so i havent used LABS in a while and i try use it today and i have to download splice instruments etc etc. its a huge pain but whatever. the REAL problem is why the FUCK are all my instruments now locked behind a paywall???!!!
The year is twenty-three, and men now walked across the sea in a large baroque ship. Pushed by the waters far away from the New World, S.S. Abadessa, a three-mast ship, the first of its kind, docked her mass on troubled land. From within her womb, a man of peace steps forward, leaving his burdens and tonnage behind him. Emanuel Antonio is a man from the New World. He has a secret he does not want to share with anyone. He bowed his head down to the poorly bricked streets before him with his tall, gallant stance and uneven shaved face.
“Mia, Bellalina… Elis,” he stumbled to say. The town of Fawn was dark and vile. Its peasants showed no welcome to visitors. “This town is as grim as the sea that led me.”
Between the houses of bricks and stones, where narrow pathways curved, a figure emerged from the shadows to greet Sir Antonio.
“My Master!” said the strange figure, as if anxious. “An honor it is for you to enter…!” The strange figure was small, round, and wore an old straw rug as a hooded robe. “I say it is a splendid honor, especially for your kind.” He whispered the last word.
Emmanuel looked down at the figure moments before he was about to depart. He was angry and puzzled. “I knowest not, nor do I need to know all the words you speak.”
“Ahh~aha! For he who stands before me does not know? This man of men thinks he is of that kind? Or this man of kinds thinks he is of men?” The figure said.
“You know nothing of me, vermin!” Emanuel replied. He shouted loud enough for passersby not to hear them in the narrow alleyway.
“Kern is my name, but Vermin is thy name I shall receive!”
In a jolt of anger, Emanuel grabbed Kern, and dipped into the shadowy alleyway, and threw the figure against the dark, brick wall. Emanuel bolted in a gallant voice: “Heed my words: Leave me alone! Death follows me!!!”
Emanuel pushed Kern between the uneven brick roads, down into mud and horse stool.
Kern, now covered in filth, eyes blinded by the smell, slowly stood up, and walked back into the dark alleyway. Before he disappeared, he bade his farewell. “Yes… my Master.”
The town of Fawn was a dark place, filled with houses of wood not stone, and the sky smudged by a factory of sorts.
In the center of the town was the office of the Sheriff, a tall, slender man, the tallest man Emanuel had ever seen. Fawn’s Sheriff despised newcomers, or just anyone he did not know in general. “Hey, you, foreigner!” He shouted. “What brings you to my town?”
Emanuel, his clothes damp from the vigorous sea, tired from his voyage, shook his head. “A new life, sir…”
“A new… what?” The Sheriff drank his ale. “No one comes to my town seeking anything, especially life.”
Emanuel was unphased by the unwelcoming. “Then…I will be on my way.” He turned his back with his sights set on an old pub.
The Sheriff took one quick half-step closer to Emanuel’s left, though it looked like a leap to a regular-sized man and hunched over Emanuel’s shoulder. Like the legs of a spider, the sheriff’s fingers crawled up Emanuel’s back resting them beside the man’s neck.
“I saw you… foreigner of the sea…” he whispered in Emanuel Antonio’s ear, breathing his ale and paste into his face, “…roaming through my alleyways, speaking to the rats. Tell me, have you seen any beasts?”
As night drew nearer to the town of Fawn, Emanuel’s chest began to leap. “Beast, Sheriff? I only knew of the one before me.”
“Overbold, aren’t you, foreigner? But not too wise.” The Sheriff stood upright with his hand on Emanuel’s shoulders. The ground shook as if a stampeded of horses raced towards them.
It was Emanuel’s heart.
The murky sky grew darker, and Emanuel, now enraged, started to feel heaviness within his arms.
“Yes, foreigner. Fear me like the wonderer you are! You look like trouble… trouble for me… trouble for Fawn! Go back to where you came from…. Vermin!” The Sheriff pulled back defensively, while still towering over the angered Emanuel.
“’Vermin’ you say, Sheriff?” Emanuel heard the echoing laughter of Vermin Kern in his consciousness. “You have no idea the ‘trouble’ I have borne witness to, nor the nightmares I hope to overcome, and the pain I wish to lay past!”
The night was tensely dark when the clouds drew in from the east to cover the Moonstone’s light.
