aidan o driscoll

Over the years I have simply amassed 1000s of samples in sample packs, bought them, kept free ones I liked and all that. Up to now I have kept them all on my harddrives in System but now I am going to move them all to ext USB Drive because I will not be using all of them all of the time. I would like to audition them from the USB drive and only use the ones I want to rather than cluttering my HD with GBs of stuff not used regularly. Of course I AM NOT talking of Kontakt and the like here, its literally just the sample packs with loops and one shots and the like

Then without fail @Magic Russ I highly recommend you give LOOPCLOUD a go. You get 30 days free and then if you continue its about a tenner a month or less. Even if you dont sub after the month you get to keep and can use all the welcome sample packs, GBs of, in your loopcloud account. You can also set the loopcloud app to "document"/ Index all your sample folders on your local harddrive. Then you use the loopcloud app to find samples of a particular kind, filtering by KEY, Tempo, type etc. Its brilliant. Seemlessly ties together your cloud and local samples all accessible then via loopcloud plugin inside CW. AND you can audition samples without commiting, trying them live with your CW track and at the correct tempo/pitched until you find the right one.

Ok .. but you could audition from the USB drive via CW MEDIA over the right ??? Once auditioned from the USB drive in MEDIA, what does the action of dragging the sample from there to a track do then? Say in a new project? Is it in memory or temp folder somewhere until you save the project?

However this is what I am finding great about LOOPCLOUD. All my purchased sample packs and one shots from Loopcloud and Loopmasters are in my account and displayed in my Library inside Loopcloud app. Loopcloud app comes with a sort of 8 track DAW functionality where you drag one shot loops / samples too listen too or even compile a loop based track in the 8 tracks, slice and dice etc. Everything up to now is in the cloud, not cluttering your harddrive. So next you drag/drop each of the 8 tracks into CAKEWALK, Now they are on your drive in CW Audio folder when you save. You can also add samples and one shots to those loopcloud 8 tracks and audition them as part of your track in CW before committing them to CW .. playing from the cloud through the loopcloud plugin inside CW. This is the way forward me thinks ..

Thanks guys, What i am talking about is sample packs like from loopmasters and all that .. So 1000's of sample files that you might occasionally use only. Dumping those to an external USB Drive would be fine? and then just drag across the samples you want for a project rather than opening from within CW live?

The amount of space taken up by sample packs on my system harddrives is immense. Larry and others keep adding more and more such things that are just very hard to ignore, especially if free So where do you guys store your samples and sample packs at this stage? On your system drive, a second sample only drive in a system OR on a USB Drive?

https://remix.beatport.com/ This remix challenge has been going for last few weeks. The deadline was 12 midnight last night - PT The stems were given for DJ Harveys track from 2013: I managed to do a remix ALL DONE IN CAKEWALK and using LOOPCLOUD plugins inside CW ( the stems were provided through a Loopcloud sub which is free for a while once you register ( I pay a monthly sub ). I wont add it here yet, I have it on soundcloud PRIVATE, not sure of the copyright on making it public. However i will add here once I clear that up. Anyway after a timeline pressure warts and all I uploded it a few hours before that deadline. I like doing these remix challenges, got for your craft!!

And remember with REASON 11 any flavour you have the rack Plugin that will work inside CW so you never need actually use Reason itself but have access to all the reason instruments/efx in Cakewalk ..

For a few months now I subscribe to Loopcloud monthly and love it too be honest. The loopcloud main app with its DAW type facility and its VST plugins inside CW are great Yesterday i posted here about a sale at Loopclouds parent site LOOPMASTERS: https://www.loopmasters.com/labels/81-HY2ROGEN I got curious because I noticed no drop in Points Amounts to buy these on sale packs via loopcloud vs from the loopmasters link above. SO I emailed Loopmasters wondering do these sales happen across the board at Loopmasters and Loopcloud. I got my reply - The answer is NO. the sales at the moment ONLY happen at the Loopmasters site where you buy the packs with Cash. However on Loopcloud the equivalent pack is not reduced in points value, its the same as it always is. SO for the moment its best to buy these packs at the sale prices at loopmasters instead of using up your Loopcloud points me thinks. The reply did say they are looking at sales type thing inside the Loopcloud environment going forward. At the mo "they cannot reduce the price in points of any products in the Loopcloud Store currently" .. "This is something that is certainly possible for the future, but not currently possible in Loopcloud." I also asked what a POINT in Loopcloud is worth. Here is the answer: "The price of a point is generally ST£0.03 "

@Abhijit Singh Any news? Get your EVO 4 yet?

https://www.loopmasters.com/labels/81-HY2ROGEN# Some nice stuff for cheap here to build up your sample library. Also available in Loopcloud if you have a sub for it. Just bought this with points in loopcloud ( 166 ) https://www.loopmasters.com/genres/25-House/products/11273-1000-Vocal-Shots-Vol-3 ( @Xel Ohh )

@Matthew Sorrels To be honest I have looked at the videos for both here - https://8dio.com/instrument/agitato-sordino-strings-for-kontakt-vst-au-aax/ https://8dio.com/instrument/adagietto-vst-au-aax-kontakt-instruments-samples/ Ok, subtle sound differences maybe, but for a more general user like myself one OR the other is enough .. as in the one I have is the Agitato Sordino Strings and is enough? The UI in both is pretty much the same actually. I also have the Claire Clarinet. But no Flute. On voice / choral front I have Realivox - Blue, Soundiron mercury elements and Olympus elements. If thats enough to cover the choral front OR is it worthh waiting for a sale on an 8DIO choral instrument?

@Matthew Sorrels Turns out in fact that I previously got Agitato Sordino Strings. SO that vs Adagietto Instrument, do I really need Adagietto Instrument also? Will Agitato Sordino Strings cover it? Yes I do fall into the "If you need a string section, especially for non-orchestral stuff -- pop/rock" ..

SO .. the Adagietto Instrument OR Alto Flute Virtuoso ? OR Both

As is case with INtro and Full reason .. with the rack plugin you need NEVER open or use Reason Lite. Just get it for the Rack plugin which allows you to use the REASON Plugins that come with Lite inside of your Cakewalk.

Ok so ITS NOT a Waves product in fact ( not sure why Waves are involved ) .. It is the newish regular Reason rack VST that used to come with there paid products - Reason Full and Reason Intro - BUT now its FREE with the Free REASON LITE. Is that it in a nutshell? Sorry it was teh WAVES thing that was throwing me

Sorry I meant WHAT IS IT? Is it a waves plugin for reason?

That link just goes to the REASON LITE Page. Whats the WAVES angle on this? I have REASON INTRO which has the Reason plugin already that works inside Cakewalk etc

So I see the Adagietto Instrument was added .. $48 https://8dio.com/instrument-category/8dio-instruments-on-sale-vst-au-aax-kontakt-instrument-samples/ Anyone have this? Whats it like? Sounds great .. but of course it would if you are good at orchestration

https://8dio.com/instrument-category/8dio-instruments-on-sale-vst-au-aax-kontakt-instrument-samples/ $48

Has anyone actually used ACTION PRO or IGNITE PRO

I think with alot of these things you have to make a concerted effort to both learn and use them. I have so many plugins and instruments at this stage INC a huge number of Kontakt instruments bought over the years .. I have now forgotten them. There is such a thing as having to o much also

Loop based vs multi-sampled instruments - How do you know the difference?? 9 Probably a dumb Q with an obvious and )

Ok .. @cclarry .. point taken. I have changed the title to ask for recommends from the sale

@cclarry Re the 8Dio sale stuff, thought this a better idea than separate thread per offer?