Jason Neudorf

I think my personal threshold might be somewhere around $5 (5EUR?). If it costs less than an instrument in V Collection, it's probably worth a try. Not necessarily for using the VST, but presets can be fun.

https://www.hermannseib.com/english/savihost.htm is the lightweight host I use. Is digital brain's better?

This is one of the first times I've seen the Mark I (Santana's snake one). Anyone else know of other examples?

Sold out. Sigh.

Arturia is being hammered SO HARD right now, it's impossible to even look at it. My offer is $19.99, but I have no idea if it is 32 presets / pack or 150. Or if the presets are any good or just more of the same. Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgV1BjEecY8 says that it's 450 presets. Time to watch.

Clicked, then it crashed each time I tried to access a preset. After a couple fails, it finally worked. Voodoo or something, i dunno.

One thing I like about the strum-gs expansions is the midi packs. Can anyone comment on how they compare to EZKEYS (which I still sort of want)?

Not much overlap here; if you haven't already got CA2600, it's available in the $1 tier, with a bunch of packs that are different from before.

Anyplace to get this other than syntorial itself or the app store? I was hoping for freebees.

Isn't Sakura fairly respected, in the Chromaphone line of physical modelling? Other than that, yeah, meh.

If you're going to buy something like noteperformer or syntorial anyways, having a copy of mixbox or Orchestra Essentials to give to a friend is a nice bonus.

The iOS player factory presets for $3.99 also allows you to use the other presets you've bought for PC/Mac, which is nice.

Wow, you can get crispytuner for $10.25 if you have reward tokens at pluginboutique-- that's more than 97% off!

Before you search for <10PB, also look in your rewards section. There is an 80% off Serum pack ($1? $3?), and 3 months of loopcloud (46% of $20?) available if you have a previously unused rewards token. Or Cataract 2 for $29*0.35. They count, as long as it isn't 100% free (or maybe there's a $1 minimum).

TFW something you paid $39 for is now free.

The bug fix may be useful for people wanting to demo Presonus Studio One: the previously almost useless OEM Prime (not the free Prime) version allows you to use products in their Studio Magic Bundle, including Analog Lab Intro. Having access to the V Collection presets you own gives you a LOT of options. (I got my copy with a set of Eris 3.5" speakers).

Other highlights: Dymai Proclethya, Robotic Bean Handclap Studio, MDynamicEQ ($18), MininnDrum, Impact Soundworks Massive Bundle, Arturia Pigments ($80), ReMidi 2 ($16). Maybe Zampler bundles or Rigid Everything Bundle?

That's what I thought in July:

Purchased. Does anyone have anything positive to say about the almost 40GB of sample packs? Would you pay a nickel for any of them? Or should I delete them before my computer catches Lyme disease?

This might be a place to consider getting a volt interface, https://help.uaudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/19795396223764-FAQ-Volt-UAD-Essentials-Edition-Plug-In-Bundle-Promo- since you also get Marshall Plexi Classic Amplifier, Live 11 Lite, Melodyne Essential, Ampeg® SVT-VR Classic Bass Amp, LX480 Essentials, Virtual Drummer DEEP, and Virtual Bassist DANDY (those are probably worth about $50 in my book, too).

I seem to have most of the new stuff in Sampletank 4 MAX v2 from a group buy a couple years ago, or from TS3.5. Not beat machine, bionic drums, extraterrestrial saxophone, or the mojo synthesis stuff. There's probably enough new stuff to make it worth upgrading if you've been away for a couple years though. Thoughts: the syntronik 2 devices have nice samples, but the SampleTank engine isn't hugely better than a rompler for playing them back ... think UVI, not Arturia. You get nice starting tones, but it is challenging to do anything creative to them ( at least more than putting a rompler through MixBox). Hopefully SampleTank5 will be somehow more intuitive and usable. (insert shrug emoji). Also, rant, THE SYNTRONIK EDITING PANEL IS WAY TOO DARK (sorry for shouting). Miroslav is huge, great, but dated. People have quite nice things to say about Electromagnetik, Cinematik, Clavitube, and the Resonator. My hope/suspicion is that Sample-Verse (or whatever they call the next sampletank) will expand on using spaces like IK is using in Pianoverse, so you can have banjos on Mars, or haunted Ukuleles in a decaying mansion, without downloading extra terabytes. Hopefully, we'll get a few easy macros like in Pianoverse, but also enough depth that we feel that we can deep-dive if we want to (we probably won't, but the option will make us feel good). IK should probably also start working on an orchestrator; I assume presets like those in "The Orchestra" could be made, with substantial effort, within SampleTank, but I'm too lazy to do it myself. I think there's some trickiness in how the arpeggios work.

Interesting; they probably have given up on their MAXgrade pricing strategy if they're selling so cheaply.

Always so much more impressive when Simeon has enthused over it If it's equally inspiring to other pianists, IK will have a winner. They probably just need to avoid drowning on the ocean floor or being eaten by mansion ghosts.

Followups seem to be in https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/topic/66903-ik-multimedia-launches-pianoverse/ 20gb per piano, 8x pianos = 160gb. IK may actually be making a serious attempt. OTOH, that subscription model seems a bit greedy; maybe if it were for sampletank as a whole.

Sampled by Robots, to ensure a pristine, soul-less sound. This may be the main innovative bit--it should make extra instruments less troublesome to acquire. I'm surprised about the multiple mic sets; is there something wrong with IK's mic room technology? The generative spaces are probably IK's unusual algorithmic reverbs, allowing weird toroidal rooms (useful creatively). The harp resonance will probably make Simon happy. It says "top of the line pianos" plural, so there are probably a few unusual ones in there, but the teaser and blurb only show 3 scenarios. Upright, felt, grand, rusty? Any bets on download size? If I guess 10GB per piano x 4 pianos, I get 40GB; compare vs the Syntronik GS-V (34GB).