Keni

Absolutely! I wouldn’t have it any other way ... ...and thinking the final CbB to have bug fixes, but little or no new features.

Good observation. I imagine it's worth the cost of server activity and clerical work to spend. At least for a while? BTW I can see that’s gonna be a busy server day! (Week/month)

A thread like this probably needs some derailing to survive? 👽

...always time for a cuppa!

But these days I can do both at the same time! 😉

All true... But hopefully enuf of the initial fracas has died down by now? I'd even be happy with a one-way stream from them with occasional juicy tidbits. Enticements? Advertising? They could even make tantalizing jokes! (?)

Yup! I’m in the club too. I check many times each day!

Sweet where not a visibility issue.... or even better... Go swimming instead of performing in adverse conditions! I like it! 😉

Careful to make sure it’s sealed well! I chose a thick headband and a bucket of water in reach (away from electronics and floor level).

Yeah... and it’s getting worse as earth's climate is in process of warming... I had a similar experience recently and don’t wish it on anyone! I remember when I lived in New Mexico many decades ago I discovered people wearing flannel shirts in 110 120° weather . The reason being the dryness was worse than the heat so people soaked their flannel shirts constantly to stay wet ! That and wet headbands under hats ...

There was no VST3 file in the common folder for BBC Symphony Orchestra until I put a copy there

Actually, I don't think so... The problem turns out to be that Cake's plugin manager has the old common file path for the plugin's location instead of the new foldered location. I fixed mine brute force copying the vst3 dll to the common vst3 folder... Then Cake loads it fine, but next update I'll have to fix it again etc... so I will probably go the long route and do a reset, followed by a Plugin manager Re-Scan All Plugins (How I hate doing this!) So that it scans for the new location... Then all should be well for the immediate future...

[Solved] See bottom edit... I'm really twisted now... I finally was forced to do a full reset of 1.5 followed by a repair of 1.7... yet when it loads, it shows 1.5 and no piano? I'm stymied... Glad ta meetcha! ok... many tries later... Finally allowed to re-install 1.5, then it wouldn't show the update. I ran the 1.7 repair and still no go... Then it showed 1.5 as uninstalled??? So I installed and closed the spitfire updater. 1.5 installed and working.... Finally reopening their loader showed the 1.7 update. so I ran it, back to can't open I reopened their loader again and it again showed the 1.7 update so I ran it again! Still giving me grief with loading the vst folder and showing the pah with the .vst3 extension even though I renamed it??? What am I missing??? What a mess! Situation still the same vst3 won't load, but the vst2 loads fine and I can hear the piano. It does sound very natural. A few oddities in the samples, but nothing unforgiving (I don't think so, anyway)... Other than the slight dynamics control there are no other controls or adjustments... Still not bad in a free version. Piano sounds full in and of itself... Still need to solve the vst3 dilemma though. I have renamed the folder but continue to receive an error message showing the folder with the .vst3 end on it... sheesh! Ha! Figured it out... Not related to renaming the folder... I read the info displayed in Plugin Manager and it displayed the vst3's expected location to be in the common folder... It was not! So I copied the vst3 file into the common vst3 folder (program files/common files/vst3) and now all is well... Be on the lookout for this oddity too... I'm guessing that if I re-scanned all the plugins (uhg!) It may have solved it? Oh well... Fixed is fixed. I'll do my best to remember in case any issues come up... But sweet... It really is a great sampled piano as far as my poor ears can tell... I can see the urge to buy core or producer to gain all the room sound... We'll see if life grants me money some day... Whew!

Thanks, but I'm still getting the same error message even after renaming the folder. I see no other such entries. Did it require re-scanning the plugin (vst3)

It’s included for purchase. Maybe it’s included in the full version. I’m only running CS

You'd think by now they'd have learned? I'm sure they can give you reason(s) why they choose this, but it kills their' popularity a lot! They've got some great plugins, but they need to re-coonect to the humans who actually use their software... Such as the ability to turn off features and lighten it's load if you're not using them (detailed speaker selection etc... Nice to have but not often needed for me... Just an example...

So I noticed... By that time though at least I felt certain it was installing! The invisible wait for the installer to actually start had me convinced something was afoot... 😉

Amazingly s l o w install. I thought my pc died twice and almost re-booted!

Thanks for the heads up Larry!

The light is in my eyes!

Yes... I used to be happy about that, but these days my older machines OS bound...

Ha! I just got it only to discover that I already have it! 😉

Wouldn’t it be easy to buy a small midi controlled lighting hoard to which one could connect a record light. Then a simple midi command would toggle the light. Then assign it to the r key additionally? Ive heard of Arduino but I don’t know what it does

Much better... Now that I see the whole list and have listened through them (I hadn't thought to go through them yet being so overwhelmed with the amount of control)... Some very cool patches. Now I need to setup an expression pedal so I can add live control of volume/swells/etc. I know I've got a couple lying around... Wow! What a beautiful sounding VSTi!

I did just find that the list is twice as long as I first thought, but I still don't see anything with his name on it. The only patch that I recognized by name to be related is the Smoke On The Water patch they offer.... I will look some more. Thanks for the leaders... Ah, I think I get it. I believe his are labeled with JR. I just found one along those lines called Space Truckin' V JR-DP