Reply To: LM Guide to the Best Black Friday Audio and Plugin Deals and Freebies of 2024

[Peter Woods]

On doug said

I am not sure EchoThief should be on this list. The IRs are good, and as been discussed in the past, can be used in other convolution reverbs, but the software itself is garbage.

If you want just the IRs, you can get it from here without signing up for anything:

https://www.echothief.com/downloads/

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Thanks for sharing that perspective. After considering your opinion,  I believe that you’re right and I’m going to remove it from the list.

I’d welcome recommendations for additions to the list. I admittedly am limited by my musical genre preferences. I just want to have lists that help the community find the best pluguns and sample libraries and avoid the subpar stuff.

MY QUICK TAKE ON MUSIO – A REVIEW IS COMING

While I’ve been limiting my computer keyboard and mouse time due to tendinitis,  I did spend time with my demo of Musio last night and I’m almost certainly going to buy it and plan on writing a review. It’s a tremendous value, but it’s not a replacement for detailed Kontakt libraries. It is a bunch of scaled down Kontakt libraries that don’t have the velocity layers, presets, and Kontakt scripting that I find really important because I play everything in real time. Consequently, I think expectations need to be set properly. Musio isn’t really a head to head Kontakt contributor. It’s closer to a better version of Sampletank if Sampletank had kept evolving. Everything  sounds great, but there are no presets, no clever scripting, it’s an incredibly simple sample player. I actually wrote them a note with some simple suggestions how they can improve it and easily make more money by selling additional presets.

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