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I agree. That sample footprint is my only complaint, and my hesitation to replace any standard Kontakt or other libraries with SP at this point. Kontakt is probably the best universal solution for sample based instruments we have at our disposal today. Use what you've got! But I think that Kontakt's days may be numbered as an "industry standard". That idea may cause some anxiety for those that are heavily invested in that ecosystem. But change will be incremental, so no worries for now. My thoughts are that Kontakt is a victim of its own success. Now that it is a virtual "operating system" for scripted sample libraries, Native Instruments hands are tied to supporting an ecosystem of developers and libraries that are dependent on how it works today. NI must tread carefully with any innovations or new features that may create incompatibilities, and thus kill the "goose that laid the golden egg"! That slow motion is leaving the competitive door wide open for nimble, creative innovators in the virtual instrument realm. I think that innovations in hybrid sampler/physical modeling is probably next. Just consider what an Impulse Response (IR) can do in a convolution reverb or a modeled speaker cabinet emulation. You just take an IR and you can re-create the space that the IR was recorded in. With the increasing processing capacity of modern CPUs, maybe someday soon that is how virtual instruments will create real-world sounds instead of "deep sampling". Start from a modeled sound source and just a few snippets of an actual recorded instrument, then reproduce the many articulations needed to play a "real" instrument!

The observation that 57Gregy made is that the jack in question is wired for an expression pedal, not a sustain pedal.

Well last time I checked, the CorelDraw suite included the Pantone colors.

Don't know. I've never bought anything larger than 2GB. Maybe someone else can chime in... I have a collection of 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB SSD drives.

So just out of curiosity, please share what you are using for a sampler.

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A sustain pedal is like an on/off switch used to hold notes, while an expression pedal is used to control variable parameters. https://geekmusician.com/using-sustain-pedal-as-expression-pedal/ https://missionengineering.com/understanding-expression-pedals/

Good observation!

One idea >>> T-RackS Sunset Sound Studio Reverb https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/trsunsetsound/

Check the Amazon UK site.

I've noticed that PB pricing has been rather "nimble" lately. No idea what's up, though...

With $100 off for a Samsung SSD, no surprise! But it's $299 direct from Samsung: https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/solid-state-drives/870-evo-sata-2-5-ssd-4tb-mz-77e4t0b-am/ And $299 from Amazon, with delivery next week: https://www.amazon.com/SAMSUNG-Inch-Internal-MZ-77E1T0B-AM/dp/B08QBL36GF?th=1

Great post Larry! Everyone's going to need more disk space after Black Friday!!! 😂

True that! Bonus is the Multipass presets if you also own that!

So then just don't use it. I doubt Waves are going to "fix" anything.

B.S.! I think his tone was more of a dreamer who is honestly attempting to think outside of the box! There is no doubt probably some hype and self-promotion involved, and that is business. We will see where this leads, and the naysayers in the end may look like the folks that said the sun revolved around the earth centuries ago (in opposition to Nicolaus Copernicus, 19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543), if this is truly a breakthrough in music technology. I'm willing to give him a chance!

Yes!!!

I would consider Soundpaint superior if he could get the same sound quality out of a smaller sample set using that amazing new technology! I like the concept, what with the limitless velocity layers, sample morphing, and now the new legato tech, but it appears that most of the sample libraries are unnecessarily huge.

I agree, and will probably stick with Affinity Photo v1. It has some features that I lack in my go-to photo editor Photoshop Elements, if I ever need them. Plus I also have the CorelDraw suite with Photo Paint and Corel Paintshop Pro to fall back on as well. All have slightly different feature sets for different workflows, but Elements is the only one with some pro oriented features deliberately stripped out (such as advanced layers and CMYK export for print). However Elements is still solid for the occasional edit in full (Expert) editor mode (not Quick or Guided). If I worked in a photo editor full time I would probably feel differently... https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/adobe-photoshop-elements "Elements makes a lot of the coolest Photoshop effects accessible to nonprofessionals. It offers a generous subset of the pro editor's features in a simpler package." "Adobe Photoshop Elements is an excellent option for photo hobbyists who don't want to pay a subscription or learn complex Photoshop techniques."

Does it crash running standalone? ST4 is a very heavy resource user and eats CPU, RAM, and Disk throughput like nobody's business. Browsing/loading presets is going to stress all of those. But it really shouldn't crash when just browsing presets. IMO the software is stable now, so probably best to get with IK support to narrow it down. I haven't had any crash issues since the initial product release 3 years ago. It was a CPU hog on the desktop PC I had at the time, and I've been running a seriously upgraded PC since then and it runs very smooth now. Desktop PC: Core i5-9600K, 6-cores 3.7 GHz turbo to 4.6 GHz, 32 GB RAM, OS on 500GB M.2 SSD, samples on 2GB SATA internal drive. Audio on Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 with stable ASIO driver and Nvidia GTX 1650 GPU.

No Pianoteq here, and Piano V2 sounds decent to me. Came bundled with my KeyLab 61 Mk II. My favorite piano at the moment is NI Noire, followed by Una Corda and The Giant. Just downloaded the demos of Piano V3 and CS-80 V4 to check them out. Will probably wait until I take a look at Cherry Audio's offering next Tuesday to make any decisions...

Listening to "Jamiroquai Radio" on Spotify!

Well if they are Multis that you created, it shouldn't ever be a problem unless you deleted instruments that you used. The factory multis are another story. I think it borders on ridiculous that so many of the ST4 factory Multis are dependent on the Synth sounds category, when there are so many other good instruments available. The IK product manager must have said "build a showcase groove workstation".

This is a Reaper feature, and gives you a wet/dry control for every plugin, especially handy if a native plugin UI lacks one. The default is 100% wet, so it shouldn't interfere with any gain staging unless you change it. The little knob on the top right of the plugin window.

I'm sticking with Echolot. It looks a lot like Cakewalk! https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=255037