GROUP BUY: Ocean Way & Drum Masters Ultimate Studio Drum Bundle!

[Squids]

Hi DarkStar and eDrummist,
Thanks for the replies. I have Kontakt 3.5.0 and 4.0.3 so it is no problem for me. I understand the benefits of the Kontakt engine vs that of SD3. I just wanted to know if these could be played using SD3 as more Sonar users might be inclined to buy the product.
Sergio

Sonar users can buy the product and use it as a plug-in. These are more advanced than the kits we did in SD3. In fact that's a good "taste" of what this but with even more expressive performance, more samples, more features.

[Squids]

I won't be able to post too many stories today. Final wrap up and figure out the best way to deliver. We may have to do this in phases like - Phase 1: Infinite Player and the OWD Kits, Phase 2: The DM2 Signature Kits, Phase 3: Hyrbrid patches, impulses etc (still working on whether they can be used outside of Kontakt - I think so but want to check that out myself if I can before I say definitively yes). But that's not the official word. Our web team is concerned about 550+ people all downloading over 20 gigabytes on New Year's. Never been in this particular situation before so bear with us. We may have to be creative so as to avoid a cluster of issues.

Here's an idea. Set up a bittorrent as an alternate download for people to use if the traffic is too high, and make it temporary for just the first week.

Can't do that. It's encrypted and delivered from our servers customized and tracked for each person.

[gmontano]

as much as I tried, I couldn't resist. epointz to gpzecchi

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

link for group buy using paypal


http://www.esoundz.com/details.php?Prod ... ode=USDKVR

[Squids]

Based on past experience, it is almost a given that they will be working late into the evening (Pacific West Coast time zone) to get this ready.

The end of this group buy (for numbers) is officially 15 and 1/2 hours from now.

Is it not Florida time (EST)?

Midnight tonight Florida time (even though I am not in Florida right now! SR is).

[4fmb]

I keep seeing the "STm" acronym being thrown around, but I don't actually see a definition for it anywhere. Can someone help a brother out and tell me what that means?

STm is the name for the new enhanced Stereo kits...

Cool, thanks for the in-depth answer! I was having a bit of trouble understanding how this would work as far as multi-track layouts goes, and it's tough to find information when the thread is 100+ pages. But this helps a lot.

Still debating if I want to join or not...

I completely understand -and there IS a LOT of info to take in and process in coming to grips with this GB. Here's one possible way of looking at it, though:

a) Somewhere in the vicinity of 20 gigs of world-class drum samples and grooves (plus all the bonus items!) for $99!!! and,

b) I remember your earlier posting way back in the GB (I think) about whether or not to join, so at $99 and all the thought you're putting into this, what does that price out to an hour?

If you went ahead and joined you would start saving yourself money and could let go of the processing, breath and laugh and move on to something else!

Hope that helps some,

Mark

(referral name: 4fmb)

[Mannas]

I won't be able to post too many stories today. Final wrap up and figure out the best way to deliver. We may have to do this in phases like - Phase 1: Infinite Player and the OWD Kits, Phase 2: The DM2 Signature Kits, Phase 3: Hyrbrid patches, impulses etc (still working on whether they can be used outside of Kontakt - I think so but want to check that out myself if I can before I say definitively yes). But that's not the official word. Our web team is concerned about 550+ people all downloading over 20 gigabytes on New Year's. Never been in this particular situation before so bear with us. We may have to be creative so as to avoid a cluster of issues.

Phase 1: Collect underpants
Phase 2: ....
Phase 3: Profit!

[maximilians1]

Question if we reach 600. Is it possible to choose one of the available multitrack kits instead of 2 stereo kits for the bonus? For my 1st three bonuses I will be picking ezplayer,infinite player and the ndv gretsch kit but would also like the choice of a second multitrack kit I think the jb sonar one, is it possible?

[blueman]

[ This Mellotron used to be called the Smellotron because it used to belong to Bobby Sherman - singer from the 60s - and apparently someone used to store diapers in it... it has since been thoroughly cleaned. But I sold it to Stan and got the chance to buy it back...

Now...THAT is a story Squids! WOW

[zedd]

I moved us one step closer now. I am in now and sent you the referral. I can't wait for these drums!! Thanks again zedd for your help.

Thank you kindly Mannas! Much appreciated.

Based on past experience, it is almost a given that they will be working late into the evening (Pacific West Coast time zone) to get this ready.

The end of this group buy (for numbers) is officially 15 and 1/2 hours from now.

