I'd mainly prefer Kontakt to save space on my primary hard drive (sample libraries being on the secondary drive). But I should demo Addictive Drums run from my secondary drive... many Kontakt libraries have their own engines anyway, so there might not be much of a difference. The flash sale is for $120 but it looks like they do a 50% off sale every season, and if I wait until February or March it should be $74.yellowmix wrote: ↑Sun Jan 26, 2020 7:18 amIf you're open to non-Kontakt, I highly recommend Addictive Drums 2. It's currently on flash sale in different configurations. For $120 you can get your choice of 3 different kits (plus 3 individual percussions instruments and 3 MIDI packs). They are generally 12-16 velocity layers with 4-8 round robin per layer especially near the louder velocities.
So it's effectively $40 a kit plus MIDI. There's also a "Custom XL" for $198 for 6 of each which makes it $33/kit and covers a ton of use cases. You don't have to make your selections immediately either, you can take as long as you want.
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- KVRian
- 1468 posts since 10 Jul, 2018
- KVRAF
- 1672 posts since 3 Aug, 2017 from San Diego, CA
Anyone have a PA voucher code they don't need this month? I want to pick up the VH4 plugin before the flash sale is over.
- KVRAF
- 16418 posts since 22 Nov, 2000 from Southern California
You're welcome to any of the voucher codes I've received but they seem to all be tied to specific plugins (MC77, Herbert, HG-2).
- KVRAF
- 1672 posts since 3 Aug, 2017 from San Diego, CA
Actually as it turns out, the VH4 plugin is the one that I'm more interested in. Forgot they had two different Diezel heads, and the current coupon is for the Herbert.
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- KVRAF
- 2008 posts since 11 Aug, 2012 from omfr morf form romf frmo
XLN lets you install samples/data to any location of your choosing. I have everything of theirs on my sample/sampled instrument RAID array. In a worst case scenario (for other libraries), you can try symbolic links if you're on Windows. I do this with less cooperative libraries, though it fails in some instances but that is rare, and using junctions can fix it.
Also, yes, XLN does a 50% sale periodically, the Spring sale should be coming up relatively soon.
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- KVRian
- 1468 posts since 10 Jul, 2018
The issue is that the programs themselves (not counting samples) can take up > 500 MB, and that can add up. I'm a few gb away from negatively affecting my primary drive (SSD). The XLN demo said it would require 500 MB of free space on my primary drive but only seems to have taken up about 200 MB on it, which isn't too bad, but still worse than 0. I uninstalled FL Studio to help make space.yellowmix wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 4:52 amXLN lets you install samples/data to any location of your choosing. I have everything of theirs on my sample/sampled instrument RAID array. In a worst case scenario (for other libraries), you can try symbolic links if you're on Windows. I do this with less cooperative libraries, though it fails in some instances but that is rare, and using junctions can fix it.
Also, yes, XLN does a 50% sale periodically, the Spring sale should be coming up relatively soon.
Last year the 50% off sale started on February 20th ("Spring sale"?... well the lunar new year is called "Spring Festival" in China, and that just happened...).
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- KVRAF
- 2008 posts since 11 Aug, 2012 from omfr morf form romf frmo
Grab WizTree and see what's eating up your space. I don't know what you've got but I've got a tiny mirrored 256GB primary drive and aside from many plugins there are multiple DAWs, heavy-duty apps for graphic design, video, photography, software development, and more, with plenty of room to spare. I symlinked all factory presets to my RAID 1 striped sample drive for speed. They take up more space than most people realize (especially wavetables), my symlinked presets folder is a little over 120GB, not counting big doozies like Spectrasonics and Native Instruments (which can be relocated within app). I keep my primary intentionally small so I can make and keep daily backups for several months. It's saved my ass a few times. The factory presets, which rarely change, are on a different backup schedule.
The bulk of plugin storage space though is due to raster graphics and there's no much one can do about that. Thankfully devs like u-He put all that data in a relocatable folder, many don't (or it's embedded in the executable file). XLN does require that 200mb on the primary for AD2. But honestly if you're that hard up for space it's time to upgrade or move/archive files. That's like 20 minutes of a stereo WAV recording! I don't know how you can make music with so little space unless you render straight from MIDI.
The quoted 500mb btw, is most likely for installation, counting the downloaded installer file, which would be likely deleted. So double the final storage space. Should have at least 15% of your primary drive free on Windows and more than 25% on SSDs (to reduce wear).
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- KVRian
- 820 posts since 30 Nov, 2011
- KVRAF
- 7624 posts since 21 Dec, 2002 from MD USA
I thought they just made a minimum purchase, I never saw them say you can't share them.
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- KVRian
- 1391 posts since 16 Jan, 2018 from Portland, OR USA
It has never been "allowed" and it has never been enforced. People still buy and sell or offer for free those vouchers just like before. If it takes 8 months to change a paragraph on their website, think how long it can take until those codes are actually linked to specific accounts... or how long it will take for them to take care of bugs... or make those plugins re-sizable... or... well, you know.
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- KVRian
- 1468 posts since 10 Jul, 2018
Native Instruments has a Heavyocity 50% off sale---so if I'm reading correctly Vocalise 2 has tempo sync, but Vocalise 1 and Mosaic Voices (which came out after Vocalise 2) don't? But I think I prefer the demos for 1 and Mosaic Voices....
- Banned
- 2288 posts since 24 Mar, 2015 from Toronto, Canada
Wow. How many times NI have had heaviocity deals. ?? I must be seeing them every few months.
here's to hoping for some U-he dealz comin up.
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