Craig Fowler

Sounds really good! Am jealous of your vocal and mixing skills!

FWIW, this is an excellent library and the smart delay function is a thing of wonder!

I've seen it down to $80-ish I think, but that may have been by stacking a coupon or something.

Think yourself lucky. I'm lacking the ability as well!

Can't speak to the Softube offerings here, but $11 sounds hard to go wrong! It's obviously a totally different level of cost, but I got the AKG BX-20 spring reverb from UAD a few years back, and that's something pretty special. I wouldn't get into the UAD eco-system purely to get it, but if/when they port it over to the UADx semi-native platform, it could be right up your alley.

The players are free/downloadable with the products you get that use them. I find the old "VI" player pretty fiddly, but the Synchron player and Synchron piano player are about the best hosts I've come across. Really powerful and fairly intuitive. They even look nice! I've become a bit of a VSL fanboy in the last 3 years or so, especially for pianos. Their jazz drums and upright bass sound brilliant too...I just wish they'd port them to the Synchron player because I can't usually be bothered to use them because of the old interface.

Absolutely! I love my pretty GUIs as much as the next person, but these are ridiculously underpriced for the sound and functionality they offer.

Get all those VSL freebies! The harp and string runs are absurdly good!

I always wanted one of those Patitucci six-strings!

Thought for a minute that it might be a chance to get the Tweed at $49, but nah...'course not.

What is it about Swedes that makes them able to create perfect pop songs? I remember when Almost Unreal came out as a single and I thought it was three minutes of exactly what a pop song should sound like.

Thought this was a really great arrangement - loved the way everything fit together. It sounded like a band feeding off each other, not just a one-man dude! Really well mixed, too.

Alas, can't use the BestService code on Vienna vouchers (that was my first thought, too!)

Happy Christmas from Auckland, New Zealand! (I guess I'm the 'other' Antipodean Craig on the forum!)

There was a thread on VI:control earlier in the year wondering if Embertone were still an 'active' developer - I'm in the minority who hates the Walker D (admittedly I only have the lite version) but the Bell and Blakus are lovely! As you say, really good to see them doing new things.

I really want to get their Pedal Steel...the stacked codes bring it down to $72! But as I just took advantage of the Audio Ollie stacked glitch to get Nashville Scoring Strings, I'm tapped out. Here's hoping this will still be working come January!

I was going to ask the same thing!

I thought the uad version *was* the softube version, just ported over

Well, I held out as long as I could ?

They sure do! Incredible instruments, especially the cfx and bosie upright.

I is excited

Yup; you can usually save on VSL via BestService, and often it's a pretty decent discount. I have the VI series upright bass and want to upgrade to the Synchronized plucked instruments. It's $129.63 direct from VSL, and $108.12 from Best Service!

Noire covers a lot of ground and is top notch, but I've never much cared for the other pianos in K13. I'd definitely pick up WGII (I think that's the most recent combo of White Grand/Sister) and Rain Piano.

The White Grand/White Sister combo is awesome.

I stayed at the Paris way back when, Larry - hope you had fun! There were lots of bf deals that caught my eye, but not many I bit on. I ended up buying Soniccouture's Moonkits Fluffy Audio's Jazz brushes Soniccouture's Canterbury suitcase (rhodes) Things I put in my cart but didn't follow through on... Skybox audio's electric bundle (+ their new Wurli 145...sounded great but I have at least 3 Rhodes VIs that I really like) Softube Vocoder (was *really* tempted at $38, but the demos were...crap, IMO) Soniccouture's Broken Wurli (next year it will be back in my cart) VSL Vienna Imperial (I already have both the Synchron Bosendorfer grands + various Bosies. I couldn't justify this even at 50% off) StraightAheadSamples Flugelhorn (sounds beautiful and I love the mellow tone, but I wouldn't use it enough for it to be worthwhile Was sorta hoping for a reduced upgrade to EZD3 and a huge discount off some different VSL instruments, but I'm kinda glad that I can do a better job getting to grips with a smaller number of instruments.