Is it not Florida time (EST)?

Oh yeah... I believe you are right. Sorry, my mistake.

That means it is just 11 and 1/4 hours left!

But fortunately we're the little engine that could...

[bronxsound]

***LOWEST PRICE TARGET HAS BEEN REACHED***

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Price triers:
1-24 Joined $149.
25-49 Joined $139.
50-99 Joined $129.
100-149 Joined $119.
150-199 Joined $109.
200+ Joined $99 - THE FINAL PRICE HAS BEEN REACHED
300 - Free Toontrack EZPlayer Pro - TARGET ACHIEVED
400 - Over 100 more midi grooves from ODD GROOVES, an extra Signature Snare from a famous drummer, Ocean Way Drums Kit 10 Medium for Infinite Player, FIFTY Hybrid Kits featuring mix and match kit pieces. - TARGET ACHIEVED
TARGET 500 ACHIEVED !!!

What You Get If You Join Now

Everything in the "Ultimate Studio Drums Group Buy" is downloadable exclusively from eSoundz.com This is a limited-time bundle that includes the following kits that are playable from Sonic Reality's latest Infinite Player plug-in powered by Kontakt 3.5:

• Sonic Reality's Infinite Player plug-in powered by Kontakt*
• 12 different Ocean Way® Drums DL mix kits from dry to medium to ambient
• 15 Drum Masters 2 Signature Drum Kits featuring drum kits of legendary drummers
• Ambient Impulse Responses from some of the best sounding studio rooms in the world to use with Infinite Player/Kontakt's convolution reverb
• Bonus Midi Grooves

* If you already own the Infinite Player you can get a brand new previously unreleased Drum Masters 2 Ludwig® Jazz Kit instead!

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Feel free to refer me: lukianowicz

[mrhudson]

Geez, if we're ten short (hit 590), it would only cost ($99 * 10) / 590 = $1.68 per participant to buy the remaining licenses to hit 600!

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

Geez, if we're ten short (hit 590), it would only cost ($99 * 10) / 590 = $1.68 per participant to buy the remaining licenses to hit 600!

great idea...proper P.I.T.A to coordinate, though

[Squids]

Okay it seems we have to do this in phases of delivery. For bandwidth purposes we have to split the content out in several phases plus it is going to take a little more time to get some of the extras integrated in the best way so...

The good news is that I don't think we're going to skew who gets it first. That will be up to YOU if you can hold off and wait to download. Since we don't know who anxiously must get started we're going to try just make the first phase available to everyone in the GB starting first thing tomorrow (or even possibly late tonight after midnight since we'll be pulling some late shifts on this one).

So, what is in Phase 1? The following:

1) Everyone will get an Infinite Player Installer and a Kontakt Player 3.5 Installer in their user area. (If you want Kontakt Player 4 which also works with it you can download it right now from NI).

NOTE: This is just to make sure everyone has it but you still MUST choose Infinite Player in the next step to get the SERIAL NUMBER to activate it (otherwise the sounds will run in demo mode which is 30 minutes per session then it times out and you have to restart).

2) Everyone in the GB will get a Redeem Code to use here: www.downloadablesoundz.com/redeem.php Where you will enter that code and it will take you to a page where you can CHOOSE between the Infinite Player SERIAL -OR- if you already have an ACTIVATED Infinite Player (meaning you had a serial before and activated it with NI's service center from a previous purchase) then you can alternatively choose an STm Ludwig Jazz kit.

NOTE: Both of these - the serial or the Jazz kit - will be put into your DownloadableSoundz.com user's area instead of esoundz. This is the place where we can do individual and multi-choice downloads... we can't do it the same way on esoundz. You'll need to link your esoundz account to a Downloadablesoundz account and all you have to do is go into your esoundz member's area and check the box to link your account to DownloadableSoundz.com. Then you can use your SAME login data there. We DO apologize for that extra step but this is to accommodate the people that already have Infinite Player and we want to make them happy too!

3) The custom Ocean Way Drum kits for Infinite Player. We'll start everyone off with these to play with in this Phase 1. There will be 13 different kit sample zips to download and 1 zip that will have the patches for them all. Each download I believe is no more than a gig in size on average (if that helps anyone). These will be in your ESOUNDZ member's area in MY DOWNLOADS.

4) The 150 ODD GROOVES from Per are ready so they will also be in your esoundz downloads in your member's area.

That's what is in PHASE 1. Next post I will give you an idea of what will be in phase 2 and I think some of you will be happy with new news there.