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FYI, this isn’t part of any other bundle so $159 is the price no matter what other products you have (and I have them all).

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“use your email and create a login which you can change after I set it up” is just fine.

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Sure! I can look thru a list of deals. I basically do that every day anyway.

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I’ll prob wait until BF or if they have their usual summer sale.

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On patrickwichrowski said

On LinkedMusicians said

If you guys are interested, on the non-public part of the site, I’ll share the horror story of what led to me finally closing the forum and OPEN MIC and candidly, it may mean that I won’t be posting anymore beyond the blog and keeping up the lists.

CURATED BEST FREE LISTS: Kontakt Libraries, Sample Libraries, Virtual Synths, Effects
POWERSEARCH TOOLS: Synth Presets, Loops & Sound FX, Gear Reviews 
FREE TOOLS: Mixing Problem Solver, Songwriter’s Toolbox, QuickGuides, Scale, Mode & Chord Finder
READ/WATCH: Mag Articles / Podcasts, Audio Production & Songwriter’s Dictionaries

I always read your stories. So much to learn. Sometimes I get from them some perspectives that i couldn’t imagine before.

https://linktr.ee/patrickwichrowski/

https://patrickwichrowski.bandcamp.com/

same!

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On Brian said

….  I like seeing all the deals in one place, sure, but there are other places you can do that…..

Where else do you go for a list of deals?

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On swijaya said

I, for one, am interested to learn a little about business & marketing, especially your qualified & honest (ethical) takes on things happened in our niche world (music production tools & industries). Of course, keep it digestible & not too deep (i.e.: not overly too long).

I agree, except I don’t mind the long posts.  I am free to read it all or not. But I find the insight interesting.

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Very sad, but I understand.

I get a “page not found error” on the reddit link you posted.

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Very nice! I’ll have to research him more.

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I’m surprised at some of the toxicity percentages posted in your blog. Some are much too forgiving/optimistic. I’ve sensed the toxicity right away in some of those forums.

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Great video! Thank you for sharing.

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OK, OK, I changed my mind. Please enter me into the drawing.

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Hyped? Have Audio Balkan Series anything. It’s loop-based and thus very limited. The VI doesn’t have enough range or articulations.

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Don’t enter me in the giveaway as I already own the prizes. But I appreciate no egos and honest appraisals.

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Finally, the Oberheim Bundle is 50% off.

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Thanks, Peter. I did more research after I posted that and I also saw their clarification. Regardless, it’s still true none of the libraries I’m part of will allow submissions that have been stored on Soundcloud. It’s becoming quite the problem.

And thank you for your kind words about Isn’t She Lovely. We played that in our recital last semester. The music director pulled out his bari-sax and improvised over it. Came out rather nice, I thought. If anyone wants to see the notation, it can be found here, although it doesn’t contain any of the solos.

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I added my soundcloud URL but please understand it only contains demos of transcriptions I’ve made for my classical guitar ensemble class. I did no massing/humanizing of the timing/velocity of the MIDI (although I DID make sure the fingering is accurate up/down the neck and I used the correct articulations). They are not meant to sound real. But, upon listening to them all again they don’t sound bad.

And be aware that everything put on Soundcloud is subject to AI training. This might invalidate any usage of that music in sync.

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EastWest are so cheap now-a-days. In my mind a subscription for them doesn’t make much sense. The major cost will be the SSDs you need to house all the samples.

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I don’t know. It sounds kinda creepy to me….

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So cool! I loved them.

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Oh, I see. I didn’t realize that was a totally different system. I’m not sure it’s worth the effort to customize it. But go for it if that’s fun for you.

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That link didn’t work for me. This one does:

https://www.musiciansfriend.com/

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Yes, make it the same for ALL the forums, please. Or, make it different for ALL the forums. I seem to have a thing for order,  not chaos.

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Congratulations!

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Do it!

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As iZotope keeps updating their existing products, their lousy pricing on the Music Production Suite (now at rev 8.5, I’m at 6.5) keeps getting more appealing. Maybe one more update and I’ll jump back in on their BF sale.

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Even tho AudioDeluxe has the 10% coupon (for now), they only have the $25 option to buy this. As best I can tell they don’t offer the $19 crossgrade offer that Plugin Boutique offers. The intro sale is valid until April 20, so there’s time to see how this all shakes out.

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I’ll probably get this just because I have all their other stuff. I have “a thing” about completeness. I think this puts me on The Spectrum.

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For me, the best one is the last one but replace the top of his head with the one from the middle.

