Indiginus Intro price for “Appalachia” ends Dec. 22

[jude77]

https://www.indiginus.com/appalachia

Intro price: $49

Just a reminder that our intro pricing for Appalachia will end after Sunday, Dec 22. After that, the price will be $59.

For Appalachia, we sampled a hand-made dulcimer born in the mountains of Tennessee. As always, our goal was to create a virtual instrument that captures the spirit of the hand crafted original and present it in a way that is fun and engaging to play, with an intuitive design that doesn’t get in the way.

Most mountain dulcimers are diatonic, designed to play in a key or keys determined by the string tuning and fret arrangement. While this is fine if your song or project happens to be in D major, things get difficult if you need to be in Bb, for instance.

We sampled our dulcimer chromatically, so you can play in any key and create parts that would be impossible on the real-world instrument.

This way, Appalachia can sound authentic while at the same time be very versatile and infinitely more useful in modern arrangements.

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[peter]

I think Tracy’s guitar libraries, much like Pettinhouse (a friend of mine),  serve a niche and do it pretty well. They’re very easy to use libraries that won’t blow anyone away with their realism or sophistication and aren’t going to find their way to final pro productions like Orange Tree Samples libraries have (I know of a bunch of TV shows they’ve been used in, some hit songs, and a guy named Hans that uses them). They lack versatility — they’re one trick ponies, much like loops, they’re not very tweakable, they’re very simplistic, and tweakability / adaptability are the tradeoffs for that simplicity.

But I think they serve a need in the marketplace. They’re at a lower price point than the premier, ultra-realistic guitar libraries and I know people who LOVE them like my friend Jay Asher, as he finds their simple approach more to his liking than the more detailed guitar libraries.

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[fretman]

True, but with MIDI-learn most of the limitations can be worked around. These are extremely useful libraries that sound very, very good.

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[peter]

On fretman said

True, but with MIDI-learn most of the limitations can be worked around. These are extremely useful libraries that sound very, very good.

Based on my experience working with the developers and using these libraries going back decades, I have to disagree with the idea that MIDI can make up for articulations and modeling that isn’t there — that’s simply not the case.

Years ago, I went to Orange Tree Samples after their initial line and proposed doing what became the Evolution line. I owned just about every virtual guitar plugin and sample library on the market, and had known a bunch of the developers and scripters that made and worked on them. I knew that the programming and samples Greg was putting in got attention from A LOT of developers (I knew the Kontakt scripter that did work on the Big Fish Electricity libraries and he told me that he reverse engineered Evolution to make that). Those samples, scripting, and modeling isn’t part of these simplistic libraries (I think the developers that do them are OTS, Ample Sounds and Big Fish). Other developers — including the larger ones  — talk about this stuff; I know because some have talked to me about it. I don’t want to name names, but they usually acknowledge that they can’t achieve that realism with their libraries. No amount of MIDI can. It simply has to be in the including samples, the scripting, and the modeling to be achieved.

With libraries like Tracy’s or Andrea’s, they’re just largely recordings of notes, strums or strumming patterns without the samples, programming, and modeling (or even the same degree of articulations) that makes the more sophisticated libraries sound realistic enough to make it into final production. On a simpler level, they don’t even have the detailed articulations and they do not use modeling like Evolution. That’s a giant difference in realism and that is a big part of why pro composers ended up using Evolution in final productions that made it on TV, film, and even pop songs.

The area that has a way to go is non-looped strumming. I think there’s a lot of ways it can be improved. I don’t think any developer has nailed it.

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[fretman]

Ok, let me re-phrase what I said. With MIDI-learn MANY of the limitations can be worked around.

Specifically, I was thinking of how Indiginus limits trills and grace notes to only notes in the chosen scale. But you can MIDI-learn the chosen scale and adjust it on the fly. Now you can get any trill and grace note you want. Things like that.

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