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From PG Email... Say HELLO!! to Modern Cinema - Renegade for Unify! Create by PlugInGuru family member Bob Dedes (he's written demo songs for libraries I've released starting in 2005 with MegaMagic: Dreams!) Bob has created a Power Packed High Energy 82 Patch + Sample library that is actually 6 different libraries in one: 1 - Cinematic Percussion - huge impacts, toms, hand claps, body slams and more! 2 - Sound Design - Sub and Organic Hits, sweeps, swooshes - awesome for all genres of music production. 3 & 4 - Ear Candy - Stings, vocal chops, stabs, brass hits PLUS lots of other cool elements to add to a track. 5 - Music Instruments - Synth & Electric Bass, Insane and fun to play Electric Guitars, Synths and Vocals. NOTE: ALL of the Hits, Percussion Instruments and Instruments contain between 4 - 8 round robin samples for incredible depth and realism. 1 Guitar alone has 5 velocity layers of 8 round robin samples - over 1,600 samples for 1 the IBZ Cruncher (HI MEM) Patch! This 1 guitar has 5-velocity layers and 8 samples per note with every note sampled for 3 1/2 octaves! They sound so good! 6) A 650MB WAV Library of all the above PLUS additional hits, fx as well as percussion and guitar loops - PLUS all 12 demo songs Bob wrote are available as separated tracks for you to be able to study what he did. Get ideas of ways to spice up your productions from these, then fire up Unify, load up the sounds he used and write that hit track! This BONUS should be a separate purchase but we're including it because it is SO HELPFUL for everybody! Over 8,000 Samples, 12GB in size, this is a library like NOTHING we've ever released before! Retail is $89 but intro offer is $69 https://www.pluginguru.com/products/modern-cinema-renegade/ There's also a walkthrough video of it here... Saturday Livestream Agenda: We will definitely play with Modern Cinema - Renegade but maybe more exciting is we will interview Bob Dedes about the building of this library! There is also a new synth by Cherry Audio. We will play with that too! Join us Saturday at 12pm PDT Livestream Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFO1D5pUFJ0

Trackbout has updated Ripchord to v2.6.0 and open sourced the code. What's New: Full native support for Apple Silicon. The source code is now available on Github: github.com/trackbout/ripchord A preset tagging system with user defined tags to organize presets. Automatic recall of the last resize when a new instance is opened. The max resize was increased from 150% to 200%. Various minor improvements.

It's now been updated to v1.2 Changes: - NEW: Updated Framework - NEW: Persistent GUI settings (via Settings option) - NEW: Drag and Drop license file on registration window - CHANGE: Broken Tap simulation now must be set via right click on AGE knob. - BREAKING CHANGE: Broken Tap simulation is OFF by default You can download the update from your User Area account.

Thanks Husker.

Does anyone know what has happened to Gothic Instruments and support for these Dronar modules? Shortly before Time and Space went under I received an update to Dronar Guitarscapes from T&S but there are some issues with the update, and I cannot find any Gothic Instruments website.

I think the base install of Omnisphere is around 64Gb. Mine is currently 70Gb but that's with a few add-on libraries that included sample content. I just did a search in Omnisphere for "electric piano" with just the factory library selected. With All categories selected this came back with 27 results and with Keyboards category selected there were 11 results. Not that many, but that's probably because they want you to buy Keyscape for EP and other keyboard sounds. Omnisphere also has the Sound Match feature where it will search for similar sounding presets to the current selection which is a handy way to find sounds. That's probably true but I did it the wrong way around; buying Omnisphere after already buying most of the other major synths. That's GAS for you I guess Then again I do like to have choices. That's a good point Fleer. Some day I would like to add Keyscape and Trillion and I'll be intrigued to see what is added to Omnisphere 3 whenever that appears.

