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Posts posted by PavlovsCat
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A talented dev, who's very customer focused, and simply a nice person.
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9 hours ago, Fleer said:
They’re not that common in plugin-land.
There’s the XLN, the Waves and the new Arturia in V Collection X.My mind stored that information too. Just think of all the useful information it could have stored instead of which developers have CP-70 libraries or modeled instrument!
I own the XLN Addictive Keys CP-70, but find it very meh.
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AudioThing is offering 81% off on The Orb formant filter plugin for Win, Mac & Linux - €/$9 (reg. €/$49) - until July 28.
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1 hour ago, locrian said:
I just bought and finished demoing Capital Chambers, and the CPU usage on my system (7-yr old HP laptop / Win 10 /Focusrite Scarlett 4i4/ Cubase13) was fairly modest.
So now I can use all the Sound City Studios modules except its Chamber and then follow with Capital Chambers.
Hey thanks for sharing that. I LOVE the demos I've heard of both Capitol Chambers and Sound City Studios. What are your thoughts in comparing and contrasting the two? I'll eventually buy both for sure, but I'm 60% sure I'll start with Sound City because I suspect I'll use it more (because I record a lot of heavy rock songs).
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Reading. Watching. Doing my best to learn from Starship Krupa's posts. Just thought I'd share so that you're aware that these conversations are useful to those lurking, even though most don't post comments. @Starship Krupa I'm going to research the plugin based on your comment. Thanks for sharing your experience and thoughts.
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17 hours ago, locrian said:
Having watched Sound City (the documentary) many times, I had to try out Sound City Studios (the plugin).
I really like the sound, unfortunately as others have noted, the CPU usage is very high. However, I noticed that most of the load is due to the Chamber module and, since that's not used in many of the presets I like, I decided to buy it for the other modules.
I'm jazzed that for just $34 I can add a bit of that Sound City vibe to my music.
That's too bad. I love Abbey Road Chambers, but CPU usage is pretty bad. I was hoping that this and Capitol Chambers (which also sounds great to my ears) wouldn't be as bad on CPU. Oh well, I've got to do the demo first, I suppose. But seeing UAD plugins at these prices is extremely compelling.
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1 hour ago, jngnz said:
Mate, idle fun and buying things is all we do on here.
So true. It should be the forum motto.
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A few years ago -- during the pandemic -- my son was enrolled in driving school, but he ended up not completing the course. At the time, the pandemic inspired me to attempt to play music again, two decades after tendinitis stopped me from being able to play professionally or even at all for more than a few minutes without pain. So, I thought I'd try playing really simple songs, and Gary Numan's Cars would be appropriate and amusing. As my son finally completed his driving lessons, took his driving test, and received his driver's license yesterday, I thought it would be appropriate to go back to this song and make some improvements. I significantly modified the drums and added a compressor. I brought up the vocal -- something I'm usually reluctant to do because I don't have a very good voice (but it works on this song). I changed the overall mix a bit and brought up a couple of the synths and added a small part that I think helps the song. Anyhow, I think the result is a much better version of the cover. But I'll let you be the judge. I welcome your advice on the mix and any constructive criticism.
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Just now, cclarry said:
No extra discounts PC...EveryPlugin always has the product at the lowest possible price
Thanks. Once I get the word from you, I can buy with confidence!
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UAD Sound City is also $34.66. I think I'm going to get it. That's Waves plugin pricing for a superb plugin without the WUP scheme (scam). @cclarry I take it there are no discount codes that worm with this, right?
I have yet to demo Sound City, but I will now. A lot of our community members have posted really good things about it.
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1 hour ago, dumbquestions said:
Great questions. I will start by saying that [IMO] scaler definitely capitalizes on the lack of knowledge, and/or playing ability of the player, by offering an oversimplified solution to helping you lay down at the least a framework for your song (given your settings & preferences are all set to your liking, of course). There may be indeed some jacob collier type folks out there who can tell you what note is played naturally when they hear a raindrop hit the ground, then tell you what scale is played when multiple raindrops fall sequentially, then replicate it on a piano 5 seconds later. This is obviously an exaggeration, but that person probably doesn’t need scaler. I wish that was me, but I can hardly stay in tune while trying to sing the frozen theme song with my kids.
