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The “Frog Guiro” is a wooden percussion instrument native to Thailand, popular with children and percussion students for its uncanny ability to croak like a live frog. They work great in Latin music too!
There are varying sizes of frog guiros, ranging from as little as 2 inches in length, up to 7 inches and beyond!
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THREE different sized frog guiros were sampled, each played with their own matched wooden stick. There are 2 microphone options available, and each frog was sampled “muted” in addition to the normal playing style, to offer variety.
Articulations include:
STROKES
Full Strokes – 2 Speeds / forwards and backwards
Half Strokes – 2 Speeds / forwards and backwards
Brush Strokes – forwards and backwards
Tremolo / Rolls – Up to 2 speeds
HITS
Front
Side
Tail
Not all articulations are available for each frog, as the different sizes could not accommodate the same playing techniques. All three frogs are playable from within the one patch, with individual mic level control, panning, and playing style switching.
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https://www.botdogsamples.com/shop/frog-guiros/
Creators text:
This time around we are *selling* the frogs for $5. I'm not calling it a donation because we're making it mandatory. However, 100% of every $5 we get will go to Education Through Music: Los Angeles.
ETM:LA partners with inner-city schools in Los Angeles to provide music education and instruments to all children, and also uses music education to improve academics, motivation, and self-confidence. OK, that's a bit of a copy-and-paste job but I've seen it in action and they are really good. Jdog and I went to a classroom in South LA and handed out some frogs and got to talk to the kids about writing music, it was very cool. It makes such a difference with some of these kids, just little things like not having to share a communal mouthpiece (much less an instrument), things we take for granted.
If you're the type that is suspicious of our charitable intent, don't buy it! Trust me on this much, we have spent WAY too much time and money on this project to try to scam you out of your 5 bucks at this point. Though I'm happy to be audited, or, if you'd rather, donate direct to ETM and email us your receipt.
My real hope is that through our silly video we can raise awareness for ETM:LA even if we don't end up raising that much actual dollars.
Special thanks to @Farkle and @Mike Greene and the other composers that agreed to play the frogs in our video. And much thanks to @Jdiggity1 who spent many many, many, many, hours on this project, and then some. -
New from AAS Applied Acoustics Systems - Hover Sound Pack for Chromaphone
$19 (intro price) Looks like its only available at JRR Shop at the moment.
https://www.jrrshop.com/aas-applied-acoustics-systems-hover
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SoundEmote has some very interesting sound mangling plugins - the audio equivalent of a touch of wasabi here, a little lighter fluid there, a scoop of ice cream and a couple of buttons of peyote . Interesting enough to convince your parents* that their concerns about your profession or hobby have been fully realized.
*unless your parents were teenagers or in college during the 60's- 1
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free violin library
https://performancesamples.com/conmoto-violinslegacy/#description
CON MOTO – VIOLINS LEGACYExpressive Ensemble Strings with Motion
In advance of the forthcoming Violins A, Violas, Violins B, and Basses releases…
Con Moto – Violins Legacy consists of non-comprehensive material from an early recording session for Con Moto, before it was re-recorded in another room with a smaller ensemble.- Twelve violins (primarily soloist and 1st-chair musicians) from the Capellen Orchestra
- Start new topicThree dynamic layers, from moderately soft to FFF
- “Active-bow” sustains (non-static longs that move and evolve while simultaneously maintaining the dynamic/timbre)
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Recorded in a hall with multiple mic positions:
- Close
- Decca
- Wide
- 48kHz / 24bit
- NCW-compressed, ~422 MB total
- Built for Kontakt 5.5.1 and above – full, retail version of Kontakt required
- Download via Continuata
NOTE ON DELAY: this library has a moderately delayed response when playing (80 ms based on the close mic).
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Try a differ browser? Not having an issue with that...
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Babylon - comprehensive equalizer plug-in with eight fully automatable filter types.
on sale £10 MSRP £30
https://gramotech.co.uk/products/babylon/GT Analyser (free)
High resolution spectrum analyzer plugin with loads of control.
Info at: https://gramotech.co.uk/products/gt_analyser/Direct downloads:
Windows VST3
MacOS AU
MacOS VST3- 2
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Not sure how useful this is but thinking it might be awesome if run on a touch sensitive screen to control things...
While designed for use with Airwave V3 for Omnisphere there's no reason (that i see) that it can't be used for other purposes - see Advanced features below...https://github.com/getdunne/modmate
MIDI Mod-Mate
Direct downloads: http://getdunne.net/download/modmate/
This is a MIDI effect (can be inserted in the MIDI effects slot of Apple Logic Pro X) to provide a very basic MIDI "macro" capability.
