Bargain Center: discussion, gossip, etc.

[Franvu]

I have a lot of plugins and I think that I don't need more of them, but finally I have used my Eighty Eight Ensemble license to upgrade to Sonivox Premier Collection.
I was very interested on a library like Big Bang Cinematic Percussion and it has far exceed it.
I only play with the collection 2 hours but I am very happy with the sound, specially with the companions, th harpshychord and the atsia and silk road percussion. I have 0 crashes with Maschine as a DAW.

I can complaint a little about the preset browser on the sonivox singles:
http://sonivoxmi.com/products/sonivox-singles/C91

The pricing policy of plugins is changing, this is too agressive. These megacollections at the price of a plugin.
Who is going to buy a sonivox pluging for 199€ now?
Cheers.

[dzilizzi]

Tempted to buy Sonic Forest and Sonic Ocean by Impact Soundworks

Both are reduced with five bucks, so together they don't cost more than $35, and 25% of that goes to charity.

Been looking at vids of them, and seems to offer lots of granular joy in a sleek interface. But I am worried about the CPU hit, anybody know if it is bad?

I got them during black Friday sales but haven't tried them yet. If you can wait till Saturday (or no one else gets back to you) I'll give them a try.

Okay, loaded and tried Sonic Ocean. Has some interesting sounds. Did not seem to use much CPU when watching my CPU meters while running.

Running an 8 bar loop with with 6 instrument tracks feeding the one instance of Sonic Ocean? Only hit 15% CPU max including other processes. Running on a Quad core i7 PC. The RAM hit is about 58MB.

[dzilizzi]

I have a lot of plugins and I think that I don't need more of them, but finally I have used my Eighty Eight Ensemble license to upgrade to Sonivox Premier Collection.
I was very interested on a library like Big Bang Cinematic Percussion and it has far exceed it.
I only play with the collection 2 hours but I am very happy with the sound, specially with the companions, th harpshychord and the atsia and silk road percussion. I have 0 crashes with Maschine as a DAW.

I can complaint a little about the preset browser on the sonivox singles:
http://sonivoxmi.com/products/sonivox-singles/C91

The pricing policy of plugins is changing, this is too agressive. These megacollections at the price of a plugin.
Who is going to buy a sonivox pluging for 199€ now?
Cheers.

Hopefully they are/have come out with something new. I can see selling old libraries for cheap to get users interested in their products and then come out with new stuff. Otherwise it feels like everyone who wanted to buy it did and now they are dumping it and going out of business.

[dzilizzi]

12 Days Of Christmas - Day 6 - Vivace for only €75 !!

https://www.sonokinetic.net/sale/?ref=day06kvr

Has anyone tried this? I skipped on Tutti for a bout the same price, but it was close. This seems to be similar? Just different loops? I don't do cinematic stuff, but the sounds seem like they might work for short phrases in a song.

I should say, I am really waiting for the Mallets.

[Numanoid]

Status of re:fx-mas calendar so far:

1 patch expansion promo for Nexus owners
6 screensavers
5 MIDI samplers
5 Sample samplers

Rather dour

[dwozzle]

AIR Music Tech Vacuum Pro $15.99 @ JRR Shop Blowouts
https://blowout.jrrshop.com/air-music-tech-vacuum-pro

If you don't already have it, that is the most insane no-brainer I've seen yet. Really great synth, stupid low just-do-it price.

Even better deal to buy the whole Air Complete bundle 3 = 10 plugs, 8 patch expansions and 28 effects for just $75

Only need Xpand2 to be able to get that upgrade price at Plugin Boutique, and Xpand2 is free to get all over the place

Yes, I agree, the whole collection is a great deal, enough so that I did it myself to upgrade from the v2 NFR version I had, even though I'm really trying not to buy stuff right now.

Still, for people who don't want to spend that much, $16 for Vacuum Pro is great, and inexpensive enough that it's kind of in why-not territory. It's actually one of my faves out of the whole pack, that and Hybrid.

[VariKusBrainZ]

yeah we want to know how much the upgrade to dune 2 is and from what. Dune 1 is on sale for $59 and Dune 2 is discounted to $99.

