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The performance patches draw on more than the legato samples, so at least there’s that. And on the whole they are pretty nifty. I don’t want to give up the stereo mixes of SSO Pro myself. So I plan to do something similar when I update my SSO template. I experimented with that back when the...

Yeah, something about this update of Native Access required login information to be entered again. Happened to me this morning too.

I think it's more complicated. Sine has five legato types, two velocity triggers, and two speed zones per velocity trigger. They are all assignable, so you can assign up to four different legatos per sustain articulation. Kontakt seems to have three triggers for adaptive legato patches but it's...

Yes, I was fortunate that I already had Kontakt 7.8.1 installed so didn't need to upgrade for Shadow Strings. I had upgraded to 7.8.1 in order to run another recent library that required a Kontakt more recent than what I had installed. I'm fearful every time I have to upgrade. I will say that...

For Kontakt Player libraries, Kontakt is more or less a rompler too. Your Labs issue isn't a SF Player problem but the SF app, and so it's the equivalent of Native Access. Now I really want to see you defend Native Access... I can't remember the last time the SF player itself gave me a problem...

TBH, the SF player is far more stable for me these days than is Kontakt. That's basically been true since K7 was introduced. It's been nothing but one problem after another.

The workflow (no keyswitches so it is hard to work with one instrument per track methodology), the lack of second violins (not for purist reasons but because second violins give redundancy and added options), the fact that the legato never seems to work properly for me, which given that others...

As are complaints about other companies' sample players...

I find the sustains in general much better than the legato. I'm always running into problems with the legato, both on Pacific and Vista. And I'm not even a member of the legato police. It's just that I find they misfire on me. Maybe it's because they are not set up for the kind of lines I write...

I've sort of regretted both Vista and Pacific. I never clicked at all with Vista, and I find Pacific maddening (though it has many elements that I like). I am convinced, however, that Performance Samples strings are just not set up for me. (I really like the Oceanias though.)

Is there anything in the new version of Kontakt Berlin Strings worth upgrading for? I only rarely ever use it as it, since I greatly prefer Sine.

Rock solid, no. I'm now in the habit of not updating Kontakt for long periods of time because every time I do, something has to be fixed. The recent release was just comparably egregious, and bad enough that NI had to withdraw it.

I've wondered about this too.

As material for reuse, like a loop or phrase library, it could pass. Also to sit indifferently behind a YouTube video or corporate training video. As material, AI output can also be edited to sound more than competent, but currently it still takes as much work, often more to do that with AI than...

You can delete the old files, the CTAs (and CTAOs), if you want but you can't simply replace them because to Kontakt the old SSS and the new SSO look like different libraries. But you should be able to replace the CTA Lange und kurze Noten with the new SSS comprehensive patch. I see you are...

My sense is this is being forced on companies by NI, or at least encouraged by NI, and that NI is giving deals for re-encoding and new licenses to companies that update their older libraries and make them compatible with the latest version of Kontakt and Komplete Kontrol. That of course often...

NI likely offered OT a deal on encoding and new licenses for agreeing to update and running a sale. Plus it seems these NI sales are very lucrative because the NI customer base is so much larger than what other sample companies have.

Also it’s an entry level position in the industry and any time you eliminate those positions it makes it harder for folks to have the time to learn the trade. It’s true that there’s a need these days for very low cost music that can pass content ID. This is for YouTube videos, Twitch streams...

Same. Also AppleCare receives a decent EDU discount. Still I don’t even get AC for everything. I do for laptops and i got it for the new Mac Studio because the integrated design means any repair will be pricey, plus support also comes with AC.

Most choirs are lacking a good soft layer and when they have that they lack a good loud layer. Many have too few syllables and those that have enough sometimes don’t let you access the syllables to choose the syllable (OT especially). Then too you may as well say that any ensemble string...

Wait till it's at least 50% off (or more). It will likely be there within about a year.

