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Craig Fowler

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  1. Can't speak to the Softube offerings here, but $11 sounds hard to go wrong!

    It's obviously a totally different level of cost, but I got the AKG BX-20 spring reverb from UAD a few years back, and that's something pretty special. I wouldn't get into the UAD eco-system purely to get it, but if/when they port it over to the UADx semi-native platform, it could be right up your alley.

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  2. 6 hours ago, henkejs said:

    I've never investigated the VSL products. Do you need a for-pay player to use these instruments?

    The players are free/downloadable with the products you get that use them. I find the old "VI" player pretty fiddly, but the Synchron player and Synchron piano player are about the best hosts I've come across. Really powerful and fairly intuitive. They even look nice!

    I've become a bit of a VSL fanboy in the last 3 years or so, especially for pianos. Their jazz drums and upright bass sound brilliant too...I just wish they'd port them to the Synchron player because I can't usually be bothered to use them because of the old interface.

  3. 4 hours ago, mibby said:

    Tokyo Dawn plugins are top notch!

    Absolutely! I love my pretty GUIs as much as the next person, but these are ridiculously underpriced for the sound and functionality they offer.

  4. On 12/31/2022 at 6:00 AM, fret_man said:

    Thank you, so much! I don't have a good tracking space so sometimes I record myself, convert to MIDI (Melodyne), and then use sample replacement. Other times I just "hand craft" the MIDI from scratch, which is what I did here. Very time-consuming but you can get really good sounds. That is what I did here. I used the following VIs:

     

    Thought this was a really great arrangement - loved the way everything fit together. It sounded like a band feeding off each other, not just a one-man dude! Really well mixed, too.

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  5. On 12/18/2022 at 12:45 PM, Fleer said:

    Glad to see a new library from this great dev. Their grand piano and Joshua Bell violin are two of the very best in class. 

    There was a thread on VI:control earlier in the year wondering if Embertone were still an 'active' developer - I'm in the minority who hates the Walker D (admittedly I only have the lite version) but the Bell and Blakus are lovely! As you say, really good to see them doing new things.

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  6. I really want to get their Pedal Steel...the stacked codes bring it down to $72!

    But as I just took advantage of the Audio Ollie stacked glitch to get Nashville Scoring Strings, I'm tapped out. Here's hoping this will still be working come January!

  7. 26 minutes ago, jackson white said:

    had this on the radar as a possible UAD alt (which I have). Also have the Arturia which has been good enough the few times i've used it.

    any opinions on how this might stack up against the other two (other than most likely a longer load time...)?

    I thought the uad version *was* the softube version, just ported over 

  8. 11 minutes ago, PavlovsCat said:

    Judging from their Imperial freebie piano library, they really know how to create a great piano sample library. 

    They sure do! Incredible instruments, especially the cfx and bosie upright.

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  9. 1 hour ago, Bad Penguin said:

    Probably does not need to be said, but here it is anyway:

     

    Yup; you can usually save on VSL via BestService, and often it's a pretty decent discount. I have the VI series upright bass and want to upgrade to the Synchronized plucked instruments. It's $129.63 direct from VSL, and $108.12 from Best Service!

  10. 7 hours ago, ralfrobert said:

    I am also interested in this. In particular: If I own Komplete 13, do I need their pianos, or can I consider myself covered?

    Noire covers a lot of ground and is top notch, but I've never much cared for the other pianos in K13. I'd definitely pick up WGII (I think that's the most recent combo of White Grand/Sister) and Rain Piano.

  11. I stayed at the Paris way back when, Larry - hope you had fun!

    There were lots of bf deals that caught my eye, but not many I bit on. I ended up buying

    • Soniccouture's Moonkits
    • Fluffy Audio's Jazz brushes
    • Soniccouture's Canterbury suitcase (rhodes)

     

    Things I put in my cart but didn't follow through on...

    • Skybox audio's electric bundle (+ their new Wurli 145...sounded great but I have at least 3 Rhodes VIs that I really like)
    • Softube Vocoder (was *really* tempted at $38, but the demos were...crap, IMO)
    • Soniccouture's Broken Wurli (next year it will be back in my cart)
    • VSL Vienna Imperial (I already have both the Synchron Bosendorfer grands + various Bosies. I couldn't justify this even at 50% off)
    • StraightAheadSamples Flugelhorn (sounds beautiful and I love the mellow tone, but I wouldn't use it enough for it to be worthwhile

    Was sorta hoping for a reduced upgrade to EZD3 and a huge discount off some different VSL instruments, but I'm kinda glad that I can do a better job getting to grips with a smaller number of instruments. 

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