Reid Rosefelt

I think this may be the best price so far. The first I heard of it, it was 59 euros at VSTBuzz or about $67 And then over BF it was 49 euros or $55 And now it's $40

I'm intrigued by Emvoice, but I do worry about the price drops. If the company goes under then the software no longer works. The downside of Emvoice is that you only license voices. The program is in the cloud. The upside is that there are free updates forever. The only thing you pay for would be new voices. Black Friday 2020 $139 per voice Black Friday 2021 $119 Earlier this year $99 Now $59 Even if it goes lower, $59 seems like a very fair price. For the BF 2020 price for one voice you can now get two voices. if it's as good as the demos. I'm going to download the demo, and decide for myself, although I read somewhere that it wasn't available anymore. Hopefully $59 will be the sweet spot and a lot of people may jump. I have a video planned where I could really use this, so I am likely to be one of them.

Then you already have it! 😀 With the update, I will have the user interface in the one you bought. As far as I know,the new Guzheng is the same as the old one aside from a different UI and the fact that the Guzheng now has NKS.

@Zo Thanks! I will get to these soon.

This is a gear-oriented forum, so that makes sense . And maybe they didn’t like it! 😀 That’s okay. I’m just trying to work on musical video projects every day and finish them all. The important thing is the learning. I try to do a good job but I have no idea what the response will be. I don’t know about all of you, but when I buy something, I don’t always make music with it. I think one problem I’ll never be able to fix is mastering. I listened to this on different speakers and headphones. All sounded decent, although the Beyerdynamic phones made it sound much better. But then I tried earbuds. Awful and totally unlistenable. 🤮 And people use them a lot. I also have to say that Sonarworks is not working for me. Going from phones to speakers, I find I’m better off without it.

I've been playing with it in my DAW for a long time, but when I tried to record, nothing happened. Maybe I was doing something wrong, but for me it was like Addictive Drums. You have to generate MIDI patterns and drag them into the tracks. Anyway, I prefer the control I get from having MIDI patterns and wavs over live play anyway.

Interesting. I figured there must be a lot of ways to use XO, but I just settled on exporting wavs so I could get going. On the export page, you can export MIDI too. Basically I settled into the method of exporting composite wavs to do my arrangement. And then when I was done with that, I exported stems This allowed me to take elements in the stems in and out as the piece developed. Often what I did was that I heard something I liked in one of the stems, so I redid it myself with another percussion instrument. So in retrospect, maybe I should have used MIDI stems. I'll try that next time. Or a combination of stems and wavs. It gets VERY complicated when you're using your own sounds and not just the presets. You have to remember which folders you checked. But while I enjoy playing XO live, I think outputting stuff is a better technique for me when I sit down to actually finish a piece.

This is a really intimidating title for a contest. You need a LOT of confidence to enter this.

Here's my new video. I was trying to make music out of my comfort zone. I've fooled around with XO, but never actually finished any music with it. Turns out you can't play it into your DAW, you have to output wavs. The cool thing is that you can output out all the stems. And because it's XO, I didn't just use Delhia de France's sounds like loops--I was able to put all these noises I've collected into the drum parts. But definitely XO and de France got this project started. Once I saw Bettie dancing to her beats, it was a go. I thought it was worth a shot to try to get Realitone Blue to sing "Beh-tee," and I think it worked out pretty well. It's hard for me to think of this piece without it. At the end, I even have two Blues singing harmony. But the best thing (as with my previous video) is Evolution Series' Brontë. This is such a cool VI. I expect I'll be using it a lot. I think it kicks the ***** of the competition. So beautiful. I wondered if I would ever get round to using Boz Digital's El Clapo and Das Boot, but they are in this too. There's a few bars of Butch Vig at the beginning too. I did think for a while about making this a binaural mix, but I decided it was too complicated for that. But my experience with binaural led me to make this kind of nutzo spacially.

Wow!

https://helpcenter.steinberg.de/hc/en-us/articles/4409561018258?fbclid=IwAR0C626P2_1HBG3kgwCLBUiGJsSqR9etv_26wK-jiSZL7qSGq8JdU6H9pKs Another reason to buy Unify. I apologize if somebody already posted this...

And they have a competition. https://www.spitfireaudio.com/haunted-house-scoring-competition/ This is the first Spitfire competition that I'm going to "enter." 😄 Coincidentally, I had decided to make my next video composition on a horror/atmospheric theme. I've been looking at old public domain films on the Internet Archive to score.. So I might as well spring for the 29 bucks (they got me!) and try this. It will just be something to put up on my YouTube channel, and maybe being in the contest will get me a few more views.

I think they need the summer to bring out more libraries to go into Komplete 14.

Deleted. Drugs addled my mind 😱

I think Ben is fine. He lives modestly in St Paul, Minnesota, not New York or LA. He was a student when he started putting out libraries. Now he's a teacher. He records these instruments in a room at home, i think. He's the performer, recorder, and coder. So I would say he keeps his costs down. 😀 And if you compare his stuff to other things on Loot, I wouldn't call them especially cheap. I own most of them but I don't own them all and I wish I did. I've never understood why he doesn't put up his own website and keep all the money. But I guess he doesn't want the hassle of people calling him all the time when their download doesn't go right. But I agree with you. Having an instrument with NI is going to do wonders for his career. Countless more people will discover his talent and they're going to buy his other stuff.

