Carl Ewing

Feel the opposite. Have so many of these for free - they all sound generic or terrible. The guitar ones are especially awful sounding - production and realism. The drum ones have some need-something-quick utility, which might be cool for $10, but MUCH better drum libraries around for each genre. Have tried demos of a few of their FX - they don't sound very good either imo. Their business model seems to be: build a massive catalog of products as fast as possible. Get users into our ecosystem as cheaply as possible with lots of freebies and "mega bundles!" with lots of marketing hype ("Ziiiimmmmer!!"). Then entice them further into "collect them all!" bundle deals. Once consumers are into the system, push "complete catalog" super deals, and properly milk those customers for incremental updates to all products. All seems about as sleezy as most of the music software industry. Something like those drum libraries should be one Flagship product, with all titles / genres in a single VST instrument. Instead they've got 20 separate different plugins, that all all get incremental updates, meaning users will have to keep paying those micro-updates to ensure all those libraries are up to date. I avoid these kind of developers because when you have a business model like this, it is also reflected in the quality of the products. But for gear addicts, these guys have gamed this very well to milk these kind of customers for life.

You are clearly unaware how much ungodly levels of shitty pop music were made in the 1950s (and every decade since). You have benefited from the Great Filter called 'Time'. Trust me on this - my family ran a vintage / memorabilia shop that played an endless rotation of records for this era - not the hits - just random crap. 99% of it is nightmarishly awful and all sounds the same. Like being stuck in a David Lynch movie set in an apocalyptic 60s white-suburban wasteland that might rival Pleasantville. Adding to this - AI created pop music would have been extremely easy in the 1950s and most of the 1960s, since record labels essentially just took whatever song was popular and would sign 10,000 other bands to try and recreate that same sound...over and over and over and over again. Literally 1000s of **albums** of nonsense replicas in what were maybe (maybe) 3 genres. At least today you get EDM, trap, Afrobeat, Dancehall, Reggaeton, hip-hop, folk-pop, K-pop, RnB, alt-RnB, alt rock, pop-punk, indie pop, Latin Pop, Synthwave, Electro-pop, and on and on. There are times lately when the billboard 100 is almost half filled with world music. Having said that - the linked KSHMR song is terrible, even by KHSMR standards. Dude's made some decent club tracks, and is quite a good producer, but ya, this track is *****.

Massive projects with deadlines will clear out anything unused very quickly. I think gear addiction is a real problem in this industry. Likely as bad as gambling for some people - and probably as pervasive in the amateur space as pro (it's really bad in the pro space). There is no point owning **** you do not use or have never tried. Zero. If you have never used Alpha Compressor - I mean, demo'd it on a project extensively and thought "ya, I definitely need this and will use this a lot" then don't buy it. Simple as that.

I gotta see the back end of their website. I can't imagine a scenario - other than a ransomware attack where they had essentially zero security or fallback protocols - that would take a business website down for a full week. "I'm sorry, we made no sales this week because our website is down." You'd never get a bank loan ever again lol.

Actually - on the website it's regular price is $299.99. I guess the company is doing a good job of undermining it's own value. Or they just make **** up as they go along. (actual answer) It also sounds like robotic ***** with circa 2007 percussion sounds, so nothing is lost. That walkthrough sounds awful.

Worked for me randomly putting an Indonesia address - doesn't seem to be region restricted, at least not yet. (Edit: To clarify, you still have to put a US state / Zip code, but I just put 90210 and Cali and random Indonesian street address, and it worked.) There are 3 options to choose from. Here's a summarized product list for each: Electronic Edition: • Massive X • TRK-01 • Schema: Light • Feel It • Nacht • Utopia • Progressive Trance Leap Expansion • Replika XT • Choral • Flair • Phasis • Driver • iZotope Ozone Elements. -------------------------------------- Band Edition: • Studio Drummer • The Gentleman • Electric Keys – Phoenix • Scarbee Rickenbacker Bass • Session Guitarist – Strummed Acoustic • Soul Sessions • Disco & Funk Leap Expansion • Guitar Rig 7 LE • Solid Bus Compressor • Solid Dynamics • Solid EQ • iZotope Nectar Elements • iZotope Ozone Elements ------------------------------------- Beats Edition: Battery 4 • Massive X • Empire Breaks • Duets • Stacks • Cloud Supply • Latin Trap Leap Expansion • Dirt • Bite • Freak • Supercharger GT • Transient Master • iZotope Ozone Elements

