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  1. Mike Greene

    Vocal samples for modern pop/ rock - what are you using?

    Rather than Realivox Blue, I would recommend Realivox Ladies Lite for this. It's four different solo singers with Oo, Ah, Oh and Uh articulations (Mm is only in the Complete set), so it's aimed at background Oo's and Ah's, which as a pop guy myself, was my original reason for doing Realivox...
  2. Mike Greene

    Game Audio Subforum Suggestion

    I'd say there's no need to wait for a sub-forum to ask those questions. ;) Specifically for FMod and Wwise, I'd post questions in the Post Production section. Or if topics have to do with dealing with game-specific clients, then in the Working in the Industry section. We get new sub-forum...
  3. Mike Greene

    AI - Next steps we can take

    No, but I think the point of this thread (as opposed to the other AI threads) is not so much about what this means for music in general, but rather that it could spell the end of some of our careers. The most obvious being people who do production music, where the music may not be...
  4. Mike Greene

    AI - Next steps we can take

    I find this part very scary. Not just in the loss of jobs, or people not gaining valuable experience (both of which are important), but also in the increased isolation. As a guy who did most of my work in bad TV, the tasks I gave to assistants were along the lines of "Come up with a beat and a...
  5. Mike Greene

    Has anyone tried the MOMENTUM Program?

    That's (obviously?) not what the intent of that rule is about. If you make a statement that there are inaccuracies in the videos, then it shouldn't be that now it's everybody else's job to find them. If you make a statement, it's your job to support that statement. The rule about "leaving...
  6. Mike Greene

    "Generative AI is the greatest risk to the human creative class that has ever existed"

    Au contraire! Not to embarrass you, but it's for posts from highly knowledgeable people like yourself that I started doing the deletions. I know that's a controversial move to delete so many posts, but because of the reported posts we've been getting, I had to start actively monitoring the...
  7. Mike Greene

    "Generative AI is the greatest risk to the human creative class that has ever existed"

    I’ve deleted a bunch of posts for various reasons. Some for politics, some for getting too argumentative, and in a few cases, people are posting waaayyy too much, which results in other people’s voices to get lost in the mix.
  8. Mike Greene

    "Generative AI is the greatest risk to the human creative class that has ever existed"

    I think you're right about the "seams showing" and that we're not quite there yet. It can certainly do some interesting things now, but mostly in abstract examples, especially funny or bizarre things. It seems less impressive when you want something that's actually useful, though. I tried to...
  9. Mike Greene

    Dirk Ulrich leaves NI.

    Even if the doomsday scenario is real, there's no way that NI goes under. It might get sold, maybe even at a loss with the investors losing their shirts, and maybe the company even gets divided into pieces, but NI has too much in evergreen assets for it to simply die. It's not like a car...
  10. Mike Greene

    Coming Soon from Pulse Audio...BRICKS

    I don't want to disrupt this thread, so I've responded to this in a separate thread here.: EDIT - Thread is now back here.
  11. Mike Greene

    The Adventures of Creating a Choir Library - January 8, 2024 Update - Why, Oh Why Did We Do Legatos???

    In the continuing "Editing Legatos Is Hard!" saga, we're making some progress, and now have a functioning Men Slow Oo Legato instrument working. (Yeah, I know that means we still have 23 legatos to go, but you take the progress where you can get it!) Jayden did a quick noodle with it, which I...
  12. Mike Greene

    The Adventures of Creating a Choir Library - January 8, 2024 Update - Why, Oh Why Did We Do Legatos???

    A much kinder response than others may have offered, so thank you. :grin: Nick doesn't have a very loud voice, so I had no idea who or what he said it sounds like, so I had to decide (in the moment!) do I ask what he said, or do I just fake it and roll with it. Looking back, I'm glad I chose...
  13. Mike Greene

    Realivox Men?

