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3 hours ago, Brian Walton said:

https://www.humblebundle.com/software/vegas-pro-digital-creators-collection-bundle-software?hmb_source=&hmb_medium=product_tile&hmb_campaign=mosaic_section_1_layout_index_1_layout_type_threes_tile_index_1_c_vegasprobundle_softwarebundle

 

Looks like 1 year subscription at about the same price their we used to get the perpetual seat.  Hopefully not a sign of things to come.

Trying to find 100% verification on this.   Kinda odd to see something that says 1 year license on older products.

8 minutes ago, jngnz said:

I own WP Core so all of the continent ones and it's my most used library. Literally in every track. Absolutely phenomenal libraries. Asia and Africa for the most part. Don’t care for Europe much.

Thinking of only getting one. Choices are Africa or South America.

Europe doesn't have any grooves nor rolls.

12 hours ago, PavlovsCat said:

The Labs+ teaser was a great example of fantastically bad marketing communications. A sub brand that gives away free product is silent for the better part of a year and its first communication is a cryptic message that tries to excite its target audience that they're now going to have to pay for future product. Really, really bad idea. Even if they were going to launch this new Labs non-free product, that isn't a good way to do it. 

 It's speculation until we see Labs +. I get it if(not buy it) it unlocks features in their player.

On 4/17/2024 at 1:48 PM, tim grivas said:

East West Hollywood POP Brass.

Not Free but is Pro stuff.

I love this. they use round robin. Real recordings. 

https://www.soundsonline.com/brass-and-woodwinds/hollywood-pop-brass

Always wait for this to go on sale when it's like $119

Free stuff is the only way to get involved in **** NI eco system. 

On 4/19/2024 at 5:17 AM, msmcleod said:

Mild squeaks/squawks usually come in when you overblow the clarinet, so you may find playing at maximum velocity gives you at least some of those characteristics. If it's a classical player however, you'll normally find it's a different type of squawk - more of a lower register swell than a higher pitched one.

A full on squawk though, is unlikely to be in any orchestral library.

The only sample library I know can do Klezmer style clarinet is Broadway Big Band  https://fablesounds.com/broadway-big-band/  - but at the price they're asking, you're as well using the TTS-1 clarinet for writing, printing the part out from the Staff View, and hiring a session player to re-record it!

Other options might be taking existing samples of phrases and doing a cut/paste job.  Splice has a section here that might be good for that: https://splice.com/sounds/packs/gio-israel/jewish-essentials-hasidic-woodwind/samples

Also this one: https://www.loopmasters.com/genres/145-Orchestral/products/795-World-Woodwind-Series-Clarinet

I can produce that one a real clarinet without doing that.  I have a clarinet BTW.  Maybe I can create my own library called Anthology of Bad Clarinet.

It's nice to hear this style of playing.  Sometimes libraries can't substitute for the real thing no matter how hard you try.

 I don't know if it still rings true but try separate instances of Kontakt instead of using 8 outputs.

3 hours ago, Jim Roseberry said:

While I don't like the idea of "hard enforced" hardware limitations, 8th Gen CPUs were released 7 years ago.

ie: A 10+ year old machine with 4-8GB RAM is not going to be ideal for running Win11.

It would be nice if you could make that judgement for yourself... but you'd do better using the older OS and essentially "freezing" the machine in time (as far as OS/Software updates). 

 

Unfortunately, data-mining (and use) is a major part of our current society.

A Google "Cloud" facility is being built about 10 minutes from our house. 

It looks more like a miliary compound than a computer server facility (it's massive, has cryogenic cooling towers, and they try to hide it from view with huge mounds of dirt ).

 

Win11 takes more effort to rein-in... but once done, it's a great DAW platform.

To add some perspective, I bought a $4000 Mac Studio (M2 Ultra CPU) for testing/support of clients.

A 14700k based machine can achieve slightly lower round-trip latency (sub 1ms)... and scores higher on Cinebench Multi-Core.

• M2 Ultra scores 28.8k (about the same as a 12900k)
• 14700k scores 34k
• 14900k scores 40k

Data-mining will happen with all the above.  Pick your poison.

