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This looks really good. Does how you draw have any effect on the sound? e.g. does left/right affect panning, or does drawing faster/slower affect pitch? Are the rendered .wav files mono, or stereo? (Sorry for the question-barrage)

Not sure which coupon you mean, but their Bundle Maker coupons probably work; not sure if the free gift applies to the pre or post coupon price though.

Just as a side point, so are probably all of your lithium ion batteries and motherboards

Does anyone have any of their post-2018 orders showing up on JRR yet? I saw somewhere that they said they're slowly being restored, but it'd be interesting to know if anyone here has had theirs restored yet.

Welcome back, Larry!

If you've been paying attention, you'd know by now that it's either GROUP, or FORUM ?

You'll probably love ADAPTIVERB, but in case you're looking for yet another special FX reverb, have a look at Polyverse Comet (not on sale right now)

Could be wrong, but I think the new one is for Ozone 9 that comes in the Tonal Balance Bundle. I think personal sales are permitted, but you're not allowed to post a price.

Did you have a price range in mind?

I think things have got better since 2005 and streaming services are partly the reason why; they started to introduce levels that music will be adjusted to. When a song is mastered really loud it sounds 'great' on hearing initially, because we perceive louder to be better. However, when that same loud song is brought back down, the lack of dynamics makes the song sound really weak when compared to a song that was mastered to the same output level. In the video, the interviewer says something along the lines of the loudness wars are over and 'you won'.

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Anyone have any opinions about SpringAge?

Could be wrong, but I think the only time I saw it cheaper was when Overloud was doing a special because the future of Sonar was uncertain.

Thanks for taking the time to listen - I generally use Insight to target an Integrated Loudness of -14 LUFS for each song. Yes, you're right: different genres tend to have different targets. I read an article a while ago that generally hinted that classical music was the quietest, at around -22; whereas the latest pop/rock was targeting somewhere between -10 and -12. That said, this was probably when the loudness wars was more prevalent, and streaming services have probably helped to lower the target a little. I'm pretty sure that different services have different levels still though, as products such as Mastering the Mix's Expose wouldn't exist otherwise.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding your point, but I do sort of agree with the standards protecting your hearing. If we were to say (for sake of argument) that the standard is -14 LUFS, people/systems will at least try to adhere to it. If there was no such thing whatsoever, people would mix to whatever feels good on that day; you might end up with a mixed playlist with a track targeting -22 LUFS (which you really enjoy and turn up), to be surprised by the next song on the playlist that targeted -10 LUFS.

I'm not entirely sure that lowering the price of Kontakt would make a huge difference to that market as a whole. I'm thinking people who make music for a living want a fairly diverse range of high quality instruments. Some Kontakt instruments can be fairly pricy: I've seen choirs between $300 - $500, a high quality suite of orchestral instruments would probably amount to more than $3000.

Purely out of interest, what's wrong with the website? It's a little information-sparse, but gives a general overview of the things on offer. The colours don't clash, and it works with smaller window sizes as well.

You can only add instruments with Player licenses to the Kontakt Library. As these are no longer available for that drumkit, you'll need the full version of Kontakt to use this (you can still open it without, but it will only demo for 15 mins). You'll need to locate the instrument's .nki file from the Files tab on the left panel and load that.

I don't think the recent change in leadership had anything to do with a fee suddenly being charged for a Player license (which in turn caused Sennheiser to stop offering the Player version of their drumkit) - the Player license has been there for a long time (otherwise, there wouldn't have been so many free-but-requires-full-kontakt libraries in the past).

I don't have BBCSO (any edition), but I seem to remember seeing that the full version doesn't run that smoothly on Windows - better so on Mac; things may or may not have changed. If you were to move from The Orchestra to The Orchestra Complete, you'd go for the upgrade which is a bit cheaper than the crossgrade. I don't see why they'd block this, but you could always wait a week/month before doing so.

Are you sure? (I've heard) Player licenses are expensive - maybe they're cutting costs? Or could it be related to the 'legacy' copy protection systems NI are phasing out?

Don't know how they would know how many emails are opened - unless they add tracking bugs into their emails. Anyhoo... I guess email notifications is something that can be added to the graveyard https://killedbygoogle.com/

Does anyone know if The Orchestra Complete ever goes on sale, or is it just as much a bargain to pick this up at this price and then upgrade?

Not sure why someone would want MODO Drum, MODO Bass, and their SE versions. Don't get me wrong, MODO Drum/Bass are great, but their SE versions are just cut down versions; it doesn't make sense to me why someone might want both the 'full' and the 'reduced' versions.