JoeGBradford

Now then from Yorkshire! It's a great forum, full of excellent advice and we mostly get along ?

IIRC the free Vital is fully featured you just get more presets with the paid for versions. There are monthly community presets released so you can soon up your preset count!

Hope all goes well - keep us posted.

Full Kontakt - I was tempted there for a moment ?

I have a few from there already but I think this is probably the best so far. I was really pleased when the site adopted DS as an alternative to Kontakt for a significant number of sounds

Just been recommended this choir for Decent Sampler & Kontakt - very nice range of sounds especially for free! https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/micahs-choir/

I've been using Decent Sampler without any problems for a while but today CbB crashes when I try to load a project with a single instance of DS on a track. Other projects seem ok (though projects with ST4 and Syntronik have also been temperamental) . Anyone had similar problems? I've tried restarting the PC but doesn't help I have the latest version of CbB running under Windows 10. I've just added a couple of instruments to my DS library so may be something to do with those? Update - I can add DS to a new project so I'll create a new DS template and delete the one that won't open

Yep just checked it's not them

Not sure if this is genuinely them judging by some comments on FB. It is very nice though and I would be very happy if it was them

Thanks - I've got one of those!

I got the email too - sounds worth a watch - thanks

No issues here. Looked at my NI account and there doesn't seem to be an option to set up 2 factor authorisation

I think that was the point SK was making

Full Kontakt only

Still nothing happening!

The great majority of musicians I listen to (mostly folk and roots music) either sell their music direct through their own website or use Bandcamp. Those that use Bandcamp generally seem happy with it and many recommend it as the place they'd prefer people to buy their music from. I'm happy as a punter knowing that all my money goes to the artists as I buy on Bandcamp Fridays. I hope Epic Games don't ruin the current model.

I buy most of my music from Bandcamp - usually on Bandcamp Fridays. They seem to have fairly ethical practices compared to the rest of the business. I know many musicians who sell their music and merch on there and seem very happy. I hope this continues

Thanks. That's what I downloaded but then thought HD might mean Hard Drive!

To install on my SSD do I need the HD or Native version?

I think I'll give that one a miss!

Can we draw a line under this one now please? I'm sure we all feel, like me, desperately sorry for the victims of war across the world. Arguing on here won't help them.

Baltic Shimmers is great for ambient and dramatic sounds

So if if I added a new folder of samples to my master sample folder it would not be accessible? Sounds like a major flaw if so!

Mike's videos, especially the tutorials are excellent. I even watch the ones that are irrelevant to me as he has such an engaging manner. A really nice, thoughtful guy too and very supportive of other musicians. His Facebook Cakewalk group is popular as well ( declaration of interest - I'm a moderator of that group)