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LOL!!!

Even if you already have Sine player and an account at Orchestral Tools, you will still need to go to this link and register for SineFactory: https://www.orchestraltools.com/sinefactory Then launch Sine Player, and look under licenses. You will see that the free libraries are now available. This is similar to the Spitfire LABS.

ROFLMAO!!!

Agreed! I have also spent my entire adult life doing "computer", and can totally relate to this opinion! IK products are among the best in the business, but they really need to reassess their delivery and support model. Although the new Product Manager is a step in the right direction! But the Group Buy rocks, and I would rather save any other negative comments until the end of the promotion!

"Nearly from the get-go, however, the tune's authorship was challenged: The Verve's lead singer, Ashcroft, wrote the lyrics, but the song's instrumentals leaned heavily on a version of the Stones' "The Last Time" — specifically, on an orchestral arrangement recorded in 1965 by the Andrew Oldham Orchestra, a side project from Andrew Loog Oldham, the Stones' manager and record producer, who enlisted various session musicians and arranger David Whitaker to create symphonic versions of Stones songs." https://www.npr.org/2019/05/23/726227555/not-bitter-just-sweet-the-rolling-stones-give-royalties-to-the-verve

Keep waiting and hoping... 😉

That was a great 80's song, but never gave any thought to who was performing it. It was just a part of the background soundtrack of the 80's for me! Good blast from the past! Sly Fox hit the top 10 in US and UK with that tune. One hit wonders... 😎

Song was released in 1997. If anyone has Kirk Hunter Kinetic Strings, this might be a fun riff to attempt with that. Get your strings in motion, with the Motion Engine!

I believe crossgrades are only offered direct from NI.

Same here! But let's go all the way! Yay!!!

Kontakt is multi-timbral, the Spitfire plugin is not. Multiple instances of Spitfire are required to do multi parts on separate channels. As bdickens has referenced, the plugin should be light enough to use multiple instances. If your computer has issues with that, you should look into freezing any Spitfire tracks that you are not currently working on. > https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=3&help=Mixing.23.html Freezing an instrument track will bounce it down to audio, and lower the CPU used by any frozen track. You can revert it from frozen at any time, and make modifications as needed, but when playing back frozen tracks in a mix, they should use negligible CPU. Audio tracks put way less demand on CPU and memory than virtual instrument tracks do!

I understand how the NI library licensing system works, but the crossgrade eligibility items has always seemed a bit mysterious... I have happily used Player for years, but finally decided to take advantage of the crossgrade, after skipping it in the past, even though I was always eligible.

I will have 4 freebies to choose when we complete the current level (8). The only freebies that I have left to pick from are 2 of the Cinekinetics instruments, and several of the Hitmaker series loop packs for SampleTank. I will finish my Cinekinetiks collection, but will probably leave the Hitmaker stuff on the table... and any additional freebies that accumulate in this Group Buy.

Those are both cool lists! But can you vouch for them all qualifying for crossgrade pricing to Kontakt full, as Marshall asked for?

I don't think there has ever been an official list. But if you already have one of the qualifiers, the crossgrade will automatically show up as an option in your NI account. In the past I have seen Sennheiser DrumMic'a! qualify, as well as the Estey Reed Organ by Soniccouture. Others may add what worked for them... but they were typically 3rd party Player compatible libraries. DrumMic'a! was always popular for this purpose because it was free, and the Estey was a free giveaway a few years ago. But believe it or not, I seem to recall this time around NI chose my ancient license for Kompakt Sony Acid Pro (bundled with Sony Acid Pro 6 in 2006) as the qualifier. It's sort of random, because I have qualified in the past with the other two, but never pulled the trigger. It just picks one and says you can get the crossgrade!

Yes.

But no free shipping... $12.99. It's not so cheap when you factor that in... maybe Pete could toss in free shipping on any hardware product as a group buy freebie choice! 😁

I believe that's what I payed for it. And the full factory library ain't half bad!

I grabbed the ARC software for free. Figured I would get a $70 mic if the need arises...

I bit on the Kontakt 6 crossgrade price from Player with a qualifying library, at the 50% discount earlier this summer. Mainly so I can ignore the annoying "full Kontakt Required" fine print. 😂

Is RX 8 Advanced really worth $400-500 more than RX 8 Standard?

LOL! My Alesis QS 61 is still in mint condition (I think, in my closet). If it had more knobs and sliders that keyboard would be a fine controller! But my Alesis VX49 (plastic and rubber) is standing in the corner now since i got the Arturia Keylab 61 MkII ... for lack of sliders mostly... just knobs and pads... but it could be useful for the B3 2nd tier... 🤣

Luca is obviously channeling his inner Keith Emerson in the second video! 😎

You can set up two keyboard controllers for upper and lower, by using 2 MIDI channels, and 3 if you got bass pedals! 😎

So we will probably climb the next tier tonight, tomorrow sometime...