@Tim Smith Omnisphere was certainly a considered purchase for me but was well worth it (and I got it cheaper than usual in a sale). As well as the PluginGuru Omnisphere libraries which are excellent and have now all been Unified, there are also a load of top quality 3rd party Omnisphere libraries. Having said that, John has now largely moved away from making new Omnisphere libraries, partly because he was fed up seeing PG Omnisphere libraries for sale on eBay for peanuts. His Unify libraries are protected via serial number and he is gradually building up a good set of these with many more planned. They have the advantage (if you don't own Omnisphere) of only requiring Unify to run. Uni Lo-Fi is one such paid library and one of my favourites of late. MegaMagic Keys is another recent one for Unify which is worth checking out. As others have said, check out his videos for specific products to see if they float your boat. Incidentally, if you don't already have them you can still get the free (or optional donation) UniScream 2020 and 2021 libraries for Unify. These don't appear under products on their website but the direct links are here... https://www.pluginguru.com/products/free-uniscream-2020-library-for-unify/ https://www.pluginguru.com/products/pluginguru-uniscream-2021/

Sounds great, purchased! Also, PluginGuru Unify owners who buy Borsta can download the Borsta Unified Factory Library here ... https://www.dropbox.com/s/0f0npgq9gxwu57m/Klevgrand Borsta Unified.zip?dl=0

Quote from PG email... We are doing something special this weekend - we are putting our best foot forward to try to send some aid to our brothers and sisters who desperately need assistance in Ukraine. EVERYTHING at the site is 10% OFF (including Unify!) and a NEW LIBRARY just for this effort is now available. 100% of the sales of the library and 100% of the sale at my website between now and midnight on Sunday night will be sent to the Ukrainian Red Cross (50%) and Vostok.sos (50%). https://www.pluginguru.com/products/united-for-ukraine-unify-100-fundraiser-library/ My heart goes out to those struggling in war torn cities that were completely normal 3 weeks ago - I can't even imagine how difficult it must be in freezing temperatures with no electricity, food or in many cases even solid walls in their homes. I have relationships with a number of truly amazing people in Ukraine that have sent me recordings they've made on their phones in the dark as bombs are going off all around them - I can fathom that reality, but that is what they are facing. Please help if you can. The UNITED Library has 1GB of fresh new content including a bunch of Razor Samples I was saving for another library, a bunch of TB style basses, GuruNation™ members Kendall W Cochran III and Allen Somerlot contributed some IN-Freaking-Credible Recycle Drum Loops, I made a new NEVER SURRENDER Drum kit and the library wraps up with new synth Pluck and INSANELY GREAT Synth Patches from Razor I sampled. You can buy UNITED V1 at 1 of 4 prices: $30, $60, $125 or $250. Please pay whatever you are comfortable with - this library comes without a license number and installs the same as all our other libraries. ALSO: This library is a COMMUNITY PROGRAMING EVENT. So that means over the coming weeks, you can make patches and send them to us and we'll add them to a COMMUNITY BONUS Library for UNITED V1. More details to come. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT! Live stream link (from Saturday 12pm PDT). UPDATE: John added my Unified Generate factory library and Doug's Unified Spire factory library to the Unify web page. It wasn't mentioned in the email but John covered them in the livestream.

Thanks for the heads-up Larry. Nothing here either.

Looks killer Fleer! I own the other ADPTR plugins and with my monthly voucher ($25) that brings it down to $75 plus VAT. So I will wait until it's closer to $29

23 libraries are on sale at 40% off until Monday night! Take a look around and save some bucks! https://www.pluginguru.com/current-promotions/ There are 3 new Unifed libraries this week; I have Unified Sylenth1 (around 3,000 Factory patches) and Falcon 2.5 (1,400 Factory Patches), and Doug Rintoul has Unifed DS Diversion (330 Factory patches). Download these from the Unify homepage. https://www.pluginguru.com/products/unify-standard/ Livestream Agenda PlayTime with Arturia's new PlugIn - Fragments might very well be the audio effect of the YEAR. It is THAT INCREDIBLE - come hear it and see it in action! PLUS We'll also explore the 3 new plug-ins added to the Unified Library Database: Diversion by Dmitry Sashes, Sylenth1 by Lennar Digital and Falcon 2.5 by UVI - 4,600+ New Patches! AND REVEAL of our NEXT LIBRARY coming for Unify on March 17th by Bob Dedes. You want 8GB of Modern Cinematic Samples for Unify? OK!!! LiveStream Link below (from 12pm PDT):

Same for me (49 EUR or approx. 40 GBP). It does sound brilliant and it's easy to get the demo via Arturia Software Centre --> Explore Products.

