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Your Black Friday (November) Purchases 2022

ibanez1 said:
Wow what a haul! Looks like you did end up getting the infinite series after all. Awesome đź‘Ť. Also this is a reminder that I need to go download that sonuscore pipe organ :).
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Yep, I had wanted it for 2 years and was always tempted by something else. Not this time. I have generally reduced my spending over the last year or so (it was pretty high during lockdown), so a lot of this was from waiting for the deals to arrive.

Writing down everything I got was a bit overwhelming and contrary to what it might seem, I tend to not enjoy buying, in fact quite the opposite. What I hate is finding the time to work with everything you buy, getting to know how to use it all.

I would never advise people to buy a lot early on, but most of the things on that list were on my to buy list. Some of the things not on the list had a set purpose, such as the Thematic Trumpets and Horns, which were to compensate for the weakness in BBC SO in that area.

The only extras were Omnisphere libraries (I have purchased quite a few of those this year, so really need to buy less of those, but they are my main weakness when I hear the demos and walkthroughs), BFD3 (just too good an option to not pick up), a couple of $15 Spitfire libraries during the EDU sale, 8Dio Vocal Series (bought during the glitch, though had already bought the Intimate Series) and the BOOM Libraries.

MSS will be extra, but it is very powerful in what it can do plus it has an "Intuition" version which is a bit like Infinite Series in how it works, so should compliment that. If Infinite Strings was out, I doubt I would get both, but I don't know how long that will take.



The main reason for considering Berlin Series or MIR3D is to reduce the RAM and storage footprint of using many mics and using advanced convolution engines instead.
 
Markrs said:
Black Friday Sales purchases:
  • Abbey Road One: Thematic Trumpets (Edu Sale)
  • Abbey Road One: Thematic Horns (Edu Sale)
  • Yair Elazar Glotman - Speculative Memories (Edu Sale)
  • Originals Cinematic Pads (Edu Sale)
  • Audio Modelling SWAM Strings and Saxophones
  • Strat style guitar
  • Man Makes Noise Puro - for Omnisphere
  • UVI Prime 8+ (Free)
  • Little Radiator (Free)
  • Mntra Kymera-CE update (Free)
  • Man Makes Noise - Puro for Omnisphere 2
  • Audio Modelling SWAM Saxophones v3
  • Audio Modelling SWAM Solo Strings 3
  • BOOM Library Nordic War Horns (Free)
  • iZotope Audiolens (Free)
  • 8Dio Intimate Studio Brass
  • 8Dio Intimate Studio Woodwinds
  • 8Dio Studio Vocal Series Jenifer
  • 8Dio Studio Vocal Series Laurie
  • One Man Tribe - Full Catalogue (Loops and One Shots)
  • BFD3 + Expansions: Crush, Oblivion, Horsepower, Jazz Noir & Metal Snares
  • zplane deCoda LE (Free)
  • Dorico 4 Elements
  • HoRNet Sybilla (Free)
  • Wave Lil Tube (Free)
  • Ethera Gold Atlantis 2
  • Man Makes Noise - Transmissions for Omnisphere 2
  • Pianoteq Standard to Pro Upgrade + 2 Free Instruments
  • Audio Assault Multi Transient
  • Audio Assault XCTR
  • 8Dio Agitato Legato Arpeggio
  • 8Dio Agitato Grandiose Legato Ensemble & Divisi Cellos
  • 8Dio Agitato Grandiose Legato Ensemble & Divisi Violins
  • Sonuscore Pipe Organ (Free)
  • Cinesamples - Tongue Drum, Twisted Psaltry, Accent Pianos, Toy Xylo & Kalimba (Free)
  • Infinite Woodwinds
  • Infinite Brass
  • BOOM Library Cinematic Darkness
Will probably get MSS this weekend and thinking about Berlin Studio and MIR3D.

Looking at the list there is quite a bit, but as nearly all were on my buy list it didn't feel like a lot of impulse buying.
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Oh boy...
 
