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I don't have Diva, but have the Luftrum preset banks for Repro 5, iZotope Iris, & Pigments. All are great! I should probably go ahead and grab Luftrum 22 for bx_oberhausen while it's only $14.50.

Pigments is one of the best, IMO!!!

Just a reminder that this sale is still on! For example Luftrum Bioscape, a 4.5 GB cinematic Kontakt Player library based on field recordings and found sounds, that normally sells for $159, is only $95.40 with the code, a discount of -$63.60. Drag & Drop your own samples and field recordings. Not obvious in the video, but there are actually 4 sample slots in the GUI. [A + B] & [C + D]. There is a button in the middle that toggles between them. All 4 slots are played at once, unless they are empty or disabled. https://www.luftrum.com/bioscape/

Dang! Your PC needs to go on a diet! 🤣 I'm only showing 20 GB installed here for Arturia, with 7.3 GB of that used for Arturia samples. That's with V Collection 8, Analog Lab 4 & V, Pigments 3.5, Augmented Strings, and a few of their FX plugins.

It can also be a resource hog if you add 100 generators to it, LOL!!!

There's always "just one more"!!! 🤣😜🤪

Kilohearts only sells select FX modules and preset expansions for Phase Plant. 30 of the FX are now free. No other "modules" exist for it, as with fully modular synths. Phase Plant is a semi-modular design, where you can add as many generators, modulators, and FX as you want, as many of each, and in any order you wish, and route them in unlimited ways. But you only have the included ones to select from. It's a totally "in-house" ecosystem. But a very good one!

Do you also have Pigments? I believe AS uses the same synth engine under the hood. Many folks have mentioned high CPU use with that as well.

As both scook and Mark have said, the problem is likely the "zero controllers when playback stops" issue. CC 7 (Controls the volume of the channel) and CC 11 (Expression is a percentage of volume) are the MIDI Continuous Controllers that set your MIDI volume and expression for that channel. If Cakewalk sets them to zero (on a 0-127 scale) when playback stops, then no more sound will be heard from that channel, as level zero is silence!

Agree that they are great! Just meant that many shoppers might have already exceeded their summer plugin budgets due to that group buy and 60% off on guitar bundles, LOL!!! I own Ample and OTS products! Great quality stuff!

Go for it!!!

Just a thought for next year. You may want to time your summer sale BEFORE the Orange Tree Samples group buy. Just saying...

My budget is much happier with waiting, LOL 😂

I did a similar workaround! No XP mode inside Windows 7 for me. I installed a full copy of Windows XP Home (32-bit) in a VM (I use Oracle VirtualBox). I have an old copy of Adobe Photoshop 6 bought over 20 years ago (2000?), which worked fine on Windows 98 & Windows XP, but didn't make the trip to later Windows versions. Installed Photoshop 6 in the XP virtual machine, and it works fine there! VirtualBox allows for shared clipboard, folders, and a seamless GUI between host and VM guest, so it's almost like running Photoshop on the host desktop! Running Windows 10 64-bit here. So yep, if you are geeky enough, some old software doesn't have to die! But I'm afraid that doesn't always apply to DAWs for music production, unless you are just doing basic tasks that don't require real-time audio. Just out of curiosity, I installed Sonar 6 and Sonar 8.5 (32-bit) in the XP VM, and they will play back audio projects. But using virtual instruments in them is not practical. The latency in a generic virtual machine audio device throws a curve ball into real-time audio. No ASIO. Besides, all of my audio toys that I use today work fine on Windows 10 64-bit.

The upgrade apparently just unlocks the advanced features and additional presets. It was very fast here as well!

No. That's what full demos are for. I could see a possible issue maybe if it's a demo involving a large sample library, and all the demo includes is a teaser. And that's the main reason I have never bought Omnisphere. No demo.

Yep, that's not a bad idea. That PreSonus shell scan is annoying as hell. And so is Waves, but a few of those are indispensable! I'm not likely to ever use the PreSonus plugs outside of Studio One, nor even likely to in Studio One. They are probably very good if you are just starting out with a DAW, but I have my own collection of go-to plugins now. I Installed the PreSonus Hub plugins out of curiosity, but have never really used them.

Music: Jerry Goldsmith

Great movie!

$29 and I'm in like Flint!

No, really! And I've actually been deleting some sampled synths that I own and never use, such as from UVI and Tracktion. I've set a hard limit for my disk space to use for sampled libraries. Orchestral and other "real" instruments make sense, but synths, nah not really. I'll allow Syntronik to remain, but that's it! Arturia is my go-to now!