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Still have a little room to grow now that I cleaned a few of my drives up . I bought a 1TB SSD about a month ago that I wanted to hook up to add to these. Haven't had the time to do it. If I keep getting these kinds of libraries I'll run out of room fast.? Here my disk status as of now-

Thanks guys for jumping in to help. Patircvk I can relate because I have bought other libraries from them before and had issues. Been using Kontakt libraries for years and seem to have the most trouble with 8dio. I couldn't multi select" multiple RAR files for unpacking using CTRL in my unzip utility no matter which utility I used. The way I made this work was weird to say the least. After going to the second RAR for unzip the Z zip utility said it seen double files and asked about replacing them. Didn't make sense to say yes however when I said no it wouldn't unzip so I said yes. It then combined the two folders. After that I unzipped my instruments folder and physically moved it to to other folder. Now everything loads up and plays as it should. Definitely NOT intuitive and the instructions included are misleading. Maybe this will help someone else.

It looks like part 1 is most of the samples and part 2 which is the rest of that 1st folder . The 3rd file is the instruments. I used Z zip . If there are 3 sequential folders there should be a utility to unpack and assimilate all files. If that happened automatically for you great. The smallest or instrument folder is usually the folder that has the unpack exe in it. Mine had nothing. Are you saying one of the files isn't an RAR? All three of mine are.

I haven't used the ilok dongle yet. I already have some plugins that use ilok cloud. One would think that this is the perfect solution. I thought so too, only when the cloud dials up the ilok server my software and DAW all of a sudden were slowed down. I have a fast computer and this was only using one ilok plugin. I don't have any other issues even remotely similar with this computer. The cloud worked ok but I could tell things were slowed down as soon as I loaded the plug. With the dongle I don't believe there is nearly as much interference going on. It just looks for the license, sees it and moves on. The cloud pings the ilok server every 6 minutes. If it looses connection it will throw up a warning that the plugin isn't recognized or needs to be registered.

You unzipped 3 folders clicked on the first folder and everything opened? Not happening here....I downloaded the files twice. Possible corruption from this server. If it isn't going to open and I can't find the exe.... I'm not going to waste time. I did email Troels to see what he says. There should be an exe in my folder. There isn't.

As much as I appreciate 8dio offering these freebs which I would gladly leave something in the tip jar however there are issues with the install. I have had issues with their libraries before. I used two different extraction programs including the one they recommend. The files extract however there is no program to extract exe in the file. I was able to look for the files and get the library loaded , but I get those grey boxes because it can't find the graphics. Same issue I had with them before on libs I bought. Their advice for the issue is to try the installation program again....but there isn't an installation program?? My unzip utility isn't seeing anything? There isn't anything in their unzipped folder.....I think they left it out. See pics-

I downloaded this. Looks like a great way to build a decent acoustic guitar song. This product does not appear to use an installer....comes with 3 rar folders. I unzipped and consolidated folders. Loaded into both Kontakt 5 and 6. Documentation mentions an exe called- Songwriting Guitar PC Installer.exe. I'll be danged if I can find it.

Looks like we get 10% off of that on the website!!! That's like - 0000.0000 Cool.

? Like a fox...........

It seems things are changing with new introductions, yet nothing has really changed. Avoid headaches. Buy Intel and be done with it.

Thanks cclarry. I like the new Mixcraft. Not as much as Cakewalk, but I do loves it mightily.

I bought an ilok. I know, I know, should I seek psychiatric help? I had the software ilok and hated it. Every time I wanted to use a plug in I had to load the ilok program to launch the plug in. My vst scan always flagged those plug ins,so for the price of a cheap plug in I bought one. I dunno, shelling out clams to use something I already bought seems silly. I think it might be more tempting now to look at ilok plug ins. Nothing holding me back. I once avoided them if there was something else non ilok that was similar.

