The Null Device Blog

Random musings, rumblings, and what-have-you from an indie electronic band.

I am having the worst luck with software upgrades.

First, despite three emails, including one from the president of the company, exhorting that I don’t need to have any physical boxed software shipped to me because I only need the upgrade license, EastWest/Soundsonline charged me for shipping and shipped me a box of discs that I already have.  Apparenlty there was a special box [...]

Detente

Score one for EastWest, and score one for me. As detailed in my previous post, I was really annoyed that EWQLSO Silver didn’t contain the stuff that was in the old version of Silver. I pointed out in the support forums that I was completely blindsided by this.  Their response was to mention that this [...]

Irked

I rely a lot on sample libraries of acoustic insturments – since it’s just impractical for me to squeeze a 40-piece string orchestra or find a small taiko ensemble, I rely on some of the higher quality libraries from places like Big Fish Audio or EastWest/Soundsonline. There are two libraries from EastWest that I use [...]

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