Reid Rosefelt

Nice demo, Simeon. Is TGuitar the AcousticSamples instrument? I don't see it on their site.

Or... get this plus Sonic Forest, Sonic Ocean, Shou Drum, and Curio Toy Piano for $69 in the APD shop. You usually need reward points to get this deal, but now and then they open up The Shop without a requirement for reward money.

Good idea, Larry. I was using VST3. I'll try regular VST.

This crashed on me over and over, so I had to remove it from my song. Anybody else have problems with it? It's probably something on my end. I hate to criticize Sonible in any way, because they are one of my favorite companies. Certainly there is no risk for anybody to get this as they have free trials of their products.

This is the first of something that we hope to do every other week. It was put together by Samuel Törnqvist, a Swedish composer, and Simeon and I found out about it through VI:Control. I don't know about you, but I work all by myself in front of the computer. So I don't just come here to find out about deals. It's very nice to be in touch with people who share my interest. So it was nice to hear during this podcast about how the other people got involved with music and using virtual instruments. And a particular honor to get to know Simeon a little bit, because I'm a superfan. It's pretty long, but if you have some time, check it out. 😀 (FYI, I designed the logo.)

Yes, it was the only way to get it at that time. They promoted it very heavily at that time. It's good that they are making it available to anybody, and this is a good price.

I am going to check out the subscription demo. I'm not sure whether the one month or three month one.

Since Version 3 (my first), the upgrade price has always been $129.

Yes, but it would be helpful for anybody who is waiting to buy a product that is released to late to be included in the summer sales, like, I expect, Electric Vintage.

It's a funny thing, but the more I look at this, I am more interested in Reason+ than I am in regular Reason. I'm probably going to pass on regular Reason 11/12. I don't think you get Friktion with the Suite, and you certainly don't get Algorithm. Those are two of the things I want the most.and probably more that I could horse around with for a month. I never thought about the packs, but they intrigue me. Having all those complex hookups with the Reason Players (including the Pattern Mutator) I know I will get more out of Reason if I had all those instruments and all those packs. The problem is that after the first year it goes to $20 a month. But by then I would know if I'm enjoying it or not. If I don't use it much it will be easy to just let the subscription lapse. I am paying for all kinds of subscriptions, from Photoshop to Premiere to Netflix to Hulu. And if I think about all the money I put into keeping up with Native Instruments, it would be a LOT cheaper to pay $20 a month to them. Maybe I will sign up for the free month to check it out... I wish I had more time. If the yearly subscription was always $139, I would be up for it.

Looking on the site it appears that Reason Studios no longer sells the Suite directly. Everything that used to be in the Suite seems to be now subscription-only. Maybe the Suite will always be available through stores, but anybody who wants it might want to consider getting it now

I upgraded Reason every year from version 3 to 6, but after they came out with the Rack Extensions they lost me. It was the new stuff in each version that hooked me. And after I stopped using it for years... But $80 (with code) for Reason 12 sounds pretty good. There's some decent stuff in the Rack. I like Europa. And who knows what 12 might bring. Anybody know how long this sale is on?

Anybody thinking about something cheap they would buy this month to get one of these freebies? I am considering one of the Audiomodern loop packages, as I love the stuff I have from them, like the two Opacities. But the question is whether I would be overpaying for that to get something "free."

After passing it by for years, while I waited to know more about the plugins, I was finally ready to buy the whole set last BF. And then for the first time ever, they didn't discount it at all. They did say that they would make an announcement at some point about a sale on Soundtoys 5. My problem with them is I like to audition plugins before buying. And I spend many hours auditioning a plugin, comparing it against everything I have to see if it really offers something different. But they only allow you to audition ALL their plugins. Anyway, they gave a nice demo on their whole Effects Rack last summer and that finally sold me. But then they didn't do the 50% off loyalty price sale I wrote them and said you have my money now if you can offer me the same exact deal you offered me the last three years, but they didn't respond to the email. So now I think even if they do offer the deal again, I'm probably not going to buy it. Maybe I'll wait until 2030 for Soundtoys 6. 😀

