The Sound Board

In our ongoing series ‘Highly Recommended’, this week, two strong candidates for centerfold presentation in Plug-in Porn Weekly: Three-Body Tech’s SpecCraft and Audiopunks’ The Great British Spring . Plus a third plug-in, also very good, that you might find strangely interesting as well. _____ https: ...

Synthogy have released the Ivory III upgrade of what may well be their best-liked grand piano: the American D . The new version is powered by the Ivory III RGB-engine, meaning that it now has clever solutions for seamless velocity-to-timbre transitions, advanced resonance implementation, multiple ...

Not only has the original TSS v1 release thread been renamed — took me quite a while before that dawned on me — but it’s a 103 page thread I had to wade through in order to find my post. I’d almost given up looking for it, but I eventually found it on page 80. After this however, I couldn’t be bother ...

I read on VI-C of a number of people having problems with the download and the installation, and the fact that the cello patches open in demo-mode. I experienced nothing of that: quick download (just over an hour), smooth installation and every cello patch I tried (didn’t try them all yet) opens j ...

(...) I'm glad you managed to get SPAT Revolution working on your system by the way. Gives me hope that when I'm finally feeling masochistic enough to try again, the outcome will be something other than the frustrations of the past. Well, the combination LogicPro + SPAT Revolution still isn't a ...

Piet wrote: "short delays — anywhere between 40 and 90 seconds". LOL, I'm guessing that is not what you really meant to say?? Milli- of course. Milliseconds. Dear me. (...) Do you ever add any modulation to the Delay itself? I was using Logic's Tape Delay and liked it for this, including the HiFreq ...

Yeah, I don't understand the choice of demos either. But about that 'room': there is no room. There is the suggestion of a 'room' through the use of multiple short delays. Short delays acting as a sort of ... early reflections. It's a really great technique. I use short delays — anywhere between 40 a ...

https://gearspace.com/board/attachments/new-product-alert/1130412d1727964452-softube-releases-layers-00-layers-2000x1200.jpg Softube have released an “all-encompassing doubling and widening tool” Layers . Next to doubling and widening, it sounds like it’s also a great tool for putting things in a sp ...

Ooh, Larry, so sorry. I did a 'Delete all' this morning, yes, obsessive deleter that I am.
I've uploaded both demos again. New links:
- Modern D
- Vintage D

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Thanks very, very much, Luke , Guy , srkrishnan and Linos ! Glad it’s been informative. (After breakfast, I listened to it again with fresh ears, and it all sounds pretty much like it did sound yesterday evening, so that’s good.) srkrishnan , if I had to start all over again, from scratch, one of the ...

I’m having some trouble with SPAT v3 since a few weeks. I’m not sure what started it, some update or other I guess — I have a strong feeling it’s Sonoma (the latest version of Logic + Sonoma is without a doubt the most bug-ridden, unreliable software contraption I’ve ever had to deal with) — but the ...

You shouldn’t do that, Linos. Compare it to the real thing, I mean. Guy (and, I’m sure, lots of other people too) always protests incredulously when I say that a sampled piano — even a very good one — can only give us 5-10% of what a real instrument can give, but I stick with that percentage. (I’m ev ...

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 ...

https://www.vilabsaudio.com/image/data/products/screens/modernDscreens1.jpg VILabs have released the Modern D , a sampled Steinway for the UVI Workstation. Best sampled Steinway I've ever heard and/or played. By some distance. And thanks to its well-chosen, musical choice of recording perspectives ...

Jay, not sure this still works in K8, but it certainly did work in previous versions: set Kontakt up visually the way you like, and then, from Logic's plug-in menu, do 'Save As Default'. That always loads Kontakt just as you configured it. (Maybe K8 has a preference setting for this which also works ...

Thanks, srkrishnan! I still prefer the naked content of the Premier — the raw sound and the character of the sampled instrument, I mean — but there's no arguing with the fact that this Vir2 Mojo is a much more advanced, deeper and better Kontakt-library. Compared to the Vir2 Mojo, the Premier is a si ...

As a way of learning to work with this bass, I did a little trio piece with it yesterday.

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https://demo.bigfishaudio.net/pictures/MOJOUprightBass-GUIShot.jpg VIR2 have released the Mojo Upright Bass . "With a dynamic range featuring up to six layers, up to eight round-robins, true legato, and an array of superbly designed presets and MIDI grooves, you can take your standup bass ...

https://www.strezov-sampling.com/data/uploads/editor/images/Contours%20UI.png "Venture beyond traditional string samples! String Contours is a new trajectory in “contextual sampling”. Both in tempo and expression. Elevate the sound of your tracks seamlessly and stop tweaking CC data - let the per ...

Well, on paper, that should have been one of the kits included with Toontrack’s “Elliot Scheiner / State Of The Art” SDX. Scheiner was, after all in part responsible, as co-engineer and mixer, for why “Aja” sounds as fantastic as it does. One of the official “State Of The Art” demos — the first one i ...

(...) how is the Jazz kit for one shot? (...) Pretty good, srkrishnan. (You mean the $39.99 Jazz-Kit expansion, right?) Sonically very good, I’d say. Assuming you’re OK, that is, with a jazz kit having a distinct retro/vintage-y sort of flavour — a 50’s-60’s kind of sound —, because this is not a pr ...

I’m not a fan of sequenced shaker and tambourine tracks — no matter how many options you get for humanizing the performance, it always sounds wrong to me —, but if you don’t have such misgivings, Shaka is a good choice. Like all things Klevgrand, well thought-out, intelligently designed and solid sof ...

There's a 48 hours price drop at Klevgrand, offering reductions of 50-60% on all of their plug-ins (except the latest one 'Revolv').
Little cherry on top: with any purchase you get their "super-heavy premium compression plugin" 'Richter' (usually $69.99) for free.

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I bought it for the sole reason they did a Thelonious Monk demo. It’s good. Or good-ish anyway. But not great. What’s there is well-sampled, it’s got a nice tone and all that, but the problem, for me, is: there’s not enough of what I feel is required to make a great sampled piano: quite a few samples ...

Yes, nice update. The reed instruments were updated a few days ago as well. The oboes -- there's three of them -- still are bit problematic I find, a few registers in some of the other instruments still sound not quite right either to my ears and the lowest region of the bassoons and bassclarinets ...