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Spitfire31 · Post by **Spitfire31** » Mon Jul 15, 2013 4:58 pm

Hi EvilDragon. Thanks for the hint! In fact I've got Hybrid Strings and it's a great instrument for many things, but it hasn't quite got that strident rosin attack character I'm looking for right now…

/Joachim

embertone · Post by **embertone** » Wed Jul 24, 2013 3:44 am

Spitfire31 wrote:Hi EvilDragon. Thanks for the hint! In fact I've got Hybrid Strings and it's a great instrument for many things, but it hasn't quite got that strident rosin attack character I'm looking for right now…

/Joachim

Joachim! What about this little ditty? This was one of the original user demos, just days after the instrument was released!

https://soundcloud.com/novation_music/ryuu-waltz

-Alex

Alex Cremers · Post by **Alex Cremers** » Wed Jul 24, 2013 8:52 am

Wow, very rosin!

Spitfire31 · Post by **Spitfire31** » Wed Jul 24, 2013 8:05 pm

Indeed a lot of nice rosin…

Couldn't resist any more - jumped off the fence, down to the Embertone website.

Downloading as I write!

Kind regards,

Joachim

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Wed Jul 24, 2013 8:33 pm

Have fun!

Spitfire31 · Post by **Spitfire31** » Thu Jul 25, 2013 7:41 am

EvilDragon wrote:Have fun!

Thank you! I already am - having fun, that is.

The Friedlander is one awesome instrument. Just diving in without even reading the manual, I can see (hear!) that it's going to be great for what I have in mind!

Now, practice is the order of the day…

/Joachim

asnor · Post by **asnor** » Fri Jul 26, 2013 2:58 pm

embertone wrote:
Spitfire31 wrote:Hi EvilDragon. Thanks for the hint! In fact I've got Hybrid Strings and it's a great instrument for many things, but it hasn't quite got that strident rosin attack character I'm looking for right now…

/Joachim
Joachim! What about this little ditty? This was one of the original user demos, just days after the instrument was released!

https://soundcloud.com/novation_music/ryuu-waltz

-Alex

Any chance of getting the midi file for that (for study)?

embertone · Post by **embertone** » Fri Jul 26, 2013 3:01 pm

you'd have to ask the composer - I'd message him on Soundcloud!

-alex

asnor · Post by **asnor** » Fri Jul 26, 2013 3:08 pm

embertone wrote:you'd have to ask the composer - I'd message him on Soundcloud!

-alex

Oh, OK. For some reason I thought it was produced by Embertone.

Will do, Thanks!

lingyai · Post by **lingyai** » Sat Aug 10, 2013 8:59 am

Did anyone else have problems unzipping this? I've tried, first unzipping the 16-bit instruments ZIP file, and then unzipping the large (500 mb) RAR files in sequence (01, 02 etc) but get error messages starting with the 3rd RAR that a nkx file is "broken," and 04 refuses to unzip at all. I tried this with 7-zip; after the failure, I deleted all unzipped files and tried again with WinRAR, but had the same problem.

I do know how to unzip files; I've done so with around 40 Kontakt instruments without incident. Any ideas what I might be doing wrong? I'd be grateful for any advice.

embertone · Post by **embertone** » Sat Aug 10, 2013 9:05 am

Emailed you some questions about your interaction with Continuata's CONNECT application. Thanks!

-Alex

lingyai · Post by **lingyai** » Sat Aug 10, 2013 10:41 am

Thanks Alex. We have cleared this up in our correspondence.

For the benefit of anyone else: the trick is to NOT unzip the ZIP and RAR files. The Continuata utility both downloads them to your chosen drive AND unzips them, watermarking them in the process. You are then good to go. If you subsequently try to unzip the files yourself, you'll mess things up.

This wasn't obvious to me, and was the cause of my problems.

Live and learn!

spirit · Post by **spirit** » Sun Aug 11, 2013 12:55 am

As others have noted, this is an absolute pig on the CPU. I have a lot of big Kontakt libraries, but only Embertone stresses the system. I hope they can push out some further updates to fix things.

embertone · Post by **embertone** » Sun Aug 11, 2013 1:46 am

spirit wrote:As others have noted, this is an absolute pig on the CPU. I have a lot of big Kontakt libraries, but only Embertone stresses the system. I hope they can push out some further updates to fix things.

Hey Spirit,

After the 1.01 update, those issues should be gone. Other than using a lot of RAM, if your system is optimized you should not be getting CPU spikes. Are you running logic? What kind of system are you running and what is your buffer setting (within logic and on your audio interface).

I run Friedlander in Cubase (using VE Pro) with absolutely 0 problems, pops, glitches, etc. I keep my latency at 512 although users are reporting success with 256 and even 128.

Thanks!

Alex

spirit · Post by **spirit** » Sun Aug 11, 2013 5:29 am

Thanks Alex,

I should really have sent a support request rather than blah on here. I'll run a real test tonight and report back.

Absolutely adore the sound!

Has anyone tried the new "Friedlander Violin" from Embertone?