On July 1, 2025 at 3:49 pm fretman said
I have their Hoard mandolin. I really like the way they handle tremolos (very well thoughout) but, in general, their sound is pretty rough/raw (it sounds like the player was angling his pick to purposefully get a scratchy sound) – even more so than OTS’ mandolin (which get’s really clean if you keep the v…

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Here’s the Evolution Jumbo 12 String for comparison:

On July 1, 2025 at 3:26 pm fretman said
I have not tried the OTS 12-string so I can’t weigh in on that. But I can say that the AS 12-string sounds exactly like my fancy Taylor 12-string. Very well done. Once I heard it I didn’t need to try anything else. They both have demo MIDI files you can download and study to see how they work, which I hig…

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On June 30, 2025 at 11:21 pm Xandre said
I’m looking to add a 12-String VST to my collection. But I can’t decide between OTS and Ample Sound, any recommendations?

 

I think OTS and Ample Sound are the two most realistic virtual guitars in the business. I would recommend listening closely to the tone. I greatly prefer the tone of OTS guitars ove…Read More

On June 30, 2025 at 8:59 pm fretman said
I wish their nylon guitar would go on sale.

I only have their free trumpet library, but it’s a testimony to this developer’s talent.Do you own any of their libraries?

Okay, I just spent an hour trying to fix this, and I can see that I’m going to need to spend more time. I have a magazine interview (answering the questions electronically– with Forbes; it’s related to marketing and my business) to complete tonight. I might have time tomorrow night, if not Wednesday. I will get it done. The subscriptions are a…Read More

On June 30, 2025 at 5:06 pm doug said
Hmm. I know I have subscribed to threads before, but try as I might, I can’t figure out to do it now. What am I missing?

This would be a clever signature if I could think of one.

Click on the link and go to the page with the topic (AKA thread)…wait, it seems the subscription option disappeared. I u…Read More

I just made my purchase. It was way over my budget. But I bought Komplete Ultimate (upgrade from Komplete 15 Standard) from Best Service (the link is in the original post). I’m especially looking forward to Piano Colors and Pharlight and Abbey Road 70s and Vintage Drummer, as well as a bunch of other libraries. I suppose I’ll soon be selling a…Read More

On June 30, 2025 at 1:19 pm Fleer said
Half off that and I’m game.

First, NI put Alicia Key’s on sale for $9, then, more recently, IK started selling their much more recent deep-sampled piano library (okay, wrapped in a player plugin) for $29 each or $99 for 9 of them ($11 each), it’s become a lot more difficult for piano developers to move t…Read More

On June 30, 2025 at 12:25 pm patrickwichrowski said

https://discuss.cakewalk.com/topic/85520-cakewalk-sonar-is-now-free-to-everyone-as-we-transition-from-cakewalk-by-bandlab/

Cakewalk by BandLab will no longer offer activation renewal after 1 August 2025T

They pulled the plug.

Bye bye windows 7 users. Not even a serial to use it offline.

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I picked up the two plugins they’ve given away for free. Plucks & Mallets last year, and Everything Acoustic more recently.

I found them both to be okay, not in the same league as libraries from my favorite Kontakt developers. But they run fine on my system. Everything went smoothly in terms of installation. I’m not a big fan of small sample…Read More