Tomorrow is a Wednesday and it is now March so maybe very soon for Cubase Pro 12? ...or maybe an April fool a month early?!

Similar price for me Fleer; my upgrade from Anthology XI and SP2016 is $159.80. I am missing quite a few plugins from H9 though. So it might be worth it for SplitEQ and the H9 plugins I am missing (Crushstation, Crystals, Micropitch, Rotary Mod, ShimmerVerb, Spring, Tricerachorus and Undulator). That's around $18 per plugin which is pretty good value, but SplitEQ is the only one I really want as I have the rest covered by other plugins.

When Unify saves patches from a plugin it requests a "blob" of data from the plugin for each patch and that is what gets saved. It varies enormously from plugin to plugin, for example the Unified Hive 2 factory library (2421 patches) is only around 20Mb but NI Picked Acoustic (193 patterns) is 160Mb. The PG forum software is not the best so it's easy to miss new posts. I'm sure John will be happy to receive Unified Diversion.

I Unified Thorn months ago, but sat on it due to it being unclear whether the extra banks (one by DS and two by Rob Lee) that are included when purchased from PA could be considered as "factory" patches. Then someone on the PG forum posted this week that they were manually Unifying it. So I let the person know that I had already Unified it and sent it to John to see if he wanted to release it. I circumvented the potential issue by splitting it into two parts; the main factory presets and the 3 extra banks. So John has shared the main factory patches but is asking PA whether they are OK with the Unified extra banks also being shared. It would be unusual for non-factory patches to be allowed. There are two main threads on the PG Forums where people talk about Unifying stuff. One is the one you mention and the other is https://forums.pluginguru.com/unify-share/ . However, you will notice that there are a few stickies at the top of the first thread which make it easy to miss new posts that occur below them. It's also worth checking through all 8 pages of those threads for any that may already have been Unified or doing a search if you are planning to Unify a new one. One example you will find there is the V Collection synths which someone started doing a while back but never completed them. I have worked my way through the ones he did (there were some issues with them which I have fixed) and I was planning to do the rest. If you own VC8 maybe we could collaborate to split the task or you could carry on from where he/I left off? The ones that are done are ARP 2600, B-3, Buchla Easel, Clavinet, CMI and CS-80. I also started doing Analog Lab V, but abandoned it at around 3,500 patches when I noticed that it was over 1Gb and the estimated final thing would be over 2Gb! I kept what I had done though in case anyone really wants it finished. No-No's for Unifying for now are Omnisphere and Vital factory libraries. I have Unified the latter for my own use but the dev doesn't want Unified Vital patches to be shared so we have to respect his wishes.

Good to know, thanks for investigating further @Fwrend No brainer!

That's some deal @Fwrend! I haven't used Vegas in a while (v15 was the last one I purchased) as I moved to DaVinci Resolve, but I notice the NewBlue FX page says that it is compatible with Resolve. Would be nice to know whether the NewBlue stuff in this deal is tied to use with Magix Vegas/Movie Studio though before buying.

It's a funny thing @abacab but I probably had more fun using Unify's fuzzy dice with CA Quadra than any of the others I Unified this week and it is among the cheapest. You are right to say that it is ideal for keyboard splits and layers in one plugin. The only thing missing is drums, but anyone here probably has plenty of those to choose from not to mention some that come with Unify.

A reminder that UniLofi is still on sale until 1st March and it has now been updated with a further 75 SFX patches for a total of 325 patches. It's quickly become one of my favourites and recommended if Lofi is your thang. I have Unified another four factory libraries this week (Tone2 Icarus 2, Nemesis 2, CA Quadra and PA Thorn). These along with GForce OB-2 v2 and Decent Sampler Unified libraries are available from the middle of this page --> https://www.pluginguru.com/products/unify-standard/ Catch up with all the latest news from PG in tonight's livestream from 12pm PDT... Congrats @Doug Rintoul; it looks like your Unified Spire factory library is coming next week 👍🏻

