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Magic Russ

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  1. I'm not sold on this. I have everything that was in the version of MAX they sold last year, plus all the Amplitube stuff and MODO Bass. The idea of Tron-ifying my samples with Sampletron 2 sounds vaguely cool. I'm sure the new reverb sounds great as well as the Comprexxor, but I'm not convinced that I need those. I don't really hear any of the SampleTank libraries calling me either.
  2. Back then I didn't care about keyboards, other than wondering why all the synths from the bands I liked in the 70s sounded so lush and all the bands in the 80s had synths that sounded so twinky.
  3. Now that i have had a chance to play around with this, I'll throw in some comments. First, a fair amount of the content requires Maschine. It comes with about 14 projects for Maschine, a few drum synth sounds and a few things from their drum kit. However, there are also around 200 samples, 3 Battery Kits, 17 FM 8 presets, 20 Guitar Rig 6 presets, 31 Massive Sounds, 14 Massive X presets, and 27 Monark presets. The FM 8 sounds are perfectly useable but not ground breaking. The guitar rig presets are broken into 2 groups. Jamie Lidell contributed 10 patches which are tagged for use with drums. One of them I found interesting because it had an LFO set to modify the delay parameters so that the first beat in a measure had this weird flangy thing to it. Very clever, although I think I might want to change the modulation to have this fire on the 2 and 4. The other group was a set of Guitar and Bass patches by Phase Queen. Overall I thought these needed to tame some of the reverb and have some other minor tweaks. However, I thought the Antarctica and Other Voices patches had some potential. The Massive sounds were above average. As I have said before and will say again, I have never been crazy about OG Massive, so this is actually effusive praise. The Massive X sounds, on the other hand, were quite disappointing. I never really got on with the original version of the synth. I always felt like it took a lot of work to make it not sound buzzy and uninspiring. However, I instantly took to Massive X. I made more patches in the first month with Massive X than I did with the OG version in the previous 10 years. I have countless "bonus" Massive patches that vendors included with sample packs that exist only so the vendor can say"100 Massive patches included" That's the feeling I get when previewing the Massive X patches in this library. There are also a few Monark presets included, mostly deep bass patches.
  4. If we're going that way, 20 years ago Guitar Center was closing out the Vox 810 Valve Tone overdrives for $25. Now they are going for $175 on the used market. I should have picked one up.
  5. The Red Special stomp is a pretty cool pickup sim and it's nice to have a treble boost. Also, not a huge fan of Slash but love the MXR Chorus in that collection.
  6. I regret not buying more of the Alchemy libraries when they were available for PC users.
  7. https://www.native-instruments.com/en/specials/community-drive-2021/
  8. By the way, if you have Massive and are not that impressed, you might want to check out some of the presets from Leap Into the Void. They go way beyond the stereotypical dance sounds most people expect from Massive.
  9. You probably have too many free things that do what it does better.
  10. First thing, most of these products aren't that old, and most have been updated in the past year or so, so that doesn't really make them abandonware. Second, the Mod Pack is pretty darn good. Super 8 is also pretty good for what it is. I'm not into Juno type synths, but if I were it might get some use. Form is fun if you don't have Iris. TRK-01? OK, I can't defend that one. I'm not the target market and I haven't heard any of the people who it should appeal to singing its praises.
  11. Also, Larry, for obvious reasons it's Komplete Classics Collections.
  12. Absynth may be old, but it still can create some pretty trippy sounds. I wonder how good the upgrade path will be from this to the standard Komplete package.
  13. Maybe with the Apple update out of the wat they can get to fixing preset management.
  14. Added Apple Silicon Support VST3 Some small fixes. As always run Native Access to update
  15. Free until they get a C & D letter from NI.
  16. This is a great and unique sounding delay but it does not have tempo sync. If that is important to you I'd hold out for when Echoes goes on sale.
  17. Cuba fixes an inability to drag and drop MIDI patterns. KK fixes a bug related to changed parameter mappings causing crashes with hosted VST3 plugins.
  18. I'd like to be able to drag and drop the FX from an FX Chain directly into the bin without having to deal with the shell.
  19. It's overpriced at the list price, but worth it at sale price. The additive resynthesis was very good for its time. It doesn't come with that many presets, but then you can import any sound and make a preset out of it.
  20. I think you are looking for the SampleTekk thread, although I prefer the Soniccouture Tape Choir myself.
  21. Does anyone have any idea what is in these updates? No information in the manager, and I didn't see anything on their website or forums.
  22. I don't have a nylon, but my DAW is right next to the closet with our furnace and AC. Even if I had a nylon string guitar, recording anything with a mic is not an option for me. I do have a steel string acoustic but I'm not crazy about the sound of my pickup going into my DAW. The NI strummed series sounds better than anything I can record with what I have.
  23. I always thought he was just having fun at Ringo's expense, similar to the story about the lyrics to "With A Little Help From My Friends" being a jibe at his singing. Turns out that this was a joke from a comedian that got picked up by The London Times and got misattributed.
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