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Does anyone have any sort of advice or experience with dealing with Spitfire LABS Error #1? It's completely random when it occurs, interestingly at the same time, my KORG M1 will de-authenticate and I have to launch the KORG Pass to re-authenticate it. So something is telling me that both of these issues are network related, but I have no loving clue where to start.
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field balm posted:What are y'all favourite free/cheap amp sims/bundles? I'm trialling bias fx right now but I'm not super impressed to be honest. Everything sounds scratchy. So far my best sound has been running some free dirt pedal plugins straight into cabinet irs lol. I don't really want to spend more than fifty bucks or something. Looking for medium to high gain, mid heavy tones Gain staging is individual to amp sims, hard to give a generic answer here. If you're getting farty wierdness in the bass, try padding your input level by as much as 10-20db and making more use of the amp sim's own gain. In terms of affordable amp sims... I've been getting into the Plugin Alliance sims especially in the recent sale, which put them at like $9.99 per up to three times if you had previously bought a different amp (the Pete Thorn signature PT-100, which, by the way, is a fun & versatile high gainer with its own sound going on - think it has one of my favorite clean channels right now too? great edge of breakup tones). That made any amp available for $29.99, and that worked in conjunction with their Mega Sale last week, which included three $20 no-minimum-spend vouchers (well, they issued one, then reset it twice along the way - as is their typical way in these sales). Outside of the Mega Sales typically your best price on stuff is like $14.99 with their monthly voucher system - the $25 has a $32 minimum spend, so it's only usable on $39.99 sales and over. Their $29.99 sales are actually harder to maximize the value from with these vouchers, since $32 minimum spend means you can't use the $25 voucher on 1x of it, and 2x of them only adds up to a hair under $60, and even 1x $29 and 1x$39 is still not up to the $72 minimum spend on their next $50 voucher tier. I have seen people be sad to be "upgraded" to that tier since it's harder to work with. You hope to find 2x $39.99 plugs you really want on sale at the same time, and end up paying the same per plugin, or discount one of their $79.99 newer plugins down to the $29.99 price point. There's a lot of structure to it all, takeaway is the $25 voucher is easiest to use. This is a month with a universal $25 voucher (same code for all that is, not everyone gets $25 vouchers by default but this one should work for anybody) - 2021-10-25Kup0GfC36kjkj, put in the voucher box at checkout. For non amp sim pals, there are a bunch of good PA plugins that routinely go on sale at that price so this'd be a good month to keep an eye out since anyone can use that voucher. You can see their daily sales on the Plugin Alliance facebook - you'll need to enter in the daily sale voucher AND the $25 voucher. As mentioned above, the purchase has to be $32 or higher so in practice that $39.99 price tier is the sweet spot for that one. If this is the first you've heard of this somewhat byzantine discount structure, welcome to PA poker. About the sims themselves: the Fuchs Train 2 is a real favorite for me. I just love its sound and it has some unique tonal characteristics. Their other Fuchs, the Overdrive Supreme 50W model is also great with a lot of character. I think the Train 2 would be a good one to try for the kind of sounds you're describing, based on my experience with it so far. I already have good options for some overlapping stuff from AT5, which kept me from getting the Diezels (though the Herbert was cool), any of the Engls (the two older ones are alright but the Savage is a newer model and quite good), or the Friedman DS-40 since AT5 does a great Friedman PT-20 emulation. But, I did like the Friedman sims, and the Friedman BE-100 model really has its own thing going on. I picked that one up in the sale. Modded '80s Marshall tones, and it can get gnarly. All of their sims since like 2017 are at least well made, though, and I am even digging one of the older sims in the Chandler GAV19T too. It's got character. Narrower sweet spots in its gain staging but some great results are possible. I would advise that you take advantage of the 14-day trials. You will need to learn to work with Igor Nembrini's amp modeling (he's the guy that does the amps for Brainworx, or at least has so far, and he publishes his own amps too - they go on sale for about $40 each, and