495 participants in group buy!
 
holy cow there are still 4 days left!!!!!
 
Anything planned when the magic 500 breaks?
 
(runs off to check if there is something else I need for 50% off - woo such great libraries)

506!!!!!! broke the 500 mark.
 
still 3 days to go!!!

As we've watched the current Group Buy grow beyond our expectations to become the largest sale in our company's five year history, we've been looking for more ways we can give something back to you for supporting us and spreading the word about Orange Tree Samples while keeping the Group Buy fun at the same time!

We've decided to bring back four (4) very special libraries we gave away for a limited time in the recent past. So if you missed these before, now is your second chance to pick them up! We'll be giving these libraries to everyone who has participated in the Group Buy as a token of our gratitude when we reach 550 participants. The libraries include:

Stomp Box  - a wooden box guitarists use to make a percussive tapping sound. This library really complements Evolution Acoustic Guitar - Steel Strings.
Rainstick - a large bamboo tube filled with beans, that produces an effect reminiscent of rain. The rainstick is great for long washes in intros to songs or transitions between sections.
Finger Cymbals - a pair of Zildjian finger cymbals with a long, rich sustain.
Sleigh Bells - the perfect library to use in your seasonal productions.

Each library is multi-mic'ed. The mic signals were kept separate to give you the power to set their balance, enabling you to fine-tune the balance between multiple mic signals to get the instruments to blend perfectly in your mix.

Considering that, as I write this, we're presently at 515 Group Buy participants with 3 days to go, I don't think they'll be any problem reaching 550. Still, I hope you'll find it enough of a challenge to keep things fun! So, thank you for your continued support of Orange Tree Samples and we hope to see you in the forums and on Facebook as we complete the homestretch of our company's most successful Group Buy -- all due to you!

Sincerely,
Greg Schlaepfer
Principal
Orange Tree Samples
 

Here's the first demo of the SLIDE Acoustic sample library:
 
SLIDE Acoustic: Nobody's Fault But Mine (MP3)
 
That's also SLIDE Acoustic playing the solo, through an amp.
 
Remember, tomorrow is the last day to send in your entry for the Orange Tree Samples Demo Contest for a chance to win this library before its release.

550 --we made it!  Great GB!

MachineClaw
keeps growing.
 
554 now.  crazy crazy.
 
Good samples, great customer service and great price many people must have been waiting in the wings for these libraries.

Or one person has over 300 emails?

bitflipper
27 MB worth of samples for a one-note library of finger cymbals! I shouldn't be surprised, I guess. 

Well, you gotta factor in mic positions, velocity layers...

578!!!
 
16 hours left.
 
Congrads Greg!

yorolpal
And them skimpy little costumes them belly dancers wear while playin em.

That reminds me of the time years ago my jazz/funk band got double-booked with a belly dancing group. Guess what their compromise was? Let me just say, it was pretty hilarious watching them attempt to belly dance to odd meter Mahavishnu Orchestra type music. After a few tunes, we took a break and let them use our PA to play their CDs on.

cecelius2
Just bought three more, Cherry Electric Bass, CoreBass Pear, and Iconic Jaco because I doubt we will see 50% off again in the near future.  Already purchased EB-Rick.  So, now i have my basses covered.  I hope to use these in place of similar basses in Trillian, which really does take a lot of memory.  Now that I figured out how to load the Rick in Kontakt 4 with less DFD memory, the OTS basses will become my default team.
 
[[Edit:  below]]
I wanted to let forum members know that the CoreBass Pear has eight different .nki instruments (consider them presets) representing eight different nuanced styles of upright basses.  When I first looked on the OTS site and the videos, I thought there was just one .nki, but to my happy surprise there were eight very usable nki's which have different style/character to them.  This makes the CoreBass Pear more versitile than i had first thought.  Here they are:
1 Default nki 
2 Pop Uptright
3 Jazz Bass
4 Electric Upright
5 Psychodelic
6 Retro Standup
7 Rockabilly
8 Smooth

Thanks for the info on this - never knew.
 
Gonna grab this one too while I still can.

Poor Greg... I can not connect to the web site, not even the root of the web site, right now.
 
So dumb question time, but is there a time limit on when we can make our GB purchases? I signed up for the Jaco Bass, but had to push off the purchase till the end of the GB (today?) due to other obligations (my wife is a good sport, but I'm not sure she'd appreciate a bass library for her birthday<G>!)
 
Thanks!
 
EDIT: Never mind - just received the email with the news that the GB has been extended till 10/16. Thanks for that Greg, makes me less likely to get in trouble!!!

I don't know - it was a little frustrating from this end, but I'd say this is terrific news. When you can slow down your servers you have to be doing something right!

Congrats Greg!

rtucker55
Congratulations and Thank You Greg. Also, Thanks to edrummist for joining in and making things interesting!

 
Thanks! I almost missed that post!

I love the fun of Group Buys and there's no developer I'm a bigger fan of than Orange Tree Samples. 
 
Funny, I while back, I was sharing with Greg all the guitar and bass libraries I own and how he's either rendered them useless by creating superior and more playable libraries or relegated them to only being supplemental players to his libraries and he tells me, "You're a sample hoarder!" and sends me the below video -- mostly for a laugh, but I think he was partially serious (and somewhat correct)! In my case, just consider some of the drum libraries I own -- and this list was just made offhand, I'm certain I'm forgetting a bunch of libraries: Superior Drummer and extensions, ezDrummer and extensions, Addictive Drums and extensions, BFD Eco (it's just a matter of time before I pick up BFD 3) Steven Slate Drums, Ocean Way Drums, Infinite Drums, Drum Masters, Neil Peart Drums, Abbey Road 60s Drums, Studio Drummer, Waves Factory Tea Towel kit and numerous individual kits for KONTAKT. 

Anyhow, here's the video on "data hoarding." I find it hilarious: 

bapuI have BFD2 (not BFD3... not interested) in addition to all of the above.....
So I can try to oneupmanship your list (but maybe not you) with Jamstix 3 and all ad packs, Voxengo AcuDrums, Bluenoise Plugins Drum Mix (Both Metal & Rock), East West Fab Four and Ministry of Rock (which includes drums), Studio Cat's Purrrfect Drums, Drumagog (with Invictus Meat packs 1-5 and Drive Drums/Parallel Drums by MoReVox)

You should watch that video too, Bapu! Besides it being hilarious, I think it might be about us. We're data hoarders. Or at least sample hoarders! And not that I want to encourage even more sample hoarding, but Greg told me that he just got BFD3 and loves it, so I'm on watch for an upgrade deal for BFD Eco... I'm in too deep!

I know I betrayed my loyalty to Addictive Drums, but the drums in the Nobody's Fault But Mine demo for SLIDE Acoustic are BFD 3. They have a nice assortment of kit pieces in the factory sounds, and the room mics and additional mic positions give you a ton of flexibility.
 
Yup, data hoarder. I have far too many sample libraries I've bought over the years, sitting on external hard drives with the "you never know when they'll come in handy" mentality. :P