Does anyone here use it? They have some really great sounds in the packs for it.

 

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Most packages have an alternative from other manufacturers.

1928 Vintage Grand Steinway - Free ---------> https://soundpaint.com/products/1928-vintage-grand-steinway
Smiley Drum ----------> https://soundpaint.com/products/smiley-drum

Free Soundpaint Instruments

1. 1928 Vintage Grand Piano
2. Accent Guitar Triggers
3. Accent Percussive Triggers
4. Adastra Ambiences
5. Ambient Guitars
6. Copperphone
7. Free Angels
8. Free ASMRNew 2.0 Update!
9. Free Home
10. Free Radicals
11. Plucked PianoNew Release
12. Polyphon
13. Smiley Drum

 

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Ah I see, hell just 2 weeks ago I thought it was another DAW LOL.

 

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It's like UVI Falcon and Kontakt player, it has it's own packs. I'm assuming it's made by 8Dio.

 

yeah most definitely 8dio stuff..... im starting to notice most of the top of the line companies like 8dio Soundpaint and Orchestraltools and Cinesamples Musio is starting to create they own sampler which i do like and prefer

 

Been using soundpaint for about a year now. They update the engine somewhat regularly and honestly the prices for some of the libraries are pretty good!

A couple issues I have with it:

- High CPU usage. Much higher than Kontakt from my experience (using similar 10GB piano libraries). Not as high as UVI Workstation/Falcon iirc.

- "Infinite velocity layers blah blah blah"
Bullshit. The lowest velocity layer on the piano library I bought (1990 C7?) is MUCH higher than what is offered by both Hammers and Waves. With that said it does feel good to play.

- Sampling inconsistencies and odd layering mechanics. The piano I bought has certain velocity layers where the transients sound super odd (artificial). After messing with soundpaint a bit more I realized that the piano is broken into 3 or 4 independent sample layers (attack, sustain, noises) all using different samples and layered on top of each other. It just sounds so weird sometimes. Natural instrument libraries will (most likely) not sound as good as Kontakt counterparts.

The good -

- A lot of flexibility for layering and morphing between sounds (haven't fully explored it yet)

- Effects are quite good

- Non traditional instrument libraries seem quite good (the free Adastra Ambiences is great!)

- Free engine! And libraries are pretty cheap.

- Polyphonic Legato? (I think) Troels talked about it with the saxophone libraries? Seems like it could offer quite a bit more than some Kontakt/Uvi libraries.

Overall I'm pretty mixed about it. Couldn't see myself spending more money on I because the Piano I bought was disappointing. Natalie Tannenbaum demoed the new string library and it sounded quite good, but also quite artificial at some points (w/ individual tracks soloed).

Hope that helps someone.

Check it out and let me know what you think!

 

No, I will give it like 2 or 3 more years and 8Dio and its SoundPaint will die.
It's not competitive anymore.

 

One more Sample Shop interface for your system from magnanimous developers

 

I completely understand what you mean and I'll try to share some more info, but when referring to higher CPU usage I'm fairly certain that it's going to higher across the board for all CPUs I have in my systems (at least for the non ARM chips I have).

The actual CPU isn't going to matter much unless it lacks some sort of modern instruction set that would cripple the performance of Soundpaint.

It also could be that the cracked version(s) of Kontakt I have are more lightweight than the legit version, or that the Kontakt library I'm comparing the Soundpaint library to is simply better scripted and more efficient. So I guess there's a lot more factors than CPU anyways.

My CPUs:

- Intel Xeon E5-2667v2 (MacOs Catalina)
- Intel i7-10700 (Hackintosh Big Sur)
- Intel i7-4870HQ (2015 MBP running Big Sur)
- Ryzen 7 5700G (Windows 10 Home)

CPU usage is significantly higher using legit Soundpaint compared to Kontakt 5 and 6 (Trazor, HCiSO, Bobdule) for similar instrument libraries.

 

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I had it installed for a while, just with the free libraries. I never really used it beyond that initial "just installed" phase. So now it's uninstalled.

It's never going to survive in the long term. Kontakt and the free Kontakt player conquers all.