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True Strike is leaving the store - Farewell Sale

Personally not a fan of any library being discontinued. Glad to own True Strike though. And I’m eager to hear what your new library will sound like!

Say, this is convenient timing for when Cinematic Studio Percussion might come out, huh…
 
True Strike was a part of my template longer than any other library - I got it in 2006. It was my main percussion library for that entire time, and only got largely supplanted in that role by VSL Synchron Percussion a few months back when I bought that bundle during the October sale. It felt like the end of an era when I finally loaded mostly the VSL percussion in my template and removed True Strike aside from a few auxiliary instruments, and now even more so, with it being discontinued.
 
I mean, it makes sense if they are about to release a new orchestral percussion library that has the same instruments, but is just generally..better.

They probably know that True Strike simply won't sell much, if at all, once the new library is released.
 
MSLD Sound said:
I should refine my premise to say that I don't really see the incentive to buy a library that a dev has publicly admitted is dated enough to be worthy of removal from storefront even after a GUI remaster.
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Hey, a great sound is a great sound no matter how old. Mellotron, anyone?
 
tmpc said:
Hey, a great sound is a great sound no matter how old. Mellotron, anyone?
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Okay but — sorry to diverge from the thread but I have a point. Streetly Electronics, the rights holders to the Chamberlin and Mellotron master tapes, make them readily available in many forms.

1️⃣ They still make physical tapes for Mellotrons (and they make Mellotrons!).
2️⃣ They formally license their sounds to GForce for the M-Tron plugins, Markus Resch for the M4000D hardware, Clavia for the Nord Sample Library, etc.
3️⃣ They allow substantial portions of their IP to exist "unlicensed", as in the case of the Leisureland M400S sample collection and possibly many of the paid Mellotron products on the market.

Comparing the ethos of Streetly and Project SAM with proper consistency would first require that the makers of True Strike offer, in perpetuity, one or more methods for people to continue to get at True Strike. This could be a paid, non-Player version of the library. It could be merging the True Strike content into Lineage. It could be setting the raw sample data free. Regardless, True Strike isn't going to hold the timeless appeal of tape keyboards ever if it gets locked behind "we're not selling it anymore, you can't have it" walls. (Noteworthy that this IP lockdown I am describing has already happened with TS2, which never got a remaster. I'm sure I'll hate to see what happens when they decide Symphobia 1/2 and Orchestral Essentials 1/2 are unsellable.)
 
MSLD Sound said:
Okay but — sorry to diverge from the thread but I have a point. Streetly Electronics, the rights holders to the Chamberlin and Mellotron master tapes, make them readily available in many forms.

1️⃣ They still make physical tapes for Mellotrons (and they make Mellotrons!).
2️⃣ They formally license their sounds to GForce for the M-Tron plugins, Markus Resch for the M4000D hardware, Clavia for the Nord Sample Library, etc.
3️⃣ They allow substantial portions of their IP to exist "unlicensed", as in the case of the Leisureland M400S sample collection and possibly many of the paid Mellotron products on the market.

Comparing the ethos of Streetly and Project SAM with proper consistency would first require that the makers of True Strike offer, in perpetuity, one or more methods for people to continue to get at True Strike. This could be a paid, non-Player version of the library. It could be merging the True Strike content into Lineage. It could be setting the raw sample data free. Regardless, True Strike isn't going to hold the timeless appeal of tape keyboards ever if it gets locked behind "we're not selling it anymore, you can't have it" walls. (Noteworthy that this IP lockdown I am describing has already happened with TS2, which never got a remaster. I'm sure I'll hate to see what happens when they decide Symphobia 1/2 and Orchestral Essentials 1/2 are unsellable.)
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Yikes! My comment concerned nothing beyond the sound of the library.

BUT, as the owner of an original Mellotron M400, you obviously know nothing of the abysmal support that existed for them in the late 70's and early 80's here in the USA. So, support over time is a dynamic thing.

I personally wish that all sound library companies had a plan in place to unlock their libraries if they discontinue them or they go out of business.

By the way, when you get a chance, hold a seance and ask Harry Chamberlain how he feels about the Mellotron folks.
 
tmpc said:
Yikes! My comment concerned nothing beyond the sound of the library.

BUT, as the owner of an original Mellotron M400, you obviously know nothing of the abysmal support that existed for them in the late 70's and early 80's here in the USA. So, support over time is a dynamic thing.

I personally wish that all sound library companies had a plan in place to unlock their libraries if they discontinue them or they go out of business.

By the way, when you get a chance, hold a seance and ask Harry Chamberlain how he feels about the Mellotron folks.
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That's fair re: dynamic support over time. Though … it just seems very odd for anyone to willfully create lost media in an age when it's so easy to not do so.

For what it's worth, I do know about Bill Fransen stealing two Chamberlins and passing off Harry's IP as his own to the Bradley brothers. So, I hope Harry's busy haunting Streetly to this day. 😛
 
MSLD Sound said:
That's fair re: dynamic support over time. Though … it just seems very odd for anyone to willfully create lost media in an age when it's so easy to not do so.
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I agree, but at the end of the day, it's their property. We're just renting it. My advice is to install and authorize your libraries on as many SSDs as you can. Just make sure to run them for a while once a year to rejuvenate the data.
 
It depends on whether they have the licence code on hand or have to get it from the vendor. If not immediate, usually less than a day. But it’s a weekend and JRR and ProjectSam are in quite different time zones.
 
Any ideas of when the new Lineage Percussion is going to be released? I'm interested to see what this new one offers.
 
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