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If you can push the boat out a tiny bit more, there are a few instruments at $8, including Supercluster, Windchimes, and Clay Vase

You don't get direct control over the rhythm in which the syllables of the phrases are sung (although they are tempo synced), and it can take a while to open the patches (as is the case with any large library); you can get around the latter by freezing the track once you're happy with it. Also, you'll need the full version of Kontakt. On the plus side, It really is a beautiful sounding choir, and you do get phrases with different syllable counts; the arcs also sound really good in my opinion. Also keep in mind that this would be more suited for quiet/calm/emotional moods, rather than something bombastic. If you add a little something extra during your purchase, you can take advantage of their custom bundle maker promotion: They have a section of $50 and under; there's some quite nice stuff there, but if you're looking for the absolute cheapest, you can get Bottles for $2.

Does anyone have the Angelic Chimes? any opinions?

After dining at a restaurant, a panda discharges a weapon, and walks out. The owner chases after the panda, and asks why it did what it did. The panda pulls out a dictionary and points at the entry for panda: bearlike mammal - eats, shoots and leaves

Could it have something to do with wake-on-lan? Maybe check the Windows Event Viewer to see what time it turns on and see if it could correspond to anything?

When I first saw this, I thought it was a bunch of loops; didn't realise they were one-shots... Does make it more tempting, to use with XO, Playbeat, etc...

It's not much of a discount, but on Time+Space the upgrade from TH-3 is £68.02 (down from £76.99). Not sure if there'll be a bigger discount in future.

Hey Peter - do you mean a new installation manager, something like the Toontrack Product Manager or the iZotope Product Portal?

Anyone know how much disk space the bundle takes up?

This does sound very nice, but I do have to wonder - is having a sampled (real) synth really that much better than using some of the better synth plugins? I know it means you get a real analogue sound, but I'm guessing it also means you lose some tweakability, and that it uses more disk space. Either way, this is a very good deal.

Apparently, their flagship EQ is discounted to $349.99 too. Strange though - I would have thought that anyone who has enough money to buy an EQ plugin for more than $300 wouldn't care if it was $399 or $349.

I thought they used EW's own proprietary Play engine?

hmm... the paid-for ones do seem to be new, and the link Simon posted above still works. Not sure whether over time they'll migrate the other 10 free ones, silently get rid of that page, or both.

Hey @Simeon Amburgey - this is going to be a tough question (especially as the answer is whatever suits the mood being targeted), but out of all of the pianos that you've ever played/reviewed, which one is your favourite?

14 have been released for free since the KLANG series started; I counted four that were marked as free on the website, though it's possible I missed something.

I'm all for the new website; I'm even ok with it selling affordable instruments; I don't understand why they would take down some previously released free instruments though... unless they've been rebranded and are now being sold

Hey Fleer, do you have this? Is it better than iZotope Vinyl?

I used to group all my full-Kontakt libraries in folders according to their company (which would help if I forgot whether I had previously bought a library). I recently came to the conclusion that I would often forget about the smaller libraries that I had bought because I was always looking in the 'bigger' companies' folders. So, I very recently started grouping them by type first (e.g. Keys/Bowed Strings/etc), then by company, and then finally by library name. Time will tell if this makes a positive difference...

Wasn't there a DAW that, according to someone, sounded 20-40% better a while ago?

I managed to use a 70% coupon a little while back - they've got some really nice-sounding atmospheric pads

Foobar 2000. Great offline media player - very light on resources, though not necessarily the best looking https://www.foobar2000.org/

The simple answer is, if you don't like Windows and think it's bloated, don't use Windows. If you want a Unix-based OS either go with Linux or, if you want more app support, go with a Mac that runs some variant of OSX.

Depends what language you like writing in... As an aside, a .NET Core app will run in both Windows and Linux. You can't use WPF for UIs and expect them to run on Linux though; maybe a cross platform library like Qt, though they just don't 'feel' quite right.

Don't forget that reading a typical man page for a linux command will take a year...