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The base Mac mini actually looks like incredible value to me. For many casual users, it's very impressive what you're getting for $600 USD. Beyond that is where Apple loses me. The upgrade prices are ridiculous. From the base model, $400 extra for an additional 16GB, when a 64GB DDR5 kit costs less ...

At that price you can't afford not to buy it!

Yeah, as predicted, a bit muddy for my tastes. Lovely tune though. :) The clipping distortion in places (e.g. 0:26, 0:33, 0:52, etc.), is that an artifact of your processing, or is that in the samples? If the latter, which mic(s) are you using? I'm finding I'm preferring the Close U87 mics with an ...

Jason, not you too... This library must be great. Maybe the makers of the demos and I don't share the same taste. In my case you have to realize just how truly low the bar is. I am so disillusioned by the number of VI pianos I've bought over the years that sounded great in demos and then after ...

I should mention that I am utterly hopeless when it comes to keyboard skills, so my opinion genuinely is pretty worthless here. I'm with you on being hopeless on the keyboard: despite my interest and efforts (which I can't honestly claim are my best efforts), I remain subpar. But I think we crappy ...

I keep buying VI Steinways (and others), and I keep going back to Vintage D. Probably by now a couple thousand dollars worth of pianos collected in my VI graveyard, and I'm sure that's light compared to many here. As Luke said, your endorsement counts for a lot here, Piet. I may yet buckle before ...

I was initially tempted at this price but then I heard the first 10 seconds of this official demo.

Then last year they removed the "unlimited" space - 400TB dropped to 3TB each. I'm very wary of any cloud storage service that claims to be unlimited, because either they will go out of business, or they will yoink unlimited away to prevent going out of business. Unlimited just isn't sustainable ...

My main concern is the workflow though. It's not a VST, but a standalone program that connects to your DAW through an audio driver. Agreed. With all the gushing Piet has done about SPAT over the years I got very close on a couple of occasions to pulling the trigger, but once Revolution was released ...

Most of legato samples were adjusted in their volumes to make sure it's all cohesive and to remove some occasional bumpiness. Also, this update includes a new subtle filter envelope that helps making the legatos even more fluid & a new 'flexible' volume envelope from Kontakt that allows for more ...

I'm with Bill in the "it depends" camp. There are some songs that are very clearly meant to be more about the story told by the lyrics than the music. A solid example is Gordon Lightfoot's The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald : the music is serviceable, pretty good even, but it's repetitive and doesn ...

Guy Rowland wrote: ↑Jul 19, 2024 7:40 pm Mods, perhaps merge this with the other Korg thread here? https://thesoundboard.net/viewtopic.php ... c1143fefdc

Done. Thanks Guy.

Price is very high in my opinion, specially without surround or a demo version to check cpu usage. Agreed. Reverbs are commonly priced far beyond what I consider sane. On the other hand, the gimmick itself (impulse responses captured at Air Lyndhurst) is not something that's easy to come by, so ...

Anyone else get 3 emails from them within the same minute? They're shipping upgrade codes for L&S CS to the new sampler and I got 3 different ones. Choose your own adventure, I guess. :) 5 points to Gryffindor for not having any tracking information whatsoever in their emails, which is refreshing to ...

Oops, String Murmurations uses Codemeter. I wish I had noticed Guy's comment before I bought it. Buyer's remorse even before striking the first note.

Christian's argument is that straight, simple samples lose the richness and texture of a group of players performing together struggling with complexity and timing where the outcome is blurry and wonderful, using Hedwig's theme as an example. It's hard to disagree with that, but solving the problem ...

Can you download UAD plugins directly nowadays, or do you still need their UA Connect software?

I wonder if they'll improve the keybed of the S88. I have the MK1 and I really don't like it. Creaky, plasticky keys. I do quite like the aftertouch though. I've had my eye on the Numa X Piano GT for a while as a possible future upgrade, but I'll be interested to see what reviews of the S88 MK3 are ...

I've not seen a single case of any company acquired by a private equity firm (which STG is) actually benefiting any consumer. Their singular goal upon acquisition becomes value extraction. Features get squeezed, monetized as much as customers can bear, morale within the product engineering team ...

What‘s your problem with HZP? It's ultimately the same as my criticism of 90% of other piano libraries I've tried: it feels all wrong, like I'm hitting a mechanical switch that triggers samples. Which is of course fundamentally all a sample-based piano library ever is, except some libraries do a m ...

It does sound nice. But I fell into this trap with HZP, which is perhaps one of the biggest wastes of money I've spent on sampling yet. (The honeymoon phase was rather significant as I recall, but very short lived.) So I kind of do understand how one could fall into an initial starting point of ...

Well, being charitable, the reason is usually that the vendor doesn't want to continue supporting it and be obligated to release bug fixes (and security patches, which is less of a relevant factor in this industry). In Spitfire's case, they handwave this away by saying "it's not a bug, it's a ...

I had fun just playing around with using it as a vocal harmonizer. Now if only I could sing. (Even pitch-snapping can't save me.) I did find that synth channel was too loud even at its lowest setting. I wanted to mix a subtle synth layer, but with vocoder at 1.0 (max) and synth at 0.01 (lowest value ...

Title/body should presumably read "German D" here, Piet?

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