Vernon Barnes

Samples as opposed to an emulation so it will be limited compared to VirtualCZ.

An update, I decided to try the Brit Console on a couple of mixed I was finalising. I liked what it did and I am keeping it in there. The effect is subtle but it dose add some "glue" for want of a better word. The most noticeable effect was a greatly increased export time, probably twice that of the export with out the effect.

Just confirming that these are included in Sphere. I have installed them but not tried them yet. I am hope to give them a spin over the next few days and I will report back.

I am assuming these will be included in my Sphere sub. I will be checking later.

£85 for me from Time and Space for the regular Komplete update, the deal is not showing on NIs site yet but I doubt the download will be much cheaper. I am not convinced the extra content will do more than eat up hard disc space. There are some nice to haves but nothing compelling for me.

I think I have a few of these from WAY BACK in the day on CD somewhere.

I qualified and bought it in a moment of weakness, but it does look like it could get quite a bit of use here.

Darn, this is very, very tempting.

Any one bit yet? At around 500mb per kit ( uncompressed WAV?) they are low footprint, even less you compress in Kontakt, so not expecting lots of round robins and velocity layers but they still could be useful.

I love the Crimson flute, it's already found its way on to a track I am working on.

Have you got the Hollow Sun Newtron Bombs for Kontakt. I like the simpler one from their Prog pack. Just samples with the minimum of added features, raw and powerful. Their later one has a lot more features and fx but I still like the guts of the original.

Kontakt library rather than VSTi. Full Kontakt required. €44.50 until 24th June.

I am getting tight on disk space, so 10GB, while not huge is significant and this is not compelling enough given my extensive other options. By the time I get a new DAW, this my reach a tempting price point.

It looks like it checks free space on drive C and won't run if if it below a threshold even if you are installing on a different drive. I cleared out some temp files and moved a few things and it worked.

I don't have the full collection and the PS-20 is the one that's missing, so that won't get me off the hook. The Korg collection MonoPoly is the one that gets used here, I love it.

I wonder if it is based on the Voltage Modular MS20 modules. Very likely I would think. The filter and oscillators are nice.

Outside of the pianos Tonewheel is a magnificent very dirty Hammond with bags of character for rock.

Nice, I have their "tele" in the same scheme but I still haven't worked out what end you blow in

What bad news, RIP Bill.

They already have MS20 modules for Voltage Modular, so maybe a VSTi version.

It's a very powerful and versatile synth. Well worth $49 or even $99. Of course it depends on what else you have but it will add to most people's sound pallet.

There is a lot to like about Softube Modular but Cherry is my favourite now. Third party modules, some of them cheap as chips and very quirky is a plus point, and the big one for me is polyphony. The MRB stuff is really good. I think I will try the CV-1 demo a spin but it will need to be good.

There is something liberating about a totally blank canvas and building the sound you want ( and in happy accidents along the way. ) Sometimes the endless lists of presets on modern VSTIs can be overwhelming, particularly if the browser is wanting. Sometimes it's like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Works for me.

One welcome new feature of Opus is audio previews. If you click on a patch in the browser you hear a short example as you would in NI's Komplete Kontrol. This seems to work with all my EW libraries, even the very old stuff.