Carl Ewing

So that deal wasn't actually 48 hours. I got the email with all 48 voucher codes 14 hours ago. But they are all invalid already. But now I notice that on the email it said "10 hours remaining". Lol. It's Christmas day! Give us till boxing day ffs. At least they now have yet another sale, but prices aren't quite as good as with voucher. Trying to use my subscription voucher, but missed the "all vouchers" window thinking I had another day to decide. These are more stressful deadlines than my real job.

They really should have made Metric A/B and Streamliner the same plugin. It seems like a complete waste of resources to have one plugin that does A/B referencing & metering, and then another plugin that also does A/B referencing + metering + streaming referencing. I own Streamliner but I'm trying to figure out what additional purpose Metric A/B would serve (for the price), other than having additional reference track slots.

Curious if this company is being absorbed by Native Instruments. Quite a few products on the NI page that aren't even on the Evolution website, and that is an NI walkthrough video featuring products that I don't even see announced by the company either. Weird! The Evolution world percussion series is one of my favorite libraries ever - hoping they are staying an independent developer though. Really want that Vocal Colors: Bronte, but doesn't seem to be for sale as a single product.

Looking for some Akai and Roland format. Got a couple Iomega Jazz drives that haven't seen use in a while. Where are those SCSI cables?

I will have to start the annual purge shortly. Have WAY too many at the moment after demoing basically every plugin on the market during the BF sales. I'm sure I can't remember which I bought anymore. Enough lo-fi plugins to start doing drugs again for sure.

I do a lot of work with touchscreens and touchscreen software Metagrid (for iOS). Cubase's 'project logical editor' and "logical editor" for creating macro control of countless functions is second to none imo. You can see Junkie XL and Hans Zimmer's setup using the same concept, although I think they use Touch OSC for touchscreen. There basically isn't a single function in the software that can't be assigned to a macro and then assigned to a button on an iPad. Most importantly: you can create macros using an algebra editor inside Cubase. So you can create functions like "Select MIDI CC Value 1 + Compress MIDI Velocity +/- 5", and assign + and - to different buttons, and you then have micro adjustments of MIDI CC values right on a touchscreen. Can also be used to, say, select every 2nd note, or every 8th note, or align every 3rd note to bar grid, or mute every note above a certain velocity, or whatever. It's endless. If it can be done with math / algebra it can be assigned to a button. Since the equations can also use track names, you can have entire view commands on touchscreen, so if you have a project with 100 tracks, you can have a button that hides everything in the project except anything with "brass" or "strings" in the name. Can be done for track types as well. Here it is in action: Not sure how extensive this type thing is in Logic, Pro Tools, etc. but as far as I know the logical editors (algebraic macro building) is unique to Cubase / Nuendo? And I can't live without it. This is what the logical editor (midi) and project logical editor (project & audio) looks like. It takes a while to learn but it's insanely powerful):

I almost picked up all 4 (with 60% off you can get viola, violin and bass for $115 and get cello free.) Then I realized I recently picked up Komplete 13 CE upgrade and hadn't even installed the Cremona quartet. Lol. Maybe I try that first before blowing more cash! lol.

It's weird though. It is actually an incredible plugin - but UI / UX is so awful I always remove it seconds after I add it to a project. I think they could release Trash 3 with a better UI and zero new features / functionality and it would be like "wooow, they really improved the sound of this thing".

I have 18 licenses / serials for Trash Too. Almost as many as my collection of free Waves One Knobs licenses.

