Magic Russ

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.

Audio demos are not available on the site, but are still on his youtube channel. I'll confess that I usually ignore free Massive presets because it is such an old synth that was never a favorite and in my experience there are a lot of crappy, lazy and underdeveloped presets for that synth out there, even being sold commercially. The demos for these sound all right though. Hopefully he will have better luck with his Serum and CS80 presets.

I notice that they made the bonus soundpacks available for Analog Lab users. All three of these are made with MiniFreak. The fist one is Euphoric Grooves. This is a pack for EDM sounds and it sounds fairly generic with the most simplistic programming of the three. The second, Deserted Lands, advertises itself for dark soundscapes but could work for a moody pop or rock tune. The third is called Synthetic Trap, but could be useful for a variety of styles. While there are some useful sounds there, none of the three packs is going to get me gassing for MiniFreak. There isn't a sound here that sounds like I couldn't have gotten it with one of the other synths I already have.

Yes you can, but it requires the manual step of moving your image into whichever directory it goes into. It would be nice if they could have the images saved and imported with the bank in a way that requires no user involvement.

I got v9 just a year ago. While the new Augmented instruments seem to have potential, it will be quite some time before I feel like I have exhausted the possibilities on V9.