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Yeah, Roli folded and was later resurrected again somehow. I don't remember exactly what happened there. Figure that's always gonna be a risk with niche products like this unfortunately. I hadn't heard of Push. I looked at a few videos and... err, I dunno. Looks like it's capable of stuff, but I ...

I have a baby Seaboard too. Seaboard Rise 25 or whatever it was called, probably one of the first that shipped back when it was new and cool. I don't like it. No particular reason really, I can see and appreciate the expressive potential, but I just never really vibed with it. Someone on here, I ...

Interesting. Actually the way you describe Pacific does have me a little intrigued. At the moment I don't really have a main workhorse library per se and usually end up using some bizarre combination of libraries, which can easily devolve into a rather time-consuming (and sanity-challenging ...

The Pacific range is definitely a bit polarizing. I quite like it and used it often. But then again, one of my main complaints is spending time and effort massaging MIDI data to get a decent-sounding performance out of most libraries. Even with my workhorse, Cinematic Studio Series, there's plenty ...

Yeah, feel similar. Sort of in two minds about this. On one hand, I think Performance Samples is one of the most interesting developers at the moment, and their libraries really stick out in how effortlessly they sound like they're playing actual music. So alive and musical compared to most other ...

I'm not seeing many exciting new things either... but I'll buy and download it anyway. ☺️ Honestly I'd just look at the New Features list - unless there's something there that is very compelling for your use cases, you're probably safe to skip this one. Updates usually have minor quality of life imp ...

image.png This is what most of the patches for the newly recorded instruments look like, yes. Some have p and ff, some mp and ff, some mf and ff - but yeah, you're stuck with two layers for the most part. A quiet and a loud. There may be exceptions, I haven't checked every instrument and patch ...

What do you think of Berlin Woodwinds? Do they offer something that the other offers absolutely can't do? 'Absolutely' is a strong word, but yes, kinda 😉 I still get good mileage out of Berlin Woodwinds, much for the same reasons as ZeeCount. It's a reasonably detailed collection and it all just bl ...

I use earbuds a lot too. A lot . Almost constantly when I'm out and about, at the gym, at the store, doing chores, falling asleep in bed, and so on. I've tried regular on/over ear headphones and I can't stand it because they're so big and clumsy, while a decent set of in-ear buds I forget they're ...

You mean for the average composer or in general? I wasn't getting the sense of it being quite abandonware but I'm not one to keep up with Flux's dealings much. I was referring only to the old SPAT v3, the simple plugin version we knew and loved, which has not been updated, sold or supported for a ...

I'm on Windows and have version 3.5.29.46205 installed, VST2 x64 and all. Last I checked - which wasn't that long ago - it was still installable from the Flux software hub, although I vaguely remember it being sort of hidden away. Though I'm sad to say I've long since given up on using it because it ...

Minuet in G by Christian Petzold (it's in the notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach). I was surprised to notice that I can apparently read the piano roll as fluently as notation. It is indeed! And bonus points for not ascribing authorship to Bach himself 😉 It was one of the first things I learned to pl ...

Happy to be of assistance! And best of luck with your template-building endeavors. Hope you'll share the results with us when you're done. It's always a pleasure hearing your work

Actually it is possible to print the output of midi effects. Look in the inspector panel and drag that weird bar looking thing - effects that are above it will get recorded into the track, effects below will transform midi going out from the track, if that makes sense. midi-fx.gif That's how it ...

I'm intrigued. What does 'more or less' correctly mean?

Still not a 100% reliable then, I take it?

Finally got a chance to sit down with it for a bit. So far it's a mixed bag. On the highlighting issue; I went into the settings and turned the level of color tint on unselected tracks way down, and selected tracks way up. image.png I think this is fine? I also changed the overall colors a bit, as I ...

Oh wow, finally some good news.

Will download and install asap. This will be a nice break from doomscrolling.

We can't possibly know that now, can we? And those that do can't tell. But if information has gone out to retailers I'm guessing it will be sooner rather than later. I'm actually somewhat excited by the apparent focus on UI changes, some of which - like the inspector - has needed an overhaul for a ...

'Rough and raw' can be very illuminating and revealing, I find. Many thanks for the examples and thoughts! I feel like the Synchron string family was off to a troubled start. I have Strings 1 and Pro and roll my own presets using patches from both. There's a lot I like about them - they're very ...

Those are all fair criticisms, I think. I had a really miserable time with Sine in its earlier days too, but for me it has now reached the point of being quite usable. Even though I miss some quality of life features like CC control of mics, on balance I now prefer it to Capsule, mainly due to ...

I certainly agree about standardizing the CCs. But what's worse is there still seems to be a bug, at least with the strings, where the volume of the release tails is hardwired to CC11, so that even if you reassign the dynamics controller to CC1 - like practically every other library in existence ...

I jumped too. First with the manual installer which did indeed cause authorization issues - but after an uninstall, magic reboot, update to the Assistant, a few mystical chants, dances and prayers, and then another attempt at installing via the app, all is well again. Haven't had much time to play ...

True, I'm not loving Spitfire's player either - kinda clunky and inefficient, but at least it's never crashed on me or anything of that sort. But the UI design is... well... let's perhaps not go there 😉 On the other hand, VSL's Synchron Player is really good, I find - it's not my favorite sound in th ...

That sounds pretty good overall, I think. First violins could use some more molto vibrato and expressive oomph in some places maybe, but I guess that's what they added in the recent update? Amusingly, I've also been working on a rendering of Anakin's Theme here recently as a technical/template ...

I'm considering it. I can get a pretty good deal as I already have everything in the bundle except the Con Sordino and Symphonic Strings. I don't really need another symphonic-sized string library (not that that's ever stopped anyone) but I'm sure I would find uses for it. But the con sordino stuff ...