We went to a nice place I had made reservations prior with my wife. Stayed up until after midnight at home. New Years day all hell broke loose. 6am one of my wife's closest friends died of a heart attack in her sleep right next to her husband. Healthy woman, no history of bad health. Wasn't a drinker or drug user.....just died. Perfectly healthy and even texted my wife the day before....so we were over that their house trying to help console the husband and son left behind. I knew my wife was going to react when she found out....but man I had no idea. She is still a mess today. Needless to say, I had my hands full.

Forget the vegetables and the meat....I wants coffee and chocolate.

I went with violins. You can get more of them in a seat.

I was raised in a strict sect that insisted men wear short hair and women wear dresses at all times. I rebelled against all of that in a big way a long time ago. I personally don't prefer my hair longer, but I never faulted anyone who did, and if you ask me I think women could get into a lot more trouble wearing a dress than trousers At an early age I determined that a bunch of smart asses got together and decided to add their own rules to a book. I still retained the core of the book but dis guarded all of that other BS. So I guess what I'm trying to say is, people generally like to make up a bunch of rules they attempt to apply to everyone else. They even have the gall to think they are somehow better than people who don't follow the rules they made up. Go figure! I really don't see this much differently. I mean, we all have the freedom to make our own decisions either for good or for bad. It can be a religious issue but I don't think it is here. Maybe more of a political issue that might have been spurred on by a religious issue. That being the case, we aren't supposed to discuss either one of those issues here. So for me, this is about only health pure and simple. If you eat a little meat it won't kill you and is probably good for you to have some protein. If you eat a strict vegetable diet you are imposing that on only yourself. It isn't necessarily a bad thing if you can get the protein through a non meat diet. I've been augmenting my meals with some vegetable protein powder I bought from Costco. Makes a great fast meal and a way to loose weight. I have absolutely no reason to go either way. I mostly order turkey, chicken or salmon. A steak every now and then is a pure luxury for me. I don't think too much steak is good, but if you eat it every night it's all up to you what you do. Eating meat puts fat into your body. Your body can't deal well with too much fat. It ends up on your arteries. It can help to cause heart attacks if it's cumulative over a number of years and you don't work out to purge it away. One of my close friends just had a stint because one of his main arteries was 99% blocked. He had a high fat diet. For me, that's enough of a reason to go lightly on the red meat all else aside.

I am coming at this from the opposite direction and have Ableton 10 as an addition to Cakewalk. I mainly bought Ableton because I understood it to be the best program for live work. It is really good for live DJ work. Mixing with loops. Triggering sections of loops. What I really needed was a way to play backing tracks which can be done in almost any DAW including Cakewalk, so my Ableton has been sitting gathering dust. I have used it with a laptop to play backing tracks and it works well for that. The main differences are the dual screen approaches that are unique to Ableton. Yes Cakewalk has the matrix but it doesn't seem to work as well going between screens as Ableton does. Especially if you built a song in the loops view and want to record it as a typical multitrack in tracks view. The main uses I have found are, moving mixes around live at the loops level, changing between verse/choruses on the fly live. Want an extra chorus? No problem. Want to add another sound to an existing chorus during a live gig, no problem....great for modern DJ and dance music. You can get there with Cakewalk but less intuitive to link those cells up with midi triggers. You need some kind of midi control unless you plan to use hot keys. I used a Qneo. Cakewalk is a great program for those who don't conceptualize everything in a "loop" format, even though Cakewalk plays any loop you can throw at it, Rex, acid...or you can make your own loops. They are both complicated ecosystems to the uninitiated that need full attention. You need to invest time into Cakewalk to learn it same as Ableton. Then you can do pretty much anything you want to do in either one. I didn't find a lot of the functions in Ableton as intuitive compared to most of the more common DAWs, Ableton is a little quirky that respect. Once you learn it though it seems easier. There are people here who have controlled entire shows from a laptop using Cakewalk including the lights. It can be done.