Markrs said:
Black Friday Sales purchases:
  • Abbey Road One: Thematic Trumpets (Edu Sale)
  • Abbey Road One: Thematic Horns (Edu Sale)
  • Yair Elazar Glotman - Speculative Memories (Edu Sale)
  • Originals Cinematic Pads (Edu Sale)
  • Audio Modelling SWAM Strings and Saxophones
  • Strat style guitar
  • Man Makes Noise Puro - for Omnisphere
  • UVI Prime 8+ (Free)
  • Little Radiator (Free)
  • Mntra Kymera-CE update (Free)
  • Man Makes Noise - Puro for Omnisphere 2
  • Audio Modelling SWAM Saxophones v3
  • Audio Modelling SWAM Solo Strings 3
  • BOOM Library Nordic War Horns (Free)
  • iZotope Audiolens (Free)
  • 8Dio Intimate Studio Brass
  • 8Dio Intimate Studio Woodwinds
  • 8Dio Studio Vocal Series Jenifer
  • 8Dio Studio Vocal Series Laurie
  • One Man Tribe - Full Catalogue (Loops and One Shots)
  • BFD3 + Expansions: Crush, Oblivion, Horsepower, Jazz Noir & Metal Snares
  • zplane deCoda LE (Free)
  • Dorico 4 Elements
  • HoRNet Sybilla (Free)
  • Wave Lil Tube (Free)
  • Ethera Gold Atlantis 2
  • Man Makes Noise - Transmissions for Omnisphere 2
  • Pianoteq Standard to Pro Upgrade + 2 Free Instruments
  • Audio Assault Multi Transient
  • Audio Assault XCTR
  • 8Dio Agitato Legato Arpeggio
  • 8Dio Agitato Grandiose Legato Ensemble & Divisi Cellos
  • 8Dio Agitato Grandiose Legato Ensemble & Divisi Violins
  • Sonuscore Pipe Organ (Free)
  • Cinesamples - Tongue Drum, Twisted Psaltry, Accent Pianos, Toy Xylo & Kalimba (Free)
  • Infinite Woodwinds
  • Infinite Brass
  • BOOM Library Cinematic Darkness
Will probably get MSS this weekend and thinking about Berlin Studio and MIR3D.

Looking at the list there is quite a bit, but as nearly all were on my buy list it didn't feel like a lot of impulse buying.
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Markrs are you santa? :P
 
Markrs said:
Yep, I had wanted it for 2 years and was always tempted by something else. Not this time. I have generally reduced my spending over the last year or so (it was pretty high during lockdown), so a lot of this was from waiting for the deals to arrive.

Writing down everything I got was a bit overwhelming and contrary to what it might seem, I tend to not enjoy buying, in fact quite the opposite. What I hate is finding the time to work with everything you buy, getting to know how to use it all.

I would never advise people to buy a lot early on, but most of the things on that list were on my to buy list. Some of the things not on the list had a set purpose, such as the Thematic Trumpets and Horns, which were to compensate for the weakness in BBC SO in that area.

The only extras were Omnisphere libraries (I have purchased quite a few of those this year, so really need to buy less of those, but they are my main weakness when I hear the demos and walkthroughs), BFD3 (just too good an option to not pick up), a couple of $15 Spitfire libraries during the EDU sale, 8Dio Vocal Series (bought during the glitch, though had already bought the Intimate Series) and the BOOM Libraries.

MSS will be extra, but it is very powerful in what it can do plus it has an "Intuition" version which is a bit like Infinite Series in how it works, so should compliment that. If Infinite Strings was out, I doubt I would get both, but I don't know how long that will take.



The main reason for considering Berlin Series or MIR3D is to reduce the RAM and storage footprint of using many mics and using advanced convolution engines instead.
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I have a love/hate relationship with buying libraries (especially the more expensive ones). My rule is always that I truly need to feel moved by what i'm hearing from the library. That's when I know in some way, I will end up using it in what I make and at least I will avoid regret. Your haul looks large but it seems like you also made a lot of smart affordable purchases and got some EDU discounts / freebies.

