Craig Fowler

Reaction here is...uh, somewhat different to that over at VI: Control!

I have Virhamonic, Embertone Blakus, and Tina Guo 1+2. The Virharmonic is by far my favourite, and IIRC, the Tina Guo has a very restricted note range. 

9 minutes ago, PavlovsCat said:

But if we would have come right out and said, "Don't buy this!" Bapu would have felt like, "Hey, no one tells me what to do!"

It was posted. It exists. Hence, it was in the cards that Bapu would soon be installing it. 

He must have a server farm that would put Google to shame!

1 hour ago, Bapu said:

 

 

Ok I get the hint.

Installed!

Dude, it wasn't an instruction! ?

1 hour ago, Bapu said:

I have:
Abbey Road One
Albion 1
Albion Colossus
BBCSO Pro/Pro Piano
EW Composer Cloud
Sonuscore The Orchestra 3
NI's Orchestra in Komplete 14 CE 
Studio One's Symphony Stuff
Bitwig's Orchestral Tools Orchestra

Do I need this bundle too?

Does it matter? ? 

But will they finally have bothered with sweep/swirl midi?! If it's there this could be real winner for me. 

3 hours ago, e-cue said:

Link not working here.

 

But also....  VSR REV6000.  Stop teasing us, Relab!  

I installed the beta of REV6000 last week (I'm a bundle owner and they kindly 'upgraded' me from the VSR24, though apparently that crossgrade had ended ages ago). Was extremely impressed and can't understand why the official release has been so delayed.

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.

1 hour ago, MrFigg said:

Yes, Im using it in my plugin accumulation project. 

Ahh, the best of all projects!

49 minutes ago, MrFigg said:

Bir the bullet. Bought Audiothing Voice, got Richter and now I never have to look at Audiodeluxe ever again. Totally worth it. 

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? ?

8 hours ago, Wallace said:

Are there any good SDX recommendations for Pop / R&B / Jazz / Funk type of sound? Currently looking at just grabbing three from Hitmaker, Decades, Rooms of Hansa, and Stories.

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.

26 minutes ago, Release said:

It's different.  I find it warmer than Noire and any of H&W ones.  But I usually play it solo so I don't need it to cut through anything else.  Not sure if it would get lost in a mix.  

To me, this is one of those rare libraries where the demos sound exactly like what I can pull out of it.  I have a few that sound completely different from what I was expecting.  I thought I got it for around $75 but that might have been the intro price?  Can't remember.

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?

36 minutes ago, Sander Verstraten said:

Where's the group buy?

That's a group buy I could get behind!

On 3/14/2024 at 12:35 PM, User 905133 said:

Is Movavi any good?  Fanatical has a Movavi Bundle. This is all I know about it (only because I Googled "vegas pro v. movavi."

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!)

32 minutes ago, 53mph said:

Wait! Is Tonex from ik multimedia?

I used to use IK plugins years ago but I moved away from their ecosystem because I found them too resource heavy and glitchy.  

Have they improved any?

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!

5 hours ago, Max Arwood said:

I have to agree. It is the best you can get right now. As far as I know, it is the only official B-3 VSTi that has been “Hammond” approved. 

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)!