Lizzie Foster

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I have a whole bunch of loops I've collected over the years. I never use them because it just takes too much time to go through them all to figure out what I like. So they usually sit in a backup drive. I would love a good organizer tool. The only one I found that seemed decent is Apple only. Or was Apple only. The reviews on the Windows ones were never very good. ProTools Workspace makes auditioning loops somewhat easier. Plus if you import through the workspace and they are Apple/Rex/Acid loops, Elastic Audio is enabled on them, making it easier to change tempo, keys, etc... If I could get them a little better organized, I might actually use them.

If you drag it into your project, it usually gets copied into your project folder, which should be on a fast drive, whether 7200 RPM or SSD. If it doesn't copy, you could be in trouble later if the drive isn't available. Believe me, you want it all together. I've opened old projects and found audio is gone because I didn't save them correctly. Trying to recreate them can be impossible.

I've never had a problem with UJam through multiple hardware changes. Works great.

Yes, And you don't need a fancy drive for this because you shouldn't be streaming these, unlike say a Kontakt library.

I have about 3 external HDD's that I keep various libraries on. All are 7200 RPM in USB3 enclosures. My Kontakt drive is all nicely organized and is mostly non-player libraries. And now I have 4 1TB drives that usually have my bigger orchestral libraries on them (library tab libraries so I don't have to worry about looking for them) - things that bog down on a spinning drive. I have a lot of libraries. Also, you can pretty much fill library drives. Since you normally only write a library once and then just read, you don't need the extra space usually required for a drive to function. The "back-up" drives you buy at places like Costco are great for storing stuff you aren't using and back-up. But I wouldn't try to use them for any actual streaming applications. They would work for loops where you pull them into your project folder to actually play.

I like the acoustic pianos. They are fun to play. My only complaint is it doesn't have midi out. If you use Kontakt's midi out, you get a jumbled mess of midi notes.

I like Audio Thing's instruments. I was playing with Glass the other day. And now I have another copy of Trash. Actually, I think I also now have another copy of Carbon....

Looks like they already added them to my account. Sweet!

Haven't seen that happen yet. The Ultimate items haven't yet showed up in the standard edition. I'm thinking it will be the same for the CE stuff.

And this is why I still have spinning drives. Lots of spinning drives. With all the stuff I use almost never. But there just in case.

I do use the Kontakt instruments. Mostly the ones that come with Ultimate, not the ones that come with standard Komplete. So Ultimate was probably worth it. And at half price, KU13 CE is probably worth it to me...... I've been waiting for Noire for a while.....

I'm the same.,,,,,, 😉

The do add a lot of stuff in these bundles. Problem is? I don't want/use half of it. I think I opened Massive X once. Same with Massive. I don't use any of the expansions. How do they even work? I really wanted the Quartet and Arkhis, so I will wait until the sale because I will have to update to CE. It is kind of sad they put all this stuff in their bundles and people only use maybe a third of it, depending on the type of music they make.

The Eighty-eight in the Film Score bundle is actually a really nice piano. Works great in a mix.

First came Adagio in sections version 1. Then Agitato. Then Anthology to replace Adagio. I want to say Agitato was also in Anthology also, but that could be wrong. I'm trying to remember what I had to own/buy to get Anthology free. Then they came out with the Adagio version 2. For the most part, I don't think the samples themselves were re-recorded. The differences were cleaned up samples supposedly to fix things like slightly out of tune samples or things that were off. They also redid some of the scripting. A lot of people who liked Adagio thought the new scripting took the charm out of it. I think that is why they came out with version 2.

The Century stuff is really good. I do have a lot of 8Dio stuff. If you bought the Anthology, for about $8 they will give you the Adagio libraries that are the basis for Anthology. The version 1 Adagios have some problems but a really great sounding instruments if you can ignore the problems. I, myself, didn't have issues with them. But I am new to orchestral composing and probably didn't do anything complicated enough to run into problems. Anthology was supposed to fix them, but took a lot of the interesting stuff out. The libraries are watermarked as protection. So they don't show up in the library tab of Kontakt, but can be moved anywhere and will open in full Kontakt. I love all the percussion stuff - especially the weird ones. To me, the Hybrid ones sound a lot alike. By one and you are good. The pianos are great, as are the Claire winds on sale. Never buy at full price as they will always be on sale eventually. Edit: Also, the bundle discounts can be combined with the sale prices to bring even better discounts. Use the cheap libraries to bring up the prices if you don't quite hit the amount for a free library. My favorites are the Bottles which is $2. I also like the Seahorse.

The $10 discount code didn't work for me. So I just got the Shultz Spectrum. I already have RedVerb. Haven't really used it yet. I have over $600 in APD dollars. Mostly because I don't really spend them. And when you do spend them, they give you more back....

Yes, sorry, $298. They change it with the freebie. The Century Brass and Strings are good. I really haven't heard anything bad about them. I also like their pianos, choirs, and percussion, especially the odd percussion (i.e. The Wrenchenspiel) and the newer choirs. Most of their other libraries do what they do well. But what they do well may not be what you need in a library. I'm finding every orchestral library has its good and bad points. And, with 8Dio, never buy at full price. Eventually, it all gets discounted during a flash sale. And? I've yet to find a library from any developer that didn't have some issue. It is just whether that issue is something you can or can't work with as to whether it works for you.

$248 not $348. Still, I probably won't buy that much because I already have too much except the Century stuff. And I'm not in a hurry. It will eventually be on sale for a really good price.

I thought they give discounts on the bundles if you own some of them? I have Adaptiverb and Wormhole, so the Design Bundle would only be for Morph. Has anyone ever upgraded to a bundle? I can't find anything on their website. Edit: I sent an email.

Need to figure out which midi packs I don't have.....

Can you use this as a general reverb or is it just guitars only? I have Waves IR-L, but it sometimes is a pain to load external IR's into it.

They have a full price????

Today the Hammond has been added at $48. I don't think I have this one. https://8dio.com/instrument-category/8dio-instruments-on-sale-vst-au-aax-kontakt-instrument-samples/