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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.

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How does this compare to Arturia's Solina and Mellotron?

Essential String Machine. Nice list!

Mac only. No wonder it's free! ?

Where was that deal 10 years ago! LOL!

Zen looks like a good idea if you are looking for a preset browser (discontinued by dev, use at own risk). But the real power of VIP is the layering and mixing of up to 8 instruments together, in a mixer with busses and effects. The browser can allow you to bring all this together in a way that is really unmatched. Then you can save each of theses multis and create performances with them. So you can drop just one instance of the VIP plugin into your DAW and have all this setup and ready to go. Then if desired, just add more tracks and plugins to your DAW for as much as your computer can handle.

As far as I know, VIP does not use MIDI messages to change patches of the plug-ins it manages, as it is a plug-in host. I could be wrong, as that part is "under the hood" and not exposed to the user. It can actually load a patch and play it without even opening the synth UI (which is optional). It's sorcery, LOL!

Well new plugin developers are forced to use VST3 only, unless they already have a license from Steinberg for the VST2 dev kit. And Steinberg has shut that off as far as issuing any new VST2 dev licenses.

I too picked up VIP 3 bundled with an Alesis VX49 a few years ago. I never really got into the little keyboard screen and buttons, as I much preferred using VIP with my DAW's monitor anyway, but it's a functional controller for VIP, as well as a generic MIDI controller. I got it to replace an aging M-Audio Axiom 49 that was like a first gen version. But as for VIP 3 itself, I have 20,000+ presets installed in that (sadly stuck at VST2). It's obviously not moving into the future, but there's really no replacement for it yet. I have really become obsessed with PluginGuru's Unify lately. It is another tool for building layers of synths and presets. A cool discovery is that I can load VIP 3 as a plugin (along with my 20,000+ existing presets) inside of a Unify layer, along side of any of my VST3 plugins that were loaded by Unify! Best of both worlds!

It works, and it does what it says, with a few limits and disclaimers. Many VST plugins, but not all, can share their preset info with it so it can act as a giant patch librarian for many of your plugins. But some do not share any preset info with the host. So that's the 3rd party plugin's fault, and not VIP's. So it's not 100% universal out of the box. Is still a handy tool. VIP is both a standalone app and a plugin, but it's still limited to working only with VST2 plugins. They never integrated VST3. So there's that... It gripes me that there's no VST3 support (and likely never will be), as more and more plugins are released as VST3 only. But the real biggie is that it's another good product that seems to have gone down the same inMusic Brands rabbit hole with AIR and SONiVOX products, and hasn't gotten any recent love from their development team. There is really nothing else quite like it, and I also have Komplete Kontrol and PluginGuru Unify.

Power supplies, bad switches, loose cables, overheating (fan issues), a failing motherboard, bad RAM, just about any number of hardware issues could cause a PC to shutdown. If you don't know how to troubleshoot PC hardware, take it to someone who does. On the other hand, a software or driver error that drastic usually results in an error code, or a blue screen (BSOD). You do know how to set your computer to freeze on a BSOD (with the error code), and not automatically restart, right? > https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/69012-enable-disable-bsod-automatic-restart-windows-10-a.html

I just gave this one a try this weekend. Me likey! Has anyone else given it a try? It seems to raise the bar for what you might expect from a free product! Odin 2 Open-Source Synthesizer 24-voice polyphonic synthesizer. It covers about every type of synthesis out there: Three Osc Slots: Choose from eleven different modules!!! Wow!!! Draw Oscillator Waves / Spectra Three Filter Slots: High quality analog filter emulations (Ladder, KRG-35, SEM and more). FX Included: Delay, Phaser, Flanger, Chorus and Distortion. Flexible Routing Four ADSRs Four LFOs XY-Pad Big Modulation Matrix Arpeggiator Preset Library some great sounds in here!!!

That's what I just said. I think...