one such seasonal sale is going on now) - I find them to be sensitive to correct input levels, maybe moreso than some, but with really nice & wide sweet spots for good tonal adjustment once you get them set up there. If they seem bass heavy at first you can dial it down within the plugin and using its good filters to whatever level you want, including really nice tight djenty stuff in the high gainers if that's what you want. They tend to take pedals and pedal sim plugins very well and Nembrini makes a bunch of freebies which you can find here. His Klon plugin is a great booster/conditioner and he has others too for free, including a recently released RAT emulation. ALSO, IK Multimedia is giving away their Dual Terror model from their Orange collection. It's a nice sounding amp sim if you like Orange amps, and free is cool. They've also just added some hardware to their Group Buy promotion going on. The $199.99 tier is the "sweet spot" if you can afford to buy in there as the top end software drops to $199.99 crossgrade price and is available to select as your freebies after that. However I think you can clean out everything for Amplitube 5 at $149.99 and under, and that includes the newly released $149.99 X-Gear pedal models that feature improved algorithms etc. - and this here is the cheapest way into that price tier. Godspeed if you go this route, the IKMM software ecosystem has some great tools and you'd end up with an almost daunting amount of them with the group buy currently trending to hit its 25-for-the-price-of-1 thing. Up to everyone's budget and needs of course. Oh - I've used some AudioAssault's IRs (they seem to distribute the IRs of a company "Seacow Cabs") and IR loader lately and have been enjoying them. I haven't tried their amp sims much but they specialize in making inexpensive tools. Maybe the amp sims are cool? I see some on sale for $9.99 right now. They just released a free one which seems to model a Blackstar amp: Blacksun, which I have definitely downloaded but definitely have not tried yet. Gonna do that soon. Real solid IRs though, and that IR loader is a great value if you get it at the discounted offer price of like $8-10 that shows up sometimes if you buy an IR pack (and those tend to get discounted to $5 or so). I have their Signature pack, the Friedman 4x12 pack, the Orange PPC 4x12 pack, and Mr.Shall BX - I especially like the Signature pack, but I am getting to know them all still, it's a lot of IRs. Edit: By the way, I've recently figured out recording video demos, and while my monitoring setup ain't ideal at the moment I'd be glad to put a clip up for anything here you're curious about. Agreed fucked around with this message at 22:33 on Oct 9, 2021 |
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field balm posted:What are y'all favourite free/cheap amp sims/bundles? I'm trialling bias fx right now but I'm not super impressed to be honest. Everything sounds scratchy. So far my best sound has been running some free dirt pedal plugins straight into cabinet irs lol. I don't really want to spend more than fifty bucks or something. Looking for medium to high gain, mid heavy tones I've got , and paid for, Amplitude, Guitar rig, a bunch of the Neural DSP stuff, GTR and Bias's stuff, and Bias hands down wins to my ears. Its just really useable sounding stuff. That said, before my guitar hits the interface, its going through an outboard DI , 1073 clone preamp and an RNC compressor, so I've got my gain structure on lock. Get that part right (And honestly, just keep your incoming sound somewhere above -20 and below -12db on the daw, let the plugin do the distortion), and you'll be fine. I don't know if the amps modelled are "accurate" , maybe, theres an IR loader if your not happy with it, but to my ears it sounds right on. Now if I could just get that sound when using my Tape setup. I guess a sm57 on an AC30 will have to do. :/
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This is good info thanks! Sounds like maybe I was hitting the front of the vst too hot, I'll screw around with it tomorrow. Agreed, thanks for all that too. Lots of stuff to try out, really helpful! I'll report back.
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I'm sure this exists, so what's a decent plugin/program etc that can convert audio, like singing or whistling to midi or give pitches? I've started singing or whistling things and recording them to translate in to instrument parts and it would make it go a lot faster. It doesn't need to be super fancy or anything as I can sing/whistle on on pitch. My piano playing is no where near sufficient to translate a fast melody to keys on the fly when I'm making it up as I go.
