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I wonder if people have already an opinion on this one? For color (T-Paine effect?), I liked the Slate Metatune best, based on audio/video demos, but $200 and dongle requirements make it double-sure that I will never get it... that I will never get it.

Awww... too late. Sounds are bringing back lovely memories.

Just a heads up, here on my system, the installer put the vst3 version into a new folder with a name 'Contents' that it created in my main VST3 folder. If the same happened to you then you may need to be careful updating the plugin in future as I think it's a bug, and the folder 'Contents' should simply carry the name of the plugin, according to the latest ways of doing things (sacrasm advisable). I suggest uninstalling first then installing any new version when updating. I already let them guys know. Curious if it was just me?

I just ran through a couple of videos on that Percussion Factory and yeah, at around 700MB does it sound lovely and have nice big grooves library but it's a lot more expensive and still gives me too mechanical feel. Could be interesting option when I see it on a deep sale. Great for modern electronic music. Session Percussionist is almost 6GB that suggests it's been sampled in much more detail though. And hopefully I can get it for under $50 in couple months. Also grooves feel more natural when I listen to demos. Is there anything that plays and sounds more natural than that? Maybe the new library that's still in the oven Peter is telling about. But I don't expect it to be priced in humane price range. Man, just give me a 'Louis Conte in da pocket' and I'm done! ??

Yeah, you may be right there. I'm even more surprised that there was none such library *from anyone* before. There are quite a few percussion sample libraries, with some having a few banks of additional MIDI performances, but nothing closer to filling in a role of a typical percussionist for a band, this is the closest so far. At least there is nothing, as tailored, I'm aware of. Ha! We know this game. I'm good for waiting then. Funny I just recently bought Cuba on half-off sale and no interest paypal payments, after all the years lol. It has some good chunk of overlap with this new one, but I like how this new is more focused on just the percussions.

Guess if NI will do their Xmas/New Year 50% off sale this year, then this will be excluded?

You could try installing these betas from the thread I posted.

I wonder if you just experienced same issues from this thread:

First, sorry for late reply. Yes, well similar. I have Soothe (1st gen.) and Smooth Operator and when I compared them, Soothe was a bit more subtle in effect. You can go really heavy handed with Soothe and still get subtle processing. With Smooth Operator you just have to be more careful, but it has sidechaining feature built in, that's exactly what you're looking for and similar to what Trackspacer does. They are both really great plugins for that (and quick in setting up). I wouldn't care much about it as I like ducking signal with a regular wide band compressor, it's not like the spectral feature will take my mixes to another level, but these two are simple workflow for sure. My understanding is that Soothe is focusing specifically on unwanted resonances, that's why it's usually more subtle. If you use it to send a sidechain signal for ducking, then you basically will be carving out space mostly based on vocal's unwanted resonances (I didn't try to push it and see what comes out). Smooth Operator can do that, but then it can do spectral balancing, and then also sidechaining, it seems as it's the best compromise between features, quality and price. For just taming unwanted resonances Soothe is probably best though.

A "very exciting" new plugin? My guess it's A CALMDOWNER

Wide band ducking by sidechaining any hardware compressor, I believe that's how they did it in studios for decades. Good engineer is all it takes

What the OP video is showing is basically a technique I would describe as spectral sidechaining, just the sidechain signal is based on soothe's resonances, and that's it. IMO plugins like the Trackspacer or Smooth Operator would be the cheap alternatives, Gulffoss is too expensive for a cheap alternative ? EDIT: yep, most of these suppressors could serve as a cheaper alternative

We're like... Larry is more like...

I hit Delete every time I read one of these posts. Not sure I'm doing something bad or good but one thing I noticed is I suddenly recovered a lot of disk space

It's impossible... I'm missing the rest! Oh I got it now...

All is fine, that's a normal feeling. Nobody said getting in Larry's shoes would be easy

Thanks. It didn't for me, it asked me to navigate for the library. But then I remembered that, on the other PC, I performed some steps to reset the NI Access because it was nearly dead on me, no updates, no downloads, etc. I tried there and it worked! I should try resetting NI Access here on laptop probably. And yeah, I want to stay on the older version as long as possible because the new one, well...

There is a paid version that has the mixer so to me this free version serves more as a teaser, a nice one though it seems. Unfortunately I won't be able to download the library because I still use old version of NI Access, the website claims it requires Kontakt 6 Player but video is already showing Kontakt 7 Player and the newer NI Access where the 'download' button pops-up but here in the old NI Access there's only 'locate', too bad.

Oh no, not another synth I will actually use. And not now! Wait, they gave discount for owners of the other models... oh well, kids will get less sweets this month ?

Bad strategy. How long you guys give the M32 before they'll eventually retire it? I'm considering buying it, but... I should probably just stick to my Nektar too.

How many slots do you have in your rack?

I missed it too, so I hope there were no useful links and references to other free and paid software in that thread that gone away with it, as that happens alot here on the forum and I often make notes of them. I read that BFD has great cymbals so when I saw that there was a free BFD Player released, I was hoping for getting some of these great cymbals with a simplified cheaper player, but I get it now that's not the case, right? ??

Confirming, that's what I do anyway and yes it works. Plus the change of license type to computer based (from cloud based only) is very welcome too. Shame that the other two plugins I have are cloud based only, makes them risky when using in projects that take long time to work on.

I thought we need the UA Connect to be able to install their plugins? Please tell me if there is a hidden way to install singles I beg you ? (or I can always uninstall Connect afterwards...)