I'm going to spend some time with zebra 2, novum, ethera gold 2.5, and elements MSS before even thinking about omnisphere :). The fact that it never goes on sale and I have all of these other synths to play with reduces my GAS.

Thanks for pointing out MSS for playability. I'll probably not end up getting another bread and butter strings library now but it's something to look into in parallel with hopefully getting unify to make playable patches for my existing string libraries.
 
ibanez1 said:
novum, ethera gold 2.5, and elements MSS before even thinking about omnisphere
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I have these and they are all excellent. The synth sample patches in Ethera Gold 2.5 are seriously under-rated, and I think the flexibility of Elements MSS is fantastic. I also love all the tutorials that Stefano makes for them, which so few library creators do. It helps you really know what you can do with it, plus his pricing is excellent.

ibanez1 said:
Your haul looks large but it seems like you also made a lot of smart affordable purchases and got some EDU discounts / freebies.
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Exactly, there was quite a bit of free and cheap stuff in there. To be honest, buying often makes me feel a bit sick, I just don't get the joy that a lot of other people do from it, and writing a list of what I have often reduces down the desire for future purchases. I worry people will think it is bragging, when in truth it is to ensure I am honest with what I own.

The truth is the more you buy, the more time you have to find to work with it and there is a point where there are just not enough free hours in the day, especially after work when you are feeling a bit brain-dead.
 
Recently I’ve used Spectre on Spitfire Harp and was pretty happy with the result.

SA Harp sounds dark and has a resonance in lower mid that no EQ was dealing with without losing definition.
I had hard times mixing it with other libraries.

Spectre has brought up mids & hi-mids and then I can EQ the result more gently.
I can do a before/after if you want and if someone teaches me how to embed sound file to a thread.
 
Markrs said:
Black Friday Sales purchases:
  • Abbey Road One: Thematic Trumpets (Edu Sale)
  • Abbey Road One: Thematic Horns (Edu Sale)
  • Yair Elazar Glotman - Speculative Memories (Edu Sale)
  • Originals Cinematic Pads (Edu Sale)
  • Audio Modelling SWAM Strings and Saxophones
  • Strat style guitar
  • Man Makes Noise Puro - for Omnisphere
  • UVI Prime 8+ (Free)
  • Little Radiator (Free)
  • Mntra Kymera-CE update (Free)
  • Man Makes Noise - Puro for Omnisphere 2
  • Audio Modelling SWAM Saxophones v3
  • Audio Modelling SWAM Solo Strings 3
  • BOOM Library Nordic War Horns (Free)
  • iZotope Audiolens (Free)
  • 8Dio Intimate Studio Brass
  • 8Dio Intimate Studio Woodwinds
  • 8Dio Studio Vocal Series Jenifer
  • 8Dio Studio Vocal Series Laurie
  • One Man Tribe - Full Catalogue (Loops and One Shots)
  • BFD3 + Expansions: Crush, Oblivion, Horsepower, Jazz Noir & Metal Snares
  • zplane deCoda LE (Free)
  • Dorico 4 Elements
  • HoRNet Sybilla (Free)
  • Wave Lil Tube (Free)
  • Ethera Gold Atlantis 2
  • Man Makes Noise - Transmissions for Omnisphere 2
  • Pianoteq Standard to Pro Upgrade + 2 Free Instruments
  • Audio Assault Multi Transient
  • Audio Assault XCTR
  • 8Dio Agitato Legato Arpeggio
  • 8Dio Agitato Grandiose Legato Ensemble & Divisi Cellos
  • 8Dio Agitato Grandiose Legato Ensemble & Divisi Violins
  • Sonuscore Pipe Organ (Free)
  • Cinesamples - Tongue Drum, Twisted Psaltry, Accent Pianos, Toy Xylo & Kalimba (Free)
  • Infinite Woodwinds
  • Infinite Brass
  • BOOM Library Cinematic Darkness
Will probably get MSS this weekend and thinking about Berlin Studio and MIR3D.

