Lee D

4 hours ago, Kal S said:

Talking of functionality, is there a way to cycle through instruments/arpeggios/patterns etc by just clicking up/down/next?

I can't seem to find that anywhere. If present this feature would make auditioning sound so much faster.

You can hit up and down on the keyboard to scroll through sounds and hit the right arrow key to load a sound.

2 hours ago, Grem said:

I grew to really like it. In fact I still use it on my Surface Pro. It's a smaller install than the huge sound set that comes with ST4.

Yeah but even if that's the case you could install the ST3 sound sets and just use ST4 interface for them.  So much nicer!

43 minutes ago, Grem said:

That's what I said way back in the thread. I wasn't kidding either!!

 

Yes Lee, you are doing it right. Your doing it the only way you can. Count how many clicks ya gotta do for each one of those sound sets, or parts!! This is the ... well I have said it enough!

 

But it sure is worth it. Or I wouldn't have done it! I gotta give them cred for being top notch in the sound and quality of the programs. From Amplitube to T-Racks to ST3. They are really good.

It's definitely sweet that ST4 SE comes with it and loads all the sounds because its interface is WAY better than ST3!

11 minutes ago, mettelus said:

That seems to be how it works... There have been so many products thrown out over the last few years that I logged in and found I had 7 things registered in my account, qualified for the crossgrade and had $44 Jam points. I do not recall ever buying anything, but was like, "Fine, I'll bite."

I should have read further than page 2 of this thread first, this downloading is a nightmare...

I still think it's totally worth it but it's just the installation is a total PITA.

By the way, just to make sure I'm not doing it the unnecessarily hard way, can someone verify that this is the way it should be done?

1) Download, install, and authorize the separate VST instruments.

2) Download the associated sound packs one by one as zip files from the website for each product.  You can at least control + click to select a few at a time.  I'm downloading them to my backup drive for archiving.

3) Unzip each of those zip files somewhere.  In my case, to the desktop.

4) Run the installer for each of those unzipped archives.  Then delete the unzipped folder from the desktop.

5) Run the appropriate product to update the database.

This takes literally days.  If I'm not doing it this stupidly long way, then it's really ridiculous that they haven't written some sort of tool to assist with this in some way.  The downloading one-by-one I can live with, but there should be a way to point the programs to a directory and tell them to install everything!

5 minutes ago, husker said:

My experience with NI and Waves is exactly the opposite.   They both have very simple and comprehensive downloader/installers. With just a couple of clicks I can download and install everything without much fuss at all.

Yeah NI is pretty painless.  The best one I think is Arturia's software center.

29 minutes ago, locrian said:

Downloading, installing, and fixing all the problems to get this stuff to work properly was a real f-ing nightmre!  It took 3 days; it should have been a few hours.  WTF?

How could IKM be at version 4 of some of their products and still not have a downloader/installer?!?  They obviously don't care about their customers.

This was my first and definitely my *last* IKM purchase.  What a huge mistake!!!

Yeah it is really painful and they are way behind the competition in this regard.  The product is high quality once installed though but they need to prioritize an installer.

6 hours ago, Grem said:

Once it's all done, you will be pleased. You got a great deal. Congratulations!! : )

Thanks. . . key words "once it's all done". . . this installation process is going to take me like a week between downloading, unzipping, installing!  But so far from what I've tried it seems quite excellent!

Could not resist. . . bought it.  Now begins the installation process. . .

Can anyone comment if it's worth the money for a new user?

18 minutes ago, kitekrazy said:

It will be.

Why?

3 minutes ago, kitekrazy said:

It is but it isn't.  It will eat up a lot of drive space.

I have a 1tb drive so that's not a big issue for me

Wow is this a no brainier at this price?  I have found it hard to find reviews.  There was someone on KVR selling and I had been thinking about it at a higher price.

Any plans to bring back the paid prochannel Plugins that were available before?  

I feel like the number of plugins they have that overlap has gotten out of hand though. . . it's overwhelming.

Has anyone actually tried it and uses it?  Seems like most of the feedback I see online is that it is buggy.

Been waiting for this one... $199 crossgrade at Arturia... Insta buy!

4 hours ago, Mesh said:

Lee, I would definitely demo the Arturia stuff (they're all available for free) and then see what you think.

Back in Dec., I demo'd Pigments2, bought it,  and now I have the V collection.

 

Do you use it in a lot of your songs?

I can get Vintage Vault 3 for $350 during this sale because I own some other soundbanks.  Tempting but still pretty expensive and I'm not sure if Arturia V Collection would be a better choice...

I demod XO and then bought it... Exactly what I was looking for!

Anyone have the symphonic orchestra?  Worth it?

Oh damn it I have to buy this

23 minutes ago, jesse g said:

Where is Lee, is he stopping his GAS again.

That graphic is going to give me an epileptic seizure man

12 hours ago, Grem said:

That was s good one!!

Ahahaha my poor balls.  

I punch myself in the balls when I feel this way.