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Be careful if you start drawing earlier than FULL retirement age, if you still plan on working... SSA has limits on how much you can earn annually until FULL retirement age, and they will suspend your payments if you earn above the income limit. After FULL retirement age, you are free to earn as much as you wish. But that last part kind of defeats the point of retirement, LOL!

Not included in CbB. You need to have Sonar installed to get Session Drummer.

Can you register Epic games on Steam?

Great, they will probably just add the EZX to your account, so that you can select one. Keep your T&S invoice handy in case they ask for details, but you should clearly qualify, based on when you made the purchase!

Toontrack, not T&S, correct?

But since you didn't buy direct from Toontrack, you just have to register it at Toontrack to claim it. The offer is made by Toontrack, not T&S. I ran into a similar issue when I purchased from Sweetwater earlier this year. Toontrack fixed me right up!!!

The auto add part was for Toontrack's web shop. If you bought elsewhere such as T&S, the pack is made available when you register it at Toontrack.

As I read the terms, the free title needs to be selected at the time the qualifying title is placed in the cart. Are you sure you didn't pick one already? In any case, Larry made a great suggestion. Just let Toontrack know! Since you made the purchase outside of the Toontrack webstore, you are still within the promotional period to redeem the claim.

It was mentioned by Noel elsewhere on the forum that instruments are not included in Cakewalk's plug-in balancing. I understand the reasoning to be that instruments are logically a single-threaded signal path. But I think that each instance could be assigned to separate cores/threads, as far as is practical. My observations with Chromaphone 3 when run as standalone, it appears to use a single core. With a plug-in host such as a DAW, it may vary somewhat, but it appears to me that the virtual instrument took a core to itself, with the other cores running the other DAW threads. I tried an experiment in Studio One where I could display the host performance monitor showing CPU use on a per plug-in basis. My PC has 6 cores/6 threads. So I inserted 6 instances of Chromaphone 3 VST3, assigned a pad preset to each, and played and held a tried chord. So 18 notes polyphony. My overall CPU use was 30% as shown on S1's monitor, and that roughly mirrored the same as Windows Task Manager, but you can see that each instance of Chromaphone had it's own per-plug-in CPU load.

Great idea! ?

I have seen similar feedback elsewhere regarding the latest generation of synths typically as being CPU hogs. And this history has repeated itself for the past few generations. Progress! But I will suggest that in the particular case of AAS, that they might consider making their synths multi-core aware...

Yes, Syntronik 1 is similar to SampleTank 3, as Syntronik 2 is similar to SampleTank 4. The sound content path is user defined, and can be relocated as long as you tell the program where to find it.

Sorry to hear it's not playing well for you! I'll just provide my observations here. Chromaphone 3 is now a 2 layer synth, so there is inevitably going to be a bigger CPU hit when a patch uses both synth engines. I noticed that when opening the Chromaphone 2 factory library patches, that are provided in Chromaphone 3, there is only one synth layer enabled in each by default. I noticed that I get roughly the same CPU utilization as in Chromaphone 2 when using any of these legacy C2 factory presets in C3. So when checking Chromaphone 3 for some performance data on my system, a 9th gen Intel Core i5-9600K CPU running at 4.5GHz, Chromaphone 3 does appear to use a single CPU core/thread so single threaded CPU clock is the most important factor here. When auditioning Chromaphone 3 factory patches using both layers, selected at random, it averages about 7-8% CPU hit. If I load a single layer patch from the legacy Chromaphone 2 library, the CPU runs about 5%. That's about the same thing that I get when I just load Chromaphone 2.

^^^ The above answers are correct, assuming that you have the application installers completed on the target machine. No need to download and extract the sample content again. In summary for ST4: 1. Copy the existing installed sound content folder(s) to the new sound content drive. For example: "D:\SampleTank4", "D:\SampleTank3" etc. 2. Assign the new sound content path(s) info in the ST4 settings "Sound Content" tab. Use the path(s) assigned in step #1. 3. Rescan all.

I had some DAW crashing issues with Metal Ray5 v3.5 when using the riffer, so I rolled back to v3.3 and it's stable again. What is the best way to refer this to tech support?

The only thing that has ever stopped me from getting Bazille was that I already had Beatzille, a magware version that I got for free. It sounds awesome!

I originally installed all of the ST4 MAX sounds manually in the days long before the IK Product Manager was available. Took me about 2 days. ? But never had this issue, as I ensured that all of the libraries were present and accounted for, and any applicable sound content updates were applied. Maybe there was a glitch with the Product Manager, and it brain farted?

As far as I know Spitfire is the only one that does it this way. The issue here is that you only have one LABS installation per email address. Even though you may install it onto two machines and in separate content paths, only one machine at a time will reflect the libraries as "installed" when you log in to Spitfire Audio. If you reset and reinstall any LABS library that reflects "not installed" on a given machine, that library is then shifted to "not installed" on the other. Confusing, right? Makes no sense at all to me how they are doing this... ?

I found this at Spitfire Audio: Why do my libraries appear as installed on my second computer? "If you log into the Spitfire Audio app on your second computer you will see your libraries already appear as installed, this is because the app does not detect that you are logged in on a different computer to the one you previously used to install your libraries." https://spitfireaudio.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360008947337-Why-do-my-libraries-appear-as-installed-on-my-second-computer-

I updated the Ample Metal Ray, and it managed to crash both Cakewalk and Studio One 5. Reproducible with v3.5.0, VST2 & 3. The issue seems to occur while re-opening the Ample plugin GUI, after closing it while the riffer was playing. OK, so I tried it with my last resort test DAW, Reaper. Crashed that too, which is quite an achievement! Here is some data provided by AppCrashView for one of the Cakewalk crashes: Name=Application Name Value=Cakewalk.exe Name=Application Version Value=27.12.0.102 Name=Fault Module Name Value=Ample Metal R.dll Name=Fault Module Version Value=3.5.0.0 Name=Exception Code Value=c0000005 Uninstalled v3.5, and fell back to v3.3. That seems to have resolved the crashes. Let me know if I'm not the only one seeing this please!

It seems that the software industry in general is headed towards new normal > "Software as a service (SaaS)". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_as_a_service Now going beyond the requirements of just a one-time online activation, among other things, software updates can be pushed out automatically at any time they are ready. In my always connected DAW PC, I have noticed that whenever I fire up my Cherry Audio Voltage Modular it always checks for updated modules and software updates. I have "ask before downloading" checked in options. So I can see that this software distribution model does not seem to favor those who wish to remain offline. All Cherry really needs to do is make an offline activation code available. Done!

Once you have the Abbey Road Collection, you might be happy with Waves. It's a kewl one!

And a frequently missed option in ST4 is the folder view, in the library pane. Clicking that nearly invisible folder icon at the top left next to the word ""Library" (be patient, it may take a few moments to kick in) will present an alternate view based on folders and instruments, in the columns to the right.

So apparently Phaseplant gives you all the wavetable goodness you need. I understand...

Waves Codex is actually a quite nice synth. It sounds great! The only thing I could even remotely think is missing is that it is just 2 wavetable layers, with no VA engine. But you could also use Waves Element with 2 VA layers, and layer both synths in your DAW, for a BIG sound!