Craig N

19 minutes ago, locrian said:

Actually, you can click past the removal option in the installer (which you should do if you want to keep that plugin b/c the link to the dedicated installer for KHz One is broken).

I tried that and then found One no longer worked, so wonder if it used common code that is now incompatible, hence the need for the legacy installer. I was able to download the kHz one installer at the time. This was 2 days ago. 

45 minutes ago, cclarry said:

It will be cold...but who cares?  I'm from Detroit!

That $150 is for Roundtrip Air from Detroit to Las Vegas AND the hotel!

At that price it'd be a crime not to go! 

7 minutes ago, cclarry said:

I'd say that the BEST deal was the trip itself....round trip air from Detroit to Las Vegas and Hotel for less than $300...
It don't get much better than that!

Wow that really is a great price. We were looking at more than that for a single night near here this weekend past (Gold Coast, Australia). Suffice to say we did a day trip instead.

I know they say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but I wonder what was the best deal you got in Vegas @cclarry? Was it the enormous room or did you manage to top that? 😊

Safe travels and I hope you have a fabulous birthday in Vegas, Larry!

2 hours ago, TheSteven said:

Agreed.

While Tai Chi has a number of interesting effected verbs some of the clean ones are wonderful
Tai Chi | Acoustic Guitar 1 Clean in Tai Chai Audio Examples (soundcloud.com)

OK I've gone back and done a bit more of a deep dive... turns out Tai Chi (full version) does sound wonderful with the right combination of program to material. The Rhodes Spark preset is just magical on a Rhodes electric piano for instance. It has a really surprising range of tones from clean to colour to downright dirty.  

23 minutes ago, Marc Cormier said:

Sparkverb or TaiChi...only room for one more reverb...at the moment.

Lots of people praise TaiChi but I'm not a fan just personally. Hard to be sure if it's the ugly brown UI psychologically influencing my opinion but it seems to produce a tone I don't ever desire. 

I have Falcon with Sparkverb in it (it can't be used as an external effect) and I think it's a pretty high quality reverb for bread and butter stuff but it doesn't strike me as particularly unique in terms of the tone it produces. So these are two pretty different reverbs. You might like both, or neither. I'd demo them first. 

Pluginfox is definitely trustworthy. 

3 minutes ago, dee said:

you cant sell one copy of trinity? sonuscore dont allow transfers?

It's a full Kontakt library so there's no DRM. Some full Kontakt libraries are watermarked though. 

Looks like I spoke too soon. Some of these Halls of Fame reverbs are pretty good. The earlier impression was from comparing the Eventide SP 2016 with the native plugin and finding the Halls of Fame versions lacking, but now I'm comparing the Bricasti M17 with Seventh Heaven Pro and some the Liquidsonics wins, but some the Halls of Fame definitely win (Large Ambience is a good example). I've never really been a big fan of Seventh Heaven Pro. It sounds a bit muffled to my ears. Cinematic Rooms Pro on the other hand, now that one is stunning. 

30 minutes ago, TheSteven said:

Really though - do any of the freebies strike you as worth the $10?
Not being sarcastic - just curious.

Was underwhelmed by the Trinty sound demo, can't see me using it - but YMMV. 
If I spend the $10 it would be for the freebie.

I had really wanted Best Service Halls of Fame for a long time, so for me it was worth it just to grab that one. Didn't end up even liking it, so I'm glad it only cost me $10 😂

Must remember to install the Trinity thingy at some point. I'm not planning on doing any trailers any time soon though. 

33 minutes ago, fret_man said:

Tell me again, why do I need to keep Sampletank 3 around? I don't need it for legacy projects. 

Just remove the folder for it from your Sampletank configuration so sampletank can't find the content and rename the folder so any hidden references in other plugins (eg Syntronik maybe) can't find it, and see how you go. 

If after a couple of months you haven't missed it, then it is probably safe to delete. But maybe best to backup first rather than pay to download again later.

Yay! This is the news I've been waiting for! Resizable UI is going to make these so much more usable !!!

3 minutes ago, Pluto Gabo said:

You'll really be kicking yourself if you buy it separately when you realize it's already in TS 3.5!

