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Spitfire Audio LABS Moon Guitar is out.

These are the ones available now, all free:
- 9/19 LABS Moon Guitar
- 8/19 LABS London Atmos
- 7/19 LABS Hand Bells
- 6/19 LABS Pedal Pads
- 5/19 LABS Music Box
- 4/19 LABS Dulcimer
- 3/19 LABS Scary Strings
- 2/19 LABS Modular Piano
- 1/19 LABS Peel Guitar
- 12/18 LABS Frozen Strings
- 11/18 LABS Synth Pads
- 11/18 LABS Choir
- 9/18 LABS Charango
- 8/18 LABS Electric Piano
- 8/18 LABS Amplified Cello Quartet
- 6/18 LABS Drums
- 5/18 LABS Soft Piano en Strings
 
TomislavEP said:
I've just did my daily visit to Rekkerd.org and I've came across a new Kontakt developer - Westwood Instruments. I haven't heard of them thus far. Currently they have only one product available - Upright Felt Piano - which is completely free, at least for the time being. You do need to sign for a newsletter unfortunately. Here is the link:

westwoodinstruments.com

Instruments - Westwood Instruments

Alternative and award-winning sample libraries for Kontakt and Kontakt Player. Strings, Keys, Synths, Brass, Winds and more.
westwoodinstruments.com westwoodinstruments.com

I'll will certainly download and check this out though I have all the piano libraries I need at the moment, including the felted ones. But I rarely come across a quality produced and potentially quite useful Kontakt freebies these days so I'll give it a go - despite my recent decision of going on a diet regarding freebies and discounts. ;)
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What did you end up thinking of this one? After a quick test I think it could have been a low-priced instrument. Free is too frequently too good to be true and winds up sounding like it or turns out to be too limited to be useful. At first listen this sounds good and may be a very good no-budget alternative to Spitfire's $99 Felt Piano, which I don't own but sounds really nice judging from the demos.

For those interested, here is a brief description of its specs:
3 mic positions.
1xRR.
2x dynamics.
Release samples and pedal noises.
Nearly every other note is sampled (A0-G7. G7 is stretched up to C8).
About 400MB extracted.
Requires Kontakt full.
 
hawpri said:
What did you end up thinking of this one? After a quick test I think it could have been a low-priced instrument. Free is too frequently too good to be true and winds up sounding like it or turns out to be too limited to be useful. At first listen this sounds good and may be a very good no-budget alternative to Spitfire's $99 Felt Piano, which I don't own but sounds really nice judging from the demos.

For those interested, here is a brief description of its specs:
3 mic positions.
1xRR.
2x dynamics.
Release samples and pedal noises.
Nearly every other note is sampled (A0-G7. G7 is stretched up to C8).
About 400MB extracted.
Requires Kontakt full.
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I've tried it, but it has a certain overtone in the middle register which I personally don't like. It is more or less prominent with some mic positions. But overall, this is one of the better freebies I've came across in recent time, both in terms of the sound quality and features.

BTW, I have Spitfire Audio's Felt Piano among the other piano libraries, but despite my absolute love for it, I often fall back using the Soft Piano from Spitfire Labs instead. There is just something about it..
 
TomislavEP said:
I've tried it, but it has a certain overtone in the middle register which I personally don't like. It is more or less prominent with some mic positions. But overall, this is one of the better freebies I've came across in recent time, both in terms of the sound quality and features.

BTW, I have Spitfire Audio's Felt Piano among the other piano libraries, but despite my absolute love for it, I often fall back using the Soft Piano from Spitfire Labs instead. There is just something about it..
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After a second test with it today I think I hear what you've described. Added some EQ and blended Cinesamples CineSine with it, which I never expected to actually use. It sounds good to my ears, so that was a nice outcome.

The LABS Soft Piano is a great example of how useful a simple/lean VI can be. I keep it in my template.
 
The kitchen percussion by Unreal Instruments gets an update with GUI, and water glasses with sticks and mallets plus water harp added.

unreal-instruments.wixsite.com

Kitchen-X

unreal-instruments.wixsite.com unreal-instruments.wixsite.com

Demo:

 
DSmolken said:
The kitchen percussion by Unreal Instruments gets an update with GUI, and water glasses with sticks and mallets plus water harp added.

unreal-instruments.wixsite.com

Kitchen-X

unreal-instruments.wixsite.com unreal-instruments.wixsite.com

Demo:

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This is very nice, thanks for showing.
I have a problem though, with the GUI. I registered the bank with moving over the Surface of Sforzando standalone. But then the GUI showing is for sure not like supposed to be. What did I do wrong?
Maybe others have experíenced similar issue?
Attached is how it looks for me.
As I noticed from your site and from your work, you are quite an expert for SFZ. Maybe you have an idea, in any case, thanks.
Stefan
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Don't really know, but I did notice that his GUI backgrounds are slightly different in size than mine, and the control faders seem to be in the OK places, so it might just be a background issue.

In the GUI folder, the XML for the control tabs will have something like StaticImage x="0" y="0" w="775" h="330"

If you make that StaticImage x="0" y="0" w="773" and h="333" and modify the images so they're actually 773x333, does it behave?
 
DSmolken said:
Don't really know, but I did notice that his GUI backgrounds are slightly different in size than mine, and the control faders seem to be in the OK places, so it might just be a background issue.

In the GUI folder, the XML for the control tabs will have something like StaticImage x="0" y="0" w="775" h="330"

If you make that StaticImage x="0" y="0" w="773" and h="333" and modify the images so they're actually 773x333, does it behave?
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Hey thanks for replying!
I was looking at the XML file, but that was not the reason. Actually, I checked the version of the Aria/sforzando App and found that I did not have the newest version. I updated and now all seems to be okay! Maybe useful for others, too.
 
I created a freebie for an upcoming Kontakt 6 library. All is fully functional, but it has a limited amount of soundsources. Full library comes with 200 soundsources and this freebie with 12 and 10 snapshots.

This freebie requires the full version of Kontakt 6.1.1

www.triplespiralaudio.com

Universe Freebie – Kontakt library

Universe is new library with pads, ambiences and motion presets for Kontakt 6 created and designed by Triple Spiral Audio. The library is 3.1GB (compressed) in size and comes with 300 snapshots an…
www.triplespiralaudio.com www.triplespiralaudio.com

UniverseGUI2.jpg
 
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bill5 said:
You lost me at hello :) Love to hear if you come out with a Kontakt-free version though
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For now Universe will only be available for the full version of Kontakt. Though I am seriously considering the step to have in the future libraries available for the free player as you have to pay a fee + a one time encoding costs to NI, which for me is at this stage not sure how it would balance out.
 
Universe for Kontakt from Triple Spiral Audio
www.triplespiralaudio.com

Universe Freebie – Kontakt library

Universe is new library with pads, ambiences and motion presets for Kontakt 6 created and designed by Triple Spiral Audio. The library is 3.1GB (compressed) in size and comes with 300 snapshots an…
www.triplespiralaudio.com www.triplespiralaudio.com
 
Cinesamples: Ancient Bones

I know it is a bit late in the day, but Cinesamples are giving away Ancient Bones this Halloween, in return for sharing/commenting on Facebook or Instagram or Twitter.

See Facebook link below:


As regarding being drawn as the lucky winner mentioned, I think this is up to 2pm PST.
 
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