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Woolwich Bagnet posted:I'm sure this exists, so what's a decent plugin/program etc that can convert audio, like singing or whistling to midi or give pitches? I've started singing or whistling things and recording them to translate in to instrument parts and it would make it go a lot faster. Technically, wouldn't melodyne be able to do that? Their DNA pitch shifter tech is incredible, and it's able to chance pitches from within a song (like changing the pitch of a piano line, whole rhythm guitars are playing in the background). It's probably overkill, but you definitely get to see what notes are being played
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As singing/whistling is monophonic, you can do this natively in Live and Cubase using pitch to midi. Other DAWs might too but I know these two definitely do
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Cool, that's for the quick responses. I know I could google it and dig through a ton of garbage but best to ask people that might actually know. I have live so I can try that, and I'll see if reaper can do it as well since it can do basically anything from what I can tell. Also going to check out Melodyne as that sounds super useful since solo choir samples and stuff are a pain to use and get to sound natural in any way so I've been ending up singing things myself anyway.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z81YGws4d0 looks like it is also doable in Reaper 
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And also every other DAW, because REAPER's pack-in plugins are freely available for download
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NonzeroCircle posted:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z81YGws4d0 looks like it is also doable in Reaper I'm shocked that Reaper can do this. It might have an ultra utilitarian interface which I'm sure plenty of people bounce off of, but drat if it can't do basically anything under the sun, and with actual support too that doesn't require a $Texas/mo subscription.
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Other than sunk cost fallacy (and I like it a lot, especially the bundled effects and synths) the reason I stick with Cubase over Reaper is at least partially influenced by the UI and workflow. I keep trying but there's something intangible about the way Reaper presents itself that I don't like, however if Steinberg move to a subscription model (ie rather than the current "it's about 80 quid a year for latest version, if you want to upgrade but no pressure) I'd definitely be looking closer at Reaper.
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See, that's one of the things that keeps me in Reaper. It's straightforward, utilitarian, effective, and I've been doing it a long rear end time so I understand it and my place in it. I get a little lost when I try to load up some of the performance-oriented DAWs like Live, there's so much that they can do that I am not trying to do but Reaper seems to really nail the things I want to do in my DAW, while still being incredibly powerful and flexible under the hood.
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My favourite thing about Reaper, and there's a lot to love, is the clip editing. It's like it both treats clips as their independent of the source immediately but also sort of not? Kind of hard to explain. Coming from Logic, it was amazing to see this level of quick audio editing support. Another thing is that years ago, when I did sound and music for casino games, because of the channel assignment of the surround sound gaming chairs we were developing, all low-pass signals had to be routed to channel 3, and channel 4 had to be blank. Channels 1-2 were front-facing speakers, where 5-6 had to mimic 1-2, but they were in the head of the chair itself, so they had to be quieter. Reaper let me customize this to a T, so that our weird as hell setup was now no longer kept together by some barely-functioning and often-crashing Cakewalk template (I hate Cakewalk/Sonar). Even better, all of our hardware and software played OGG specifically, and back then (2011-2013), outside of Reaper, multichannel OGG files were hard to create. Used to use a small freeware program called "OGGdrop", but the caveat was that if any of your channels were empty, poo poo got fuuuuuuuucked very quickly. Reaper solved all of that. And finally, last year, I was having a hell of a time batch-converting the 60+ tracks I received from goons for the Awful Xmas album. They were sent to me in different formats, and I was trying to wrangle them all with other programs that'd handle the meta info properly, etc. Reaper literally has a specific batch convert function that I found out about in the 11th hour, and it took care of EVERYTHING. All hail Reaper. A powerful DAW with so many tricks up its sleeve. Thing's a loving gem.
