1:30 - "Nothing will replace a good pedal-steel player. Use this junk and you will sound like a hack." Challenge accepted.

Shreddage 3 telos free in any way would be beautiful 🙏🙏

Very instructional video, but I'm confused why you keep using the Swell "Celeste" as an 8' foundation stop with other harmonics. Isn't it supposed to be primarily used in combination with the gamba (or other string-like stops) for a special undulatory effect in the sound?

Sir can u tell me the exact speed of ur internet I think it's goes up to 800mb/second

are the raw audio files deleted?

How do I load the fredonia organ in my Kontakt list ? I currently have to go to its location on my disk.

Can you please sell some midi files of guitar parts so that it makes it easier for us to learn the instruments. I love the midi files from your masterclass videos.

Lolled at the AI slop bit at the end. Thank you guys for making awesome things, looking forward to Tokyo Scoring Strings Solo soon maybe please thanks?! <3

Comment Regarding Virtual vs. Real Playing: Having been playing guitar, bass & keyboard for over 30 years, in and out of cover bands for 20 of them, and dabbling in MIDI sequencing for about the same, I had written & recorded exactly ONE original song along the way. After discovering ISW along with realistic-sounding drum sample libraries, I have composed over 55 original songs over the last five years (and almost all of them have several instances of Shreddage). Everyone's entitled to their opinion, but don't call something "crap" or "garbage" just because it doesn't suite your needs (or perhaps due to your own insecurities as a live player?). And why doesn't anyone ever mention how beautifully these products work with people with disabilities? The good news: They aren't going away and will only keep getting better!

Thanks for this video, very informative and helpful. I'm a user and big fan of Shreddage 3 Hydra and Abyss, have used these virtual instruments to produce a full album and believe me this stuff sounds as good as if not better than a real guitarist/bass player. Currently using it as way of writing demos for my live band. Really effective and powerful software all round. I have to commend you guys as the Shreddage series alone is phenomenonal. Keep up the great work.

I love the idea of the loyalty discounts. It's a great way to keep people coming back. (plus you guys make really cool stuff anyway)

1:44 im a pro musician with an injury unable to play anymore but shreddage made it possible to at least do the recodrings. also vsti are not like generative ai, you have to do the work

ALERT ALERT... Major background upgrade!

ISW vst are the best instruments I could used. It is a real pleasure to play a guitar in such an easy way as these instruments allow. I think there would only be one generic type of instrument missing that could be feasible since all guitars are the same: a strum designer using any other guitar, and fully customizable via a midi file.

The problem with "better than Kontakt" is that it depends on the audience you're talking to. I think you'd be hard pressed to find someone that owns and uses Falcon / UVI Workstation that thinks its sampler isn't better than Kontakt in 100% of cases as a user, but it may not provide a feature set that would make it a more attractive or even usable option for sample library makers. I would love to hear at some point what the gaps are in the LUA scripting engine that it offers that would prevent some of the more simple IS libraries to be ported over. I'm a Komplete CE user, and I STILL refuse to install Kontakt if I can get away with it.

Love the transparency shown in the vid. I prefer this conversational approach instead of a "talk to" approach from virtual instrument devs. This is why I support when I can!

Thanks for making a video like this to share important ideas and give us a little peek behind the sample library development curtain! Your dedication to quality and fairness doesn’t go unnoticed!

“Don’t want to name names on who’s doing too many sales”. Yeah I bet you’d h8 to call anyone out.

We want more and detailed training videos

I use Shreddage 3 for composing away from my guitar and bass, and also for roughing out demos before wasting my time learning a guitar part lol. I've been using it since the OG Shreddage. I HATE FOMO MARKETING, so yeah, thank you indeed. in-fact, I just took a peek and the price you're offering for the Doom bundle is actually crazy lol (in a good way). People wanting it cheaper, I don't think many people understand the sheer amount of work it takes make a sample library like Shreddage or really any instrument library meant to do a non-MIDI instrument. Samples, samples, sampling, so many samples, so much sample editing, ALL THE SAMPLING AND EDITING. It's absolutely insane, and then you have to program the sampler itself to make it all play convincingly. Anyway, I digress, thanks for sharing lol. I AM now wondering how feasible it'd be to sell libraries for another ready-made sampler engine like HALion or UVI? All 3 use Lua, iirc, but I have absolutely no idea on API stuff regarding using Lua and the deeper end of that.

