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The only video games I really play are the Star Wars games on my son's Xbox, but when I see these threads, I tell my teenage son, who also has a gaming PC, so he appreciates it! Thanks, @cclarry.

I've bought just about everything Izotope but am waiting for Vocal Synth 2. @cclarry, you're the master. What's the best price you can recall seeing for Vocal Synth 2? It doesn't seem to get discounted as deeply as other Izotope effects.

Thanks @abacab@InstrEd, @Grem

Although I own 4 LE. Does anyone who have SampleTank 4 want to share their thoughts? Are you happy with it? What does it do best?

Yeah, but at least everyone can pronounce Pavlov, my last name, not so much!

Cool. I get a kick out of watching Simeon really getting into a sample library. And no offense whatsoever, but if this forum is still posting my last name -- an Italian name most people mispronounce and misspell -- I say this out of brotherhood with anyone with a name people misspell and mispronounce, Larry, could you please fix t he spelling at Simeon's first name? It's listed as Simon. I own several Waverunner libraries that I think are really nice and exceptional values. I actually don't usually love the sound of hammer dulcimers, which this sounds a lot like a blend of, layered with a piano and harpsichord, but I really like the sound of this library. Thanks Simeon and thanks for sharing the video, Larry.

Aha, Reid, that is completely in line with what I expected (that you're a writer). But you're also excellent on camera. I look forward to your future videos!

Sincerely Reid, I watched a couple of your videos after that and I was very impressed by your communications and analytical skills. I've done a good deal of public speaking, including keynotes, but I'm not a natural like you are. I believe you once shared that you formerly were CEO of a business, but watching one of your other videos (a serious one), I honestly would have thought you had a background in broadcast journalism. I think some Tiger the Frog videos on areas of interest, reviews or tutorials would be very welcomed.

Thanks @Pollux. Being a rock musician, I would naturally gravitate towards anything branded Abbey Road. I realize this thread is focused on the Ocean Way NashvilNashville, but I take it that everyone is pretty happy with the Abbey Road plugin -- as if I start by buying one, that would be the one I'd be inclined to get first.

I wasn't really a fan of the sample library, but I just became a fan of yours, @Reid Rosefelt. This is your first video I've watched and I found you entertaining and also a very well spoken person. Keep up the good work!

I can use some advice from those of you who really understand mixing. I haven't had a DAW for several years, but I never really learned anything about mixing or mastering and want to start getting knowledgeable about it, but I have limited time to do so, so consequently, I bought Izotope's full array of their mixing and mastering plugins -- largely purchased Izotope because their tools use AI and look really friendly for those not knowledgeable on mixing or mastering, like me. But I'm temporary not going to have access to using my speaker monitors and will need to do some mixing on headphones for some tracks I would like to share. In that instance, would this Ocean Way plugin likely be valuable for me or does Izotope's tool -- which I have yet to install or use (I'm getting a new PC for my DAW next week) -- handle mixing with headphones well?

They are known problems with the installer that a company support rep has acknowledged as a known problem they plan on addressing stated in July 2020 -- but never have done so. It is a problem with Pace drivers in the installer and the current installer version of XPand!2 doesn't permit the user to opt out of installing PACE and the result many users have reported and AIR acknowledges, is that it will completely shut down your Windows 10 installation and require the user to rollback Windows. You'd think AIR would have at least updated the installer in 6 plus months. Anyhow, after responding to several people, I'll make this my last post in this thread.

Oops. Now that you mentioned it, the plugin that actually caused all the issues on my son's Windows 10 PC was actually XPand!2 not Hybrid 3. I own a bunch of their plugins that I picked up over the years but never installed any of them until last month. I was pretty interested in installing Loom 2, which I also own, but the nightmare I dealt with trying to install XPand!2 was a pretty big deal. I will not bother with any of the AIR plugins I own until they fix their installers and I can see people posting that they work on Windows 10. If that ever happens. To Maestro's point, yes, like Sonivox (owned by the same company), AIR plugins are really old and haven't been properly maintained by their current owner who clearly buys declining plugin and sample brands just to use their products as cash cows That is, the get as much money as they can for the products -- which isn't much for these old VSTs and Sonivox sample libraries made in the 90s with VST wrappers from the 00s -- but don't invest anything in new products, in maintaining existing products or in providing even minimal level of customer support.

Yep. It's been acknowledged by the developer and there are lots of people on KVR and other forums who've reported the same issues. To those posting that they're fine, I would suggest that you may be doing fine, but after future OS updates you may not be fine. AIR is selling abandonware and I appreciate Plugin Boutique for having the integrity to pull AIR products and make a clear public statement.

I own several AIR VSTs that I bought cheap but never installed any of them until the other week when I tried to install one of my two licenses of Hybrid3 on my son's Windows 10 PC. It absolutely stopped the PC from working. It took me a half hour to deal with getting the PC working again and I had to roll Windows back. When I went to AIR's forum on KVR, I found a AIR support employee stated in July 2020 that it's a known problem, not to install PACE with the installers and instead do it later and that AIR was working on a fix. Except there is no option to NOT install PACE with the Hybrid3 installers and the tech support guy disappeared and never posted again after July. I cannot strongly enough recommend that people run from any AIR VSTs. The developer has no interest in supporting their products. Even for free, their VSTs aren't worth the trouble they cause and the KVR thread and threads at other forums make clear that my experience is common. I would only try installing any of their VSTs again after they made updates and other users reported no problems.

Hey, thanks @artturner, you just saved me ten bucks!

I'd love to get insights on these and other affordable monitor headphones. My old AKG pair broke and I need something new and am on a tight budget. I'd love to see people who know this area well weigh in on monitoring headphones under $100 USD.

Unfortunately, as the copy on any pages and emails where NI distributes the voucher codes states, they don't work on upgrades or along with other promotions.

That's what I thought, but this has one playable octave. That's not truly a lite version. That's a severely limited demo.

Been there, Larry. Keep us updated. Hopefully you'll get it worked out soon.

I used to mainly use Sampletank for their synth patches and Tron libraries from Dave Kerzner's company. I did read about importing ST2 libraries into ST3 first in order to use them in ST4, but what a convoluted and non-user friendly hassle. I suppose I'll do it for the old SR libraries I have, but I doubt I'm going to buy more decade old libraries to go through that process.

Wait, you're no longer cclarry. You're Larry. I'll note that for future sarcastic posts.

It is probably a wise idea for sample developers to have a cclarry marketing strategy. And while you know I appreciate you, financially I may be better off blocking you! Although lately my strategy has been to only grab freebies and ultra low price stuff, temptation is never far away. It's like we're all kids and we hear the music playing that signifies cclarry's ice cream truck is passing by [and yes, it's not lost on me that the only people that analogy means anything to are Gen X and Boomers, but I liked it better than using a drug dealer and junkie analogy!] . We love you cclarry, but ironically, while saving us a lot of money, you're also making our credit card balances larger.

I haven't tried importing any of the old SampleTank 2 libraries -- like SR is selling -- into SampleTank 4. Is it an easy process?

Thanks for the advice @mibby and @bluzdog. It's appreciated.