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It would be nice if Toontrack added re-scaling to EZkeys and EZdrummer. So far only EZbass has that, and it's the newest one.

In some cases, true. That was my initial reaction to the Analog Orchestra, especially the brass. But many of the reed and string sounds are musical and usable, as are the percussions. Plus, if you are into sound design, there are probably some new VA programming tricks to be learned by disassembling a few of these presets in the synth editor. ?

That EZBass 1.1.2 update was released on 12/16/21. No release notes that I see.

The NI Native Access auto-updates itself as needed whenever you launch it. The first thing it does is check to see if its running the latest release.

Don't look a free gift horse in the mouth!!! ?

I didn't see the Nectar 3 Plus update earlier, but just checked and whoop, there it is!

Ha! As you were...

Yep, those 2 showed up the other day, so if you only just checked you might see all 3.

More than organ - MORgan included! "4 New PlugIns! TriggerBox gives you all the advanced MIDI controls found a huge samplers as a MIDI Effect. MOrgan is a modular Organ that is also MORE than Organ! The Organ, the Leslie and the Perc are 3 separate PlugIns! Watch the video on 1.7 to see what incredible doors this opens up – nobody has done this much to advance the Organ into new sonic territory!"

Yep!

Korg Collection 3 Full version is $249 right now (regular price $399)! This is the mack daddy-o collection of classic Korg analog and digital synths!!! I have it and love it!!! https://korg.shop/software/korg-collection-series.html?___store=english Individual Korg Collection3 instruments are sale priced at $49. But the bundle upgrade options are not available for these, so better to get the bundle, unless you only want one or several, and don't plan to ever get the bundle. There is a $99 upgrade to Collection 3 - Only for Special Bundle v2 users. And a $149 upgrade to Collection 3 - Only for Special Bundle (including ARP ODYSSEY) users, that adds: - KORG Collection - miniKORG 700S - KORG Collection - Prophecy - KORG Collection - TRITON Extreme - KORG Collection - TRITON

I think what may happen often is that developers move on to the latest version of the Windows OS, tools, and programming libraries for new product development. Part of that issue is Microsoft stops supporting older development kits after end-of-life. So the testing for backwards compatibility may not always be the highest priority due to developer salaries and project budgets, and lack of MS support. So with that in mind, I would suggest that if you are running old programs on the latest OS without issues, consider yourself lucky, or just the benefactor of initial good coding design. If you really want to be assured of old programs having a long lifespan, keep an older PC around and wall it off from the future!

I think that these titles will be more in line with their Beatmaker series in regards to the price points...

I hate to be the guy, but as much as I like the sound of SoundPaint, sampled synthesizers do have quite an unappealing appetite for drive space. I totally understand the need for sampled real acoustic instruments, such as orchestras, where physical modeling really isn't there yet, except for some pianos. For the rest, I'll be sticking with synth models and emulations, exception being Syntronik...

So was mine! Good point though! Another good example for zero bloat is Reaper! The installer is a whopping 14MB...

I am a PC person, but do have an old Mac Mini that used to be strictly for family secure online banking. Until the bank refused to support the old Safari browser, and Apple refused to update Safari, and Google and Mozilla stopped support for their browsers on the old MacOS. ? I might get curious and drag the old Mini out just to play around with! But without current browser support, it's probably near useless...

I second that, LOL!!!

I tried the demo. Not quite my cup of tea.

To the first one here who tries this, please let us know what you think!

Yep, but Dexed workflow is not very user friendly. It's patch management is a throwback to 80's patch carts. It really needs a dedicated patch librarian. If you own, or have owned a real DX7, you might love it. I downloaded an astronomical number of free patches for Dexed, but found in unmanageable to organize them. Myself, I prefer the Casio CZ phase distortion synth. It was my first synth and I still have it. And I have two working emulations of it.

Hence one reason that Apple is so successful. They control their standards and do not have to support everything. Walled garden.

I would 2nd the vote for Cinemateque, well because anything by Daniel Stawczyk! https://www.stawczyk.com/ Analog Essentials is another good one, by AAS. It provides a good selection of usable stock analog synth presets. Lots of Arps, Bass, Pads, and Synth sounds.

That should be fine with USB 3.1. The data throughput on sequential and random reads/writes should exceed what I am getting on my SATA SSD. See the linked article regarding a real world speed test with an external SSD over USB 3.1. https://www.techspot.com/news/59982-here-how-fast-usb-31-real-world.html My stats below were captured with Crystal DiskMark. The top 2 rows are sequential, while the bottom 2 rows are random. The Q and T represent the number of queues and threads used in each particular test.

Hmmm... I used to get those browsing/loading preset crashes with the initial release, and shortly afterwards. Then IK optimized the sample streaming st some point. A few of those ST4 instruments are huge! Then I switched to SSD for everything except archives. Anyway, all of my sample content is currently installed on a dedicated SATA internal SSD. So samples load quickly now, and there are no crashes while auditioning sounds.

I updated my SampleTank 4 last night. Today, after reading this, I deliberately looked for my first Cakewalk test project with ST4 that I saved in CbB over 2 years ago. I opened it up in CbB and no crash! Do you wait for the CbB plugin scanner to finish before opening up any projects? I do. Not sure that means anything, but it did occur to me that if a project goes looking for a plugin that was updated since the previous scan, there might be a chance for mismatch with the new VST on the drive?