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There is a thread that discusses this in the effects forum at KVR. A user posted a video comparison by Databroth of Silo, Fragments, and Portal: https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=578680&start=45 For those that wish to avoid KVR, here's a direct link. ?

Thanks for the feedback! I want Fragments, but $49 for a single plugin is not budget friendly enough for me at the moment, and thankfully I can ignore the $119 crossgrade for stuff that I might (not) use.

Actually, this type of effect is right up my alley! $49 seems a bit steep for one effect though these days... However, I only use synths and keys, and do not play guitar. I love anything that morphs a sound musically to create something new. Similar to the way that many guitarists love their stomp boxes!

That's correct, just the Arturia Freebies. But I do have about 100 other reverbs, delays, compressors, etc. Around 1,000 plugins total. Not sure I need to collect another reverb or delay at this point, unless there is something just really spectacular that one of these does that nobody else's can do. But I am a big fan of Aturia! Have their V-Collection, Pigments 3.5 with over 2,100 presets, and a KeyLab 61 MKii.

My loyalty price is $49. It would be an instant buy at $29, so think I'll wait for now... Hmmm... FX Collection 2 + Fragments (free) is only $119 for me. May be a better deal, but I already have Rev PLATE-140, Chorus JUN-6, Filter MINI, and Tape MELLOW-FI. Are there any "must have" plugins in the Arturia FX collection? I believe that I already have the others covered by 3rd party plugins. Got quite a few from Eventide, Exponential, Kilohearts, iZotope, Waves, plus just about all of IK Multimedia, and some others too numerous to list... But I do like Fragments! Haven't seen anything quite like that yet!

Well, Syntronik uses samples of a REAL CS-80... ? But Arturia has a lot more presets and sound shaping controls...

Björk this!!!

I should start a new thread: "The time I made Madrona laugh".

They need to ship their instruments on hard drives. ?

Now THAT's a deal!!! ?

Gee thanks, KAREN!!! ?

https://www.cakewalk.com/Support/Knowledge-Base/20090605/Project5-Version-2-5-Update https://www.cakewalk.com/Support/Knowledge-Base/20090606/Project5-Version-2-5-1-Update

That's a great idea, but from what IK has said it's that the instrument programming changed for Syn 2 and required a new synth engine. So they included both v1 and v2 synth engines in the Syn 2 software to enable playing both instrument versions. That's similar to the differences between SampleTank 3 and SampleTank 4 instruments. Syntronik 1 is based on the ST3 engine, while Syntronik 2 is based on the ST4 engine. You can open ST3 instruments in ST4, but the editor in there only allows "ST3 Legacy" mode.

There's your easy answer! I have no idea how to tame the on-board audio on a Dell, but it sounds like you quite possibly have an audio driver causing the audio dropouts.

I own Syntronik 1 Deluxe, have Syntronik 2 CS installed, and just added the full Syn 2 version of V-80. I thought there would be more than 38 new V-80 v2 presets, but apparently not. So it appears that the v2 instruments do not duplicate the v1 instruments, but only v2 can be opened in the editor. So my conclusion, for better or worse, is that any bloat exists at the sample level, and IK's system is very opaque in that regard.

Have you already taken the usual recommended steps to optimize your PC for audio? https://www.sweetwater.com/sweetcare/articles/windows-11-pc-optimization-for-recording/ https://www.sweetwater.com/sweetcare/articles/pc-optimization-guide-for-windows-10/ It would be helpful to post your audio hardware specs and audio settings. And it never hurts to run "LatencyMon" to see if you have a driver hogging your system. It's pretty technical, but just know that green means your PC is good to go for real-time audio. If red, post your results... https://resplendence.com/latencymon

Well I guess that with the "full" version of V-80 v2, I was hoping for 100 new presets... But for free, I cannot complain!

But this puzzles me. From the IKM product page for V-80:

Looks like about 38 v2 presets here for the V-80. For the v1 presets it look like about 104 presets.

I just installed it, and I only own Syn 1 Deluxe, plus Syn 2 CS. The Syn 2 V-80 installs side-by-side with the Syn 1 V-80, so you can now use the fully editable v2 presets for this instrument in the Syn 2 edit panel, however the v1 presets won't open in the editor. You can set the browser filter for the presets for either version, but the V-80 preset names don't appear to be duplicated between v1 and v2. At least for the ones that I spot checked. So it seems you need to keep both versions installed to have all the presets available.

Got it in my cart. Took forever to get this far... Waiting for the check-out screen now ... and waiting ... and waiting...

That was just a friendly suggestion. Nobody is going to interfere with your right to Free Speech. But I doubt you will win many friends here with your opinions... ?

"Unfollow" the thread and move along please! That way it will not have any impact on you one way or the other...

Hmmm... AudioPlugin.Deals seems to be unavailable at the moment...

Just saw this in the BPB newsletter! https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2022/03/04/syntronik-v80-free/