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As has been mentioned, the actual benefit of MPE controllers probably depends on the material or instruments you are trying to mimic. Probably not much use with a virtual piano for example. But when playing samples of non-keyboard instruments, the MPE controllers could really be useful for live performance, or for less post processing of recording sessions, and editing in articulations. These controllers provide a means for expression beyond the 2 dimensional keyboard paradigm (note + velocity). I think Venus Theory nailed it when he explained that MPE allows a keyboard player to have similar expression control over all the notes under their fingers, such as a guitar player would on the fretboard. A guitar player can bend each string in a chord independently, which is something that standard MIDI channel aftertouch or mod wheels cannot accomplish. All the standard MIDI notes are played on a common MIDI channel. With MPE, each MIDI note temporarily gets its own MIDI channel. A 3rd dimension, so to speak. Opens new doors...

Quick question. I like the idea of a fiddle library, but have no idea how a real fiddle is actually played. Even with all the articulations and keyswitches, would it still be very hard to get a realistic fiddle technique out of a VSTi?

99, and counting...

Almost to 100 pages!!!

That definitely looks interesting, but is vastly a different design paradigm from the traditional piano keyboard.

B&H will let you set email alerts for when it's back in stock.

The Morph being demonstrated by Venus Theory

I think you're on track with T-RackS, and if you follow the advice given for AmpliTube, you should be good there as well. So I'm only going to comment on SampleTank... Unless you can somehow get the ST4 MAX crossgrade, you will not get the MAX package via individual Group Buy freebies. Although as freebies go, there are numerous SampleTank 3 instruments, and post ST4 instrument collection releases that you can pickup. But there are 2,000 more instruments, and an additional 160GB of samples in MAX, that are not included in the full ST4!

Insta-EDM, LOL! ? Now, don't get me wrong with my initial reaction, I love electronic music! But something that offers instant gratification, without some effort, is snake oil, IMHO!

And another $7 (with Jam Points) unlocks all of your downloads for another 180 days. Still cheaper than buying another hard drive to archive all those downloads.

I looked into the Morph a while back. Looks a very adaptable touch pad, and the available overlays allow a lot of flexibility. However, I'm only interested in the two octave keyboard overlay. These items are all sold out and on back order from what I can see now. With Roli on hiatus, the only other good MPE controller option appears to be the Linnstrument...

Now if IK could just refine the color scheme in SampleTank 4, to make it easier on the eyes, and a few workflow issues, then they would have a total winner! The sounds are already awesome, and in some ways I really prefer it to NI Kontakt 6. I think that's great that they can now include 3rd party sound designers! But IK could improve the user experience a bit more...

I bought SoundIron Hyperion Strings Micro from ADSR, a 3rd party, last year. Quite a lot of bang for the buck. And Micro was fairly cheap for the offer I received. When I emailed SoundIron about an upgrade path to Elements, they asked for a copy of the invoice. Then they sent me a discount code for the full amount I spent for micro, to purchase Elements with. So no 50% off... What is the essential difference between Micro and Elements, and is the upgrade worth it?

I have both. We'll see where it goes from here... Kudos to @Reid Rosefelt for an another excellent video!

I grabbed the MDynamicEQ as well. Maybe with that, and the EQual from T-RackS, I will never have to shell out for Fabfilter, LOL! ?

And Retromod Lead, a bunch of sampled Nord Leads (9.8GB), for $40.

So $100 for Biotek 2, $90 for F'em, and $65 for Hyperion.

"GOURP": Is that a new secret code only for Larry's friends?

There are quite a few good juans in the complete Chromaphone collection. I have them all. So now I'm trying to make time to go through each and every library and "star" the ones that sound the best to me. Got to narrow down the list a bit to just my favorites, or risk getting lost in the endless pile of cool random sounds, LOL!

Glad you like that AXE! But all of my guitars are completely virtual, so nothing to plug in here.

Have you checked out this preset in the factory library, a pad called "Restless Alchemist". Responds to velocity with a very nice response! The layers are "Liquid Guitar" and "Analog Pad". So a nice plucked, almost harp-like attack, with a smooth pad finish... So like you said, "Heaven".

Here's a little free .nki that @huskerput together recently, as we were joking about crickets on another thread. He needed crickets for an ambient piece he was working on. Full Kontakt required! crickets.nki

Nice juan!

OK, you will really NEED the Chromaphone 3 & Ultra Analog VA-3 updates => GUI and browser overhaul. Plus now with dual synth layers A and B for bigger sounds. Like having 2 synths in one! Excellent!!! ?

The lack of resizable GUI kept me far away from the Korg Collection for years. But they finally got them updated, and so I'm all in now!