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I have the Wedge Force Hydro, and despite poor demos, it is surprisingly good. https://www.wedgeforce.com/ Not sure what happened to the brand recently, though, as all their products are pulled off the PA site. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I ran some comparisons between the first and second generation of UJAM guitars and was bitterly disappointed. V2 guitars lack consistency: samples are not trimmed precisely, so more often than not guitar parts sound out of time. Arpeggiators in V2 are counterintuitive. While DI signal and instrument mode look promising, I find that Kontakt based guitar libraries deliver much better results. However, UJAM basses v2 are great.

It's a very nice accordion, though.

Ka-ching 💲

Thanks for the tip. Tried it. The CPU usage is indeed lower, but still barely usable.

Tempted by this Three great sounding plugins for the price of one AmPlug3 and a cable sounds like a great deal. I wish my CPU was a bit more capable, though. Unfortunately, can't run even one amp sim, neither at useable buffer size (128 samples) nor at maxed out (2048 samples). Still thinking about getting these with the future upgrade in mind.

Just installed and didn't experience any problems with this library.

Same old story. Video killed the radio star.

They might sound amazing, but, frankly, I don't want blood and destruction neither in my life nor on my screen.

I really loved this place. Used to come here every day. I don't feel like buying more plugins, instruments or, god forbid, DAWs, but I enjoyed the vibe of this community. It was great with Larry and even better when Mr. Anderton was around. And scook. And azslow. I still love (platonically) all regulars, mods and devs, and just wish people were more appreciative of unsung heroes who grace us with their presence.

Interesting! I find PA's plugins to be highly CPU efficient. A little less so compared to NF, ToneBoosters (v2 and v3, which are now free), and, of course, Overloud. My guess is that bx_cleansweap was one of their first plugins and still has a lot of legacy amateurish code.

Changelog https://download.plugivery.com/pvdl/?do=changelog&dir=release&prod=british-bundle&bid=39

Thanks, Nigel! This example shows a fairly simple rhythm, which can be mimicked with basically any decent rompler on the market, and NI Session Guitarist libs run circles around it. I'm seriously considering OTS Complete bundle, but the more I think about it, the more it becomes obvious, that I need to invest more time in practicing keyboard playing.

Thanks! I take it, it's good enough for mockups and demos. I need to learn how to program virtual guitars to make them sound a little better than OK. As of now, extensive MIDI programming kills my creative impulses and inspiration.