NI is now part of Soundwide with plugin alliance etc! Lots of free stuff...

[vurt]

no death stars or anything!

No mind control lazers? Boo ...

you can have one! no more!

[thecontrolcentre]

[ChristopherWD]

I have to say, the Focusrite freebie is really nice. And the subtle randomize function is something I've wanted to see in processing plugins, so it was a cool surprise to see it here.

[vurt]

something, something, something souuuuuuundwiiiiiiide.

[ChristopherWD]

something, something, something souuuuuuundwiiiiiiide.

Just how wide are we talking here?

[Greenstorm33]

something, something, something souuuuuuundwiiiiiiide.

They should have taken the big bucks that all three companies are doubtless making from their current subscription services and spent $50 of it to hire a college marketing student to come up with a better name

[BONES]

I wont go into your pathetic PA simping, but just wanted to acknowledge it

WTF!?! My first-hand, actual experience of PA has been nothing but excellent so pardon f**king me for saying so. And, to be clear, I have bought exactly two of their products, three if you count Thorn, so I'm hardly a f**king fanboi.

If you didn't buy a new laptop every year for no reason, you could save much more time than that.

Except I now have a laptop that can run all the plugins last year's struggled with. You know, the shit you miss out on by being a cantankerous old fart who's stuck in a rut so deep you can't even see out of it any more.

Its a freebie at the Focusrite Plugin Collectiv

Since when? I didn't see it last time I looked, which was just before Xmas. I'm hopeless with that thing, I never remember to check what's on offer. They manage to get some good stuff, though, but I nearly always miss out.

Installation managers are pretty personal, but PA's manager doesn't show version updates iirc

That's true but, then, NI is constantly showing updates that suck bandwidth and change nothing, so I think I'll fall on the side of preferring not to be constantly updating shit. The M1 thing, of course, is ultimately Apple's fault, not PAs. Because I can promise you if Microsoft did something to Windows that forced me to have to upgrade all my f**king software, I'd be blaming them, not the poor f**kers who have to do all the work for their entitled customers for nothing.

i'm curious. is there any sampler that streams directly from flash?

I'm not sure honestly. There aren't many samplers that compete with Kontakt either way.

It's so long since I've had to think about it but I wonder if you could simply pass the sample libraries off to a paging file so that they are more accessible than straight streaming from SSD. NLEs stream video from disk and things like After Effects and Nuke use disk caching so it shouldn't be a huge hassle either way. Although the idea of caching makes more sense because it allows your application to have the data in a more use-ready state, as it's likely things are stored on a the drive in a more space-efficient way, rather than in a ready to use way. That might be a limitation that makes the effort not worth making? i.e. To make it work, it might mean changing the way libraries are stored on your drives, which means extra work for all of your hundreds of 3rd party vendors, which they may or may not give a f**k about, especially as it's work users would expect them to do for free.

aside from Kontakt UI which does need work, at the very least getting rid of the tiny f**king text that makes it nearly unusable on modern displays.

I have a modern display, and it's only a 14" jobbie, but I can read the text on Kontakt's GUI just fine. Perhaps what you meant to say was "poorly chosen display for the kind of work I am doing"? Because when I had that problem on my Surface Pro 4, I got rid of it, I didn't expect the world to come to my rescue because I'd made a bad choice. (No, agreeing with me doesn't earn you any favours.)

I found the Master desk thingy to be suprisingly useful. I swapped out my usuals on the master on a finished mix and got very fast n good results.

The tube saturation is cool. Can always use a different saturation.

I wasn't going to bother but you make it sound as if it's at least worth checking out.

Good for you. I'm not setting up a new laptop ... I like to organise my plugins, not just drop them all in the same folder.

Silly me, I thought the idea was to produce music. I gave up on caring where anything lives on my drives many years ago, when I realised my resistance to change was making a rod for my own back and that it really doesn't make any difference. As long as they are organised enough where I access them in my host, I really don't care where they are on my system. What little effort I make goes into organising them in Studio One, which feels like a much better use of my time. And NI lets me choose where it installs stuff, yet the other day I realised it had copied my Battery Factory Library into my Documents folder, as well as into the location I specified, which is far more annoying than having no control at all.

[rezoneight]

aside from Kontakt UI which does need work, at the very least getting rid of the tiny f**king text that makes it nearly unusable on modern displays.

I have a modern display, and it's only a 14" jobbie, but I can read the text on Kontakt's GUI just fine. Perhaps what you meant to say was "poorly chosen display for the kind of work I am doing"? Because when I had that problem on my Surface Pro 4, I got rid of it, I didn't expect the world to come to my rescue because I'd made a bad choice. (No, agreeing with me doesn't earn you any favours.)

Not looking for favors (you spelled it wrong) as you're a twat pretty much 100% of the time. Simply agreed with most of that one post, then told you where you were most definitely wrong. My monitor is double the size of your "jobbie" and is 5K. It's modern and sharp as a tack. Learn to read dude. I didn't say I couldn't read it, I said it was tiny and made it nearly unusable.

[anttimaatteri]

the funniest thing about it are the board members .

but, bx_oberhausen synth is nice, thou i have it already. the blackbox adds a good sound. im not sure about the other stuff. ampeg amp sim. rest i dont care that much.

[mixyguy2]

Why does Kontakt need redesigning? You never have to interact with it, just the instruments you load into it, most of which have a great UX.

You can't be serious. The whole plugin within a plugin is stupid, for starters. It's not scalable. The fonts are annoyingly tiny. A ridiculously complicated file extension mess. I could go on. And it's been this way for years. The only reason I finally broke down and bought it (other than being steeply discounted) was there are so many companies that use it whose plugins I was really interested in, including a lot of freebies.

[anttimaatteri]

Why does Kontakt need redesigning? You never have to interact with it, just the instruments you load into it, most of which have a great UX.

You can't be serious. The whole plugin within a plugin is stupid, for starters. It's not scalable. The fonts are annoyingly tiny. A ridiculously complicated file extension mess. I could go on. And it's been this way for years. The only reason I finally broke down and bought it (other than being steeply discounted) was there are so many companies that use it whose plugins I was really interested in, including a lot of freebies.

and the maschine gui, is the exacr opposite of anywhere near intuitive .
i never thought reason software could be beaten in terms of scaladisabilty^^

[Effectsworks]

Here cometh the obligatory sub-model.

[dionenoid]

Here cometh the obligatory sub-model.

Count me in when it's 9,95 per year for all NI, PA and Izotope plugins

[Effectsworks]

Here cometh the obligatory sub-model.

Count me in when it's 9,95 per year for all NI, PA and Izotope plugins

Hah... I go there myself to be honest at this price.

[vurt]

Here cometh the obligatory sub-model.

Count me in when it's 9,95 per year for all NI, PA and Izotope plugins

Hah... I go there myself to be honest at this price.

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