    You got me on that! :grin: It truly is getting embarrassing, especially as I see this thread is over four years old! With the choir still needing at least two more months, though, I can't even bring myself to say the Men are three more months away with a straight face. I wish we could be...
  14. Mike Greene

    AI Generated Videos Just Changed Forever (Marques Brownlee)

    I was thinking the same thing. (Not to dismiss the negative side, and the jobs this will take away. Although ... as a sample library developer, I'm not in a position to get too sanctimonious.) Taking things a step further - In the Jaba the Cat video that @PuerAzaelis linked above, it would be...
  15. Mike Greene

    Getting "watched thread" emails for a thread I ignored

    That's just a select thing we implemented for a few people who seem to enjoy being provocative and posting problematic threads. (Taylor Swift critiques and the like.) Dealing with those threads was taking way too much of my time, but banning would be too extreme, so this was the solution.
  16. Mike Greene

    Sample libraries resale and music written with them

    In the interest of keeping the thread focused, I'm deleting tangential posts (I mean a LOT of posts, since this topic has already been argued to death in previous threads), including posts about what people think software laws/rules should be, as opposed to what they actually are. (With all due...
  17. Mike Greene

    Sample libraries resale and music written with them

    "Abuse" is too strong of a word, but my personal opinion is that if you got to the point where you uploaded tracks to Spotify, then for me personally, I'd feel weird about then selling it. A Komplete license is what, 500 bucks? If it helped create a track good enough to get on Spotify, then it...
  18. Mike Greene

    Sample libraries resale and music written with them

    If any developer were looking for a reason not to allow resale, this thread is it. :grin: To use a library on tracks that make money (even if only potentially), and then want to sell that library may or may not be a violation of the written terms, but it certainly goes against the spirit of why...
  19. Mike Greene

    Rant: I"m done with Reverb (the website, not the effect)

    I sold a bunch of stuff a few months ago, but used OfferUp (a Phone app) instead of Craigslist. My nephew told me that's what all the cool kids use nowadays, and, well, I wanna be one of the cool kids, too, so I gave it a shot. Communication is way easier than Craigslist, and the userbase is...
  20. Mike Greene

    Is there a simple level booster to increase volume from a weak audio interface?

    Not that I don't appreciate the advice, but just so we're all on the same page here ... I've been doing this a while, so I already understand what audio interfaces are and what they do. :grin:
  21. Mike Greene

    Is there a simple level booster to increase volume from a weak audio interface?

    Yes, that's exactly the situation. I have a whole bunch of audio interfaces (NI Komplete, MAudio, Apogee Duet and Apogee Boom), feeding a bunch of different powered monitors of various brands - Adams, JBL and KRK. (My room is old school, though, with an SSL Big Six feeding a Crown DC300A into...
  22. Mike Greene

    I've been in the trailer music industry for 11 years. Here's what they pay and how to get into it...

    What NekujaK said, although I'll add the practical reason that trailers are typically made long before the score exists.
  23. Mike Greene

    Is there a simple level booster to increase volume from a weak audio interface?

    Some audio interfaces have very weak outputs (I'm looking at you, NI!), so it would be nice if there were a simple little device that did nothing other than raise a stereo input by 10db, and send that to a stereo output. I don't even need a knob for it, since I already have a knob on the audio...
  24. Mike Greene

    The Adventures of Creating a Choir Library - January 8, 2024 Update - Why, Oh Why Did We Do Legatos???

    Consider? Sure! Actually do it? Uhhhhh ... ;) I'd like to do this, because I agree it would be very cool to have. A big problem, though, is that unlike the choir, where we recorded slow legatos in intervals up to an octave in each direction, with the strings, we only recorded minor second...
  25. Mike Greene

    Can someone explain why a developer would do this?

    Ugh. We need to make a new rule that if you're going to complain (or suggest or wonder) about a library, you need to name it in the first post, so we can cut to the chase much sooner.
  26. Mike Greene

    Anyone recommend me a good Porn soundtrack?

    I scored a couple Playboy videos back in the 90's. I'm not sure if that qualifies as "porn," since they were just collections of 5-minute scenes of women stripping, but amusingly, back when I made one of our "Women Only" threads (either the Gearslutz or Hollywood Reporter one), one guy was...
  27. Mike Greene

    Musio: Cinesamples New Player

    Good point. I've moved the last five posts (plus this one) to this thread.
  28. Mike Greene

    Musio: Cinesamples New Player

    The last thing this forum needs is another Musio thread, especially for what is essentially a marketing video, not an actual announcement. ("Should we build it?" is a marketing technique to build interest in Musio At present, this AI component is vaporware.) We're a long ways off from this...
  29. Mike Greene

    Finally happening!

    I really hate clickbait titles. (Titles don't get more click-baity than "Finally happening!") People have to click just to see what the thread is about, and in a forum where you have to scan over a hundred threads just to see what's new in the last 24 hours, that's annoying. Plus in this...
  30. Mike Greene

    What are your top Studio One feature and improvement requests? [Now with poll]

    <EDIT> I misread the request. Apparently the poll is new? (I thought it had been here for months and was just being modified.) In that case, I edited the title to say 15.
  31. Mike Greene

    Spitfire business things

    For companies like these, where products have long shelf lives, year to year profit margins aren't as useful of a guideline as they are for normal companies. Dollars (okay, pounds) spent now are more of an investment than an operational expense, since anything they create now will keep paying...
  32. Mike Greene

    Spitfire business things

    I wouldn't read too much into the "loss." Administrative Expenses went up, which tells me they spent a lot of money, which we'll probably see the results of later this year. I imagine Paul's salary is rolled into that as well. (He undoubtedly collects a salary, as well as dividends. In the...
  33. Mike Greene

    The Adventures of Creating a Choir Library - January 8, 2024 Update - Why, Oh Why Did We Do Legatos???

    I should have said we can't do that in time for NAMM. Mostly because I won't know pricing by then. Plus I won't know by then what will be included in the full version and what goes into the Lite version. With that latter issue, there's the potential for a lot of angry customers if they...
  34. Mike Greene

    The Adventures of Creating a Choir Library - January 8, 2024 Update - Why, Oh Why Did We Do Legatos???

    BUT MIKE! COULDN’T YOU RECORD LEGATOS WITH SUSTAINS? Yep, we could. In fact, that’s how we recorded legatos with the Realivox Ladies and Blue. There are some things to consider with this choir project, though. Using the “melody” method, the legato recordings went fairly quickly, since a...
  35. Mike Greene

    The Adventures of Creating a Choir Library - January 8, 2024 Update - Why, Oh Why Did We Do Legatos???

    SO … WHAT EXACTLY IS THIS PROCESS? I’ve been debating with myself whether to share this part, since there’s a bit of secret sauce to it. But then I started thinking the real “secret sauce” isn’t so much the “how,” but rather it’s the “time,” and the fact that I’m willing to actually do it...
  36. Mike Greene

    The Adventures of Creating a Choir Library - January 8, 2024 Update - Why, Oh Why Did We Do Legatos???

    OUR STORY CONTINUES! Back when I wrote my April update, it was embarrassing enough to concede I wouldn’t be finished by NAMM, but I at least figured we’d be done before summer, along with a triumphant new entry in this thread. Well, that didn’t happen, so let’s make that end of summer. Oh...
  37. Mike Greene

    Sample Library Fixes

    That hasn't been my experience. I was concerned there would be a lot of fraud, where people scam a library for free by purchasing and returning, but my guess is the number of times that happens is near 0. We do get returns from people who were disappointed with a product, but that's also been...
  38. Mike Greene

    Sample Library Fixes

    You're right that it shouldn't be your job, but it's the reality of the situation. Sample libraries pretty much all have flaws. It's not a matter of laziness or greed (although I won't name a couple exceptions), it's just that it's not financially feasible to make a perfect library. So it's...
  39. Mike Greene

    Sample Talk Thread: OT Benjamin Wallfisch Strings

    Someone reported this thread for getting into a pricing "whinefest," then promptly wrote a few posts of their own continuing on the same topic. From a moderator standpoint, that is truly maddening. If you think a derailing tangent needs to stop, then STOP PARTICIPATING IN IT! Or at minimum...
  40. Mike Greene

    Musio's Music Composing Contest

    My crystal ball says this thread is going to be flooded with people posting their submissions, so given that we've had a ton of Musio threads lately, I think it's better that those submissions go into a duplicate version of this thread which I've put into the Musio section.
  41. Mike Greene

    Sample rates

    Excellent! Oh! This is also great to hear, and probably explains why samples tuned up or down sounded better than I would have expected.
  42. Mike Greene

    Sample rates

    I think an example of what Ulroo is asking is this: Let's suppose we record a 30k sine wave at 192k. It should sound pretty good at 192k, but it won't be there at all (other than noise artifacts) at 48k. So in Kontakt, there are two possibilities: 1. Kontakt converts that 192k sample to 48k...
  43. Mike Greene

    How are we feeling about Musio?

