Nick Blanc

3 hours ago, Carl Ewing said:

Orchestral Tools: Konduit (screw it, bought it at full price. Using it already today.)

😄

7 minutes ago, Jim Roseberry said:

Polybrute is also on sale:

https://www.proaudiostar.com/arturia-polybrute-analog-polyphonic-synthesizer.html

That's an amazing deal. If I had the room and budget I would get one. This is one those 'center piece of the studio' kind of synths.

54 minutes ago, audioschmaudio said:

I see I'm in good company.

My purchases this November:
Software:

• Apeshyt Rampage €0,00
• Waves - Silk Vocal €0,00
• Splash Sound - Indie Voices €0,00
• Thenatan - Tape FX €0,00
• Tracktion - Dawesome LOVE €0,00
• Meat Beats- HERA-ONE €0,00
• Cymatics- Vortex €0,00
• Phil Speiser - THE_BUILD €0,00
• HoRNet - ElliptiQ €0,00
• 2B Played - QFX Color €0,00
• Yum Audio - Flux Machine Light €0,00
• Yum Audio - Crispy Clip Light €0,00
• Red Sounds - Vox Engine 2 €0,00
• Karanyi Sounds - Electric Keys €0,00
• 8Dio - Ambient Guitar €0,00
• 8Dio - Hybrid Rhythms €0,00
• 8Dio - 1928 Steinway Piano €0,00
• Audiomodern - Freezr €0,00
• Izotope - Ozone 11 EQ €0,00
• Soundtoys - Little Plate €0,00
• Air Music Tech - Bassline €0,00
• Ujam - Virtual Bassist Mellow 2 €0,00
• SampleScience - Virtual Handpan €0,00
• GForce - ImpOSCar 2 €1,99 (for Computer Music digitial issue)
• Sonivox - Harpsichord €2,51
• Audio Tech Hub - Custom Tone €3,21
• United Plugins - Quickmuse €7,00
• Audio Assault - ReAmp2 (Upgrade from ReAmp1) €9,80
• WA Production - Loop Engine 2 Upgrade from 1 €10,90
• Ujam - Beatmaker Dope €14,44 (via KnobCloud)
• Melda Production - MSoundFactory LE €19,00
• Polydigm - Klimper €29,90
• SoundToys - Little Alterboy €41,95
• Mixed in Key - Pilot Plugins Futurism + Pop Foundation €58,00
• SoundToys - Effect Rack 5 €127,00

Total: €325,70

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Samples and Presets:

• Cymatics - Guitar Loop Bundle €0,00
• Diginoiz - The Modern Soul €0,00
• Diginoiz - Acoustic Divine €0,00
• Apeshyt - Rebellion Loops €0,00
• WA Production - Loud EDM €0,00
• Cymatics - Weekday €0,00
• WA Production - Progressive House Mega Pack 2 €0,00
• Industry Kits - Drip Guitars €0,00
• Cymatics - Phoenix Secret Expansion €0,00
• OST Audio - Synthwave For Spire €0,00
• OST Audio - Glitch Synthwave €0,00
• OST Audio - Crunchy Lo-Fi House €0,00
• OST Audio - Cybertron €0,00
• Waveshaper - KR-55 €0,00
• Roundel Sounds - Make Me - Freebie €0,00
• Smemo Sounds - Travis €0,00
• Cymatics - Dynasty - Trap MIDI Collection €2,00
• Wave Alchemy - Synth Drums €2,04
• Audiomodern - Cosmic - Playbeat Expansion €3,28
• Plugin Boutique - Synthwave for Hive €3,82
• Jungle Loops - End Of Year Loot €3,98
• TCustomz Production - Vox Sample Kit Vol.3 €5,30
• We are Magonia - Synthesized Terror for TAL-U-NO-LX €7,37
• Mitch Murder - Hive 2 Soundbank by Mitch Murder €8,99
• Musicomplit - Extreme MIDI Drums Bundle €12,96
• F9 Audio - Electric Disco II: Beats €13,65
• F9 Audio - Electric Disco II: Nuggets Vol. 1 €13,65

Total: €77,04

Altogether: €402,74 💸💸💸

And I was tempted to buy yet so much more. Black Friday Month is killing me 😩

Great haul for the price. 😎

3 hours ago, PhonoBrainer said:

I thought this was pretty interesting! Very nice room setup and I appreciate the synth porn. I alternated between watching your moves and then closing my eyes  for just the audio. Both worked a treat!

