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I don’t know about the general consensus, but having watched and listened to all the videos, I didn’t feel any strong urge to click the purchase button, I must say. Yes, there are a few nice timbres captured — I quite like the mid and lower register of the violas, for example (something that not ever ...

I really enjoyed this: María Dueñas ’ great performance of Saint-Saëns ’ “Introduction et rondo capriccioso”, with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin conducted by Mihhail Gerts. Beautifully recorded at Berlin’s Teldex Studio. https://youtu.be/fhjvGpMm-q0 Saint-Saëns’ “Introduction” may not be o ...

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https://img.klevgrand.se/stories/elpiano_expo_2silky.png Klevgrand heve released ELPIANO , a collection of 10 algorithmic emulations of classic electric pianos. Included are inevitable recreations of the Rhodes and the Wurlitzer instruments, and there's also the famous 80's DX7 el.piano and a few ...

Until April 18th, there's a Spring Sale over at Fluffy Audio. Reductions of up to 60% storewide.

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Dreamtonic's Vocoflex perhaps? Not sure how well it performs when used in realtime though. https://youtu.be/mcA-4mFBT3c?t=39 https://youtu.be/Q0phUgHoDVw I bought Vocoflex sometime last year when it was available at a reduced price. Hadn't any immediate plans to use it, and I haven't used it yet ...

I agree that the Studio Strings isn’t a bad library. Not a great one either, in my opinion, but not bad. Of the three, it’s the one I occasionally use. (Never ever did anything with the brass, and of the woodwinds, I only used a few bassoon staccatos once, in combination with the Sample Modeling bas ...

In time I’ve come to learn to accept it for what it is, but the first few months after purchasing it, I was really rather disappointed with the entire Spitfire Studio Series Pro set. Just didn’t recognize the Spitfire I loved anywhere in these libraries (and I still don’t) — I mean: the company that ...

Yes, a very good interview.

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Reading what follows, keep in mind that, in 8 of the 10 pieces that I do, I’m going for a sound — somewhat retro-ish, I guess, often with a nod to the early>mid 70’s — which may not be all that appealing to someone who does orchestral mock-ups, trailer-type stuff, epic extravaganzas, contemporary sou ...

A decade is good for me. The Goodhertz' site/store opened just a year earlier, in 2014. I use a lot more UAD's than the three I mentioned earlier, but only sporadically so, whereas those three are being used all the time. And UA's instruments, which I quite like and use regularly — except for the R ...

Loading two instances of the Sonnox Reverb , very soon after I start work on something new, is almost an automatism with me. If I were to use templates (which I don’t) a pair of Sonnox Reverbs would unquestionably be part of it. (For a really nice intimate ambience, just a touch of airy ambience r ...

RobS wrote: ↑Mar 11, 2025 2:02 pm thanks Piet I was referring to the other piece of yours though...

Here's the midi of that Model 7 demo, Rob.
(I thought you wanted the midi of my rendering of 'Con Alma' to check which changes I had made.)

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Here’s the midi , Rob. Not sure if it’s going to be all that useful though because in the Model 7 you can remap the incoming data with a Soft > Hard slider — different but not dissimilar to the ‘Midi Sensitivity’ parameter in the Synchron Piano Player software — and I did turn that slider a bit to th ...

Thanks, Rob. Here's a version with the Chocolate Audio Model 7 . (I did edit your midi-data a bit in order to suit this piano.) The Model 7, while not perfect — and also not being a Steinway, which disqualifies it from certain repertoire or types of piano music — has plenty of what I hope to get fro ...

Rob, there's something wrong with the link to the midi-file, I think. Could you have a look at that, please? Thanks. The Synchron Steinway doesn't sound bad in your example, far from it, but it's not really a revealing excercise — revealing as to the quality, potential and problems of the library — ...

Tried it. Didn’t keep it. There’s nothing wrong with it, it’s a pretty good reverb, but I couldn’t make it do anything that I can already get from other software reverbs. I am also not in the least interested in the fame of famous rooms (as if that is a musically meaningful parameter), or receptive t ...

Next to new ideas I’m working on, I always have a few old pieces I’m revising or trying to improve. Over time you learn new techniques, you hone your mixing skills, some new plug-in or library or virtual instrument comes along that you think might work well in some of your older work, … So yes, in an ...

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(...) Have you bought it, Piet? (...) No. But that's mainly because I'm not into all this slow ebbing-and-flowing, pseudo-emo music that seems to be all the rage these days. That's also why I have no interest whatsoever in the Crow Hill line — I've bought one of theirs a few weeks ago, and it's b ...

Somerville Sounds, until now best known for two (pretty special) drum libraries, an upright piano library and a few other small (but always characterful) releases, are entering the sampled strings arena with their newest library Woven Violin . "Woven Violin is a deeply expressive solo violin library ...

Orchestral Tools have released Svara , "a vivid orchestral collection inspired by the scores of classic Bollywood films. Svara consists of a potent mix of authentic Bollywood strings and a curated collection of more than 30 classic Indian instruments to provide a rich tapestry of dramatic sonic ...

I don’t have Pro-Q either, but that’s more out of a silly, obstinate refusal to buy what everybody says you have to have. I did demo Pro-Q at length though, and it is, there’s no denying it, a magnificent piece of EQ-software. The only FabFilter plug-ins I have, are Saturn and Volcano. I did learn A ...

(...) In your opinion, is this product as good sounding? Every bit as good, Larry. Pro-Q is easier and quicker to work with though. While I'm not a big fan of the FabFilter GUI's — strictly visually, I mean (don't like their blobby shapes and colour schemes) —, they are well thought-out, very cle ...

https://www.admiralbumblebee.com/assets/Monthly/Fabfilter/apQualizr.png In case you feel you could do with another EQ plug-in, I strongly recommend checking out apulSoft’s apQualizr2 . Not only is it a high-quality, great-sounding equalizer, but also one that is equipped with features you won’t eve ...