KVR Audio

thoshu · Post by **thoshu** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 11:54 am

Tracktion

thoshu · Post by **thoshu** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 11:55 am

well, actually i did so long ago, KUBIK tempted me and i did, since their special offer was TOO tempting, andi didn't regret, of course!

SparkySpark · Post by **SparkySpark** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 12:06 pm

39 euros - energyXT
80 euros - Alto S-6 neat little mixer w/ phantom powering of the...
140 euros - JJLabs condenser mic+mic stand+cable

...and life's never sounded so great!

/SparkySpark

cptgone · Post by **cptgone** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 12:21 pm

NI Komplete
OhmForce GB
ConcreteFX Kubik
Korg Legacy
Voxengo CurveEQ, Soniformer, Redunoise, Crunchessor, Voxformer
Garritan Personal Orchestra
Virsyn Tera (again, my 1st copy got lost in the mail... together with Cube - haven't bought that a second time though)

Should have bought: monitors...

Resisted: Cameleon GB, Kjaerhus GB, Wusik GB, SX3 upgrade

origami · Post by **origami** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 12:28 pm

NI Komplete
Korg Legacy Collection
Cameleon 5000
Wusikstation
Albino

and I still haven't bought any of them...

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 12:42 pm

I aint even gonna think about it. £700 or so last month alone...

PugFace · Post by **PugFace** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 12:56 pm

A BMW 5 Series

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 12:59 pm

korgms2000b
ohmies stuff
absynth
reaktor
imposcar
a marmoset(bastard told me it was midi compatible

)
and a mixing desk

origami · Post by **origami** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 1:07 pm

hey I was thinking...I intend to but Komplete soon...would u recommend me to buy Wusikstation anyway? I see the price is very good now...but I wouldn't like to have a redundant synth once I buy Komplete...so...?

thx

Smeagol · Post by **Smeagol** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 1:22 pm

Komplete 2 (Sucker for a (seamingly) good deal)
Ohmforce complete bundle
Acoustic Guitar Yamaha F310 (to learn on)
Electric Guitar Yamaha Pacifica 112 (ditto + fun)
V-Amp2
DR008 - shortly before the price drop

edit: forgot the wonderful Z3TA+

PS.
WHAT I'M NOT GOING TO BUY!! cubase3upg too little, too soon, for too much

Har · Post by **Har** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 3:47 pm

eyeknow666 wrote:
Har wrote:Hmmm, this year mostly hardware, oddly...

Chapman Stick
Dude, that is so cool, the last time I saw one anywhere I have lived/been/played is the US was about 1982. So how could I buy one......I'd have to try it first!

Well, after jonesing for one since I first saw Tony Levin play his with Peter Gabriel many many years ago, I decided to finally just take the plunge and order a new one directly from SE (http://www.stick.com) without ever actually having touched one before!

Given my choice of course, I would've preferred to first...but I've never seen one used in a music store and I didn't know anyone locally who owned one so as to try it out. So it was definitely a bit of a gamble (and a very expensive one at that

)....but after spending forever lurking around the various Stick forums I thought I had a pretty good idea of what it would be like once I finally got my hands on one.
I'm happy to say that when it arrived, it was even better than I had hoped...the action on this thing is so low it's unbelievable: you barely have to touch the strings to sound the notes, and it sounds wonderful. I'm also finding it a lot easier to get the hang of playing than I thought it would be, which is also nice.

cptgone · Post by **cptgone** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 5:01 pm

origami wrote:hey I was thinking...I intend to but Komplete soon...would u recommend me to buy Wusikstation anyway? I see the price is very good now...but I wouldn't like to have a redundant synth once I buy Komplete...so...?

Depends on what you call redundant.

Reaktor will get you close to anything if you find the 'ensemble' (= Reaktor file) you need. Maybe it's possible to make something like Wusikstation yourself, but:
- there is a learning curve involved, unless you know all about designing synths and FX and you'fe mastered Reaktor itself,
- it will take quite some time and effort,
- WusikStation is written in Assembler IIRC, that's as fast as it gets AFAIK. Reaktor will always give you a CPU overhead (because you can't run the ensembles by itself like real VST(i)s and because the ensembles aren't compiled)
- most people find a real VST(i) to be a little more user friendly than using a ensemble in Reaktor.
- WusikStation comes with a sample library that many here seem to love.

There are some Reaktor ensembles made by WilliamK (Wusik), you can get them free now on his site. One of them is a WaveStation emulation IIRC ("DaVector" ?).

Bottom line: if you like WusikStation and you can spare the money, why not?

tetraplan · Post by **tetraplan** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 5:15 pm

Acoustica and Goldwave.
I could add Voxengo's CurveEQ, Elephant and Soniformer but those weren't temptations but vital additions. Same for Virtos.

Groet, Erik

Markleford · Post by **Markleford** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 5:31 pm

I pre-ordered WusikStation as soon as it was announced. Two licenses, in fact: one for my brother, too! No temptation required: it was the synth I'd been waiting years for to replace my hardware synths.

I did grab the chance to get Audition 1.5 on academic discount through my wife's grad school credentials.

Otherwise, I got a hell of a lot of comps and NFRs for beta and third-party dev work over the last year! Sadly, though, I don't use much of it regularly at all...

- m

What did you get tempted into buying this year?