Craig Fowler

I mean, not to me personally. But I'm intrigued... https://www.guitarworld.com/features/ik-multimedia-tonex-one-nano-amp-modeler-pedal-platform

Haven't seen any buzz about the two new uprights. Kinda curious about those suckers.

Ahh, the best of all projects!

So, you're using Richter on a project now, right? Let me know how it is so I can pine after it from afar, knowing I do not need it and almost certainly would not use it.

I used to love coffee from Intelligentsia in Chicago when I lived in the US.

https://vstbuzz.com/deals/50-off-hammers-waves-acoustic-by-skybox-audio/ $89USD and Kontakt Player compatible. Well worth it!

Worth searching this subforum for recent posts with Microsoft or Windows in the title. I used one of the Groupon links that was posted in the last 2-3 months, I think.

Not gonna lie, my first thought on hearing the demos was 'meh.' The more melodic stuff sounded pretty good, but for conventional use (e.g., part of a trio or quartet), I just thought it sounded like someone playing a bass part on a rompler.

Pretty pricey though once converted out of Sterling! I'm holding out for a sale on the new Kawai Shiregu library from PremierSounds. Until then, all pianos are verboten!

The developer is excellent, @PavlovsCat. I have their Atelier/Austin trumpet, sax, and clarinet. I don't use them much because for the mellow jazz sorta stuff I like, StraightAheadSamples is hard to beat. But with SAS, the wonder happens when you activate SmartDelay, so just playing in on a keyboard isn't necessarily much fun. The strength of Musical Sampling instruments like this is that you can just noodle and it will sound really good. With that said, all the scripting in the world won't stop an oboe from being an oboe, so I'll be passing on this. The library I'd like to try out from Musical Sampling is Soaring Strings, which often goes on sale for $129. Check out the 'Commanding the fleet' demo. It's stunning, and probably the best product demo I've ever heard.

Don't know if I need this (actually, I'm pretty sure I don't), but I *really* like their stuff. What cheapy gets me there best, anyone? 🙂

Decades is the obvious choice for jazz, depending on what you want it to do. I really wanted nice, smooth, snare swirls that were easily programmed, so I upgraded to SD3 and bought Decades. It didn't get me there, whereas spending $30 on Klevgrand's Borsta got me exactly what I was after. Decades is fantastic, but even though it has brush articulations, I think of it more as a big band jazz sound. I really like Rooms of Hansa. Fields of Rock is the other 'modern' SDX I have. Honestly, I wonder if SD3 is overkill for what it sounds like you want - the genres you mention seem better represented in the EZ Drummer line - Superior is much more tailored to acoustic drums that 'sound' acoustic. The Pop/R&B side of things has tons of EZD3 expansions.

This is not helping! Stop enabling me! I also have been hoping the newish Premier Sound Kawai Legacy VI goes on sale...might have to wait

Grrr. Have wanted this for a while. Must resist! Surely if I have Noire, Ascend, and Hammers & Waves, this is overkill, right?

That's a group buy I could get behind!

I like Movavi a lot, but my needs are basic - pretty much simple edits for online teaching that I do. It's not especially 'handy-holdy,' and I appreciate how fast it renders (compared to Magix, especially!)

Echoing Brian's comments, Tonex isn't glitchy at all on my system. It isn't especially light on CPU, but it doesn't cause me any problems. I don't love the GUI and find navigating between presets and tone models + things already on your system vs. stuff you can download from ToneNet to be a bit of a chore. But they seem to be working on improving the interface. And more importantly, it just sounds really, really good. I have lots of the Nembrini, tons of PA amp sims, most of Kuasa's offerings, and the majority of what's available for Amplitube. I still really like Kuasa, but almost always reach first for ToneX!

I'd say it's a toss up between this and UAD's Waterfall B3...but I'd give the edge to UAD 🙂 Both are fantastic - what a time to be alive (for music tech - not much else mebbe)!

Like Fleer said, there's a *ton* of content, and some of it is good...even very good. But very little of it (at least in terms of acoustic instruments) matches the level of dedicated libraries. The biggest problem is that actually *using* SampleTank is such a pain in the ***** that I just can't be bothered to fight with the tiny, user-unfriendly GUI. I really like some of the synth libraries, but working with SampleTank takes all the fun out of it for me. If some talented chap/chapess was starting from scratch, strapped for cash, and sufficiently motivated, I'm sure they could make amazing sounding tracks with ST4! But they might lose the will to live before they pulled it off.

Some tasty goodies there!

Pricing seems a mite ambitious given Sampletekk's regular and generous sales!

100% Now I have ToneX, I don't know how much I'll end up using 'traditional' amp sims, but Kuassa consistently make great sounding plugins that actually sound like the amps they're meant to emulate. Love everything I have of theirs, but especially Matchlock!

Record for fastest update?

Nova is so good!

I've had my eye on that pack. I've got most of the Tone Junkie ones (at 90% off, would have been rude not to) and three of the Sadites ones; Deluxe Reverb, AC30, and one of the Dr. Zs. Generally, the Sadites ones seem more consistent, and I'm pretty darn impressed with ToneX. There are a few of the Amalgam capture packs I'll pick up at some point, but then I'm done (famous last words!).