My bad, I misunderstood what you were saying in the video Simeon. I agree that the number of parameters displayed can be a bit disconcerting! I think it probably needs a way to filter what's displayed; maybe something that's already on Shane's big list of possible changes. I will be interested to see what you come up with on Synchron Player. First of all I should say that I am not keen on symbolic links so I avoid using them where possible. For Kontakt libraries, I have taken to only Unifying Kontakt Player libraries to share (the ones with a graphic on the left hand side that work in the free Kontakt Player). If it's for your own use then non-Player libraries will also work fine. NI made some changes to Kontakt 6 last year, where you can add a path to the location of your non-Player libraries. Despite this, it is still possible to create a Unified non-Player library which doesn't work on someone else's machine. I expand on it a bit more in this thread if you haven't already seen it --> https://forums.pluginguru.com/unify-patchbook/unified-pluginguru-kontakt-megamagic-pads/ I look forward to seeing your results 👍🏻 It's definitely worth looking into Simeon, especially for libraries with more than, say, 50 presets. It can seem a little daunting at first, and it probably helps to have some coding experience or appreciation of the concepts, but persevere and you will reap the benefits. Give me a shout if you need any more help with it. There are also certain things which are easier and faster to do using Shane's batch tools.

I would have Unified them Fleer, if I owned them I like a lot of their libraries but I stopped buying them when I realised that I couldn't resell them. I guess Composer Cloud might be a way of obtaining them to Unify, but we are talking about some pretty huge libraries so not sure I have the disk space. Simeon's been Unifying a lot of Spitfire libraries, so maybe EastWest could be his next venture? Then again I watched one of his videos on VSL BB recently, and I think he said that Unifying this type of library could be tricky as the player is so much a part of how it operates. Maybe that's also true of Opus or Play IDK?

Pleased you got it working Doug, and glad to help. I remember the first library I Unified (RA Synferno) - 350 patches Unified manually. What a chore and took a few days off and on! I thought "there must be a better way". Once I got AutoHotkey up and running it became a bit addictive; that's how I ended up Unifying so many libraries. I hate to think how long it would have taken to manually Unify Hive (2,451 factory patches) or UVI Synth Anthology 3 (3,554 factory patches). There are quite a few that are over 1000 factory patches.

Why not give it a try. With AHK you are making it replicate what you would do if you were saving all of the patches in Unify manually. So you are telling it where to move the mouse and where to click, copy, paste etc etc. It takes a little bit of setup using Window Spy to work out where the mouse has to click, and also working out delay times between clicks etc. However, the great thing about Phase Plant is that all of the metadata that you need is not only visible on screen but can be clicked and copy/pasted. So, for example, the first patch in Hardwire (Analog Reese), you can click on its name and copy/paste the name and you can also double click on the macro names to copy/ paste those. So once you have the macros saved using the 0-based index method for the first patch (I usually set up a dummy patch) they will get replicated across all patches and the macro names can be copy/pasted by AHK from each patch as it steps through them. You could just try a simple script to start with copying only the patch names to each Unify patch. I also have Hardwire (Kilohearts gifted it to me) and Tremor which I bought cheaply from KVR as well as the freebie Grattis 2021. I have now made an AHK script for these PP expansions and have Unified Hardwire and Tremor (cannot share the Unified libraries though - see below). One of the things we discussed over on the PG forums was the need to ONLY share Unified Factory libraries (developer permitting). That's why, for example, I have Unified a number of expansions that I own for various synths but I won't share these as I would be giving away paid expansions for anyone to use! However, it's ok to share any AHK scripts to Unify expansion libraries, since whoever runs them must own the library or running the AHK script would be pointless. That hasn't happened though mostly because it then becomes a massive support headache for the script author to assist others to get the script running on their system. Especially if they aren't familiar with all of the ins and outs of running AHK with Unify. For example, all of my scripts make use of my Ultrawide monitor (3440 x 1440) so I use coordinates that would be off screen for most 1080p monitors. At the very least, anyone running them would want to change the coords of any windows used which would then alter the coords of where to click etc. You can change whether the coords are relative to the screen or active window but I tend to work with the screen mode.