I had the original -it eventually died and when I moved to York I gave it to someone who said he would fix it and sell it on but i don’t know if he ever did. Even broken it would probably be worth a bit today!

On March 10, 2026 at 7:55 pm William Heins said
joegyork If you like prog and folk then you must know Strawbs and Gryphon 🙂

A lot of demo stuff here- https://www.reverbnation.com/daylight

Certainly do William. Gryphon are still going though I have never manged  to see them and I don’t own any of theirs or Strawbs’ albums. My favourite folk /…Read More

Sounds exciting!

ELP were one of my introductions to rock / prog. As a teenager I had gotten into classical music after hearing Holst’s The Planets in a music lesson and around the same time Peter & The Wolf which made me realise that music alone could tell a story.

Other than that I was more into pop heavily influenced by my older sister – The Hollies, Marmalade…Read More

Appease who?

Am I correct in thinking what you’re saying is that you feel eg with Dolly Parton, a country artist, and the various hip hop artists being inducted is that these genres are clearly not rock — as Parton herself pointed out when she was nominated. Is that right? Basically, stick to rock, not country, hip hop, jazz, EDM, and other gen…Read More

@WilliamHeins what do you mean by

‘I had hopes that it was going to be a real Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame but it seems to be Jann Wenner’s social engineering project sadly!’

Thanks @LinkedMusicians that sounds very interesting. Just ordered and and downloaded the Vaults Icky Bass too

By coincidence I was listening to Melissa Etheridge for the first time for years and I had forgotten what an astounding artist she is so she would get my vote! New Order / Joy Division would be my second choice

English folk singer (and composer of my favourite album of the 21st century ‘Songs From The Floodplain’) Jon Boden’s remarkable reworking of Kate Bush’s ‘Hounds Of Love’

Pink Floyd – I will forever regret not going to see them in Manchester (UK) and instead going to see Genesis in Leeds on their Invisible Touch tour. They were deadly dull and only played a short medley of their older stuff

Renaissance – I suppose they are the same genre (prog rock) but totally different sound and epic songs – sadly I think only…Read More

@LinkedMusicians I’m afraid I am too tied up with moderating my Facebook pages and gig organising for Love Music Hate Racism to take on anything else

Great band!

On January 28, 2026 at 11:45 pm Brian said
I have seen recommendations in a few forums to keep a list of your registered software products that involve NI.  It’s easy enough, so why not keep a copy.

I only use Windows, so no idea about other platforms.

If you run Native Access and select SUPPORT from the bottom left, then click “Create a Supp…

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Fascinating discussion here and on other threads – a worrying time. Thanks particularly to Peter for his insights from someone who has been involved in the industry. Let us keep our fingers crossed!

Just downloaded this – looks fairly limited but I did like the sounds in the video

Just tired – not working now – never mind I wasn’t sure if there was anything I really needed 🙂 Still got the AAS Soundpack and Synthmaster Expansion pack to choose. Got the G Force Axess Electronica expansion (so so) and the OT Flugelhorn Ensemble (after a glitch that OT sorted out very quickly) so not doing too bad for freebies. Also got to…Read More

Ah thanks – thought about trying but didn’t! I’ll have another look but possibly too late now!

Sadly I missed out on this as my PC was in the room where visiting family were sleeping

This is really sad. There is so much trolling of people just trying to do a good job – as you know only too well @peter

We have a great organisation here in the UK called the Music Venue Trust. It exists to help grassroots music venues which are having a very challenging time at the moment for various reasons. In some cases the MVT have bought venues so that they are not subject to the whims of commercial landlords. We are fortunate enough to have a superb venue…Read More

Unfortunately this appears to be only available in Clap or native FL format only – not VST.

I tried to see what the free game was yesterday but couldn’t see it so thanks for the reminder!

Thanks for this @mira – hope you are out of hospital soon and recover well. Take care!

Interesting that they are using Kontakt for this library rather than their own app – I assume the full version was already in Kontakt. I put the folder in the wrong place when I first downloaded then noticed the demo video was using Kontakt

Oooh very interesting – it seems that it is a cut down version of this – completely different to BBCSO – I wonder how it will compare to the free version of that and the other free orchestras…..

Spitfire Symphony Orchestra