Vernon Barnes

Just linking this thread as I am having problems after the update.

Well Larry was always going to be first, but I have edited my post as there seems to a problem, at least on my DAW.

2.5.1(R2) Must have been released in the past few days, I saw it in Native Access today. It seems to be taking a very long time to scan VSTs. Holdups seem to be on Arturia synths. I am minded to stop it and let it run overnight at this rate. EDIT - It just seems to hang on Arturia Matrix 12 V2 for a couple of hours. Has anyone else had this issue? I would warn against upgrading just yet.

Got mine and picked the Post Rock Guitar which is very nice. I am beginning to quite like Strum GS2, I prefer the sound of the OTS and Amplesound guitars but Strum is nice and immediate, particularly the chord detection and a good writing tool. I think I may pickup one or two other expansions while the $19 sale is on.

I assume this means that they are NKS compatible? Is that new, often NI has a sale when a manufacturer adopts NKS.

This used to be my goto. When Magix took over I suffered a string of authorisation issues as it was a legacy product. In the end I gave up and reclaimed the disc space. It was being overtaken by my growing Kontakt collection in any case. The Candy saxophones were particularly good and I miss them. The basses were also very good. The rest are reasonable workhorse type sounds. It was reasonably straight forward to load your own samples and map them on the keyboard. I assume authorisation problems wont occur buying direct from Magix. Worth considering at these prices if you need more bread and butter sounds.

I just have the drums and some expansions that bundled. I have considered removing them but I am keeping them, for now, " just in case". There are some nice kit in there but the authorisation thing does not give one confidence.

I wonder if this means they have fixed the authorisation system so it's not broken by Windows updates?

I like the old Sampletekk Estonia grand a lot ( I think its discontinued.) Not deeply sampled and basic interface and features but a wonderful tone. So this one has my curiosity going

The Mellotron finally updated through ASC. It is now full NKS compatible including sound previews!

Just installed analog Lab 5 and the updates to version 7All seems to be well. The Mellotron however is suffering with download failures in ASC, if it does not resolve its self I will do a manual download tomorrow. 12000+ presets showing in Analog Lab 5. Seriously 12K? It would be quicker to learn to program the synths than audition that lot! Fortunately the browser has decent selection filters. Some warnings about the new effects and if you save a preset it may not backwards compatible.

Got it. Edit. Registered and installed apparently successfully in Native Access but its not showing in the Kontakt libraries tab. It loads from the file menu. Further investigation required. On a very quick preview it sounds very good and could be more useful than I thought. I probably would not have bought it but I think I may use it,

I suspect a change in the preset format has happend ( to incorporate new features ?????) When they went from 3 to 4 (I think) they released a small program that converted to old presets for use in the new version. It seems a bit confusing at the moment what's happening. I would be more concerned if the older presets were no longer useable in the individual synths, which also happend when the format changed.

I am having trouble getting Software Centre to log on at the moment. Does anyone know if the new versions of the Jupiter 8 and Rhodes available if you remain on version 7? If they follow previous practice they would be. The Emulator is the main point of interest as far as I can see. The Juno 60, well I have the Cherry DCO160 so nothing too compelling there and I already have the OBx. Patch Points may be interesting if its more than a collection of presets.

Uninstalled and reinstalled and was still unable to connect. It appears that Windows firewall may have been blocking Softube central. I added it to the allowed list and its all working fine. It was never a problem before.

Thanks, I think the pro-channel support is probably gone for ever. Something weird is happening here at the moment, I manually updated Central but it can't connect. I will do what the error message says and try later. There are some glitches on my Internet connection today, so it may be that.

Mmm. Now I have problems logging on. I can get to my account on the website OK.

I wonder if they have fixed the Pro-Channel versions (not holding my breath.)

I have not tried it. I do not have any to try.

$12, and it will add 11 months to the Abbey Road collection WUP.

Checking with Everyplugin to see what they can do with my upgrade code and WUP voucher (which will expire soon).

Well I have just taken delivery of a shiny new iLok so I suppose I will install the latest before moving my licences. Scary time 🤔

Looks like Waves does not want my money. Secure connection failed when trying to make payment. If I recall correctly this happened the last time I tried to but through them directly. I usually go through a third party but was going to use my voucher.

Worse than I thought then. The voucher is not quite as useless as NI's vouchers but its close unless you want to make a very big purchase.

I think my WUP voucher is still valid. I will have to check, the voucher only gives you a 40% (?) discount so there was not much I wanted to buy, but this looks intresting if I can get it for around $16.