It's a library I should use more often than I do.

More and more seems a regular occurrence that Kontakt updates or Native Access updates or OS updates will break something. Not sure if this is the entropy of bad software management or just a run of bad luck. But it doesn’t encourage me to update regularly.

I still sketch on paper. I have a little music notebook on the desk. It’s often much faster. But I do most of the work in the DAW. I plan to try a notation program again come May and see if that’s any faster. For me it’s all about finding fluidity in writing.

Ordered via JRRShop. Very much looking forward to this.

East West Symphonic Choir and AudioBro's Eternity are the only two that come to mind. There are a few more if you include more limited sets of syllables. But even SATB is not all that common.

I don't think this is true at all. Indeed I find choirs are as distinct from each other as strings. Few can handle the full dynamic range of a choir. And if you want choirs that can sing words, the options are very limited indeed.

They have applied some robotics to trash pickup, though I'm not sure how helpful that is turning out to be. Otherwise the big gain would be self-driving trucks, and self-driving has proved more difficult than they figured, which is maybe why there has been a move into replacing mental labor...

Any work that has a routine or format is at threat. That doesn’t mean AI will replace but only that it’s vulnerable for replacement. So, yes, orchestration is vulnerable to the extent that it is conventional. Whether the market is large enough to warrant the investment is much harder to say. I...

I just tested Loegria and it is currently loading fine for me in both K6 and 7. It’s very curious. As I noted above I had a similar issue several weeks ago with all my Kontakt libraries, both full and player, opening in demo mode. Native Access reported everything registered properly but it...

For much of the very low end stuff, the users need cheap and the ability to pass ContentID. Many are happy to pay a small fee so long as they can be assured the music will clear ContentID.

I had not heard this. Good to know.

Additional fee if you buy after the sine version of the library is available. I believe it’s 10% of the regular price.

SSO has been rescripted, especially the performance patch. There were hints when the total performance patch for the trumpet and flute were released that some new sample content had been added but I don’t think I ever saw that confirmed. SCS has not had its legatos reworked recently but it...

This, and it’s why I see music AI as mostly pointless. How many people go searching for random music to listen to? Maybe it’s more than I think, but it seems so bizarre. I can see a market in AI library music where producers are looking for a certain kind of thing that passes a content ID...

I saw this and was looking for the fine print on liability if a copyright infringement claim was made. Since it’s “composed” by AI it currently has to be without copyright in the US, so the clause itself is not surprising. I haven’t generated anything with it so I don’t know if it has Udio’s...

Given our tech bros’ penchant to take without paying I quite imagine that it’s their business as usual not music libraries’. It would be in some of these libraries’ practice to sell its composers out for pennies however. So I’d say the odds are low that anyone who made the music to train the AI...

I might be wrong about this but I don’t think this is possible because of how the copy protection works. I think each Kontakt player library needs to access the samples that were encoded with that player library. Since the old SSO is a different player library from the new one you can’t use the...

Do you want to make music or do you want to prompt it? It may be that someone figures out how to make a virtual instrument using these technologies. Maybe that happens this summer, maybe in a year, maybe in five years, maybe ten years… or maybe generative AI is a bust in this domain and it...

Lots of questions about this. Here are two: Does it indemnify against copyright infringement? Will it pass a contentID audit? It gets pricey quickly as well, and it currently seems to have a limit of 180 seconds per song even at pro, $90 month, level. Or maybe I read those details wrong.

This Kontakt 5 demo issue is also new, so it's possible that they are related. I also had an issue a couple of weeks ago with Kontakt 6 and 7 opening in demo mode with any library, even player libraries (despite Native Access showing the Kontakts as authorized), and that required deleting a...

SCS is not really an "old" library at all. Recordings don't age that way, and its scripting has been significantly updated several times over its history. Its main deficiency compared to new string libraries is that there is only one recorded dynamic layer for the legato. SF evidently uses EQ...

