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    My big Christmas gift...

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     We are in the wrong business.  Too bad I hate biology.

    I had to pay (actually put on credit) $1600 for brakes, rotors, valve cover gasket, emissions recently.  Just when I was about to pay that card off........

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    Crucial MX500 2TB 3D NAND SATA 2.5 Inch Internal SSD

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    39 minutes ago, InstrEd said:

    So true. Last week shopping and the cheapest price for a dozen eggs was $3.49! 

     Where?  That's a deal.  18 are around $7 in many stores.  Sprouts had 18 for $4.29.  Sams Club and Costco will have good prices on brown eggs. For some reason people avoid brown eggs.   I live where people have chickens and give away eggs. 

     Unfortunately if you are a diabetic you can't eat a lot of normal budget stuff.  Rice-a-Roni, Hamburger Helper, white bread are not options.  Deli meat is expensive as well.

     It wouldn't be a deals thread if we stayed on topic.

     A least if prompts me to look at the DAW stuff I already have.   Most of my posts are comments directed towards me to not buy stuff.

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    Crucial MX500 2TB 3D NAND SATA 2.5 Inch Internal SSD

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    5 hours ago, cclarry said:

    Getting Cheaper

    $131.99

    https://www.newegg.com/crucial-mx500-2tb/p/N82E16820156175?Item=N82E16820156175&cm_sp=Dailydeal_SS-_-20-156-175-_-12112022

    I wish I could say that about food.  I would have bought one of these a few years ago but this is now a luxury item for me. 

    Also check Best Buy online I've seen them match prices and get instant gratification.

    My last SSD purchase have all been Crucial since they been on sale quite a bit and 5yr warranty.

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    Sonokinetic Day 6 - Sordino Strings

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    2 hours ago, pseudopop said:

    Sorry to derail the thread once again...

    I can't say for sure about any of that, but that is not my general impression. Please don't take this as an attack because it's not, but I want to offer my counter-opinions to yours:

    There are a lot of professional composers there who work with orchestral libraries daily. I'd say that makes at least some of them experts. Hans Zimmer at least is, though I don't think he has shared his opinion about any library. Of course there are also people who don't know much about anything, but that's why you should never take anyone's opinion as the holy truth.

    I have no idea if they are easily attracted to new. I'd guess not anymore than folks over here. What I do know that whenever someone asks for recommendations, the usual suspects tend to pop up, not the latest and shiniest libraries. Like I wrote earlier, Sordino Strings got a lot of praise when it was released but not much publicity after that. In a few threads where it was later mentioned people still liked the sound but disliked the interface.

    There is a pretty strict of code of conduct, but I have definitely seen people often saying bad things about libraries even if the developer is there. There are fan clubs for sure, but I'd say that there are more than enough people who love to point out the different flaws a library has to counter whatever positive bias there might otherwise be.

    I think the biggest weakness of VI-Control is that people over there seem to have very, very deep pockets. So if you'd ask there if you should buy some $50 library, many would reply "no, buy this $500 library instead".

    VI-Control is not perfect but it's the best I've found. You need to read a lot of the threads there to learn the general direction of the wind and when recommendations and opinions should be taken with a grain of salt, but if you can point me to a better source of information about orchestral libraries I'd love to hear it.

    Seriously, because that kind of information is really hard to come by and these things are expensive.

     Those are the easy ones to weed out to trust.  There's only a few I'd trust.  Most of them are working on projects and don't have time to comment. I've been on there a long time going back when the users were on the NSS. I've figured out the landscape.  I tend to trust advice here more often based on what you said.  

      Sometimes the sample library discussions are entertaining.   That place can be toxic.

     APD is practically blacklisted.

    You really have to weed through to get some honesty because it they are obsessed with shiny and new.  

    They are not my first source for information but still helpful since developers don't have working demos.   

     

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    Sonokinetic Day 6 - Sordino Strings

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    1 minute ago, pseudopop said:

    Any comment? Here's some from VI-Control:

     

     

    Then again, this library didn't come up when someone asked for a favorite sordino string library, but there weren't any sub $50 libraries listed anyway.

    I forgot I had these so I haven't used them, but the demos sound really sweet. If I didn't have them I would be very tempted.

    I don't consider VI Control as expert opinions compared to hear.  They are easily attracted to new.  They rarely tell it like it is if developers are on there.

    Sonokinetic Day 6 - Sordino Strings

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    8 minutes ago, Niky Serrano said:

    Yes, I confirm you that the regular price was $99 and $75 with discount

    Anyway... any comment about Sordino Strings?
    Because I lost the opportunity to get it the last year but I wanted to get it... and I am thinking about it...
    Any comment is appreciated

    I think many libraries have sordino in them.  I see it for those who hoard strings.

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    66% off IK Multimedia Syntronik MAX

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    10 minutes ago, telecode 101 said:

    Once again. Highly dependent on personal music taste. I have used the brush kits stuff a lot as I don't have many good brush kits. There was also on some other thread forum a  guy who mentioned a particular nylon guitar sample who "claimed" ST was the only library on the market  that had a good sample of that sound. But I have no idea. I don't use those sounds. My take on this stuff is,  if you have the tool at your disposal, try to use it and see what it does for you.

    It would take me a week to audition factory stuff.

    I was never a fan of Mellotron stuff but IKs is very good.

    I can't stand the ST browser and often have to use the GUI that comes with their product addons.

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    HorNET Winter Sale

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    This developer gets ridiculed for sales but trusts the end user with no gimmicky license schemes, affordable updates, more video presentations, frequent updates, and additional discounts on sales.  

     My email folder has the same amount of sales from Waves.

    EQ31 and Total EQ gets some attention.  

    He's not lazy in updating plugins. 

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    66% off IK Multimedia Syntronik MAX

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    8 minutes ago, telecode 101 said:

    Well. everyone is different.  The ones I use a lot are:

    - Hugh Padgham

    - SampleTron 2

    - L.A. Confidential

    - Terry Bozzio Drums

    - Fractured Piano

    - Malletopia

    - Art Deco Piano

    The thing about ST is it has that sample editor that gives you a single consistent interface from which to quickly tweak and edit the sounds to what you want them to sound like. I think it's easier to use than Kontakt and Halion. But I wish IKM made a lighter interface for it. Its hard to read sometimes.

     

    I was referring to the factory library of ST.

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