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I'm on windows 10 too - and the windows 'backup' is actually the windows 7 one - they never bothered to update it...in fact they only kept it in there to keep the upgraders happy. Obviously what @abacab says is true - you can mount the .vhdx image and browse it to restore individual files. But it's not as 'one click' as I'd like. Just been trying out True Image by booting from a DVD recovery disk - and will probably give that a go. I assume it will be faster than the windows 7 backup - which takes ages on my system (SSD/5ghz cpu !). Really I want a simple incremental backup system that runs automatically as I don't change the system much ...apart from all this stupid software I keep buying. One click. (Time Machine for the mac does this beautifully) @abacab what do you recommend ?....my paranoia is installing software that runs a million invasive background tasks. My PC runs so beautifully at 32 samples latency I don't want anything on there that will ruin it.

Yes - that's what I normally use and it works ok...it's just not hugely user friendly (and I'm a tech guy !) - restoring individual files is fairly painful for example. The 'progress bar' is basically a fantasy so you have no idea how long it has left to run.... It hasn't been updated since win7 days and it's basically abandoned by MS. I using rsync to do the various data drives but as I say it's slow, clumsy and painful. This means I don't back up as often as I should. I could probably script the whole thing but I'm not sure I have the time/inclinatinon. I'll probably keep using this system as a 2nd backup but I'd like a "press one button" type solution too as it seems True Image likes to store stuff in it's own data format. I like the idea of putting in a CD - pressing a few buttons/clicks and walking away for a few hours. A full, bear metal, disaster recovery plan....just don't want anything else running on my PC...especially something that embeds itself into the operating system like True Image seems like it does. Just bought a boxed version on amazon for £24 in the UK - seems cheap enough to try out.. MS need to copy TimeMachine (for mac) or something but they really don't want to include a proper backup solution any more. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-in/windows/deployment/planning/windows-10-deprecated-features from 1709 "System Image Backup (SIB) SolutionWe recommend that users use full-disk backup solutions from other vendors."

my backup solution is a bit makeshift - is True Image any good ? I don't want anything sitting in the background taking up CPU resources when I'm recording.....

It's already there - You have to go to the waves website and "upgrade to latest version" - this deactivates the bundle on your computer so then back to waves central to reinstall and activate Mercury all over again. It's a bit painful (unless anybody know another way)

I thought all the demos sounded great. I going to be forced to buy.....These SD3 packs just get better and better in my view.

FWIW I still had to use the old Authorization manager to authorize this - the new installer authorizer didn't recognise the fact that it needed to authorize this as a new plugin.

you get 2 guesses

still got all my old NI ones from various kontakt upgrades ....

just tried it on Hansa to check...:) - there is sometimes a 'tax advantage' to buying from JRR/AD

hoping JRR stock this - and they allow the 20% password code......that would be enough to push the buy button

I forget how expensive these are..... It's also up at Time and Space which might be better for some with loyalty points https://www.timespace.com/products/toontrack-sdx-legacy-of-rock searching round to save a few £££ so I can feel a bit better about this purchase.

I think I'm at peak PA - nothing really to interest even at $29. Got more or less everything I want.

from 1.3.2 to 1.3.3 can't seem to see a change log

was fairly quick and painless here - it does dump stuff all over your desktop without asking but easy to delete.....FWIW the update before this ( a couple of weeks ago) fixed a lot of crashes I was having in cubase. Dunno what version you're on but worth bearing it in mind IF you are having issues.

Looks like most of the arturia synths have been updated - including V-Collection, Pigments and Ob-Xa An example of the release notes: Bug fixes: Instruments state is now properly recalled when reloading an FL Studio project Reduced projects loading time and size optimisation No more missing samples when browsing sound banks in the Store

also - I smell yes - although I smell the Eddie Kramer expansion.....

I think they (and customers) factor that in - You need to work out if the stuff you do use is worth the money...or upgrade price. Don't be blinded by the masses of stuff on offer no matter how good it is...if you ain't gonna use it (^^^^ I NEVER live by that myself...now where's my credit card ?)

I'm being quoted $299 (plus uk taxes !) for the upgrade from RX7 advanced to RX8 advanced - are you seeing $250 in your account ? edit JRR is doing this upgrade for $251 with code group - the 'newpassword' isn't valid

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/bundles/komplete-13/compare/ they've held some back for the collectors edition - I'm on k12U - plus I bought a few bits since then - not sure there's anywhere near enough in there for the what they are charging for the upgrade - £339....and I normally insta-upgrade this stuff

it has 'issues'...

bump it's live edit - spoke too soon - it's live and you can download but (for me) the file is zero bytes

thanks Matthew - oddly GC is showing the page even without VPN .......

It's this bloomin' forum - if I wasn't here I wouldn't know what I'm "missing(!)" and I'd be much richer.......

Yes, I think something triggered very recently - That's been most people's experience. There were some other 'server' issues over the weekend that they 'fixed' yesterday. Maybe all the same root cause ? ....doesn't explain the bugs in recent builds though

they need to fix Kontakt first ! interesting what isn't mentioned in that GC link - nothing about the Stradivari violin for example. Probably too early to read much into that of course