Doug Rintoul

Also, beans, beans, the wonder fruit. The more you eat, the more you toot.

the more you cart?

AmpleSound does dynamic bundles. The more you add to your cart, the higher the discount. You probably get a discount if you have bought from them previously as well. Wish I had cash left over after engaging in the Orange Tree group buy(though I don't regret those purchases either).

I just installed Post Rock on a machine that did not have any AAS products installed on it, and sure enough, the midi files were installed in C:\Program Files (x86)\Applied Acoustics Systems\Strum GS-2\MIDI Library. However, as Magic Russ has stated, the midi files contain only the strum patterns one octave above middle C. For example Downstroke is one octave above middle C, Palm Mute is C#, Upstroke is D, etc. You could use the midi files if you had another VI that used a similar mechanism but you would most likely have to remap the midi keys.

The Soundpacks are not dedicated to GS-2. As has already been noted, the packs also work with AAS player. The MIDI files I pointed to, are the same MIDI files used to generate loops in Strum GS-2 and in AAS player. When you install a pack, they are installed in the Strum GS-2 path, even if you do not own Strum GS-2. The Session path only contains the MIDI files for the Session factory library. Having said that, I am not sure how useful the MIDI files are when not used with the soundpaks. Maybe that is what you meant.

Perhaps a sacrifice of some sort is needed.

Those other sites are okay, I guess, but what I really like about the Deals forum is that each deal gets its own topic, and discussion for the deal is limited, for the most part, to that thread. Plus the people around here are a so much better breed than those yahoos over there.

Strum Session 2 and Strum GS-2 have MIDI files you can access outside of the plugin. On my computer, they are store in C:\Program Files (x86)\Applied Acoustics Systems\Strum GS-2\MIDI Library and C:\Program Files (x86)\Applied Acoustics Systems\Strum Session 2\MIDI Library Not sure where they would be stored on a Mac.

I would add Fleer as the fourth amigo. Things he likes, I generally like too.

I have hundreds of Kontakt libraries now (thanks Pianobook). There is no way I would want them all to appear in the Library view. I much prefer to use the file view or the quick load tree structure. The great thing about quick load is that you can organize your libraries by type, for example have all your pianos together, or your guitars, or your kazoos if you swing that way. A library can appear in more than one location in quick view as well.

I enjoyed every second note as well, and the other ones, even the last one cuz I put it on repeat and when the song ended, I got to hear it all over again.

BTW Marc, the link in your signature goes to a nonexistent topic.

Sig is fine. I have actually used Larry's link a couple of times to see what he has on tap.

Not sure this is really in the spirit of the Deals forum. If allowed, links to private sales could overwhelm the Deals forum.

Sounds like sound reasoning to me.

Muse is great! The library of downloadable songs for Muse is pretty good too.

I like how they define bug fixes as "Quality-of-life" updates. MacOS quirks! Of course, Windows doesn't have any quirks.

That is a good price for Dandy but I have absolutely no use for a 3 month subscription to the Mega bundle.

Sorry, I have been around long enough (like forever) to know this is not the case. I have no expectations to get support for Office 2003, or Adobe CS6, or Windows 7, or the software I got with a Microtek scanner I purchased in 2009, or Android on my Samsung Galaxy S2. I will give you that MIDI tracks have a much longer shelf life though. But also much less likely to need support. I still have books I purchased in the 70s and the 80s. Some books have lasted even longer than that. I am starting wander, what was the point again? Not even sure what I am arguing.

I bought a bunch for $12-$14. Toontracks was always prompt with the license transfers. I don't begrudge Toontracks charging a license transfer fee; I just wish it was proportional to the cost of the original item, not a flat fee.

There was on KVR Marketplace.

The physical argument though falls down when you talk about CDs, DVDs, and perhaps even books. The artist or writer did not produce the actual CD or book. And unlike a sculpture, books and CDs and DVDs can be easily mass produced. Which, as you said has led to attempts to try to turn the non-physical into physical, vis a vis copy protection. So I guess I agree with you and Paul, but would argue that CD, and DVDs and maybe even books do not constitute physical. This does not however, determine whether ownership of a license should or should not be allowed to be sold or transferred to someone else.

Yes. I understand this and agree with this. But is that not true of music as well? Whether it is on a CD or resides on my hard drive is, to my mind anyway, irrelevant. The intrinsic value is in the music itself, not the medium it comes on. The digital verses physical argument was applied to computer games. At one point it was argued that you could resell a game as long as you bought a game on DVD. But it was a different story as soon as software was able to be downloaded. To me however, the DVD or the CD is just the medium of distribution. I just bought a Komplete 13 upgrade. It came (mostly) on a hard drive. Just because it came on a physical device does not change in any way what I can do with the upgrade.

You keep saying this but I don't get it. When you buy a CD, are you buying the content on the CD or the plastic and foil it comes on? When you buy a book, are you buying the paper and the ink or are you buying the content contained on said physical medium? I have yet to hear a coherent argument on how digital is different than physical. I am serious about trying to fathom the difference because, at this point anyway, I cannot see the difference. Paul, is there some article or something that explains this out in a rational way that is easy for a dense mind like mine to comprehend?