    In defense of the unimpressed ... :grin: The main appeal of Musio is "Look at all the stuff you get!" In that context, it truly is a great deal. But any VI-C veteran already has DAW factory libraries. And the Kontakt factory library. And probably Komplete. So "lots of stuff!" isn't going...
  44. Mike Greene

    How are we feeling about Musio?

    $2,999. I think the first VSL Symphonic Cube was around $10k. I bought both. Which is why I'm one of those annoying guys who isn't very sympathetic to the "Sample libraries are too expensive!" whiners. :grin:
  45. Mike Greene

    How well did VI devs do in sales this year?

    Bear in mind 2020 and 2021 weren't normal years. The music industry, and especially music software, got a huge bump those years, since everybody was at home, ready to try spend more time with their hobbies. That made them easy pickings for us, so we all had an amazing 2021. 2022 was the crash...
  46. Mike Greene

    How well did VI devs do in sales this year?

    Did you mean 2021 was your best year, or was it really 2022? The sugar high for most of us was 2020/2021, but if you cracked the code for 2022, my hat's off to you!
  47. Mike Greene

    How well did VI devs do in sales this year?

    We're about the same as last year, maybe about 8% down, which given we didn't release any new products in 2023, is pretty good.
  48. Mike Greene

    Mac indexing issues - Search no longer works, and files no longer have info.

    That would make sense. I'll try that tomorrow. I was thinking that, too, although at 4TB, it makes me nervous, since if something goes wrong, it would go way wrong.
  49. Mike Greene

    Mac indexing issues - Search no longer works, and files no longer have info.

    I'm not sure if "indexing" is the correct word, but as of a week or two ago, almost all of my wave files on my M1 Studio (Monterey) don't have the sample rate and bit depth info anymore. And my image files don't have resolution (width and height) info, either. If I duplicate a file, then the...
  50. Mike Greene

    CineStrings Core 2.0 is now LIVE on Native Access!

    Definitely, and in my own case, most of our stuff is on Native Access, but Realivox Ladies and Fingerpick are not, since I need the ability to have separate versions for those. (Ladies Lite and Ladies Complete, for instance.) Native Access is really nice from a developer and tech support...
  51. Mike Greene

    CineStrings Core 2.0 is now LIVE on Native Access!

    If it's the same product/serial number, then there aren't any additional charges from Native Instruments. NI does those for free. (Although limited to one or two per year.) Not just for simple bug fixes, but even if the changes are massive with additional samples and stuff, there's no charge...
  52. Mike Greene

    Singing/whistling to MIDI..all AI revolution and still not there?

    I tried to create an app for this a few years ago (back when I had big dreams for Blue and its successors), but I eventually gave up. An app that gets most notes correct isn't too hard and the accepted science behind that isn't too hard to find. But getting that percentage of...
  53. Mike Greene

    CineStrings Core 2.0 is now LIVE on Native Access!

    Normal updates are free. (I think companies get one free update per product per year.) The “extra NI costs” thing Steve was talking about earlier is situations where you might want to offer customers a *paid* upgrade and you want only people who pay the upgrade fee to have access to the...
  54. Mike Greene

    Native instruments

    I've banned Helmat and was going to delete the thread, since it was mostly just him being hostile, but there are some good responses here which would be unfair to delete, so I just deleted the 31 "battle" posts.
  55. Mike Greene

    Musicfy AI......Will this technology make sample libraries obsolete?