For me personally, the value in scaler is not as much in the lack of knowledge as much as it is in the speed in which I can access different scales and chord structures, as I am laying out ideas for a song. For example, I may be scoring a video for a film that warrants some melancholic elements. I personally might default to minor scales and/or dissonant intervals, which obviously isn’t the only thing i can do in that scenario. In scaler I can type in the word “melancholy” for example and find if there are other scales that might work for that type of scene. It will give me a list of related scales which I can click and then play a few melodies, click another one & try a different melody, so on & so forth. It can even be set up to suggest your next chord live as you are playing. It’s a very fast workflow, but can be a little brainless over time if you do value practicing and getting better at quickly unlocking that music memory/education (right when you need it) that many of us worked very hard for. For me however, I prefer to just use both—scaler+education. Once I get the bones for a song laid out on piano i can start adding other instrumentation to flesh it out that i don’t really need scaler for. I have a day job that is not music related, so my hopeful & always up-and-coming career in music can use the slight boost in productivity that scaler provides, at least to help me keep moving forward.I already gave your post a thanks, but I thought you invested enough time and did such a thorough job of explaining the utility of the plugin that it warranted a thank you message. I sincerely appreciate it.
As always, Wookiee is as good as they come, and I want to thank you for your helpful post.
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2 minutes ago, jngnz said:
Well f-ck me. I decided against it last night and bought it this morning in a sleepy half-coma. You f-cks.
You're welcome? ?
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1 hour ago, dumbquestions said:
I don’t usually wake up and think about starting my song in a b flat minor inverted mixolydian scale, but with scaler I can do this, and lock the keys of my midi keyboard to only play the keys & chords in that scale. For $35 i could also buy myself a sub par dinner, but I might never write that same song in a mixolydian scale on my own. Inspiration is what I use it for mostly
This is what I don't understand, is the value that you were unfamiliar with the mixolydian scale before using Scaler?
Does it provide any value beyond that? To cut to the chase. I understand scales and modes, and basic music theory (I had around a year's worth of training). I know that for mixolydian, you just flatten the 7th of a major scale a half step (e.g, in C major, you lower the B a half step to Bb). Considering that, do you think Scaler 2 still has value -- for example, it helps in some way with creative experimentation-- or is it mainly aimed at people without knowledge of music theory (e.g., showing user the notes in chords beyond triads, showing various scales and modes, etc)?
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This is pretty interesting. The demo, at points has a very Sufjan Steven's vibe (he's always said that he goes after a bad junior high school band vibe).
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1 hour ago, Kreveta Puket said:
Dont sleep on this deal
This is a collection of guitar riff loops, right? I'm just trying to figure out if I'd find any use for it. I love coming up with guitar riffs and licks of my own and it's always come easy to me. So I'm guessing that's the only purpose for this tool? Is that correct or are there other ways you / people use it that aren't readily apparent to me?
I'm ready to be enabled for 19 bucks if this could be useful for me.
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1 hour ago, Paul Young said:
It's not that. I checked my licenses and I have 1/26 of that library so it shows a different price.
BTW they don't use paypal either.
Sad I go this far to amuse myself.
If you're really interested, try contacting them. I bet they'd get things sorted out.
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27 minutes ago, Carl Ewing said:
A company either understands UX or it doesn't. This isn't something that is easily remedied without completely altering how ownership / upper management view software, aesthetics, etc.
Sine is a horrendous sample player. It's been out for years and hasn't improved. It is absolutely ***** backward in almost every way, from how libraries are displayed, how dynamics are controlled, how patches / articulations are selected, how the mixer works, how multi-channels are setup, and on and on. It will not get better without essentially lobotomizing those who made these decisions (or managed the process), or firing all of them and replacing them with another team. You can't just suddenly learn these things - it takes years of education on top of a baseline natural talent for design & engineering.
