simon

it does look pretty good - just a bit too expensive for an impulse purchase though

you only need the SSL collection not Studio Classics...Mercury already has the API stuff from Studio Classics...plus B360 ambisonics encoder isn't in any of the major bundles (I think?)

yes - the upgrades for Orb Composer were particularly poor (IMO) - paid updates for small improvements

interesting pricing

plus is standard nectar with rx8 breath control ....so no real difference

FWIW - the resizing on Windows is pretty poor, the quality image quality is terrible....75% and the text is unreadable - 150% and all the images are out of focus..... and with things like Waves Tune you don't actually get any extra space to work in AND the new preset browser is like an weird addon - pretty clumsy. So no real reason to WUP if you haven't already....and I quite like waves (runs and hides !)

well, you CAN install it using msoundfactoryplayer but you can't actually use it - it doesn't show in the instrument list

I don't think it does - it's a clear as mud I'm afraid I did find this: https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=553546 So I think the download page is a bit misleading (annoying when you've just downloaded 60gig)

anybody worked out how to get this to load in the free msoundfactory player ?

and they immediately started spamming me FWIW their website doesn't check if you use a valid email address when you sign up ...just sayin'

all of these are 50% off direct from SB https://new.steinberg.net/promotion/groove-agent-expansion-sale/ FWIW I have a few of these, the Simon Phillips ones etc - save your money and put them towards SD3 or one of the recent expansions. In a different league.

I heard back from support.....basically IK Product Manager doesn't really work properly for all products, including some of the products in IK total studio max 2....... You have to download and install them all individually from the website, basically taken me all day - what a waste of time. If I'd have know I think I would have skipped this 'deal'. The IK website says "All of your software included with this bundle will be available for download in the IK Product Manager" but that's not strictly true.

plus an update to Maschine 2 Essentials

great to have you back

so I think my problem is that the product manager isn't showing Sampletank 3 Max - even though I've put in the serial and it's authorised ok. This means it doesn't show downloads for it - seems to show all the other products ok (sigh)

thanks Grem - that list only contains the syntronik sounds but not the ST4 sample sets such as the pianos and drums. The ST editor also needed to be authorised with the old auth manager ?

I went for this deal but trying to get my head around downloading it all - I thought the IK product manager would take the strain ? I had to go into custom shop to "restore my gear" before amplitude would load the new amps - same with t-racks Now trying to get hold of the sampletank synths and samples.... I can't see the sample packs in Product Manager ? Seems I can only download these from the website - except when I go there and select them all and press download ...nothing happens ?

I bet it's a fairly simple typo in the code. It's trying to quietly delete the old plug from the vst2 folder and deletes the entire contents of the folder instead. That kinda thing gives me nightmares......pretty inadequate beta testing !

wow - that's pretty disastrous

is this a trick question ? .....you need ALL of them

I know people love AD but it looks very very (very) old. I can't see that they can really compete with toontrack. incidentally the new BFD(3) team have gone very quiet as well. I put in some support tickets to their new support email address a while ago. Zero response, it's not particularly encouraging. The recent fxpansions sales seem a bit like a fire sale. Lucky SD3 is so good but would love to have some other people competing in that space.

yes - and it's about 550mb the 5.5gig is for Mellow not Solid

the XLN online installer has an update showing updates for AK too

there's a sneaky update to solid as well (2.1.1) - must have happened in the last couple of hours as I'd just installed 2.1

working ok here update for Mellow too - but forces a full 5.5gb download