I listened on my best headphones. I did hear some separation and panning of elements, but I felt like whatever YouTube does to audio might be doing you the slightest disservice. I bet it sounds just a hair more hi-res in your room!

That's a lot of effort - do you practice the moves beforehand before filming it, following a script of some kind? Super interesting process, and I appreciate the brevity. Some peoples "watch me jams" can be an hour long, which is quite ridiculous imho.

That fat-***** bass drony synth is the highlight, it's super rich, sounds great in this!

kudos!

cheers,

-Tom

Hi Tom,

thanks for the reply! It sounds fine in my room, but to be honest, I don't pay that much attention to panning and stuff. So the criticism is valid. I don't think Youtube does a lot to the stereofield of the mix? Well, I'm always learning. So your comment and that of @Wookiee are going to be in my mind next jam (well no, I already recorded, mixed and mastered that, so in 2 weeks).  Most of the current stereo seperation is from delays and reverb fx. So I will definitely try to do some more work in the stereofield. Thanks.

I do practice runs yes, not really to practice what I will do and repeat it but to see if what I have in mind will work in 6-8 minutes. I've had jams where I have a cheatsheet, but I try to do without. Depending on the number of channels I try to do everything live, but mixing  like 12 channels on an 8 channel MIDI controller is hard (you have to switch views, don't know which channel is where exactly, etc). 

The fat-*** drone is the MS-20 mini. It's a classic for a reason. I have it feedback patched (the out to the ext. in and the phones out to my pre-amps). Combined with the Sub37 gives me an insane amount of colourful and rich bass.

14 minutes ago, Wookiee said:

As a dance track it probably doesn't matter but it sounds all down the middle on my Adams. no sense of spread.

Did you capture this in CbB?

Nope, Ableton (and Yamaha HS8 speakers). But I admit, I didn't spent a lot of time on the mixing and mastering.

1 hour ago, PavlovsCat said:

Nick, you clearly don't have a kid in college. For those of us who do, we have a much more modest list! Also, as Carl was asking about Conduit, I vote for a video of you playing including Conduit. I think most people here would be into your playing and gear. 

For those who haven't seen it, Nick makes some very cool videos of him playing a ton of cool synths and drum machines with enough cool gear it will make most of us envious (me included in that group).

Haha no video yet. I have some plans to record a longer set where some time is reserved for some droning techno. But I need a new camera for that because it won't fit on my phone (and another old phone I use will never make it for a longer time than 10 minutes).

But indeed, no kids. I was pretty lucky to buy my house at it's absolute lowest in the market. Add an ok paying job with public transport compensation (so, I have the smallest cheapest car) and I can save a lot of money each month. 

1 hour ago, Carl Ewing said:

Have you tried this out yet? I hesitated last second, and sale ended. Thought the demos sounded great - and in a particular noise style that I love - but also found it difficult to tell how playable it was. Some of these type libraries seem better suited to .wav file sample packs than instruments. Could not tell from the walkthroughs.

Yes I have, it's a bit of a mixed bag where you can do some melodic work with some patches and more of a drone atmosphere with others. But they are lively patches with a lot of movement. Quick demo of a couple of presets.

Boy do I love the sound of a droning heavy MS-20. The feedback patch gives it a lot of grit. Overall a bit rougher feeling than last week, and I like it. A bit heavier beat and a great lead. Don't tell anyone but I had to re-record the Lyra-8 because I forgot to change the frequency to make a riser in the break. That's why you can hear the pitch rising without me doing anything on camera.

I particularly like the Matriarch patch, it has some slight pitch wobble which makes it sound unstable, but not too much to make it sound out of tune.

Enjoy!

I'm a little bit ashamed, but I have a feeling some of y'all are underreporting. So here's everything I bought in the enitre month of november (if I went with BF itself I would have bought nothing). I've marked everything I planned with a (P).

Cableguys Reverbshaper
Orchestral Tools Conduit
TheNatan Xeight2
D16 Repeater (P)
Minimal Audio soundpacks
Universal Audio LA2A (P)
Universal Audio Signature Edition
Safari Pedals Gorilla Drive (P)
Kingsway Music Aaron Paris Vol 1 (P)
Retrohandzmusic Essential Afro house
Navie D Boom Bap Box (P)
Basicwavez Bass Lab vol 2 (P)
Audioreakt Solid Techno Kicks 2 (P)
Imaginando VS (P)
Devious Machines upgrade all (P)
Fabfilter Pro-R 2 
PML Everything 2023 (P)
Waves Clarity vx, Vocal Bender & Soundshifter (P)
Goodhertz Trem Control (P)
Teletone Audio Le Gibet (P)
Teletone Tympo (P)
The Drum Broker samples BF 2023 (P)
Tracktion F'em

So about 65% was planned. In my defense, some of the unplanned stuff are new releases (Reverbshaper, Xeight2, Conduit, Pro-R2), so they have nothing to do with BF. If they were launched in january I would have gotten them then.

