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https://www.toontrack.com/product/seventies-rock-ezx/ Normally €80. (If someone can tell me the price in dollars I'll update the title.) I think this expires on 13th of December at 2 PM CET. All deals (just this one at the moment): https://www.toontrack.com/holiday-deal-week/

Doesn't seem to be a good time to buy components. Prices have gone way up. I got a 4 TB Samsung QVO SSD for €280 last year. It was a special offer, but still.

Alas, the website for evil cats seems to be gone.

Aww! She's as cute as a button with a bow tie. Thank you for these.

So sorry to hear this. I promise to buy something to support the poor sausage. Losing our family cat years ago (to old age) was one of the most painful moments of my life and she was a real pest most of the time, so I can understand how gut wrenching your situation must be. Let's hope the operation is successful and you get to take your dog for walks again. If it's not too much to ask, could you post a picture of her?

Safe travels and have fun! Maybe we should create a dummy account with username "ccIarry" (with a capital i) and use that to post some deals every now and then? @Edith what do you think? (that was a joke too, in case someone didn't get it)

From their website:

Ouch. I just sent their support an email. Sorry for ruining it for everybody else but this is so obviously a mistake, and a pretty big one too, that I had to let them know.

Also available at AudioDeluxe with $1.45 in DeluxeBucks.

You're probably right, so I removed the link. Where did you find it?

Nice find! I got Wavesynth Glow & Cinema Pro for $0. Thanks!

Sorry to derail the thread once again... I can't say for sure about any of that, but that is not my general impression. Please don't take this as an attack because it's not, but I want to offer my counter-opinions to yours: There are a lot of professional composers there who work with orchestral libraries daily. I'd say that makes at least some of them experts. Hans Zimmer at least is, though I don't think he has shared his opinion about any library. Of course there are also people who don't know much about anything, but that's why you should never take anyone's opinion as the holy truth. I have no idea if they are easily attracted to new. I'd guess not anymore than folks over here. What I do know that whenever someone asks for recommendations, the usual suspects tend to pop up, not the latest and shiniest libraries. Like I wrote earlier, Sordino Strings got a lot of praise when it was released but not much publicity after that. In a few threads where it was later mentioned people still liked the sound but disliked the interface. There is a pretty strict of code of conduct, but I have definitely seen people often saying bad things about libraries even if the developer is there. There are fan clubs for sure, but I'd say that there are more than enough people who love to point out the different flaws a library has to counter whatever positive bias there might otherwise be. I think the biggest weakness of VI-Control is that people over there seem to have very, very deep pockets. So if you'd ask there if you should buy some $50 library, many would reply "no, buy this $500 library instead". VI-Control is not perfect but it's the best I've found. You need to read a lot of the threads there to learn the general direction of the wind and when recommendations and opinions should be taken with a grain of salt, but if you can point me to a better source of information about orchestral libraries I'd love to hear it. Seriously, because that kind of information is really hard to come by and these things are expensive.

Any comment? Here's some from VI-Control: Then again, this library didn't come up when someone asked for a favorite sordino string library, but there weren't any sub $50 libraries listed anyway. I forgot I had these so I haven't used them, but the demos sound really sweet. If I didn't have them I would be very tempted.

You're right. It shows €99 when you put it in the cart. It's also possible that the €74.90 in my receipt was a discounted price, I can't remember. The €299 is still strange, though. I would expect their website to fetch the prices straight from the product database.

I have these so they were probably a freebie last year. *checks notes* Yep. 13th of December 2021. But the full price was €74.90 back then. How come it's now €299? Are they going 8dio on us?

I almost made the same comparison, but since my only exposure to Bomb the Bass is from Xenon 2: Megablast (YouTube), I wasn't sure if that would've been accurate and didn't mention it.

Looks like having the lite version gives you a $300 discount if you upgrade to the full version, so you only have to pay a measly $1880. They have a comparison chart if you're curious what that will get you.

I'll bet you $5 that they are completely different instruments. Spitfire: Steinberg:

Did you pay the full price for Coldfire? I completely missed the sale earlier this year where they offered FX Collection 3 + Coldfire for €129. I hope they do some kind of Christmas/New Year's sale.

Normally $35 AUD. Available until 11th of December 11:59 PM AEST. https://www.zenhiser.com/collections/techno/products/techno-drums-2

Ah, the trolley problem. I think in the end this will be decided by liability issues. If the car changes its direction and rams people down on purpose then there will be lawsuits that the car manufacturer has to face. If the car just hits the breaks but stays the course then the manufacturer is probably in the clear, even if you switch things around and put the school children in front of the car. (In your particular example hitting the other car would probably also be the safest option for everyone.)

Sorry, that is a nice price for a limiter? Is it really that good?

Despite my dystopian predictions I'm not worried about or afraid of AI. I'm mostly indifferent about it and pre-emptively annoyed at the people who will eventually abuse it to do something stupid, like flooding the market with AI-generated songs and later accusing people of copyright infringement. I am also excited to see what kind of assistant tools will come; I can't wait to offload the boring and repetitive tasks to an AI. But you're right: there are a lot more important problems for humanity to solve right now. It's just an interesting topic, that's all.

I know I said I'd shut up, but... Oh yes, that's how it will start. The AI will replace human assistants first. That's all well and good, but some years after that we get into the more difficult situation. You're welcome. Sorry it took me so long. But how do you know those (or other emotionally touching) works were not created with careful calculation and purposeful manipulation of human emotion? Or conversely in a drunken stupor with no real meaning or thought behind them? We only see the end result and the stories artists tell. In the end it's just ink on a paper, frequencies in the air and pigments on a canvas, and it's up to each individual to find the meaning and emotion in it. Consider your favorite piece of music. Now imagine that it was revealed it was actually an AI who created it with the specific purpose of evoking whatever emotions it evokes in you. The human artist was just a front to sell it as meaningful art with a story behind it. How would it change your view of the work? Something like this WILL happen in the future, BTW, I promise you. Think of a book or a movie where the villain was so despicable that it made you angry. That's what the writer wanted you to feel. It was purposeful manipulation. The manipulation AI will do is just going to be better and more subtle. You will read a passage in a book and you will think that the author, A.I. Turing, has perfectly described the nuances of the emotion the protagonist is feeling and it is so relatable you will shed a tear. I would love to believe that humans are not interested in art itself but the other humans behind the art. That even from the very start Banksy's work had no value as such but that it was always Banksy as an artist who had the value and people saw that through his art. But people don't even know who Banksy is, so how can they value him? (Though in this case it makes people more interested in the artist, but you get my point, I hope.) Then again, perhaps my view describes my own relationship with art more than I care to admit. But I'm really playing the devil's advocate here. In general, I value human art more than AI art, but only because I create art myself. I usually understand the talent and effort required. So I put fully AI generated art in the same box as I put art that is just paint thrown at a canvas. No effort, no respect. I disagree, but I suppose only time will tell who was right. Now this is a great point and something I haven't thought of. What kind of music will a being who is almost infinitely more intelligent than us create? Can we even understand it? This whole AI thing is one of those Russian can of worms, isn't it? You open one and it's just another can of worms inside.

Oh, it was correct for me too. It just stings on a purchase that is already expensive, that's all.