On July 12, 2025 at 8:51 pm Fleer said
In The Box (as in software) 🙂

Okay, now I remember! That acronym is probably even in the LM glossary that I put together. I admit, I was more taken by the humor value of the result than anything.

On July 12, 2025 at 8:57 pm Fleer said
1. Bechstein Digital (sampled as well as in Pianoteq Pro)
2. Orange Tree Samples Rosewood
3. Embertone 1955 Walker

Two out of three of yours are on both of our lists (the Rosewood and the Walker), @fleer. I suspect the Pianoteq piano is excellent, but I have never played it and I’m way over my budget as it…Read More

On July 12, 2025 at 7:01 pm Fleer said
The P&M bundle was one of my very first purchases ITB. Sweet memories.

I wasn’t sure what ITB stood for, so the Acronym Finder came up first in Google. Here’s the options:

“What does ITB stand for? ; ITB, Invitation To Bid ; ITB · Iliotibial Band ; ITB, Intention to Buy (market research) ; ITB, In the Butt…Read More

Same deals at Best Service — plus you can use Best Coin to further reduce the price and you’ll earn more Best Coin — and can help me with the costs of running LinkedMusicians in the process.

https://www.bestservice.com/en/heavyocity.html?aid=ZBgL2roqVxRSujmR

Wow. I’m trying rein in my spending, but these guys make some very, very cool plugins. Fury for $39???? I wish I didn’t see this deal!!!

Today is the final day to get in on Orange Tree Samples Group Buy. You don’t have to complete your purchase today, you just have to join today, and you’ll get until July 31, 2025 to complete your purchase.

I think this situation can easily be resolved. There’s nothing in what you’ve shared that leads me to believe that Karanyi is a bad company. They just — wrongly — thought that you could be a bad actor. I just sent them a message using their contact form (I don’t know anyone from the company, I’m just a regular paying customer). I linked to t…Read More

@jorge I recall, very well, how you told me about this in the past. You know, many years ago, when I had my publication on marketing, I wrote about how companies should respond to customer issues online and it went viral, getting quoted by Harvard, in business magazines, in dozens of books (if you’re in the marketng world, Seth Godin praised the…Read More

BTW, I have an unregistered license for Horns from Hell that I’d be happy to sell for less than the sale price listed here if anyone is interested.

On July 11, 2025 at 7:49 pm Fleer said
I wish they would let us search any sales on their Kontakt Player libs.

Done. Use this link:

https://www.bigfishaudio.com/catalogview.html?1&48&1:115:519656:::::152:::518278:B519656&F518278&A115&C152::Page=1&Form=323

From an email from Orange Tree Samples I just received:

“There are less than 24 hours left to join our Summer Group Buy sale and get 60% OFF all our virtual instruments!

All you need to do is head over to the group buy page in your account to sign up and get the discount right now.

You have until July 12th at 23:59 UTC to join, after which the…Read More