    On the question "Will AI make sample libraries obsolete?", my guess is no. Regarding using singing to create note entry, or writing songs, or all those other hot topics, sure, AI is a threat. But sample libraries themselves is a different beast that I think AI would struggle with. 1. There's...
  56. Mike Greene

    Email notifications going to spam since VI-C changed mail providers

    This is all way over my head, but no doubt is useful to Claudio and André, so thank you for the detailed notes, Jason. It's truly appreciated, since you obviously know your stuff. Oh! In that case, I need to get me some of that! :grin:
  57. Mike Greene

    Performance Samples discussion thread

    I've moved the posts discussing moderator policies to this Drama Zone thread. Please go there for any further discussion about forum policies and stuff, so this thread can stay on topic. Many points are valid, of course, so I'll try to post in that thread later today.
  58. Mike Greene

    Sample Talk Thread: OT Benjamin Wallfisch Strings

    If you're lucky, you simply cut out the problem and then shift the remaining portion up and crossfade into it. Easy. With evolving samples, though, that often doesn't work. One of the players might be doing something different before and after the squeak, so the edit is noticeable. So then...
  59. Mike Greene

    Sample Talk Thread: OT Benjamin Wallfisch Strings

    Speaking as a guy who's done exactly this, yeah, that seems the most likely scenario. No matter how careful you try to be during recording, there are always problematic parts of some samples that need "fixing," and sometimes the only fix is to patch in a segment from elsewhere, or from a...
  60. Mike Greene

    Krotos asks for my iLok ID, but also my iLok password ... is that normal?

    Thanks Niko! This makes sense, and it's good to have confirmation on it. On another note, one other thing I think is cool about this is that Niko is "one of us," being a composer himself.
  61. Mike Greene

    Live Now: Nov - Dec (Early Black Friday / Cyber Monday / Christmas) Deals - 2023 Edition

    Jay is referring to a tangent topic about how necessary realism is in sample libraries. I've moved those posts to this thread, since we obviously don't want that lengthy conversation to continue cluttering this one.
  62. Mike Greene

    Make this mandatory!!!!!! (Another iLok rant thread)

    This quote from your opening post, along with the original "Make this mandatory!!!!!" thread title, made me think disclosure was the whole point of this thread? If there's a company that's being evasive about this, then they should be named. Otherwise this is just one of countless "I hate...
  63. Mike Greene

    Make this mandatory!!!!!! (Another iLok rant thread)

    Cool, but it would still be helpful to know what company you're talking about, since your opening post was about being deceived, where the company didn't reveal they required iLok. Wouldn't that be worthwhile info for everyone else, so they don't fall for the same thing?
  64. Mike Greene

    Offering High-Quality Customized AI Music Videos at Unbeatable Prices

    OP hasn't logged on since he/she/it posted last Wednesday. That's always a bad sign, so I'll give them a few days to answer Marcus and Tim's questions, otherwise we'll delete the thread and OP.
  65. Mike Greene

    Passing Wind (Tutti Free Demo)

    Ah, so that explains why the first detail you listed was about the "Runs." ;)
  66. Mike Greene

    Passing Wind (Tutti Free Demo)

    Just an FYI, "passing wind" has a specific meaning in English (same as "breaking wind", or "passing gas"), so this might or might not be the title you want. Especially with "Tutti" (pronounced like "tooty") also in the title. ;)
  67. Mike Greene

    Make this mandatory!!!!!! (Another iLok rant thread)

    Yes. Without details, this thread is just another redundant rant, so @synthnut1, please let us know what actually happened, with names. Otherwise, this thread is more of an annoyance (we've already had countless iLok threads) than a help, so for the sake of everyone's sanity during a busy...
  68. Mike Greene

    Krotos asks for my iLok ID, but also my iLok password ... is that normal?

    Maybe, but I don't think so. This password is also my Krotos account password. (I got an email telling me about my shiny new Krotos website account.) It would be weird if that password were the same as my iLok password. Also, when they said "our visibility into your iLok account extends to...
  69. Mike Greene

    Krotos asks for my iLok ID, but also my iLok password ... is that normal?

    Cool trick, so I gave it a try. It rejected the password, though, because it wasn't strong enough. Needs to be at 12 characters, include a special character, etc.. Hmm, that's odd, because iLok is already happy with my existing "weak" password. So it turns out they just wanted me to *create*...
  70. Mike Greene

    Krotos asks for my iLok ID, but also my iLok password ... is that normal?

