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Lester Shy posted:This is probably old news for anybody in this thread, but I just discovered that owning a Focusrite product gives you access to one free Addictive Keys instrument of your choice. I actually think the Modern Upright is more versatile, the Selections sound design presets cover a much wider range. The soundboard mix with reverb sounds a lot like a grand and is an absolute joy to play with.
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I bought it on sale, there's a single-digit number of awesome patches and a lot of crud that sounds like 90s keyboard presets. Most of them just use the NOISE channel to play keytracked samples. Check out this motherfucker if you have Zebra. Neff sometimes discounts it to $20.
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There's also this beauty that came out this year. I'd combine it with Embertone's Joshua Bell violin for glorious quartet pieces.
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   Motherfucker. I still recommend playing the sampler game, it's good ear training. Sixth level (8x8 grid of jazz chords) was absolutely insane.
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Rusty Kettle posted:I just wanted to gush over embertone Joshua Bell violin
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A lot of them work with the free Kontakt Player, not the indie ones though, since it carries a license fee for the developer. And you will want the full version sooner or later to do more in-depth editing of patches (adjusting releases, removing bum notes and all that).
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The world stopped making sense to me when some startup just went and bought FXpansion out of nowhere because their crowdfunded keyboard controller attracted venture capital
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Isn't a "tuned HFO targeting amp" just a regular oscillator?
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:In SF, you can select an area, and with one click have it create a sample from it, and from there you can add crossfade to make it a seamless loop (again, with just one additional click... it's a function in one of the menus). Plavski posted:Humblebundle are doing a music production pack if anyone's interested: https://www.humblebundle.com/software/magix-sounds-of-music-software
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This is one of those plugins that can make any user sound like a lovely salesman, 'cause it really does do everything. At 100% wet and 0% feedback it's a great signal coloration tool.
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https://blog.bandlab.com/cakewalk-by-bandlab-press-release so venture capital is subsidizing DAWs for the public now
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Like half my C:\ partition is symbolic links because of software that flat-out refuses to install anywhere else. Halion will only give you the option to select a different path for libraries after downloading the entire 30GB to the system drive. Thankfully the installer allows you to move folders around when it hangs up on 0 bytes free and then resumes just fine
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 Just drag any folders/NKIs you want from the Files tab into the Quickload list - you can also rearrange and rename anything on there independently from its folder structure. Then just double click on the empty space in a new Kontakt instance to make an empty instrument and access the list from there. There's also a list for multis.
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...and lighting up keyswitches is a godsend.
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You can also crossgrade to full Kontakt 5 for 50% off (so 125EUR) if you own any licensed Kontakt Player library.
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Opening any Rhythmic preset reveals those options tho. I recommend studying them, because you can even make a synchronized Decapitator-lite gate out of this - set the filter to dry, level mod to the max, turn on Rhythm mode and you've got yourself a tremolo overdrive.
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The Regroover for free deal is on again, this time on the official site. https://accusonus.com/lp/presonus-regroover-offer-2018 The plugin is pretty cool and does what's advertised (there's often a massive comb effect on tonal samples, but they're still usable if you're doing more experimental electronic stuff), but I don't find myself using it as often as I thought I would. Just one to add to the arsenal.
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Jimmy Hellfire over at VI-C posted:Log in to your Waves account and and go to "my products".  They do have money to burn.
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So sad to see the no-longer-supported Kore 2 expansions in there. The multieffect packs were downright insane.
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Prepare to spend most of your income on Kontakt libraries.
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https://reverb.com/software/instruments/reverb/3567-soundtoys-5-effect-rack-arturia-v-collection-6 This thread immediately came to mind for some reason. 
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iZotope generally puts things on sale when they have a new version in the works (like the current O8N2 $199 promo) so 
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I embraced the dongles and have the iLok and eLicenser taking up my only two front USB slots at all times. In the age of machine licenses breaking when you restart your network adapter (looking at you, Waves), they can actually reduce all the pain DRM normally causes. And moving sessions between computers is way easier, plug that poo poo in, everything loads and works* *) as long as the target computer has the home-phoning drivers installed. still better than doing that per plugin
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Yeah, the scariest thing about the OneKnob series is that these are legitimately good processors under the hood. I just don't want anyone seeing me using them in sessions 
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Can y'all tell me about Artillery? I saw it featured in this Reverb video yesterday and it looks like one of those plugins that once I get, I'd never be able to live without: NI's The Finger is IMO better as far as it does mostly the same thing. Generally I prefer using poo poo like Effectrix and Glitch2, if you're sequencing the effects the workflow is pretty similar, but everything stays within one window. Less context switching when you're loving around
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I know this is practically bringing this thread back from the brink of death, but does anyone have a guess as to when Iris 2 will possibly be on sale again? IT'S $50 AGAIN!  And with Trash 2 bundled to boot: https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/1-Instruments/58-Inst-Bundle/4901-iZotope-Trash2-Iris-2-Bundle-Exclusive-Sale started Friday and lasts till Tuesday. Don't underestimate Trash 2, too, it's got several modules from Alloy as bonus processors, so you're getting a pretty good multiband compressor as part of the package!
