Reveals of material acquired on December

Hello, Nynthixia here, merry Christmas!

Even if Christmas this year is a bit... Special?

Here are the other material acquired during this month that haven't been revealed yet:

1) major iZotope plugins upgrade

Gotten for about €150 (instead of €700)... The trio Neutron 3 Plus/Ozone 9 Advanced/Neutron 3 Advanced. Neutron 3 Plus has the famous EQ the new Elements ver was cruelly missing compared to the legacy Elements plugin for Nectar, so if I can find a preset that is very similar to the one I use on legacy, I'll switch to this trio instead. The changes for Ozone and Neutron will be transparent. Even for Neutron, the possibly updated tracks for the album of December 31st will use Neutron 3 Advanced since this version overwrites the Standard edition. Like even in the licenses manager for iZotope (called iZotope Launcher) it overwrote the license activation for the standard edition. And the plugin just got updated by itself, leading to Vegas Pro to load Neutron 3 Advanced instead of Neutron 3 Standard.

Ozone 9 Advanced and Neutron 3 Plus will NOT be used in the upcoming album. They are reserved for songs of 2021.

2) Kontakt libraries

Acquired Yangqin for free, and thanks Native, this plugin is just sweet cream <3 We still are missing a Discovery series for Eastern Asia, we're approaching!!!!

For paid libraries (paid €64): Plectra Series 5 - Guzheng and Koto Nation. For Black Friday their prices were not broken enough, there, it was the case. €32 each. Not bad. (total is €150 without reductions!)

That's one of the reasons I keep an eye on some products for the whole year: to find the best period when to acquire them...

3) Expansions

Soul Sessions with its little expansion Soul Magic. Later I bought separately Electric Vice then Lockdown Grind with the e-vouchers. All these things were gotten for half their price!

4) Finally a MIDI controller!

And the little choice that was recommended for me it's a Komplete Kontrol A49! OK for FL there are some buttons I can't use (because driver is not meant for this DAW, too bad, apparently they more use Logic or Ableton) but for some projects I'm doing in private but also for testing the presets in live when doing a song... It will totally change my life.

Instead of typing on a computer keyboard "blindly" without knowing for sure which key is which note... Neat.

So yeah I was awaiting for getting it for Christmas so I could announce you all the material changes! So no new voicebank for now. Maybe for 2021... Who knows, if other engines can get rid of their motor noise that is too obvious in the final mixdown of demo songs. And if voicebanks sound human enough for me.

(which is not really the case for Yukari Rei btw... I feel like we lost in quality compared to VOCALOID, that's disappointing...)

Other changes for 2021?

I have some plans for 2021, starting with... Getting a better laptop than the one I have right now. Because Straylight and Pharlight. For the ones who use these libraries, you know that the strict minimal to make them work is a iCore 7 processor. And that recommended processors for music making need 4 cores. Mine is a iCore7... But only has 2 cores. Making the following scheme for Straylight and Pharlight:

1 instance: OK, works not too bad by itself (note: with other instruments, CPU starts to be hurt)
2 instances: it starts to hurt
3 or more: don't even count on it!!!!!

These plugins are absolutely beautiful, they have gorgeous sounds... And I can't use them at their full potential. So when I'll get more money (after February 2021, since I'll get a job for 4 months on February if everything goes smoothly), I'll try to get a new laptop. With just switching its SSD for a bigger one and buying an external CD player.

Another possible plan, if they do it for next Black Friday, would be to upgrade to the Collector Edition of Komplete Ultimate. Only if they do a reduction on it.

Other mandatory buying: Vegas Pro upgrade on August 2021. But it's the usual.

Thanks again for this year, thanks again for the support, and hopefully you'll enjoy very soon the album which will be released in less than a week.

Nynthixia