The difference

[FLAndi]

Any thoughts on this deal? I know some companies mentioned below but no concrete sample pack. In fact I very rarlely buy sample packs.

http://rekkerd.org/drum-heaven-2-sample ... r-charity/

Drum Heaven 2 features

Abletunes: Epic Kicks Vol. 1 + Epic Kicks Vol. 2 + Live Drum Fills.
Function Loops: Big Shots 2.
Ghosthack: Claps’n’Snares.
HY2ROGEN: Secret Stash (GiveGetWin Exclusive for this bundle, previously unreleased).
Resonance Sound: SOR Drum Revolution (custom version, 186 samples included).
Reveal Sound: Total Drum & Complex Fills 2-In-1 Bundle (Vol. 1 & Vol. 2).
Samplefino: Analogue Drum Samples (custom version, 438 samples included).
W.A. Production: EDM Tools.
Waveshaper: Plasticid MKII.
Shroom: Vintage Drum Breaks Starter Pack (Bonus pack).

The Drum Heaven 2 bundle is available for just $17.95 USD until December 23rd, 2016 (90% off regular). After that, it will be taken down and no longer be for sale.

[LGK_Dude]

12 Days Of Christmas - Day 6 - Vivace for only €75 !!

https://www.sonokinetic.net/sale/?ref=day06kvr

Has anyone tried this? I skipped on Tutti for a bout the same price, but it was close. This seems to be similar? Just different loops? I don't do cinematic stuff, but the sounds seem like they might work for short phrases in a song.

I should say, I am really waiting for the Mallets.

To my ears, and judging from the demos, they sound like two completely different products. Tutti seemed to be aimed at orchestral fx & transitions which in general tended to be dark, aleatoric, etc, where Vivace seems to be made up of complete phrases and segments of music (not just fx) and seem to be capable of doing action scenes, tensions scenes & light underscore work. If you are a TV composer and need to write a bunch of music fast, I could imagine how this could be useful, but to me this product sounds a lot like "paint by numbers" where you hold down a key and a specific style full orchestral cue plays back. Not really my cup of tea, personally.

[ghettosynth]

Any thoughts on this deal? I know some companies mentioned below but no concrete sample pack. In fact I very rarlely buy sample packs.

http://rekkerd.org/drum-heaven-2-sample ... r-charity/

Drum Heaven 2 features

Abletunes: Epic Kicks Vol. 1 + Epic Kicks Vol. 2 + Live Drum Fills.
Function Loops: Big Shots 2.
Ghosthack: Claps’n’Snares.
HY2ROGEN: Secret Stash (GiveGetWin Exclusive for this bundle, previously unreleased).
Resonance Sound: SOR Drum Revolution (custom version, 186 samples included).
Reveal Sound: Total Drum & Complex Fills 2-In-1 Bundle (Vol. 1 & Vol. 2).
Samplefino: Analogue Drum Samples (custom version, 438 samples included).
W.A. Production: EDM Tools.
Waveshaper: Plasticid MKII.
Shroom: Vintage Drum Breaks Starter Pack (Bonus pack).

The Drum Heaven 2 bundle is available for just $17.95 USD until December 23rd, 2016 (90% off regular). After that, it will be taken down and no longer be for sale.

This didn't look impressive to me. It's a bunch of EDM focused one shots. I don't see any Battery or Kontakt kits in there, which, to me, is the value in something like this.

But ok, it's supposed to be for charity, so, if you want to give $18 to charity because it's Christmas then at least you are going to get a bunch of samples in return. If you do EDM, and you like their charity model that seems like a win-win.

OTOH, without doing further research, which I can't really be assed to do, this strikes me as a "charity startup", they may be giving proceeds to charity, but, they could also be funding their living from this model. We also know nothing about who they're giving the money to. Nothing wrong with that, per se, but, if I really wanted to throw $20 to charity for Christmas then I'd take it down to the local soup kitchen, what they do for charity is right there on display and I think that they could probably use the help a bit more.

YMMV

[dzilizzi]

12 Days Of Christmas - Day 6 - Vivace for only €75 !!

https://www.sonokinetic.net/sale/?ref=day06kvr

Has anyone tried this? I skipped on Tutti for a bout the same price, but it was close. This seems to be similar? Just different loops? I don't do cinematic stuff, but the sounds seem like they might work for short phrases in a song.

