Doug Rintoul

Addiction has the dubious honour of being my first buyer's remorse plugin. Even at $15, it is not worth it, IMHO.

Okay. Wish this review had been available before I purchased this last May. I loaded up LSS to confirm the examples in the article. At least I didn't spend $60 on it.

I bought LSS Strings for $40 when they were on sale at APD. For that price, I was willing to take the risk. To be honest, the number of times I have contacted support for any software is close to nil. I have actually gotten more support from places like this forum.

Okay. Definite problems. Unlike at the Hotel California, I can't even check out.

Working for me now.

Actually, Artist gives you 10 free loops a day. You need Studio to get 25 loops a day. I already have free Loopcloud account, never subscribed, but I cannot get this offer :(.

Alternate opinion...I rather like Aria Sounds. The choir is quite useful. I have had no problems with them. Larry, last March you said their support was terrible but then they got back to you and reset your download links. Is that what you were referring to about bad support? I have no experience with their London Strings or other older products. Maybe I am biased because my dog's name is Aria.

Yes, the MIDI library is huge (1700+ loops) and can be used outside of Ascension as well.

I love how when you click on the Now price, is sorts it alphabetically, not numerically. Kind of useless if you ask me.

Something funny about that coupon code end date (besides the suspect spelling of the word through). We are in November now, right?

Limitations of the evaluation version: * Save is disabled * No total recall * Audio stops after 30 minutes

Just looked at their Youtube video comments. It looks like they were aware of how the term might come across and they did their research and consulted with some Inuit. Here is their response when someone else brought up the issue: Thanks Evan! Yes we are well aware of that, and have actually been in contact with a few Inuit people (one of whom used to commute between two of the towns on the plugin for work!). They can’t speak for all of them, but they thought it was funny and took no offence whatsoever. Anyway, it was the subject of much discussion and one of the first points bought up when we were designing the plugin. No offence intended to any Inuit people of course, hopefully we can just make their mixes a bit warmer! 😎 I am okay with that.

Unfortunate name for a plugin. The term "Eskimo" is a loaded term and is considered offensive here in Canada.

Where does it say Windows only? The site says: Available for Windows as VST2.4 – 32 & 64-bit Linux VST2.4 – .rpm & .deb – 32 & 64 bit Mac OS 64 Bit VST2.4 and AudioUnit AU (OS X 10.9 Mavericks and later)

Check the currency setting at the top of the page. It is showing $141 for me too but my currency is set to CAD $.

I looked at Wedge Force and considered it. Then I read some reviews that were not too favourable. What do you think of it?

Just picked up Silk from Pluginboutique because they had sent me some coupons for UJAM instruments. I was going to get Amber instead, but then realized I had NI Strummed Acoustic and it fit the same mold. Since I could only afford one instrument right now I went with Silk. I wish Silk provided a choice between nylon strings and steel strings. I would love to have a picked steel string guitar to compliment Amber's strummed sound.

Yes. But Novation owners only. Not Focusrite owners.

I am interested in what the preset names are...Basement Benny, Bedroom Barb, Mariah Carey, Wolfgang Mozart?

Not 40% off Molot though. 20% off.

This!

Do you mean maximum visibility?

Not saying that the Windows update did not mess you up, but I upgraded to 2004 months ago with no ill effects. My last update was September 12 and my system is saying it is up to date. So this is not a universal problem. Your advice is good though, to move licenses back to the cloud, just in case.

But was it a Ton of fun?

Yes. Channel Robot has switched away from developing Kontakt instruments to developing plugins. On his website he states: I used to make Kontakt libraries, with samples as their sound sources, but these days I make instruments in VST/AU and AAX formats. He still sells the Kontakt libraries, just doesn't make em anymore.