“Save your story for the drunks! I need to keep an eye on you tonight!” The Sheriff said. He revealed a set of handcuffs with his right hand, while his left arm surrounded Emanuel’s neck.
Emanuel, his eyes gleaming red like a wood fire, turned his body and flipped the Sheriff, causing both to lose their balance on the ground bricked stone.
As he fell, the Sheriff cocked his right leg back to regain his balance but failed.
Emanuel - his breathing was fast and heavy, like a locomotive at full speed; his body swollen as if to explode in seconds - knelt over the Sherriff, pinning him to the ground. Emanuel’s eyes, once red, were now blue from to the Moonstone's light shining above like a furnace at its highest temperature.
“I am warning you, Sheriff of Fawn. DO NOT TAKE ME TO A PLACE WHERE MY NIGHTMARES RETURN!” Emanuel’s voice seemed to change as if another spoke.
“A live one, are you not, foreigner! I will show you how to act in my town!” The Sheriff regained his strength and rose from the ground. He shot his arms up to choke Emanuel, who struggled to free himself from Sherriff’s grip. The Sheriff, however, punched Emanuel to the ground. He began to place handcuffs on him.
Unleashing a newfound energy, Emanuel trembled like a boiling pot. The pebbles beneath his feet vibrated as he spoke again in his regular voice. “I… am not… the beast you seek but —” in the same breath, a different voice - one more resonant – began to surface,
” I WILL BE THE BEAST YOU -”
“Sheriff! Come quickly; it is the beast!” a loud man shouted. The sheriff jumped up and ran off with his men.
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LABS before they did a major UI change was way more useable, they've ruined the fine-tunning system. What's the point in adding a "fine-tune" knob if it can only go up in semitones?
I used to make fine-tuned melodies to make ethereal compositions, but ever since LABS made this new update it's been nothing but straight up unusable.
I'm not gonna be taking suggestions from anybody telling me to use a pitch-shifter FX plugin because it's not the same, When you use fine-tuning from within a VST, it's the highest audio quality you can get. This is a total downgrade. I might as well stick to FL keys or some sht.
As shown in the image below, this UI was PEAK because you can LITERALLY fine tune the knob to 0.50 semitones instead of a full 1.00 semitone.
Fix this PLEASE bro, at least add a seperate knob for artists to use this
I bought a (cheap, luckily) library from Spitfire today. First (and last) time. I remembered the BBC orchestra freebie and wanted to buy one of their products remembering they were a premium company.
Imagine my surprise when they I started using the Splice plugin that shoots ads my way every time you open it.
I wanted to ask for a refund but apparently you can't if you have already downloaded the product. I am livid!!!!!
I don't know if anyone from Spitfire is reading this but if they do: your company should be ashamed to employ such scammy tactics at the expenses of us professionals. SHAME
I used to use Spitfire LABS for a bit but decided against using it more because of it's online nature and it looks like I was right in the long run.
not too long ago I went back to redownload Spitfire LABS just to find that it's completely gone and replaced with Splice Instrument.
I thought it wouldn't be too bad as long as all the same old stuff is there but it isn't and now I have a few old music projects I wouldn't have been able to preserve stems of if it wasn't for one thing.
I found an old version of LABS on archive.org and found that the servers still work fine, so I downloaded all the free Spitfire LABS content I could find amounting to about 40gb of free content which I will upload eventually.
If anyone reading this has LABS+, it'd be greatly appreciated if you could download all the instruments you can find and send them to me.
you can find the downloaded files at "Home\<Insert Username>\Spitfire folder"
The program has not been cracked yet but it would be very useful for people who want to crack it in the future.
Edit: They still have it on their site in a legacy section but who knows how long that'll be there for. https://legacylabs.spitfireaudio.com/download
Ive tried repairing the whole library but when I load it onto a track, only 1 instrument populates. Repair again and itll be a different instrument but still just the 1.
For added context, I have the SA app on my Mac and the sample library on an external SSD. Idk if that matters.
Can y'all help with this please?
Ive searched for answers but not having any luck.
Thank you!
I notice now that my LABS collection of free instruments can go offline for 30 days but then needs to be online to "verify my subscriptions". I do not have any subscriptions nor will I. I paid for many Spitfire paid libraries. I should not have to be online for composing. More enshitification from Spitfire. I was going to buy a few libraries today from Spitfire but not when I read that they would require creating an account with Splice, and I suspect require being online when using such libraries.
