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On anxiousmofo said

No email here. That said, I’ll admit that this is one dev that has never really impressed me. I own a bunch of their stuff and have very little of it installed. Maybe I have the wrong stuff.

Tangled roots perplex her ways.

I can very much relate to your post, because until buying the Virtual Pianist line, I had a very similar opinion of UJAM (I mostly had a bunch of their plugins I got free with purchase or paid very little money for in big sales). I have no interest in plugins with pre-written MIDI files or loops. To me, the whole point of doing music is for me and any collaborators to actually play to the best of our abilities with our own unique ways of playing. I see no point in creating things with other people playing. It’s no longer my art, it’s no longer my expression at that point, it’s basically the difference between drawing you create on an empty canvas compared to a watercolor paint by numbers kit. Now, I’m not knocking anyone getting joy from going the paint-by-numbers route. If that’s satisfying to someone, they should enjoy it. For me, even with my tendinitis destroying my ability to play at a decent level, I still want to play to the best of my abilities (which is terrible! But every recording is an accomplishment).

Anyhow, if you like pianos and electric pianos, and haven’t tried out the various UJAM acoustic and electric pianos, I’d recommend giving them a shot. At $34 (what I paid — I think that deal is still available, I feel like it was one of the best sample library deals I’ve picked up since buying Musio 1 last year. They have free demos of their instruments. If you’re even remotely interested, I’d strongly recommend trying them out. I find each of those instruments has a bunch of presets that I love (hmm, I suppose I’m in the honeymoon period with the sampled instruments!).

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