It’s certainly not as good as Lounge Lizard 4. It’s not as good as the Scarbee eps in Komplete. It’s not as good as anything already in HS2 Truth is it sounds awful.įrankly what I heard in those demos don’t stack up well at all to several ep libraries on the market that I have actually played. Truth is was I being polite in my opinion of NSK and yes… low end Casio is just about the nicest description I could muster without lying. Here’s another newsflash: absolutely every product in existence has detractors.ĭo you think you guys created the only product in existence that everyone absolutely loves? I hate to break it to you but Neo Soul Keys isn’t exactly the market leader in EP VST’s. If I judged the demo positively and actually bought the product you wouldn’t be bothered that I formed an opinion on the demo, would you?ĭo you think every product you create is so amazing that everyone will absolutely love it? The whole point of a demo is to sell people on the product. It’s not a critique of the players either, it’s a critique of the actual sounds themselves, and they’re not very good. It was panned from the start based on the demos and we were asked not to judge based on the demos provided, but that’s not how this works. You guys pulled that nonsense with the hot brass library too. Tell you what, you shoot me $79 to my paypal and I’ll give it a go, but I’m not spending my money in hopes that I’ll magically be able to change the sound (not playing) I hear in the demo. Why would I pay $79 on non-returnable software to play it myself on the off chance that it sounds better than the available demos? No thanks. You do realize that that is the purpose of a demo, right? It doesn’t appeal to me in the slightest and I’ve listened to more than enough demoes to form that opinion. Matthias in particular sounds particularly defensive about it. But since you guys want to turn this into that, so be it. Oh, we’re going to turn it into one of those posts where we attack each other’s personal opinions on something that’s entirely subjective.
A handful of guitar patches, a couple of ep’s, a few efx modules such as the gorgeous wah-wah sound that Yamaha does better than anyone and I’m betting a premium price could be had for an expansion or two of, say, 64 patches apiece? Naturally I’m spitballing and a Motif expansion is unlikely, but it just seems that expansion itself is such a natural and obvious direction that hasn’t really been utilized to this point and I’d like to see that change during this cycle.Īm I alone in believing Halion and Halion /Sonic have been underutilized as platforms? Of particular interest given the Steinberg/Yamaha dynamic would be a “Motif Select” bank of instruments and effects. So are there patch updates? Does, say, Auron have additional functionality or patches in 3? I’ll probably upgrade anyways but I would still like to know if there are any plans for future updates as it doesn’t seem like HS2 or H5 were given much in the way of significant updates. Of particular interest is their EP section as that is something I was hoping would get an upgrade.
This generally seems like a fairly good suite of updates based on what I’ve heard thus far with the exception of Hot Brass but I’m curious whether or not there are any changes or upgrades to the older modules. From what I can see, the major differences are the following instruments: