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    Native Instruments Alicia's Keys Sale Plugin Boutique 12th Anniversary (Exclusive) for $13

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    1 hour ago, bitflipper said:

    Almost 40 years ago I bought my first acoustic piano, a baby grand made in Korea by Yeoung Chang.

    It was the most expensive thing I'd ever purchased short of my first home, so I had to finance it over 10 years. While I was in the piano store waiting for the contract to be drawn up, I walked around the room plinking on every piano in there. When I sat down at one of them, the hairs on my arms stood up. It was incredibly responsive and had a lightning-fast action. But it was the amazing tone that got me excited, bright and harmonically rich. I ran to the sales office and said "hold everything! I fear I'm about to make a big mistake - I have found the perfect piano!".

    The salesman barely looked up from the paperwork when he said "that piano's $60,000". OK then, carry on I said, crushed. This was in the mid-80's. For perspective, my aforementioned house had cost $43K.

    That piano was a Yamaha C7. Many years later, I'd come to acquire multiple sampled Yamahas. For a whole lot less money. It's still my favorite piano tone for rock 'n roll.

    Alicia's Keys is sampled from a similar model. Although itself a rarity (only a few were ever built), at its heart it's that classic Yamaha sound. When you hit a low note, it's got some real gravity to it. You just want to play the theme from Jaws. For $13, I am tempted to pick this one up despite having three or four nice Yamaha libraries already. 

     

    I agree with the Yamaha C7

    Take into account this Kontakt Library:
    https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/dolan-piano/

     

     

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    U-he Zebralette 3 Public Beta Released... not a deal?

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    18 hours ago, Anxiousmofo said:

    This beta is silly great but i wish it had a multicore option. It is eating my old 5820k for breakfast when I get going with it. 

    That's normal with beta products
    You could be right, but we should analyze these details with the final version of the product to draw correct conclusions.

    HoRNet SpringVerb free for 24 hours

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    34 minutes ago, Kal S said:

    Didn't work for me.

    I went through the link I got in the email, which also had a countdown timer included. That was showing 12 hours still to go.

    But when I reached the product page the price was not showing as free.

    Anyone else have this problem?

    24 hours from the last thursday...

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