I subscribe to their products and get this included immediately. Finally got it up a running as they had to do some quick fixes after release this week.
THIS IS AMAZING!
And a first impression by a user....
Re: HOLY MOLY!!!
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2021 11:43 am
by RockYoWorld
That's really cool. I can see that the subscription is a bit of a deal seeing as this software package is ~$800 to buy outright.
Re: HOLY MOLY!!!
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2021 6:46 pm
by LightWingStudios
RockYoWorld wrote: ↑Mon Apr 26, 2021 11:43 am
That's really cool. I can see that the subscription is a bit of a deal seeing as this software package is ~$800 to buy outright.
Yes sir! It's cheaper in the long run. For $20-30 a month you get access to EVERTHING they have including updates, upgrades and new products.
The "Content" of all 42,000 patches and Instruments will take over TWO Terabytes of Disk Space and a long time to download the first time you pull everything down. Took me a day and a half at a Hard Wired 200MB Interment Connection. Doing it wirelessly would have been insane.
Problem with subscriptions is you need to keep paying. EW DOES have a Month-To-Month subscription so you have the option of paying only when you need to use their stuff and then turn it off. I've found you should ALWAYS bounce your Midi/Instrument Tracks to Audio anyway so if you decide to end the subscription, you still have the end results. Otherwise the Midi/Instrument Tracks tied to their Virtual Instruments will no longer work. Bouncing to Audio Tracks frees up ALOT of system resources and RAM as well.
Re: HOLY MOLY!!!
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2021 8:25 pm
by BatUtilityBelt
It looks impressive, but I'm not sure who it is targeted for. Having done a bunch of orchestration (mostly concurrently as I was composing), it looks like something that would both, make the job quicker, but also impose artificial constraints on a composer's choices. I'm sure the models are not the only way to use the samples though. So it kinda comes across to me as a software-only arranger keyboard (I've never had one, but seen a lot of demos). If I was still taking those composing jobs, I would probably just shell out the $800 and figure out how useful it is in the following weeks.