This is easy to test. Download something like Omnia (75GB). It starts downloading a ~70GB ISO first - at least it does for me. That file goes into the downloads folder defined in Settings / File Management. When I tried this last time it had many many problems. Ended up having to get the direct link from NI, which then required a download manager to not have to restart the download every time it failed.

Some people like punk rock, some people like avant-garde electro-acoustic symphonies that take 10 years to produce. You want simplicity, good for you. If you want really simple, just slap some guitar loops together - that'll get to "ears" really fast, and it seems like the audience you're seeking won't give af anyway lol.

Have all the ones mentioned in this thread (and a couple others), and I think Hydra is the best. Specifically because the scripting is excellent, so it's basically timeless since the dry guitar tone / sound is great so it's just a matter of choosing what to run it through. Heavier7Guitars would be second. There's also Axe Machina (Soundiron). Ample Metal Hellrazer. Actually, I think Ample Metal Hellrazer is very underrated. A lot of initial reviews / demonstrations were running through bad sounding VST effects. I have an Axe FX III hardware unit which really shows how good some of these libraries are. And I like Hydra the best running it through the AXE FX unit. But all of these would be great for metal work, it's more a matter of what specific features you want (i.e. if strumming is important vs leads vs. articulation switching, etc.). Really as long as the dry tone is well done & versatile than it's as good as you can make it with effects and programming.

Have both. Shredded series are exclusively instrument libraries - no phrases, etc. And it's much much more sophisticated in terms of playability, with many articulations and enormous control over almost every aspect of the guitar, and realllly big fx section with tons and tons of presets. For articulations, Hydra has Sustain, Power Chord, Tapping, Tremolo, Mute, Power Chord Mute, Harmonics, Choke, Staccato, Power Chord Staccato, Pinch Harmonics, Rake and FX. And the scripting is pretty good for key switching between articulations in terms of how a real guitar plays. And you can customize that key switching a lot (velocity, key, etc.) Also has strumming section, and some great features like single guitar, double, triple and quadruple layering. This last one is pretty awesome, for getting really thick tones. Electric Storm is pretty limited, with only 4 articulations (as far as can tell) ==> Open, Muted, Flageolet and Tremolo. And has limited control over the guitar. But it does have tons and tons of phrases, which could be useful. I would say if you want a really dedicated metal guitar library, that has a steep learning curve, but results that are much more realistic and customizable get Hydra. If you want something more minimal, just play and go, get Electric Storm. Would also say these two guitars sound completely different, so you might want to compare some Youtube videos showcasing tone / effects section.

"FORUM" works - brings it to 222.05. ... $2!

This is great because I think it was the cheapest last time I upgraded, so still have some coins from the 14CE upgrade. $215! And then you get $8 afterward, so $207! Anyone know any Best Service code tricks like JRRShop? I looked but saw nothing so far. Also get UJAM Vice for free.

I hear the Amish are always looking for new members. You can join the army of fossils complaining about evolutions in music technology since the 1800s. May I hear your grand contributions to "the craft"? I'll be sure to give it more credit because you made it with locally sourced animals skins and spider silk. Didn't realize I've been using AI since the 80s. Gonna need to improve that definition. Why do i come here? For the deals I guess.

This isn't AI. It's not intelligent. You will still need skill and talented people to make great music. The only people scared of "AI" (it's not AI) are people with no talent, no "sound", no identifiable artistic vision and nothing to say. In other words, people who would be better suited to building strip malls and office furniture than making music. It's clearly more than a simple de-esser. lol. Plenty of basic de-essers around it that's what you need. Some people might find these extra features super neato and do radical things with it. People getting angry at plugins never ceases to amaze me.

So nobody wastes their time - this thread is pointing to version 5.4.3, which is from June, 2024. These are not new updates. Perhaps best to lock this thread?