Reid Rosefelt

It's a good pack of old (but still good) sample ibraries, but there are LOTS of folders to dig through and you have to go through PDFs to see what's there. So expect to spend some time organizing it all. I think I bought this for $15, but it might have been a slightly different package. My copy is all over the place in various country folders, so I can't really tell. And welcome back, Larry! You were missed!

I posted this in VI:Control. It's relevant to this forum too. 'm talking about companies like Indiginus. Most of the Indiginus libraries sell for $59 or $69 dollars or less. (Blue Street Brass sells for $79.) Are they "as good" as libraries that sell for twice as much or more? Definitely, but in my experience, many are better. For example, I started a YouTube video once, inspired by the release of Nylon Sky, where I took a MIDI file and played it with all the nylon guitar instruments i owned, both solo libraries and ones in larger collections like HALion, Kontakt, etc. I made adjustments to the MIDI when necessary, but Renaxxance (one of the oldest Indiginus libraries) just killed. It was head over heels more beautiful for this particular piece. We all know that's not a fair way to compare libraries, but I just want to say that it's a hell of a library, worth a lot more than $59 on sound alone. But then there is the user interface, which is so well-designed and easy to use. Most Indiginus libraries also include a harmony mode that I haven't found on any other libraries. This is great on guitars, but oh man it is great on things like The STEEL and The Fiddle. Arguably one of the main things that makes a Fiddle a Fiddle rather than a violin is the double-stopping. So do I think these libraries would sell at $150? Absolutely. They are top-level. And I think they are undervalued in a lot of people's minds because they are so reasonably priced. The reality is that most people place more emotional value on what is expensive, and then wait for sales to get "bargains." If the Indiginus libraries were priced like other companies, people would wait for BF when Indiginus libraries would be available for $59 or $69. What a deal!! I worry that so many people get their emotions fueled by sales that they don't buy Indiginus so much. There's no occasion like BF when you have to rush and buy them. I tend to buy the intro prices (just got The Banjo), but I have to remind myself to pick up one every year, because I know I'll enjoy them and use them. I've got a pretty good collection now, but more to come. Valhalla is another company like this. Are you sure that the reverbs you buy on sale are "better" than Valhalla reverbs? Do you have any companies like this you'd care to mention? I was planning on posting this in early November, before the tropical storm of Black Friday begins. I'd like people to consider patronizing companies like this before they spend all their money. But because the intro price on The Banjo ends this month, I'm doing it now.

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The only thing I remember is when Tracy released The Jangle. It was available free if you purchased any one of a selected Indiginus Libraries (pretty much all of them). So that kind of was a way of getting a "discount" on a previously released library--you bought one and got a library that now sells for $45 along with it. I don't think Tracy has ever reduced a price on one of his libraries, but it wouldn't surprise me if another deal came up someday.

Great performance of "What'd I Say," Simeon!

This update is going to keep me busy for a long time. ? I love all the current scripts in Falcon, so these additions are right up my alley. Thank you, UVI! Seeing as how this is a free update, I imagine there will be some new Falcon Expansions coming that take advantage of these new features.

I've been very intrigued by this and other HAVE Audio instruments, but even when they were very discounted last BF, I didn't pull the trigger on any of them. I went for the entire solo Untamed Strings set at Westwood Instruments instead. Their approach is more to my liking. The new Evolution series instruments are designed in a similar way. The HAVE stuff is probably great, but you can't HAVE everything.

This was €49 last Black Friday.

This is my go-to Viking library.

Anybody who is curious about ujam products can download a free demo of any of these. These are fully functional demos--there's no difference between them and the purchased product except for that they only last 30 days. I've always found that to be a very fair amount of time to evaluate their products. For example, I have a template of all the Beatmakers I own, something that only takes minutes to set up. So when they released Berzerk, I decided I didn't really need it.. Based on their promo video, this seems to be different from all the others, which were clearly in a genre. This is a hybrid set that can do all kinds of things. But I'll decide if it's something I want. But I'm not going to buy it now. The ujam store is always 50% off on BF, and for those that don't have their products yet, there are deals on bundles. But much more importantly, you can pretty much count on this being available for $29 or less someday. It's just a question of how long it takes. I seem to remember one of the ujam drumsets turning up as a Plugin Boutique freebie once.

And here they are at Coney Island! I'm sure they cooked up some great software ideas on the Wonder Wheel!

One theory I have heard is that the camera went off when a random dude was walking by, and they just figured, "what the hell, it looks like we have a bigger staff" and they left him in the photo. Others have mused that he was a real XLN staffer distracted by whatever the guy third from the right was saying. We'll never know because, as far as I know, nobody ever comes to the office at XLN. You have to check out the random theme parks they visit, and that's a hassle. The guy in the orange on the left with his head floating away...I would blame him too. For everything. Including Larry being away from this forum for so long.

It was the first time I wrote something where the beat came first. The great thing about the XO and the paks is you can put your own sounds into them. It's fun if you want to use foley for your beats.