I had a similar problem with trying to open libraries in Kontakt 5 and the libraries showing in demo mode. (It stemmed from opening old projects that had instances of Kontakt 5.) But it was resolved by opening the libraries in Kontakt 6 (or K7). I'm not at my computer right now so I can't check...

Honestly, I have not had issues with it either on my 2020 i9 iMac or my new Mac Studio Ultra. I was using it just last night, and it was fine up to at least 6 voices (the max I tried). On the Mac Studio I was running with a buffer of 128. The plugin was on whatever default settings it ships with.

For sure. And that's why I responded. My experience is quite different from @ALittleNightMusic's. I don't doubt his experience in the least. I do find it most interesting that we can have such different experiences. I've tried the Logic Score Editor and so far have not found it conducive to...

It's like you are describing my experience with Sibelius and Dorico only with reversed experiences. Sibelius for me has been endless frustrations, requiring searching the web and manual pretty much any time I use it. And I never used it often enough that much of it stuck. Dorico on the contrary...

I agree with the reservations about 8dio. That said Silka and Insolidus are both wonderful libraries if also very niche.

Definitely check out Berlin Studio. There’s a free trial. As for chamber strings, PVS is very nice and if you have an EDU discount you likely won’t do much better on price from OT on it since EDU discounts don’t normally stack and it’s rare for OT sales to go beyond 50% off. PVS complements...

Licensing is the obvious work around to overt copyright infringement, though it’s not clear to me if the training data of the base model is submerged enough that it would never risk infringement of nonlicensed music in the base training data. It will be hard to use commercially with a risk of a...

This article gives some hints about how it works. At least I think this is the outline of the basic method. https://towardsdatascience.com/audio-diffusion-generative-musics-secret-sauce-f625d0aca800

I don’t have Hollywood Choirs but I find Eternity much easier than the related word builder in Symphonic Choir. It’s also generally easier than Dominus or Dominus Pro. I think the East West word builder is more versatile, especially for English words.

I haven't tried it on that yet, since I have many, many other choirs that can handle it. It does the Orff soft clipped staccato vocal bits quite well.

Eternity is a good library and a very versatile one, just not especially easy to use.

For me, MusicXML will mostly be used for importing Logic projects into Dorico.

I struggled with Sibelius for years, but have so far found Dorico a breeze. I'm only three months in, and haven't been able to go at it full tilt yet, but I'm already far more comfortable working in Dorico than I ever was with Sibelius, so sort of the opposite of @ALittleNightMusic's experience...

Eternity is not the easiest choir to use. It may be one of the easiest word builders to use, but if you just need random syllables or legato vowels, there are choirs that are much easier to use. Eternity is also somewhat more difficult to use than Genesis because it has more options.

Given what Udio gets from prompting it to sing atonally and almost certainly the fairly small number of recordings available to generate these, I wonder how massive the training data actually needs to be. It's strange having Udio render these things, feeding it lyrics, because the English...

Yes, without new legislation the AI firms will lose in court on this, almost certainly. And whoever uses the AI generated content commercially will lose too, so I imagine most commercial uses will avoid these AI products, so long as they know that the product contains AI. There might be problems...

I've had reasonable success with AppleCare. Basically I buy it for laptops—and I generally have got my money back. I bought it for early iPhones but stopped once I got used to them and haven't had an issue or breakage since. I don't buy it for iPads. I haven't typically bought it for desktops...

One 4TB NVMe has most (but not all) of my SF libraries. (I have more than 4TB of SF libraries.) The other 4TB NVMe has all of my OT libraries. They are in the Sabrent enclosure and those two companies account for the bulk of my samples in regular use. So I'd say the NVMes and that one enclosure...

I actually have little interest in AI music per se, certainly not in using them to compose, which seems pointless, but I'm interested first of all in the problems AI poses, which are similar to the problems of automation and randomization that have a long history but raised to a new intensity...