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I have a lot of mixed feelings abut Neil. He’s written a ton of good songs, is apparently a difficult person to work with, but in the end he’s just a little too preachy for me.

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XO is still only 40% off. Still waiting for a 50% sale.

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Context: most of my work is acoustic instrumentals, so don’t expect any synths from me.

Drum kits: I end up using Addictive Drums 2 because they’re so simple to use, but I’m not a very good drummer. Maybe I should send my sketches to Peter.

Frame Drums: Redroom Audio – the only VSTi I’ve found that let’s you independently control both the right beater hand and the left mute hand. Nice selection of drums, too. No need to try anything else.

Castanets: EW Gypsy bundle. I’ve tried many others but these seem to sound less mechanical/stiff.

Djembe: Loops de la Creme

Guiro: Loops de la Creme. They implemented this GUI right.

Chimes: Loops de la Creme. This GUI is also done well, but sometimes it generates too much noise. Izotope’s de-click removes these.

Cymbal Rolls: Loops de la Creme. Fun instrument to play. Takes way less time than manually generating your own MIDI roll. Another GUI done well.

Vibraslap: Freesound (collection of *.wav files). Supposedly OT has one but I can’t find it.

Stomps, claps, snaps: BOZ, no need to try anything else.

Fiddle solo/background: Indiginus The Fiddle (with appropriate fiddling with the controls – see this), but will start experimenting with Virharmonics AI-driven bohemian instruments.

Strings: EW Opus stuff.

Flute: I haven’t tried many but OT’s Passion Flute has worked out well as a solo instrument. Sometimes after a long note I have to automate the take-a-breath volume down a bit.

Bass: Electric – AmpleSound P bass or Jaco Fretless, depending on the sound I need. Acoustic – AmpleSound Upright.

Banjo: AmpleSound for bluegrass. OT for Celtic.

Dobro: Indiginus The Resonator (fantastic sound – takes some work to get the articulations I want). I haven’t tried any others – don’t need to.

Lap Steel: Indiginus Lap steel (same comments as above) but will try AmpleSound next time.

Lap Dulcimer: Embertone is the only VSTi that let’s me get the melody/background/string selection/strums I want. But beware of some random thumpy strum transients – run 2 identical MIDI tracks, bounce to 2 audio tracks, replace thumpy strums from one track with non-thumpy strums from the other (they have been notified of the problem). All dulcimer VSTis are tuned DAD. None implement DGD tuning.

Accordian: Ilya Efimov (for Baltic/Gypsy/Russian folk) or Eduardo Tarilonte’s Accordions (love the Musette for Parisian music). No need to go beyond these two.

Ukulele: AmpleSound (fantastic sound). No need to try anything else.

Mandolin: OT (by far the best, but tremolo is tempo-locked making it way too slow for slow songs), Musical Sampling’s The Hoard Mandolin for better tremolo (but its sound is very scratchy and only goes up to the high G – I probably just need to record my own tremolo). Cinematique sounds good enough, as long as you turn off the body resonances that can sound weird on some notes.

Piano: I don’t yet have a goto but I’ve liked/used these:  XLN’s upright and grand, SonicCouture’s Hammersmith, AcousticSamples’ Old Black Grand, NI’s Noire & Maverick.

Rhodes: Waves’ Electric 88, Skybox Hammers+Waves Chimes (sounds great but may need to use Izotope Spectral Edit to remove background mechanize motor noise – they have been notified), OT’s Famous E (but sometimes I want to soften the attack on some notes).

Harp: Big Fish Audio from their Celtic bundle. Nice soft sound. Everything else I’ve tried (I have 14 different harp VSTis) are too harsh or too noisy.

Harmonica: Chris Hein Chromatic Harmonica – great blues harmonica. No need to try anything else.

Jews Harp: Loops da la Creme – far better than the 5 others I’ve found (which don’t seem to treat this instrument, um, seriously).

12-string: AmpleSound for a polite sound. OT for an aggressive sound. Both are very good. No need to try anything else.

Nylon classical guitar (I do a lot of transcriptions for my ensemble class so I often use several at a time for different parts): AmpleSound, Ilya Efimov, OT Evolution Honey, Indiginus Renaxxance II. I still need to audition MuseSample’s Evocacion and Musical Sampling’s Nylon Rustique.

Steel String Acoustic: AmpleSound’s Taylor, Martin, and Gibson Super-Jumbo (they all need to be de-hyped – use a very wide -6dB cut at 1.5k).  I also use OT’s Dry Relic and Rubber Bridge for something softer.

 

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[fretman]

So glad you’re here, Mike!

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Yes, that!

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