FYI, the next Ben Osterhouse library, Pathfinder Cello, will be a Native Instruments product. So it will be NKS and Kontakt Player and you'll be able to get it this August/September as part of one of the versions of Komplete 14. Probably Ultimate or CE. It was supposed to come out on January 1st, but Ben said in VI:Control that they're still working on it. It always takes more time to get stuff through NI. I was asked to beta test it, but doing so for NI means actually writing music with it. Too much of an ask while I was going nuts being Tiger the Frog. Too bad, I would have done it if the request had come up at a different time. @Simeon Amburgey and I got to know Ben when he came on our podcast. I bet he beta tested it, but can't talk about it. 😀 It will no doubt be released with some kind of intro price, so that the vouchers won't work. 😀

If anybody's interested, here's Ann-Kathrin Dern's video:

Sorry, Larry. I should learn to read. And I may take advantage of this offer now that I understand it. Anyway, maybe somebody would be interested in what I said about the phones.

I hate to say it, but $149 is the regular price for a the DT 770 PRO 80 ohms. I know because I shopped for awhile and that's the price today at Amazon. I don't know about the other headphones. However, I was able to buy a pair for $140 during Black Friday. I remember somebody posting an announcement here where they were less than that. That said, I really recommend these headphones. The 770 has changed my life. I'm mad I never bought a decent pair of phones before . The difference between these and my old CB-1s is truly night and day. I may end up buying a second pair when there is the kind of sale where they reduce the price. 😀 FYI, the 770 is closed, the 990 is open, and then there is the 880 (not on sale here) which is kind of in the middle, and that's the one Ann-Kathrin Dern uses (along with her Sennheiser). You don't have to spend a fortune to get something that is really super-comfortable and sounds great. What I like about these phones is that they give you a clear picture in your mind between all the different instruments. It's uncanny It really sculpts them out. So when I mixed my first binaural track, it sounded awesome. Then I listened to it on my CB-1s and it was mud. You would never notice that it wasn't good if you didn't hear the same thing on the Beyerdynamics. I had to revise my mix and try to find a middle ground.

I sang with all the bands I was in as a lead guitarist during my teens, and for a year or two I even was the lead singer in a band and didn't have to play. But now... not so good. A few years ago I had a friend sing one of my songs, as he has a much better voice. It took forever. He didn't sing it the way I heard it in my head so I made him do take after take and then I did a lot of cutting and pasting. The lesson I took from that is that I have to do the vocals myself and fix them as best I can. But I do stare at Emvoice a lot. I'm really curious about it. I have too many toys to play with, but it looks like it would be fun to have it sing silly things. A hundred bucks isn't bad for a girl singer, even one that sounds a bit like a machine.

At this price, it's a damned good deal. It's obviously a companion piece to Keyscape. KeySuite has a lot more instruments, but I find the quality to be better with Keyscape. For example Keyscape just has a Yamaha and KeySuite has a whole bunch of acoustic pianos. But I like and use the Keyscape stuff more, particularly the electric pianos and the more unusual instruments. Plus Keyscape is integrated with Omnisphere and can do all the things that Omni can do. Of course, if you have Falcon, you can do a lot with KeySuite. If you can afford both, there are a ton of instruments in KeySuite that aren't in Keyscape. Personally, I don't tend to use it much, aside from the Austrian Grand, which I think is great, and the Digital set. But there are people who swear by their Steinway, which used to be available as a separate instrument.

I have never watched a @Simeon Amburgey video involving a piano that didn't sell me. Good think I already have this. 😀

I really love the Keysuite Digital set, which is the cheapest one. I also use the Austrian Grand a lot.

I get regular emails on everything UVI releases, but I've never received a single one about a voucher. I've missed out on all of them since 2016 when I started buying lots of UVI. I only found out about them here on this forum. My first one was last January. This was a good one for me. But I should hope so. I bought Vintage Vault 3, among other things.

There is a 50% off sale on all Mntra Instruments now. https://www.mntra.io/instruments So Pripyat is $15 ($29) and UDW (Aztec Death Whistles) is also $15 ($25) Even with 50% off the other instruments are $39. And Orakle X (the big brother of Orakle) is $59 ($120) For me, all the patches in RASA and ORAKLE work fine. Most of the patches in FRCTURE are also fine. But when I load some of them, it freezes and also brings down Unify and Cubase. I feel like this problem is solvable for me. Bad samples. I'm going to check and see which patches crash it and write them. If there was a reasonable update to Orakle X, I might be interested. (The update was free if you bought ORAKLE before September) I like their stuff. I agree with you that these problems shouldn't happen, but I do believe that if a library works it will continue working. And that's how I would see it even if my name wasn't RD ROSFLT. 😀