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I bought an Arturia Keylab 61 MkII this year. Had to back order it for 2 months from Sweetwater. Out of stock everywhere! Solid build quality, heavy metal frame, and feels a lot like like the old rompler workstations that were common in the 90's... unlike most of the common cheap plastic controllers available these days (and I have a few). I plan to use this as my main controller. It's not cheap, though! Probably the best alternative to a Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol S series. No regrets! But I would avoid the cheap Keylab Essential series. For one thing, no aftertouch... 😧

Thanks! it seems to have been fixed by iZotope since the last time I checked, as it's now showing a $499 crossgrade. It really was listed as $2499 for me earlier...

Maybe for $499, but $2500, wowza!!!

MPS 4, that I have, is already more than I'll need. They want $2500 to upgrade to the extras? Nope!

If this thing goes all the way to 25 you can have 15 of them...

7 bucks with Jammies!

Thanks Peter! I see that the last IK Newsletter that I received was back in 2017. I may have opted out at some point, as I am receiving all other forms of email from IK (i.e. Support, Orders, Registration). Is there a place on the website that I can (re)subscribe to the IK Newsletters?

I get an email from IK every time that I either buy something, or redeem a freebie registration! But no marketing emails recently? They are not in spam bucket either...

The advice to use the native Novation resources is probably best! But as a long time MIDI-OX user, I was puzzled by your statement that it's no longer available? It's quite useful as a data break-out box for verifying MIDI CC messages sent from external controllers... It's old, but the Windows version is right here. In fact, I just downloaded it! > http://www.midiox.com/

Nice, if I could get Sampltron2 that way! 😁

We need some new freebies to choose from. That would up the game!!!

That's pretty much what I'm looking at going forward, LOL!

Time to start a virtual band named "Caged Crickets". Maybe Bapu can play bass?

I will have more freebies to burn if this Group Buy thing keeps going! I have everything I want or need (or have disk space for) at this point, LOL!

I'll be issuing my Crickets sample library next weekend. Full Kontakt required!!!

Burned up 4 of my freebies that way!

Crickets...

It's just the time anomaly (blast from the past) that the JRR site experiences now and then. Nothing to see here, so move along... 🤣

It's a good thing I got those for free! $579, wowzer!!!

I think Peter's explanation is probably the best. AMP impedance improvements and speaker VIR additions to AT5 SE and higher. You don't get those with AT5 CS, which is what I was previously running my AT4 MAX collections in. My opinion was formed when I took AT4 MAX, and bought AT5 SE specifically for the amp and speaker enhancements. Looking at these things from a "modular" viewpoint, I did not get any specific collection updates for those that I already had. They remain the same as far as I can tell. No new versions were downloaded. So I would look at it as the whole product evolved, without requiring software updates to the collections themselves. I do see the speaker enhancements in AT5, so that is correct. And I will take IK & Peter's word for the amp impedance improvements. The only collections that I did not already have with AT4 MAX were the Brian, Joe, and Dime collections, which I picked up as group buy freebies.

Exactly what I was referring to. But that is not exactly the same thing as an upgrade to any existing collections... just an upgrade to the "host". Not bad at all, but the actual question being asked was "are the collections upgraded for AT5". It's fine if it was just that AT5 was enhanced, but be honest that the collections themselves were not changed (not that they needed to be) ...

What you are really saying is that the AT5 core app has significant improvements, which I agree with, and Peter has confirmed. But there is no evidence which I have seen that the collections themselves have been updated. I have AT4 MAX, and AT5 SE, plus all of the collections not included in AT4 MAX.

Only 943 to go until 7 freebies!

Or go for the MAX!

I'm under the assumption that NONE of the collections got updated for AT5. Just the new collections released since AT4, and the new speaker and cabinet modelling to make them all sound better!