FluffyAudio AURORA 1.1 major update with new content and SALE! 99€/139$ instead of 149€/199$

[paoling]

We've just released the first major update for our AURORA sample library. Until the end of March, AURORA is available for the special price of 99€/139$ instead of 149€/199$!


What's new:
250+ mb of new sample content, new sound designed percussions (hammered pianos, metal sheet hits), soundscapes made from bowed metal sheet, reversed vibraphone and drilled piano, a number of plucked instruments (classical guitar, ukulele, balalaika). 30 new NKI patches and updates to the main AURORA Engine (band pass filter and the Keep Settings feature).

Feature list of the complete AURORA:

4.90 GB Sample library (compressed in Kontakt's NCW Format)
3.463 Samples (44Khz/24Bit)
190 NKI Presets
More than 160 unique sound sources (multisampled instruments)
Build your unique patches by layering up to 5 layers of sound sources
Total control over the sound sources
Arpeggiator and Polystep modes
13 different modulators avaiable for complex sounds that can change at specific time intervals or on user's input.
Synced Delay, Step Modulator and LFOs
5 different modulation shapes for LFOs (SINE, SAWTOOTH, TRIANGLE, SQUARE and RANDOM)
Unique chain of custom effects
Atmospherizer effects
18 unique Convolution IRs


More info on our site


http://soundcloud.com/fluffyaudio/sets/aurora

Current AURORA users can download the update HERE

[GJK]

Interface looks cool.. what is a "fair" price ?

[paoling]

Interface looks cool.. what is a "fair" price ?

A fair price is around 200$, with a sort of intro offer that will be announced in the next weeks

In the meantime I did a short test with the library that it's a little showcase of what is possibile to achieve with Aurora.

- Do you want to make a long morphable soundscape that changes over time and with modwheel?
Assign the modwheel and a Long Envelope to the AMP of two or more soundscape layers. 1 second of work and you have a beautiful working pad patch.

- Do you want a nice piano patch with a delayed bell and layers of strings layered one octave above?
Just choose a piano sound in the first layer, a bell in the second and the strings in the third. Then you can add a delay just to the bells (with the atmospherizer) and mute dry setting on the bells. Set the transpose setting for the strings one octave above and reduce their attack in the ADSR. If you want the bells to change the delayed note, you can assign them to the arpeggiator.

- Do you want to make a catchy rhythm with a bass drum sound with a filtered high pitched drum layered above?
Just assign these two layers one of the three different arpeggiators avaiable, and enable the Lowpass Filter with Velocity modulation to the high pitched percussion.

- Do you want to make a nice pulsing bass out of a cello strings pad?
Assign it to one of the two tempo synced LFOs, choose a sawtooth modulation and set it to the rhythm that you prefer.

-Do you want to play everything with on a split keyboard patch?
Just set the range of the instruments above to your linking and you can play everything in one fly.

- Aren't you so precise to play everything at tempo? Just set the Input Quantization to the musical figure that you prefer and you can let Aurora to autoquantize your playing.

- How does it sounds? You can hear it here (sorry if it's not a very polished composition, but it's just a showcase to test the library

https://soundcloud.com/fluffyaudio/auro ... mo/s-x33D3

- Don't you want to do all the above and you think that tweaking controls is one of the most boring things in the life? You'll find carefully designed presets (nkis), to make music in an instant (more than 200)

Another little screenshot for the GUI:

[xoxos]

you're going to need a name change if you have any single product named aurora.

http://www.kvraudio.com/product/aurora-by-xoxos/details

[paoling]

you're going to need a name change if you have any single product named aurora.

http://www.kvraudio.com/product/aurora-by-xoxos/details

Obviously I didn't knew of your product and I didn't mean to hijack your product.

It would have been a smarter move from you to contact me via PM, but anyway
I'll rename the library, because I don't want to start a quarrel about it, but please answer me to a couple of questions:

1) Since trademark about products has the primary aim to protect about customers confusion, do you really believe that yours and my product belong to the same category? VST and Sample Libraries are two VERY different things. I did make a search for the name Aurora not to be used, but I searched for my direct fellow sample developers and not the whole VST and Synth community.

2) Do you know that there are other VST and audio software called Aurora?

1) Plugins for Adobe Audition:
http://www.aurora-plugins.com/Aurora_XP/Package.htm

2) 2006 VST from apparently dead Unitonic software company:
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jul06/a ... aurora.htm

3) App for iPad:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/aurora- ... d375109647

4) Hardware Synth:
http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2013/ ... nthesizer/

Don't the differences between your app and them (plugins for audition, old product, app for another platform, hardware) is similar to the difference between my library (a collection of samples) and your product (a software)?

[paoling]

Let's add this to the list:

http://www.ugoaudio.com/soundware

[xoxos]

i don't own kontakt and i'm not familiar with how samples are loaded, or what "sample library" imples. i do understand that "kontakt player" allows, in some way, a release of a vst .dll with custom samples.

is your product a vst/.dll or does it require a vst to play it that isn't named "aurora"? eg. ugo's "aurora" is an .fxb file - it's for use by vst but is not a vst in and of itself. since you're showing a gui, i'm guessing this means it is a discrete vst .dll.

[EvilDragon]

No, his product is not a VST/DLL. It requires Kontakt plugin (-> not called "Aurora") to load the samples (which are in WAV/AIFF or NCW format) via Kontakt's proprietary NKI files. Kontakt Player is free, and can be used with this library, BUT, only for 15 minutes at a time, because the library isn't a licenced Kontakt Player library (that's a different issue altogether).

