Reid Rosefelt

Addictive Keys was a nice freebie.

For me, it would be "Swing!" I checked them both out, learned what they both had, and picked "Swing!" for my first purchase. More importantly, I've used it in a track, and I'm not giving that up. I loved it so much I bought "Swing More!" But I have specific tracks I want to do now that require "Swing More!" The real answer is that each library has different things. Read the list of instruments on the ProjectSAM site. If you want solo saxophones then the choice is "Swing More!" But if you want a sweet muted trumpet, that's only in "Swing!" If you can't buy both, buy the one that will help you make a track.

For the record, Jim Roseberry just put a Crucial 500 GB in my computer for the boot drive. It's running at full 6 Gigabits/sec, while my two Samsung Evo SSDs are running at 4 Gb/sec.

If you wanna swing more, you gotta pay more. I ended up biting the bullet and getting this. The two of them together make one library. There's stuff missing from both, but together it all works. I feel the same way about Inspire 1 and 2, except those two are still incomplete, and Inspire won't be a full library until Inspire 3 comes out.

For those of you intrigued by Output's Portal but not wanting to spend that much $$$ for a granular plugin, I highly recommend Audiority's Grainspace. It's never been discounted more than 30% that I'm aware of, so this is a good time to check it out. Also, I think their guitar effects are really good, including the one that we're getting for free right now. I've been putting it into tracks, with great results. If I wasn't spending so much money now (and if it was 50% off instead of 15% off) I would go for their guitar effects bundle.

You probably saw that for "Swing!" "Swing!" is $179. but it's higher than that for people who live in places where NI charges tax. $195 for New Yorkers, for example. Swing More!" is $229, and with NY tax it's $249.

They definitely wanted to beat the OTS Jaco update. As per Greg at OTS: At the moment I have both Evolution Jaco (Iconic Bass Jaco) and Evolution Rick Bass working in the Evolution bass engine, but there's still more work to do, specifically with adding the fretless capabilities for the Jaco bass, which will also pave the way for updating CoreBass Pear. My current plan with Cherry Electric Bass is to resample the original bass for separate strings and individual pickup signals so that it's on the same page with what we're doing with the current Evolution basses. Right now I'm trying to finish acouple other libraries we're working on right now before working more on those updates, though. We have one really large project in particular that I need to finish before trying to work on more things at the same time. It's been in development since 2015 and has around 80,000 samples... So the new OTS Jaco is going to be great. The Ample one is here today, but the OTS may be in next year's Group Buy.

C'mon guys! Stop being so obsessive about this. You're being ridiculous. I personally don't check the OTS site more than two dozen times a day. I've got it under control. ? I couldn't care less that there are only 26 more to go.

I want to do that someday, particularly because I want to check out all their world libraries. But I have so many libraries I already own that I haven't fully explored. And I also like making music and not just buying stuff. ? I'm not particularly interested in having a Pop Brass library, though. I know that all the ones @emeraldsoul has are out there, but they aren't on my wishlist. I'm attracted to the idea of the jazzbo tenor saxophonist, soulfully playing in a smokey club with a pianist, bass and drummer. That would be fun to try to do. Swing! is great but I actually think that Swing! and Swing More! together make a set. ? They complete each other. Most people who buy only one but Swing More! but I had a special desire for the instruments in Swing!--like the harmonica.

My feeling about Swing! is that it is not about creating the greatest single instruments ever. But they create combos--instruments that are designed to mesh well together. If you want to do an accordion solo, maybe Tarilonte is a better choice. But if you put together the Jazz Manouche Guitars, the acoustic bass, and the accordions, some drums--you have something that sounds like Gypsy Jazz. Same for the Western instruments. We're used to working with an orchestral library from one company, but when we try to put together a different genre--it's catch as catch can. You can work quickly with this. And for people who don't know anything about jazz chords--Swing More! can do the work for you. A little fooling around and you can get something that sounds like a real jazz ensemble. I want it. The biggest complaint I would have about Swing! is the interface. I wish the articulations could be done with key switches, but they change through the use of velocity and the modwheel. Sometimes this is intuitive and great and sometimes it really gets in your way. I see that Swing More! has at least some keyswitched instruments. You really need a keyboard that can register delicate differences of velocity or else you will have to fix it in the DAW, which is what I do. Did I mention that I would like to buy Swing More?

I have Swing! I have been watching videos of Swing More! over the last few days. These are NOT, I repeat not, mainly phrase libraries. Nobody who has them or watches Rowland's videos would say that. I have heard that said more than once, and I don't know where it comes from. Rowland himself just denied they were phrase libraries on VI:Control. It is true that there are some phrases in them, but for the most part they are playable instruments. They have nothing to do with funk or Tower of Power. Tundra has as much to do with funk as they do. ? They are for old-fashioned Hollywood Big Band. Think 40s. Glenn Miller and Frank Sinatra. Film Noir. Lighter stuff from Henry Mancini. A lot of people like Cory Pellizari feel that they are mainly to be used for animation, and they are used a lot in ads. They work well for comedy. The other night I was watching "Dead to Me" on Netflix and I heard one of the silly overdone drum solos from Swing More! Swing! has instruments for Django-type jazz manouche and western stuff, including a slide guitar. Swing More! has a piano, a banjo, and even vocals. The strength is not in the individual instruments, IMHO. The strength is in the ensemble patches which sound very real--because they are. Swing More! includes recorded versions of an ensemble playing jazz chords with different inversions and different orchestration. But these libraries also add a lot of decent individual instruments to your palette, like a World library does. Some are better than that. I've been a harmonica player since my teens, and it has the best blues harmonica I've ever found. I'm using the 4 Whistlers patch on a western theme I'm working on now. It's useful to have stuff like this around when you find you need it. I'm very interested in the big band chords in Swing More! and the saxophones. I will buy it someday but I'm pretty strapped for cash now, what with the OTS sale and other things. But I'm thinking about it...

