Nick Blanc

Almost forgot to purchase. Wanted to do it on friday because that's my 'software day'. That would have been bad. Got the Nylon and Hollowbody.

If by 3D you mean stereo wooshing and 'back-and-forthing', yes.

Doing a weekly jam leaves you wanting for inspiration sometimes. I had no idea what to do up until an hour before recording. So that results in no particular outstanding sounds or melodies, but an overall very chill vibe. Perfect summer jam. Decided to spice it up with the TD-3, that's always a good idea. Enjoy!

Yes, use a Quadral and its Ouroboros to exude Cerebral awe in Kontakt. If I say this out loud and slip up, I get to command the army of the undead. This sounds like something a witch would say right before they wanted to burn her, but she flew away when they found out that saying "any last words" to a spellbinding witch is not a good idea.

I'm waiting for NI to reply to my inquiry about Machine software. I purchased a Maschine Mikro second hand but the seller doesn't respond to my request to transfer the registration of the serial (he said he would do it, but after weeks and repeated reminders there is nothing but silence). I hope that if I register it or at least get some confirmation from NI that I indeed own the product now, I can get the Maschine basic software for free. If I have to buy it, so be it. But it's 34,50 at this moment. I rather not find out that I have to purchase it seperately while waiting for them to answer me and the price doubling.

Jup, I'm always looking for risers and impacts.

I like a lot of their stuff, but for me it is too vague what this is or does. Does it flatten my frequency respons? Does it enhance? Where? Does it yell at me when I try to close it? Does it attack Sonible's SmartEQ?

https://www.orchestraltools.com/sinefactory The original musical instrument, the human voice is immediate, expressive, and inviting. Manifold puts it into a modern context, offering vocal ensembles with a contemporary studio sound. With smooth and precise singing talents, Manifold is perfect for adding backing vocals to your pieces or creating simple lead lines. Performed by male and female ensembles consisting of eight singers each, Manifold includes the choral staples—oohs, ahs, and ohs, both sustained and short—as well as some creative articulations like swirling, swelling nananas and 5th jumps. Recorded at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles for a clean studio sound, Manifold includes a reverb mic position, meaning you can adjust the sound to fit seamlessly in a wide array of musical genres. Get it for free Works with Orchestral Tools’ SINEplayer—NOTE: Very latest version required! 2.15 GB of samples (758 MB SINEarc compressed) 24 bit / 48 KHz patches -------------------------------- Very nice freebie!

LoFi Pitch dropout has been free if my memory serves me right. And a surpisingly useful plugin.

Hold on! That bundle is on sale right now. For $99. But you can apply their july 4th coupon (JULY50) and get 50% off. That's 49,50 for the bundle. You can get the plugin seperately for the same price as the bundle. Edit: just purchased it and as a bonus you get around 7 GB of samples thrown in for free.

Still a bit bummed about not buying Mix Monolith when it was on sale with Plugin Alliance for a lot cheaper than this.

Reminds me of a user (me) error when using Sine Player. Got errors with newly purchased products. I got help from OT support and sigured out I kept updating the VST3 but was using the old VST2. 🤪

Life imitates art? Art imitates life? Well, I almost forgot my mother's birthday this week. Got all the presents (you know, flowers and chocolate), a card and everything. Thought to myself the day before that I should call early because I had a very busy day. But forgot to call on the day itself. Needless to say she wasn't happy. Enter the Matriach: she decided to scream in this jam. Good heavens what a sound. Sorry mom.

Haha they sure have some special Softube pricing going on there. I have Core, completing the bundle instead of buying the ONE product I'm missing in the bundle is: "Hey, how would you like to give us €4,63 for nothing?" Better yet: "Perhaps the offer of giving us €4,63 for nothing wasn't enticing enough, how about giving us €22,47 for nothing". To be fair, this is just mocking the "from / for" etc. structure. € 66.53 is a decent price I'm considering to pay. But I have to listen to some more demos first. It's not like I have a shortage of pianos.

For those wondering, what they do most of the time is do a 50% off for everything, apart from 1-2 products which have a higher discount. The 75% one is Finisher Neo.

I make music because I'm the only one who can make exactly what I want to hear at that particular time. And when I bump into limitations like lack of knowledge or lack of ability which keep me from achieving that, I make sure I learn. I have a bit anxiety about performing live, but when I record a performance at home all is well.

I had heard about it (ha!), but never gave it any thought. Until, a couple of years ago, my (now ex) girlfriend started whispering in my ear one morning. So, now I'm stuck with additional fetishes 😞

Benn Jordan has an excellent video about these developments.

Yep, the only benefit I see here is the integration with stuff like Ovox, Harmony or Waves Tune. It's a workflow tool. I guess that's why it's priced at $19.99. I completely forgot I got Harmony though 😅. So If you're not a heavy user of those plugins I don't see the benefit. I don't really know about those freeware, I know of free tuners, but accurate key finders? I have the Antares one for integration with Autotune which I rarely use and I have zplane's Tonic. Between them I'm good.

Dune 3 and The Legend are great synths from Synapse. This one flew under my radar, interesting.

Haha that's not a good thing indeed. I used to work for a large international bank (top 25 in the world) and it was actively encouraged to do courses UNrelated to your work. They even paid for it. In fact, if I had tried to do a course that was only just a bit related to my work, they would deny funding. This could be anything from hobby-related stuff to career-changing education. I currently work for a government department and funnily enough they are a bit stricter. Courses have to be somewhat work related, but on the other hand, the budget is huge. I can spend thousands of euro's each year. And as long as there are some buzzwords in the course description like "communication", "planning" or "streamlining processes", I'm golden.

I got this a while ago in a flash sale for a lot cheaper. That being said, I was kinda disappointed. I couldn't get any decent bass out of this. Maybe my bass was already top notch (doutbful 😅), but it gets way out of control the moment I go past 10%.

As I say in the description, I had a little case of writers/producers/performers block. But once I got a specific sound going (the Matriarch really delivered), it was easy going. It practically wrote itself. Had too little prep to do the drums live, so I just did the breakdown at the end. I really like this one! Also having a lot of fun with the new Behringer Edge. I posted some shorts already on my channel, more to the industrial side of things. Perhaps that explains the dislikes? Anyway, enjoy!

I read the title wrong and thought it was 50% off. So I was vigorously going through reviews before coming to the realisation that it doesn't fit the budget right now. Ah well, learned something.