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However 27.99 + 5.32 (VAT) = 33.31. JRRShop still wins out for EU customers (not to mention $ vs €) 😂

FWIW it's cheaper to upgrade from Cubase Elements or LE directly to Pro (292,39 EUR) vs buying Artist as a new customer (331,99 EUR).

Yeah, from genuine 300 year old horsehair 😂 IIRC one genuine Stradivari violin bow is on display in a museum.

Use the advice from the others, then use LatencyMon as explained here: https://www.sweetwater.com/sweetcare/articles/solving-dpc-latency-issues/

This was all on eInstruments though, NI's involvement was likely minimal. They had a huge article about it last year on their website.

What the actual flick? 😂 It actually writes to the task scheduler? Just remembered I have a license around from a humble bundle, guess it's not getting installed.

Extreme differences? The GUI, the workflow, Ableton has a lot more tutorials out there, and it's also on macOS. And then there's Max for Live which is a whole different can of worms. OTOH Cakewalk is free, and it also has Matrix View, which covers a lot of Ableton's Session View. Ableton Live is quite expensive to get access to the really juicy features (at least $299 if you own live Lite). Cakewalk's tutorial stash is also (slowly) growing. Ableton is built like a performance DAW, Cakewalk is built more like a recording & production DAW as far as workflow goes. I mean, at the end of the day, if you feel the itch to see what it's like, you can get the trial, no 😄?

Sorry for reviving this, but Ableton has extended the free Live trial by another 90 days. Got this in the mail today: https://redirect.ableton.com/u/gm.php?UID=4ssOSpPG4B&ID=534757879_7630908_26436

Having owned a Launchkey 49 (mk II) the single high point it has is its weight. The keys are kind of bad (though above those found in Berhinger's controllers), the velocity is meh, the drum pads are meh, the encoders and faders are meh. And honestly, € 230 is relatively on the high end for its intended audience, which seems to be bedroom producers just striking out. It's also not very well integrated with FL studio, the DAW a fledgling producer is likely to use. Though honestly in this price range, there's not much else to recommend either: Nektar Impact LX61, the Alesis VI61 (it has aftertouch) or NI's A61.

Kontakt crossgrade (from arcane/drummic'a) is 124,50 $ There's also: *Jay Maas Signature Series Drums Lite Edition: https://www.roomsound.com/products/jaymaas/#marker6 *The Free Orchestra (ProjectSAM) * And Soniccouture's also got a couple of free player-enabled libraries Try adding them all to his account and maybe one of them will be his lucky ticket to a full license of Kontakt

The only thing really worth anything (to me) in that bundle is Ashampoo PDF Pro 2, which is in the middle tier.

Yeah this is a great way to get into Komplete and save quite a bit of money Komplete Select 12 @ 50% off + Komplete 12 upgrade (with summer of sounds) = 298.5 $/€

Yeah komplete select does go on sale by itself, but komplete full, ultimate (and now collectors) only go on sale for upgrades.

There is no 50% off sale, it's a 50% off upgrades sale and you need at least Komplete Select to get that price.

This is how I entered the NI ecosystem a ~3 years ago. Then you wait for the summer sales and get the upgrade to the full Komplete. The Select package has enough sounds to keep a beginner busy until then.

There's this youtube playlist I found called Cakewalk by Bandlab: Basics

I hope to get my own copy soon enough. The sounds have the right quality for video game music. My only beef with spitfire is the way the installer/player simply loses its mind after I install / uninstall unrelated software. Having a single computer means I sometimes need to use other software. And right now, from time to time the player simply stops working and I have to reinstall the whole "spitfire audio" app from scratch. As is, the spitfire app should be the final app you install on your PC and then you lock it down & create a restore point basically.

Took a chance on the pack (and paid $3 in VAT but w/e). It certainly beats your average pack of loops from, say, MAGIX. Lots of world drums, probably few unique ones (I can almost swear I heard a few of these sampled somewhere) but it covers the basics. It also comes with "World Pack Instruments", a bunch of folders containing either wavs for drumkits or wavs for sampled instruments. Overall, IMHO as a hobbyist, it's neither a jaw-dropping deal nor an absolute dud. It's fairly decent.

What's next, a programmer using an IDE? 😂

I mean, technically you can find the WAV files for any loop you drag in your Song inside the Cache folder [Your Studio One Song]\Cache\Audio For example: D:\Studio One\Songs\TestSong\Cache\Audio\@@0@@192000@@x09E38ABA07 Upright Bass UB1 07 - 90 BPM - G.audioloop396C0_10000_3415_108_0.wav And get it from there.

I wish these guys luck but it seems a tiny bit too good to be true.

Ugh... they don't even show you the number of reauthorizations remaining. The good old: "when it stops working call our support".

Yeah it was a bit silly of me to put it that way. TBH, before Kontakt 5 plenty of players could actually play (or at least try to) Kontakt files. Still, Kontakt libraries are somewhat more open in many ways. If you have full Kontakt you can manipulate individual sample parameters for one. Compared to that, Spitfire's own player not only limits what you can do, but it also has bugs that Kontakt doesn't have. Don't get me wrong, I understand Spitfire's desire to get away from Kontakt. And it's normal for their player to be a work in progress, it's a young piece of software. Bugs are bound to happen until it becomes stable enough for a majority of their users. But I can't help feel that Spitfire is treating users like beta testers. And this is fine for free (such as LABS) or cheap $29-$39 libraries. But it's not fine for libraries that cost $300 - $700 and come with limited downloads/authorizations in a program that is known to occasionally corrupt its own data.

Does it fix their legendary issues with the player and the installer, where after a while the player refuses to load libraries?

How about a fix for their installer to stop messing up the libraries... Imagine buying something like Hans Zimmer Strings: an expensive, proprietary (i.e. non-Kontakt) library. You can only download it a few times and then the installer messes it up.