Craig N

I need some advice. I am already in the group buy at a lower level, but I'm thinking of also buying in at the $199 level with SampleTank 4. Is there an affordable upgrade path from SampleTank 4 to SampleTank 4 Max? After entering a song in the SampleTank Songwriting Competition I realised how amazing a product it is for someone with my eclectic musical tastes, and I have come to REALLY want everything it has to offer, but it seems as if buying SampleTank 4 and then each of the collections would still leave me short some of the content in ST 4 Max. So if there's no way to get from SampleTank 4 as an upgradeable buy-in purchase, to ST4 Max affordably, maybe I'm better waiting for a sale on Total Studio 3 Max...

I just posted it to a bargains website I belong to, to see if that gets us a few more participants.

Gold! That was hilarious all the way to the last sentence. Love it.

I think it sounds great. If I wasn't already overburdened with reverbs I'd definitely have bought it already. I'm still tempted to get it anyway.

Here's some fine albums that were released in 1996 Orbital - In Sides Westside Connection - Bow Down Beastie Boys - The In Sound from Way Out! David Gray - Sell Sell Sell Better Than Ezra - Friction, Baby Carcass - Swansong Oh man, now it's up to 2002. Ok, what good albums were released in 2002...

@Peter - IK Multimedia I have read the rules posted here https://woobox.com/csz66u/rules but I am still unsure whether the song needs to be comprised solely of Sample Tank instruments, or whether it is sufficient if Sample Tank is used somewhere within the piece?

On sale until 9/6/2021 which to these Australian eyes I assume means the 6th of September https://www.reverbfoundry.com/store/ https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/HDCart--reverb-foundry-hd-cart-reverb-plug-in According to this page, https://www.reverbfoundry.com/loyalty-offers/ LiquidSonics coupons can be used to bring the price down even lower. I think this is an all time low price, looks like it's only gone to 50% off in the past. What is it, you ask? ... take it away, Reverb Foundry: A Legend. Reborn. HD Cart is a high-density reverb plugin modelled after a legendary expansion for one of the most sought after and expensive reverb units of all time [Lexicon 480L -Ed]. It was next to impossible to walk into almost any professional recording studio in the mid to late 1980s – and for many years after – and not have one be in the room somewhere. So many of the most cherished and well-known recordings of all time owe a large part of their ambience and overall sound to this iconic state of the art (at the time) processor. The HD and surround expansion cartridge for this unit contained the only algorithm to ever fully take advantage of its considerable dual-board processing capabilities. This amazing program was capable of being used in quadraphonic, 5.0 surround or high-density stereo reverb modes resulting in dense, rich audio unlike any other reverb processor.

$450 USD but if you own a plugin in the collection the upgrade price is less. I'm offered an upgrade price of $350 USD.

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Adam Szabo has released 1.09 of the Viper synth, which is a clone of the Access Virus (Windows only, sorry Mac users). Here is the announcement from Facebook: There's also a link on the website to download sampled waveforms and wavetables from the Virus, which apparently Access Music Electronics GmbH has given permission for him to sample and upload to his website for his customers' use. Pretty cool, especially when combined with the Virus skins from the sendspace link above. https://www.adamszabo.com/vstplugins/viper/

Aug 2 to Aug 8 40% off individual products 50% off collections Some examples from the "TOP SALE PICKS" (there are many more products on sale) BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PROFESSIONAL $999 $599 ALBION ONE $449 $269 SPITFIRE SOLO STRINGS $399 $239 OLAFUR ARNALDS STRATUS $299 $179 HANS ZIMMER STRINGS $799 $479 SPITFIRE CHAMBER STRINGS $699 $419

Welcome back Larry! Hope the family are well and you had safe travels. We tried to make do, but it just wasn't the same without you around here 🙂

If anyone has Korg M1 LE (given away with some hardware) it's only $199 to upgrade to Korg Collection 3 using the code in your account.

I noticed the Rhodes only has 4 velocity layers. It's obviously no Famous E (which I bought and adore btw) 😄

Great idea! I'm in Brisbane, Australia.

Haha whoops yes that was a typo. It's an 8TB WD Red that I bought for longevity rather than speed. In 1995 I bought an enormous (it seemed at the time) 1.2 GB Maxtor HDD... that only lasted a year. After that died I learned the value of making backups. And the value of letting go.

Sounds like it's a library that's going to want you to use the batch resave feature in Kontakt. If anyone else doesn't know what that is, I've recently discovered it's well worth giving it a go! It's a function that re-saves the files in what must be Kontakt 6 format (it warns that you lose compatibility with older versions) which makes for faster loading times. If you have a library that sits unresponsive for a minute after you click on it, this can solve that. Makes a huge difference with Pearl Concert Grand Piano for example, so the UI appears in about two seconds (I have it installed on an 8 gig HDD, not a speedy SSD).

I thought Larry was back for a second there!

https://facebook.com/groups/plugindeals/ Big group I think over 40k members now so a lot of deals get posted but it's public, so I don't like to participate on it. I've even seen the odd deal posted there by the great King Larry 🙂

Wondering about this myself. Between this and the fear of hiss I decided to jump on the Scarbee Classic EP 88 with the Matrix upgrade and it's really great. I might still pick up the Famous E with the group buy because I love knowing the history of that particular instrument. That said.. the more I keep playing with this Scarbee the less I think I need anything else.

It looks like you've got your iLOK key selected in the License Manager so it's only showing licenses that have been moved to your key, you'll probably find the new licenses in your "greattunes" account at the top.

This is what scares me about deeply sampled libraries, after buying the Impact sound works bundle on the strength of the pearl grand piano only to find one of the mic positions (hall) has faulty samples with audible noise in the upper register that are unable to be fixed. Disappointing that it continues to be offered for sale with this issue.

Haha that breaks my brain. Must not buy plugins that cannot be resold. Must buy at a discount. How will I resolve this cognitive dissonance.

I wish it was possible to demo this against the Orange Tree one. Instead I think it's going to be a test of how OCD I am. Must I have them all? So tempted to collect them just to have all the flavours haha. It's an illness, I swear.

It just occurred to me this would be a hilarious name for a semi-modular synth from IK.