PavlovsCat

I really like the sounds of this developer's libraries, especially their reverse library. Any users of their libraries want to share their thoughts? While their reverse library, Revolution, which isn't currently on sale, Cycle and their pads library most interest me. I'd especially be interested if anyone here have Rev AND Revolution care to compare the two? I found a thread on VI Control where some regulars said they loved the library and one said he had both and found Revolution more usable than Rev. Personally, I love the patches I've heard for both of them. But I don't have the budget for both. Thoughts from Revolution owners/users or owners of Sample Fuel's other libraries? Also, as a KONTAKT user, I'm wondering how people who use both find HALion -- at least it's free version, which Sample Fuel libraries use -- compares.

How many brands do you know, @cclarry? Woodman's Immaculate Maple Syrup Studio -- I've got to hand it to them for originality. I swear, I've learned of more small developers in the last week than I've probably known in decades of using sample libraries and VSTs. I mean, it's great to see how much talent is out there and choices available, but I'm blown away at how many you're aware of! When you and someone else wrote in some fake names for developers (Farting Platypus?), it really didn't seem that odd.

You're right -- and another problem with those free plugins? None of them are ever on sale. There's no Black Friday sale on a single one of them. So, it's far less exciting to find them.

Nobody knows deals like you cclarry. If there was a plug-in/sample deal hall of fame you should be the very first inductee.

Yeah, I just looked up the company and found a very positive review from Sound on Sound that mentioned the company was founded by a longtime developer from Waves. They look very promising. https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/babelson-audio-fd-bundle

If you have e-vouchers, I just discovered that e-vouchers don't work on special offers like Black Friday sale items. Darn.

Before I download, I've never heard of the developer before. Do you two use their plugins and recommend them? I mean, I appreciate freebies, but if they're not worthwhile, they can just be a waste of time and there have been so many freebies lately, I want to only download the worthwhile ones. Your thoughts on Babelson plugins, gentlemen?

Yeah, just saw it. For $120, I'd buy a ukulele. Dead serious. I'm going to use it for a small part in one song -- four chords. I can't imagine using it much after that.

Thanks. I'll go check it out. In all candor, I just need something to hold me over, so I'm not going to pay anymore than the two libraries I mentioned; which is ridiculously cheap (under $20). I know that Orange Tree Samples has a ukulele library in the works and I know that will be a killer, but I just need some ukulele strums for one song I plan on working on this month. If I owned a ukulele, I could even strum the chords well enough for this song.

cclarry, I think I need to block you (okay, I'm just kidding). It's like I'm an addict and you keep putting temptation right in my face. I just picked up another piano library from buying from your link above and I have more piano libraries than I will ever use. But I'm like, "Wait? 5 bucks for a piano library. It might be just the right fit for a certain song. I shouldn't pass this up." There really should be a support group for GAS, but everything I see is just more addicts egging each other on. On the upside, it was a mere 5 bucks. On another note, I am in need of a decent ukulele library (sadly, while I was trained on piano, organ and drums and played drums professionally for two decades, I took some guitar lessons but just never got proficient with it, hence I've become obsessed with guitar sample libraries going all the way back to hardware synths in the 80s!). Does anyone have Splash Sound's ukulele library and want to share their opinion of it? I was comparing Splash Sound's ukulele demos to those of Dream Audio Tool's -- which is also super cheap, but not on sale -- and thought Dream Audio Tool's demos sounded closer to what I'm after, but, as always, I'm concerned with playability and would love to get some insights from current users.

Thanks, Larry. I actually missed a few of these freebies and would have missed more without your posts.

I've heard, from a professional, that their KONTAKT scripting is really, really poor/problematic. Does anyone who owns the library say otherwise (i.e., that they find it is well scripted)? Scripting is critical in string libraries, IMO.

Damn it, I had my credit card ready to jump on deals on the new sounds from Blind Platypus.

Thanks for the distinction in your criteria. I suspected some users would be more focused on loops than multisamples, which is what I primarily use KONTAKT for. But I'm definitely interested in checking out other tools and appreciate the insights. Thanks.

