PavlovsCat

I only wish Troels would put the new deep sampled solo cello on sale.

No developer can match Larry's speed. I'm pretty sure he has a sixth sense that detects when developers are contemplating having a sale.

Vapor Keys, a sample library of 80s electric pianos by Karanyi Sounds, is now free at Audioplugin.deals for a limited time. Requires the full version of Kontakt. https://audioplugin.deals

Sample Logic has released Taste the Fury, a free Taiko Drum Ensemble instrument for Kontakt (full version). https://www.samplelogic.com/products/taste-the-fury/ref/8/

You cleared out their inventory! You should get a commission.

What's funny is that when I saw the title of this thread, that was the first thing I thought too! I can only imagine how many terabytes of samples and VSTs are on Larry's hard drives!

Thanks, Larry (if it's okay to call you Larry, FTR, my actual name is Peter).

Does anyone here own Independence? Have the libraries and sampler been significantly updated from when Magix purchased the company that originally made it around a decade ago? I really haven't heard anything about Independence since Magix bought the original developer.

Wait, you brought it back from the dead. Bless you cclarry. For those who have no idea what my comments are referring to, cclarry had marked the thread for deletion then updated it with a freebie. Yay!

Heartbreaking. I've come to click on all of your threads! The expectation level after the click is high.

Wait, are you praising Jon Meyer or Jon Mayer? In either case, Larry using Jon Meyer in the title probably gets more clicks.

It is a great idea and community with lots of little gems of small libraries.

Yeah, they make great sample libraries, and this piano sounds excellent. I just bought my son a gaming PC and I've been loading him up with free VSTs and open format sample libraries and it's amazing how many really nice VSTs and sample libraries you can get for free these days.

Yep. I turned my phone horizontal and the button appeared.

I didn't see anyway to purchase the library on its landing page, so I'm guessing they're aware of these issues and temporarily removed the option to get the free library.

Sorry for your loss and thank you for thinking of others.

They're just doing these sales when they feel like it? Monsters!!! (Just having a friendly laugh. cclarry, I think they just can't keep up with your pace.)

Help us cclarry, you're our only hope (of changing that).

How dare they! We need to keep buying stuff. My checking account still shows a positive balance.

So, if we could persuade them to do another sale, might you be interested in picking up some additional sounds for your M-Tron Pro? Also, are you happy with the VST? It seems great and is easily the VST I'm most looking forward to picking up next.

Only 550 presets! Man, we've become spoiled with choices!

Over a decade ago, I dropped over $200 USD on an GForce M-Tron and expansion packs. Even with support, I was never able to get the VST to work with Sonar. They've extended upgrade pricing to me and I'm ready to try again. I seriously love the sounds of Mellotrons, Chamberlins and the various iteration of "trons" (on a side note, I find it interesting how we call all of them Mellotrons when Mellotrons were actually a blatant rip off of the Chamberlin; I can't think of many other inventions where we do that) and I have A LOT of VST and sample libraries of them. However, I don't have the M-Tron Pro and I love the demos I've heard of it and its various expansion packs. However, my budget is tight. I was once, long ago, a working musician, but I'm now just a hobbyist and have a very limited budget for this passion of mine. Consequently, I've been hoping GForce would have a Black Friday sale. Nope. A Christmas sale. Nope -- or at least, not yet. And I did some searching to see their history of sales and found that they're pretty erratic. So the reality is, while I am on their email list, my email inbox is overloaded and I've come to rely on this forum -- and largely cclarry -- to keep me informed of even developers' sales, even for ones where I'm on their email lists. So, my point is that considering that GForce is a relatively small developer, if there is enough interest, that we might be able to persuade them to have a sale. In fact, I'm hoping that if I can get enough people interested here, then other forums, I will send their CEO an email informing him to get his attention. Is anyone with me? I love what G-Force does. I want to buy the M-Tron and just about every expansion pack and if there are others who love Tron sounds as much as I do, I bet we can get better pricing and make G-Force happy too. What do you say? Is anyone with me? https://www.gforcesoftware.com/products/m-tron-pro/

Okay, I just listened to the walkthrough. It seems like a decent quality library, but it doesn't appear to be extensively sampled in detail I'm accustomed to nor does it appear to have a strumming engine or sampled chords (loops). But I suppose it's mainly about the tone of the single note samples. I have to come back to this one because I love the idea. Kudos to the developer for doing something different. I'm just trying to figure out if I would actually use it. I did download his free Wurlitzer electric piano (Wurly) a few weeks ago and that seems nice. I'd urge others to download it.

I've been obsessively buying guitar sample libraries and VSTs since the 90s. I'm not sure what to make of this. I need to listen again. cclarry, you play guitar (I was a working rock drummer for two decades but also play keyboards, as piano was my first Instrument), what do you think, @cclarry? I have all of the Orange Tree Samples libraries. I've consulted to them for years and IMO, they're the best there is for realistic guitar sample libraries. But I have lots of other guitar libraries including the more odd, sound design ones and stuff like Sonic Couture's eBow library (I even have a somewhat amusing personal story featuring its inventor). This is only $10 GBP, which makes it makes it easy to buy, but I don't want to buy libraries I'm not going to use. But who knows? Conceptually and from demos, what do you think?

None, really. KONTAKT is pretty pervasive for DAW users who spend a lot on sample libraries. The big opportunity is on the lower end of the market with hobbyists that aren't willing or are unable to afford KONTAKT, but also, these users tend to be unable to afford costly sample library purchases. That said, the market has matured to the point where there are many options for those users too, such as SFZ players and free VSTs and free and low priced sample libraries. So, it's really not a problem for a quality developer that is a sharp business person who has properly analyzed the market before determining their product strategy and does effective marketing and promotion planning and implementati0on (SPOILER: most don't, but that's not to be blamed on KONTAKT licensing; that's just a lack of business skills). The great irony that your average user is unlikely to realize is that licensing KONTAKT Player often is helpful for KONTAKT-based developers reaching music producers at the lower end of the spend scale, which often can mean a higher quantity of consumers, but costs the developer a lot more than non-licensed, more costly libraries aimed at consumers that spend a lot more.