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You can download banks that you do not own by using the store tab in the synth itself. To hear one, just click the play button on the bank (not the add to cart button). Then you will see a bank description, as well as a few presets that are unlocked that you can play with (while the remainder of the presets remain locked until you buy the bank).

Huh? Pigments 2 > 3 upgrade is free.

Arturia Tutorials | Pigments - Playlist > 10 Episodes (Pigments 3 coverage begins at Episode #6)

I'm sure they are!

https://www.arturia.com/sound-banks/spectrumsoundpack Spectrum Sound Pack Sound Banks - 500 sounds designed exclusively for Pigments 3 $19.99 if you qualify for the crossgrade (existing users). Or free, if you buy Pigments 3 at the intro price of $99. https://www.arturia.com/products/analog-classics/pigments

Launch Arturia Software Center to upgrade! ?

Scraped this from a post over at KVR:

Rumor has it that it will be Pigments 3, free to existing Pigments owners. Not a rumor! It's true!!! Launch Arturia Software Center to upgrade! ?

Still $69. The biggest surprise here is that it's packing 6 Tone2 FireBird factory banks among the 2,140 factory sounds. I really liked FireBird, but rarely use it now as it was discontinued and released free at 32-bit. Always wished Tone2 would re-release it as 64-bit and with a larger GUI. Have been looking at other Tone2 synths over the past few years. They have great user interfaces and sound awesome, but are way too expensive and always seem to include too much that I don't care about. This thing hits the sweet spot! Great sounds at a great price. And I even have my FireBird sounds again! It looks like it contains the synth engine from FireBird, and much more! ?

I agree. The spreadsheets (flat files) are actually tables of data, that once properly connected to each other, can become a database.

I got Sonar Producer 8.5 running on a WinXP (32-bit) VM in VirtualBox. The memory is virtualized, as is the CPU, graphics and audio. Good news! Got the USB pass-thru working so that I could attach a USB MIDI controller to the host and assign it in Sonar running in the VM. But I'm pretty sure the latency in this sort of setup is shit. For actual use I would probably go with dual boot and direct connect my MIDI and audio interfaces to the real world, LOL!

Pretty, pretty good. Everything Bundle is.

I got this as an earlier deal elsewhere, and it's worth grabbing! Possibly a good companion tool for Bass Room, from Mastering the Mix, which is essentially a multi band EQ for your bass audio. https://www.masteringthemix.com/products/bassroom Fundamental Bass is essentially a simplified (but not One-knob" simple) two band compressor for bass frequencies, with a few extras. You split your bass audio into two frequency ranges, and then process them separately.

TTS-1 has value when it works! Its rare qualities are that as a plugin instrument it is both General MIDI (GM) compatible, and 16-part multi-timbral. But I only use it to open pre-recorded GM song files. It is very useful for that. When you open a GM file in Cakewalk you will have the song opened up with all parts assigned in a single instance of the TTS-1 plugin and ready to go. Then I save the song as a Cakewalk standard project in '.cwp' format. And then replace the instrument sounds with other VST instruments to eliminate TTS-1 from the project. TTS-1 is old tech and is a 64-bit DXi plugin, not a VST. Problems can be encountered when trying to build a Cakewalk project around TTS-1, so I would recommend limiting its use. I have experienced unexplained crashes, and so have others when trying to push it with larger projects. If it works great for you, then enjoy! YMMV. ?

Glad you interested in improving the product, but TTS-1 is no longer being developed. It was created many years ago when Cakewalk was owned by Roland, and was based on their Sound Canvas.

Aidan is correct. There is no VSTi version of the VM2500 Modules. ? But with the Cherry Audio Oberheim expander, you can have it either way as VSTi and/or modules with either the Eight Voice VSTi and/or the SEM modules. Same thing with the CA2600 VSTi and/or the Synth Voice modules.

Shouldn't have watched that video (as he breaks out the visa card...)

In general, you get a different set of factory presets included for each if you buy a standalone/VST instrument, or the the VM modules for that instrument. I have based that statement on the fact that I have the standalones and the modules for CA2600, Eight Voice, and Polymode. I don't consider them redundant.

The VM2500 Collection is not a standalone/VST, nor a repeat of any standalone/VSTs that Cherry has released so far. The Vintage Voice bundle https://store.cherryaudio.com/bundles/vintage-voice-bundle contains the modules from the standalone/VST CA2600. https://cherryaudio.com/instruments/ca2600

This looks great! A rare classic! But since I recently added the Year Two Collection ($100 $136), which includes the FM bundle, Polymode bundle, Vector bundle, and Vintage Voice bundle, I'll probably wait a bit to add this one. Vintage Voice contains the ARP 2600 modules. And I also picked up the SEM modules when the Eight Voice was released. So I'll be busy for a while... It's remarkable that Cherry is releasing these modules at such a fast pace, and at such an affordable price point!

My main complaint is that VIP still cannot scan or import VST3 anything. VIP can host VST2 plugins only.

I think it might be doing that with some older legacy plugins, but it also changes presets in modern plugins that do not respond to MIDI bank/program changes. So there is more going on under the hood than meets the eye. As you said, YMMV. In regards to a VST3 version of VIP, I seriously doubt that will ever happen. inMusic Brands has quietly discontinued the top line VIP enabled keyboard controller series from Akai, M-Audio, and Alesis. And they have taken down the support pages that allowed VIP users to swap user created patch maps for their plugins. To their credit, some support pages seem to have been archived for future use, but they're no longer easy to find. Plus the current fire sale on VIP says going out of business...

Here's a screen capture of the VIP interface, showing an 8 part multi preset down in the mixer section, as well as the instrument browser above with Dimension Pro highlighted, and preset selection focused for it listed in the pane at the left, and preset tags shown to the middle pane. Makes finding the sound you are seeking a bit easier. The multi shown is an Akai factory preset using some AIR plugins. This particular multi has Hybrid (x5), Xpand!2, and Loom(x2) loaded into the 8 parts. Each part has an optional 4 insert effects slots and can send to up to 4 busses. The busses each have 4 inserts. It all mixes down to the master bus (which also has 4 inserts available) which outputs stereo to your DAW host, or stereo audio output if running standalone. VIP shipped a version with AIR instruments bundled, so it works very well out of the box with AIR instruments using the available factory plugin maps. You are in luck if you already have and like AIR instruments. I think the deal here is for the Standard version that doesn't include any instruments. There are also some factory plugin maps provided for select 3rd party synths, and with luck and some work you can create plugin maps for any synth that communicates preset data to the plugin host. For plugins without ready made patch maps, it's a mixed bag of tricks. VIP can import some plugin patches a bank at a time, some will import automatically one patch at a time as you audition the presets using the plugin GUI, and some will import presets one at a time with a 'default' patch name, and you have to rename each one as you go. Some plugins will not send any preset info to VIP. Some plugins will crash VIP, as any DAW host can experience on occasion. Not 100% universal and compatible. Is it worth $15? That's up to you to decide! But realize that it's not likely to get any more updates or bug fixes. But what does work, works well.