If it's the Sabrent dual, it gets no better than 1500 (I also have crucial and get 1500 hundred for each blade), and to get closer to 3000 you need a single NVMe enclosure, and TB4 is better. Still, 1500 is almost certainly not your bottleneck. I do fine with SATA SSDs on USB3, which run closer...

This is more or less my set up, except I have 192GB ultra and beyond the duel sabrent hosting two 4TB NVMes, I also have about a dozen other SSDs running through Thunderbolt bays. I’m also running Logic. I’ve not had any issues beyond a very occasional Kontakt error. I don’t think Logic has...

No, I don’t think that’s what Udio is designed for, for people to pretend at being composers. Some may use it for that, but there’s no real market there, at least not one large enough to come close covering the expenses of developing this tech. It might be designed for replacing music...

Writing a prompt, hitting some buttons on an arpeggiator. Not clearly different. Especially if prompt writing is converted into clicking a series of tags, as you can already do to a certain extent with Udio. It's even fuzzier when you consider only the output, much as using total serialism or...

I think it’s technically resynthesized rather than sampled, but given the process and the training data I’m not sure it’s a difference that will hold up in court. I am a bit curious as to whether some of the examples I’ve heard from Udio will pass content ID. They seem awful close to the...

Only if there is investment to make this to happen. It won't happen on its own. It's not clear to me that the tech bros understand the music market well enough to target it the way it would need to be targeted. They will also need to understand how to tag the data, which we all know is not a...

The process feels most like editing music to picture, that is, music editing. But without the picture. You do have to have an idea where you want the music to go as you prompt it. But even then the bits it spits back often don’t quite go together so you have to edit…. I played with Udio some...

Maybe, but is there enough money in this to make it anywhere close to worth the investment? (The hope is that there is not and AI will mostly fade from the musical domain.)

If you feel you can discount the arpeggiator because it is clearly only mechanical (weird but clever way of discounting it) what about a randomizer applied to an arpeggiator, so whether a note is triggered is determined probabilistically? Many, many arpeggiators work this way now. And then there...

It’s a different activity from composing, that’s for sure. But it’s not unlike looking for the right image in a database or running through search terms searching for something funny on YouTube. There can be a kind of pleasure in it. Then too when you start feeding it lyrics it can deliver a...

The owners of the copyrights in this case are also for the most part very wealthy corporations as well, so I don't think it's so easy to predict which of our very large business concerns the courts are likely to side with on those grounds. Precedent is on the side of the copyright holders...

I don't find SSS fussy to program, but I do find them hard to make sound good. (A very different problem.) It's not my main string section (SCS is). Others though very much like SSS (though many find it doesn't have crisp shorts). My own complaints have more to do with tone, which I find very...

As standalone compositions evaluated on their merits, yes. I see no reason for those to be posted. But I would say there are questions of examples as part of the general discussion of AI capabilities and limitations that are relevant to those general discussions.

I'm making no claim that you have to accept AI. In fact, I've been pushing back against it, suggesting composers need to stop dreaming of using AI to replace other musicians and creative labor in their music making. I am making the claim that because algorithmic devices run deep in contemporary...

I found this article somewhat helpful: https://towardsdatascience.com/audio-diffusion-generative-musics-secret-sauce-f625d0aca800

For sure! That's why I opted to max out the RAM (192GB) on my Mac Studio and to go with a somewhat smaller (2TB) SSD.

For sure. Like I said, it's just not clear to me that this is anything other than a theoretical danger since I've never heard anyone, even anecdotally who actually encountered it. (But I've heard many express the concern.)

That may be so, but you are very much in the minority on this, and there is a boatload of commercial music that leans heavily on such devices. In any case, unless you completely unplug your music making from the box, at some point you will hit the machine and it doing something automatically...

That doesn't really answer the problem of the fuzzy boundaries. And I don't think that setting up a generative algorithm is necessarily more complicated than devising a prompt for an AI. Or rather, it's perfectly possible to set up a very simple generative algorithm on par with a simple prompt...

