Magic Russ

There might be some licensing issues with DP/RP as much of the content was created by third parties who licensed to Cakewalk. These rights might not transfer to Bandlab. I'd like to see Pentagon come back, 64 bit VST3, with the bugs fixed. Maybe support import of standard wav files.

People had been reporting an issue in KK with the update wiping out favorites. This morning they released a patch fixing that issue.

Also Massive X 1.3.2 - 2021-07-01 FIXED Incorrect initialization of audio output channels

Reaktor: Komplete Kontrol I was not aware of a VST3 version of Kontakt. Maybe that is coming soon.

You are absolutely right.

They are changing the name from Discovery Series to Spotlight Collection. Perhaps the old name does not translate well into Chinese.

Now it says changed the logo and image in the library browser. Not exactly most essential release I've seen.

This morning I saw updates to Cuba, West Africa, India, Middle East in Native Access. Unfortunately Native Access does not show what changed for these, and no information on NI site either.

I could be wrong, but these eBooks don't seem to be more detailed than the little 10 page booklets that you used to get occasionally with guitar magazines. Anyone have any experience with these?

So far MODO bass is my favorite. Before that I used to use the Scarbee Rickenbacker. and OTS Cherry bass. I also have their P Bass, but I don't think it is that great. Unfortunately a lot of good libraries require Kontakt. There are also a few decent free sfz files out there, although not many significantly better than what you get in SI Bass.

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Am I the only one to find these a bit noisy and bright? Oh well, they did say this was a Forum collection.

I get a lot of use out of the Mod Pack and Replika, and am starting to use Guitar Rig a bit more. I wasn't crazy about Dirt until I found out you can get some decent fuzz sounds from it in Guitar Rig. But while the Solid series is well enough named, none of them are my first choices.

That was from last June and doesn't include the VST3 build and Apple fixes.

Native Access appeared to have been hung when I installed today's batch. However when I loaded all these plugins in CWBL they all showed latest version and VST3.

So far, since yesterday I see: Transient Master Driver Solid Bus Comp FX Solid Dynamics FX Solid EQ FX Supercharger I'm guessing Raum and Replika next, followed by crush and mod packs, then Guitar Rig, then the instruments.

I'd love it if they would fix the columns on the explorer window. There's no reason I should have to expand a column to see the complete file name when the columns don't take the full width of the pane.

NI has updated Transient Master to 1.4 Add VST3 and Apple Silicon Remove 32 bit target Not a particularly exciting update, but at least it looks like they are starting progress on getting past the Apple and VST3 issues.

A while back, Computer Music used to include user produced tracks that they would comment on. Someone submitted a track made with only CM-101 which actually sounded pretty good. For those who don't remember, CM-101 was a very simple software synth which they gave away with the magazine about 20 years ago. It sounded very basic, even by the standards of the first few years of the millenium, when some people thought Pentagon was the greatest synth of all time. You may be wondering how this guy managed to come up with a cool track with such a limited synth? Clever use of effects. Now I'm inspired to create the most amazing tracks with TTS-1 and every effect in my catalog.

For me, part of the joy of Rapture was the multiple step generators and such. I think the easiest way to create a lot of those sounds might be to set up a multi-output Kontakt instrument and put an instance of Guitar Rig on whichever outputs you want those kinds of step modulators. I know this might not be the first thing that comes to mind, but Absynth actually has a few things in common with Rapture. It does allow you to add your own waveforms, and has multiple multi-stage envelopes that can be tempo synced and set to modulate any parameter. Granted, the filters don't sound like any analog filters but that's not always necessary.

Wusikstation is capable of doing a lot of things ordinary samplers can't. There are two wavesequenced channels which can allow you to come up with some interesting patterns. The quality of the sound engine is fine. The included content skews heavily towards either cheesy 80s sounds or new age soundscapes. There are plenty of really good sounds (such as the Art Vera collections) but a lot of chaff as well. However, there are a few things I don't like about this program. First, recent releases have not been that stable for me. Second, the GUI can be awkward to navigate. In terms of presets, there's a big quantity over quality issue. An NI style tagged browsing system would definitely help. However, one of the big problems is that it is not easy creating new patches with the given content. You can do a lot by combining the elements, but trying to find the elements you want can be really difficult. Some of the elements have names like "Moog 1", "Moog 2", etc. which is not the most descriptive. "Moog Saw" and "Moog Pulse 25" would be more helpful. I can't say I have used WS in that many projects in a long time, but someone on a budget might get a lot of use out of it.

It's a great synth, but the preset system is unfinished.

This sounds a bit beyond what I normally would have expected out of Lounge Lizard. Tempting.

It was track spark or something like that. They started strong but couldn't keep up the quality.

I wonder if I can still get that anechoic room simulator someone put out a while ago.