Group buy: Kirk Hunter Pop/Rock Strings ($125)

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Oct 25, 2009
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http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=304789&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

All necessary info is available over at KVR.

  • Over 10GB of samples
  • Downloadable
  • Retail list price is $249 USD.
  • Target price for group buy = $125 @ 200 participants
  • Runs until 15th January
  • You have to pay within 7 days of January 15th
  • Runs in Kontakt (and comes with Kontakt Player).

Product details (from above KVR link):
BASIC SPECS:
Includes KONTAKT Player. Over 10GB of samples. Downloadable.
- Contains 4 different sections sizes: Symphonic, Studio, Chamber and Solo
- Contains both single "violin, viola, cello, bass" patches AND "full string" patches for all section sizes.
- Contains "Quad" instruments where you can mix the 4 section sizes to your liking right on the instrument itself.
- Contains "Single" instruments for each section size for smaller memory footprint.
- Attacks ranging from very slow "adagio" to super fast. The fastest are called "Accent FF". Additionally, you can control this variably.
- Usually 2 or 3 velocity layers
- 4 Round Robin cycles, triggered randomly
- About 10GB in full. K4 sample compression makes actual delivery size approximately 8GB.
- Each section or "Division" was recorded 44.1K, 24 bit in a very dry setting. The dry room was chosen so that this library would sound great with the vast array of great reverbs available today. Additionally, this was necessary for it to blend with other popular libraries.

ARTICULATIONS INCLUDE:
- Long Sustain Notes (No vibrato, Light vibrato, Heavy vibrato. Vibrato layers can be mixed and crossfaded on the fly by either velocity or the modwheel.
- Tremolo
- Short "Attack" Notes, Spiccato, Detache, Marcato
- All three short "attack" style articulations above can be blended into the first 4 "long sustain" style samples or played separately to give you any speed or accented attack possible.
- Pizzicato
 
GROUP BUY DISCOUNT LEVELS
GB Participants Discount Price (in USD)
1 - 49 20% $199
50 - 99 30% $174
100 - 199 40% $149
150 and Up 50% $125

At the moment we're on $149 :)
 
Yeah those demos sound pretty fucking good actually. Damn it, wrong time of the year to be a broke ass.

Good news.

Although the deadline for signing up for the group buy is December 22nd, you don't have to actually pay for it until January 15th! :)

2nd piece of good news is we're just about to cross over to the $149 price class. Just need 3 more people to sign up ;)
 
There have been some very nice changes introduced to this group buy
1. The group buy now ends at Janury 15th
2. The top level 50% discount has been moved from 200 participants down to 150 participants
3. If you want to download the strings on the 22nd, you can pay and download then, and if the group buy reaches 50%, you will get a refund for the amount you payed too much


At the moment of writing we are at 111 participants, and the max discount is reached at 150 participants