I really like Oscillations and Pastel Punch, but that's personal. Have you listened to the demos? Oscillations is the main driver of this video, although I used a lot of other tools for the drums, including Butch Vig

Note that Lunacy Audio now has 3 paid CUBE expansion packs: Air (Hybrid Winds), Threads (Imaginative Strings) and Rumble (Seismic Bass & Percussion). Is a Brass expansion coming? Like AudioModern, they regularly come out with free CUBE expansion packs. There are now five--Breeze, Glo, Graphite, Particles, and Remnants. However, Breeze needs Air and Remnants needs Threads. The difference between these expansions and the paid ones is that they don't add new samples. They are like all the expansions Output charges for. If you don't want to spend $99 on CUBE during this sale, they have an LE version called CUBE Mini for $39 (normally $59) This loads all the expansions and you can upgrade. https://lunacy.audio/products/cube/ I've made no secret that I like this customer-friendly business model that Lunacy Audio and Audiomodern have. To me, CUBE has the most unique user interfaces of synth/samplers in a long time. I think it's not just unique but it's also intuitive to use and sounds great. It comes with over 500 presets before you even get to the growing collection of freebies and paid ones. I recommended it to @simeon and he made this:

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I found this picture of the XLN Audio team hard at work creating new Adpaks, Midi PAKS and XO expansions.

Hey! This is the deal forum! Obviously if you KNOW you will never use it... go for it! ?

Pretty great deal. https://audioplugin.deals/emisynth-pripyat-pianos-bundle-by-strix-instruments/?utm_source=APD+Subscribers&utm_campaign=8f08d75841-Deal_Launch_Strix_Bundle&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_766211a9e5-8f08d75841-38746569&ct=t(Deal_Launch_Strix_Bundle)&goal=0_766211a9e5-8f08d75841-38746569&mc_cid=8f08d75841&mc_eid=dfa1f7f44a

Thanks, Eric! ?

The staff of XLN Audio. What do these 17 people do every day? I think the jeans-wearing guy in the middle of the front row making the peace sign with both hands looks like Max Martin.

Yes, it's not abandonware. They are committed to keeping it working.

50% off https://www.xlnaudio.com/products/xo/xopak?utm_campaign=2022_q4_xo_campaign&utm_source=xln&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=button_xopaks Still only four paks. How long will it take them to add another one? This company... ? I believe the last ADpak, Boutique Mallets, came out in 2016. Sales all the time. There are so many people whohad everything years ago . They would buy more if they sold more. I truly don't understand this company. Particularly when you look at Toontrack, which constantly releasing new stuff. The legendary @Bapu buys practically all of it. Don't even get me started on Playbeat, which releases new expansions all the time--most of them free. Expansions demonstrate what a drum machine can do. Anybody can hear the new stuff in a YouTube video. The more of the expansions out there, the more you can see what a drum machine is capable of, and the more appealing it is to buy it.

That's very interesting. Looking up an old VI:Control Post, I see this: If you did own the older World Traditions and Ethno libraries, you will be happy to know that this release did include the legacy instruments with lot of enhancements and new material including new instruments such as : Mbira, Karimba, African Guitar Loops, New Taiko multi mics, Latin Zither, Didgeridoo phrase player, Irish Bouzouki, Bulgarian Tupan, Eastern Accordion & Lyra, Moldovian Cymbalum, Russian Balalaika, Ukrainian Bandura, Persian Daf, Turkish Lyra, Santur, Armenian Duduk, Alpine Zither, Finnish Kantele, Nordics Pianos, Italian Accordions, Crazy Flamenco rhythm player with chords recognition and automatic tempo matching, Steel Tongue Drum, Sun Drum, enhanced Steel Drums, Traveler loops inspiration players, Vocal Traveler modules , Gypsy Solo Guitar phrases. UVI added also legato, portamento, and tremolo articulations. To my knowledge, UVI has never been very explicit about where the sounds come from for the World Suite series. Did they ever come out and say "these are all new recordings"? Maybe they did. When you look at World Suite 2, you can see they added a lot of instruments from Precisionsound. They didn't say this publicly, but it was obvious--same exact names of singular instruments, same sounds. They didn't say this publicly, they just said they added these instruments and then incorporated them into their interface. Precisionsound instruments are Kontakt. So they are not an open book about the sources of World Suite. You just have to take it on face value and see if it's worth the money. I think it is. If you look at Best Service's EthnoWorld, it is now in version 6. Most people find the more recent recordings to be the best. So it's something of a mixed bag too. But overall, I think EthnoWorld is the better of the two. But I have gotten a lot of enjoyment and use out of World Suite. What's good about these massive libraries is that they allow people who are not familiar with world instruments to explore--which is exactly what I did. And then if you get into these sounds, you can find better instruments. But a lot of them are just fine as they are. There are so many great colors for people to add to their music. I believe World Traditions was a UVI repackaging of MOTU's Ethno. Because it was so poorly received, I think they knew they needed a new product. I always assumed they used the existing material as a starting point for World Suite, reworked some of the old sounds, recorded new ones, and most importantly, gave everything a new interface.

I believe World Suite is an update of World Traditions.