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The Sound Library is supported by the Acoustic Atlas through a collaborative project with the Montana State University Library, which collects and curates field recordings of natural sounds in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
The new Library Manager allows us to register content from any location we like. When double clicking on a *.vstsound archive, it scans all vstsound files in the same directory and if they are not already installed we get some options.
The good news, at least for me, is that even if I forget and mess up, tapping ignore during the plugin load will let me work without issues until I can get around to finding and moving/removing the lingering vstsound file.
Super frustrated here.
Just downloaded the HS 3 installer and separate content using the Steinberg Download Manager then installed the Application then ran the library manager.
The library manager is not finding the content and is not asking me register anything. Installing on mac is so much easier.
Where should I place the Content for HS 3?
Fixed, not fixed. I fixed my personal problem (I redownloaded everything and deleted the old files), and now it's working again, but never managed to find the "correct" solution. Doesn't seem like there is one, and it sounds like it's a bug with the program. If an Apple engineer is reading this - please give us the ability to choose the library directory path! That would save so much time.
It appears that the "Relocate Sound Library" feature uses symbolic links to link from /Library/Application Support/Logic over to a Library folder on the external drive. But that link keeps getting "lost" somehow, replace by a "real" Logic folder on the internal drive, and subsequent library content is stored to the internal drive instead of the external drive, and Logic will have to reinstall the content again after a restart, etc.
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One last thing, I stumbled upon both these libraries from this excellent list of libs. The list provides a short description of functionality within each lib, along with what license the library is published under.
All our free sounds and music are safe to use for any non-commercial and commercial use, even for broadcast. We check every file for quality and we only add content we, or our contributors recorded themselves.
I actually own a macbook pro with m1 and MacOS Monterey. I want to do a clean-up on my Mac by removing some unused/rendundant sound libraries. I saw posts about "Remove/uninstall/hide" options but i did not find those on the actual version of Native Access.
I'm trying to run the example in the documentation for the "Sound" library ( ) but I'm getting an error. I'm running v1.3.2 of the library, under Processing 3.1.1 and Windows 7 Pro. I tried both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Processing. The only change I made to the code was to change line 9 to point to the mp3 file on my hard drive. But when I try to open the file, I get this error message:
Thanks, but I'd like to know if the Sound library is working (in other words, what am I doing wrong?) Is this just an issue under Windows? And I want to do more than just play the file, I want to access the metadata.
@redcardinal: The Sound library is supposed to support MP3, wav and aiff. Minim is another option, but I'd like to know why the Sound library isn't working, or if it is, what am I doing wrong? Nobody has either confirmed or denied that it's working under Windows. Someone said that it works, but didn't say which OS they're using.
I solved my problems with the sound library, referring to the soundFile, with 2 actions: 1) Don't forget to save your music in a "data" File, then save at the sketchbook. 2) The program only accepts mono, so, if is the case, use audacity to transform it.
The sound library contains categorized sounds that you can use to enhance theuser experience and increase the polish of your actions. Google hosts thesesounds for you, so all you need to do is reference them in the src attributeof an element when using SSML.
Your use of this sound library (including the music files in this library) issubject to the Actions on Google Terms of Service. Sounds and musicfrom this library are intended solely for use by you in Actions that you create.
Sounds are the soul of our musical instruments and Dexibell uses the most talented musicians, sound engineers and recording studios to realize them.
The Dexibell musical instruments are completely reconfigurable with sounds that can be loaded by the user with a simple USB memory stick.
The Dexibell sound library is totally free to download and is constantly evolving offering our users a unique experience by playing the best available sounds into the best sound generation ever designed: the T2L of Dexibell.
So I sent the midi out to Korg Gadget and it was like ahhhhhh here we go. The giant library of Korg sounds, (especially with Darwin and some of the iaps). Sounds with character and color and more presets than anything. Why bother with a virtual analogue AUv3 synth when Phoenix probably sounds better anyway?
"The best" can be a very subjective matter but I agree that there's quite a number of useful go-to sounds included in Gadget.
Other noteworthy options:
BeatHawk + IAPs
Pure Synth Platinum
AudioLayer + custom sample sets
Any Sound Font player plus a choice of good sounding sound fonts (and there are a lot of bad ones out there!)
SampleModeling apps for brass instruments
So, Korg's synths come "preseasoned" and have their own sonic fingerprint ready to go out of the box. They sound wonderful without much effort. Obsidian on the other hand comes "unseasoned", so you must add your own sonic flavouring.
Here's a song I wrote about a bad friend, and all of the synth sounds and rock guitar sounds were Obsidian. (The drums were mostly from Sounds of KSHMR Vol 4 with some sounds from other Sounds of KSHMR sample packs.) The vocals were recorded and tuned in Cubasis 3.
@rs2000 said:
"The best" can be a very subjective matter but I agree that there's quite a number of useful go-to sounds included in Gadget.
Other noteworthy options:
BeatHawk + IAPs
Pure Synth Platinum
AudioLayer + custom sample sets
Any Sound Font player plus a choice of good sounding sound fonts (and there are a lot of bad ones out there!)
SampleModeling apps for brass instruments
See, I'm a firm believer in "what goes in will come out". In other words, if I listen to loud Pop music before I perform piano (such as Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album), that's what comes out of my fingers, and quite a few people in a cosy restaurant setting don't necessarily appreciate that. ? (Plus, the servers are like "we can't hear the customers!") However, when I listen to Vince before I perform piano, that gorgeous, heartfelt, slightly melancholy sublime sound literally oozes from my fingers onto the keys, everybody's blown away, and then I make a shitload of money in my tip jar. ? Hell, I even play "Clair de Lune" with a few of those Jazz riffs tossed in, and it fits so well.
It's number one if you're fine in a closed system and you don't require specialized effects and are willing to do sound design for new sounds. Otherwise, the fact that it's closed puts it near the bottom.
@KirbyMumbo said:
It's number one if you're fine in a closed system and you don't require specialized effects and are willing to do sound design for new sounds. Otherwise, the fact that it's closed puts it near the bottom.
@porres 's ELSE library is also full of useful tools....... and has a spectrograph..... -else/releases
The ELSE library can be found through Help Find externals too.
There are lots of clever people building stuff for us to enjoy.
Welcome to the forum.....!
David.
PS there is a very pretty spectrograph here........ -visualization but it needs to be compiled.
Easy for Linux/OSX....... possible for windows if you know how...!
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