kitekrazy1

A question we all need to answer. I'm moving away from Kontakt based synths. How many of these sounds can be duplicated using VSTs using less disk space. Karany stuff is nice.

The drawback is some of those presets may need the effects you have to buy to get them to fully work.

I wasn't an adult yet. Eventually Reality 101 sets in, and I'm still a student.

13GB. I'm sure there are people on another forum giving it praise. I'm thinking of donning a fire suit and expose the bloat. Vocal romplers pretty much get less use.

It was easier 50 years ago. Less distractions.

I guess they think you will never legally run out of licenses. That would be pretty hard to do unless one violates a EULA.

All of the professionals in music seem to use less gear. I've rarely seen them switch guitars. Usually a guitar or bass player in an amateur band like to use a performance to show every instrument they have. I met a guy who had 13 tubas and that was after his wife made him get rid of 3 of them. I don't play guitar much but I have 5 and 2 basses, 3 if you count the tuba. I have a clarinet I got from a pawn shop over a year ago and haven't tested it yet. I have to find my reeds. If we only put the time in our musical abilities instead of forums or buying stuff.

You can only have 2 machines in an XLN account. I had to use another email for a 3rd machine. This is why I won't buy their stuff.

Still addicted to Just Cause 2 which can be had for cheap.

You probably have them. I found out I did since since I have TS Max 3.5.

If it does than it's news to me. Maybe that's why I didn't get the popup.

It's not unusual in other areas. You should see how crazy it can be for golfers. They even market that a certain set of golf balls will improve your game. I've even been there with fishing rods, lures, and lines. I also think it is hereditary. My grandpa's basement was full of John Deere collectables. People do the same thing with tools for the kitchen. Even if we stop buying plugins our hoarding moves to a different area. I've got a zillion presets and a back log of tutorials. I think it is starting to sink in I will most likely die before I make good use of everything.

I'll eventually get all of them. It finally dawned on me that you get some of those presets free.

I had over 800GB of loops at one time that I cut down to under 400. I never keep those on a SSD drive. With Producer Loops stuff you can reduce their size by removing the loops labeled WET or TAILs. I always compress the full mix loops to mp3. Usually when ADSR would have like 15 packs doe $20 that the total size is around 2GB those seem to be most useful since they come with midis and presets. Unfortunately I've moved on to collecting numerous presets for all of the synths I have. I've moved on from synths made in Kontakt. With Spire, Serum, Phaseplant, one could create without using up drive space. Drive space is cheap when you don't have to buy it. BTW CM magazine has reviews of sample packs. Anything rated under 9/10 is mediocre.

No. Am I the only one who never gets that REDEEM popup?

People gettin upset over VST2 when so many developers haven't completely dropped 32 bit. See NI, Melda.

I have many of those listed. IF you want to fill your drive only for the purpose of filling your drive this would be it. I'm learning that smaller size packs seem to be more useful. I haven't fully auditioned the last group of packs from the previous one.

Anyone venture to their forums to see if others are experiencing this?

It never worked for me anyway. I just download it and install on 3 machines.

The reason why I wont fork over major money on their player libraries.

Requires iLok. Easy pass on something that is so common.

I need to constantly check their site to make sure auto renew is turned off. I'm stuck with it for another year.

Is it worth using a voucher? From the demos I'm not sure this behaves any different than other ones other than the old looking GUI. BTW I've never seen a 3 start review on their site.

Image Line brought back their player. I guess there were enough gripes about it. I guess Reason 12 no longer supports them. These are still being used today. It would be interesting to see which ones are still favorites today.

Kontakt or Kontakt Player? ?