The truth is somewhere in the middle really and that isn't some kind of cop out. Vegetables are good, some meat is good. I go to the grocery store. I buy what is the most healthy as far as I can tell. We just has a run of bad salads here in my area where they had to recall a bunch of bagged salad because it was infected with bacteria. Is this a political, moral or simply an issue of health? Some people make it all three. The first two mean nothing to me. I've never been politically correct and never will. I buy healthy food........ok over the holidays cookies were available and I took advantage of a few of them. Should I feel guilty? I don't

Looks fresh from here, but I ain't about to check it out.

Yes ,but where in the room behind the door? Hodedoho de do.

I have had the software versions of the M-1 ,Wavestation and MDE-X for quite some time. I didn't really want any of the rest of the collection before the Triton deal..Migrated to the new server like 2 years ago. I'm in their system but I don't see any sales other than the one mentioned. If I could buy only Triton on a deal I would seriously consider it. It's basically the same tech taken a few steps further than the M-1 with different sound banks. Definitely worth a serious look.. I think I'll wait this one out for awhile. I appreciate the notice and I seen the email about Triton something and I guess I sort of passed over it. For me the word association said old school, so I guess I didn't realize it was a software version. Beats having a huge silver thing in my studio. Not a bad thing for sure. I have a little nostalgia going on with the M-1 since I owned the hardware version.

Most of those serious about composing have several libraries minimum for composition, so you could just get them both Amadeus is my go to for putting orchestra ideas down on the fly. Works great for that for me. Round robins, arpeggios meh. I prefer to use my own. Maybe your experiences will be different. It's just hard to quantify what will work best for you anyone because I don't know what you're trying to do. The only niggle I have with Amadeus is the way the mod wheel is set up for dynamics. I have recorded and missed the dynamics and either lost the track or had to go back and record the mod wheel. This was mainly when using the whole orchestra settings which are quite amazing...One man.........10 fingers, ok 8 that are playing and I can get a whole orchestra with a choir. The solo instruments aren't bad either. The harp and organ are on par with other programs I have bought dedicated to only those instruments. Not as extensive but gets the job done in most cases. I have begun to collect Spitfire libs.....nice to mix it up. Download their app/portal and get some decent libraries free. So is that tip. If all you're doing is small string arrangements...nice indeed.. The general idea is start somewhere. Doesn't really matter where because you're going to want something else... buy more....eventually end up buying a few more hard drives lol.

To be fair, I see this as a more or less minority problem of plugins for Cakewalk. Maybe I have been one of the lucky ones or maybe it's because I mostly buy plug ins known to be solid on many DAWS. My system scanned over 1100 plugins and NO crashes. Some of them are 32 bit. As a non coder but literate computer user it would seem that X plug should connect to Z if X is the same or allows for some flexibility and if Z is the host DAW. I know it's a lot deeper than that and X seems to have many sub connections that can cause issues in different DAWS. The fact that VST works in Cakewalk as well as it does with most plug ins says a lot. Buying plug ins from one man operations where they don't test with the same ferocity that others do is certainly no fault of Cakewalk. Plug ins attached to one DAW have certainly been tested in that DAW, or so one would think.

Isn't there also a folder where Cakewalk stores old unnecessary files that can be cleaned up? My documents folder is a big hog. Any program I've downloaded for the last 5 years still has the program installer there, also zipped Kontakt sound libraries I installed on other drives.....and multitracks I downloaded I was concerned I might loose on the other drive so I kept them. Add to that vst instruments programs that didn't let me choose another drive other than C to store the sound files. I have a 500gb C drive and I'm down to something like 8gb or less on the drive even though I have 4 other drives with stuff on them, and several large outboard drives. I'm not sure how it came to this exactly. I never would have dreamed I would be running out of drive space. One of my holiday goals is to put in a 1tb SSD I ordered a month ago and clone my C to it, maybe transfer a bunch of those zipped folders and programs somewhere else...or simply dump them. I'm one of those who keeps Ozone 6,7,8 all on the same machine. Various versions of other programs all stacked up from 5 years back...tends to add up?