I developed this specifically for use with Airwave V3 for Omnisphere, a pair of sound libraries for Spectrasonics Omnisphere developed by Belgian DJ and sound designer Laurent Véronnez (aka Airwave) and John "Skippy" Lemkuhl aka PlugInGuru.com.
The Airwave V3 sound libraries are unique in that four distinct MIDI CCs (continuous controllers) can be used to affect the sound in real-time:
CC#1 (mod wheel)
CC#2 (breath controller)
CC#4 (foot controller)
CC#67 (soft pedal)
For the very best experience, you should use a hardware MIDI controller which provides multiple MIDI CCs, preferably in the form of touch sliders, as on the excellent Maschine JAM, or Sonic Logic 3 for iPad. For people who are not yet ready or able to buy these very nice hardware MIDI systems, I created this very simple plug-in, which lets you at least get started with Airwave V3, using just the standard controls available on nearly all MIDI keyboards: pitch bend and mod wheel.
Using the ModMate plug-in (basic)
The four large rectangles on the right of the GUI show the output levels for MIDI CC's 1, 2, 4, and 67 (top to bottom). The six narrow vertical rectangles on the left show the input levels (from your MIDI controller) for pitch-bend up (pbUp), pitch-bend down (pbDn), and mod wheel (modW), as well as MIDI CCs 2, 4, and 67 (ignore these if your MIDI controller has only pitch and mod wheels). To the right of each of these indicator strips are four checkboxes; checking any box connects that input to the corresponding CC output. Try it; it's easier to use than to explain.
If you don't check any of an input control's four destination boxes, the control's data will be passed through the plug-in unchanged, so you can use that control normally.
If your DAW supports it, your selections on all the checkboxes can be saved as a preset, and will normally be saved automatically as part of the track settings in a saved project. This has been tested with the Mac AU version in Logic Pro X and with the VST version in Reaper 64-bit.
Advanced features
You can click/drag in any of the vertical indicators on the left, and the plug-in will respond as though you had operated the corresponding input CC, and will generate CC output messages for whichever output CCs are checked for that input. You can also click/drag in any of the horizontal indicators on the right, and the plug-in will generate the corresponding output CC messages. In both cases, the indicator (and CC output) will snap back to zero when you release the mouse button.
You can double-click any of the colored slider labels (not pbUp or pbDn) to change the corresponding MIDI CC number. You may type any number between 1 and 127; you don't have to put "cc" at the start, but it's OK if you do. You must press Enter to confirm the change. Note CC#1 will always display as "modW" because MIDI CC #1 is the standard mod wheel.
If you have a MIDI controller with knobs or sliders pre-assigned to MIDI CC numbers other than those used by the Airwave V3 libraries, you'll want to change the input CC numbers along the top of the plug-in window, to whatever CC's your controller outputs.
If you're using ModMate with an software instrument or library which is set up to respond to MIDI CCs other than what the Airwave V3 libraries use, you'll want to change the output CC numbers to the left of each large horizontal indicator.
If your DAW supports it, your MIDI CC assignments can be saved/restored in presets, along with the checkbox settings.
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If you haven't rebooted your computer since the problem first occurred reboot your system now, then do a full VST Rescan.
Sometimes the VST Scanner gets stuck and if that is part of the problem until you kill the process or reboot things won't change.
To perform a full VST Rescan:1. Go to Edit > Preferences > File - VST Settings.
2. Under Scan Options, select Re-scan Existing Plug-ins and Re-scan Failed Plug-ins, then click Reset.
3. The following confirmation message appears: “This will reset configuration settings for all your VST plug-ins to defaults. VST Plug-ins will be unavailable until a VST Scan is performed. Any custom configuration settings will be lost. Are you sure you want to do this?”
4. Click Yes.
5. Click Scan.
The background VST scanner scans your list of plug-ins. When scanning is complete, you can reapply any custom settings to your plug-ins.
Note: After performing a full VST rescan, clear the Rescan Failed Plug-ins and Rescan Existing Plug-ins check boxes, especially if Automatic Background Scan is selected. Leaving all of these options configured simultaneously can lead to a continuous scan loop.
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17 minutes ago, Kamikaze said:
Don't forget the stock MFX
totally for got about this one, added it to the list.
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Another thread got me thinking about arpeggiators.
