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    AAS releases Lounge Lizard EP-5

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    10 hours ago, Magic Russ said:

    Bfly1 and Bfly2 are patches from LL4.  Oddly they weren't next to each other in the same bank.  There are a few other patches like that in LL4.

    Yeah...that's the odd part. Hmm. Anyway, now it's bought. The price of two expansions. He's given away more than the over the last few years.

    AAS releases Lounge Lizard EP-5

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    Posted · Edited by MrFigg

    In the cart.

    Been comparing the remastered LL4 presets to the originals and I honestly can't hear a difference. Also a bit strange is that the remastered ones have a few with 2 versions e.g Bfly1 and Bfly2 . Not sure what's going on there.

    So, as said, in the cart but I still can't decide whether to press the button.

    Edit: Bought :)

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    AAS releases Lounge Lizard EP-5

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    7 minutes ago, Canopus said:

    Yep, my exact thoughts. I have tons of Rhodes and Wurlis, including Lounge Lizard EP-4, and don’t really need another one. But AAS has always been one of the really good and generous companies, giving away a free sound bank every year, so I thought I’d show them some love and pressed the button anyway. Still waiting for my license, though.

    However, I bought the upgrade for $41.16 at JRR Shop, and not directly from AAS for $49. My altruism has its limits.

    Let me/ us know if you have no regrets when it finally arrives :).

    Melda MMatcher (Beta)

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    4 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

    Yeah, it can be confusing with all of the downloadable soundware. In typical Melda fashion they kinda just toss you in the deep end.

    The installer does let you choose whether you want to install the really humongous MDrummer/MSoundFactory add-on libraries. The only ones you must install to get most of the functionality of them are the "Essentials" libraries, which are 3.1GB for MSoundFactory and 1.1GB for MDrummer. Not so bad for virtual instruments of this type. Huge ones like MonasteryGrand, MeldwayGrand, AnalogEmpirePadsStrings, MDrummer Studio and DrumEmpire can be left out, which is a good thing, because they total about 130GB. I have the MeldwayGrand installed because it's the best sampled grand I've heard, and the other MSF libraries because I have room for them, but I don't bother with the MDrummer ones. The new Pads & Strings Analog Empire is really nice if you like huge pads.

    MDrummer is an unwieldy beast, so much so that I haven't used it on anything. Someone on their forum characterized it as a DAW in and of itself, and y'know, I don't want or need to learn another DAW just to do fake drums. Vojtech has teased a simplified look for it similar to a traditional drum machine, so you never know.

    If you ever get the urge to mess with it, click on QUICK SETUP, then Drum pad mode, which is a button labeled in small print just below the RHYTHM GENERATOR button in the upper right. That will bring up a kit selector and a set of drum pads, it will start to look like a normal drum machine, and you can play the parts of the kit with the usual MIDI controller keys rather than triggering one of the built in loops.

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    With MSoundFactory, I find the instrument browser to be needlessly obtuse, so I collapse the useless "Categories" pane and click on All and choose from the thumbnail browser. Another tip for MSoundFactory: don't neglect the global presets up at the top. Download the user-created ones, there are hundreds of them and many gems in there. Also, each instrument has its own presets, make sure to check those out.

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    As for the extra cruft installed with the FX plug-ins, a big part of the way MeldaProduction plug-ins work is shared code. So the installer puts a bunch of libraries in ProgramData and AppData to support that. Not my favorite thing about their products, but it does seem to result in very low resource usage when they're in operation. Whatever. Some people say they avoid the company's products entirely for that reason. Since I, too, have MComplete and have all but a few installed, none of it's redundant.

    Thanks for the rundown man. Much appreciated. Useful info. I’ll maybe take another look :):):)

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    Melda MMatcher (Beta)

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    12 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

     

    Really? Don't see anything in that huge collection of processors and instruments that interests you enough to install it?

    Absolutely, don’t get me wrong. There are some great plugins. I like their rotary and vibrato. Also as both you and Brian say, the reverb is very comprehensive. I think what put mE off was installing the sound factory and the drum machine. It took ages, and loads of space and I couldn’t really work out what was going on with them. Also…doesn’t that installer put stuff on to the hard drive that you haven’t selected? I’m sure I found a whole bunch of stuff once which I didn’t remember installing. Anyway, you are both right. It’s all good stuff. I’ll give it another go. Thanks :)

    Melda MMatcher (Beta)

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    3 hours ago, Brian Walton said:

    Here is another tidbit of info I determined myself.  The Guitar EQs are from that massive "send us your guitar recordings" project.  There are enough very specific guitars that I submitted in there to be 100% sure this is the case that was a major source of them.

    Same here...so many that I ended up getting the Complete Bundle for $10 hahaha. Don't have anything installed :). Is this worth looking at?

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