abacab

1 hour ago, antler said:

Interesting... Is this essentially a large multipoint touch pad with multiple overlays? Do the overlays do anything special other than offering a visual clue as to what's being pressed?

I looked into the Morph a while back. Looks a very adaptable touch pad, and the available overlays allow a lot of flexibility. However, I'm only interested in the two octave keyboard overlay. These items are all sold out and on back order from what I can see now. With Roli on hiatus,  the only other good MPE controller option appears to be the Linnstrument...

Now if IK could just refine the color scheme in SampleTank 4, to make it easier on the eyes, and a few workflow issues, then they would have a total winner! The sounds are already awesome, and in some ways I really prefer it to NI Kontakt 6. I think that's great that they can now include 3rd party sound designers!

But IK could improve the user experience a bit more...

On 9/2/2021 at 5:13 PM, Fleer said:

Upgraded to Elements. Very nice indeed. 

I bought SoundIron Hyperion Strings Micro from ADSR, a 3rd party, last year. Quite a lot of bang for the buck. And Micro was fairly cheap for the offer I received.

When I emailed SoundIron about an upgrade path to Elements, they asked for a copy of the invoice. Then they sent me a discount code for the full amount I spent for micro, to purchase Elements with. So no 50% off...

What is the essential difference between Micro and Elements, and is the upgrade worth it?

2 hours ago, DeeringAmps said:

My advice, rewind and watch from the beginning

Hope you don't mind Reid! I'll edit the post if you prefer...

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I have both. We'll see where it goes from here... Kudos to @Reid Rosefelt for an another excellent video!

On 8/30/2021 at 2:42 PM, cclarry said:

 with the free MDynamicEQ...

I grabbed the MDynamicEQ as well. Maybe with that, and the EQual from T-RackS, I will never have to shell out for Fabfilter, LOL! 🤣

And Retromod Lead, a bunch of sampled Nord Leads (9.8GB), for $40.

So $100 for Biotek 2, $90 for F'em, and $65 for Hyperion.

7 hours ago, cclarry said:

Extra discount with code GOURP at JRR

https://www.jrrshop.com/tracktion?dir=asc&order=name

"GOURP": Is that a new secret code only for Larry's friends?

6 minutes ago, Doug Rintoul said:

That IS a lovely patch.

There are quite a few good juans in the complete Chromaphone collection. I have them all.

So now I'm trying to make time to go through each and every library and "star" the ones that sound the best to me. Got to narrow down the list a bit to just my favorites, or risk getting lost in the endless pile of cool random sounds, LOL!

1 hour ago, Doug Steinschneider said:

Hi abacab,

I also purchased the Total Studio Max bundle last year. I later decided to get an Axe IO Solo  so bought it as a bundle with AT5 so my incremental cost for AT5 SE was about $50. My current favorite bass amp sim is the Aguilar 750 from AT5 (NY Bass). 

The Axe IO Solo has worked out to be one of the best studio purchases I've made. Guitars and basses play and sound better through it. A nice bonus was windows sound sources keep playing even after I load Reaper.  

Glad you like that AXE! But all of my guitars are completely virtual, so nothing to plug in here.

2 hours ago, Fleer said:

Yep. Especially Chromaphone 3. Heaven. 

Have you checked out this preset in the factory library, a pad called "Restless Alchemist". Responds to velocity with a very nice response!

The layers are "Liquid Guitar" and "Analog Pad". So a nice plucked, almost harp-like attack, with a smooth pad finish...

So like you said, "Heaven".

Here's a little free .nki that @huskerput together recently, as we were joking about crickets on another thread. He needed crickets for an ambient piece he was working on.

Full Kontakt required!

crickets.nki

Nice juan!

22 hours ago, pwalpwal said:

dammit, i checked my aas account and they're offering me pro collection for 124 upgrade from modelling collection v1, i'm not supposed to be buying stuff 🤬

OK, you will really NEED the Chromaphone 3 & Ultra Analog VA-3 updates => GUI and browser overhaul.

Plus now with dual synth layers A and B for bigger sounds. Like having 2 synths in one! Excellent!!! 😁

The lack of resizable GUI kept me far away from the Korg Collection for years. But they finally got them updated, and so I'm all in now!

On 9/2/2021 at 7:53 AM, telecode 101 said:

I would not spend money on anything that does not have a decent resizable GUI anymore.

This ^^^

53 minutes ago, cclarry said:

Amplesound is where it's at for me.  I will use EZBass to generate MIDI and build songs, and then swap it out for
an AS Bass.  I have all the AS Instruments, and LOVE them!

I picked up the AS Upright Bass this summer. Very, very nice!

I'll probably use EZBass to generate MIDI tracks to drive the AS Upright.

On 9/1/2021 at 7:15 AM, Scott H said:

A new upright bass expansion is coming in September! The three pack brings the price way down!

Sounds cool! But have you tried the Ample Bass upright yet?

27 minutes ago, Eusebio Rufian-Zilbermann said:

If I already have T-Racks 4 Max and T-Racks 5 CS, what are the advantages in getting "regular" T-Racks 5? is there anything besides the Classic EQ and the "non-full" metering? (is there some "full version only" feature like it happens in Amplitube where the new impulse response features are available if you have the full version but unavailable if using the CS version?)

 

The differences with CS and the full levels are shown here by asterisks:
 

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What's new

Resizable*, redesigned interface and plugin GUIs

Expandable broadcast-ready metering suite*

Floating meters option*

Album Assembly section with waveform editing and metadata*

Up to 192 kHz/32-bit floating point*

Equal gain option*

Signature presets from the industry's top engineers*

* Features available by upgrading to T-RackS 5, T-RackS 5 Deluxe or T-RackS 5 MAX. T-RackS 5 CS supports projects up to 48kHz and features basic metering functions. Presets require specific modules which might not be part of this version of T-RackS 5. You can however download any processor for FREE and test them for 14 days before purchase.

Other than that your existing TR 4 modules will unlock in TR 5, so you would only need to pick up missing modules as freebie selections.

Try not using a simple instrument track.

You can see and adjust the MIDI and Audio track separately by instead using Soft Synth insert options [MIDI Source] + [First Synth Audio Output].

I've only got Hyperion Strings Micro, which is actually very nice.

NI wants to sell me the full version of this collection for $279. So no.

It appears that most of these type of sounds can be covered by something I've already got.

Well at the current tier, I have 5 freebies that I can never use (since I already have all the titles in the list), so ...

I'm going to start guessing how many unusable freebies I will have if we go much further, LOL!

Too bad we cannot convert all these to Jam Points or something! 🤪

36 minutes ago, Peter - IK Multimedia said:

Modena is known more for balsamic

Love me some balsamic!

3 hours ago, InstrEd said:

But you prefer  Becan

Becan + fish = live forever!

5 hours ago, Peter - IK Multimedia said:

I'm in Georgia near Savannah so if you end up here after things settle down feel free to let me know!

Party in Savannah! I'm about 4 hours away! Whoo hooo!!!