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Same here. It's been a very clean upgrade.

I so should have jumped on their Taylor Davis violin when it was $49.

It definitely pays (i.e., saves) to wait for Studio Max sales. Stay away from the Group Buys.

Am I reading the NI website correctly? The Session Picked Nylon isn't included in ANY bundle? Is that right?

... and it's NOT part of Mercury!

Does the noise go away when you unplug the guitar?

Same...

I've found that to be true. They sound very nice here. Some of that is live and some OTS. It gets hard to tell which is which, but tremolos are all live. That is OTS' biggest weakness.

I wonder why their install process is so convoluted: open Kontakt, open Containing Folder, drag new files into the Sample folder. Why bother going thru Kontakt? Just use Windows File Explorer.

Hmmm, no legato. Only slides. No, thank you.

If I already have Ilya Efimov's, any reason to get this?

Not only that, but PCR-Editor_Ver.2.10_for_Vista works in Win11, too! It just... works.

FYI, I updated Win10 to Win11 and the method shown in this video worked great for me. I first had to uninstall the driver leftover from Win10 and then re-install that exact same driver in Win11. Works great for me!

As an alternative opinion, using a custom GUI allows the designer to offer a customized experience made just for that particular instrument. My expectation is they would offer more streamlined, easier to access control to get results faster than what can be achieved with a generic interface. But they need to DO this to make it worthwhile.

Just bought this and was offered the Italian Harpsichord bundle for $39.95. If you missed this last time around, this is another chance to pick them up at a good price.

Yes, that's what it was. Still, it was fun to go thru the excercises to see where you need help. Basically the idea is to stop learning to recognize intervals in isolation, They only make sense relative to the key you're in. So the method is to 1) recognize the tonic/root of the melody being played, 2) recognize the notes being played by "feeling" how it would resolve to the tonic, 4th, or 5th, 3) increase your short term memory by practicing, so you can hold all the notes of a phrase in your head. No doubt this would work. The package includes practice files.

Wow, 50 years.... Feeling really, really old. Yet, I still maintain that it was a magical musical time back then. So much creativity. Nothing like it sense. Many songs are still pertinent, touching the soul, and nice to listen to.

Where can I find Orange Blossom Meltdown? I'd love to hear it!

only available if you're fully WUP'ed.

Check out some of the videos. This use case is (mostly) covered. Pretty impressive.

Oooh! Included in Mercury.

I have found the same thing. I've stopped collecting 8DIO. It am much more productive using other libraries.

As an alternative opinion, I view AmpleSound as the best an OrangeTree as a useful 2nd. In particular, I can more easily force which string a note is played on, which makes those combo open/closed chords up the neck sound pretty darn real.

But PB's freebee is trash this month, so gonna wait for the next time.

This was my stepping stone to the Mercury bundle.