swijaya is absolutely correct. Pulse’s Vivid Strings started out strong but as was mentioned, there’s a few bugs lingering and I have no faith that the current owners will iron them out. Doesn’t seem to be in their MO or DNA to do so. As people discuss on VI Control, the issues are mainly with few vibratos. There might be some other quirks as…Read More

They are both great bundles and it really boils down to which added features look more interesting to you.  To take the devil’s side of Peter’s argument for NI-  Everything I ever bought from Arturia worked great for me from day one. Native released Kontakt 7 three years ago with many bugs that they never got fixed until they released version 8 t…Read More

@pseudopop I can’t help but wonder if their logic is to lock people into sticking with their drum plugins by not complying with the standard, so if you use their plugin to create a MIDI track, you can’t easily swap it out with another drum plugin. Whatever the logic, it’s undesirable, IMO. While I think this is a good freebie, for those of us that…Read More

On December 4, 2025 at 4:49 am Yan said

On December 3, 2025 at 11:55 pm LinkedMusicians said
The 10% coupon code expires Dec 5, 2025, so the price on this will increase by 10% after that.

The official LinkedMusicians account

I already have Voices of passion, so JRRShop has it around 141$ with FORUM code

Before you pick it up, consider that…Read More

First, I love NI and Arturia products, so this would not be an easy choice. But as I use sampled instruments more than anything else, I would choose to upgrade to Komplete 15 for the new version of Kontakt alone.  Using an older version of Kontakt would prevent you from using more and more free and paid libraries for Kontakt over time.…Read More

@jude77 Thanks. I realize when I share that my professional expertise, and claim to fame in life, is marketing, and specifically digital marketing, most people — even people in positions called marketing — don’t understand what that means and immediately think it means promotion. Ages ago, my publication went viral for my writing about marketing…Read More

“BTW, to cynics who wonder if I’ll shill for a retailer or sample library developer when we have affiliate links, look no further than this. When I have enough information that I don’t think a developer’s libraries or plugins are good, I won’t post them OR I’ll post them with a note sharing what I know. Of course, that’s not going to help a s…Read More

On December 4, 2025 at 3:48 am swijaya said

On December 4, 2025 at 1:00 am LinkedMusicians said
<p> @swijaya Pulse Audio and Audio Plugin Deals as well as VSTBuzz, Music Software Deals and a developer I forget the name of, are all owned by the same guys.</p>
<p>The official LinkedMusicians account</p>

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It seems to me that the original Pulse…

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On November 24, 2025 at 4:19 pm LinkedMusicians said
[…] it doesn’t completely follow the general MIDI spec […]

It’s hard to understand why this is so difficult for many drum library developers. It feels like such a basic thing.

On December 4, 2025 at 6:50 am mustakatu said
Upgrade to Lunacy Cube from Cube Mini is $50 now

+ VAT, so still more expensive than buying the full version from PluginBoutique.

I’ll wait.

Continues through January 19

https://www.applied-acoustics.com/promo