Reid Rosefelt

I like the demo but it keeps crashing Cubase. I'm having some luck by not using the Melodic module. I don't really want to have my melodies generated for me anyway. But the other stuff is cool. When I look at the CPU meter in Task Manager, it runs red hot in Cubase and in Unify. The only way that it really works for me is to just not use all the modules at the same time. I suppose I could freeze some tracks too.. I hope their plan is to keep improving it for free, and make it less demanding on the CPU. I would be very upset if they charged me another big upgrade just to get a version of it that didn't crash all my DAWs. Does regular Orb Composer take this kind of power to run?

Okay I got this. As I said before on this threar, I wasn't going to buy this until I watched the video where Steve Oimette showed all the guitars and things he used to make it. Somehow I thought, "this is Guitarscape!!" I thought I would get a lot of rarity guitar instruments that don't exist in any other library. Of course, that's ridiculous--Sample Logic does not in any way present this as a set of full-fledged guitar instruments. But I was disappointed and had buyer's remorse, but this is in no way critical of this library, it's simply my mistaken expectations. 1 - IMHO this is primarily a sound design library. It just happens that the source for the sound design is guitars and unusual "guitars," amps and DIs. Yes, there are "traditional" guitar and guitarish sounds, but that is not the emphasis. If sound design is what you are looking for, then this is a great library. 43 GB of of high quality, very usable presets. 2 - It is secondarily a "randomizer" library for creating unexpected presets from clicking the randomize button. I haven't had great results with this so far after pushing the button a hundred times or so with various settings. I've had better luck tweaking presets to my liking. To me, the standard for judging a good randomizer is how quickly you get musical results by pushing it. But maybe I will get better at this in time. This is all I wrote in VI:Control, but this is what I'm writing for all of you... First, IMHO I prefer ujam's Carbon as a cinematic guitar. If you are looking for guitar sound design for movies... that's what I would recommend. While it may not have the quantity source material--it is profoundly more powerful and more contemporary for the way it processes sound. It's like an Output instrument, if you know what I mean. Guitar Fury might be better for a broader type of uses... pop, ambient tracks, etc. We shall see. If I could resell this, I would, but I will try to get the most out of it. For a randomizer, Abstrung blows this out of the water. Instead of choosing from 3 options, you have a zillion. Granted Abstrung is not just a guitar library, but you will get amazing results all the time. Most importantly it has a thousand undos! So if you think there was something awesome you got by randomizing ten minutes ago, you can go back. And, of course, Abstrung is 13 euros right now HERE.

I have been downloading this for hours. Normally I can download 40 GB in no time at all. I think all the people home in my building are using their computers at the same time and slowing everything down. I can only wonder how long it will take me to get the 200 GB Jade Ethnic Orchestra.... This is better for me to worry about than the Black Death lurking outside my door in Brooklyn.

Maybe this has been posted here already, but it deserves a repost... Neutron stopped working on my computer, so after weeks of effort to get it working again that I won't bother you with, I had to say farewell to the visual mixer and find another way to widen and pan my tracks (and not pan bass frequencies). I didn't want to use Ozone Imager on every track after my bad experience with Neutron. I did a lot of searching and I found this wonderful free plugin from AlexHilton called A1StereoControl. It was exactly what I was looking for. Better than S1 in my opinion. I liked that so much that I downloaded his other free plugin, A1TriggerGate. Super cool for making arpeggiated patterns out of any sound. Really powerful and easy to use. It's amazing what you can get for free, and how it is often better than what you pay $$$$$ for. I highly recommend these two. Available in Macs and PCs, 32 and 64 bit. Get them HERE

I was REALLY, REALLY interested in this library, but was trying to talk myself out of it, because there are two other libraries I want out on intro now and.... well you know. But this video totally sold me and I'm going to get it. I am a big sucker for guitar libraries, but I believe this is something quite new, and very useful for my music. I have been waiting forever for Spectrasonics to come out with Guitarscape. Doesn't it make sense that they would do that after bass and keyboards and drums? If they ever do, I think it might include some stuff like this. Maybe not as weird as this, but definitely some rarities along with the classics. But this would still be a great library, even if there is a Guitarscape some day.

First, this is awesome. Anybody who has played Solid State Symphony or the Symphony patch on Amadeus knows what it is. You get the sound of a symphony orchestra that you can fill in with a synth if you want. But it also runs a slideshow of breathtaking NASA pictures that follow your playing. The cool thing is that you can turn off the sound and then play a piano (or anything) and watch the slide show move according to your playing. Pretty great for something that is already spacey like Nada or a FrozenPlain library. Of course this is also a great ad for SSS or Amadeus, because anybody who likes this essential one trick pony would like to have all the options of the others. @kitekrazy is so right. Every Indiginus library I own is A++++++ And you never have to wait for a sale, because they are always priced very reasonably. The only way to get them discounted is when they are introduced. I think if they were priced at two or three times the price and then Tracy had sales now and then, he would sell a ton more. Most people on this forum are probably like me--too influenced by the sense of urgency you get from a 50% markdown. Well, these things are marked way way down 365 days a year. Beautiful sounds with wonderful interfaces.

