Marc Cormier

This has been a banner week for inspirational marketing copy. “Get the sound of the Sandberg Basic Ken Taylor RW quilted maple in your DAW as a virtual instrument. Sandberg is the second largest bass company in Germany, producing absolute top-quality instruments. The smell of this beautiful woodwork in the shape of a VST3 and AU plug-in will burn your DAW.”

“…to ensure your music touches the soul, not just the ears.” And here I thought it was just me lack of talent.

Isn't it a minimum of $100 for the $75 vouchers? I was looking at that but thought I would have to add another tuner for $5 but all the cheap stuff is regular price.

I love it. I usually build the song with SD3 and transpose MIDI with MIDI Remap. It sounds excellent but yes, the UI can be a challenge. And the authentication issues have burned some but they’ve largely been overcome. It includes 7 kits that I still prefer, sonically, to what is in SD3. Comparatively speaking, I don’t think AD2 or EZD3 are “better” than BFD3 (I think the samples in BFD3 are much better) but Toontrack changed everything by focusing on supporting workflow and an amazing user experience. I can’t live without SD3 for that reason. For the money (free) I find the SSD5 free kit and presets to be an excellent option if you don’t want/can’t sink money into a platform like Toontrack. November is Metal Month at Toontrack—If you’re leaning toward Toontrack, I would wait to see if there’s any incentive to pick up EZD3. Otherwise, BFD3 at $49 is a great deal, but I’m well entrenched in that ecosystem already.

I’m good thanks.

I didn’t try to come up with SAG for the acronym, but there we are.

I think you should keep posting while cruising. This way, you can reduce your wait times by pulling any musicians out of the queue as soon as the big deals show up in the Deals forum. Maybe hit VI Control, too? By the time the cruise is done, their wives will have created a support group…Spouses Against GAS.

Hey, Zo - everything I've read says this is MUCH lighter on CPU; it's been optimized for eventual use on the Quad Cortex.

If you hit "Install", it will start the download - at least that's how its working here. I reverted back to an older version of Native Access because the new one, well...

‘Cos, well, y’know, GAS.

Don’t let those $75 vouchers go to waste! If you can’t use one, I will try my best to spend it.

Drew has really been amazing over these years managing BFD; I was pleased to see him on the Forum not just because so many of us have been concerned since the hand-off to InMusic, but also due to his composure and candor. He's battled naysayers and skeptics for years (I, too, was one of them) but as long as he hasn't given up, I haven't given up. BFD Player is more than a sign of life - I think it gives a wink to strategy and the desire to bring a modern user experience to what I (IMHO) think are the best sounding drums out there - BFD3. YMMV.

Anyone have experience with his Helix presets? There's thousands available on the CustomTone site at Line 6 for owners but they mostly utilize stock cabs. I'm wondering if the tone matching in these presets make a qualitative difference.

Yikes. Just came back from 3 weeks in Wales. I’m screwed.

Fleer sez…”Installed!”

It’s a subscription. Those things at the end are the strings attached.

I already play AmpSim City way too much.

Plus, I can actually read the numbers on the PSP modules. Mixbox is a mixed bag.

Just threw a couple of presets on a drum buss and I was off to EveryPlugin to plonk me money down.

Deal over? ☹️

What does everyone think of this library? Kidding.

One of my favorite bands of all time is Opeth, who feature a B3 on a number of songs and albums. Oboe, too. Who’d a thunk death metal could be so refined?

Where does one find or receive their downloads?

Must be the hard drive closet on the left end.

I agree with you on everything except the reverbs. And I have no excuses. For everything else, yes, I've slowed down but am taking a more tactical approach and actually thinking of use cases before buying vs. collecting. This is the first year in a while I haven't upgraded to Komplete Ultimate or CE. I was talking myself into it based on the Stresov choir and Playbox. Then I realized I have FOUR choirs from 8Dio that I haven't used and LCO Contemporary Orchestra that does a lot of what the new NI multi-layer instruments do. And Playbox - it was intriguing as a fire starter. BOOM! Got Playbox and a bunch of PA plugins for a little more than a tenner a couple of days ago. I'm good for a while.