As Larry said, I think this is a very special thing. Imagine NI adding something new to Komplete Ultimate after the release of Komplete? And IK has done this kind of this before. A month or two after I bought TS2, they added the limited version of SampleTank to the deal. Might not sound like much, but it gave me the new UI and a few new instruments. I've been calculating the $299 minus JamPoints in my mind. I didn't think about it being $299. But this forum keeps selling me more on it regularly. So many talk about how much they love the Sunset Sound reverb. So many of the separate products are raved about as being worth the money separately. I add it to the stuff I really want like AmpliTube, Mixbus, the B3, Modo Drum, So the only question is whether I should get TS3 now or wait until BF or BF 2022 to get it cheaper. This Compressor makes that decision a little harder. 🤔

In my opinion, the BIAB plugin is very much a Limited Edition of the Standalone. For example, you can use the soloist to generate MIDI tracks, but not Realtracks. If you are the kind of person who likes to go into the settings in BIAB, you'll see there are many other things the DAW plugin won't do. But if all you want to do is put in the chords, add a style, and have it play, it is fine. The song files you create work equally well in the Standalone and the DAW plugin

They have also updated the Creative FX Collection https://www.airmusictech.com/product/creative-fx-collection-plus#updates

Wow, I had the exact opposite experience. I found the folders system to be very unwieldy. Always having to go back into those folders over and over to get a different preset in a different category. It's the same thing I don't like about Engine. But when I got the NKS template from Freelance Soundlabs, it unleashed this for me. I'd always liked it, but just didn't use it much. But I agree about it being under-rated. The reason for this is obvious. They gave it away for free for a year. And then for $1. If it was really priced at $99 with occasional sales for $49 I believe people would see it in a much more appreciative way.

Mono/Poly and MS-20?

Sonuscore is really hitting it out of the park with the constantly improving The Orchestra, plus these new products for EastWest and Native Instruments. I would imagine that the Woodwinds for The Orchestra should be coming out soon. And don't forget Elysion and Mallet Flux and the Origins series.

The advantage of Atom Hub freebies like Candlestick (there are many more) and their paid libraries is that the wav files are unlocked. http://www.atomhub.net/Freebies.html Great for your collection of unusual samples to be used as one shot elements in XO and similar instruments. Highly recommend Atom Hub in general.

Back when I used an iPad to make music, I regularly plugged my guitar into my ipad and played Timeless for hours. There are some beautiful presets in there. I preferred it to any of the delays made for guitar. For some reason I've never bought it for the PC. Maybe the reason is it costs a lot more? And I have a lot of delays? And I rarely play actual guitar these days? I will watch out for this.

I like this, but the main problem is that it doesn't recognize many chords. I don't know what it does beyond major and minors. It doesn't really say. There are also two extra nkis-- one with chords and one with notes. So you can play lead lines with this as well as strum. I'm going to give the edge to the NI strummers because they recognize more chords. The AAS and ujam guitars also recognize a lot of complex chords. But this has its place. I like being able to stack four guitars at once, and the strumming engine is good. 👍

Have you explored the Indiginus Mandolin? I don't have it, but I really like their guitars. One of my favorite features is that they let you auto-generate harmony playing. You can hear this feature in the demos. https://www.indiginus.com/the-mandolin

I got in touch with Jesus from Wavesfactory and they have already made the change. On the settings page there is a mapping option that allows you to choose left or right. Unfortunately I have just discovered that I can't see the colors for key switches in Kontakt. I don't know when this problem started. Anyway I'm not going to be able to figure this out for a while. [NOTE: I figured this out. Did you know that you can turn off the colored keyswitches in Kontakt settings? Why would you want to do that? Well if you want, you can.]