I should say, I am really waiting for the Mallets.

To my ears, and judging from the demos, they sound like two completely different products. Tutti seemed to be aimed at orchestral fx & transitions which in general tended to be dark, aleatoric, etc, where Vivace seems to be made up of complete phrases and segments of music (not just fx) and seem to be capable of doing action scenes, tensions scenes & light underscore work. If you are a TV composer and need to write a bunch of music fast, I could imagine how this could be useful, but to me this product sounds a lot like "paint by numbers" where you hold down a key and a specific style full orchestral cue plays back. Not really my cup of tea, personally.

There are similarities, but I think you are right. I do like that they have the "sheet music" along with the sounds. Seems like a useful learning tool for someone like me who is still trying to figure this stuff out. I have another day to think on it. Thanks.

[mladi]

OTOH, without doing further research, which I can't really be assed to do, this strikes me as a "charity startup", they may be giving proceeds to charity, but, they could also be funding their living from this model. We also know nothing about who they're giving the money to. Nothing wrong with that, per se, but, if I really wanted to throw $20 to charity for Christmas then I'd take it down to the local soup kitchen, what they do for charity is right there on display and I think that they could probably use the help a bit more.

YMMV

As stated on the site: All sales from this bundle will be donated to SunSaluter, an organization that provides solar energy panels and clean water accessibility to communities in developing countries.

I personally find it's a great collection just like the first bundle. I'm fine with pure wav for drums btw.

[soundbylaura]

Anyone tried this freebie yet? I have the download links but the music computer is upstairs and that's so faaaaaaaaaar.

FREE orchestral sample library for your epic orchestral rise/glissando needs!

"Recorded with full orchestra in a traditional scoring stage environment, our ORCHESTRAL RISE BUILDER makes creating a massive crescendo or epic finale a breeze.

The ORCHESTRAL RISE BUILDER is laid out in mapped keyboard sections of long, medium, and short risers, each containing full orchestra, strings only (arco and trem), brass only, and woodwinds only regions. With every mapped note being a uniquely recorded take of the same length, one has the ability to create a custom riser comprised of only the certain sections, or go all in and create a thundering rise of multiple takes together (with zero phasing)!"

Requires a full version of Kontakt 5.5.1 or later.

For more info, system requirements and download links please see the product page:

http://www.hiddenpathaudio.com/free (http://www.hiddenpathaudio.com/free)

[yellowmix]

Any thoughts on this deal? I know some companies mentioned below but no concrete sample pack. In fact I very rarlely buy sample packs.

http://rekkerd.org/drum-heaven-2-sample ... r-charity/

The Drum Heaven 2 bundle is available for just $17.95 USD until December 23rd, 2016 (90% off regular). After that, it will be taken down and no longer be for sale.

I got the first Drum Heaven bundle and am very happy with it. I kept about 35% of the samples (I usually keep 10% of drum packs as loops as useless to me), at least 1 from each contributor, and I've used several of them already. None of the contributors to the first pack are in this second pack, but there are several familiar names. If it's like the first pack, they will either be entire commercial packs they are selling, or assembled from several different packs. Function Loops, for example, is offering the actual commercial pack: http://www.functionloops.com/big-shots-2.html. There's a demo playlist on the actual page: https://www.givegetwin.com/products/dru ... -and-kshmr.

If you are in need of drum samples this is a great value. If you don't use samples or you're well-stocked in EDM-oriented samples then you might find cool samples anyway, and supporting this charity model could be a plus.

[yellowmix]

I don't see any Battery or Kontakt kits in there, which, to me, is the value in something like this.

I have the first bundle. The Wave Alchemy pack came with Battery, Kontakt, Ableton Drum Rack, EXS, Halion, Reason NNXT, and SFZ patches. I don't know how the companies in this pack do things but it's common enough. However, I personally find no value in the company deciding which drum samples belong together in my music but I guess it's a nice bonus.

Edit: So I took a look at this pack and Samplefino's contribution comes with Geist, Kontakt, and Poise presets. Waveshapers comes with Kontakt presets.