I realized that the ones I have are bound to a particular synth or sampler library and most can't export the MIDI pattern of what they're playing which can make it a hassle if you want to enhance the part (let's say double a part with another instrument) or change the instrument. Yeah you might be able to use Melodyne and convert the audio to MIDI but that's a lot more work/hassle than just using something that can generate the MIDI patterns (arpeggios, chords, strums, finger picking or whatever) in the first place.
These are what I found. List is in alphabetical order.
Unless noted the following are only arpeggiators.Arp4midi by xoxos (Windows) - free!
ArpLite2 by SynArp (Windows) - free!
BlueARP by Oleg Mikheev (Mac, Windows) - free!
Cakewalk FX Arpeggiator - MIDI FX plugin comes with Cakewalk/Sonar.
Cthulhu by Xferrecords (Mac, Windows) $39 >> Arpeggiator, Chord analyzer & generator
hypercyclic by mucoder (Linux, Mac, Windows) - free!
Kirnu by Arto Vaarala (Mac, Windows) - free!
Kirnu Cream by Kirnuarp (Mac, Windows, iPad) - €35 >>standalone/plugin versions, chords as well as arpeggio patterns, ...
midiChords by VST4Free (Mac, Windows) - free! >> Chords & basic strumming, imports Cubase/Nuendo Chorder .xml presets, ...
Obelisk by FrozenPlain (Mac, Windows) - $25 >> Chords generator only
RandARP by CodeFN42 (Windows) - free!
Riffer by audiomodern (Mac, Windows) - €49 >> random melody/pattern generator. Not really an arpeggiator but can (kinda) be used as one.
I haven't used any of these so have no personal comments other than Cthulhu and BlueARP seem to have the most positive buzz online.
Feel feel to comment about what you use and your experiences good or bad.
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I'm probably not the best source of info but...
Songwise I'm not really into strumming.
I mainly use these kind of libraries for playing melody lines or playing arpeggios.
The couple of times I needed a more complex 'finger picking' I already had specific patterns in mind and wrote the MIDI out manually. A bit of APITA but handy for long repetitive patterns or doubling (2 different guitars panned hard L & R).I've been thinking of trying Cthulu or something similar to see if that could generate usable patterns but haven't gotten around to it.
If I do chords they tend to be simple ones, R-R-5 or triads, played as accents for example on the 2 & 4th beat. If I'm looking for something more complex I'll usually just break out a guitar and play it.
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For anyone not familiar with Plogue Sforzando it is free, has a standalone version as well as plugin versions for PC & Mac.
https://www.plogue.com/downloads.htmlHere are direct download links for v1.933 sforzando for Windows and Mac
Info on a number of free libraries here:
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7 hours ago, cclarry said:
Add a Bx_Tuner to your cart, making it $104, and you get them for $54!
Lol at PA, looks like they got it rigged.
When I add any cheap item to cart with $99 item(s) or vice versa the cart dumps other items.
Looks like 2nd item has to be $29 or higher.Edit: NM when I went to purchase 2nd item reappeared in my cart...
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Nice sounding free reverb comparable to some commercial products.
Page link: https://github.com/michaelwillis/dragonfly-reverb
Direct download links:
64 bit VST
32 bit VST
MacOS
LinuxA small thread on VI Control regarding this...
https://vi-control.net/community/threads/dragonfly-reverb-very-nice-free-reverb.77946/Edit - Update!:
Michael has released another nice reverb (also free) - "Dragonfly Room" !
More info in posts below.June 4th update:
Dragonfly Room 2.0.0 release candidate is now available. If no major bugs are reported, this will be promoted to an official 2.0.0 release.Direct download links:
64 bit Windows
64 bit MacOS
64 bit LinuxJune 21st, 2019 update:
Version 2.0.0 is now official, and finally there is a proper landing page:
https://michaelwillis.github.io/dragonfly-reverb
Direct download links:
64 bit VST
32 bit VST
MacOS & LinuxFeb 7, 2020 update:
2.91 beta is out - further information from Michael belowFeb 19, 2020 update:
v3 RC released
DragonflyReverbRoom, DragonflyHallReverb, and new DragonflyEarlyReflections!Feb 29, 2020 update:
Dragonfly Reverb Version 3.0.0 has been officially released!
