Lizzie Foster

There's a part of me that wants to hoard SSDs at this price, even though I have no use for them right now. 

3 minutes ago, Christian Jones said:

Yeah I'm watching a Voices of War walkthrough and the dude wasn't able to sell me on it especially now that I have voxos 

It is good for some things.   I've pretty much only heard good things about VOXOS, but Voices of War only come up once in a while for specific uses.  And there is a lot of competition, like Storm Choir. 

7 minutes ago, Christian Jones said:

Yeah Voxos is the only one I picked up this far and probably the only one I'll get. What about voices of war, do you have that?

No, I don't have that, but I have the Strezov's Freya and Wotan.  I think they are similar?  

16 hours ago, Christian Jones said:

Do you have have Cineperc? I don't really make orchestral or trailer music but I've been trying to justify getting it though I don't know what I'd use it for 

I actually found it favorably compares to Berlin Percussion by orchestral tools.  The big drums sound good.  Now I originally got into orchestral libraries because I wanted to add orchestration to my rock songs.   Those big drums, and maybe some blackhole ? And you have a great bass beat.   I use timpanis a lot as well.  Too many of the virtual bass drums sound tinny to me.   And?  Everyone's taste is different. 

On 3/28/2023 at 12:17 PM, Christian Jones said:

Cinepiano e.g. isn't the best deal ever @ $81ish as it's  normally $200, but Voxos choir is a good deal @ $81ish as it's usually $500 

I heard about the glitch, but I have pretty much everything I want from Cinesamples until you mentioned this.....  

I couldn't resist that.  thanks!  

I have Crimson and really like it.  Getting Amethyst on my way to world domination....  um I mean owning all the Acustica stuff. 

Don't forget they send discount codes if you buy but you have to be logged in to use them.   I'm at 35% now on top of the sales price.  Great deal!

I usually like the EZkeys stuff, but this one is not for me.  I have too much similar stuff that I never use. 

What makes it "eligible"?  It still has data or is usable?  Because I have some old IDE drives....

I can't see that these sample organizers do anything more than drums.  And truthfully, I gave up on samples a while ago, now that VIs have gotten so good. 

But this is a really good price and the bargain hunter in me wants to get it, LOL!

I actually grabbed this thinking, why not?   But it sounds like quality on the drives larger than 64GBs is lacking.  I don't think I will trust a backup to this.   And? For a 64 GB drive, $30 is okay, if that's all that works.  I just don't really need another thumbdrive of that size.  Fortunately, it is really easy to cancel if they haven't shipped. 

As someone who has gotten every freebie since they started it, the first has normally been on the second day.  If they do a second one, it will be closer to the end of the sale.  8 a.m. PST. 

Fluffy Audio is a good company. I have a few of their products and they sound good.  If you like the sound of the demos or walkthroughs, you should get it.  

Tried to "buy" but it seems stuck on place order.  I may have to try again later.  

So are they like $2 instead of the usual $4?  I have a number that I've bought cheap over the years to get the freebies.  But I never really use them.  Are they any good?

Looking at this, I cant find Collection 1 anywhere.  How can you upgrade if it isn't something that is available?   I'm also surprised there isn't the usual 50% off individual products.  I've been looking at the Alpha Organ. 

I had to grab it right away.  Now I will no longer have to sit and clean my recorder after every recording.*  I can just play this amazingly emotional VI to get my recorder sound!

*I haven't actually recorded me playing the recorder.  It just sits in its box most of the time.  But I do clean it every time I attempt to play it. 

My GAS-meter says "it's only 9 euros!  It does all sorts of cool things!"  The part of me that is trying to build a template and is really starting to regret owning so many libraries is saying "how different is it from all the other drone, whoosh, effect, etc... libraries I own?"

Is it sad the GAS is winning?

The group buy can get up to about 60% off, if I remember correctly.   So I guess it depends on how soon you need it.

Just now, telecode 101 said:

i have a degauser for tapes still.

Does it work on hard drives?  I am a little jealous.  😊

The problem with a lot of these "We decided to make our own player" programs is that they aren't AAX compatible.  Yes, I could run them through Patchwork or VE Pro, but I won't remember they exist. 

I do like a lot of their Kontakt libraries. 

6 minutes ago, craigb said:

Was the degausser electric or one of those large magnets with a big metal grip?

Heh, side-note, my friend likes to use old hard drive magnets like most people use fridge magnets.  The huge difference is the power!  You can actually use them on standard drywall walls because they'll stick to the screw heads that are buried (they make for a cheap stud finder too!).  If you use them on your fridge, they can be quite difficult to get off!

it was an electric one.  Not very big.  We used it to clean the big reel to reel tapes that we played programming with.  It was an am station that did talk before switching to sports.  The talk shows were all recorded and replayed at night.  They also used it to clean the 4-tracks we used for commercials. 

Just now, PavlovsCat said:

I still have one of my two Atari ST music computers somewhere in my crawl space. Yeah, I think it's time to let that go. I haven't turned that on since the early 90s! 

I'd need to take the drives out and make them unusable first.  I really miss that degausser at the radio station I used to work at.  

I haven't really been tempted by much at APD or VSTBuzz lately.  Probably because I have way too many of these libraries and never end up using them.  I need something new and exciting.   or not....

I guess it depends on the film scores as to whether it is worth it.  I don't think it does epic.  I just watched the walkthrough and I know the people that bought it like it, it doesn't really wow me.  And I may have too many unused choirs right now. 

It is a good price though.

I still have my old 8088 around.  It has 2 - yes 2! 20 mb hard drives and 2 floppy drives.  I was SET!   I have no idea if it still works.  I should probably try to set it up and turn it on.   It got me through college, so I was happy.