By the way, you don't need Padshop _Pro to use the Zero-G expansion. For $10, Padshop Pro gives you the ability to do the import of your own sounds. It also has a 3-band EQ, an algorithmic reverb, and 50 extra presets. Of course, before buying an expansion, I would check to see if it works on Padshop. As far as I know, they all do. I also believe you can buy all Steinberg VSTs and expansions without owning Cubase and Nuendo. You just need a dongle and the free Steinberg Download Assistant. Once you have purchased these things, they can just sit there until you're ready to use it--or sell it. A lot of people buy things like Groove Agent in sales and then wait to install it until just before an upgrade is announced--which they then get free during the grace period.

I watch this very carefully, and I believe this is the first Evolution sale since December 2017. Then it was 50% off. As I was looking to add more to my collection, I waited for the December 2018 sale but it didn't happen. I don't think anybody would argue that these are among the very best world percussion libraries you can get. Many people (including me) would say THE best. Check them out HERE.

I keep waiting for somebody to list this. It's HERE. Like a lot of these NI deals, it isn't 50% off on everything ProjectSAM sells. Just 50% off on these two series. I think these are the lowest prices ever for Swing! and Swing More!

Upgrade from Padshop to Padshop Pro is $9.99. Upgrade to "Full version" is $34.99 and includes the Zero Gravity Instrument Set (normally $29.99). So you'd save $5 with this bundle! But if you waited for the sale you can get the Padshop Pro upgrade + Zero Gravity for $24.99.

What specifically are the problems with Kontakt 6? If you install full Kontakt 6 it leaves Kontakt 5. That's the default. If you want to get rid of full Kontakt 5, you will actively have to work to uninstall it. Full Kontakt 5 continues to be a separate instrument in Native Access. I just moved to a new computer and started from scratch. I downloaded Kontakt 5 and Kontakt (6). I don't see why you can't keep using Kontakt 5 forever. It will always work on all the instruments that don't need Kontakt (6) If you have full Kontakt 5, basically you are missing out on a lot of very cool instruments for no reason at all. Just run them in Kontakt(6) and everything else you own in Kontakt 5. If installing Kontakt 6 Player made a single Kontakt 5 Player library not work, there would justifiably be quite a howling on the internet. Because everybody would lose their investments in the old libraries. It's been out since September and I haven't heard about any problems like this, and I am on forums every day like VI:Control. Is there something I've missed?

True, but you can load it up in Komplete Kontrol.

Have you noticed that there are two free sound banks HERE for Pigments/Analog Lab: Electronic Dance Perfection (16 presets) and Percussive Drive (64 presets) The 5 other sound banks for Pigments/Analog Lab on this page cost $9.99 and have 64 presets.

From ManicMiner on VI:Control https://vi-control.net/community/threads/new-from-output-steven-slate-sonuscores-the-orchestra-and-ik-multimedia.83053/page-5 But it seems reasonable, considering that the Group Buy has happened every year for a while and it started on June 21st last year.

Word is that it will begin next week. So save your pennies. ?

Very possible. NI still has on the site that it will come out in June.

The big issue for me with all SONiVOX offers is that the prices are in constant flux. I bought the Strings for $1 and the Woods and Brass for $4.99 each. Those are amazing deals, particularly the Woods. I paid around $15 for the Big Bang, but I don't know if that's the lowest price it's ever been. I use the workaround in Big Bang in Cubase and it works every time. I think it's worth $10 or $15, but it is not on the same level with more recent libraries, that often go on sale for lower cheaper than the list SONiVOX prices. When you buy from them you are buying abandonware. They don't fix things that they know are wrong. The good news is that they practically give their stuff away to the kind of people who follow forums like these. I think it's unethical that they sell Big Bang for $50 to $100 knowing that it does not work. Either stop selling it at list price until you fix it or sell it all the time for peanuts with a clear warning about the bug, and which DAWs work with it. It makes me suspicious about the entire brand, even though I own and like a lot of their products. They are owned by the same company as AIR, which has the same pricing policies.

I believe that all that is deleted are any zip or rar files. The files themselves are in the directory you installed them in, which is listed in Native Access. You can keep a backup of the uncompressed files. I do. NI allows you to have their instruments on up to three computers as long as they are yours and you only use one at a time. All you need to do is make sure that Native Access is pointed to the right place. But there are often updates, so you end up having to download them again anyway. When I first bought Komplete, it came on a hard drive, but it is mostly out of date now. Native Access is the only way to get the latest versions.

If you go on your Jam Points page on the site you can see what's about to expire...

Every now and then AAS gives away a library or two for free (which is fine) but this is really something on a whole other level. As a loyal customer, it makes me feel bad that, with a few exceptions, I bought all of these at $19, or close to it. ??