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Thank you Nigel. Always appreciate your comments.

You can now download all of the ZAK sounds freebies without creating an account direct from the page. Includes 2 Kontakt (full), 5 VST instruments, and 1 VST FX. https://zaksound.com/free/

KV331 is giving away Synthmaster ONE for free until 4th Jan. https://www.synthmaster.com/synthmasterone.aspx?referrer=youtube&campaign=wintersale2025&couponcode=YOUTUBE

Many thanks. Appreciated !

Thanks Tom. Glad you liked it. I had a lot of issues with the prose. As each phrase was on a seperate key on the Decent Sampler instrument. And each I found was at a different level and tempo😒. So a lot of bouncing of individual files and processing involved. I did try a little stretching but it did not sound good at all.

The new LABS+ from OT ???? A free tier and a subcription tier. https://www.ffosso.com/

Ha! me too .. I used to look at the grooves on vinyl to see if it matched up to the sound.😂 Many thanks for the compliment.

I had intended to go for the Spitfire TON this year. But there were none. And I felt the confusion over pricing and codes just muddied the waters. So bought Fracture Sounds - Orchestral Atmospheres (Kontakt - £29 from £49) as I have got a lot of use out of their Blueprint freebies and felt it was worth throwing some money their way as I can't afford the bigger stuff from them (It's very useful by the way). And got from Cinematique Instruments - Marble (Kontakt). As it is now down to 19 euros and now in their archive series. Had used the free version. But this has over 900 presets. And a big drop in price (and again very versatile). So spent far less than budgeted for.

Something I had forgotten about and had not checked for a while. Is the amount of documentation in other languages in both the NI Documents and Instrument folder. Including PDF manuals in other languages other than you own. Just cleared out over 500mb of wasted space.

Something I find frustrating is when I name an instrument track (so click in the track box, name it eg: Kontakt 8.1 Fracture Sounds - Cello legato, then copy that and name the clips. Save. I can go back into a project later and all info has reverted to just blank info incl the clips. I have to keep a written record of all track info so I can recall what specific instrument was used. This happened in both CWB and Sonar. And not always but consistently enough to find it annoying.

The title track from my new album release. I discovered you can do do tape-like looping in the free Valhalla Supermassive. So took a piece I had written for an art installation and improvised over it. Also added from Pianobook the DS Instrument Babblings by Anamorfest (quotes from Ulysses by James Joyce - hence the title). Available for free d/load at Bandcamp : https://bemused1.bandcamp.com/album/shut-your-eyes-and-see And Jamendo : https://www.jamendo.com/album/615707/shut-your-eyes-and-see

Cinematique Instruments have gathered 10 of their previous releases and curated them into The Archive. Big price reduction - all at 19 Euros each (some were at much, much higher prices). Including Marble (my fav), Colors, Zilhouette (ens strings). All for Kontakt full. https://cinematique-instruments.com/collection/collection_archive.php

Spitfire Audio has released SSO Discover (For Kontakt Full 7&8 + player) There are some restrictions. But a big stepup from BBCSO Discover. https://www.spitfireaudio.com/products/spitfire-symphony-orchestra-discover

Agree. Have been using this for a long time. And find I enjoy its tone more then the paid ones I have. And some good presets within it (Gunnar loves Jesus is a fav)

I picked up the 5 bundle offer for £17 a few weeks ago. UFX Reverb, Delay, Filter and Neo & Retro. I had constant crashes on loading in Sonar (FT) or if not on loading on saving a project then Sonar would crash to desktop. And the same with SoundForge 13. I found the only way to prevent it was constant pointing to the blob files and using the VST2 version. It's on a brand new purpose built music pc from Scan in the UK on W11. I had similar issues a few years ago with Mellow VB. But that seems to have settled now. Having checked a lot online it seemed to be something that occured with Sonar/Cakewalk for some. But I'm sure others have no problems. Just frustrating.