Looking at the list there is quite a bit, but as nearly all were on my buy list it didn't feel like a lot of impulse buying.
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There’s a lot there but with an Edu discount plus BF how much did you actually spend? Certainly it looks very well-planned.
 
DoubleTap said:
There’s a lot there but with an Edu discount plus BF how much did you actually spend? Certainly it looks very well-planned.
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Most were pretty cheap, though they do add up quickly, so you do have to be careful with all the "no-brainers". The big items were:
  • Audio Modelling SWAM Strings and Saxophones (EDU + BF discount Glitch) - $250
  • Infinite Brass and Woodwinds - $500
  • Pianoteq Pro upgrade - $81
  • 8Dio libraries (individually pretty cheap, but again they do add up) - $142
  • Audiobro MSS (not yet purchased, but almost certain to buy it today after watching just about every video on YouTube on it). - $329
  • Spitfire EDU - $78
Those items add up to $1,380

All the other items come to just $155
 
Rudianos said:
What do you think about those infinite brass and woodwinds? I got a lot of stuff already what makes those distinctive?
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I bought it today so not able to give a very precise view at this point however, the main things for me are.
  • The size of the libraries at only 8gb and small footprint for RAM means they can work on laptops that require less resources.
  • Very smooth cross-fades between dynamic levels.
  • The sound for me has the quality control of VSL (it is more similar to the older VI libraries) but feels more alive, especially with the built-in IRs.
  • No need for articulation maps, all the controls are playable. I have many multi-parameter devices to send CCs such as breath, bite and tilt controller, Leap Motion (using MIDIpaw, Musikraken (iOS or Android app) and Roli Seaboard/lightpad. The main benefit is you can just listen and experiment.
  • Works with Divisimate using their templates
 
Rudianos said:
What do you think about those infinite brass and woodwinds? I got a lot of stuff already what makes those distinctive?
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Playability and no crossfades. There are no keyswitches for normal playing. Just notes, velocity, and modwheel and you can play all articulations based on note length and how hard you hit the keys. Since there are no crossfade issues, crescendos, arcs, and marcatos sound excellent after you get used to playing them in with the modwheel. "Infinite round robins" due to the humanization and how the sound is constructed everytime you play. Very fast repetitive lines sound believable and it can play real fast and not fall apart. You can also play your own trills in and actually slow them down at your own pace!

The other benefit if you have divisimate is that you build your own ensembles with the infinite series. So using divisimate, when you stack chords in french horns for instance, it will automatically split the part between players. This makes for a more realistic section divisi.

So far, I'm really loving this workflow.
 
Lewis Emblack said:
Do you know if you can stack them? As in use both a $50 and $25 together?
I was under the impression you couldn't 🤔 $49 is more than I have unfortunately
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I don't think you can. I'll send you my code so you can try. If it doesn't work, just let me know and I might use the code myself towards the end of the month.
 
In my case, my BF was made by Accentize DeRoom Pro and Zynaptiq Unveil (a good combination to remove reverbs from live recordings), Seventh Heaven Pro (with a big discount because I already own many LiquidSonics and Reverb Foundry products), Goodhertz Panpot (I needed an alternative panner) and Antares Throat (combined to Flux/IRCAM Trax is great to alter voices), plus a very cheap update from Audiothing Fog Convolver 1 to 2.
 
I will be making a consolidation post later with all my purchases but I just wanted to stop in and say how much I love the grumpymonkeyplugins niente plugin after buying it during black friday. To me, it is a must have for removing the headache of controlling expression for most long articulations while composing.

Refer to my post here:

Controlling Expression / Modulation CC with just the Modwheel

I have had some ups and downs figuring out the best way to control dynamics for virtual instruments. Below are the approaches I see online: 1. Using modulation and then hand tuning expression / volume fade in/out after they play in the part. 2. Master being a contortion artist and control 2...
vi-control.net vi-control.net

It's not even on sale anymore but for full price $15 it is worth every penny for what it does.

If you're in cubase, you might want unify to make it easier to work with since it requires an extra instrument track otherwise but for logic and reaper it should work flawlessly as a midi fx plugin.
 
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