Apologies if my wording was confusing, I meant I have Fame already but I don't want to demo The Farm Stone reverb which I'm sure is not included in TS Max 3.5 unless I've died and gone to heaven. 

Just now, Craig N said:

The Fame reverb is so good I'm not even demoing this one until I get it in a reasonably priced TS 4 upgrade. Otherwise I'll agonise over not having it hahaha.

Oh I just remembered it will be automatically installed next time I update T racks

Damn it. It's going to be too tempting not to demo. 

The Fame reverb is so good I'm not even demoing this one until I get it in a reasonably priced TS 4 upgrade. Otherwise I'll agonise over not having it hahaha.

59 minutes ago, telecode 101 said:

except for people like me that own all the IKM products but linger on the side lines as I am not eligible for upgrade pricing for anything as i bought it all in group buys.

I picked up ToneX Max and managed to get the TS Max 3.5 bundle for $69.99 as a result. 

I'm out of IK purgatory at last. 

Feels good. For the moment anyway haha. 

Pretty happy with that haul. Thanks Jan!

5 minutes ago, pseudopop said:

That's a crazy good deal!

Is there a generic $25 voucher this month? I still don't get any email from PA.

I changed my account email address when this happened to me for about a 6 month period. The emails arrive at my gmail account but they weren't reaching my outlook.com account and although I contacted customer support and they said they fixed it, it didn't fix it, but the change to using a gmail account worked. 

It felt a bit like having stockholm syndrome to be glad to be receiving PA emails again, but receiving the voucher codes and PA_EXT announcements is worth all the spam 🙂

2 minutes ago, pseudopop said:

That's a crazy good deal!

Is there a generic $25 voucher this month? I still don't get any email from PA.

I'm not sure if it's generic but this was my voucher

I just used it so if it works, or if anyone else can confirm they got the same voucher, it's generic

2022-12-25SG9P2Q3iTw27e

They're not known for the cheapest upgrades either. 

On 11/28/2022 at 1:24 AM, PavlovsCat said:

WURLY SHOOTOUT: ROUND 2

CHOOSE THE LIBRARY YOU LIKE BEST BETWEEN THE WINNER OF ROUND 1 WITH THE LIBRARY I'VE SINCE PURCHASED THAT I THINK IS ALSO EXCELLENT (BOTH ARE PRESENTLY ON BF SALES FOR $35USD OR LESS)
This features my newly purchased two Wurl Libraries, the library that is winning the current poll, e-instruments Session Keys W and Skybox's Hammers + Waves EP145B. I won't say which is which but the first time through I play with one then switch to the second on the second time through the full verse/chorus part. I'd love to hear which one you like best and why. Both libraries are still on sale for $35 USD or less and I love them both. IMO, it's a killer bargain.  

 

Nice work Peter!

I had trouble picking out the differences on the cheap IEM earphones I had at work yesterday but listening through my AKG 701 headphones and MDR-7506 it was easier to pick a preference. I liked the second one mainly for its extra heft in the low frequencies, although ironically I felt it had too much low energy in the mix and was competing with the bassline. The first one was definitely easier to hear on my cheap IEM earphones and it also stood out clearer on the better headphones but tonally I guess I didn't like the nasal quality of it as much. But we're getting to splitting hair territory, the first couple of listens I thought they both sounded good and had trouble differentiating them at all haha 🙂

For those who don't need to pay VAT at least, Thomann has some exceptional deals at the moment! Some are as sharp as it ever gets.

Hold on to your wallets, folks, this is going to be a wild ride. 

Judging from some deals they had last year, Thomann tends to have a certain amount of stock, and once exhausted they don't get replenished. So if there's something here you're contemplating, don't sleep on it too long... or it might be sold out next time you look. 

