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Took me a while to realize that Larry is back🤡! Glad to see you mate.

I think it's a side effect of creating their own way of installation and authorization method. The whole process apparently had been received as convoluted and in consequence they had to go through a mass support work, that's why now they try to cover as much cases as possible with one installation. For us of course no good. Why not go the proven path as the others do and save themself extra hassle.

I like that, it's a brilliant model and could easily make our standard small/large buffer switching obsolete. Should be a standard.

I see similarity in issues with IK product manager and problem with Bandlab Assistant where it fails with starting the installation process... I think Microsoft showed off again with the latest forced update.

I understand that if someone is making live choir or orchestral sampling that's a huge challenge and there are too many people to pay for their work so the high price tag is fine (although I can't afford these libraries). Where things are ridiculous for me is all the free kontakt libraries that you have to shell out $400 to be able to play them but they won't play in the free kontakt player. And if a developer want's to make it kontakt player compatible then it's not free for him. What a brilliant business model.

Oh yes, thanks for this! I knew there was something very important missing from the editing tools and just needed somebody to bring it up into account again. Such an indispensable tool to have. Quantizing won't help in every condition, sometimes we're solely up to what the DAW has on offer. And yes I confirm CAL is clunky.

Reading this thread I had a question coming instantly to my mind. Is there no way to prevent the DAW from crashing by implementing any sort of defense code that will block any wrong behavior fed back from a plugin? A dialog window saying something like "this operation is not allowed" would be better than a crash. But as I'm not a programmer I know that only people who do write software code could answer it.

Thanks! So this looks more like an issue with the manager rather than the installation process, falls one would like to update manually. And I'm too on 1903, not moving anywhere soon. EDIT: hopefully...

Have not heard or read about that. Where did you know about it? Is it a workaround for the installation process or the way Product Manager is working? Thx

So for the moment it's safe to assume that the Product Manager could be useful for a quick check if there are any new updates available, and not have to go manually through the Product page again all over?

Dang! And I just went there to download the 'latest' 4.1.2

I just remembered that I'm not on the latest Cakewalk release. And there was probably some kind of an update to the way zoom works. You'd have to go check in the release notes if there is a change or are any new settings added recently. EDIT: there was a change: but it's for zooming with keyboard 🤔

Zooming ALT+mouse centers where the mouse pointer is positioned here as expected. I don't like it that when I'm zooming out being somewhere close to the start of a project (zero) I'm loosing the position and it's not going back when zooming back in straight after. But other than that zooming with mouse is working fine for me. Did you check your mouse wheel zoom options?

Hope you will keep that authorization manager for offline authorization as an alternative. So I won't be able to de-authorize my old Window 98 SE machine. I'll have to live with those 9 authorizations left.

Have to agree there are some bugs in the installation/authorization coding. On my recent fresh system build I decided to authorize my stuff offline. Some response files came back with a garbage numbers and software didn't authorize properly. Not sure but I think it happened to Syntronik. Anyway I didn't try to fix it yet, if I get it right I can open my Syntronik stuff in Sampletank, is that right? I'll hold off with installing manager for now having concerns if it will fix my broken authorization of screw something that's working fine. Won't hurt to wait a bit for the next update.

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Try in the Past Releases. Pheeeeow! I started getting worry that I will have to go through reaching Support to get the installer. EDIT: beaten by Promidi

Checking with the website right now, good to have the access to user download location. No word on offline authorization though 🤔.

Authorize and de-authorize computers <-that's defo on a plus You can also see bonus downloads like artist presets, if available. <-another nice one

Yes! please keep the files as an alternative, thank you. Are you saying that if I will want to authorize a new purchased item from IK, I'll have to have this Product Manager installed anyway? EDIT: What about offline installation?

umm that's no good, I prefer to install manually, most of the developers offer manual links/installers, so far only Spitfire, from all that I use, refused to offer manual links (and I use only one their product) I'm not against the manager but there's a reason why most developers still offer an alternative for manual installation looks like yet another forced manager that I will have to closely watch it's hands (and possibly clean after)

LOL... I heard someone saying that I should finally grow up 😂

Thanks... well that's a bummer

This made me remember that PA updated some plugins quite recently and I should go check if they added preset manager in their vst3 version. That shouldn't be a problem if there was just a handful of them on the market but I did a clean windows install a while ago and promised to myself this time, for plugins, to go only with the really needed ones. So far I'm on 923 count and had to take a bit of fresh air.