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I ate my nails ...for a change.

Blackout Friday deal 😂

For some of us, this must have been the most horrible moment of the year!

Libre Wave Hello, For the last couple of months I've been working on a jazz age inspired sample library for Rhapsody. Bell & Bone includes a trumpet and trombone. Both instruments feature a selection of idiomatic articulations and a range of mutes. It's available now for you, completely free! To get it you just need to install the latest version of Rhapsody, log in, and click to download/install it. Download Now A Joe-Blog Composer has made a great video overview which you can view by clicking the image below. Other News All Rhapsody instruments have had an upgrade so you'll need update both Rhapsody and the instruments you have installed. Most of the changes are cosmetic but there are a few functional ones: - The interface can now be resized by dragging from the bottom right corner. - The velocity curve is now per articulation, just like the AHDSR. - For instruments with a "Performance" articulation it's now possible to set the maximum attack and release time for that articulation. The actual value that will be used will still be determined by the instrument's scripting as it responds to your playing. - Support for mouse wheel to adjust velocity table curve - Fixed a few edge case crashes If you're interested in seeing me talk a bit about this update as well as upcoming projects I'm working on you can watch the video below. Black Friday It's that time of year again. Here's a coupon code that will give you a 40% discount across everything. The code is bf23 and you can use it at both Libre Wave and Xtant Audio. This code is valid from now until December 1st. Thanks as always for your kind support and feedback. If you have any questions, need assistance, or want to discuss anything please reply to this email and I'll get back to you. - David Healey

iLok USB is also an option as far as I know Thanks! I forgot to mention the dongle because I don't do dongles

For this deal, I would have gone nuts to spend anymore cash... and I probably would if the ilok licenses weren't cloud only! For me that's a real bummer.

Fleer!

I wonder if I still have one free license available, if anyone's interested. They've been giving them away a lot recently so I got one in my Adam Audio account, then another one in my Audient account. Was there anything else? EDIT: gone

I also read that Mixbus can open Protools sessions. Perhaps not everything, those with more advanced routings etc probably not, but some basic should do just fine. The idea was to be able to exchange sessions with Protools users, nice idea fwiw.

cclarry in da house!

I'm pretty happy with the sound of my Neo Soul Keys Studio, except historically, this developer had a bad habit of remotely deauthorizing my software without notice. And it didn't happen just once. So I promised to myself, should that happen to my NSK Studio, the next minute I will literally open Scarbee website and start looking for a sale on his EP 88. So today I launched my NSK Studio and straight out of the blue, there is my NSK Studio main view dimmed out and a pop-up window asking for an activation serial. Now imagine that would happen right before a gig 😱. So that was it. My 'to buy' list I'm gonna open with Sca... oh, bear with me... <1 minute later> NVM! Just bought the Scarbee, wishlist fulfilled Now onto the... what 'tines' was it? Oh yeah, Vtines!

IK Product Manager did not have offline authorization from the go. However a bug that was requiring you to be logged in to IK Product Manager to use your products has been fixed. It was only meant for the new Pianoverse subscriptions (log in every 72 hours) but it affected other products and has been fixed, if that's what you meant. I think what he meant is literally *offline authorization*. The older stuff used to be authorized with the old Authorization Manager that had an option for a challenge/response file for anyone who needs offline authorization in his studio but any new software based on Product Manager don't utilize this feature anymore. Offline authorization is such an underrated feature nowadays. Please bring back offline authorization 🙏🙏.

Just got a reply from the Support that they are going to release a quick update to fix this. 👍

Same here! Stuck on v1 because upgrade to 1.5 CS was free but sample download expired 😂

I got very excited at first but then I quickly realized that I already have it. Oh bummer...

IK is pleased to announce a new version of the IK Product Manager available to improve the experience of all IK virtual instrument users. From today, you can reload any of your instrument sound files at any time with version 1.0.10 of the IK Product Manager. There are no more fees or time restrictions for these downloads. Until now, if you didn't or couldn't download all of your IK virtual instrument sounds files within a 180-day timeframe following registration, you'd be required to purchase a "Sounds Download Reactivation Credit" for an additional 180 days to download the sounds. We trust this new policy is welcome news for many IK users. We still recommend that you back up any sound files you download, but they'll be in IK Product Manager if you need them again. IK Multimedia Instructions To get the latest version, launch IK Product Manager and follow the prompts to update. Or for new installations, you can download IK Product Manager here.

I wonder if people have already an opinion on this one? For color (T-Paine effect?), I liked the Slate Metatune best, based on audio/video demos, but $200 and dongle requirements make it double-sure that I will never get it... that I will never get it.

Awww... too late. Sounds are bringing back lovely memories.

Just a heads up, here on my system, the installer put the vst3 version into a new folder with a name 'Contents' that it created in my main VST3 folder. If the same happened to you then you may need to be careful updating the plugin in future as I think it's a bug, and the folder 'Contents' should simply carry the name of the plugin, according to the latest ways of doing things (sacrasm advisable). I suggest uninstalling first then installing any new version when updating. I already let them guys know. Curious if it was just me?

I just ran through a couple of videos on that Percussion Factory and yeah, at around 700MB does it sound lovely and have nice big grooves library but it's a lot more expensive and still gives me too mechanical feel. Could be interesting option when I see it on a deep sale. Great for modern electronic music. Session Percussionist is almost 6GB that suggests it's been sampled in much more detail though. And hopefully I can get it for under $50 in couple months. Also grooves feel more natural when I listen to demos. Is there anything that plays and sounds more natural than that? Maybe the new library that's still in the oven Peter is telling about. But I don't expect it to be priced in humane price range. Man, just give me a 'Louis Conte in da pocket' and I'm done! 😂😂

Yeah, you may be right there. I'm even more surprised that there was none such library *from anyone* before. There are quite a few percussion sample libraries, with some having a few banks of additional MIDI performances, but nothing closer to filling in a role of a typical percussionist for a band, this is the closest so far. At least there is nothing, as tailored, I'm aware of. Ha! We know this game. I'm good for waiting then. Funny I just recently bought Cuba on half-off sale and no interest paypal payments, after all the years lol. It has some good chunk of overlap with this new one, but I like how this new is more focused on just the percussions.

Guess if NI will do their Xmas/New Year 50% off sale this year, then this will be excluded?

You could try installing these betas from the thread I posted.