Craig Fowler

I'm hoping for a nice discount on Fluffy Audio's jazz drums and/or Soniccouture's Moonkits. I'd really like to update EZD2 to EZD3, but would get more use at the moment out of more targeted libraries that are great for swirls and brushes. I'm not optimistic, but a 3 for 2 deal on Indiginus libraries would be sweet!

Damnit! Wanted this to be a deal ?

Kuassa amp sims are my faves. The effects are great if you use their 360 ecosystem.

Thanks Craig! This sorted it for me! Craig

Gotta say, the demo didn't sell me. I mean, yeah, it's shreddy per the title, but kinda sounds like a bunch of other amp sims from that.

Welp. Went to see if it's a free upgrade and they seem to have no record of me having an account with them (despite me owning everything they've made!). A mite worrying.

*All* the free VSL libraries are well worth having. So are all the paid ones I've got, but that's another story. Their support has always been excellent, btw - When it comes to getting a refund on a library you decide isn't for you, they're very responsive and easy to deal with.

Bought this and spent some time yesterday playing with it. Fantastic presets, and (once I'd read the manual) very sculptable main sounds. I have literally dozens of piano VIs, but will get lots of use out of this. For anyone without much in the way of pianos, this could give you everything you need with a nice grand, nice upright, and nice old upright! Definitely a worthy rival to Noire and Ascend in the sound design/cinematic stakes as well!

Wow! I've been waiting for this!

Pulse has always worked really smoothly for me. It's one of the better downloaders/installers...and pretty much everything StraightAheadSamples make is gold, so well worth it!

If I understand correctly, this isn't intended as a strumming library - It's called 'fingerstyle' after all! (though I was hoping it would have some sort of strum engine anyway). FWIW It was the Edelweiss demo that caught my ear as being really expressive.

The demos sound amazing but I can't spring for this atm. Especially now I've just discovered the delights of the Indiginus libraries.

Every tokyodawn plugin I've got has been worth many times what I paid for it!

I keep seeing that Indiginus doesn't do sales. Does this extend to Black Friday? Say it ain't so!

Installed the banjo last night. I already have OTS evolution banjo, but haven't spent enough time with it to get used to workflow - though it has really cool features (e.g., the strum pattern creator). The Indiginus offering is fantastic. Immediately playable, with a GUI that is cleverly thought out and well-designed. Had a blast playing with the bluegrass harmony (which sounds incredible), and the system of having different articulations set to soft, medium, and hard velocity is really smart and means you can hit the ground running! Thoroughly recommended! This was my first Indiginus library, but after a few minutes with it I immediately put their Fiddle, lap steel, and mandolin libraries on my wishlist!

If only they'd sell their acoustic pack for $49!

Wow...to think that I doubted them ?

Ooooh...I always liked the 5150 (unless I had to lift it). I'll hang fire on this, but it's pretty much inevitable that if Kuassa put out a new amp sim I'll end up buying it. Love their stuff.

I have very few libraries that run in UVI, Peter, but my experience has been that the scripting of those libraries is top notch. For example, the VILabs pianos (Ravenscroft and Modern U even moreso) are brilliantly programmed. I'm a VSL fanboy for pianos, but Modern U may be the best scripted acoustic instrument library I own. Re Cello VIs, have you checked out Bohemian Cello by Virhamonic? It's exceptionally good, and on sale (still pricey) while the next update is still in development. It runs in UVI, though the new version will be in a different format. I have good cello libraries that run in Kontakt (Tina Guo 1 & 2; Blakus) but for what I want it to do, Virharmonic is lightyears ahead. It's truly a 'play like a pianist, sound like a cellist' sort of VI. https://www.virharmonic.com/bohemian_cello

Ascend is *really* good!

I've wanted this for ages...partly because I think it has the grooviest GUI of anything!

Ooh, someone wants to pick a fight with VSL!!

I'm not especially impressed with the IK pianos. I think they're good for what they are, but they don't hold up all that well compared to dedicated piano libraries IMO. I have a few cool/strange piano libraries, though, so here are some other options. Piano in Blue by Cinesamples: It's literally the Miles Davis Kind of Blue piano, complete with grime, tape noise etc, and it's *beautiful*. But it's no longer cheap. Simple Sam Signature Grand: As with Piano in Blue, it's a Steinway D, and it can be super vanilla/pretty sounding. But its presets are where it comes alive. The developers did a great job getting the recorded sound of some much loved pianists (e.g., Bill 50s/60s for Bill Evans; Tokyo for Keith Jarrett). Usually about $50. Ascend by Heavyocity: Another Steinway D but much more in the vein of Noire with all kinds of creative possibilities. Plenty of options for layering sounds (e.g., e-bow) and for 'moving'/evolving stuff similar to the particle engine. Woodchester by Fracture sounds: A felted upright with lots of cool swirly stuff. Really interesting sound to it. Memoir by Audio Ollie: Has the definite advantage of being free! It's sampled from a nice, thick-sounding old Mason & Hamlin grand. Very distinctive . The Oeser by Key instruments: A restored, old baby grand that has a whole bunch of the cool/strange stuff going on! VSL: If you're a student or educator with ID (doesn't have to be in music), VSL have their annual 40% off sale. Their German 1904 (a Bechstein) and the Bluthner are very characterful pianos, though more because the instruments they're sampled from are old rather than because they're really unusual instruments. Happy hunting!

Have you tried the Pianoteq pack? It's my favourite for Rhodes (though I don't have Orange Tree), and it has a Wurly in it as well.

The two-piano pack from Xperimenta is really worthwhile, especially for the Yamaha C3 (intimate preset is lovely). I also think it's really cool that the library was produced for a university project!