ZincT

24 minutes ago, Promidi said:

The folder tree looks fine. 

Maybe try going through all your IK products and reactivate them using IK Multimedia Auth Manager.....

Worth a try. Thanks 👍🏻

I should add that American Acoustic works fine in ST3.

55 minutes ago, Promidi said:

Remember, with ST3 you could only specify one location for the content.  With ST4 you can specify multiple locations.  I have the content for ST4 and ST3 (Though I uninstalled the ST3 player) and can see all the content from both products (as well as IK add ons).  I have two locations for the sound content specified, one for where the ST3 content resides and another for where the ST4 content resides. They are on 2 physical drives.

Go into the Settings and head to the Sound Content tab and make sure any folders that contain Sampletank content (which ever version) are listed there.  Then perform a "Rescan Instruments"

Thanks Promidi. I have been through this with support. Anyway I have always had two separate locations for ST3 and ST4 sounds under a common IK Multimedia folder.
It's all in the thread I listed above. I have removed all folder locations and re-scanned with none, then adding each one back one at a time starting with the ST3 instrument folder and re-scanning etc (see above thread). With only ST3 instrument folder I still have the same problem.

I have an SSD drive with all of my sample based instruments on.

S:/IK Multimedia/SampleTank 4

and

S:/IK Multimedia/SampleTank 3

Here's a listing of folder content using Treesize Free. Under ST3 Instruments you will see, amongst others,  200_American Acoustic , 410_NRG and 600_Electronika Chillout. The last two work fine in ST4 but American Acoustic still shows a padlock. That is the issue.

TreeSize Free Export.pdf

https://www.gog.com/game/obduction 

from the makers of Myst.

To be honest I really regret buying SampleTank 4. If I had the chance to change my mind and not buy it I would jump at the opportunity. Yeah I know all of its great features etc, blah blah. Could I do without it? Easily.

This sudden disappearance of IK (Ryan) after he had started to help over a week ago is unforgiveable. It's like "Oh you raised a support ticket, great we can put you on the back burner now". Still nothing from Peter either. Do you think this is a good way to deal with your loyal customers Peter?

The nightmare that is their ST4 installation method was always going to cause problems with lots of end users and there are plenty of threads on various forums indicating as much. Nevertheless I was methodical in my installation process and I have religiously updated from 4.0.0 to 4.0.4 and the new sound installers. ST4 itself seems to work fine but it will only let me use some of my ST3 MAX libraries (all of which work fine in ST3). 

12 minutes ago, superdan54 said:

Got my boxed copy of the Pro 10 Crossgrade yesterday!! Shipped from the UK in 4 days...how 'bout that?

I can confirm it did come with an e-licenser so this was definitely the route to go for me. I'm loving the feel of Cubase so far. Seems to merge the best of Sonar & S1 together.

Hey that's pretty cool.

Slightly annoying for me though as they are my local store in the UK (25 minutes drive) and when I emailed them to ask whether the crossgrade was a boxed version with e-licenser they said...

Quote

 

Thank you for your email.

Typically this would come on a card with a download code and serial key as typically we no longer sell versions with USB e-licenser keys.

This is something typically being phased out by our suppliers.

Kind regards,
Jonny (@Gear4Music)

 

 🙄

22 hours ago, Monomox said:

Strumming and fingerstyle seem to be the strong points of the engine/samples, what are yall's thoughts on melody/solos? I don't find them convincing in the demos. What do you think of the samples and articulations in melodies/solos?

Seems like a great bundle for the price mono. I would be tempted if I didn't already have the OTS Evolution Songwriter and MusicLab RealStrat Elite. 

Also my main real guitar is a USA Tele so I am well covered for Tele sounds.

Lucky you Fleer.  Still heard nothing here. 😔

Ticket number is # 3496650 raised on 22nd May 

Thanks husker and Matthew. 

I like the look of that Streamworks Audio course and it works out at around 26 GBP with the current discount so a definite contender.
I will also probably get the Groove3 one on offer and wait for the others.

I will also check out the Ask Video and SOS Tutorials although I don't have a sub for SOS magazine.

I have subscribed to the Steinberg YouTube channel so maybe I should work my way through their content before spending too much money on paid for tutorials. 

Can anyone recommend any Cubase Tutorial videos? I am OK with the basics from using Cubase Elements.

I am trying to avoid any that just run through all of the features without actually showing how to use them in real world examples. 

I notice Groove3 and Udemy have a few but some are for older versions of Cubase, which is not necessarily a bad thing if the content is still relevant.
e.g.

https://www.groove3.com/tutorials/Cubase-10-Explained 

https://www.groove3.com/tutorials/First-Song-with-Cubase (currently half price at $17.50 to own)

https://www.groove3.com/tutorials/Cubase-Chord-Track-Explained 

https://www.groove3.com/tutorials/Cubase-10-Editing-Audio-Explained 

and https://www.groove3.com/tutorials/Padshop-and-Padshop-Pro-Explained for PadShop 

Udemy has this very basic but FREE course...  https://www.udemy.com/from-cubase-to-cupro-getting-started-on-cubase-10/

plus a whole lot of other Cubase courses...

https://www.udemy.com/courses/search/?src=ukw&q=cubase&sort=price-low-to-high

None seem to be on offer so it's probably worth waiting a couple of days for their next "sale"!