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field balm posted:This is good info thanks! Sounds like maybe I was hitting the front of the vst too hot, I'll screw around with it tomorrow. Sure thing, man. I couldn't sleep last night and tried some more stuff out. First, I spent some time with it today and that Audio Assault Blacksun is pretty neat. It is certainly a really cool freebie. I tried the Hellbeast today also and was not so moved by it personally, there was some boxyness that felt a little old school and the amp did not clean up on the gain knob as much as I've come to expect from modern sims, but the Blacksun is better IMO. Their aIR Impulse Rack software is very cool though, great for loading up and mixing several IRs how you want them, applying some convenient processing & exporting a new IR out of that sound to use wherever you want. It is not the only IR loader with that feature, but in terms of price to performance I feel like this is a pretty good one. There is another software I heard of for the first time today that I thought I might bring to your attention: Aurora DSP Rhino. It's $40 right now for a fairly capable virtual amp, with nice sounding effects and in my opinion a cool, non-skeuomorphic GUI that has collapsible portions allowing for quick & simplified or precise & deeper adjustment. Its clipping behavior feels dimensional. It's clearly good at heavy stuff, but has good range with the different preamps in it (some solid crunch tones too). Effects laden patches felt like it used a lot of CPU, but I'm on an older processor as mentioned elsewhere. It isn't especially traditional, though it's largely doing familiar things in unusual ways. As mentioned its driven behavior is nice with good bite and definition in the midrange and treble, but I have to say I hear some weird low frequency stuff happening sometimes. Like it's a little too resonant somehow in the guitar's lowest frequencies, if not adjusted away from that behavior. I found I could pretty fully tame it between the various ways it gives you to shape tone; before that some sounds I was going for had this strange zingy boom in the low frequencies. Maybe someone would like it, I was glad I managed to dial it out. I think it also likes a higher sample rate, too, might have some noticeable aliasing when bending two higher strings at 44.1, but I was surprised at the range of nice sounding tones this could achieve for $40. I did not end up buying it myself due to having other very good sounding options already, but I thought I'd bring it to your attention as a possibility since it's a compact but very versatile kit with diversity and range to its boost pedal and effects sections, and to me overall it sounds like it's punching above its weight when you get it dialed in. A freebie I forgot to mention: Black Rooster Audio Cypress TT-15, their emulation of the Orange Tiny Terror. You might like Fuse Audio Labs' free, quality Spring Reverb plugin with it. Reimund Dratwa is the man behind Fuse Audio Labs and he also coded a lot of stuff but not amp modelers for Brainworx previously, most of Black Rooster Audio's line at this time (newer products don't have his involvement, though), and a number of developers that publish through Plugin Alliance also - currently coding for Neold, who make one of my favorite saturator plugins in "Big Al" - I digress. Final freebie recommendation: Mercuriall free guitar plugins.Edit: Also I did the IK Group Buy and now I'm looking at bigger SSDs but man this Hammond and Sampletron 2 are really freaking cool, I love these sounds. Finding inspiration but also needing to get to know a shitload of tools so I'll be busy in my DAW for a while pals Agreed fucked around with this message at 06:36 on Oct 11, 2021 |
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Is there a passable freeware (DAW-agnostic) harmonizer that anyone can vouch for? I have no problem eventually dropping money on one but at this point, I don't even know if a harmonizer is something that I'm really wanting, but I definitely want to try one. Or... is there one in Reaper that I'm just unaware of?
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Is there a passable freeware (DAW-agnostic) harmonizer that anyone can vouch for? I have no problem eventually dropping money on one but at this point, I don't even know if a harmonizer is something that I'm really wanting, but I definitely want to try one. Looks like... indeed there is a plugin that comes with Reaper that can do this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA4ohseZKuU There's a tutorial of how to use it.
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Woolwich Bagnet posted:Looks like... indeed there is a plugin that comes with Reaper that can do this: Oh my god, of COURSE Reavoice does what I'm looking for. Again, Reaper is amazing.
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Chris from Airwindowsputs out a new plugin every week it seems. I quite like this week's, MultiBandDistortion. I made a little video showing how I am getting to know it on a thing I'm working on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKo66G9c0QE Like all the others it's available free from his site in a download that's less than 20mb and has like 200+ plugins in it. I've talked about Airwindows before but if it's new to you they don't have GUIs but they're quality and it helps to use this cheat sheet to figure out what tool he has that you might use for a particular task. Search in descriptions, not just names. They have weird names. And I'm gonna briefly bring up his Tape Delay 2 yet again because it's unreal how good that thing sounds for virtually nothing, go grab it and try it out. Edit: I also got Sunset Studio Reverb which I am loving as one of the options in the IKMM Group Buy, along with a ton of their stuff (currently at 23-for-1, might go up to 25-1 by the end of October). If you get in with a $199.99 qualifying software, pretty much everything but the Deluxe and Max versions becomes available to pick. It ended up being about $130 after using Jam Points on a qualifying software, which feels like a good price for what I was able to get (especially considering that I was thinking about getting Total Studio Max 3 when it was discounted to $299 a couple months ago, but couldn't commit it). Agreed fucked around with this message at 21:14 on Oct 12, 2021 |
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Oct 12, 2021 09:47
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Am…am I the only Renoise user here? 