Sure, I get the idea. What I'm saying is that I haven't seen any evidence, even anecdotal evidence that this has actually been happening. That apple insider story you posted suggests that even the early reports of rapid wear seem to have been an error in the tools not that the drives were in any...

Except the line is fuzzy. People work with loops, arpeggiators, and various other algorithmic content generators all the time and yet that generally does not call into question the status of the resulting "composition." At some point the brief becomes so explicit that it verges on being a text...

Edited for clarity: "If you believe that this tech develops to the state where it can replace real orchestrators, mixers, mastering engineers, and players and then it doesn't do so, you haven't been paying attention to how VIs themselves completely remade the industry."

Yes, it might at least make sense to collect all AI threads in the same place so folks can ignore if they want—more or less what was done with Synth V.

What did you use for the prompt on this? I'm just curious how much and what kind of direction you gave.

Different Neo. This one is by insanity. https://insanitysamples.com/products/neo-strings-solo-string-ensemble

I keep hearing this and of course it makes theoretical sense but I don’t think I’ve heard even anecdotally of someone actually hitting the lifetime limit on one of these Apple drives.

It seems this example is interesting because of the particular notes involved. It might use G# throughout but substitute E# for F. Or vice versa Ab throughout but substitute Fb for E. But that means either E# or Fb neither note is especially friendly. Then too it depends on the harmony. If...

Yes. I haven’t yet used the new version of SSO beyond just some very cursory noodling, but one thing SF libraries always have in their favor compared to every other developer’s libraries I’ve used is that they are quite straightforward to program. While SSO has a lot of inconsistencies across...

We’ll see. At this point the music AI seems designed to create pop songs, and I honestly don’t see it making large inroads in that market. I don’t think on the whole that people choose music to listen to in the same way they choose pictures to add to their websites. If tech bros took aim at...

Commercial reality is commercial reality, though it really isn't clear to me that the tech bros have designed a system that will massively disrupt media work. I'd say library music is most at risk, and even that is likely inadvertent, and it is already at risk due to oversaturation and very low...

If you believe that this tech develops to the state where it can replace real orchestrators, mixers, mastering engineers, and players and doesn't, you haven't been paying attention to how VIs themselves completely remade the industry. Maybe. I'm saying composers have no business complaining...

I don’t actually want this. Composers who want AI to eliminate work for others, in this case the work of orchestrators and performers, have no business complaining when it comes for their jobs. That said if AI can make less work for me in the turning knobs and automation area or help solve...

Legally, I'm pretty sure a trailer is its own thing, subject to its own copyright. Similarly, you can't use publicity photos, poster art, etc. under the same terms of fair use that you can use, say a screen grab from a film, because the former are considered complete objects, rather than parts...

Yes, LLM AI recognizes patterns. It generates new items through random variation of reproducing patterns. There's an affinity with a certain mode of human creativity in this, which is why I don't think it can be completely dismissed and it might indeed turn out to be very good at making...

I think the interesting thing here is that it renders the music generated mostly useless for wider commercial exploitation since they can't guarantee it will clear Content ID and no media company is going to risk copyright infringement if they can help it. That leaves uses like Musak, genre...

One thing sample companies have are lots and lots and lots of recording, even isolated by instrument and sorted by articulations even if the articulation list is not yet exhaustive, although maybe not of the sort of recordings that you would need for this task. I also don't know about the...

I feel Neo is quite cold, especially compared to Loegria, at least with respect to the strings. Tundra, though, icy, yes, as the name implies. At the same time, there is a sense in which Neo is Tundra's little sibling (as much that as Neo is One's little sibling).

As everyone is saying, networks are important (in this industry as in any industry where you seek to forge a career rather than just hold a job). Location can help foster stronger networks but it's not the only thing. There are plenty of folks who move, create a semblance of a network, and...