Arturia V Collection 9 $245 https://www.thomannmusic.com/arturia_v_collection_9.htm

Soundtoys 5 $199 https://www.thomannmusic.com/soundtoys_soundtoys_5.htm

D16 Silverline Collection $207 https://www.thomannmusic.com/d16_group_silverline_collection.htm

PSP Infinistrip $86 https://www.thomannmusic.com/psp_audioware_psp_infinistrip.htm

Sugar Bytes Sugar Bundle $349 https://www.thomannmusic.com/sugar_bytes_sugar_bundle.htm

Softube Volume 5 $384 https://www.thomannmusic.com/softube_volume_5.htm

Izotope Everything Bundle upgrade from any version of MPB or MPS $289 https://www.thomannmusic.com/izotope_everything_bundle_cg_mps_mpb.htm

Relab Sonsig Rev-A reverb $62 https://www.thomannmusic.com/relab_development_sonsig_rev_a.htm

Tone2 Icarus $77 https://www.thomannmusic.com/tone2_icarus2.htm

There's more... but these ones stood out to me as better prices than I recall seeing previously. Here's the full list of software deals: (prepare to click "Show more" and scroll a bunch of times). 

https://www.thomannmusic.com/special_cyberweek.html?wghky=sw

18 hours ago, PavlovsCat said:

Now I'm missing Lonnie. RIP, Lonnie Brooks. A very talented man and there was truly wisdom in that silly thing he said to me that night. Just to get to chat with a legend like that, He was part of era of blues artists that meant so much to music. Buddy Guy is one of the last legends left and occasionally plays. I mean, look at who Buddy Guy influenced rock greats like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Stevie Ray Vaughan and he's still playing at 86. the blues legend who lived only 15 minutes away from my home that I would have loved to have seen play -- my favorite blues artist of all time -- was Muddy Waters.  

 

I hadn't heard of Lonnie Brooks before, but I really enjoyed the song featured in that video clip, thanks for sharing it! I was bopping my head straight away, what a catchy groove! So I've added a couple of albums that song appears on to my Apple Music library so I remember to check out some more of his music.

I was thinking to myself that you're lucky to have come up in an environment with so many musical greats, but then I remembered that just the other day, when buying a capo for my daughter to use on her acoustic guitar, I got to chatting with a friendly guy who has helped me at the music shop on previous visits. I had overheard someone bring up that he was going on tour a few minutes prior, so I asked him about it and found the name of his band (Osaka Punch), looked them up, and it turns out they're pretty amazing! When I put their album on in the car my daughter declared it was better than any of the other music I'd ever played in the car. Hah! 

I live in Brisbane, Australia, and a few famous bands have started out here, from the Bee Gees way back when, through Savage Garden in the 90s, to Sheppard (Hey Geronimo) more recently. Nowadays there's so much music being made that it seems even people with serious talent will end up in the long tail of the music business, and I guess that's natural as more and more of us start to express our creativity musically with all of the opportunities we have nowadays. It's amazing to me how much great music is in and around us all. 

5 hours ago, PavlovsCat said:

Because of  @Craig N and @Bad Penguin, instead of hanging out with my family, I'm spending time trying to clear 4GB of space on one of my 3 filled hard drives to install Skybox's EP145B. I have sooooo many KONTAKT sample libraries. Okay, now that I'm saying that, it sounds terrible. I'll stop and come back later. I am really glad I got that this library -- which sounds great in the demos, but you guys were what really persuaded me (peer pressure???) and honestly, everything I was checking out from this dev just sounds so cool. I just like the vibe of the site and their libraries. It was great to be able to pick this up for only $35USD and I rationalized what I think is probably my 13th or so commercial library by thinking to myself this is a different model than the rest  I have (which are all 200As). 

$35 is such an attractive price for this library (not to mention the further discount for people who own any of the Core Collection libraries). Once the intro pricing ends it's going to be $79.00 USD.  That's a big jump up in price. 

I'm looking forward to hearing what you think about it, once you have the time to get back to it, understanding family obligations at this time of year of course.

I'm still loving the vibe I get from EP145B. It's so phat. The EQ moves you have to make with the Session Keys W are pretty extreme to get into similar territory. 

I was trying to remember the last time I felt an instrument had a wonderful vibe to it, and it just came to me; the Softube Model 84 (Juno 106 emulation). Another classic instrument. It's a fascinating thing this "vibe" or "mojo". I'm not sure what to put it down to exactly, I just know that an instrument either has it or doesn't.