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Trig Discipline posted:Hey y'all, it looks like Best Service is doing half price upgrades on Komplete bundles. I just went from K10U to K12U Collector's Edition for $276. Wait, so I can get the Komplete Select for €99 with NI's code till 6th of June, then go from that to K12U for €495 and then K12U CE for €295... or go from Select to K12 and then CE, that's €100 cheaper. Could go lower with K11U from a third-party store, I need to figure this out.
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There's nothing good in that price range and you're better off staying with free stuff. Assuming you don't have a full version of Kontakt, VSCO Community Edition would be your best bet: https://vis.versilstudios.com/vsco-community.html Community stuff is in general much better than cheap commercial libs like Synful or Sonivox's Orchestral Companion, which isn't worth the £1 it's sometimes sold at. Too bad the best free patches are made for Kontakt. Now if your budget was higher (I know), Amadeus on sale (it's normally $149 but has been $99 twice) is the best entry point right now and works with the free Kontakt Player https://sonicscores.com/amadeus An alternative solution would be checking auctions/garage sales for old sampler CDs and use something like Shortcircuit 2 to convert them into a usable format. e: lmao Synful is five hundred now. free soundfonts can sound better Ruffian Price fucked around with this message at 09:40 on Jul 9, 2019 |
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This is a good overview video (especially with the FF12 comparison  ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXNiE7DKzIgNote that it's a collaboration between different sample developers (I def noticed some Strezov stuff) so sections might be hard to mix together, it's not a broad strokes library as it's meant to be used with notation software. Still, there's everything in there. Oh right, $30 can also buy you a month of Composer Cloud, with Hollywood Orchestra Gold included. It's pretty good but EW's proprietary Play engine is a massive resource hog, you'll be bouncing tracks left and right. Ruffian Price fucked around with this message at 12:58 on Jul 9, 2019 |
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Postin' in the Soundtoys thread  https://www.soundtoys.com/product/echo-pack Echo Pack for $99 'til July 25.
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I put it on once I have any chunk of the track fully arranged because listening after limiter will immediately tell me if I made some dumb leveling decision that's not obvious after a long sequencing session; then I turn it off to write the other parts and just check from time to time
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It's up to four Forms per voice.
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If you're new I'd postpone getting into poo poo like Iris, get a nice free subtractive synth like Charlatan and really get to know it first, just go to town
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If any of you got Ozone Elements in a promotion earlier this year, both JRRshop and Plugin Boutique allow for a nice little upgrade path this month. https://www.jrrshop.com/izotope-ozone-advanced-upgrade-ozone-elements Elements to Advanced https://www.jrrshop.com/izotope-music-productionsuite-upgrade-advanced and up to the MPS2.1 (+Neutron 3 Adv, Nectar 3, RX 7, Insight 2 and some other bullshit) 250€ for the whole thing on PB, 180 on JRR. Trig Discipline posted:Don't postpone getting Iris 2 even if you plan to postpone digging into it, though; free with any purchase is too nice of a deal to pass up. also I'm not big on MIDI plugins but as far as all the ~AutoTheory~ stuff is concerned InstaChord is one of the better ones. as in, I can actually imagine it saving me time (because you can set specific chord voices to keys, sequence your poo poo and then start messing with chord changes) Ruffian Price fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Aug 3, 2019 |
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What the hell, I thought all hardware came with Select? Are there pricing tiers? Start is completely free for anybody. Do wait for upgrade discounts if you want to go up from Select, the 50% thing should still be valid after 13 releases, this summer's discount worked for 8-12 owners.
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Even if you don't plan to use it, it's worth having a license just for the eventual upgrade offers. But I stand by the Master Assistant, it can be surprisingly good
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MrSargent posted:Kinda wondering if anyone else has used the mastering assistant like this. When I finish a mix, I will usually throw on Ozone 8 and use the Mastering Assistant to give me a suggestion on a mastering chain. One thing I have found is that if my mix is sub-par (or just flat out sucks), mastering to -12LUFS can start to sound pretty distorted and generally not good. But if my mix is really solid, I can sometimes master to -10LUFS and not hear distortion. This has definitely helped on multiple tracks I have mixed / mastered myself.  Ceiling is just output gain (I thought it was a clipper at first). So now as you move both of those controls downwards, you won't hear an increase in level - get as low as possible without audible distortion, then unlink the controls, raise Ceiling to 0.0dB again and bam, you're halfway there.
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plugin companies are usually over the moon when someone with an actual bought copy contacts them for support, don't worry
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