And roughly 30% of what I bought are sample packs. The single most expensive thing on the list (PML Everything 2023) was €196 and is almost entirely samples. Couple of preset packs also. The UA Signature edition is the largest unplanned purchase at €145. But I think no-one is denying that's a great bargain. In total I spent little under €1250.

I also spent around €700 on hardware. No discount, so not BF related. But it is the time of the year for bonusses / 13th month etc. So I had some room.

54 minutes ago, Fleer said:

I’ve got BBCSO Pro, Albion One, Albion Tundra, Albion Neo, eDNA, British Drama Toolkit, Kepler Orchestra, plus a few smaller ones. 
Quite happy with these. Pretty pretty happy. But I hate to see they even don’t mention Christian Henson in their 15 years retrospective. He’s the anonymous co-founder, apparently. 

Really? That's a d*ck move.

Ontopic: at the moment they have nothing that interests me or is still too expensive for what I would use it for.

20 hours ago, e-cue said:

The bundle for $99?  Shesh.

9 plugins though. If you want them all, a pretty good deal I think.

Besides real life pedals, they make vst versions. And they have a really nice non-sale price. But they even go further and offer a discount.

https://safaripedals.com/collections/products

Up to 80% off. I got Gorilla Drive but I might consider getting some more. This is quality stuff.

https://www.audiotent.com/

Presets, samples and courses. Everything 30% off. Ends november 30th and the discount code BF30 is automatically applied at checkout.

Interesting, I Forever29'ed it.

2 hours ago, laglag said:

 

I own Albion One, so it might be a crossgrade price.

Thtat would be my guess, I also have Albion One and see the $169 price.

This is as low as it ever got.

It seems not that long ago that being on the Waves 'hate train' was ok in everybody's book. Even recent speculating about possible shenanigans from UA is. A tiny reminder about another company's (lack of?) ethics is not entirely out of place in a deals forum. I personally have done so with audioplugin.deals and I never got any negative feedback.

I don't have the same sentiment as Pavlov's Cat in this case because I didn't have a negative encounter with this particular business, but he is free to warn us. As I was and did in the past.

10 hours ago, Nick Blanc said:

Yup, will bite this time. I'm still in the market for Clarity vx, now for 2 other ones. I'm thinking Vocal rider and....ehm...

Got Clarity VX, Vocal Bender and Soundshifter.

DRUM BROKER - BLACK FRIDAY SALE

This year's annual BFCM Sale is going to be HUGE. Get up to 50% off your entire order during the sale. These are once a year savings on drum kits, sample packs, breaks, and one-shots that won't last!

Here are the dates and Discount Codes:

Black Friday: 11/16-11/26 at midnight. 50% OFF EVERYTHING. Promo Code: BF23

Cyber Monday: 11/27-11/30 at midnight. 40% OFF EVERYTHING. Promo Code: CM23

Sale Exclusions:Filth Bundle ($99), Tomorrow's Wish, Messages from Outer Space Vol. 2, Minta Foundry Bundles, Anastazja Vocal Chops Vol. 4

https://hiphopdrumsamples.com/

https://goodhertz.com/plugins/

I have several of their plugins, most notably the Wulf compressor. Well actually, I use Gooddither on almost every mix instead of the dithering algorythms of my DAW or plugins like Ozone or ProL. 

I'm getting Trem control this year. Tupe seems great, but I've spend enough already 😅

Just now, Music Software Deals said:

I think they work with Kontakt Player actually

I was just about to say that, all the products work with the Player.

Well, there's this whole thing going on online about it being such a minor upgrade from the previous one that people feel a bit ripped off about the price. The backlash even caused Benn Jordan to quit Youtube reviews because people called him out for not addressing it well enough to their liking.

Yup, will bite this time. I'm still in the market for Clarity vx, now for 2 other ones. I'm thinking Vocal rider and....ehm...

1 minute ago, Sistine said:

The problem is that the above link has to backslashes at the end! Remove one and it runs!

Right you are. When I navigated so another page the website was fine. 

Just now, PavlovsCat said:

Jesus is a talented dev. I'm a long time customer and find he makes very good libraries. 

Websites not so much 😅

Anyway, Trackspacer and Spectre are must-haves imo.