Matthew Sorrels

Kontakt instruments have control over their own setting's saving and loading. I doubt this is a Cakewalk issue, you could try another DAW (Reaper perhaps) and test it out.

Yeah no upgrade price. Users on KvR/VI forums report they have been able to use the coupon along with a $50 gift certificate bought from Audio Plugin Deals site for $30 (using reward bucks to lower the price) so their final price (assuming they had reward dollars) was even less. In theory you aren't supposed to be able to stack discounts with the gift certificates though, so I'm not sure how long that will work. I sadly didn't even try this, thinking it wouldn't work. Xosphere 2 is pretty nice though, I have Xosphere 1 (the Kontakt player version) this is definitely even better. Wish it were a Kontakt player library though.

Modo Bass sounds great but uses way too much CPU.

So what's the story behind Inspire instrument collection? I had been thinking about getting the Pianos & Keys collection, didn't even realize there was another instrument bundle. Will they continue to add things to Inspire or are they likely to create yet another instrument bundle? Or even worse add things to Pianos & Keys and not to Inspire. Inspire isn't that badly priced with the half coupon at EP.

As long as people insist on continuous development as a must have feature, subscriptions are going to become somewhat inevitable.

Sadly no. I have Mercury + Studio Classics but you have to add to that the Abby Road collection, NX, the DTS stuff and most of the newer instruments if you really want everything.

Mercury lets me down again, sigh.

I think it will come in with the offset no matter how you import it. It does come in where the now time on an import but if the MIDI file doesn't start at 0 the notes will all be offset (just starting at the now time). If you drag it in, it will drop plus the offset. Just one of those quirky things. When I had this problem I couldn't find any way inside SONAR to fix it, short of moving the clip by hand.

MIDI files don't have to start at 0 and are normally imported in place. I don't believe there are any options in CbB to override that (I think Logic lets users do this since it seems to be the source of lots of offset MIDI files). I ended up writing a command line utility to trim MIDI files that were like this, but that's not a practical answer for most people (a collection of drum loops I had bought were all offset, making them pretty close to unusable.)

It's a Play (starting with version 5) bug with the way they do streaming, it really doesn't work at all and will cause the release tails of notes to not be played. The only way to work around it is to always use a SSD drive for samples, if possible set the settings for sample cache (on some computers you won't be able to see any controls, another bug they have acknowledged but haven't fixed for at least a year maybe two), toggle the option to stream from disc to off (check box in the hamburger menu) so it loads everything, and never use fast bounce for render always use the slower render methods. Sadly none of these work 100% of the time. The best solution is to switch to another sampler/library that doesn't use Play.

Only checked the VST3. The VST2 has 5 presets(default and 4 from the source). The broken presets in VST3 versions is a pretty common problem. I'm sure it could be fixed but I'm not sure it's worth fiddling with.

I downloaded and made a Win 64 build (vst2/vst3/stand alone). Seems to work, doesn't have any presets though so I have no clue how well it works/etc. Download it here. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1la0bbBXZ6QrzCG4pJoLoQvWcK7na7eTr

They gave everyone with B3 V1 the V2 version. I was confused too, but even V5 collection owners seem to have gotten it.

Awesome! Though now I'm confused as why I'm not seeing it. That and getting an update for anything from 8Dio is slightly painful, wish they would change that. Let us know when they publish the update and what we need to do to get it.

One thing I did try was running Kontakt 6's Creator Tools debugger while using Anthology to select sections. I'm amazed at how many script errors expensive libraries generate all the time. Anthology has a couple of warnings, but nothing do to with selecting and nothing all that major though. I'm hoping these improved developer tools will help library creators. Good luck with finding a solution, let us know if you make some progress on it.

Seems to be working for me and in Kontakt 5 it seems to be the same. It sounds the like the problem is more the ability to select the other sections. If you can't select the section you can't adjust any of it's options (not just pan). There was an update to Kontakt 6 that fixed a lot of issues very recently, did you apply it?

Seems to be OK for me in Kontakt 6.1.1(R66) with Anthology Strings 1.2.2 (which I just got the upgrade to a week ago or so). Just be clear you load say Divisi - Empty, switch to the section mixer and then try and change the pan control and it doesn't move? The other sections are also selectable for me too (which is why I'm asking).

The free ProximityEQ can't be transferred to a physical iLok either, unlike full Sonible products. Didn't find that out till after Plugin Boutique sent it. You do have to have the iLok software installed though.

It's always downloaded a ton even when installing from the hard drive. At least with U8 and U10, I stopped wasting the effort getting the drive after that.

The source audio watermark thing linked earlier is an invisible watermark. It adds "noise" to a sound file that doesn't cripple the file but gives you the ability to trace where it came from. It's a different kind of watermarking (which is why it needs a tool to find it).

They are all separate NKI's they can be browsed in the NI library panel. Spit up into Pads, Bright, Soft, Bass, Mono, Plucked, Sci FX, Effected, Sequence, Singles. So one level categories. The multis are all a big flat list.

The best way to see if the watermark is there is to play the file, if you hear it (it's a voice that will be over your track every 5 seconds or so) then it's there. If you play the file and it doesn't have the voice it's clean. Most likely the client loaded your file, saved it (to convert to an MP3 maybe or to trim it or whatever) and didn't realize the free software they were using would add the watermark. From Google search this seems to happen a lot.

Maybe instead of vouchers they are starting some new "plugin of the month price" thing? They certainly keep coming up with strange pricing. Just have to be patient, pick your target price and wait for it. BYOME is pretty neat, but to be honest it's not been very useful for making music. This multi-band version seems nice but again not sure how it helps me all that much. A lot of these advanced audio effects fall in that boat for me, could be it's just me though.

Perhaps it's a pricing error? Do you own any of the other Unfiltered Products? The email I got said Then the next email I got (seconds later) offered me a Heavy Hitter Intro Price coupon code to get it for $99. If they had sent out the monthly vouchers I might have picked it up. When I add the $49 version to my cart it creates a coupon for it (so I guess you can't discount it any more). I'll wait till it's $25ish.

$49 if you own BYOME. They also aren't releasing the monthly coupons till after these sales (read it on another forum, but can't remember where).