Nick Blanc

I love Project SAM. And I'm afraid this will cost me money. They have a certain sound I much (!) more prefer than Spitfire. I hope Lumina gets a similar treatment, discount wise. I love their approach to layering and combining their patches. I'm not an orchestrator, so that helps A LOT. They do some very smart scripting and it is very commendable they provide these huge updates.

Also works on the Native Instruments website. You have to be logged in, then you get the upgrade price of 74,50 per library.

Thanks (and for the YT comment, I thought the name looked familiar 😅). I still have the occasional hanging midi note or sudden midi drop out, but this is the best it can get. Until I get my Midronome that is.

Thanks! The growls are from the Sub37, that's my favorite part too. It's an amazing machine for that kind of sound. You can mimic it somewhat with U-he Diva. Just apply glide to your patch, have a long sustained note and a short burst an octave (or 2) up. The spacy stuff is mainly the Matriarch. I messed that up slightly, because I made a patch with some stereo modulation intended as a pad, but I ended up using it as an arp. So the modulation doesn't have the time to complete its cycle and therefore the sound is a bit tilted to the right side. I noticed it this morning when I listened to it on headphones. 😅

It's been a weird weekend. Had a terrible friday and great saturday. Aweful to have a close friend call you that they might be dying very soon (f@#$k cancer), and a day later you are with all the entire group, all the children and just having a great day. On top that my key broke off in my lock of the front door and my favorite sports team lost. But the jam went well. So...I don't know man...overall screw this weekend.

Ah right, I own Tape and Chandler Germanium. I can get the Overstayer for 135 or the entire bundle (which would ONLY add the Overstayer for me) for 219. That's some special upgrade math there at Softube.

Maybe their BF sale has a larger discount, but got those who can't wait that long: I use 3 of their plugins on virtually every project. Canopener for the headpone check or when I work with headphones. Gooddither as my standard dither algorithm. Vulf Compressor as one of my favorite colour compressors.

Vocals sound great, very clearly mixed and intelligible (I'm not a native English speaker, so when I can hear/understand the lyrics clearly, it is a great plus). Maybe you could try a little less reverb? It sets a space but now a lot lives in that same space. If you didn't do it already, perhaps just sidechaining the reverb signal to the original track would clear it up.

You are not mistaken, as far as I know.

Because @mark skinner thought it was a good idea to put vocals in a track, I decided to do just that. Behold my glorious singing voice! Behind the scenes story: I had a first run where I wasn't paying attention and went too long. So I had another go, but a camera(phone) had a crashed SD card during the saving process and it didn't work. I didn't know, so I lost 1 angle. But luckily I had an additional angle wih my work phone for a vertical video (I didn't like the previous cropped ones and that takes a lot of time to edit out, so I set up another phone). So I zoomed in, made it 16:9 and got rid of the poor zoom quality by placing a VHS filter over it. Anyway, synthwavey stuff, vocoders, drummachines and more. Got out my "I'll be back" shirt and 'neon' glasses to look the part. Enjoy!

Great, now my stupid behind (because aparently there is some autocorrection here which doesn't let me say a s s ) is singing. Video will be up somewhere this evening or tomorrow.

And here. Seems that posting the code online killed it. Could it be that the code was part of a magazine (Beat?) and a sudden influx of users made it suspicious?

Thanks! I sort of, unintenionally, do this. I practise these sessions during the week and sculpt the sounds. I save all those sounds and I take pictures of the settings on the synths without presets. So within the project, most of the time I have some recordings of tests, other melodies, other sounds and stuff. I like the idea of building a full track out of it. While it is not my immediate intention, there is potential in some tracks. For the vocals, yeah I'm not a singer. And that's an understatement. But I happen to know a few, one metal singer with a stunningly clear voice, my ex girlfriend which is, errr, complicated and a colleague who is gaining a lot of traction lately on tiktok. That being said, I have a Microfreak and am contemplating singing myself with the vocoder mic, no pitch needed 😅

Thanks! I agree that the live playing of melodies on top was kinda missing in the previous ones. I think I was just anxious to do it because I'm not a great player. But in the end it is the most satisfying. l will try do so it more often when it fits the track (my latest electro thing was more drum oriented). It's so great when I just jam on top and it works (ok I kinda practice beforehand). Thanks again for taking the time and the feedback!

Still 199ex for me on the IK site. I don't own any MAX bundle. I own almost all the individual products due to last years group buy. So no, I won't be upgrading. The only thing I'm interested in is the Fame reverb and some of the Tascam plugins. Not worth 199.

Titanium is a nice plugin. Is it worth 59? Hmmm thereabouts.

You know those dreamy ambient soundscapes of which there are a gaziljon on Youtube? With generic descriptions ("I was longing for peace and....") and cheesy titles (dream the dream!). I'm joining the club. But seriously, I tried my hands at Wotja. The weird thing was, when I tried it with the built-in sounds, the CPU usage shot through the roof (I'm running an I9 12th gen!), so be careful. But when I routed the midi to a different track and switched off the internal sound, all was well. This was my first walk in the Wotja park, so I didn't really knew wat I was doing. I'm missing a lot of setup options I think, but the result was very pleasing. I tried another (not uploaded yet) where I routed the midi to 3 tracks, so a piano, pads and some granular thing are all playing at the same time. Oh it's 1 hour long, I won't hold it against you guys if you don't watch it till the end ("stick around till the end, you won't believe what happens next" *insert soyboy face).

Well, here is a new one. So far I'm keeping up with my 1 per week. I had the idea of that gritty Malevolent layered with the SE-02 and then some nice bright contrast with the Matriarch. But I couldn't really get drums to fit. I nearly gave up until I decided to fire up the Drumbrute, changed the beat to an electro type beat and suddenly it worked! Tried some new angles with the camera's, not a great succes as there's now only 1 camera that had me in frame and that is my lowest quality camera 🤣. Oh well, live & learn.

Nope, he was busy designing the UI.

€199 is too much money right now (I recently bought the Lyra-8, so that's my music budget for a couple of months gone). And the Essentials bundle only has the 8bit synth and Drum designer i'm really interested in, so that's not worth the €89. I'll pass.

Me too, waiting for the summer to upgrade my Komplete.

Fun! THE 90s piano is from the Korg M1 (preset Piano16) and is available in their VST. Add THAT bass from the same M1 (preset Organ 2) and you're good to go.

These plugins are also in your account for free if you purchased something from them in the past.

Nothing for me, but a reminder that until the 5th of March you can get about 90% off some bundled UVI products with Image Line. It seems you don't have to have FL Studio to qualify. https://www.image-line.com/uvi?utm_source=IL_news&utm_medium=ct&utm_campaign=uvi-IL_news-0223

Don't do it man! I've had multiple cherry flavoured beers, this one included, and they are all terrible (no offense Cherry Audio). It's a drunken lesson I did and will repeat many times over.