What separates KONTAKT and makes it superior to any other multisample player is its scripting capabilities. Without the scripting capabilities level that KONTAKT has set as the standard -- and so far, to my knowledge, no other sampler / sample player has equaled them -- nothing else comes close. Of course, KONTAKT also has the advantage of being the top choice of sample developers, and that competition has increased the rate of innovation and kept prices lower. All of that said, I would love to see some really solid competition come along. Can anyone comment on the scripting capabilities of this and other alternatives that have been mentioned?

I completely agree. Humor and kindness mean so much. Have a great weekend.

I held back from writing this -- but I hope you know, it's only in jest. Intended to get a smile out of you. Thank you / damn you, cclarry, for saving me / costing me so much money by finding all of these great deals / ways of diverting money that should go to my kids' college fund.

Thanks cclarry, and as always, thanks for posting all of the deals. (FTR, I previously used the username eDrummist and have been a Cakewalk user since their earliest days; well, maybe year 3 or so.)

I was waiting for a thread to ask other Sampletekk customers about their older piano libraries. Several years ago my main DAW PC hard drive failed and I never replaced it -- and now, I'm going to have a new DAW PC this month (which I'm very excited about). Consequently, I have a bunch of now old sample libraries, including several Sampletekk piano libraries and I wanted to ask people how they think their libraries from a decade ago like 7CG, Rain Piano (first version), Old Lady, WJ, Black Grand and White Grand. Apparently, from the comments, their older piano libraries have aged pretty well against more recent piano libraries? Also, as I'm almost certainly going to grab this deal too -- I own the first version of Rain Piano, and I'm guessing the upgrade to version two is probably at least $15 alone, so it's worth it -- but @cclarry, your post stating that you still didn't use your coupon has me wondering if AudioPlugin.deals sent a coupon I have lurking somewhere among my emails. Could you please clarify if they sent out coupons to their list or if it's something specific to your account? Thanks.

This is cool. I can't imagine how it would fit the style of music I write, but it certainly would get some attention.

What attracts me, I had training as a musician but zero training in recording production and engineering. I don't know much about any of that (I learned about mics and mic placement from sound and recording pros that worked for bands I was in or recording studio engineers and any other knowledge comes from books and YouTube), consequently, what attracts me about Izotope's products is that they're largely aimed at musicians who aren't trained recording engineers. I've bought a bunch of VST effects but honestly, I don't know what the heck I'm doing. I have yet to buy my next DAW PC or Neoverb but it seems like, on paper, it's a great fit for me. Is anyone else here in a similar boat? I'm surprised no one has mentioned that, because that's the number one thing that got my attention. I recently bought R4 for $29, because it seemed like a great deal. But I wonder if Neoverb is more of a wise choice for me. I'd love to get some insights from anyone who owns and is using Neoverb.

I finally got my email this morning informing me that I qualified for the update from KOMPLETE 12 to 13. Great news. I really am excited about the Noir piano library and getting it free is pretty sweet. So, anyone else who's still waiting, hopefully you'll see your update very soon.

I'm in the US (Chicago) and still haven't received anything regarding the free update. Are you or anyone else still waiting for the free update? If others are in the same boat, I will wait before sending tech support an email.

The suspense on whether or not I'm set to be updated to KOMPLETE 13 tonight is intense! (I registered KOMPLETE 12 UPDATE in September, but my KOMPLETE 12 UPDATE has been sitting around for quite a while, unregistered.) I've been keeping my wife updated. I give her enormous credit for pretending she's interested!

I also own Sampletank 4 SE (I was a customer since the first version, but got SE when I recently purchased their mini 37 key midi keyboard). Sampletank 4 shows up at $199 USD for me also, which is a pretty steep upgrade price considering the normal retail price differences between the two products. I didn't think it was worth it to buy the full Sampletank (I own KOMPLETE). My whole reason for Sampletank was that I own a lot of older SampleTank libraries I like, and its libraries are commonly a lot smaller than those of KONTAKT, which makes them easier to run on my laptop as opposed to a much more powerful dedicated DAW PC.