- further information from creator Michael Willis below
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https://audioplugin.deals/
Voices and Percussion Bundle by Crypto CipherFor just $99.99, get the Voices and Percussion Bundle comprising of Rare Raga Voices, Extinct Instruments & Exotic Percussion Libraries by Crypto Cipher at a massive 84% off, that is $99.99 instead of $612! Founded in 2010 and based in New Delhi, Crypto Cipher offers affordable, authentic sounding, and high-quality sample instruments for Kontakt. All instruments in this bundle require the full retail version of Kontakt. This is a limited time offer you don’t want to miss, hurry and save!
key Features
13.5 GB+ Disk Space Required – Complete Indian Bundle of Solo Instruments, Loop Libraries & Rare Instruments Phrase Libraries.
Solo Instruments: Solo Tabla, Solo Dholak, Solo Tabla Tarang
Loops Libraries: Tabla Loops & Dholak Loops
Phrase Based Instrument Libraries: Dilruba , Shehnai , Bansuri & Raga Violin
Raga Voices: Two male voices, Kid Voice & Female Voice
Dedicated Kontakt GUI
Requires full retail version of Kontakt
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Black Octopus Sound! 15 packs for $25 - 24 hours only!
https://blackoctopus-sound.com/product/15-packs-for-25-black-octopus-holiday-bundle-2019/
Includes
Over 8000 samples including loops & one shots
Over 450 Serum presets
64 Sylenth Presets
Normal Value: $450+ (Approximately 95% off)
Packs Included
ARTFX Vintage Synths
Apex Tech House
Prismatic Bass presets
Wicked Trap Beats
Arctic Chill
Iconic Future Bass
Protoculture Sylenth Essentials
Forbidden Future House
Ambient Guitars 2 by AK
Limitless 1 by MDK
Ultimate Bangers & Anthems
Funk Master Tools
Percussive Guitar
Beats from the Bass Ship 2
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See my previous post.
Original poster can add/remove tags at any time.
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https://www.karoryfer.com/karoryfer-samples/wydawnictwa/secret-agent-guitar
The regular price is $39, but we've decided to set a lower price for a few days, not announce it anywhere, and see what happens. Just a little experiment. Don't know how long it will last.
A guitar with personality and character. Most people sample the nicest guitar they can get their hands on, but we went for the most interesting. This is over 10000 samples of a Defil Tarantella electric guitar made in Poland in 1972, which is a lot like those cheesy old Japanese and Italian electrics of the 1960s, but even weirder. We sampled it as a 6-string, as a 12-string, in Nashville tuning, and both electrically and acoustically. This is basically the ultimate quirky indie guitar, and a terrible guitar for death metal unless you're making death metal ironically.
Key features:
Three articulations: pluck, hammer-on and harmonic
Plucks sampled with 3 velocity layers
All articulations sampled with 4 round robins in regular tuning, 3 round robins in Nashville tuning
Feedback, string brushing noise, percussive noise and release noise sounds
Every string sampled on every fret
Low E string also sampled tuned down to Eb and D
Three vibrato types: string-bending, violin-style and tailpiece
Muting control for the spy movie twang
Over 10000 samples, 3.76 GB extracted
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7 hours ago, Hidden Symmetry said:
because you used tags that aren't relevant. Users will have to wade through 'sludge' ruining an otherwise useful feature.
Lol.
I'm not sure how one post could ruin an otherwise useful feature. I'm more concern that lack of usage, the reason I created this post, would be a much bigger factor.But your concern is noted, it actually was always my intent to remove the tags in this post after a couple of days so that it wouldn't be an issue.
Hopefully more people will become aware of how useful tags are and start using them in their OPs.
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Tags are great! Just click on any of the tags associated with item to instantly see similar posts!
Use the tags on this post as a demo.++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Edit Jan 4, 2018
This post was made last week the point, if any, has been made.
I have removed all tags except two new ones, 'opinions' & 'suggestion', so as to not clutter things up.
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Here's download page link:
https://sampleson.com/free-dyno-rhodes-effect.html
Here's video demo of plugin:
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https://vstbuzz.com/deals/77-off-frozen-plain-bundle-by-frozen-plain/
1.1 GB Content – 3 Inspirational Libraries for Kontakt!
With a total of 74 .nki presets, this bundle offers an incredible selection of unique and unusual sound & sound design possibilities for you to use in your music.
Colourform $49 – Make atmospheric and unusual sounds by blending colours in a totally unique way.
Arctic Strings – $49 – Atmospheric strings inspired by the real life spectacle of the northern lights.
The Chordophones – $35 – Steel string sounds that can be blended and morphed in very interesting ways.
Every Frozen Plain library has been designed to have a powerful and easy to use set of controls allowing you to further customise the sound.
These libraries are perfect for Underscore, Ambient,
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Melodyne 4.2.1 Update Available
in Deals
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Thanks for update notice.
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