    I'm ready to purchase Dehumanizer 2, and the payment page asks for my iLok ID, which is typical, but also asks for my iLok password. I don't think I've ever seen that request before? It's a legit company, so I doubt this is a scam, but it still makes me uncomfortable, especially as my iLok...
  71. Mike Greene

    Disappointed in Orchestral Tools Berlin Series Main Collections

    There's a side topic that started a few hours ago, mostly unrelated to OT, about refunds and trials and the possibility of a service that auditions libraries with user MIDI files. I've spun those posts off to a new thread, since OT doesn't deserve to have this thread (whether the title says...
  72. Mike Greene

    Disappointed in Orchestral Tools Berlin Series Main Collections

    @General_Disarray, it was you who started this thread with a title "Beware of Orchestral Tools!", literally with the word "Beware" in the title. (I changed that title, and in fairness to OT, should probably change it again to reflect the current state.) It was you who was in hysterics about...
  73. Mike Greene

    Universal Sampler

    That could be, since I haven't actually tried Gorilla for myself. I was just repeating what a fellow developer who released in Gorilla told me. At some point I'll give it a look. Exactly. My point wasn't that HISE couldn't do this, it was simply that if I created a sampler, there could be...
  74. Mike Greene

    Universal Sampler

    Yep. This is why I've said it's a strong-arm tactic to get us to agree to be on their store, where they take 50%, even though they did none of the actual work of making the library.
  75. Mike Greene

    Universal Sampler

    No, I meant me, where all my products are KPlayer. (That RealiBanjo customer even downloads RealiBanjo directly from Native Access, which I also pay extra for.) Ain't nothin' difficult about finding me in that database, since I paid thousands and thousands of dollars to be on it. Yet none of...
  76. Mike Greene

    Universal Sampler

    Not to interrupt the back-and-forth HISE debate, but getting back to why I personally am interested in a new player, I don't think Adil's post addressed this issue: A customer buys RealiBanjo from me. Note that hundreds of these customers have never heard of Kontakt before seeing that...
  77. Mike Greene

    Universal Sampler

    https://vi-control.net/community/threads/kontakt-updates-current-version-7-7-2.95552/post-5437330 I resent that customers I bring to Native Instruments (many RealiBanjo or Hip Hop Creator customers had never heard of Kontakt) are treated to ads on the Kontakt interface itself for products that...
  78. Mike Greene

    Universal Sampler

    Yeah, we looked into that. It was a no go for my needs. But I don't want to learn/create a better language. I'm fully aware KSP is inferior, but I already know how it works and I can code really quickly with it. And when I say "I", I mean "we," since almost all Kontakt developers feel this...
  79. Mike Greene

    Universal Sampler

    I think we've been over all this before in my HISE thread, where I thought HISE *would* work out for me. (The thread was intended as a sort of diary, and guide for others who wanted to do the same.) Some highlights of what I didn't like: Whoa, this is hard to install! Why I can't get behind...
  80. Mike Greene

    Universal Sampler

    Musio is the polar opposite of what we'd want to do. I don't mean to be negative, but the player itself is pretty rudimentary, and nowhere near what we'd need. (It's apparently not even what Cinesamples themselves would need if they wanted to fully port their Kontakt libraries to it.) Plus...
  81. Mike Greene

    Universal Sampler

    A few of us have already started that process. (NI placing ads on their interface is so disrespectful to 3rd party developers, I honestly don't even care if this is more expensive than what my license fees would be. Plus no NKS requirements and no more 4 weeks for encoding? There are a lot of...
  82. Mike Greene

    The Realitone "Same as Last Year" Black Friday Sale!

    Acchh! Yeah, we should fix that. Thanks for pointing it out. Updating websites for sales is a job in itself, and it's partly why we're so slow at reverting prices back to normal. :grin:
  83. Mike Greene

    Does anyone use Kontakt Assistant?

