Michael Antrum
Only the good die young....
Well I bought a few bits:
Upgraded Studio One v3 to v4.
Not my main DAW, but for less than £ 50 I didn't need to think about it too hard.
Spitfire Solo Strings.
This ended up costing me £ 200 as I had everything else in one of their collections. I'm still playing with it, but the Virtuoso Violin Total Performance patch is very good. Need more time with it but very pleased with it so far. I'm working on a piece with a front and centre Violin Solo, so I have great hopes for this one.
I have nearly all of Mike Verta's Masterclasses and I listen to them a lot as I travel a great deal. They are unique in that many of them can be absorbed without having to watch them - you just need to listen - which makes them ideal for me. It's amazing all the little things you pick up on the 2nd and 3rd listening. I'm going to go through the ones I have to see if I'm missing any, as with 40% off their normal price of $30 it almost feels like theft.
I also bought the Orchestrating the Line course from Scoreclub. This will be the second course I've had from Alain, and he is very good indeed. The thing I find is that the more I learn, the more I discover that I don't know. It's a bit terrifying really.
The OT Berlin sales was initially quite tempting, as it is a series of libraries that I have always admired and has never been discounted like this before. But I simply don't need it, at least not now, and I have a terrific wife, three amazing children and the most incredible 18th month old Grandson to spoil this Christmas. In addition, my wife breeds labrador puppies for a hobby, and we have a litter due shortly, so we will have a houseful of puppies over Christmas, which is always exciting. The last time we had pups over Christmas our house was pretty much a re-enactment of the movie Gremlins. (it was great, but a little fraught).
So a much more restrained BF than last year where I made a big purchase into Spitfire. In fact I get the impression that BF this year was a lot lower key. It would be interesting to hear what the developers thought.
I was also impressed, though not terribly surprised, that Christian Henson from Spitfire gave away his old Mac Pro Coffee grinder to one of their customers who had a really low end MacBook and was struggling to run their libraries. What a great thing to do - but I've always thought highly of him and Paul.
It's a shame that we don't see more of them here, and HZ seems to have disappeared too. I found all the contributions of great value. Wouldn't it be nice if we could get them to post here a bit more....
Anyway, I've started to ramble.....
Upgraded Studio One v3 to v4.
Not my main DAW, but for less than £ 50 I didn't need to think about it too hard.
Spitfire Solo Strings.
This ended up costing me £ 200 as I had everything else in one of their collections. I'm still playing with it, but the Virtuoso Violin Total Performance patch is very good. Need more time with it but very pleased with it so far. I'm working on a piece with a front and centre Violin Solo, so I have great hopes for this one.
I have nearly all of Mike Verta's Masterclasses and I listen to them a lot as I travel a great deal. They are unique in that many of them can be absorbed without having to watch them - you just need to listen - which makes them ideal for me. It's amazing all the little things you pick up on the 2nd and 3rd listening. I'm going to go through the ones I have to see if I'm missing any, as with 40% off their normal price of $30 it almost feels like theft.
I also bought the Orchestrating the Line course from Scoreclub. This will be the second course I've had from Alain, and he is very good indeed. The thing I find is that the more I learn, the more I discover that I don't know. It's a bit terrifying really.
The OT Berlin sales was initially quite tempting, as it is a series of libraries that I have always admired and has never been discounted like this before. But I simply don't need it, at least not now, and I have a terrific wife, three amazing children and the most incredible 18th month old Grandson to spoil this Christmas. In addition, my wife breeds labrador puppies for a hobby, and we have a litter due shortly, so we will have a houseful of puppies over Christmas, which is always exciting. The last time we had pups over Christmas our house was pretty much a re-enactment of the movie Gremlins. (it was great, but a little fraught).
So a much more restrained BF than last year where I made a big purchase into Spitfire. In fact I get the impression that BF this year was a lot lower key. It would be interesting to hear what the developers thought.
I was also impressed, though not terribly surprised, that Christian Henson from Spitfire gave away his old Mac Pro Coffee grinder to one of their customers who had a really low end MacBook and was struggling to run their libraries. What a great thing to do - but I've always thought highly of him and Paul.
It's a shame that we don't see more of them here, and HZ seems to have disappeared too. I found all the contributions of great value. Wouldn't it be nice if we could get them to post here a bit more....
Anyway, I've started to ramble.....