KVR Audio

lingyai · Post by **lingyai** » Fri Feb 12, 2016 11:49 am

The dev has confirmed on FB that the Findasound site is undergoing maintenance. Not clear when it will be working again.

Fair enough, these things happen.

Though it would be great if, at the very least, Findasound could post a "Site under maintenance" message or something, instead of letting someone who just wants to be a customer enter a lot of details, get an error, try again, get an error, etc, then document the problem, contact Findasound, get no reply, post here, etc. Unless the site is so messed up it can't support a "Site under maintenance" message.

When sites fail like this, it reminds me of Share-it a few years ago -- it interposed itself between the customer and paypal, and then made the transaction a real PITA. (They've gotten better now). Sites like Findasound are supposed to facilitate sales, not obstruct them. It's a disservice to the devs who sell there. I wonder how many folks will just walk away after trying unsuccessfully to buy the library, rather than bug-testing, opening a ticket with Findasound, etc.

garryknight · Post by **garryknight** » Fri Feb 12, 2016 2:02 pm

Did you try contacting Stefano via his contact form here?

lingyai · Post by **lingyai** » Fri Feb 12, 2016 6:03 pm

garryknight wrote:Did you try contacting Stefano via his contact form here?

I did contact Stefano. That's where I heard that the site is under maintenance. No ETA re when it'll be back up.

lingyai · Post by **lingyai** » Fri Feb 12, 2016 7:41 pm

Tried one more time on the site, failed, contacted Stefano again, he has sorted me out, downloading now

, yay

Stefano, it seems you deserve a more professional site for your nice libraries!

lingyai · Post by **lingyai** » Sat Feb 13, 2016 3:20 pm

I've had a chance to play with Clara for around half an hour. Well, it was certainly worth the trouble. At $40 this is insanely great for atmospheric vocals. Seems to have been made with a lot of love and thought. In my short session I auditioned things in the legato, fx and phrase libraries.

Anyway, I quickly put together this Kontakt multi, using the setup below, which if it were a patch I'd call it
"Press + hold any single white key; fall in love ; try another; find religion..."

The multi has two libraries, both controlled by the same midi channel. One is Clara's phrase library; the second, mixed in low, is a vowel morphing patch from the (underrated, imho) Kontakt Factory Library Choir. Change the vowel morphs subtly while a note sustains. You will thank

me. Actually, thank you

Stefano!

Postscript -- Findasound got back with me and apologised for the server problems and even generously offered me something for my trouble, which I will decline, just because I wasn't coming from that angle, but it's nice of them. They do have some nice-sounding ethnic libraries though which I might investigate later.

lingyai · Post by **lingyai** » Sat Feb 13, 2016 3:22 pm

I've had a chance to play with Clara for around half an hour. Well, it was certainly worth the trouble. At $40 this is insanely great for atmospheric vocals. Seems to have been made with a lot of love and thought. In my short session I auditioned things in the legato, fx and phrase libraries.

Anyway, I quickly put together this Kontakt multi, using the setup below, which if it were a patch I'd call it
"Press + hold any single white key; fall in love ; try another; find religion..."

The multi has two libraries, both controlled by the same midi channel. One is Clara's phrase library; the second, mixed in low, is a vowel morphing patch from the (underrated, imho) Kontakt Factory Library Choir. Change the vowel morphs subtly while a note sustains. You will thank

me. Actually, thank you

Stefano!

Postscript -- Findasound got back with me and apologised for the server problems and even generously offered me something for my trouble, which I will decline, just because I wasn't coming from that angle, but it's nice of them. They do have some nice-sounding ethnic libraries though which I might investigate later.

garryknight · Post by **garryknight** » Sat Feb 13, 2016 10:15 pm

I knew you'd like it. I didn't know you'd like it so much you'd post about it twice

lingyai wrote: By the way, if I don't like it, it's all your fault

But you do, so I'll put my invoice in the post...

garryknight · Post by **garryknight** » Sun Feb 14, 2016 12:32 am

This is what I'm now waiting for:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdKDpJ3W0jI

don1thedon · Post by **don1thedon** » Sun Feb 14, 2016 6:18 pm

Bring it on!

murnau · Post by **murnau** » Sun Feb 14, 2016 6:27 pm

garryknight wrote:I knew you'd like it. I didn't know you'd like it so much you'd post about it twice

lingyai wrote: By the way, if I don't like it, it's all your fault
But you do, so I'll put my invoice in the post...

Obviously the well known double post error happened here.

PS. Server problem seems to be solved. Ordered without any trouble.

Musical Gym · Post by **Musical Gym** » Mon Feb 15, 2016 7:46 pm

I forgot if Clara was recorded dry. Can effects be turned off for all patches, or are some baked in to recording?

Lotuzia · Post by **Lotuzia** » Mon Feb 15, 2016 7:56 pm

garryknight wrote:This is what I'm now waiting for:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdKDpJ3W0jI

Soulfull.

garryknight · Post by **garryknight** » Mon Feb 15, 2016 10:25 pm

Musical Gym wrote:I forgot if Clara was recorded dry. Can effects be turned off for all patches, or are some baked in to recording?

I believe all samples were recorded dry, but I haven't listened to all of them. You can turn effects off for each instrument. The entire set of samples are embedded in Kontakt instruments. I haven't counted them but there are plenty, and it looks like Stefano is working on more to come.

Musical Gym · Post by **Musical Gym** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 5:02 am

thanks Garry

Spitfire31 · Post by **Spitfire31** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 5:51 am

Lotuzia wrote:
garryknight wrote:This is what I'm now waiting for:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdKDpJ3W0jI

Soulfull.

Now we're talking! Er… singing.

Very expressive. I don't know of any other reasonably priced voice lib that can do this. I assume the modulations are all in the hands of the user?

When can we expect the soulful version 2.1 of Clara?

/Joachim

Clara's Vocal Library V2.0 for Kontakt