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I'd advise to wait on pulling the trigger on Max until we sees how far the GB goes...

I hated doing fraction conversions in math class... worse than metric conversions, or Fahrenheit to Celsius, LOL!

I have Waveform 11 Pro, but see no compelling reason to upgrade it. The MIDI pattern generators were the original reason for me to get Waveform. They are handy and fun to play with, but Tracktion's lack of written documentation on new features is an issue. Have to watch videos to learn them. Ugh! ?

Karen!!! ?

Venus Theory overview and review... better than Softube or VCV? "Howdy! Today we're here to check Voltage Modular from Cherry Audio. It allows you to program modular synth patches, make generative music, or whatever else you can think of. "

This topic is about the IK group buy, and info related to the product, and not the merits of a company's business practices. Please start another new thread to continue discussing that. Thanks!

Not bad because you get Cherry Audio VM Ignite, plus the Polymode & MG-1 synths, and the Cherry Audio Stardust Tape Echo. Not a bad haul for $25. The Polymode is a very nice emulation of the Moog Polymoog. But you will have to dig through a lot of stuff like Mixcraft and a gazillion more sound loops to find those cherries!

As far as I know, presets for any instrument that are created by any user are their original works. Consider that sound designers can create and sell preset collections for various 3rd party instruments. So I would say that would not be a violation of any licensing or copyrights. Just don't distribute any factory presets or samples "as-is" and you are good.

May be referring to loading the instruments from old project files? More specific details on what instruments and what old files would be great!

Strix Instruments released "Pripyat Pianos" for Kontakt a few years ago. Sampled in the exclusion zone. https://strixinstruments.com/pripyat-pianos/ "Made in Ukraine - 100% of income from our Libraries goes directly to Ukrainian Army."

My projections show we should hit 10 free by next Tuesday... 7 1/2 days.

Don't think so. Venus Theory demonstrates the LFO module in the free VM Nucleus edition at 7:25 in the video above... The included number of modules are 22, 45, and 105 in Nucleus, Ignite, and Core respectively. The modules included with this $19 deal for Ignite can be seen here: https://store.cherryaudio.com/bundles/voltage-modular-ignite

Voltage Modular is a good first dip, and $19 is a no-brainer for starters. I bit on the upgrade to VM Core + Electro Drums from that one a while back, so buckle up! Cherry offers a discounted upgrade path to bundles based on products you already have. True loyalty, unlike some other companies we know and love! ? Voltage Modular Bundle Comparison https://cherryaudio.com/products/voltage-modular-bundle-comparison Here's a video from Venus Theory as he explains the basics of patching in VM. Have no fear! VM Ignite comes with over 265 presets to play, so no need to stare at a blank canvas for the first dip, LOL!

That's a good plan to get the sample content off your main drive. I also have a 500GB SSD "C:" system drive, and I try to keep it lean as possible with just Windows, my documents, my applications, & plugin VST files. All downloaded libraries and content folders get installed to my secondary internal 2TB SSD "D:" drive. Then I use 2 external HDD drives to make backups, one for daily system drive images, and another for weekly content drive images. These auto backup jobs run at night while I am sleeping. All safe and secure.

*.pak are the sample files, and *.st3i and *.st4i files are the instrument preset files.

The IK plugin downloads NEVER expire in your account. Always available. The sound content is the part that does expire. A lot of the companies that you list do not specialize in large sample libraries. So that is a big difference. Besides, paying one time $10 (or less with Jam Points) is cheaper than me buying another hard drive to archive hundreds of GB's of sample downloads on, in the rare event that I would ever need to recover them.

The individual Syntronik 2 instruments all fully work with the free Syntronik CS version. I have two of them already! No need to buy anything except 1 instrument! Let the games begin! And I took a look at the Syntronik 2 V-80 today in Syntronik 2 CS. The Edit panel show numerous available wavesets!

They also have a chat widget on their website to interact with support.

@Reid RosefeltThat's just the way KORG Software Pass works. It's a license manager and downloader, but not an installer. You need to run the downloaded installers yourself. On my computer it drops the installers into a folder named "KORG Software Pass".

Yes, indeed! Good choice!

+1 what David said ^^^

If you don't have Serum, you could probably follow along with the tutorial using the free Vital synth.