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    Lords of the New World

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    Posted · Edited by Tapsa Kuusniemi

     

     

    This is the theme I composed for a six hour live rpg played on radio and streamed online here in Finland. I am very pleased how this one turned out and how it worked. 

    I also designed the ambient sounds for it. Eventually the ambiences had over 450 channels of audio and I got to use my kids as screaming tentacled space monsters.... 

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    APD Deal - Aurora Choirs

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    Posted · Edited by Tapsa Kuusniemi

    19 hours ago, Doug Rintoul said:

    From my perspective it depends. I am willing to pay for a product if it does what I need it to do and meets my expectations. To be perfectly honest, I can count on my one hand, the number of times I have contacted support for any product and received a satisfactory solution. So I guess I am more than a little jaded. I have received more support from community efforts like this forum than from any official company support. 

    Now I guess you could say that people like me contribute to companies like Aria Sounds providing poor/non-existent support. Oh well. Call me a reprobate. if you want to. 

    No one is calling you anything. :) We have differing opinions on the matter, I was just saying why I would not give any more money to Aria Sounds.

    Personally I believe that we can affect how developers develop their products. If we buy what ever poor quality they push out, most developers will not automatically become better when they sell said poor quality product. A lot of developers do things with passion, but I feel that the largest mass of sample library developers just "do it for the money" and will not change before they are made to change (when they don't sell said poor quality product). And no matter what the quality of the product a company should listen to their users gripes and suggestions, these will most likely make their products better.

    As for Aria Sounds, I kinda think they are pretty much dead since they have not released anything new in years.

    And support, I on the other hand have a different feel. I can count with one hand the times I've received bad support. I might have been lucky, who knows, but most of the time the support I've received has been fantastic from most companies. Some have even done things I did not request in my original message to them, but would have been the next thing I would have asked (a big shout out here to Klevgrand, simply stunning support from them).

    APD Deal - Aurora Choirs

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    On 6/19/2021 at 10:32 PM, Doug Rintoul said:

    Funny how each of us have our developers that we just can't stand and we post our negative opinions each time there is a deal highlighting the developer. I am just as guilty as the rest. For me it is StageCraft. I will never buy anything from them no matter how good their new releases might be. For many others, it is PA or Waves. 

    I actually like the Aurora Choirs, especially the sopranos. I did buy it for what it was, knowing that if there was issues, I would not get much support. This thread from 2017 seems to indicate that Aria was more responsive back then to issues:

    https://vi-control.net/community/threads/aurora-choirs-by-aria-sounds.63813/

    I just feel that people should not be giving money to a developer so unresponsive on products that are not good nor complete.

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    Man Makes Noise's Summer Sale - 50%

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    Posted · Edited by Tapsa Kuusniemi

    Today starts Man Makes Noise's summer sale! Almost everything is -50% even the Omnisphere Bundle. Only Phasefreak and The Bottle are excluded as they were just on introduction sale. The sale will last until the the 4th of July 2021. So head over to Man Makes Noise 

    https://www.manmakesnoise.com/

    and use the code HAMMOCKTIME on checkout! :)

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    APD Offer: 71% Off True Keys Pianos by VI Labs

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    12 hours ago, Eusebio Rufian-Zilbermann said:

    BTW, if you have Kontakt Full there is another Fazioli sample library at https://vstbuzz.com/store/silk-fazioli-concert-grand-kontakt/ (it doesn't have all the details and choices as the VI Labs but it's 24Bit /96kHz with up to 76 Velocity Layers for $15 minus any reward $$ you may have at vstbuzz)

    Aaaand that's Aria Sounds which is one of suckier companies around, so I would steer away and spend that money on something worth while.

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    Half Price sale on Kilohearts Content Banks this weekend!

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    2 hours ago, Paul Young said:

     What turned me off to their presets it's like adware.  You need their outside of Phaseplant effects to use them.  If one is not into programming synths Phaseplant is not one I would recommend over most synths.  

    Well you don't need anything outside Phaseplant if you just use presets. You just can't modify the parameters if those effects you don't own. 

    Personally I think the Kilohearts stuff is some of the best I have in my arsenal. 

    Man Makes Noise releases PhaseFreak for Kilohearts' Phase Plant

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    Posted · Edited by Tapsa Kuusniemi

     

    I love odd little things that make sound. And Arturia's MicroFreak is just that kind of a thing. It's a mighty little beast with a huge sound.

    Also I love things you can mess around, rearrange and scramble anyway you want. Which is why I love Kilohearts' Phase Plant. So naturally I had to pair those two up.

    I recorded sounds from the MicroFreak and tweaked, turned and generally messed with them inside Phase Plant. The result is a cinematic synth set that has a futuristic scifi sound. The range is from squeaky clean and ethereal to dirty and gritty as heck.

    Contents

    100 cinematic patches for Kilohearts' Phase Plant synth and takes up 195 mb of hard drive space.

     

    PhaseFreak requires Kilohearts' Phase Plant to work.

    Pricing

    PhaseFreak retails for 29€ (excluding VAT where applicable) with an introductory offer of 19€ until the 9th of June 2021.

    https://www.manmakesnoise.com/phasefreak

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