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That narrows down the options quite a bit and you've got a number of the ones in there that I would've otherwise recommended. I might need to defer to some of the other guys like @Fleer who might have some good ideas on them! If I had to though, I'm not as much of a fan of strum, so I'd look for more packs for the other two. I don't own this one yet, but I did like a couple of the sounds from a walkthrough https://www.applied-acoustics.com/space-walk/ For UA maybe https://www.applied-acoustics.com/plastic-pop/ This doesn't sound like it fits those genres as closely, but I did come close to grabbing this today so it might worth a look and there is a good preset walkthrough vid: https://www.applied-acoustics.com/low-end-theory-2/ You could also download the latest Swatches and see if it includes any for those instruments that you like to get an idea as well. https://www.applied-acoustics.com/swatches/

That was exactly my experience with turning stuff off as well. It is still classed as beta though, so it's possible for final release they may have some better presets. Definitely a keeper regardless though and I'm happy to have it.

I was pretty impressed too Brian. Although I mostly didn't like the majority of the presets, but the default one sounded nice and were a better place to start from for me.

Glad it helped! Do you have any of the full instruments, or just the session versions? If you have any of the full ones, then I'd get all the ones you like for that first. If not and you're using the free player, or have all the sessions, then there's more to choose from. If you let us know what instrument you have, then I'm sure you'll end up with recommendations from a few of us on here.

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Installed! Thanks

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Funny you should mention that $19 price.. that's exactly the number I had thought would be more fair and in the ballpark! I think $49 was around as cheap as it went for. I'm not 100% certain on that, but that was the general lowest at least. So to get this current version, it would be $78 to upgrade ($49 + $29) and the new RRP will be $199. Xenon, MasterComp and oldTimerMB are all $199 RRP. I bought the first two for less than $25 on sale. I suspect that PSP won't discount it as heavily, or at least for a while, but I wouldn't at all be surprised if people were able to buy that new version for less than the $78 we would've paid. Back purely on cost and what they're adding. If they keep it the same for another 5 years but add more modules than these initial ones, then it might not be as bad. But without them sharing their roadmap, we can't bank on anything like that. These new modules don't exactly wow me either, but they still might be OK to own.

Unfortunately people do.. and it's often people just starting to make music.. That's where I think Waves really preys on newbies. But it's also why forums like this are so good and why I like sharing deals. It helps keeping companies honest, by reducing the chance of people falling for these overinflated prices and feeling completely ripped off the first time they come across a proper sale, like Black Friday sales. Some of the forums will post every terrible sale price because they're affiliates and want the kickbacks, so they don't care about people getting the best buy. I often ignore a lot of the sales I see if they're either not their lowest price or not a better than normal sale price. Some products never go below say 50% even at resellers and so I still share some of them when they come up, as I know I've sometimes been waiting for them and glad to see them on here so I didn't miss them! Some really popular ones I might too, as sometimes you just want to buy them at any discount. Intros are a little different. We all love new stuff! I actually really like this synth. I would never pay full price for it though. However there's really not many products I ever would pay full price for!

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