Esteban Villanova

Just because you have it it doesn't mean it's not a new freebie since it's a paid product.

https://splashsound.org/oldschoolkeys.html

Will it ever be $49 again? 😬

Yeah, about double.

It's been in beta for about a year. It's a one man spare-time show.

I updated like an idiot

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Yeah, 300 is crazy. Trying to milk the last drop out of their faithful users, who are usually running professional studios in Europe and don't mind the upgrade cost *that much*. Being the powerful DAW that it is, I wonder if it wouldn't sale A LOT more if they priced it similarly to Studio One, for example. Maybe they dread the inevitable increase of support tickets... EDIT: OK, it's worth pointing out that the upgrade cost is for the Suite version, which comes with quality 3rd party goodies. To upgrade Samplitude proper costs $200.

The installer was useful to realize how many cool freebies they've got, as well as to update Crunck V2 which I didn't remembered that I had. I love me some pedal plugins

You can buy 45 candy bars for $5? How are you alive?

Not very versatile. I would get Musio subscription for 10 bucks a month to start with good sounds (Cine Samples) right away.

Damn, I just got the trumpet and trombone...

Si amigo, pero componer para UN instrumento no es lo mismo que para un ensamble o una orquesta. La partitura te da una imagen de TODO el arreglo que un piano roll no te puede dar.

Performance and composition are different activities that require different mentalities. If it wasn't the case, we wouldn't have career composers or performers. If you're making music with few instruments going straight to DAW makes sense, but if you need to orchestrate or arrange something more complex, you're going to need to notate. Anyways, I don't care about theoretical assumptions or logic stretching, I was just responding to OP. Everything is IMHO, YMMV, yadda yadda... Edit: just to clear things out, the process I'm trying now is: Imagine music, sketch music on paper, flesh out arrangement on paper (could change to notation later), move to DAW and record/program each instrument reading what I wrote. This way I'm not composing to my sample libraries, nor to my limitations as a piano player.

Yes, I was composing from muscle memory and not musical imagination. With pen and paper there's the music in my mind and the page. When you write with VSTi's you end up writing for the samples you've got instead of them playing the music you made. Notation also gives you an overview of the harmony, voice leading structure, timbre, and motivic development that a piano roll cannot provide.

The DAW is for recording, not for composing.

That's a great point. AI music comes at a time where culture is so dead anyways that it hardly makes a difference in the output.

AI art is soulless. It's derivative and made by a machine with no consciousness of its own death. The fact that this is a thing shows that modern people don't care about the 'soul' anymore. The end is nigh.

It's already abandonware on release, like everything they do.

AliExpress guitars are usually knockoffs! V guitars are uncomfortable to play sitting down and only James Hetfield looks cool with them (I read that in a forum haha)

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That's not Hive 😭

That's exactly the info I needed, thanks a lot! I'll start with the first one then.

which one would you recommend? I wanna get one. Thinking of starting with the first one, unless one of the others provides an insane amount of value.

Thanks for the responses. Good to know that development is going strong. I only read the Deals forum, but I read the entire changelog of the last few years and it seemed that development was slowing down. No trolling intended.