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Interesting review of the Clarinet textures in the latest SOS (of which PDFs are still free to everyone I believe): ”Rating: 4.5/5 Stars Emerging company Inlet Audio bill themselves as creators of “artist‑driven sample library products”. Here they add an intriguing new effort to their (thus far) string‑dominated catalogue: Clarinet Drama Textures, built in collaboration with Chicago‑based clarinetist and composer, Brandon C Stanley. The instrument (compatible with the full version of Kontakt 6 and beyond) allows users to pick any two clarinet textures from a library of 15 available textures, blending and shaping them with onboard tools to create pads, evolving soundscapes, and all manner of musical textures. All of the samples are created from a clarinet section playing various textures and extended techniques, making it a fun aleatoric instrument providing a new timbral palette for composers. It’s in this delay setting where the fastest musical results in this instrument can be crafted, from subtle repetitions to immense eternal textures as the feedback is turned up. Diving straight in, I loaded a ‘play and sing’ texture into the A pane on the left side of the instrument, and Growl textures in the B side on the right. From there, each side has a Main and FX tab to individually modify the loaded sounds. The latter allows the user to mix in one of five onboard reverbs, from a small home patch to a moody plate, standard chamber, hall, and cathedral settings. It also provides a separate and character‑filled delay module, moving from warm diffusion and vintage delays through a sparkling bright modern delay. It’s in this delay setting where the fastest musical results in this instrument can be crafted, from subtle repetitions to immense eternal textures as the feedback is turned up. While combining different sounds in the instrument is intuitive, sometimes taking the same sound and doubling it with different effects yields truly organic and seamless textures. For instance, I took the Growls patch — a moody, slightly edgy sample with lots of repeated key noise — and doubled it, using a hall reverb with an extended tape delay on the A side, and a smaller reverb with a slight diffusion delay on the B side. Rising from near silence to a forte dynamic with the mod wheel and then back down again, the result began as expected. Yet after a few seconds the sound doubled up on itself in the delay, and resulted in an extended esoteric piece of music that would not sound out of place in a Pierre Schaffer or early Steve Reich tape piece. Automation in the FX area became a must, though a dedicated panic button would have been a welcome addition. The front page of each side includes a simple envelope control, a standard filter (cutoff, resonance and bandwidth), and controls for panning, tuning and volume. Clarinet Drama Textures certainly captures the unique warm characteristics of the clarinet, resulting in a highly original product capable of lending fresh timbral direction to your sound design. It is an intriguing creation, worth trying and at a very friendly price.”

Great write up, TTF! I’m quite interested too. Got those Session Band apps, for instance, along with other apps like the ones from Sugar Bytes, but never got to use them as it all seemed a bit cumbersome, especially DAW-wise. Funnily, never got Logic Pro X on Mac after having paid (way too much) for Logic Pro Studio back in the day. I did get MainStage, mind you, containing all 70GB of LPX sounds for 30 bucks. So now it seems logical for me to dive into this monthly subscription at $5 provided it will also include Logic Pro 11 on the Mac, and preferably as part of Apple One

There’s a $10 off coupon. Nice. I like staccato playing, so would be interesting on synth material. Kontakt Player is nice too. Still love to see my libraries in the library pane.

Lovely! Didn’t have this one yet and I collect all things Sugar Bytes.

Maybe this updates RX9 to RX10

Best mag in da biz!

Sounds pretty good indeed, thanksy Larsy.

Sure, minimal expense, I’ll send you a PM.

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Sweet dev. Love their Monolith and Origin X.

That’s how I understand it, but haven’t checked yet. In EZK2, midi files follow instruments. Or, to put it differently, EZK2 instruments should come with their own midi files. Other question: what about the original EZK midi files? It seems they’re still available in your account to add to EZK2.

I very much like the Claire Alto flute. (And I’m a flute player)

Got my second one now. Why? Donno.

They’re not as straightforward as you’d get them from Spitfire or Orchestral Tools, but they’re much cheaper of course. I compare them to what Osterhouse does, but not as good.

Didn’t like those Clarinet Textures that much, though, but the cello and the violin are quite nice.

Yeah, still fond of the layered pads in Xpand!2 and the electric keys of Velvet 2. Plus a few others, but sadly not all compatible with Apple Silicon.

Yeah Don’t know why I got them twice back then. Still love some of them though. And I don’t mind iLok.

True. I asked them about it. They basically replied that was then and this is now.

Just try their latest, the Twin3 subtractive synth. Dangerously close to hardware.

But they are soooooooooo good. (Got the Total Bundle, I’m an FF addict)

Loooooooove these strings

And SlateDigital VerbSuite

I actually have a number of unregistered serials (doubles) left going for pretty little: VIP3 serial, Hybrid3 serial, Xpand!2 serial, Vacuum Pro serial, Strike serial, Structure serial , Velvet2 serial AIEP3 Select bundle serial (DB-33, Mini Grand, Hybrid 3 , Loom, Strike 2, Structure 2, Transfuser 2, Velvet 2, Vacuum Pro & Fresh AIR Pack, theRiser & Flux Transitions)

Then you better try Friktion (and Objekt).