***SPOILER ALERT**** - Season Finale of "How to debunk a drama - The ecstatic journey of a plugins addict".
Ladies and gentlemens, I just found out that I have been chosen to write the season finale of this exciting new series. With your help for the scoring part, I think this will be just great! So here it is:
It's a Monday afternoon and I'm on holiday from work. Well, sorry guys, I don't work in the music industry (downer, I know, I know...). I work for more than 20 years in a totally unrelated field. But music and writing are two of my burning passions. Sadly, with my full-time job and raising a family, I'm seriously lacking time to fully enjoy both of them.
So on that beautiful and sunny Monday afternoon, while being at home alone with my beautiful young daughter, I decided to leisurely read some pages of threads in VI-Control. Everytime I wanted to read a thread, I opened a tab... At some point, there was a lot of tabs opened.. I had a little time left for comment most of these threads, or so I thought... That was before my daughter started asking me to go out "NOW" to enjoy our swimming pool! For the parents here, you know how are kids. So, for my 4 year-old daughter, now is NOW! Not in 10 minutes, not even in 5 minutes, no, no, it's now! I tried to add my comments and she just wanted to play with my computer keyboard.
When I write in threads, I prefer my posts when they are thoughful and meaningful. How the hell can I do that with around 20 threads opened that I wanted to comment with a child that wants me out? An impossible task you must say and you're right. But I don't want to simply close those threads, I want to come back later to continue reading them! One quick way I found: Writing a short post related to the thread I want to comment. That way, I will search my posts history and continue my reading (and possibly postings) later... And be quick man, little daughter has waited enough!
Pretty lame and boring so far, don't you think? Absolutely, you're right! Life is full of those moments, far from Academy Award winning stuff.
So, to add more spice (it's a season finale after all!), enter the conspiration theory: 2 FBI agents, who have made a thorough investigation, enters the VI Control threads with the unexpected claims about this everyday guy: THIS GUY IS NOT WHO HE IS! To add more excitement, one of those agents is a new member with 0 posts here.. But he has a lot of superpower and can make a bold claim on his first post! Now, that's getting interesting, don't you think?
Well, that made me laugh out loud when I found out! My bad, it was supposed to be drama, not comedy!
Now we enter the interesting part, the one I always prefer in a good written story: Go backward in the past with flashing memories of the main character.
So there you have it all, graciously from the FBI agents: My posts links from various forums. That's when the story takes another unexpected twist: We discover that the main character is a deal and plugin addict. Big time...
As can be seen posts after posts, I comment a lot on deals and products I like. And I also buy a lot of them.
I'm a KVR member since 2011 and I made many hundreds of posting. I'm a VI Control member since 2013 and I also made a lot of posts over those years.
Here's a taste of some of my recent postings: First of all, Komplete Ultimate from Native Instruments. That's my favorite bundle, the uber bundle, the one that rules them all. In the past, I bought Komplete Ultimate 8, then upgraded to Komplete Ultimate 10. With the recent upgrade sale of Native Intruments Komplete updates and upgrades, I thought I would skip this one. That was until I found a no-brainer deal: The update to Komplete Ultimate 11 for 160$ at Timespace. What did I do when I found out this crazy deal? What I normally do: I post the deal, many times, to various threads in many forums, so that the more people possible can benefit. See my recent posting history here and on KVR, that's what I did.
That's my crazy deals side. There's also another side of me, the interesting part for this story: the one that likes to write and praise about the stuff I like. Another example is one of my recent purchase that I totally fell in love, which is Vengeance Sound Avenger synth. I own a lot of synths, and I mean a lot (I'm a plugin addict after all), but this one quickly rose to the top and has become my go-to synth. I'm usually a preset guy, not tweaking a lot, if not at all. But for the first time, I discovered how it can be fun to play with the sounds so easily. For me, this synth is right there with Omnisphere 2 as my favorite synths. Check my posts here and on KVR, I repeated many times on many posts how much I love Avenger.
I could give you countles similar examples, but I think you get the point. That being said, if someone wants to claim that I'm partial to one or two company, or one or two products, they will easily find stuff to accuse me. I have posted and praised so many products over time, I lost counts.
For reasons unknown to me, some people have targeted Audio Plugin Deals and Sample Logic among my posts to claim that I praise them to much. Why is that? Drum roll, we get there: because I love the deals from APD and I love the Sample Logic products that I own! So what do I do when I love deals and products: if you followed so far, I already answered this: I make posts to share and/or praise.
I do that for them and for many others. I can't remember how many times I posted here that Soundiron Apocalypse Percussion Ensemble is my favorite percussion library, and I own many of them. Check if you want, it's all here.
So yes, I'm a plugin addict. For me, music is an expensive hobby. I bought many 8Dio libraries (I'm a V8P member), I have most of Heavyocity plugins, all of Virharmonic (Bohemian Violin is awesome), many Soundiron, many EastWest, Orange Tree Samples, Impact Soundworks, Sonokinetic, Strezov Sampling, the list could go on and on.
I found today an interesting one: Mike Greene is going to get VI Control. That's excellent news. He's a very funny guy from what I read from his posts. He's also making excellent products. In fact, here's an unexpected twist: I bought Realivox Ladies (his company), from who? Yes, unbelievable: from Audio Plugin Deals! Impossible you will say? Well, Mike, to put an end to this drama, I'm willing to send you the proof of purchase that I bought your library and you can confirm that I paid for this!
And for the finale (it was a bit long, a 2 hour season finale), what about my review of Sample Logic - Rhythmology? Wait a moment: I bought it: check! I paid for it: check! I'm a actual user and I write about my actual experience: check!. Alright, I decided to write a review of a recent purchase I made, and I chose this one. That's why I posted in the non-compensated reviews. A real review from a real user.
I love to write and decided to challenge myself, since English is not my native language. I wanted this to be the first of hopefully many reviews. I got very positive feedback, like this one in PM yesterday: "Just wanted to say hey, nice review. I hadnt considered Rhythmology but really looking at it now. You should consider going pro, really nice review." That's very nice, and this encourage me to goes further.
Going pro? Why not! Hey, if developers are reading my review and likes it, contact me and I will gladly switch to the compensated review with an honest review of their product if they provide to me for free. I'm a freelancer, open to offers!
To close this story, I escape from the FBI agents and will continue to posts here and to other forums about my passion of music, and will continue praising all those hard-working developers from many companies from who we all benefit. That's the spirit of VI-Control and I will continue to do this like I did this for all those years...
