Wave Alchemy - Triaz Native - No Kontakt -- Free for current owners!

[cake builder]

Symlinks do help, but a lot of the time I end up using ADSR sample manager because I get annoyed at having to navigate back to the folder I was in if I want to use a drum from the same folder on a new layer

[moon indigo]

Hi all!

Just want to sense check something here. I have bought Triaz and on.the weekend bought the expansion pack from Wave Alchemy for GBP99 (which the Wave Alchemy website said was at a 50% discount).
The next day I searched "Wave Alchemy" on reddit to find turorials etc.

I found to my surprise that thid part sites are selling the Wave alchemy expansion (the exact product I bought from the Wave Alchemy site for a supposed discount of 50%), for around half of what I paid.

This seems quite unfair - can I sense check this with others? Am I right to find this a but sh*tty/unfair?

I really love the Wave Alchemy products but this has left a bad taste in my mouth.

Comments welcome.

[Mr Arkadin]

I always shop around as it's quite common for a vendor to have a deal on that other vendors, including the developer, do not have. It's something I've seen with many developers, so I wouldn't hold it against WA particularly.

If you haven't downloaded it yet, you might be able to get a refund.

[moon indigo]

Thanks. I have downloaded it unfortunately. I have written to Wave Alchemy. Hopefully they do the right thing here.

[Fornicras]

Symlinks do help, but a lot of the time I end up using ADSR sample manager because I get annoyed at having to navigate back to the folder I was in if I want to use a drum from the same folder on a new layer

Yes, symlink worked, but still identifying and showing the list of samples wasn't that great.
Because custom samples are named like "Producername_Packname_Kicks_ToughKick" so on the list I can only see "Producername_packna..." which sucks.

I wish they made the sample selection easier because I like everything else about Triaz.
Wish they include a sample selector like XO and Randomizer options from Atlas (randomize kit or a single sample, and you can also send midi cc to those, which is the greatest thing ever). Then it would be perfect but it's a long shot I guess.

[sqigls]

if you're on mac, try an app called NameChanger. Easy to bulk rename samples.

[sokoleski]

Do alias folders work (on mac) to link my sample folders in to Triaz?


And is it then possible to intelligently , randomize from these folders?
Kicks vs Kicks ..Snares in snares slots and so on..

..or does that only work for WA (tagged) preset libraries?

[Requeenre]

I wish they made the sample selection easier because I like everything else about Triaz.
Wish they include a sample selector like XO and Randomizer options from Atlas (randomize kit or a single sample, and you can also send midi cc to those, which is the greatest thing ever). Then it would be perfect but it's a long shot I guess.

And is it then possible to intelligently , randomize from these folders?
Kicks vs Kicks ..Snares in snares slots and so on..

..or does that only work for WA (tagged) preset libraries?

I prefer Triaz in almost every aspect to XO and Atlas 2, but I agree that sample selection from non-Triaz sources is clunky (best option for me is via the search function if the files are named appropriately and then scroll through them with the audio preview function on). Triaz does have a function to randomize kits and single samples, though (whole kits, certain parts of kits, all three samples of an instrument or only one). The randomize function only uses samples from the core library, which is around 15.000 files I think. The "similar sound" function when randomizing seems to be more basic in comparison to Atlas 2.

[2NDMOUSE]

Tried a demo earlier, and I love the UI, and the functionality, control, etc.....but the one thing that stopped me buying it was the way it handles user libraries. I could be wrong, but I tried to link a drum folder to see how it behaves with my sounds, but it seems I have to copy the sounds into the user folder in order to use them in Triaz.
This one folder was 26gb. If I can't simply link to it, and have to copy everything over and end up with duplicates of large folders. that's a deal-breaker for me.

I've had the WA Tools libraries for years, and maybe have all the Triaz sounds already, so it's not all bad.

Atlas 2 still the King as far as I'm concerned.

[sqigls]

need to use symlinks, symbolic links
they work like a charm.
yeah not ideal, but it works for now

[dastewart]

need to use symlinks, symbolic links
they work like a charm.
yeah not ideal, but it works for now

100% agree. I tried this (and reported success) a few pages back.

[_leras]

This one folder was 26gb. If I can't simply link to it, and have to copy everything over and end up with duplicates of large folders. that's a deal-breaker for me.

I think there's an update for this coming up.

[revvy]

Or use symlinks as explained ,oooh, once or twice in the thread.

(I know it’s a workaround but it’s an easy one)

[Fornicras]

Or use symlinks as explained ,oooh, once or twice in the thread.

(I know it’s a workaround but it’s an easy one)

The dealbreaker is that when you use a symlink to a single main folder (i.e. DrumKits folder), it doesn't work.
You need to separately link each folder one by one; however, there's a workaround for that too, using PowerShell.

Code: Select all

# Edit paths accordingly
$sourcePath = "E:\Drum Kits"
$targetPath = "E:\Drum Kits\Triaz\User Samples"

# Create target folder
if (-not (Test-Path $targetPath)) {
    New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path $targetPath
}

# Link all folders one by one
Get-ChildItem -Path $sourcePath -Directory | ForEach-Object {
    $linkName = Join-Path -Path $targetPath -ChildPath $_.Name
    $originalPath = $_.FullName

    if (-not (Test-Path $linkName)) {
        New-Item -ItemType SymbolicLink -Path $linkName -Target $originalPath
        Write-Output "Linked: $linkName → $originalPath"
    } else {
        Write-Output "Skipped (already exists): $linkName"
    }
}

Another dealbreaker is that Triaz doesn't categorize and list them like its own samples. Which is a huge issue for me.

[sqigls]

it categorises to a point i think, if the files are named appropriately.