after synths have a look at Rob Papen Explorer. Again it's a little pricey, but you get lots in the bundle.

Hold on... I thought we couldn't blame the sunshine, moonlight, or good times; only the boogie? 😜

I've previously bought a few cheapish plugins from them, but I'm not sure I want to buy more from PA - even their flagship ones. I was partially tempted by the Shadow Hills one the other day, but then I thought as good as it is, I've already got stock compressors, the Overloud ones, Boz's Manic Compressor, a few IK ones, the ones from Ozone; they sound good enough to me right now.

Not sure, but it looks like the piano deal was for yesterday; Epic Percussion Bundle is today's freebie (but is also cut in price)

2 hours ago, Fleer said:

If you can’t stand the books ...

lay them down? 😜

10 hours ago, synkrotron said:

I was able to upgrade to Kontakt Full for around £107

Not to sound like marketing material, but Congratulations - you've now opened doors to some really great libraries! Only problem is, it'll exacerbate GAS, but in a good way 🙂

Already bought this last month as part of their end of year sale... for a higher price 🙁

You win some, you lose some I guess...

55 minutes ago, Promidi said:

There are those who say that same thing about Pro Tools......

Pro Tools is just a DAW; any other DAW can pretty much do the same thing, give or take a few features/workflow approaches. Kontakt opens the door to sooooo many different/new libraries.

3 minutes ago, chris.r said:

I thought you can drag the nki file and drop it on the Player window.

To be honest, I've not tried that; I strongly suspect it won't work/will open full Kontakt in trial mode

15 minutes ago, chris.r said:

By saying "player doesn't cut it" you mean works only 15min or can't play it at all??  I'm still trying to find the precise info on that, I see often developers mention "not working in player" but I recon someone said that it means 15 or 20 min trial period, so i'm stumped.

It won't work at all.

There are two types of Kontakt libraries:

• The ones that will appear as a library both in Native Access and in Kontakt on the left
• The ones that are effectively 'just' a bunch of files. These need to be open in Kontakt within its file browser.

Ceres is an example of the latter; with Kontakt Player, there is no way to open/load the library*.

The former type of library is more universally accessible, but it requires the lib developer to pay a license. I understand it's fairly expensive, it may be cost prohibitive for smaller developers.

* Strictly speaking, you could load it in the trial version of full Kontakt, meaning you could run it in demo mode 15/20 min period.

1 hour ago, James Foxall said:

How do you get the free library?

From the T+S site:

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You will need to also add your chosen free SoundSense library to your cart which will reduce to '0' providing your cart has Zero-G titles totalling £32/€35/$35.

https://www.timespace.com/blogs/offers/ends-3rd-dec-the-2019-zero-g-black-friday-sale-starts-now-save-up-to-65

What's actually in this pack? Is it worth signing up for?

They sound good, but... what are they soooooo expensive?

As I understand it, EZ is mix-ready and slightly cut down; SD is effectively a more comprehensive raw sample set for you to mix yourself. One version isn't 'better' than another: it depends on one's mixing skills/whether the mix-ready version matches what your putting it in to.

14 hours ago, Michael Vogel ( MUDGEL) said:

It’s a very large, double sided CD with one long groove on each side. My description, many years ago, to a 10 year old who fit your description as I was showing him a “record player” at a HiFi show.

Unfortunately, there may be a problem with that description: kids of today might not know what a CD is.

Don't know about their paid ones, but I tried a free soundscape-generator-type one a while ago (can't remember its name). It was kinda cool... except I couldn't make it stop generating noise - and it wasn't because I had a 'stuck' MIDI note either.

4 hours ago, Starise said:

How silly can you be before someone notices that you're silly? It's a thin line I tell ya.

I was once asked to define certain words as part of a group exercise; my definition of creativity was: the level of socially acceptable craziness that someone exhibits.

I have CorelDRAW 2018 and I like it; I just can't justify an upgrade to the latest version given both my usage pattern, and the upgrade cost.

The only other thing that drives me mad about the upgrade popups is that they have different discount levels on different days: in the last two weeks, I've had adverts seemingly randomly giving discounts of any of 15%, 30%, 50%, and 55%.

1 hour ago, Brian Walton said:

Highly recommend checking out Affinity's 30% off all products for the end of the week sale.

Agreed. I was going to mention Affinity, but wasn't sure if it'd be taking the thread OT. I bought Photo a while ago as a replacement for Corel PhotoPaint (can't justify buying Photoshop for my usage pattern), and really like it. Recently bought Designer because I didn't fancy signing up for a Corel subscription. I might look into Publisher one day.

If anyone's thinking of getting CorelDRAW, here's something to keep in mind. Apparently this version will be the final version that has upgrades: as I understand it, there are three approaches to getting the next version (whenever it comes out):

• Buy it 'full' priced (i.e. not at upgrade price)
• Pay a subscription (where if you stop paying, you can't use the software anymore)
• Pay for their upgrade plan: this is like a subscription, but you can keep the last version you had if you stop paying

I don't think this applies to any other product in their range.