😂 Lol, nabbed it thanks.

Two more serials left - I'm sure there was another one I meant to get and forgot about. 😕

46 minutes ago, kitekrazy said:

 I posted a fix in a earlier thread about 2 months ago.  If you can find it that might help.

Thanks kk. Did you mean this thread:

If so that's the same solution that Ryan from IK offered. I tried it and still no joy. 

More details of the problems are at the end of this thread (anyone know how to link to a specific post within a thread?):

Incidentally, for the song where I wanted to use American Acoustic I have now used NI Strummed Acoustic 2 ☹️

Same here Fleer. It's a week today since Ryan last made contact regarding my problem accessing legacy ST3 libraries in ST4. He asked me to pm the ticket number which I did and haven't heard anything since then either from him or support 👎

I am running ST4 standard and the only issue I have is I cannot run all of my ST3 MAX legacy instruments e.g. American Acoustic. 

I have an outstanding support ticket for this problem.

You might find this table useful as it shows you which instruments are included with each version of ST4 (ST4 SE, ST4 and ST4 MAX):

https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/include/st4/soundlist/SampleTank_4_comparison.pdf 

9 minutes ago, chris.r said:

Can't find any info what's the size after it is installed . Anybody?

I wondered the same. I did find the demo which is 3.9Gb and I am downloading now from Initial Audio.

https://initialaudio.com/product/sektor/ 

Thanks for the information TS. 

I will try the demo.

Looks interesting but is there a demo or any YouTube videos on this?  I cannot find either.

Does anyone have it and like it?

Does it offer anything over other enhancers?

I have been having lockups in CbB whenever I create a Melodyne region (shortcut Ctrl- M) on vocal tracks for the past couple of days.

This happens even on small vocal clips.

I was on the latest Melodyne version but rolled back to a previous one in case that was the issue but it made no difference.

Anyway, I had put Waves Vocal Rider on all of these tracks and wondered whether that was the issue (haven't used it in a while).

When I turn Vocal Rider off I still get the same issue but when I remove it altogether Melodyne works fine.

Is anyone else getting this? 

I have MAutoVolume as an alternative although not quite the same but does anyone know of any other non Waves rider type plugins?

Thanks

10 minutes ago, mibby said:

Zinc, you're going to love it.   Beside all the great features on this thing like 6 flavors of compressor, pre/post EQ, and Mid/Side processing, the "Loud Relief" knob is unique to this Boz compressor. Here's a video.  Seriously, as Lars said, this one is a no brainer guys!

<snip>

Thanks mibby! I have already used it on a drum track and it sounds great. 👍🏻 Will give that video a good checking out. 

From payment to receipt of activation codes took approximately 3 minutes.

Also, the PDF invoice arrived about 5 hours after that but does not include activation codes (it's just a proof of purchase).

16 minutes ago, Sergio said:

Well... I pulled the trigger and got the crossgrade directly from Steinberg. I opted not buying from 3rd party mostly because I intend to postpone the registration until the end of the year and I don't want troubles with wrong serial numbers or so then (not because 3rd party serial numbers are not reliable but, as I bough directly from then, I think I'll have less problems if anything goes wrong later).

To my surprise, though, I cannot find the list of my purchases or reprint an invoice from the Steinberg site. The only proof of purchase will be the emailed invoice!!!

And, BTW, I still have not received the email with the invoice and serial number. Is this normal?

I just checked the times when I bought it on Monday and I received the email from Steinberg online shop (steinberg@asknet.de) with the Activation code 4 minutes after the validation success email (for crossgrade eligibility).

It will of course depend on how quickly you respond to the validity success email. I carried on with the purchase immediately on receipt of the validity success email. It then probably took another minute or so to get to the payment screen. So it was probably around 3 minutes from payment to receiving the activation code.

Thanks Larry.

Only wanting one of these from IKM. Can't decide which...

They have Leslie Collection for 92.39 USD and Amplitube Leslie for 67.19 USD in cart.

Thanks TS! Yes the same 21 updates here. Looks like a worthwhile update.

Also, Analog Lab 4 has been updated from 4.0.0.2708 to 4.0.1.2811.

Nice, thanks as usual TS 👍

Good spot, thanks mibby. Sold! Already had Sphere delay from a previous purchase at PB so no loss there. 

Thanks Ryan.

I tried your bullet points adding back only the ST3 path but AA is still padlocked after a rescan. Strangely one of the other installed ST3 libraries (NRG) is accessible.

I had a look at the ST4 folders and under the folder SampleTank 4\Instruments I have a SampleTank 4 folder BUT I also have folders numbered 01 to 21 which look like ST3 instrument folders! They are the same as in the SampleTank 3 folder.  That must have happened somehow during the installation of ST4 as I have always kept my ST3 and ST4 folders separate. Anyway, I have deleted those and rescanned but still have the same issue. 

Some ST3 libraries that I have installed, namely NRG and Electronica are there but American Acoustic is not.