It's too bad. OT libraries are phenomenal. But the player is an example of an absolutely unfathomably poor understanding of design - which at a minimum, even if the UX engineering is terrible, which it is, requires at least a baseline understanding of aesthetics / UI. Better than Best Service's Engine player though! (lol)
A savage take. But having worked with some excellent UX pros in my career, and learned a bit about UX, I do agree that the Sine Player is poor, as are a lot of sample developers home grown plugins. That's why I loathe it, and stop buying when these one to three person developer shops abandon Kontakt to create their amateur hour abominations that even a junior level user experience pro would find abysmal. But good luck getting them to listen. Even the bigger devs like OT are small businesses and its not like they invest the resources that NI can. I wish OT abandoned their player and went back to Kontakt and just focused on what they're good at, making sample libraries.
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1 hour ago, Paul Young said:
This voucher has a minimum purchase amount of 399€
I tested it and it worked perfectly for both the Sine Player and Kontakt versions. I was logged in. I live in the US. They could be limiting this offer to residents of specific regions / countries, but we have had people in the US and Europe confirm it's working for them. You could always try OT support. I'd bet they'd get it sorted out for you.
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4 minutes ago, GoncaloL said:
From my understanding you can go kontakt way with that same code
You're right. The discount code works with the Sine Player or Kontakt version. I agree with Paul and greatly prefer Kontakt to Sine Player, but OT does have a notice that they no longer support the Kontakt version and will not be doing updates.
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18 minutes ago, PavlovsCat said:
It's like Mr Miyagi telling you good job after a karate match (okay, that's a super dated reference, but hey, most of us will recognize it!).
Anyone under 40: WTH is that guy talking about?
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2 minutes ago, cclarry said:
I'm really tempted by this...but I REALLY.....REALLY....REALLY....don't need another orchestra....
not that that matters...LOLHow long ago did most of us go beyond the libraries and plugins we needed cover some certain area of music or production and start rationalizing differences in recording techniques, instruments used, mics and mic positions, colorization (e.g, compressors).... ?
I'm definitely not pointing the finger at any one person, because I'd be a total hypocrite to do that. GAS isn't just a silly acronym --although it certainly is a silly acronym. It's real and it's made a lot of developers rich.
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25 minutes ago, cclarry said:
Thanks, Larry. I like this developer's work. It's high quality and pretty distinctive.
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53 minutes ago, cclarry said:
Nice find PC!
To all you kids out there, getting praise from cclarry for posting a deal is the ultimate compliment. It's like Mr Miyagi telling you good job after a karate match (okay, that's a super dated reference, but hey, most of us will recognize it!).
I am honored. Thanks, Larry! ?
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Orchestral Tools is offering users of the free Layers library a 75% discount on the Berlin Orchestra Inspire 1 library for Sine Player and/or Kontakt Player - €99 (reg. €399). Expiry: unknown.
Use the code: get-inspired75.
https://www.orchestraltools.com/store/collections/inspire-1
BFD Beta program (Not a deal, at least not yet)
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Posted · Edited by PavlovsCat
As a marketing and brand strategist, I think even if InMusic created a stellar BFD4 -- before I have grandchildren (my kids are presently teenagers) , I think they've done so much damage to the brand it would have a difficult time finding success. BFD3 has been around for more than a decade, and I don't think it's possible to do a thread about it on any forum or social media platform without hearing horror stories from past users. I think the less than impressive BFD Player also didn't give true believers the hope they desired.
I'm a SD3 and AD2 user that would love to see a serious option to SD3 that would bring prices down. But every indication has been that InMusic is incapable of delivering a product anywhere near that level. My negative experiences with their software and support leads me to be very hesitant to buy anything that InMusic owns and I'm well aware that is not a rare perspective.