PavlovsCat

I use that technique in conversations, as you may have noticed!

One thing, their copy states that their vinyl samples are recorded from commercial vinyl albums. That's copyright infringement for sure. It's certainly the AnyDayLong guy and he's affiliated with Past To Future. I've bought PTF stuff for years, but don't know anything about them, so I can’t vouch for how legit they are. But it's clear neither are great respectors of copyright laws when it comes to samples lifted from vinyl records. Their drum samples seem fine. They're not detailed and I don't think they lifted them from vinyl records, but I don’t know for sure. This dev does seem rather shady.

Someone needs to tell this developer that you don't avoid trademark infringement by changing a letter or switching a word. For instance, their drum kit has the name, "The Beatle." Look at what EastWest did with "Fab Four." That said, the demo sounds nice.

The demo song Zach does at 9:30 is super cool. It's the same demo song on the OTS website, but I found it really interesting to watch Zach walk through how he did the demo. https://www.orangetreesamples.com/products/evolution-rubber-bridge

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"The Crunge," for 100 points. Zeppelin is one of my favorite bands.

This is the video that made me a total fan of the rubber bridge guitar, and of Madison Cunningham.

Things that make you go hmmmm… It's a free product that's always been a free product, and yet, next to the button that reads "free license" is another button that reads, "free trial." Apparently they're anticipating the plugin user who's not fully ready to commit to downloading a free product and feels more comfortable downloading a free trial version before making a final decision.

Exactly. I never heard of a rubber bridge guitar until recently and absolutely love the sound. I can't wait to download this library and play it.

+1 A super talented musician friend of mine had been telling me how much he liked the RC-20 for a long time, so I picked it up on a sale earlier this year and think it's excellent.

In all fairness, if the forum had penalties for bad jokes, I fully deserve a stoning for that post you responded to. Thank you, Larry for liking my post out of a sense of compassion.

I've never heard of this developer before, but they sound insane! Sorry, I couldn't resist.

But after that you still end up with carpal tunnel syndrome from clicking all of those legal boxes. However, they have that base covered, as one of the boxes represents your releasing them responsibility for damages related to carpal tunnel syndrome caused by checking legal release boxes. Funny, on serious note, this reminds me of the daily battle between the legal team in a big brand marketing department and the marketing staff. While this is just a small developer, this is pretty much what things look like if the lawyers get their way.

I have one of their piano libraries and it's very good. This is a no-brainer, ridiculously huge discount from a pure deal level , it's from a high quality developer, and it does good for a very important cause. So that makes it irresistible for me. I'm in. Kudos to SONUSSCORE for this.

Wait, you know I'm a fan of your videos too, @Simeon Amburgey. I love your videos. It's a blast to watch you enjoy a library and just fall in love with patches -- it reflects the joyful child in all of us when we fall in love with instruments /sounds. Your videos are really great at that -- you just have to be you to keep them enjoyable. I think that's real secret to your YouTube success, you're just being yourself and it works. Although, to be completely candid, when I buy the same library, it sounds greatly inferior, although that can be completely due to quality of the guy playing it (me compared to you!), not the libraries themselves.

Cory is the most fair, upfront, honest YouTube reviewer of sample libraries there is, IMO. I'm a fan.

I don't own it, but over at VI, when someone had asked questions about Miroslav, one of the very knowledgeable composers over at VI had recommended Amadeus instead. I heard a surprisingly impressive demo of it years ago, but otherwise, don't know much about it, beyond that it's a KONTAKT Player full orchestra library. I think I've seen on sale for $79 - $99 USD. I don't know how GPO is these days. I own an early version of it. Kirk Hunter, (disclosure, Kirk's a friend of mine that I've advised as a paid consultant in the past), also has orchestral libraries he puts on sale for low prices from time to time -- even under $100. While I like Miroslav's tone, I think other options are well worth exploring, as I've mentioned, and the free BBCDO from Spitfire is absolutely worth getting for anyone on a budget and can be supplemented with other libraries including their $29 USD Originals libraries which I find are a great bargain. https://sonicscores.com/amadeus/

So sampling has advanced dramatically over the more than 20 years since those original samples were recorded. The way you do sessions to record an orchestra for a sophisticated sample library today is very different than what you would do two plus decades ago. Today's sophisticated sample libraries have significantly greater detail than those made in the 90s or the 2000s; they have multiple velocity layers, multiple round robins and of course, the best have sophisticated scripting that is far beyond what libraries had back then, but, of course, that can always be added, where a developer's hands are tied with decades old recordings. They're simply not going to have the recorded material there to handle all of the velocity layers and round robins to create a modern, sophisticated orchestral library, because these things are very sophisticated beasts. Although, I do seem to recall IK adding some additional samples in rhe 2010s, but not doing a complete overhaul, which I, since long ago, expected. FTR, I own the first version of Miroslav for Sampletank, which I recall came out in the early 2000s and it was already using really old samples from the 90s at that time and not at the same level of the more sophisticated libraries even 20 years ago. And the latest 2 LE version I own doesn't seem like a giant leap from the first version. I'm saying that after 20 years -- whatever it is -- I expected that IK would have come out with a new orchestral library with newly recorded samples -- a more sophisticated library to replace this one. It's just surprising to me that they haven't. I'd like to see them do so.

Wasn't that library originally sampled more than 20 years ago? Frankly, I'm surprised IK is still selling it and hasn't put out something new. It's ridiculously outdated and has been for many years.

I think using this on my original songs might improve the quality of those songs, but I'm still not giving up!

It's been quite a while since they've had a free Klang library and I really like those libraries (free and paid). Actually, I like most of what that developer releases. Really cool libraries, especially their sound design stuff.

I have RX8. I'd love to hear from anyone who had RX8 and upgraded to RX9 if they found this a worthwhile upgrade.

I initially though it was named after Ayn Rand, which, as a guy who actually enjoyed ideology and philosophy classes in college (unlike everyone else I knew) was a bit of a turn off.

I really like this little synth. I'm a preset user and realize those of you who know how to tweak synths have completely different (higher) standards than me, but I think this is a great little freebie. It's nowhere even approaching something like Vital, but it still has some really nice patches it makes and comes up with randomly and it's free, so I would consider it a no-brainer. Just download it and try it out, friends.

It's an illusion, it's a game. Thanks @abacab. I have really bad tendinitis which ended my days as a musician and keeps me from being able to play a video game without pain in less than one minute, but I find these free game updates useful, because I'll shoot a text about them to my son, who's a gamer. *I've been holding back inserting "Abacab" lyrics whenever I see your username (I am a huge fan of the period from the band's beginning up to and including Abacab -- and stopping completely with the first hearing of Invisible Touch -- which, I think was worthy of an order of protection. But I had too much self respects to go for such an easy pun. However, I think my standards recently lowered and I went for it.