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by tack
Dec 18, 2024 11:24 am
Forum: News Flash
Topic: Plugin Alliance / Saturators $19.99 (one day only)
Replies: 2
Views: 326

Re: Plugin Alliance / Saturators $19.99 (one day only)

Thanks for the tip, Piet.

Just wanted to clarify that to get the $19.99 deal, you need to use code SAT1999 at checkout.
by tack
Dec 13, 2024 1:18 pm
Forum: The Gear
Topic: FabFilter Pro-Q4
Replies: 15
Views: 1341

Re: FabFilter Pro-Q4

Upgrade price was $62.65 USD based on the number of existing FF plugins I own (which is a lot), so it fell well below impulse buy territory for me. The instance list feature alone is worth that to me, let alone all the other new features (probably most of which I will never/hardly use, but a part of ...
by tack
Nov 16, 2024 1:25 pm
Forum: News Flash
Topic: Black Friday 2024 hot tips
Replies: 44
Views: 9442

Re: Black Friday 2024 hot tips

Piet De Ridder wrote: Nov 15, 2024 3:36 am There's a good deal over at BestService: IK's Pianoverse Max — a bundle of 7 pianos, on a normal day costing around $149 each — for only €99.
Do you happen to own this one, Piet?
by tack
Nov 02, 2024 11:34 am
Forum: The Gear
Topic: New macs
Replies: 18
Views: 4423

Re: New macs

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 ...
by tack
Oct 26, 2024 6:03 pm
Forum: The Gear
Topic: EMI TG12345 Mk1 desk for sale - £1.4m
Replies: 1
Views: 1401

Re: EMI TG12345 Mk1 desk for sale - £1.4m

At that price you can't afford not to buy it!
by tack
Oct 08, 2024 6:44 pm
Forum: The Gear
Topic: VILabs / Modern D
Replies: 31
Views: 12627

Re: VILabs / Modern D

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 ...
by tack
Oct 05, 2024 12:49 pm
Forum: The Gear
Topic: VILabs / Modern D
Replies: 31
Views: 12627

Re: VILabs / Modern D

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 ...
by tack
Oct 05, 2024 10:56 am
Forum: The Gear
Topic: VILabs / Modern D
Replies: 31
Views: 12627

Re: VILabs / Modern D

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 ...
by tack
Oct 02, 2024 8:40 pm
Forum: The Gear
Topic: VILabs / Modern D
Replies: 31
Views: 12627

Re: VILabs / Modern D

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 ...
by tack
Aug 22, 2024 11:31 am
Forum: The Gear
Topic: 42 GB of strings for $39
Replies: 7
Views: 5819

Re: 42 GB of strings for $39

I was initially tempted at this price but then I heard the first 10 seconds of this official demo.
by tack
Aug 21, 2024 8:13 pm
Forum: The Gear
Topic: Backup
Replies: 10
Views: 5981

Re: Backup

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 ...
by tack
Aug 02, 2024 10:30 am
Forum: News Flash
Topic: IRCAM SPAT Revolution $99
Replies: 16
Views: 13502

Re: IRCAM SPAT Revolution $99

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 ...
by tack
Jul 29, 2024 7:56 am
Forum: The Gear
Topic: Streamtech Music Legacy Horn - Solo Horn intro price
Replies: 17
Views: 368058

Re: Streamtech Music Legacy Horn - Solo Horn intro price

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 ...
by tack
Jul 22, 2024 8:38 pm
Forum: The Arts
Topic: When you first listen to a song, how important are lyrics to you?
Replies: 16
Views: 19345

Re: When you first listen to a song, how important are lyrics to you?

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 ...
by tack
Jul 20, 2024 12:33 pm
Forum: The Gear
Topic: Korg Collection 5 inc ARP 2600
Replies: 28
Views: 19149

Re: New Korg collection 5

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.
by tack
May 16, 2024 8:28 pm
Forum: The Gear
Topic: Spitfire: Air Studios Reverb
Replies: 21
Views: 15110

Re: Spitfire: Air Studios Reverb

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 ...
by tack
Nov 28, 2023 8:19 pm
Forum: The Gear
Topic: Incirios announcement - a new sampler and audio engine
Replies: 21
Views: 33157

Re: Incirios announcement - a new sampler and audio engine

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 ...
by tack
Nov 11, 2023 12:38 pm
Forum: The Gear
Topic: Crow Hill: String Murmurations (intro £149)
Replies: 24
Views: 38730

Re: Crow Hill: String Murmurations (intro £149)

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.
by tack
Nov 11, 2023 11:53 am
Forum: The Gear
Topic: Crow Hill: String Murmurations (intro £149)
Replies: 24
Views: 38730

Re: Crow Hill: String Murmurations (intro £149)

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 ...
by tack
Sep 27, 2023 5:16 pm
Forum: The Gear
Topic: UAD $39 sale
Replies: 10
Views: 7773

Re: UAD $39 sale

Can you download UAD plugins directly nowadays, or do you still need their UA Connect software?
by tack
Sep 13, 2023 10:53 am
Forum: The Gear
Topic: NKS partner 50% off sale and new NI keyboards
Replies: 4
Views: 3176

Re: NKS partner 50% off sale and new NI keyboards

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 ...
by tack
Aug 16, 2023 8:18 pm
Forum: The Gear
Topic: Avid to be Acquired for $1.4 Billion
Replies: 10
Views: 7140

Re: Avid to be Acquired for $1.4 Billion

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 ...
by tack
Jul 05, 2023 8:35 pm
Forum: The Gear
Topic: Spitfire Audio BBC SO Piano
Replies: 20
Views: 10143

Re: Spitfire Audio BBC SO Piano

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 ...
by tack
Jul 03, 2023 11:34 am
Forum: The Gear
Topic: Spitfire Audio BBC SO Piano
Replies: 20
Views: 10143

Re: Spitfire Audio BBC SO Piano

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 ...
by tack
Jun 26, 2023 8:39 pm
Forum: The Gear
Topic: Spitfire Audio Albion 2: Loegria retired and 50% off [2023 - now unretired]
Replies: 23
Views: 15133

Re: Spitfire Audio Albion 2: Loegria retired and 50% off [2023 - now unretired]

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 ...