Magic Russ

32 presets emulating the sounds of classic songs with varying degrees of success. Songs emulated include "Cars", "West End Girls", "Thriller", "Running Up That Hill", and "Wonderful Christmastime"

I think the verdict depends on what version of Kontakt you have.

Same for 40s Very Own Drums, Empire Drums, Karriem Riggins and I assume the other similar library that I don't have and can't remember the name of right now. Also curious they added all those effects and no mention of new presets to take advantage of them.

I'm curious why he didn't use the AC Box considering that's more like what Hank used. Also, does nobody get the concept of ducking their mic when they are playing? It's so distracting to hear the sound of his unamplified guitar coming through his vocal mic.

It looks like these presets are from Mike Dean (hip hop producer) Mike Shinoda (Linkin Park) Nick Hexum (311) Sadie Dupuis (Speedy Ortiz) Serj Tankian (System of a Down) This makes them a bit easier to find by clicking on artist in browser.

Answered https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/20928/which-ones-are-new-7-0-2-presets#latest

It would be nice of them to let us know which presets were added.

They haven't given me anything since v4 that I wanted, so where's the discipline required?

One more thing Bitwig and I seem to have a disagreement on... They seem to think a DAW should be a modular environment. They are proud of every little component and modulator they add. I want a DAW to make it easier to get compositions. I think the main point of the DAW is to help me get compositions onto drive quickly and let my plugins worry about making sounds.

There are a lot of things about Bitwig that are insanely unintuitive. For example, I don't think anyone who's ever used Bitwig has figured out how to do tap tempo on their own. (Worse, it was not in the manual) Even more annoying to me is that they don't have the ability to preview midi clips to the current track. You can preview a midi clip but it will only go to a sine wave generator. This is kind of useless when trying to preview drum clips because instead of getting drum sounds you get meaningless atonal notes (at least they are in the pocket), Other than issues like those, it does a decent job of filling in the place in my workflow where Project 5 used to be. There are a few other things I like, such as how they handle instrument and FX chains and the ability to have these taggable is a big plus.

I don't use the crush pack that much, except in Guitar Rig, where you can get some raspy fuzz tones out of it.

Actually the cheapest I am seeing is FM8 for $10.50.

My main DAW is a desktop with a decent interface. However, there was a time where I would use my laptop to compose on during dead time, where I dropped one kid off at an activity and it's not worth it to do anything else but kill some time at a coffee shop. In these cases I might not have wanted to lug around a spare interface and didn't have a ton of USB slots to spare. On top of that I wouldn't want to bring my guitar with me and I doubt anyone in the coffee shop wanted me to sing, giving me no reason to need audio input. In that case ASIO4ALL was a perfect solution.

The Arkhis + Sequis bundle is $99. It looks like either of them are $99 on their own.

I had a lot of fun playing this.

That was a problem I faced long before this offer.

I went through the hoops on the VSTAlarm page to find they gave me a coupon code and a link to order on the Vicious Antelope page and am still waiting on the email to download. That's a lot of hoops to jump through to save EUR 1.75

So you're saying it's a 10?

It was actually available as part of a 5-pack bundle a while ago. I had to look that up because I have it but never would have paid full price for that. Of course I don't often pay full price for anything, so that's not a jab at the product.

OK, so there are those three that are not free but included with V Collection X and the other three that are truly free. Got it.

Hypha 1.1.1 - Missing PolyAT tagging.

I am current. I needed to be to have been able to do my 3 line review of the new Minifreak soundsets.

When I logged in it said I had 3 free freebies from the store but when I clicked on the Free link it only was showing. Curiously there are 3 new libraries going for $29.99 each. Hyper Rave, Inner City Soul, and Inward Universe. Maybe the program got confused. Maybe I did.

My thoughts here:

SONAR is what Cakewalk by Bandlab used to be. Sonar is the upcoming replacement for Cakewalk by Bandlab. Hope that clears things up.