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Be careful if you already have KOMPLETE .. many expansions come with it. Unfortunately I stumbled on that front a while back and ended up ordering expansions i didnt realise I had already .. forgot to look at the list of expansions that came with Komplete. In fairness NI refunded me

@Tezza Any specific make you could recommend? I see alot of them on Amazon with varied reviews of flimsy, bad build etc

I have an Inspiron 7000 series 17" .. the 7377. Im afraid it only has space for 1 HD right of the battery looking underneath. The other way is via a HD Caddy which replaces the DVD drive unit Im not sure how good these are BUT for about $10 or so its surely worth a punt. I wonder has anyone else got one of these here?

@Tezza Are you referring to the process of using a DVD Drive bay converter caddy?

To bookend this thread .. I went and bought a Samsung 2TB EVO 870 SSD for €208 on amazon dot de ( In Ireland ( we are in the EU ) so cant really use dot co dot uk anymore after Brexit .. attract excise etc ). Ordered last Wednesday, arrived today. Currently attached via USB 3 port to my laptop CLONING using the Samsung Clone software. About 4 or 5 hours to do. Did a bit of research on all of this and the Samsung EVO range comes out tops especially if your system ( like mine ) cannot take an NVMe. https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B08PC5ZYB1/

For me £22 or €25 would be about 4 pints on a night out when we used do that and maybe a chips and burger on walk home .. so for a years worth of mags and lots of decent instruments, samples etc its definitely a great bargain

Yes .. will be subbing this one me thinks. Already have rotating COMPUTER MUSIC sub always from offers, never full price

Keep in mind you have something like 90 days to do that. After that you get charged to download YOUR products .. again

IK Multimedia installation and utilitys is such a complete MESS. Just ONE utility that functions properly for everything would be enough. At the moment is custom shop, IK Product Manager, Authorization Manager Product Manager is the complete opposite of what its name says. Another mess of a utility. And then this limited time to download backups of your products before you have to pay for the privilege again.

I have this installed but as usual with IK stuff, I cannot find it in sampletank 4. Found it .. via Sampletank 4 open click on the INSTRUMENT Column on one of the program rows to bring up the library on the left, scroll down to Synthwave Hitmaker

Yip absolutely crazy to limit addition of vsts to just 2. I think 2 per track maybe? Still though .. nuts

Its not that clear I dont think. Does that mean if you own ANY OTHER Beatmaker product you can crossgrade? It just says Loyalty deal for Beatmaker 2 owners ..

yeah .. With chrome I just went to the Patreon link and tried click to download .. got unsafe message on all of them that I tried. But to download I would have to intervene and tell it go ahead anyway. So that Q remains .. is it safe?

i have my CM sub via Zinio. Then went to Filesilo, logged in, clicked the issue and it asked for first word in headline on article top right of page 8. Added that word and straight in no prob. Downloaded the WORD File with the link to get the lic code, filled in form, sent. Then got email with unique code and a link at a special page at Bitwig to download the installer. All good

One of the reasons I have still kept in with Ableton aside from what you said above " it still offers a lot in the way of sound design creativity, and experimentation for any style of music," .. is the F9 Audio products for Ableton: https://www.f9-audio.com/collections/all-products

With this 11 upgrade in comparison to 10 I have a crap load of new instrument and new toy downloads beside the Live 11 itself sitting in my account. Its going to take a while .. lots comeing with 11, even standard which is what I have. Only reason i have Ableton is I bought 8 way way back .. I had not upgraded it until now, around Christmas when the offer came by to upgrade to 10 and get 11 FREE. Sort of no brainer for €95 in November 2020

Here is a load of short vids showing the new features in LIVE 11: https://www.ableton.com/en/live/learn-live/

And .. its here Just got my email saying - "Your Live 11 license is ready for download"

On the verge of buying a 2TB Samsung 870 QVO SATA 2.5 Inch Internal Solid State Drive. Best I can find my neck of woods is at amazon dot de ( im in Ireland, Rep of .. so in EU ) for €183 ( $221 approx ). Are samsung a good bet SSD wise? I see this one is Read speed - 560 Megabytes Per Second Write speed - 530 I currently have a 2TB seagate firecuda and its driving me nuts. Not much better than a standard sata TBH. Plus it very occasionally hangs and needs reboot. I take it I should notice a big difference with the samsung above and cakewalk usage with Kontakt, UVI etc? My system is a 17" i5 inspiron, 16gb Ram, 2GB nvidia graphics card. Does NOT have NVMe capability

Im building up quiet a library of free games in my epic account. Not sure why though, as these days I dont play games Fell into that trap once with endless time and late nights gaming, got sense .. so no more Going back to late 80s I still have a collection of discs and cds with games .. untouched for decade or 2 So this epic hoarding of free games must be a compulsion

@David Grammerstorf As i mentioned a good way up Page 1 here I am having the same issues .. it is a number of things. I have both a core i5 laptop and desktop. I move my Audio I/F ( Audient EVO4 ) from one to the other. I am getting clicks and popouts, mainly on Laptop I have to say. I have been intouch with Audient ( after a session with Noel Borthwick on Skype a few weeks ago ) and they have said they will be releasing major Driver/Firmware update imminently. In the meantime I decided to try something on my laptop. Over the years I have amassed a serious amount of VSTs and all added inside CW .. the folders where they reside. SO today I renamed all those folders with TEMP_ and dumped them from the listings in the CW Prefs so it would not find the zillions of vsts I then picked a track that was causing issues with clicks and dropouts .. created a new VST folder and just put a copy of the VSTs used in that track only into that folder. Loaded the track, which did so now way faster. I still had the clicks and dropouts when played BUT I then deleted the AIR Compressor on 2 tracks, still clicks etc. I then dumped the TANTRA plugin from a guitar line. TAA DAA whole track now plays perfectly .. no clicks/dropouts. Added the AIR compressor back also, all works fine now I know many here will say why bother temp dumping the main VST folders. I did so to see if THAT was causing the dropouts/clicks .. So not sure if this might be of help or not .. just relaying my experience anyway ...

PLAYBEAT also reduced PLUS a Playbeat and Riffer bundle reduced price too https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/2-Effects/24-Sequencer/5752-Playbeat https://www.pluginboutique.com/products/5762-Audiomodern-Playbeat-Riffer-Bundle?refSrc=4758&nosto=productpage-nosto-1

Wotja Pro ( Formerly KOAN ) is on the Microsoft store for princely sum of €19.99 https://intermorphic.com/wotja/21/

Thats why I am looking at this iDRIVE @$55 per annum for 5TB .. OK, I dont have 22TB of data .. But my main thing is IF A SYSTEM fails its a pain in ***** to reinstall all the Kontakt Libraries and vsts etc, so upload them for safe keeping to that iDRIVE 5TB. Also use it to backup project files. Dont need sync on and can drag drop manually via browser from windows explorer to upload. Basically simple, treating it as a virtual USB Drive in the cloud. Very Secure and less likely to breakdown than a USB Drive or internal SATA / SSD Drives I imagine

An interesting angle with this genre: https://medium.com/@alexbainter/making-generative-music-in-the-browser-bfb552a26b0b Here is a load of Generative stuff produced by guy in that article. Random ongoing https://play.generative.fm/browse