Christian Jones

Hey man, there's no easy way out.. there's no shortcut home

Anyone still use Da Capo? $112 right now anyway.

Both Swing and Swing More together for $ 496.30

Hmm I'm seeing $374 but yeah that's still too high, they just did a tad over 25% off there

Well did say it's not just about deals, but connecting with the community..

What do you want, bbcso?

23 minutes. Then what?

Nah I got it and it's cool. Actually my gf got it and gave it to me last summer, or I think it was her iirc. Maybe it was someone else but I just know I didn't get it on my own but I've had it for a while now and it ain't bad actually.

Dang. I hope they do that for Bernard. Then I'll be forced to spend money I don't have. I mean I have it, but I shouldn't spend it. But I mean I will if I have to. Then I'll hold on to it.. until I can buy another hard drive and a bigger case for it

What about the George Michael sax? I got that some time ago

What's the best deal they've ever offered in recent times?

I need the Bernard toolkit. Man I'm not used to paying $500 for a library. I just got Fluffy Spaghetti Western deal so I'm not supposed to be buying more $#!t. I forgot that I still need to order the Bare Knuckle black dog humbucker from the UK and that'll be over $200. My sample library wish list right now is the Bernard Herman toolkit, Project Sam Swing and Swing More and that's it really as I like the niche stuff. Often too you can't just buy a library like Bernard; you may have to buy a hard drive for it too which in my case means I'd need to buy a bigger case and it just never f'n stops man

I agree

Just so you know, 9/10 when I see you recommend something buried in a thread somewhere I almost always buy it. Like Blue Street Brass and most recently that snap, clap and stomp thing called La Snap or something.. idk, it was $29 for all 3. I think you said you bought it like a random candy bar while waiting in the checkout line and it ended up becoming very useful. I remember $#!t. So Shaka then?

Oh it'll be a minute before I can fire that lib up, as I'm remodeling my songwriting studio and it's gonna be a minute before I can even install it. But I like niche libraries and I listened to all the YouTube shillers I could on it 🤣.. I'll get use from it for sure, I love grimy stuff like Mtron mellotron sounds and old grimy choirs and strings. You know how it is when you're watching a YouTube rundown of the sounds and one patch jumps out at you and sells you on it, and for me that was the outlaw choir, which sounds kinda like some drunk cowboys going "Ahh" and some other grimy stuff. There's a cool baritone guitar in there but I'm a baritone guitar player myself so doubt I'll use it but you never know. My big thing I struggle w/ on Kontakt w/ libraries is the fact that I tune my regular guitars to Eb and my baritone strat and 5-string bass to Bb (or A#, whatever), so I struggle w/ transposing some libraries flat to accommodate. Orange Tree's Bass Pair, though, let's me tune it down so I think that library will work great for me - lol, but I still haven't fired *that* one up either.

Ah yes, that 'innate human bias when free stuff and money's involved' we were bantering about back when we were talking about Greg/Orange Tree's stuff and I believe you said you're friends with Greg. Yeah I could see how some publicists wouldn't like a guy who doesn't always play ball lol. If I didn't drink alone I'd buy you a beer to pick your brain more 😁. Thanks for reminding me of Cory!

It does seem impossible to get an honest opinion (or at least to be fully forthcoming) from these people on YouTube. It's made me go back to just cruising threads on here and places like VI Control (and even Gearslutz/Gearspace) to see what real world folks who often do this work as a grind and who will make nothing off their post have to say about something. Like this post I dug up last night that expresses the same thing you wrote to Reid up there about having too much and the virtues of limiting yourself: https://vi-control.net/community/threads/thoughts-on-orchestral-libraries.115499/ And this other post I dug up last night from a dude who seems to own just about every sample library and was shelling out some no bs at length opinions on sample libraries I'm interested in, and this kind of post is exactly what I need and yet seems nearly impossible to get from a YouTuber: https://gearspace.com/board/showpost.php?p=14587089&postcount=5 https://gearspace.com/board/showpost.php?p=14587727&postcount=8 I still like YouTubers like SLR to show me some sounds, but they rarely give many cons.. like for the Fluffy Audio Spaghetti Western library I just bought, their review mentioned zero cons that I recall, but if you look on VI Control you'll see users posting how they love the SW library but that improvements can be made, and even the Fluffy dev agreed w/ them and said he'd be putting out updates to SW asap. Guys like King Lar, Reid.. and bitflipper here is another guy whose opinion I follow for this type of stuff and I almost always end up buying what I see him recommending, which most recently for me was Blue Street Brass. YouTubers are good for showing me the way the interface works on something, and some of the sounds but you'll probably have to read on forums to find out the everyday real world cons of a given library/app.

And curious @PavlovsCat did you pick up one of the cellos yet that you were asking @Reid Rosefelt about a few posts back?

So who else finally broke down and bought the Spaghetti Western library? I think that'll have to be it for me for the rest of the year.

Also, when can I get the BHCT for free deal?

Yeah for me when I see King Lar say that something is $#!t I nod and stop reading and go shop for something else.

Yeah I got that 50% off deal recently with the free Matrix pack, probably some summer deal. That reminds me, I should install it huh

NU METAL is on sale!!

What are your favorites and how do you use them?

I'm gonna watch this when I wake up later.. probably the price won't get much lower than this is what I'll likely be telling myself. It's over 20 gigs.