Marc Cormier

Trust me...I was nearly done with them as well but the latest release talked me off the edge. I would still be using it today if they weren't being innovated around. I sent them a note ages ago about how they had an ecosystem already built between their kits, Drum Drops, and Platinum Samples but failed in every way to unify the pieces. I still hope for better days for BFD3 and have used SD3 to build a drum track that would eventually be mapped to BFD3 but its too much work to do that consistently. But damn do they sound good, and the latest - Dark Farm - is no exception. $43 for BFD3 at Thomann makes me happy for someone who doesn't have it yet.

$49 for the FX3 upgrade and $69 for Pigments, which I was on the fence about earlier but that price might make me fall onto their side of the fence. Just looking further, I see $149 to upgrade to V9 but I don't have anything from previous versions.

We know you’re bluffing. No more Flatulus? C’mon.

I don't think they were always demo-able, thus I found my self with some Rigs that didn't really suit my needs. Having said that, I found the Plexi, DM Mark, and Randall heads to be excellent and very flexible. They're not included in the Essentials package but I'm also more interested in just a few of the Rig packs. If they're captured separately from the cabs, the Rigs can be blended nicely with IRs that you can load into any of the speaker cabs that are provided outside of the Rig Player.

I hadn't heard of Essentials until today - it might be totally new. There isn't enough in it to really warrant a high cost as you still need to buy Rigs to get the most out of the Rig Player. If it's a base (free) version like Bias Amp LE or Amplitube CS then bravo I say, and about time. I didn't have too many Rigs - it's one of the reasons I walked away from THU, honestly. I would rather have liked to see improvements to the stock product vs. continuously churning out more Rigs. The Friedman Naked Rig is fantastic though, so no trouble for me to plop down $25 to get it and a few other bits and pieces from the full THU. The Petrucci Boogie Rig is also quite nice.

TH-U Essentials Turns your computer into the most realistic and flexible Guitar Amp Sim ever! FREE with any Rig Library purchase, from Nov 11th to Nov 20th https://www.overloud.com/products/th-u-essentials I used to have THU Premium and really only missed a few of the amp heads but now I can buy the Friedman Naked Rig collection for @$25 at JRR and get a few heads and the Rig Player for free. Great way to get into the vortex of Rig Library if you really enjoy that sucking noise when your wallet runs dry.

Be good and stay safe Larry. Just remember you said "a few days": "few" adjective 1: consisting of or amounting to only a small number 2: at least some but indeterminately small in number

Best sounding drums - to my ear. If there were more workflow tools like EZD3 in BFD3 (and more stability), I would never have made the move to Toontrack. V 3.4.4.31 is rock-steady on my system, though.

I'd pick that over any of the stuff on my list. Thanks for the reality check.

No new VST instruments or effects this year*: Studio One 6 upgrade New monitors (maybe) Membership to Tim Pierce Masterclass *If I buy the MSP5 upgrade before BF it doesn't count, right?** **If they put the Komplete 14 CU update on sale, just forget about this post.

All I know is that if I had some of the same opinions now as I did back in the day, y’all might unleash a WUPin’ on me. My current opinion is that I didn’t save enough plug-in money while Larry was on vacation. Wait…that’s an actual fact.

He had an opinion. Can't be doing that these days. As for the library, maybe Abbey Road Studios: If These Floors Could Talk

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I was only half joking when I asked how many plugins we'd have without Larry's help. I have to say, one of the best parts of the forum experience - for me anyway - is when Larry finds a deal or a group buy that brings a lot of us together at the same time after finding true "no-brainer" deals that we all jumped on. Like kids at Christmas. Or the excitement of when he posted the announcement of the famous IK Group Buy from a few years ago. That one finally made me understand what it means to be "Maxed out" without being a Max customer!!! It's great to have you back, Larry. I've said goodbye to my wallet so its OK now.

Next question: What would your plugin count look like without Larry? Asking for a friend.

I have literally tried to post three things this morning and you beat me to all of them, Larry. I give up, happily.

You know what this means…

All is right in the world with you back, Larry. I feel like I should buy this to celebrate but that's only because I actually have money in the bank since you left.

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Zo turned me on the GK bass amp and Buxom Betty was all that was left for guitar. Fini. Great deals at PA over the last couple of weeks, and didn't take too much away from the Black Friday Fund.

He'd open a can of WUP-*ss on you.

No way in heck am I going to bother getting the "you don't have access to this gear" message with every other click. There's an option to apply a search filter to limit out the Premium Tone Models so only the Free Tone Models remain. It shows no models when I apply the filter to include only free models. Is there something I'm missing?

Noticed track icons on one screen shot. It's a little thing but something I really dig in CWBL.

Yup.

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