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We just wanted to let you know that for a limited time when you purchase a video tutorial download, you can pick any other download of your choice, of equal or lesser value for FREE! https://www.groove3.com/ I don't know how long this will last. Are their BF deals better than this?

Hey, Simeon, do you have other discounts for other companies I should know about?

One of the spooky/horror instruments: https://soundiron.com/collections/sound-effects/products/waterharp on sale now!

Their engine may "click" with you, It may become more intuitive or easier to manipulate those fine articulations amd make it easier to sound more lifelike. But you won't know until you try it. And you forgot to add Amplesound to your list of other outstanding guitar VSTis.

Thanks, everyone. Since I already own Izotope's MPS5 it looks like I'm all set. From my understanding Stratus 3D = PhoenixVerb/Nimbus upgrade, clear and open tails for dialog & music Symphony3D = R2/R4 upgrade, colored/chorusy tails for lush music Does this sound right?

I can't find anything on their website about this but I just got an email stating: To better match Euro pricing, VSL has just reduced US Dollar prices on all of their products. What better time to buy?

What do you consider the "must have" Exponential Audio reverbs? They're all on sale until July 31

You get what you pay for, tho. Those 650s are very, very nice!

Dang... I jumped on this and then discovered I already have it! I have it filed under Best Service but I looked for Eduardo Tarilonte. I can't return software. Anyone want to buy my extra serial number for $50? Edit: Got the mandatory follow-up call from Sweetwater and they said they WILL accept a software return from me! So I'm good. Great guys there! I withdraw my $50 offer.

If you already have several of their sound banks, check your personal deals on AAS. My price is $7 each for the 3 new banks I don't already have!

Hmm, this is not a sale. Just it's normal price.

70 to go!

Hmmm, only their plugins. No hardware.

Just to bring this to a close, NI's Session Guitarist Picked Acoustic has 2 basic sounds - picked and fingered. Fingered sounds pretty realistic, which means it's not acceptable for bluegrass. Picked sounds like they used a cheap, thin plastic pick that scrapes along the string, producing too much raspy string attack which, again, is not appropriate for bluegrass. However, if you use their built-in "warm EQ" (I set it to 75%) and RX9's Mouth De-click, you can eliminate much of that. You can hear the results here. In hindsight, I think it may have been easier to use abacab's idea and try the Indiginus' Renegade Acoustic. It may give me a useable sound with less fuss. I'll wait for a sale and try get it for next time. Thanks again for all your comments.

And your voice is just fine for that genre. I've heard much, much worse. And really good vocals get too operatic. No, this is just fine. So be encouraged. Don't stop cuz you think your vocals suck. Ignore that voice in your head.

I believe you have to manually download and install 2.x to get on the new update bandwagon.

IK stuff needs to be deactivated as well, IIRC.

Most of my Explorer usage requires more clicks in Win11. I was quite happy with Win10.

Hmmm, Taylor Davis violin for $89. I really regret missing that $49 special deal last year (or was it the year before).

I really appreciate everyone's opinions, inputs, and suggestions. I've found NI's Session Guitarist Picked Acoustic to not be too bad, especially if you use the dynamic or ribbon mics. Those really warm the sound up a lot. I think this might work for me so I'm going to play with this some more. It has some limitations which I'm currently attempting to work around, which include: Slides are fixed duration, maybe too slow for very fast bluegrass runs. Hammer-on/pull-offs can sound strange unless you pick specific velocity for both source/destination notes. Destination note velocity has to be turned way, way down. I still get fret noises even when I turn fret noise down to 0. In fact, so far I've heard no changes as I sweep the fret noise from 0% to 100%. I wish I could lower the pick noise a little. Maybe a little Transgressor or RX Click Remover might help some. This sounds best when I keep velocity below 80%. But it sounds pretty good to my ears so far. It's an old Martin 00-21, not a D-28, but it's good enough for me. I think.

Yes, I've done that and it works pretty well. You capture the timing, notes, and amplitude that way, but you lose slide and hammer-on/pull-off articulations. You also lose fret position. You would then use the VST to add those things you lost in the audio-MIDI translation. Kind of tedious but you can get a quite realistic result, if you can find the right guitar sound, which I haven't yet. All the Martin VSTs I've tried so far are way too bright and steely. EQ doesn't quite fix them.

Seeking some ideas here. I am programming some traditional bluegrass pieces and having difficulty finding a suitable guitar sound. I've found other instruments that are suitable, like: Mandolin: Orange Tree (can work around its deficiencies, it can be very good) Banjo: AmpleSound (can work around the left hand engine, it can be very good) Bass: AmpleSound (no issues. very good) Fiddle: Indiginus (sounds great but working out the articulations takes a lot of time) But Guitars, nope. I've tried these but all have been found wanting: AmpleSound: Martin, Taylor, Gibson: too modern-sounding, bright, too "key-boardy". EQ'ing makes these better but the "key-boardy" sound is still there. I'm an AmpleSound fanboy and wanted these to work so badly. But no.... OrangeTree: Steel String has too many note issues (fret buzz, un-even sound). Dry Relic is close, but something doesn't quite seem right for bluegrass. I think the strings are a little TOO dead for this. Next, I'm gonna try NI's Session Guitar Picked Acoustic and Bolder Sounds' Motiv. But are there other's out there that I should consider? I don't want a bright, modern sound. Thank you for any recommendations you can offer.

If I already have all the OrangeTree and AmpleSound and NI acoustic instruments, is there a good reason to get this, too? What does it offer that the others don't?

Yes, it was. But the final $16.91 price for the sound paks wasn't. That's the only reason I made my post.

At JRRShop, $19 sound paks are $16.91 with code FORUM.