JoeGBradford

There's a good series of tutorials on using Soundpaint on their YouTube channel.

I just got the activation message too - logged in to Bandlab website and also into Bandlab Assistant for good measure. Closed CbB and reopened - message gone. No big deal ?

Sounds like a flu medicine!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone!

@PavlovsCat thanks so much Peter - very kind of you! Native have sent links to some free Sonuscore orchestral instruments - wondering if they are worth installing. I think they may be getting on a bit now. I have Miroslav Philharmonik (also very old!), Garritan PO, BBC SO Core and now, of course, the Orchestral Tools instruments in the Kontakt Factory library so not sure I need those as well though the free Kontakt library GAS is going to be in full flow over the next few days!

Now all I have to do is choose the two free Play libraries - had a listen the other day and none of them grabbed me. I already have Hybrid Keys.

Thanks @BTP That cinched it for me! £57 for Kontakt and a few Massive presets I may never use! @PavlovsCat thanks for persuading me ? Downloading now!

These say they are for Massive X - can they be used with original Massive?

I've just gone for the Salu instrument Evolving - demo sounded nice and seems a decent amount of content for 22 euro!

Merry Christmas everyone! Thanks for all the help this year!

Hey guys none of this matters - all that matters is that I got there before Larry ?

Thanks Peter - I had a quick listen through to the Kontakt libraries and although there is some good stuff in there I wasn't overwhelmed - especially as I have IK TotalStudio 2 Max and several other libraries & synths. However, as you suggest, the main temptation is the free libraries. I'm a tight git money wise but I'll mull it over during the holiday and will probably bite - after all my New Years Resolution is likely to be to spend more time making music and less on Facebook and forums ? Oh and drink less beer which would pay for Kontakt - that's how I justified buying TS2 Max ? - but only after drinking less beer!

Thanks Peter - I had a quick listen through to the Kontakt libraries and although there is some good stuff in there I wasn't overwhelmed - especially as I have IK TotalStudio 2 Max and several other libraries & synths. However, as you suggest, the main temptation is the free libraries. I'm a tight git money wise but I'll mull it over during the holiday and will probably bite - after all my New Years Resolution is likely to be to spend more time making music and less on Facebook and forums ? Oh and drink less beer which would pay for Kontakt - that's how I justified buying TS2 Max ? - but only after drinking less beer!

Ah damn - hadn't checked the T&C! I should have known from previous NI vouchers!

Expires 31st December so I'll research further after Christmas!

Can't see this one here. I don't seem able to post the link but head over to NI to find the voucher Cleverly it starts at a £90 spend - 50p more than a crossgrade to Kontakt7 so I would have to buy one of their £22 instruments / packs to get Kontakt cheaper. Pretty good deal though and I am increasingly tempted as Kontakt also includes two free Play Series (though I can't find much tempting in there!)

Fair comment - I think some of us might have been (hopefully unnecessarily) worried about the way the thread might go I believe Mike is one of the good guys and I'm probably a bit over protective because of what I owe to his tutorials and the way he presents them. He has shown great candour in personal issues which I find warms me to him even more.

Well said!

I've been following DixonBeats for a couple of years now and not had any problems with spamming. He sends an email out when he has a new video up or (rarely) when he has some news. He has just done a huge giveway for reaching 80k YouTube followers and occasionally gives his own sample packs & VSTs away. One of the good guys in my opinion!

Yes I'm eagerly looking forward to this year's gift. Got a few nice individual instruments with the voucher over last few years Re Spitfire - I think LABS dried up when Christian Henson left. He now has his own Crow Hill company and they have issued two free instruments so far. Piano and strings

Thanks - shame that the Sine Free Instruments seem to have dried up

Damn I didn't realise they were giving away limited numbers of licences this year otherwise I'd have been there! Having said that I haven't managed to figure out a previous version of Ostinato I got free yet!

Excellent!

Get well soon!