I also highly recommend Audiofier's ABSTRUNG, which is only 13 euros. Their Randomizer instruments focus on categories, Abstrung (strings), Aerkord (winds, airy stuff), Vesper (bells, chimes) With this you get a lot of string samples (21 GB), from world instruments like Chinese Guzheng and Pipa to Hammered Dulcimer, Acoustic Guitar, prepared pianos, etc. And you mix this stuff and add effects and arps, convolution reverb, etc. But basically it offers a quadrillion options so that it is almost too much to try. What these instruments are all about is the randomizer button. Push it and you get amazing sounds that are all your own. Push it over and over and then save the stuff you like. Plus.... it comes with a lot of snapshots to get you started. This is a LOT for 13 euros. The only problem with it is that it will make you hungry for more Audiofier products....?

The Dream Audio Tools guitars are great. Highly recommended, particularly Vol 1 of indie Fingers. FYI, the Alpine Concert Zither is included in World Suite. I mean, the samples for that instrument and many other PrecisionSound libraries are included in World Suite, but they have a different interface. I'm somewhat interested in Ben Osterhouse's "CelloTextures." I think it's the first thing he ever did, or the second. He's come a long way since then.

I'm waiting for this Soundiron library. ?

This offer has been extended to 48 hours. ?

Get a free Kontakt Player library. I think Arcane from Embertone or the Free Orchestra from ProjectSAM may qualify. Then you can upgrade for $250. Wait until the summer sale. Then you can upgrade to full Kontakt for $125.

I'm pretty sure this is the best deal I have ever seen offered in the four years since I have gotten into VIs. If there's been a better deal, I can't remember it. Imagine The Orchestra was for sale for $10. It's kind of like that. The best deal by a long, long way.

Damn.... I spent a LOT of money on this, and I'm not sorry. Do not miss out on this deal.

I heard this on Howard Stern https://www.siriusxm.com/

Great library, but it may be 40% off in the Wish List sale, which last year was in May.

I agree with everybody who has agreed. I also agree with everybody who chose to disagree. ?

The reason I think it's okay to post it here is because this is the place where all these offers are posted. Larry, if you want to take it down, that's fine with me. But I don't go to any of the other Cakewalk forums. You are the people I know. Maybe if you aren't living in a place like my town, New York City, and hadn't already lost two friends to it already, as I have, you might see it differently. But I know that many of you can feel what I'm saying, even if you haven't lost a friend yet. And I sure hope you don't, because it is terrible. But this page is a piece of heaven, a safe place. I love that people are coming out with new products and having sales. I love coming here. It's a distraction. It's a relief. Here I don't want to hear about the Coronavirus at all. I really don't. And I don't want to get these emails every day. That's on me. But if companies are going to bring it up, then I have my opinion and I've stated it, and I'm done. Bring on the deals! ? Saying safe means staying mentally safe too.

How some companies are kinda using this calamity as a marketing opportunity? It's a very thin line. I mean... you want to give something to people--then really give them something. Lose some money to help musicians. Maybe a credit like IK so they can buy something they actually want. Not something they don't want or already have. But a temporary demo? I don't know. You should ALWAYS make that available. Probably the best response I've seen so far was Fluffy Audio, where they totally gave us that piano. free. They didn't take a cent for it. They just used that gift to appeal to our best selves and donate. I'd like to see more like that.

I'd rather put the $10 towards a bigger library that I actually want.

It's actually three months--April, May, June. You can always get a demo of all the Soundtoys for one month, and that's why I've never done the upgrade. I never, never never buy a plugin unless I demo it with various kinds of guitars, basses, drums, vocals, etc etc and compare it with the plugins I own and actually use. It has to do something significantly better than what I already have or no sale. I've always had the feeling that Soundtoys plugins could be exactly like that (I own a few), but they won't let me download one and study one, before moving to the next. All I would need would be to like a few more of them and I would do the upgrade because it is cheap during BF. I am going to download this right away. Three months are enough. When I downloaded all of them before there were so many that I didn't demo any of them.

I've always thought that Shortnoise was one of the most impressive freebies I've ever downloaded and never used. It's still available for free HERE The normal price is $199 The normal price for Shortnoise 2 (which includes 1) is $99 Now, if I decided to pay ten bucks for Shortnoise 2, maybe I'd value it more and actually use it. But I have toooo much stuff already.

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When people talk about sketching libraries they usually bring up things like the Inspires or Nucleus or the Palettes, which are small footprint libraries that fit on a laptop, but are not the best for sketching, IMHO. To be precise: you need to know orchestration to use them and you can make professional (final) music with them. But if you define a sketching library as something for quickly sketching out orchestration, then Rhapsody Orchestral Colors is exactly that. It might even have been the very first one--ISW may have invented the whole concept. Weirdly, people rarely mention it when the topic of sketching libraries comes up.. Maybe because it's old? Maybe because people define sketching libraries in different ways? My favorites are Kirk Hunter's Virtuoso Ensembles, Indiginus's Solid State Symphony, and the "Symphony" feature in Amadeus. These libraries are great for those of us (like me) who don't know beans about orchestration. We can fool around and then take what we enjoy hearing and transfer to other symphonic libraries. That said, I rarely use Rhapsody for that. But I could! ? But Rhapsody percussion is a classic, used on countless big scores.

I believe most (if not all) Impact Soundworks libraries require Full Kontakt. Maybe there are some exceptions.