Hey Andrew, great video! I have one question though: When writing harmonized guitars with Hydra, how do I avoid phasing? It seems to me that whenever I am running two instances of Hydra (both in separate Kontakts) which both play identical notes on the low E string but harmonized accents on all the higher strings I always get some minor phasing problems. I have tried turning repetition on and off, different guitar combinations (using different 1-4 guitars included, that is) and similar, but I never get rid of the phasing completely. What would you suggest? I think I cannot run both guitars in a single Kontakt instance and feed my instruments the exact same MIDI data, as unfortunately this will make it impossible for me to write harmonized parts PS: Completely off topic, but I think you replied to me in the past telling me how to get rid of some of the attack in the Hydra samples, while simultaneously telling me that you personally find attack to usually lack in guitar VSTis rather than be in excess. I have to say that you were totally right: attack was not my problem. Instead, I simply made the phrasing a bit more guitarist-like (different fretting, articulations etc.) and the results were immediately better!

I'm not sure if it's the greatest idea, maybe I'd avoid it, but I'll put a brainstorm here about making a video on hearing AI slop music on Spotify 😆

Great! Given that you take requests, then please make note of a nylon string guitar!

awesome! Andrew it always creative, its a really inspiration for me, his music and his knowledge,, and make more video like this! cheers from brazil

Andrew, these types of vids are such a nice way to connect and to share more of what goes on inside of a sample library company. BTW, nice modular. Wishing all of you a fantastic year ahead. Joyfully yours. (AI was not used to generate this comment) 😎

Thank you for this video. I just recently purchased the top tier 88 keyboard and ultimate. The order was stuck in processing for over two weeks. I emailed them and requested that they refund my expedited shipping that I paid for. When they sent the unit out, the top of the box was sealed, but the bottom had already been cut open. Someone used the unit, and then placed it back in the box and taped it with two strips of packing tape. The protective film over the glass was missing, left hand corner of the unit was worn down, the feet underneath the keyboard also were worn. I took pictures and emailed them all of this.Their customer service is HORRIBLE. I have received multiple ticket numbers and right now. I am counting down for 30 days if they do not resolve my issue I will elevate the situation. Once again thank you and I really appreciate your video

Will there ever be a pick version like if I wanted to write some days of the new type stuff?

The song at the beggining is Tear of the Goddes right?

Bass 🔥

I can't believe that the "finishing installation" process took an hour and a half on my USB 3.2 external SSD. This is the worst installer I have ever seen. And after updating from ver 1.0 to ver 2.0, you cannot only delete ver 1.0. You must uninstall the entire software first and then download it again. Do you know that not everyone has high-speed Internet access? I will never buy from this company again.

This the type of sound that'll make a text box show: "You drank the Rejuvenation Potion" "150 HP Restored!"

beautiful tribute to Chrono Trigger

Very nice for composers new to Kontakt!

That second guitar line doesn’t work well with a plugin

Good keyboard chops and voicings🎉

The round robins suck for short sustain. I hear only 2 per velocity level.

I’ve had nothing but Trouble with Pulse . Download speed ridiculously SLOW and when it’s finally downloaded I’ve either got missing files or the product is either corrupt or hasn’t downloaded.

nice! what's the setting in fortin suite?? is the fortin suite example with a clean setting in argent?

how to save? If I with to another sounds I need to start all over again.

Is there a a full tutorial on that, nice riff though

Regarding the comment at 11:02 -- there is nothing "intuitive" about using these keyswitches to play intervals and chords confidently.

This seems to require a separate amp sim. Didn't manage to get a good sound at all with any of the snapshots. They all seem to be lacking low end. :( I love Argent, but Darkwall has been disappointing so far.

on a scale from rednecks to sufjan stevens, how good is this kontakt patch?

Pardon?

Was all ready to download but then found out at checkout I had to create a pulse account. Yet another downloader to clutter up my desktop and another password to make note of. No thanks I'll pass. If I cannot purchase and simply download my purchase without all these separate downloaders garbage I don't want it. Another company will have just as good product where i can download it easy.

WHOA! WHAT IS THAT BASS SYNTH AT 4:29?

Hi! Quick question: I bought the library for my fl studuo, but unfortunately the lookahead delay compensation plugin won't work for me. In the video you used fl studio as well and it seems you are able to make it work with fl studio. Mind if I ask how you did it?

At least ultra low bas with selectable pickup takes! Thats one of the important things submission audio libraries are really lacking!

I gotta admit, I find this tutorial very simple on how to make video game sound effects for any video games a game developer is working on

Which videos did you cover console in. Can't find any. Frustrating.