    I've used Kontakt Assistant and it's pretty cool, but I think it only works with versions up to Kontakt 5.8.1. It would great if I'm wrong, because then I could use it again (as well as Translator), but that's been my understanding of the current state.
  84. Mike Greene

    Disappointed in Orchestral Tools Berlin Series Main Collections

    I only have a minute, so this will be brief, but revenge titles like this are completely unacceptable. I have changed it. For the record, no one from OT contacted me. (And to their credit, they never complain to me.) This is all my doing, as attempting to extract revenge against a developer...
  85. Mike Greene

    The Realitone "Same as Last Year" Black Friday Sale!

    Sure, we failed to release all the new stuff that we promised "definitely will be released in 2023." Yes, it's embarrassing, but the upside is that for the Black Friday Sale, we can simply copy and paste. And truth be told, I dare say some of this stuff is pretty cool. So here you go with a...
  86. Mike Greene

    BMI has been sold. Will we get any more royalties?

    Since BMI operates at break-even (as does ASCAP), I don't see how they can shift to making a profit unless songwriters get paid less. It's not like there are significant costs that can be cut. And I'm pretty sure they can't simply make a blanket demand to TV and radio stations to pay them...
  87. Mike Greene

    Equivalent of VIC for pop music production or songwriting?

    I think we could avoid that. I'm thinking the section would be more legit pop styles, with an emphasis on songwriting and legit production, as opposed to makin' beats. A beat making thread could still be cool, of course, but only if in service to real music. My assumption is the participants...
  88. Mike Greene

    Equivalent of VIC for pop music production or songwriting?

    All right, all right. :grin: "Sophisticated" was a poor choice of words. "Sophisticated" is a general term I'll often use when I'm thinking of the current membership. It's a combination of "Good social skills and the ability to converse in a positive way," along with useful knowledge, or if...
  89. Mike Greene

    Equivalent of VIC for pop music production or songwriting?

    I've come up empty on that search, too. I thought about adding a songwriting/production section here, since a number of us have more pop than orchestral backgrounds. I haven't done it, though, since there's such a high risk it could dilute the orchestral emphasis the forum currently has, which...
  90. Mike Greene

    A question to all VST vendors: What's your major concerns not accepting co-op invitations from Chinese VST resellers?

    Thank you posting about your experience, and in particular, offering this help for the rest of us. In my own case (Kontakt sample libraries), I don't avoid China, but I don't pursue it, either, since my understanding is that my stuff would immediately be pirated and I'd sell close to zero. I...
  91. Mike Greene

    Would it be allowed here to look for a musician to hire?

    It's certainly fine to post here. I would use this sub-forum: https://vi-control.net/community/forums/jobs-board.124/
  92. Mike Greene

    Has Spifire lost its way? Re: Spitfire ARO first violins

    As many people have pointed out, this should have been posted in the Spitfire Business thread. I realize this particular video is a case of "Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God! You guys, you need to see this video! It's way more important than what the rest of you were talking about in the...
  93. Mike Greene

    Watch: Our biggest project to date arrives December 14, find out who the collaborator is now

    Maybe, but this is OT, whose track record has earned the interest we all have about this. Personally, I think it's fun, but for those who don't, there's an Ignore Thread button at the top.
  94. Mike Greene

    Watch: Our biggest project to date arrives December 14, find out who the collaborator is now

    The main difference being that if Mike says the release will be in December, only a fool would believe him.
  95. Mike Greene

    How does driving in Los Angeles compare with busy places in Europe?

    Unless you're taking a side gig as delivery man or Uber driver while you're here, I'm not sure why traffic would be a factor in a trip to NAMM. ;) As Brian said, stay in Anaheim, not Los Angeles, and you're good to go. Honestly, getting in and out of the parking lots will take longer than the...
  96. Mike Greene

    Crypto Thread!

    On the bright side, it's only a little bit sophisticated. It's programmed to spot its name along with "not human" in the same sentence, but it doesn't look like it had much sophistication beyond that. For instance, it couldn't interpret anything I said, where I was spelling out that this was...
  97. Mike Greene

    Crypto Thread!

    This is interesting. This is the actual bot account (not Jaap's clone account), so apparently it's programmed to respond to skeptical posts, and recognized where I said "Definitely not human." Interestingly, it responded to the post where I used the JoseLloyd name, but not the earlier post...
  98. Mike Greene

    24 hr money back guarantee

    I dunno ... the other Mike Greene always brings donuts!
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