Isobelle Austin Cello by Inlet Audio for $26.70 MORE THAN $10 Cheaper Than VST BUZZ

[PavlovsCat]

I just found that Pulse Audio has the Isobelle Austin Cello by Inlet Audio for $26.70 USD, that's nearly $13 cheaper than VST Buzz's sale price of $39.51. 

@Fleer You praised this library in the VST Buzz thread. I can't tell from the demos if it's primarily a sound design library or not. I don't hear a lot of straightforward articulations in the demos but more sound design patches, (I'm primarily interested in straightforward, realistic sounding cello with a dry sound).  I could really use your insights on this one.

https://pulse.audio/product/isobelle-austin-cello-by-inlet-audio/

Edited May 18, 2023 by PavlovsCat

[jngnz]

Well, Fleer praises absolutely everything.

I own Clarinet Drama Textures which is 100% a sound design library with no straightforward articulations and was under the impression that the same thing goes for the cello and violin libraries. 

[Fleer]

Didn’t like those Clarinet Textures that much, though, but the cello and the violin are quite nice. 

[Fleer]

2 hours ago, PavlovsCat said:

I just found that Pulse Audio has the Isobelle Austin Cello by Inlet Audio for $26.70 USD, that's nearly $13 cheaper than VST Buzz's sale price of $39.51. 

@Fleer You praised this library in the VST Buzz thread. I can't tell from the demos if it's primarily a sound design library or not. I don't hear a lot of straightforward articulations in the demos but more sound design patches, (I'm primarily interested in straightforward, realistic sounding cello with a dry sound).  I could really use your insights on this one.

https://pulse.audio/product/isobelle-austin-cello-by-inlet-audio/

They’re not as straightforward as you’d get them from Spitfire or Orchestral Tools, but they’re much cheaper of course. I compare them to what Osterhouse does, but not as good. 

[Fleer]

Interesting review of the Clarinet textures in the latest SOS (of which PDFs are still free to everyone I believe):

”Rating: 4.5/5 Stars

Emerging company Inlet Audio bill themselves as creators of “artist‑driven sample library products”. Here they add an intriguing new effort to their (thus far) string‑dominated catalogue: Clarinet Drama Textures, built in collaboration with Chicago‑based clarinetist and composer, Brandon C Stanley. The instrument (compatible with the full version of Kontakt 6 and beyond) allows users to pick any two clarinet textures from a library of 15 available textures, blending and shaping them with onboard tools to create pads, evolving soundscapes, and all manner of musical textures. All of the samples are created from a clarinet section playing various textures and extended techniques, making it a fun aleatoric instrument providing a new timbral palette for composers.

It’s in this delay setting where the fastest musical results in this instrument can be crafted, from subtle repetitions to immense eternal textures as the feedback is turned up.

Diving straight in, I loaded a ‘play and sing’ texture into the A pane on the left side of the instrument, and Growl textures in the B side on the right. From there, each side has a Main and FX tab to individually modify the loaded sounds. The latter allows the user to mix in one of five onboard reverbs, from a small home patch to a moody plate, standard chamber, hall, and cathedral settings. It also provides a separate and character‑filled delay module, moving from warm diffusion and vintage delays through a sparkling bright modern delay. It’s in this delay setting where the fastest musical results in this instrument can be crafted, from subtle repetitions to immense eternal textures as the feedback is turned up.

While combining different sounds in the instrument is intuitive, sometimes taking the same sound and doubling it with different effects yields truly organic and seamless textures. For instance, I took the Growls patch — a moody, slightly edgy sample with lots of repeated key noise — and doubled it, using a hall reverb with an extended tape delay on the A side, and a smaller reverb with a slight diffusion delay on the B side. Rising from near silence to a forte dynamic with the mod wheel and then back down again, the result began as expected. Yet after a few seconds the sound doubled up on itself in the delay, and resulted in an extended esoteric piece of music that would not sound out of place in a Pierre Schaffer or early Steve Reich tape piece. Automation in the FX area became a must, though a dedicated panic button would have been a welcome addition. The front page of each side includes a simple envelope control, a standard filter (cutoff, resonance and bandwidth), and controls for panning, tuning and volume.

Clarinet Drama Textures certainly captures the unique warm characteristics of the clarinet, resulting in a highly original product capable of lending fresh timbral direction to your sound design. It is an intriguing creation, worth trying and at a very friendly price.”

[El Diablo]

I'm so confused

[Fleer]

6 minutes ago, El Diablo said:

I'm so confused

Devils shouldn’t be

[PavlovsCat]

I discovered that there is a small, free version of the cello. It's completely in the realm of sound design. So, for those looking for that, it seems worth consideration. For me, I'm interested in realistic sounding solo cello sample libraries. When there's a good enough sale, I'll eventually pick up Sonixinema's solo cello libraries, because, IMO,  based upon the demos, I have yet to hear any other dry solo cello sample  library that sounds as good to my ears. 

Here's a link Inlet Audio's free Lite Cello Isobelle Foundation. Be aware that it's only a single patch (made with two different sounds that you can separate, so I suppose one might consider it to be two patches that are combined): 

https://www.inletaudio.com/products/p/lite-cello-foundation