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I have Renoise and go through little spats of using it. Mostly for mangled glitchy drums
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Renoise for me is almost entirely the tracker. It’s the approach to music sequencing that’s made the most sense to me, and it helped that sequencing wasn’t a first-class citizen in a lot of other suggested programs (e.g. Reaper). If you have a workstation for audio, answering the question of “okay, now how do I make music” is pretty important. Renoise was specifically designed to answer that very question. I almost assuredly don't take full advantage of its features, though. Sure, I can track out some notes, but I'm not using all the fancy FX and making instruments with phrases or whatever. Renoise is actually rather beats-y/EDM in terms of what it targets, so it's actually a bit of an odd choice for me. Pollyanna fucked around with this message at 22:11 on Oct 12, 2021 |
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yeah, thank you Agreed for turning me onto these! I use em a bunch now
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I use Reaper since I'm mostly using it for putting things together and tweaking them. I write only in music notation software because it just makes sense to me. I always know the pitch of a note I'm putting down, and can think of a rhythm in my head and count it out to know where to put the notes, and if it needs to be a tuplet or not etc. I almost exclusively use kontakt/opus for instruments so I can run them in separate channels in Reaper with them sending them to another channel that then sends it to my speakers or whatever, and can also handle recording them. And then each individual channel is taking in midi from the notation software and can record the midi notes as well if I want to make fine adjustments to their length/rhythm. I don't have the computing power/ram to break out every individual instrument in a symphony or I would, but having things like a couple of really good solo violins, violins 1, violins 2, or maybe a divisi of them is good enough. Though I am looking in the future to get some off lease servers with maybe 2 10-12 core processors per board and a few hundred gigs of ram each and putting a few of them together and networked sound...
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Pollyanna posted:Am…am I the only Renoise user here? I use its mutant plugin sibling, Redux, within Numerology or Studio One. Gains me flexible access to a hodge-podge of most modes of sequencing so I can accommodate the way my brain is tilting and, occasionally, choose the most effective method of expressing a daft musical idea. Use whatever works for you and don't overthink it, imo.
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There's reasons to not use Renoise, to be fair. Piano rolls make your intervals and progressions first-class citizens in how they're presented, which helps a lot when you're just starting out with composition and music theory. Trackers are a lot more abstract and I find it difficult to sketch on them, but they're perfectly good for actual production. That said, I'm sure other DAWs like Reaper have FX chains with compressors, EQs, LFOs, whatever ring mods are, etc. In Renoise specifically, I'm not diving into any of the Effect Commands yet cause I want to get my fundamentals down first - but the Pattern Sequencer is super cool and I can already tell how useful it is even outside of an electronic context. The Phrase Editor is also obviously good, cause you can abstract a phrase to a single note... Renoise also focuses strongly on using samples, which I'm not currently into? I'm more for VSTs I think????? Are samples an advanced thing? I think it'd be good for me to explore DAWs with built-in sequencing capabilities other than Renoise. I have Reaper, but that seems more like a traditional DAW that just takes live input. Ideally something that's based more around composition, music theory, and making it simple to build both a melody and a harmony as well as keeping a beat. Any recommendations? (Also taking recommendations for a percussion VST! I need to learn how to make beats  )
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Pollyanna posted:There's reasons to not use Renoise, to be fair. Piano rolls make your intervals and progressions first-class citizens in how they're presented, which helps a lot when you're just starting out with composition and music theory. Trackers are a lot more abstract and I find it difficult to sketch on them, but they're perfectly good for actual production. That said, I'm sure other DAWs like Reaper have FX chains with compressors, EQs, LFOs, whatever ring mods are, etc. REAPER has a simple drum sampler and you use multiple instances of it, I think there's a template somewhere. Reasamplomatic, I think, and you can use as many instances as you want. As far as percussion VST recs, I have a strong attachment to microtoniq. With the former you can do delicious handmade layers, and it has round robin too, and with the latter you have a pretty much perfect electronic drum machine.
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Heads up, Arturia V Collection 8 is 299$ (300$ off) on pluginboutique.
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Matt Zerella posted:Heads up, Arturia V Collection 8 is 299$ (300$ off) on pluginboutique. drat you. I was just thinking about wanting to try out some new soft synths yesterday and Arturia was of the places I checked out. "$150 is too much for one synth" was a fine thought then, but "$300 for all of them is a steal!" is an even better one now.
