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    Native Instruments Alicia's Keys Sale Plugin Boutique 12th Anniversary (Exclusive) for $13

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    1 hour ago, bitflipper said:

    Almost 40 years ago I bought my first acoustic piano, a baby grand made in Korea by Yeoung Chang.

    It was the most expensive thing I'd ever purchased short of my first home, so I had to finance it over 10 years. While I was in the piano store waiting for the contract to be drawn up, I walked around the room plinking on every piano in there. When I sat down at one of them, the hairs on my arms stood up. It was incredibly responsive and had a lightning-fast action. But it was the amazing tone that got me excited, bright and harmonically rich. I ran to the sales office and said "hold everything! I fear I'm about to make a big mistake - I have found the perfect piano!".

    The salesman barely looked up from the paperwork when he said "that piano's $60,000". OK then, carry on I said, crushed. This was in the mid-80's. For perspective, my aforementioned house had cost $43K.

    That piano was a Yamaha C7. Many years later, I'd come to acquire multiple sampled Yamahas. For a whole lot less money. It's still my favorite piano tone for rock 'n roll.

    Alicia's Keys is sampled from a similar model. Although itself a rarity (only a few were ever built), at its heart it's that classic Yamaha sound. When you hit a low note, it's got some real gravity to it. You just want to play the theme from Jaws. For $13, I am tempted to pick this one up despite having three or four nice Yamaha libraries already. 

     

    I agree with the Yamaha C7

    Take into account this Kontakt Library:
    https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/dolan-piano/

     

     

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    HoRNet SpringVerb free for 24 hours

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    Posted · Edited by Niky Serrano

    34 minutes ago, Kal S said:

    Didn't work for me.

    I went through the link I got in the email, which also had a countdown timer included. That was showing 12 hours still to go.

    But when I reached the product page the price was not showing as free.

    Anyone else have this problem?

    24 hours from the last thursday...

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