Mánibranðr Studios

I had a chance to play around with this, and I found a small bug in the sample presets. The Berlin Grand piano sets have a few samples that were clipping at the beginning, and certain samples in the sets have an uncharacteristically loud hiss that is more noticeable when the pedal is pressed down. I managed to fix the clipping by increasing the attack time to 13-15 ms, but not sure how to fix the hiss.

It took a couple of hours, but my order on the Tom Thumb Piano got proccessed! :D

I think I'll stick to Surge and Full Bucket synths. It's pretty clear that as good as it is claiming to be, it's being sold purely on clout rather than the merit of the program itself.

Yeah, nothing from Orchestools One is loading for me. The stuff I imported from ST 2.5 to ST 3 works fine tho.

I remembered that they had The Book of Sounds collection on the VST Buzz deal a while back. They also have freebies on offer for newsletter subscribers. The free Kontakt library is nice, though it's nothing I haven't heard from most synths.

This is a good deal, especially for Ozone Elements alone.

Welp, this is disappointing.

Grabbed the Flute + Violin. Thanks a lot!

Welp, there goes my interest.

There are 4 libraries by Spitfire that are $30 each, with possibly more on its way.

1 Euro is a bit of a red flag, he's really trying to sell it as a synth that has features that no other synth has done, and the video is a bit overproduced. "Too good to be true" is a phrase that is screaming into my head all throughout the video. I am still considering picking it up because of the price, and out of curiosity.

The limiting is very controlled, and not even close to hitting the ceiling. I did gain-staging so that the PC76 U Compressor is doing at most 2 dB of GR. As for the artwork, it's just the default avatar that's being used, since I don't have anything really fitting to use. However, this is Isabel

They gave me a free upgrade and an additional 70% off code, which I promptly used to get Dominator. I love this company. ❤️

I think it's just how the synths are, I tried bumping up the high end of some of them. I used the Labs Soft Piano, Labs Modular Piano, Kontakt Factory Upright, Palette Synth for the Bass Pulses, City of the Lost from Arturia Pigments 2, Performance Samples Solo Legato Violin, 8Dioboe, Auddict Celestial Voices and Strum GS-2 with the U Rock preset from the Pop Rocks soundbank.

A full album release

I like this. Very much sounds like the score for a 90's Don Bluth animated feature.

Another one for the Strange Adventures of Isabel Merton series, this is a sad track depicting a heavy scene in Isabel's journey where she's slowly coming to terms with having to kill her own estranged brother in order to save the multiverse.

Oh and if you can't afford to spend money, there's Piano in 162 (SFZ, Kontakt, Kronos) and Upright Felt Piano (Kontakt) as well as Wolno (VSTi).

I remembered trying their free offering a while back and I wasn't impressed. There is no way to change the sample location once the instrument is installed, and the reverb engine is completely borked. Save your money and shop elsewhere, heck the current APD Deal blows this one out of the water.

How do you mean?

I have found that bypassing all effects, except chorus and compression, and hooking the resulting audio signal to a guitar amp sim can do a lot to make it sound more authentic. I've gotten some good results pairing this up with Audio Assault's Bulldozer.

Oh hell yes!

The Spitfire Originals Epic Strings review is also pretty nice.

I highly recommend this one.

Think you can poke them via a support email to get that fixed?