Plug sound Pro on sale

Michael Canavan · Post by **Michael Canavan** » Thu Sep 04, 2014 4:20 pm

Plug Sound Pro is 50% off right now, down to $60 if bought from JRR shop!

Question for owners who also own Kontakt:
Is it worth it to get this, are the samples any better the the standard samples included in Kontakt? I'm not sure if I need another standard ok sounding library? I have Garriton Personal Orchestra, The Kontakt library with legacy Akoustic Piano, and Kirk Hunter Strings. That's a lot of standard sounds..

jloeb · Post by **jloeb** » Thu Sep 04, 2014 5:39 pm

I wouldn't get it in that case. I've had it since way back in the day. It's good solid bread-and-butter. But there's no question that it's a pretty old library.

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Thu Sep 04, 2014 9:16 pm

I've used the PSP basic grand on broadcast tracks and no one complains. I don't as if this past year, moving to True Pianos, but the PSP library has a very low CPU hit and has some very useful sounds.

bayswater · Post by **bayswater** » Thu Sep 04, 2014 9:40 pm

Michael Canavan wrote:Plug Sound Pro is 50% off right now, down to $60 if bought from JRR shop!

Question for owners who also own Kontakt:
Is it worth it to get this, are the samples any better the the standard samples included in Kontakt? I'm not sure if I need another standard ok sounding library? I have Garriton Personal Orchestra, The Kontakt library with legacy Akoustic Piano, and Kirk Hunter Strings. That's a lot of standard sounds..

I have the same stuff, and MachFive too, but when I saw this sale I was still tempted. But I recently got SampleTank 3 which also appears to have a lot of overlap with PlugSound Pro. In fact the demos sound a lot like ST 3 demos, and there's even some similarity in the preset names and folder structures. So I'm not so sure. I wonder if UVI and IKM are using the same sources, or maybe buying from each other.

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Fri Sep 05, 2014 5:50 am

For $60 this is truly a no brainer.

jloeb · Post by **jloeb** » Fri Sep 05, 2014 6:13 am

MIDI Life Crisis wrote:For $60 this is truly a no brainer.

I suppose so... It's a lot of patches for $60.

If you have a recent version of Kontakt plus M5 v3 (which comes with a very good piano), I'm just not sure how much if anything it's adding to your palette.

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Fri Sep 05, 2014 6:19 am

It adds a lot of variety and a few unique sounds. The extreme fx included in MachFive are PSP compatible as well and running in PSP they are more CPU friendly.

mhschmieder · Post by **mhschmieder** » Fri Sep 05, 2014 12:46 pm

I didn't have time to look at its content in full yet. I typically avoid grab-baggers as too shallow, sampled in thirds (in many cases), or overlap of other products.

Does anyone know if there is unique content in this library or if it was essentially a "teaser" for the more extensive libraries they came out with later (in which case those of us with MachFive 3 and a few of UVI's other libraries may already own all the content)?

FWIW, I have found UVI very transparent. For instance, after fretting over their recent sale and what might already be contained in MachFive 3 and Ethno 2, I gave up trying to intuit the answer from on-line documentation etc. and just wrote and asked, and they responded! I'm not used to vendors doing that. They did confirm that the world library and the extended gong library are completely contained inside Ethno 2. It was likely but not guaranteed to be true.

I was hoping True Pianos would go on sale recently but didn't see such a sale. Ravenscroft is now my go-to piano for a lot of things, and I liked True Pianos when I tried the demo (which expired a while back, but I was hesitant to buy them in case I already did -- I can find no email trace of the demo license, no expired demos on my iLok, and no email trace of an actual product purchase, but got MachFive launch errors until I deleted the True Pianos non-Ravenscroft libraries from my disc as presumably unpurchased libraries).

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Fri Sep 05, 2014 1:47 pm

Going o/t... I like true pianos but be aware, it is pretty obvious it's all one piano EQ'd and processed to sound different. I didn't call them on it, but the German grand is the only clean sample set. Maybe I'll post the evidence when I'm back on the west coast next week.

mhschmieder · Post by **mhschmieder** » Fri Sep 05, 2014 11:22 pm

Sorry, I did it again. I just can't keep these two products straight in my head due to the similarity in name. I meant VI Labs True Keys; I actually do not care much for True Pianos (though I don't dislike them either; I just never felt compelled to buy them).

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Fri Sep 05, 2014 11:43 pm

They need some tweaking but can sound quite good. I used it on Too Much Johnson posted elsewhere on the forum.

Sean Kenny · Post by **Sean Kenny** » Sat Sep 06, 2014 1:28 am

Hi guys

for what it's worth, VI Labs True keys IMHO is well worth getting, the pianos samples are comprehensive and have una cord, sostenuto and sustain pedal switching.

You only get 3 pianos but I get a smile from every piano player that tries them for the first time including one recent, excellent pianist, but die hard 'real piano' traditionalist/snob, who by the end of the session was 'sold'/silenced!

I wish they'd also do an upright as sometimes a grand is just too 'grand' in a mix.

Well worth the money

bayswater · Post by **bayswater** » Sun Sep 07, 2014 4:59 pm

I was under the impression that this library runs in Mach Five. I've set up the authorization in my iLok. I can play the presets in UVI Workstation, but Mach Five reports it is "unable to mount volume ... no valid authorization found".

Should this work with Mach Five? Is there something specific that needs to be done?

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Sun Sep 07, 2014 5:08 pm

BOTH UFS files need to be present as I recall, and there is an authorization to be made. That's all my old brain can remember.

bayswater · Post by **bayswater** » Sun Sep 07, 2014 5:21 pm

MIDI Life Crisis wrote:BOTH UFS files need to be present as I recall, and there is an authorization to be made. That's all my old brain can remember.

"Both"?? There was only one .rar file to download, and it expanded into one 8.26G UFS file. The UVI site says that PSP is a 8.28G library. Maybe the file is corrupt, but the UVI player can access it OK. Do you have two PSP UFS files? What size are they?

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