KVR Audio

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Thu Aug 15, 2013 5:13 pm

xoxos wrote:and now, excuse me for "being a bigot", why would someone like me have ANY issue with someone named paoling releasing software when there are so few exponents not from the west represented in vst? how many people on kvr are even conscious of cultural representation in this field?

"paoling" comes from Paolo Ingraito, if you'll check his signature. He's Italian, not Chinese or whatever.

xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Thu Aug 15, 2013 5:21 pm

it's too bad hpc posts are deleted, or you'd see that the "cheeso" user account here is pretty much a running xoxos commentary.

thanks again ED for being able to speak without the intention to wound.

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Thu Aug 15, 2013 5:44 pm

No worries - I am also a developer, as I do scripting for Kontakt. Why would I hurt another developer?

paoling · Post by **paoling** » Thu Aug 15, 2013 11:04 pm

I'm away now and writing with the phone (that's not very comfortable!!)
I just want to say that I have a great respect for you xoxos, as a developer and as an human being. I' ve read your story and I'm sincerely moved by it.
Evildragon you are one pf the greatest scripters around and I thank you for the little advices you give about Kontakt scripting.

I'd wish to make alittle internal community about kse, sharing the tricks we learnt.

That's all.

streifentier · Post by **streifentier** » Fri Aug 16, 2013 8:10 am

My 2 cents on the conflict are that there's really very little chance that people would confuse the two products, as they are technically and soundwise really very different (and I think that at this point legal rules and common sense lead to the same result, which is that this product bears little to no threat to xoxos' Aurora synthesizer).

paoling wrote: I'm away now and writing with the phone (that's not very comfortable!!)
I just want to say that I have a great respect for you xoxos, as a developer and as an human being. I' ve read your story and I'm sincerely moved by it.

Well, on this reconciliatory note, maybe this thread can be mended and led back to the original topic ?

Paoling, any more audio demos to be expected soon ? The video is good, but maybe it focuses a bit too much on the video and 3D animation side of things (well done, btw) and too little on the sound of your instrument, so more audio examples would be appreciated.

burkek · Post by **burkek** » Fri Aug 16, 2013 9:57 am

Cheeso wrote:How distasteful for some jackass to hijack a thread over a copyright/trademark he does not own.

To the OP: keep the Aurora name, there is no reason to change it.

This!

KEv

streifentier · Post by **streifentier** » Fri Aug 16, 2013 12:33 pm

burkek wrote:
Cheeso wrote:How distasteful for some jackass to hijack a thread over a copyright/trademark he does not own.

To the OP: keep the Aurora name, there is no reason to change it.
This!

KEv

Erm... no.

Although Cheeso might have a point there, I think that the rudeness of his wording makes it obviouse that his intention is rather to bash xoxos instead of supporting Paoling.

Anyway, maybe there's someone out there who cares to bring this thread back to the original topic, which IMO is quite a bit more interesting than that trademark debate ?!

xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Fri Aug 16, 2013 4:31 pm

(streifentier - i appreciate you having the discretion to mention cheeso's partiality as i endure it without most people noticing.)

paoling - thank you for your patience. such aptitudes accoutre accomplishment.

GJK · Post by **GJK** » Fri Aug 16, 2013 4:39 pm

Any more demos, pics or specs ??

mandolarian · Post by **mandolarian** » Fri Aug 16, 2013 9:07 pm

To avoid any branding confusion, you could remove the exciting parts of library and add in some dull stuff and call it: Aurora Boring Alice.

Here all weekend - re-branding the world, one stupid slogan at a time.

paoling · Post by **paoling** » Tue Oct 08, 2013 12:59 am

Hi to all! We have posted the first 3 demos of AURORA.

https://soundcloud.com/fluffyaudio/sets/aurora

Marius Masalar demo uses some sounds from our My Piano and My Vibes libraries and third party drums.

The other two demos, by Luca and Generdyn are entirely made with AURORA.

AURORA has a really large palette of sounds, that we'll continue to show deeper in the next demos.
We think that our library fits very different approaches to film music, giving the user the ability to easily design his custom patches.

And here's a video showing an example of soundscape design by adding layers of different soundsources and modulating them with envelopes and modwheel. Next videos will feature the arpeggiator in action and a patch overview.

paoling · Post by **paoling** » Fri Oct 11, 2013 10:30 am

We've updated our site with info on AURORA pricing and the release date!

And we added a new cinematic demo, which shows the different souls of AURORA: soundscapes, electronic and hybrid instruments and cinematic percussion:

https://soundcloud.com/fluffyaudio/auro ... c-memories

paoling · Post by **paoling** » Sun Oct 20, 2013 3:57 pm

AURORA is out now!

PRODUCT PAGE

Introductory offer valid until 30th October:
125 Euro / 169 $

after this period the library will be sold at:
149 Euro / 199 $

Quick precisation: AURORA is a living library. We'll constantly add functionalities, samples and custom patches. The current number of custom presets (in the form of NKI files) is 162. The current library size is 4.34 GBs.
As you will see AURORA is quite an innovative tool in the realm of Kontakt libraries.
We hope you'll enjoy Aurora as much as we've enjoyed making it.

Here you can download the manual if you are interested:
www.fluffyaudio.com/materials/AURORA_Manual.pdf

tq · Post by tq » Mon Oct 21, 2013 7:36 pm

The demos sound wonderful, and the GUI is very nice. Still a bit undecided, as there is no list of patches. And I am still wondering whether this is primarily drones, pads, atmospheres, and 'cinematic' background stuff? (I would be more interested in rhythmic and pulsating 'hybrid' patches with some semi-acoustic character - some of the demos hint at such content.)

Will there be a video demo of arpeggiated and more acoustic/tonal patches?

Btw, how was Dream Audio Tools involved with this? I love Luca's guitar stuff, and I would love to see his stuff packaged in such a nice scripted instrument, too...

paoling · Post by **paoling** » Mon Oct 21, 2013 8:37 pm

Hi TQ!
Thank you for your kind words.
This is the patch list, as I posted on another forum thread.
I didn't do that, because it's very messy to list, since there are soundsources and NKI presets. NKI presets are made using the main INIT patch, which allows the user to build dozens of different sounding patches by loading the soundsources directly from the interface. The arpeggiated / sequenced patches are now 57. We will improve the number of these in the next updates of the library.

Here's the list of the current version of the library.

Soundsources (multisampled instruments, recallable in the internal browser of AURORA)
We'll list the number of the soundsources and some of them
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Short sounds (almost every soundsource is multisampled by velocity and in case of tonal instruments also by pitch)

Big Hits (23 Sounds - Timpanis, Gong, Tam Tam, Metal Sheet, Synth Hits)
Bells (11 sounds - Various kinds of Bells, Glockenspiels, Wrenchophone)
Tonal Percussion (9 sounds - Xilophones, Soft Piano, Music Boxes, Tilophone)
Small Percussions (8 sounds - Castanets, Slapstick, Ratchet, Tabla sounds)
Plucked (9 sounds - various plucked instruments, Kalimbas, Rubber instruments)

Long Sounds (every soundsource is multisampled by pitch)
Pads: (20 sounds - Long sounds with a clear harmonic content, Violin Ensemble, synth pads, Granular Pads obtained from real instruments)
High Drones (16 Sounds - Instruments which sounds the best when played in the higher register, there's a Bowed Bells instrument that sounds awesome!)
Low Drones (12 Sounds - Instruments which sounds the best when played in the higher register)
Synths (10 Sounds + replicas for layering - Simple waveforms building synthesized patches)
Soundscapes (32 Sounds - Atmospheric soundscapes, tuned and untuned)

The NKI preset library is made of the above sounds, but layered and modulated to create new custom sounds and rhythmic patches.

The current categories are:
Electronica
Featured (patches made by our composer friends. Now we have patched made by Blake Ewing and David Garcia Diaz)
FX
Impacts
Keys & Bells
Sequenced and Arpeggiated (with 3 subcategories: Elements, Full Sequences and Percussion)
Sustained (with 3 subcategories: Ethereal, Sci-Fi and Horror).

FluffyAudio AURORA 1.1 major update with new content and SALE! 99€/139$ instead of 149€/199$