Vernon Barnes

Fortunately it looks like my broadband will be upgraded to 512mbs before this comes out. I don't think you get all the mic positions with Composer Cloud, but its still going to be huge.

$39.99. Spec looks good.

I got the analogue effects with my Sphere subscription. They are nice, particularly the chorus and rotary but nothing to make them stand out fro the crowd.

Thanks, I just updated, I don't recall seeing any notifications until you posted.

The most useful thing about the chord track for me is the simplest. Just having an easy indication of what the chord is at any point in the song. One of the nice, deeper features in S1 is the chord track integration with Melodyne, this can be very handy, or a red herring.

I keep on hoping to see a chord track. I much prefer MIDI in Cakewalk, particularly the PRV, but often use Studio One because of the chord track.

Arturia's is good. The Scarbee one in Komplete is also good, but less tweakable. Clavs appear in most "factory libraries" so there are a few more basic ones here and there. The formant filter in the one by Waves, while not totally authentic is very useful for tone shaping. Clavitube does sound good. It seems to rely on lots of presets rather than accurate performance controls and tweakablilty ( which will suit many), I need to dig deeper to see what is possible.

These are the old ST 2.5 ones by the look of it. Dave Kerzner's social media posts seem to indicate that there my be some new ones in the pipeline.

Got Clavitube for £13 direct from IK using jampoints.

I see they available direct from IK for an additional $0.99 but would be cheaper if you can use jambpoints. If you are in Europe the price is in Euros and probably subject to VAT,

Mmmm. I have heard good things about Clavitube, I may demo if possible. But I do have more Clavinette options than you can shake a stick at. The one from Waves being my current favourite.

I wonder if there is a Pro Channel fix??? I am not holding my breath. Faster load times for modular will be very welcome.

The easiest way is to use Kontakt's find missing samples option. While it will search the whole file system its quicker to point it at the folder where you know it will be. I usually go to the top folder for the instrument. ( iirc resolve manually) once resolved re-save the NKI.

Plus point for this is it has loops in various time signatures, not just 4/4 so I am curious. Should I stick to my New Year resolution and wait until I have a use for it before I buy it even if its gong to cost more? A nagging voice says this could have many uses. Its not on Plugin Boutique yet, I will check back over the next few days. Getting the free Carbon Electra synth with it may tip the balance.

Well that resolution did not last long. Cheap as chips, but it will add to pressure on disc space.

Got it as part of composer cloud. I am not over impressed, maybe I need to dig deeper. I prefer Realivox The Ladies.

As Quickload only creates links to the libraries in its folders it works across several locations. So if you create a folder "Pianos" you can drag pianos from several different drives to it and it will create the links, you then have all the pianos listed in one easy to locate place. You could have sub folders for, say, Grand Pianos, Electric Pianos, Uprights etc. The big thing is you create the structure that is logical to you and only add the instruments you find relevant. Things are a bit messier when a library has zillions of NKI files rather than snapshots but its still manageable. Its worth noting that once a instrument is loaded the "next instrument" button scroll through the instruments in the the original folder.

Not bad, Arturia's is nicer but also an order of magnitude more expensive, so this a a no brainer at this price if you don't have Arturia's.

Kontakt's quick load feature is probably more useful if you set it up logically using folders and sub folders. The library pane is good until it gets too full then scrolling through it gets a bit laborious. That said, I wonder if this would make the libraries show up in Komplete Kontrol's main browser.

Oh, absolutely, that is a major step forward, what I meant was loads of commercial presets. They can be a two edged sword.

Gets to the point where its quicker to dial in the setting than it is to trawl through hundreds of presets. Very true of a Hammond but also simpler synths like a Minimoog. YMMV

Well I think I may archive some little used Kontakt and EW libraries to free up disk space and to make browsing easier. I think I have reached saturation point in some categories and have passed up some big deals and freebies recently, but I have on occasion I have weekend, Softube's 72 synth being a recent case in point. So no real resolutions here but I think buying when I actually have an immediate use for something even if its full price rather than jumping on deals may save money in the long term.

Apparently UK citizens no longer affected to the EU tax avoidance directive.

They say Dear customers, Firstly, a very Happy Christmas to you all! The UK is scheduled to end it's transition period with the European Union on the 1st of January 2021, and we would like to give you all a "heads up" that there could be a very short period of time from January the 1st where we will not be able to accept payments from the UK. This is due to the fact that we are an EU company and need to have in place new tax documentation from the UK government. We are hopeful that this will happen in good time, but just in case, please complete any purchases you were intending to before the end of the year to avoid disappointment. This does not affect access to your owned products or the support we offer you. We wish you all a lovely festive period. Best Regards, The Softube Team So there may be a period where you can't.

As you are in the US you should not be affected. Time and Space may experience some delays of other issues with EU based suppliers, particularly small ones with out a lot of resources.