I’m voting for Manfredd Mann, because anyone who can get away with playing Chopsticks while covering Bruce Springsteen must be a badass.  Although he did a pretty good job on “For You”.

Emerson and Wakeman are of course obvious choices.  Of course all the other Yes keyboard players were pretty damn good.

Nicky Hopkins

Billy Preston

Elton J…Read More

I liked the first version of Rosewood Grand, but it wasn’t one of my top favorite grand piano sample libraries.

The second version, which is literally two new sample libraries, the regular piano samples plus a new felt piano library, tied with my longtime favorite grand piano sample library, NI Noire. And it does what Noire doesn’t. It cuts…Read More

I installed this and tried it out last night and really like it. There are straight tongue drum samples, there are sound design patches, there are synth pads they made, and there are arps. It’s a great freebie and it would easily have been worthwhile if they charged for it too.

Just a reminder, it works with the free Kontakt Player, so you don’t…Read More

I picked up solo harp. I fell in love with the tremolo swells and immediately thought of how they would work well in a song I wrote long ago that I have half-recorded.

https://www.orchestraltools.com/salu?t=instruments

This is one I look forward to every year.  I grabbed the mandolin from the Cetra collection.

Darn.I was hoping that they’d have something I really wanted in this sale. They really focus hard on metal, and seem to do a great job with it. But as a rock guy, I didn’t find the EZXs in the sale very appealing. @pseudopop knows why I didn’t find today’s EZX of interest (I sold him my license for Funkmaster’s last night month).

Hopefully,…Read More