Erm. Hard disagree on that. Lots of good alternatives on the market. Prefer Sonible's smart:limit over Pro-L 2. Never liked Pro C 2. It's got to be one of the least musically interesting compressors on the market. Pro-Q 3 wins the UI award - but much prefer DMG's EQuilibrium for sound quality. Eventide, Sonible, Softube (Weiss!) all make great alternatives with excellent UI. Lots of alternatives to Pro-R or Timeless 3 that I think sound better. Both have incredible UIs, but they sound uninteresting and lack character imo. Saturn 2 I'm on the fence about...I always put it on a track and then up replacing it with something else later. For saturation specifically, there are way better alternatives - for example Black Box HG-2MS. But Saturn clearly wins on the amount of distortion options, but it's more a jack of all trades, rather than great at any one thing. Really love Volcano 3 though. Definitely one of the better filters on the market. But I do prefer the sound of Cytomic's The Drop, and wish The Drop had some of the features from Volcano. Have never used Pro-MB, so not sure how that stacks up.

Should be $20,000 by next Christmas. Expect some "80% off the entire bundle!" when they have this enormous overpriced ecosystem while completing with something like Native Instruments Komplete.

You calm it down with a bit of purging. Always have the purging. It makes room for more stuff! Stuff those hard drives. Stuff them good. Nothing sadder than a spinning disk platter with empty space. This is what your system should look like after Black Friday:

Anyone have good experience using this? I tried uploading a few premasters, and whatever this thing is doing sounds absolutely awful compared to the professionally mastered versions . And it's not subtle, no matter which setting I put it on it just sounds even worse than an Ozone preset. The algo doesn't seem to understand the music it's listening to at all. Free indeed.

Ummm - is it just me, or do those strings sound terrible? Like circa 2007 sample library terrible? Yikes.

This site seems sketchy af. Anyone have experience with them? The downloader also looks proprietary - as in, the license they give you cannot be used with copy from the developer. I'm skeptical.

Oh - it expired!? Sorry. Thought it was still going 'cause the sale price was still up. ^Ignore. Seems code still valid.

If you buy directly from the TheNatan store, you can use this code: "SANJAYC21" and get 6 of their plugins (including VYBZ and Tape Piano II) for $30. https://www.thenatan.store/shop/ Just add the $39.99 bundle and use code above. It came from this video by that Sanjay C reviewer on Youtube (in the description):

There are two version for each library - one DI where you can use your own amps / cabs, and the other with Amp baked in, but not the cabinet. Cabinets / effects can be added / customized in the instrument. It's phrase recordings - but it's very customizable. If you look at this part of the video - that whole section at the bottom (just above the keys) is totally customizable. You can change the whole rhythm, time signature, notes, chords - adding rests, extending parts, up / down strokes, pulling different clips for parts of the phrase, or adding clips that aren't actually in the phrase. And they try to cover as many chord variations as possible (minor / major, 5th, 7th, etc.) It's pretty awesome. There are 7 libraries, covering a bunch of genres (rock, funk, blues, ambient, etc.) Edit: actually the video below is a better example of the editor (around 17:40 mark):

Tried Riffendium? You can customize every note and beat of each phrase, as it treats phrases more like editable step sequencer like you'd see in a synth. It's got limitations, but it's the most customizable phrase based guitar libraries I've used.

Slowly completing my Audio Things collection for dirt cheap! Just need Wires and Fog now. Will wait for next promo!

I got these with MPS 3 way back, so should definitely be in MPS 4. I think what's new is NeoVerb.

Ronroco is great - instrument (5 mic positions with mixer, and 4000 samples with round robin) and loops, and although a bit old (2014), it's usually on lists of best free Kontakt libraries. Was originally through Samplephonics, but now on the Noiiz site as free download: https://www.noiiz.com/sounds/free_packs/703 What is sounds like:

This is almost an instant buy - but it's missing Nordisk Contrabass. But very cool developer imo. Some cool stuff in this bundle imo.

If these libraries could be resold, I would agree! But I have no warm fuzzy feeling looking at the graveyard of sample libraries I own, that I over paid for and are now obsolete. Haha. (sad laughter)

I don't get it - for the cost of that thing, you could have like 2 .5 years of Composer Cloud, no? (*based on subscription sale) I don't see the appeal - even looking at the update of $300, for sure in that 2.5 years they are going to want another paid update. So you buy one item, and then keep paying for updates, for one product - whereas you could have every product they make for $20 / month for years.