Unfortunately I think the turn off for a Windows OS and plenty of software is changing the paint.   Many of us use Classic Shell to this day.   I guess it's dumbing down by hiding access for experienced users.    

 Software development in many areas is more concerned with shiny and new than stability.

11 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

The thing that confuses me is that since Windows 10 is malware, and Windows 11 is even worse malware, why wouldn't Microsoft want the worse/better malware on the greater number of systems?

Or do you suppose that they make more money off of kickbacks from the hardware manufacturers than they do from the improved data gathering?

Data mining vs. kickbacks. I'd hate to be the one who had to make that decision over at Microsoft!

I think they like to create strawman arguments like the privacy thing.  These are probably the same people who use Tiktok but it's easier to blame MS.  Most software "spies" on you.

I don't even remember the last time I got malware.  

People who write malicious code only go for larger targets.  That leaves out Apple and Linux.

The least secure devices are our phones. 

you can only download SILVER via Native Access

8 hours ago, cclarry said:

Sadly, I'm not downloading it because of how it was advertised.

I'm not downloading because I don't need another electronic drum thingy.

These load slow....verified by the developer.   Some of these come with grooves which I don't think existed in the older versions.

I have Europe and Asia

Tempted to buy another one of these not named harp

Who has some of the others -

9 hours ago, Brian Lawler said:

25 Gigs for a flute?

 

I guess so!

 

 

and it's not Soundpaint either

other than to be unique I could not see the need for this unless doing a flute choir mockup

7 hours ago, TheSteven said:

Now only if my bank account had 50% more $...

50 percent chance of their vst3 working in DAWs

tempting for the amps and  classical guitar

I wonder if it eats 9 volt batteries like Digitech pedals

5 hours ago, ralfrobert said:

Something completely new ... higher prices.

Nope. That's a trend in any industry ran by stuffed shirts. 

2 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

I don't need to travel to their world, they seem to be determined to endlessly try to bring it to mine.

The point that most don't seem to get is that in order for a switch to make sense, the target OS would have to work better than Windows 10. It's not like Windows 10 is going to stop working.

As far as malware paranoia, there's too much 3rd-party malware protection software to even list.

Anti US. Anti MS - they never bash Apple.

They seem like people who are proud of the VAT, or wise fools

Wait till DAW developers not named Reaper stop supporting W10.

Pass - I don't need another DAW and the previous Mixbus is Uinstalled.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/23/windows_11_cpu_requirements/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=top-article

Welcome to the world of Linux fanboys.  While they are techie they haven't a clue of the multimedia production world.

5 hours ago, bluzdog said:

Not for me either but at $125 with Jam points that pretty sick!

Noooooooo - I rarely touch my guitars and I'm stupid enough to get this at that price.

Downside is Kontakt 7 player.  I still use 6 because it's easy on the eyes.

Downside - no direct download and you have to trust a working Native Asshat to download it.  I had success (knock on wood)

1 hour ago, bitflipper said:

What is this "Facebook" thing you're referring to? Is it some kind of cult?

It really is. 

On 4/22/2024 at 12:05 AM, DamienF said:

Perhaps there will never be a Sampletank 5 ; since ST4, IK has launched the Modos and Pianoverse, using other technologies. ST Stretch is outdated and there's no reason IMHA to develop a new software, which cost money, with these old tech, especially since there are now so many alternatives, and not only Kontakt or Halion

I love the Modo Basses.  I think they may be great at sample modeling.  I'd rather see them go in this direction instead of the bloat that surpasses Soundpaint.

15 hours ago, bitflipper said:

Oh, I'm sure they test it. But they are testing in-house installations with no network-based authentication required. So not a realistic user experience.

To paraphrase something one of their developers posted years ago: "American users are just too demanding. They expect too much." 

My biggest question is how on earth does a license verification routine impact so many facets of a program, e.g. laggy UI and audio. Was it phoning the mothership to get permission for every sample? "We have to crack down on these pirates, they're making us look bad."

It seems more software is turning into an iTunes app these days with the click and buy.