GUI is made by utilizing Kontakt's scripting language. It is not compiled in its own DLL.


The guy has every right to name his library Aurora, from my POV.

[Karmacomposer]

From a trademark perspective, xoxos, unless you specifically trademarked the name Aurora in your country and internationally, he can use the name any way he wants. If some other entity trademarked the name Aurora in any concept, hardware or software, then YOU are actually in violation of their trademark.

And that only helps you if you take him to court or you are sued for trademark infringement.

Trademark is different from copyright. Copyright is instantly instantiated once you create an original work/idea/concept but SHOULD be legally copyrighted in your country and internationally if you plan to seek monetary damages to anyone infringing on your copyright.

Patents, on the other hand, are for ideas, plans and/or inventions that are yours and yours alone. Once a patent is accepted, you own the right to that idea, plan or invention.

However, trademark is for logos, names and product branding only. This whole conversation is strictly about trademark since it involves the name "Aurora" and since there are no little TMs next to ANY "Aurora"s in the links above, the name is currently fair game. I would do a trademark search for the name "Aurora" and see who really owns it. They're the ones you should be afraid of.

Namely, let the dude keep the name. He more than likely did nothing wrong UNLESS you really did pay the $$$$ and trademarked the name.

Mike

[Cri]

Can you really trademark a common word? Could I trademark "Samples" and just make troubles to every Kontakt dev?

xoxos, I wonder if I rename this .DLL, without name on it, is still an Aurora:

[paoling]

Thank you so much, guys, for helping me to clarify the situation. Really appreciated.

Yes my product does not contain a VST and it's like ugo's product, just some presets (in the form of NKI or NKM) and samples. The GUI is made through KSE (Kontakt Scripting Engine), but it's not packaged in any form of dll or executable.

By the way, I did a quick search there shouldn't be any software related to us with this name. I think I'm a bit more protected since my product is not even a software. From Wikipedia, just to be completely clear a software is any set of machine-readable instructions (most often in the form of a computer program) that directs a computer's processor to perform specific operations.
= an EXE, a dll or a program for another platform.

In the end, the question between us is: does calling my product Aurora damage you in any way?
I don't think so, since we do very different products and neither a search on google will be a matter of confusion among us.
A generic search like "Aurora" won't let any user to find us. If I need the VST I'd write "Aurora VST" or "xoxos Aurora" and if I need the sample library I'd write "Aurora Samples" or "Fluffy Aurora" (many people come on our site by writing something like that! "Fluffy Piano" "Fluffy Vibes" )

@Cri
Trademark works in relation to the context. Apple for computers is quite unusual even if it's a common word. If I want to call Apple a fruit store, I'm free but I can't pretend to have it trademaked. So Aurora, for audio software, is absolutely eligit to be trademarked.

Aurora in Italy is also female name and that's a word used to indicate the interval between the first sunlight in the sky and the actual sunrise. That was an image that inspired me to use this name. Aurora obviously is also Aurora Borealis one of the most beautiful natural wonders of our planet.

[Tricky-Loops]

Aurora in Italy is also female name and that's a word used to indicate the interval between the first sunlight in the sky and the actual sunrise.

Per esempio:

[xoxos]

this is an interesting discussion.

i've been releasing vst for over a decade, helping f**kers out, and i'm surprised that people want to see me as a selfish person.

i've been a scofflaw for longer than a decade, and people want to discuss the law with me.

the law has nothing to do in my consideration with what is "right". ftr, it has everything to do with what is right on this website and in this business and don't you forget that.

i am going to continue to assert that naming a vst horizon, or element, or aurora, when there is a preexistent item in the database, is avoidable bullshit. get your own name, it's not hard.

instead of clarifying the issue, "no this is not a vst .dll," people want to depict me as unreasonable by saying i have no right to challenge it. EvilDragon, thank you for having the clarity to focus on resolving the point of contention here instead of exascerbating the contention.

my interest here is in retaining the unique identification of my work, and the works of others who have worked hard in the past to bring good stuff to kvr, and not have it obscured, at least or a few years??

if i don't release anything for a year, and someone else wants to call themselves xoxos, this is bullshit, regardless of legality. and it will always be bullshit, even if it's legal.

if someone show up calling themselves krakli, you'll also have a problem with *me*

you live in the world you define. i don't have any hostility or emnity, my original statement has an IF qualifier. IF you want to see me as a bastard, and one more enemy, you live in a world of conflict instead of solutions, and your mind is a laughable mess.

now can we stop trying to fight here? should i have said "mate" at the end of my first post to make it a statement and not a threat?

and now, excuse me for "being a bigot", why would someone like me have ANY issue with someone named paoling releasing software when there are so few exponents not from the west represented in vst? how many people on kvr are even conscious of cultural representation in this field?

i'm not trying to kill you or sue you so i can get rich. i wanted to make sure this is not a vst .dll named aurora. that's all! i come in peace, but, i'm okay with leaving a room full of corpses, before they go along and f**k with other people like they do with me. you decide.

[xoxos]

and before anyone has an opportunity to exhibit their dysfunctionality, this thread does not constitute a room.

[Cheeso]

How distasteful for some jackass to hijack a thread over a copyright/trademark he does not own.

To the OP: keep the Aurora name, there is no reason to change it.