Reid Rosefelt

Finally they get the commercial sound effects under $20 but all my vouchers expired long ago and I had to use them on other things. The last time I tried their stuff it was unexceptional. If I'm going to buy sound fx there are lots of other places I would go.

Why a Duduk? Why not a chicken? Evolution had a contest on this freebie when they released it, so I entered. It was a nightmare to do, because I didn't know what the articulations were. I literally had to put masking tape on my keyboard to tell me what each key switch did. And then, while the contest was on, they added new features. Which was nice, but it meant I had to go back to the drawing board. Anyway this new version is a big advance. Essentially each keyswitch gives you three articulations that are clearly marked in the UI. You can change the articulations either by velocity or modwheel or the CC of your choice. Well worth getting, particularly if you have an NI keyboard. You can't beat the price. PS. I lost the contest, but the consolation prize was a discount on another product. So I bought their terrific Guzheng. So... in typical fashion, entering the contest led me to spend more money!

It seems like Soundpaint is one more addition to the computer music landscape, so bully for Troels and 8dio. The engine is free. Obviously a tremendous amount of care went into its design. The instruments are reasonably priced. Reports from beta testers about quality are excellent. We will find out if people enjoy making music and sound design with these new tools and that's the only thing that matters. That said, I don't really understand why he put a picture of the SG in the video. Why not just call it a 70s Soulful Guitar and leave it at that? Because when people see an SG they want it to sound like an SG, and that means the way it sounds played through amps. And then you can have a switch where you can take off the effects. Personally, I am withholding all judgment until Wrenchenspiel for SoundPaint comes out.

This is supposed to be an SG, right? I owned one for a decade and this doesn't sound anything like it at all. This sounds light and jazzy to me. The SG is Angus Young, Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton, etc.

Tiger the Frog is Back! Ever since I made the decision to not do the sale thread I've regretted it. It's something I really enjoy. To hell with the book! I'll be starting up on November 1st as usual. The sales don't really start until mid-November and of course they go crazy the last week.

I'm sure they are reading all the threads. I've thought about it a lot, and I think they are taking the idea of the Omnisphere ecosystem a step forward. So you have an OmniPlayer that has the filters, arps, effects and the system of combining sounds and making multis. All that stuff. But it's a shell, either with no sounds, or a selection, like Kontakt. And you can buy libraries for it, like Omnisphere, Trilian, Keyscape, and a bunch of other ones they will come out with today. And third-party people can make libraries too. The big thing about this is that if they add features to the main player, it instantly adds them to all the libraries.

They haven’t said that one of the new products won’t be guitars.

Troelspiel. I don't see how 127 samples for every note and for every articulation makes sense if you are running a business. You're going to do that with all the instruments in an orchestra? What would that cost? So I'm thinking that there are actually less than 127 layers. The 127 layers are created by sophisticated AI.

Thanks, Larry.

If I'm reading the site properly, there's less than 35 minutes left. I may have to resist this. Even though it's a good deal, finding out at this moment is a bit too much pressure.

Does anybody know if this is sampled or modeled?

Another nice walkthrough.

The whispery soundtrack to the video does suggest that there are vocals or vocal fx in this thing. Something like Exhale, but with the Omni engine? And then you would have the typical free library that combines with Omni, as there was with Trilian and Keyscape. Seeing as how there are a TON of excellent vocals of all types already in Omni, that would really be something. If it's more than one thing, then my fantasy would be Guitarscape and Vocalscape. Wow, would that destroy my bank account. But I can't believe they would be so mean as to release that amount of goodness on one day. But the plan could be to loot the cookie jar that some are putting aside for Black Friday. They released the Trilian upgrade around this time last year. And I bought it, as I was always afraid to buy Trilian and have it upgraded shortly after. If they are releasing a new instrument or instruments, and if there is an intro price, then I am doomed.

Welcome back, Larry.

I always used to do that, but I've been pretty lucky with resales after I update. So on this I might get $100 off in resale (Arkhis sold almost immediately) so it would only be a $49 impulse buy. But of course it adds up as I will definitely upgrade to the next version of Komplete.

$149 or 37% off until 11/3 There's some kind of discount if you buy with Arkhis. Even though I am trying not to buy these days, this intrigues me.

I think what I think Stylus RMX Update, because it's the oldest Spectrasonics product still in version one. But it's rhythmic, so it's not that. Something like Keyscape- in other words, Guitarscape But it's not that, because I'm thinking that. It's more than one new product. So it's either: A subscription - Get all the instruments and all the add-ons, maybe even some third party stuff. A player of some kind Many new separate products An online way of playing all Spectrasonics products SpectrasonicPaint But as I'm thinking these things--it's definitely not any of them. 🥵

This offer comes up every year at this time. It has for at least 4 years. What I did was to wait for Black Friday before I used the voucher. If I recall correctly, with the 30% off sale I paid a few bucks more and got 4 expansions.

This to me is what is great about the software music world. I haven't been buying anything for a while, and am even looking for stuff to sell. But something like this comes along as a free upgrade. Essentially it doesn't change the sounds much. What's new are all these insane sequencers and arps, some driven by probability. So you can take every preset you have and feed them through these things. For example, Falcon has always had these cool Euclidean drum and tonal sequencers. Very hard to explain what they are, but they are very easy to play with. They come with presets so you can just select one and stand back. But this update adds Euclidean Keys, which means you can have them do these complicated sequences within a key set by you. Curious to find out what a Rain Sequencer is. But it doesn't matter. It's so easy just to run stuff through these things and find out what they are. And finally, you can now record the MIDI in any of the Falcon sequences and use them with anything .

Hah! Me too! I'm going to put together a website and put some of the chapters up there. I'll let you know when I get that together.

Nope. Native Instruments.

Me too. Although I didn't like getting hit that much. 😡

Nice guess, but it's a sampled instrument in Keyscape.

Correct! I can't help putting Tracy Collins' Lap Steel in everything. Twinkly Keyboard Sound (programmed with Scaler 2) Hint: it's from Keyscape. Guitar? Hint: Plugged by me all the time here. Acoustic Bass (Programmed with EZBass) Also plugged all the time here.