Carl Ewing

It's weird though. It is actually an incredible plugin - but UI / UX is so awful I always remove it seconds after I add it to a project. I think they could release Trash 3 with a better UI and zero new features / functionality and it would be like "wooow, they really improved the sound of this thing".

I have 18 licenses / serials for Trash Too. Almost as many as my collection of free Waves One Knobs licenses.

Erm. Hard disagree on that. Lots of good alternatives on the market. Prefer Sonible's smart:limit over Pro-L 2. Never liked Pro C 2. It's got to be one of the least musically interesting compressors on the market. Pro-Q 3 wins the UI award - but much prefer DMG's EQuilibrium for sound quality. Eventide, Sonible, Softube (Weiss!) all make great alternatives with excellent UI. Lots of alternatives to Pro-R or Timeless 3 that I think sound better. Both have incredible UIs, but they sound uninteresting and lack character imo. Saturn 2 I'm on the fence about...I always put it on a track and then up replacing it with something else later. For saturation specifically, there are way better alternatives - for example Black Box HG-2MS. But Saturn clearly wins on the amount of distortion options, but it's more a jack of all trades, rather than great at any one thing. Really love Volcano 3 though. Definitely one of the better filters on the market. But I do prefer the sound of Cytomic's The Drop, and wish The Drop had some of the features from Volcano. Have never used Pro-MB, so not sure how that stacks up.

Should be $20,000 by next Christmas. Expect some "80% off the entire bundle!" when they have this enormous overpriced ecosystem while completing with something like Native Instruments Komplete.

You calm it down with a bit of purging. Always have the purging. It makes room for more stuff! Stuff those hard drives. Stuff them good. Nothing sadder than a spinning disk platter with empty space. This is what your system should look like after Black Friday:

Anyone have good experience using this? I tried uploading a few premasters, and whatever this thing is doing sounds absolutely awful compared to the professionally mastered versions . And it's not subtle, no matter which setting I put it on it just sounds even worse than an Ozone preset. The algo doesn't seem to understand the music it's listening to at all. Free indeed.

Ummm - is it just me, or do those strings sound terrible? Like circa 2007 sample library terrible? Yikes.

This site seems sketchy af. Anyone have experience with them? The downloader also looks proprietary - as in, the license they give you cannot be used with copy from the developer. I'm skeptical.

Oh - it expired!? Sorry. Thought it was still going 'cause the sale price was still up. ^Ignore. Seems code still valid.

If you buy directly from the TheNatan store, you can use this code: "SANJAYC21" and get 6 of their plugins (including VYBZ and Tape Piano II) for $30. https://www.thenatan.store/shop/ Just add the $39.99 bundle and use code above. It came from this video by that Sanjay C reviewer on Youtube (in the description):

There are two version for each library - one DI where you can use your own amps / cabs, and the other with Amp baked in, but not the cabinet. Cabinets / effects can be added / customized in the instrument. It's phrase recordings - but it's very customizable. If you look at this part of the video - that whole section at the bottom (just above the keys) is totally customizable. You can change the whole rhythm, time signature, notes, chords - adding rests, extending parts, up / down strokes, pulling different clips for parts of the phrase, or adding clips that aren't actually in the phrase. And they try to cover as many chord variations as possible (minor / major, 5th, 7th, etc.) It's pretty awesome. There are 7 libraries, covering a bunch of genres (rock, funk, blues, ambient, etc.) Edit: actually the video below is a better example of the editor (around 17:40 mark):

Tried Riffendium? You can customize every note and beat of each phrase, as it treats phrases more like editable step sequencer like you'd see in a synth. It's got limitations, but it's the most customizable phrase based guitar libraries I've used.

Slowly completing my Audio Things collection for dirt cheap! Just need Wires and Fog now. Will wait for next promo!

I got these with MPS 3 way back, so should definitely be in MPS 4. I think what's new is NeoVerb.

Ronroco is great - instrument (5 mic positions with mixer, and 4000 samples with round robin) and loops, and although a bit old (2014), it's usually on lists of best free Kontakt libraries. Was originally through Samplephonics, but now on the Noiiz site as free download: https://www.noiiz.com/sounds/free_packs/703 What is sounds like:

This is almost an instant buy - but it's missing Nordisk Contrabass. But very cool developer imo. Some cool stuff in this bundle imo.

If these libraries could be resold, I would agree! But I have no warm fuzzy feeling looking at the graveyard of sample libraries I own, that I over paid for and are now obsolete. Haha. (sad laughter)

I don't get it - for the cost of that thing, you could have like 2 .5 years of Composer Cloud, no? (*based on subscription sale) I don't see the appeal - even looking at the update of $300, for sure in that 2.5 years they are going to want another paid update. So you buy one item, and then keep paying for updates, for one product - whereas you could have every product they make for $20 / month for years.

I feel that exclusion list is just trolling at this point. They just want to keep reminding us that we can't have the things we want.

All good. I'm an idiot. It was actually telling me how much free space I had, not how big the library was. Haha. Apparently I can't read.

Anyone know why download is saying 219GB download? Site says 70GB for Total Bundle (7 libraries), but Pulse Downloader is telling me 219GB. Holy cow. Maybe they threw some Orchestral Tools libraries in for free.

Yes! Every time they do a survey I say "REVERB!" for every answer. And I think they are underrated for lofi stuff. Those Unfiltered Audio plugins are incredible, and beat out a lot of companies that specialize in that stuff.

I work in genres where sampling and loops are part of the art. I wouldn't use loops on a violin concerto - but will absolutely use them in rap. Because messing with loops / samples to create totally new ideas - especially smashing genres and production styles together - is fun as hell. But if I need to write a concerto, I can do that too.

This is why I like Plugin Alliance subscription. A whole year to try stuff out, and that huge voucher that covers the cost of the subscription - I wish more companies did this.

Totally. After cleaning everything up, I kinda forgot, and the first project I worked on I was scrolling through sounds and thinking "holy shit, I love all these sounds. What library is this??" Haha. So. Much. Time. Saved. Although the first time purging everything took about a week (purged stuff from Kontakt library patches and synth presets too), but workflow improved like 500%.