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It's a great collection. I use probably 4-5 of them all the time and the rest are situationally very rad. You could certainly find worse places to spend your money if you're tempted Honestly the mini by itself earns the price tag but there are some real bangers in there with the Jup and the Clav and the Modular and analog lab for that matter
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The Artiria V Collection is not on sale right now. Here's the response I got from Plugin Boutique: "Huge apologies for this, unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances the Arturia V sale has had to be pulled from the site for the time being. Please keep an eye on our newsletters and the Deals page to make sure you are notified when the sale comes back online. "Sorry again for any inconvenience caused." That's a pretty sizeable mistake, and one they haven't corrected in a follow up email. Probably for the best I don't spend $300 right now, though.
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OutOfPrint posted:The Artiria V Collection is not on sale right now. Here's the response I got from Plugin Boutique: well drat, good thing I was buzzed enough to purchase it right after I made that last post
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Spitfire stuff is 50% off if you use "CH100K" First up, for 100,000 seconds, take 50% off one Spitfire Audio product of your choice with code CH100K. This is a HUGE offer, one never seen before in the history of Spitfire Audio. But you only get to 100k subs once so… you deserve it. Offer valid on individual libraries £/$/€100 and over. Offer Excludes Collections, Contemporary Drama Toolkit, Albion Solstice, Hammers, Abbey Road One: Orchestral Foundations and Stratus. Limited to one product per customer and there must only be one product in your cart when checking out. Offer valid from 17 October 2021 at 17:00 BST - 18 October 2021 at 21:18 BST
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Man, I just got my feet wet with samplers in the IKMM Group Buy, and you want to talk about sticker shock when I checked out Spitfire prices. $800 for the Hans Zimmer strings, I guess getting his involvement is not cheap of course and then I also see it's like a 250GB library just for that and I compare to my whole current sample folder which is only 228GB and start to understand more. I'll have their BBC SO Discover to check out soon, can't swing anything off the sale after hitting up PA's mega sale, Nembrini's seasonal sale, and IKMM's 25th Anniversary Group Buy. If I can't make music it sure won't be because I don't have some tools to do it with, I guess. But the quality of these Spitfire libraries seems like it must be as high as the prices, very much looking forward to when the license for Discover is ready.
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The LABS stuff is worth checking out; I’ve been playing around with it a bit recently, and there’s some fun sounds to play around with in there. I was already leaning towards picking up BBCSO Discovery, but the 50% off makes picking up Core a much easier pill to swallow.
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Labs is great, but I think there's some licensing for the BBC Orchestra library that the free version can't be used for paid or sold work, only free, non-professional stuff. Plugin Boutique sent me another email saying that the Arturia deal ending early was due to a "miscommunication" between the two of then. They made good sending me a one time coupon for the original deal, and I was in the process of signing paperwork for a new job when I got that email, so I got myself a little victory collection of 28 softsynths.
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All I can find about it on the site is this line herequote:CAN I USE LABS IN A COMMERCIAL RECORDING? In their general EULAs it has the normal stuff about how we're licensing rather than owning it, and they definitely don't allow you to use just the sounds themselves as a commercial product but rather it must be within the context of a work, and no derivative samplers can be made based in whole or in part on it, but I am not finding the part where it says you can't use them in commercial things - if there is something I am missing that has really limiting text, and you know where it is, let me know please. I am not even an expert in bird law to be clear, and in fact have been a dumbass on more than one occasion, so really do please help me if I'm wrong  Edit: Man I got the Neil Peart drums as my last Group Buy choice since it hit the full 25-for-1 now. I don't usually feel emotional in the least about drum VSTis, but I really admired and looked up to him as a drummer and as a person and am still grieving the loss some. So it's a little bittersweet, but very awesome to have not just his kits but him actually playing the parts to some of their biggest songs in my DAW now! And maybe I can finally figure out the sticking to some of his wilder fills. Really, it's just kind of marvelous to hear him play like this and even if I don't do a Rush cover (and I'm not making any promises at all) I will definitely use his kit elements in my own stuff. Agreed fucked around with this message at 08:29 on Oct 19, 2021 |
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