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I disagree, and always allow my PC to go to sleep (S3, with hibernate disabled) after 30 minutes, and nothing bad ever happens here. However, my PC will not sleep if an application has sent a powercfg request to windows to keep awake, for example: Which pretty much rules out sleeping while my DAW, or any other application (not including Windows audio) that uses my Focusrite USB Audio driver is still open...

The SynthMaster plugin .dll does NOT get put in the SynthMaster folder. It will be somewhere on your hard drive after the installation. If you didn't notice where the installer placed the plugin, do this: Search File Explorer for "SynthMaster2.dll", and either add the folder where you locate the plugin file to the VST scan path in CbB, or move the plugin file to whatever folder the rest of your VST2 plugins are located in.

Got plenty to keep me busy for a while now... ?

Nah, that's absolutely the last one. For now, anyways... ? But I did get 3 libraries for the price of one!!! $537.00 > $174.71. First timer here. Did the group buy with two orders: 1. First filled out a few OTS surveys for Orange Slices. Then bought 2 Evolution guitars for 60% off, plus the slices from the surveys. 2. Got some more slices added from purchase #1. Bought a 3rd library for another 60% off, plus more slices.

Better yet, you get a couple of MIDI demo files that you can play!!! ?

It looks like all of the "Evolution" products priced at retail $179 (and the Famous E) are Player and NKS ready. The other OTS libraries priced for less seem to all require FULL Kontakt.

The Famous E is Kontakt Player compatible. As well as a couple of Evolution guitars that I picked up. Check the OT website for details and full disclosure. I haven't seen any yet from Orange Tree that require FULL Kontakt.

It's got that real 70's E Piano sound that I fondly recall from many 70's songs. Yes, amazing indeed!!! None of that DX7 FM cheese that took over pop music in the 80's... ?

Alright. I finally caved in on the Famous E when I realized I could get it for $56 with the group buy 60% off, plus some Orange Slices from my previous purchase.

I think that the Cherry Audio 8-voice sounds great! Disclaimer: I do not have the other synths to compare it with.

Yep, that one has been on the feature request list for years. Probably the most popular one ... so maybe eventually. ?

Interesting! I didn't even know that was a thing! I would assume that if you are using a NI Komplete keyboard, then you are all set! I only have the KK plugin, so my keyboards do not auto map. But even when using generic MIDI learn, if you use the global learn settings in KV331, the synth will retain your EZ Knob mapping for all presets. So you only need to set knobs 1-8 up once. After that the function of each knob will vary on each patch based on the KV331 preset design, but knob 1 will still be knob 1, 2 is 2, and so on...

I am not against BandLab releasing all of the legacy VST content. But the fact that they have not released a single one yet, in all this time, tells me there must be a reason. I won't speculate on why, as nobody really knows. I do have all of them, except for Rapture Pro, which I only had the demo of when Cakewalk was shut down. At the time the original Cakewalk synths were first released, they were a star attraction and a good incentive to buy the latest version of Sonar to acquire them as bundled content. Cakewalk was in on the first wave of commercial soft synth development, and really stepped it up when they acquired RGC Audio. It was like the dawn of the internet. Things started off slow, personal computers were often not up to the task of running soft synths and samplers, and then eventually the market exploded! Just my opinion here, but that is now ancient history, and the beloved old Cakewalk synths surely could use some love, as far as updates go. I still love them for nostalgic reasons, and they do still sound good. But I rarely ever open them anymore. I am much happier with the more modern synths available today. The market is actually flooded with great synths being sold for near giveaway prices, or even given away for free. I imagine that only the top tier ($$$) is actually making any money for their publishers.

Well if Mr Rhodes himself said that the actual Famous E was the best one he had ever heard, then it must be a very special electric piano... ?

Here's a quick tip to get started with. Forget the manuals & tutorials for now and just have fun! You can use the (8) easy knobs to control selected parameters deep in the synth, without knowing how the patch is built or the synth architecture. Just use MIDI learn to assign 8 knobs on your controller. Select a preset that you like and jam away! Learn as you go... This is similar to SM Player, but here you can go in and tweak any preset as desired, and then save as your own. This preset example shows Easy Knob 1 controlling the wave index of the current wavetable oscillator. Fun performance parameter! The Easy Knobs are assigned by the respective preset author to selected synth parameters. A couple of other Easy Knobs here adjust the Envelope Attack and Envelope Release, for example.

Steely Dan!!!

Enjoy!!!

I got R4 and Nimbus thru iZotope, and Phoenix thru PiB...

The Exponential Audio plugins only offer 1 license via iLok authorization.

I think that this synth, with a little more polish, could be the one to beat them all!!! ?

I got 2 Evolution libraries, with the group buy and orange slice discounts for $119 total.

My first and only live Floyd concert! Good times! Houston TX... Yes!!! ? And the flying pig on the wire!

I'm not sure about Cubase or CbB, but I believe that once Studio One is activated, you would only need to go online for updates/upgrades.

Bulent said (5 years ago): For v3.0, we'll add 1. New sample content 2. New wavetable content 3. granular synthesis 4. formant filters 5. wavetable / sample editing features 6. redesigned GUI And then 1 year ago Bulent said: I haven't updated SynthMaster 2.9 since December 2018. I know it's been a while. But v2.9.9 will be a major update, although the version number has a minor increment I will try to address all existing issues as much as I can (except some cosmetic issues with the older gray/orange/blue skins, those are hard to maintain). Hopefuly we'll release a beta in 2-3 weeks. And in May 2021 Bulent said: For those of you who're asking "hey what about SynthMaster 3?", we had to make some architectural changes in our UI framework to make it "modular". We finally achieved that and first implemented it on iOS. Desktop port coming in the next weeks and will be debuted in our next SM 2.9.9 update. Last week Bulent said: I'm really sorry that I had to spend around 12 months for iOS development (SynthMaster One+SynthMaster 2 combined), but that resulted in a framework that is totally cross platform now. After SynthMaster 3 desktop release we will port it to iOS as well easily with this framework and maybe we can port the framework to Android as well, it was the least priority task in our list but could be worthy to have Android support on our hands as well.