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Can't help with getting your plugins to work, but I can log in both to Product Portal and my account on the website.

Thanks Marc - I know the battle all too well. I've been in the game for a while now, and I've known only one time where the entire team pushed back, and we went into 'maintenance mode' for a short while.

To be fair, it's not always the devs' fault. People come and go along with management changes, and sometimes that means overall knowledge of the product decreases within the team. And in places with higher levels of bureaucracy, management might decide over the devs on what gets built. It's possible (hypothetically speaking - I've no association with NI) the devs want to spend more time learning and fixing code infrastructure, but the higher ups insist on new features because that's what 'will' get more sales.

Perhaps that was the vision - just one version (with the same plugin ID), which updates with new features over time. But that might have been before the merge with iZotope and PA.

Not sure, but Microsoft will end support for Windows 10 in approximately one year from now. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/end-of-support?msockid=28b0994457f860b707078b21561861ed&r=1

It looks like something you could get from Scaler, which you'd have the additional advantage (depending on your point of view) of being able to run from within your DAW. Scaler doesn't seem to have buttons to explicitly show 11th or 13th chords, but you can type those variations in to get them if you need that flavour.

That used to be the case, but isn't anymore: https://help.sonible.com/hc/en-us/articles/5333228997010-Do-I-need-the-PACE-License-Manager-to-run-sonible-plug-ins

Because you're on a budget, or because you don't like ADSR?

I've never looked at FL Studio before today; I had no idea it could be used as a plugin from another DAW.

Might be the same concept as Melda. For example, let's say you had MEssentialsFXBundle. They then release a new plugin that goes into MMasteringFXBundle. If you have MMasteringFXBundle, you get the new plugin; if you have MEssentialsFXBundle, you don't because the new plugin is part of MMasteringFXBundle (and MComplete).

For a limited time, it's £49. Not sure if September 19 refers to the intro price, or the bonus Flow sample pack.

It means to make things worse or degrade. It's a word that was probably made up in a similar vein to how 'embiggen' means to make things bigger. It's not a formal word and will very likely be frowned upon if used in such contexts.

Under their support FAQs, there's a section for PA customers. That page lists links for files hosted by PA (assumption based on the domain in the links' URLs) for their legacy version installers. https://gigperformer.com/plugin-alliance-legacy-download-links

@smallstonefan Have you checked out the UJam pianist series? https://www.ujam.com/pianist/ Alternatively, there's Toontrack EZKeys - but that's further away from what you're describing. For chord types/inversions possibly Scalar might help?

I hope you don't mind me chiming in despite not having it. I collected a few orchestral libraries over time. While I like to do an orchestral mock up every now and then (I didn't say I was any good at it), it's not the only type of music I like to make. So one of the things I look for in libraries is flexibility. I believe the patches in Albion One are combined patches - so e.g. strings, rather than violins 1. Depending on your point of view, this might be a good thing, or a bad thing. Another thing I've read is the sound of Air studio is heavily baked into it. So if you don't like the sound, you'll find it difficult to use the library. Personally, I find myself looking towards Spitfire every time they do a sale. But I always think I should use what I already have and manage to talk myself out of it; it'd probably be a different story if I didn't already have the libraries I do. Finally, something to consider as you asked about alternatives: Musio 1 Perpetual is currently on sale for $199 right now. Musio's a fairly new product. (I don't think) they have all the mic positions of the libraries' Kontakt equivalents (yet?), but I think I saw somewhere it might be coming. That said, its got all the CineSymphony component libraries as well as the CineSymphony library (that contains combined patches for sketching). And it's got a few more specialist libraries too.