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A quick email to Sales last night, and they responded with a link in less than 3 hours. On a Friday night, no less! Awesome folks at AAS!

But on the flip side, some of those Syntronik samples sound mighty fine! Sampled with care by a team including the owner of many of those vintage synths, Erik Norlander, who was the product manager for the original Alesis Andromeda analog synth! https://cdm.link/2017/07/syntronik-is-the-new-monster-softsynth-from-ik-hear-from-its-creator/ Up to you ! ?

I agree! I have both of those as well as the full Syntronik and some UVI synth sample libraries. IK could go where Arturia has with the V Collection! I love the Analog Lab where you can quickly filter and audition from a library of 6500+ presets from those vintage instruments, all without waiting for samples to load! From a user perspective, I find the advantage of loading emulation/modeled presets when auditioning synth sounds is much quicker and more practical than loading sounds from sample libraries. I also have the AAS Chromaphone 3 and AAS Ultra Analog VA 3 which are totally modeled. I think that I prefer the speed and smaller system footprint of emulation and modeling!

There, fixed it for ya! ?

It's $10 to reactivate your downloads for another 180 days. That is for everything in your account, not just for a single product. And you can use Jam Points for up to 30% of a purchase, so that can work out to $7 spent for another 180 days of downloads... Yes, that's still a pain, but it is what it is...

I had to check to see if I already had that one... I do! ?

Or the ARP2600 V from Arturia. I tried the demo, and it's quite cool! https://www.arturia.com/products/analog-classics/arp2600-v/ But that's full price $149 right now. Maybe wait for a 50% off sale... I agree with ZT that the tiny UI on the TimewARP 2600 is quite annoying. ?

I would say it's cool, except their support says it's only supported on Win 7, and not for Win 10. It works on Win 10, but they won't support the product for unsupported OS. But for $10, it's a cool stocking stuffer. It's based on the original 2600. Fyi: the activation will not run in Cakewalk. So you will need another DAW to do the deed. The Reaper demo works just fine... Edit: Their site now shows Win 10 compatibility. https://sonivoxmi.com/products/details/timewarp-2600#compatibility

Which is better? u-he Repro, or Arturia Prophet V. Asking for a friend... ?

Yep, but I still gotta buy Christmas presents for my niece and nephew. Can't disappoint them!

Probably will. Next payday? ? Deal is good until Jan 7th...

I have the Beatzille, a slimmed down magware version, and love the sound. Would really like to see a sale on this baby! 4 digital oscillators based on phase distortion (plus FM), analogue style filters, and modeled effects. In a package with modular goodness. Like a Casio CZ on steroids!

Now that's a tasty price for Repro ($74.50 USD)!!! Have had that #1 on my wishlist ever since trying the demo. ? Have no u-he premium synths in my collection yet, but have tried a demo for most of them. I do have the free Beatzille, Tyrell, and Zebralette. Diva would be next up for me, followed by Bazille (but not on sale yet). I really like the sounds from Zebra, but not sold on the synth architecture yet. Probably just me, but I've tried the demo several times and it just doesn't really click for me. Hive 2 demo sounds good, but I think it overlaps with my SynthMaster One.

Love me some Americana, Reggae, Funk, Blues, Jazz, Latin ... and Rock and Roll 4ever! ✌️ Also love to experiment with electronic music, but probably Scaler or something like that would be more useful than EZ anything, LOL! Add Band in a Box for experimenting with traditional arrangements...

Reggae EZkeys MIDI $10 today only at Toontracks.

Probably some funky aggressive heuristics in Bitdefender. I noticed it updated protection definitions late last night, after the alerts. Also checked my firewall logs and the XLN installer connected to the same url this morning as the one it alerted on last night. I have also scanned my system with Malwarebytes and HitmanPro. All clean...

@simonThat was my Bitdefender web protection flagging it, not the file scanner. As far as I understand it, the web protection is a "url" scanner, so it likely got hung up on that location of the file at "cloudfront.net". For some unknown reason it thought malware may be lurking there, so it played it safe and blocked it. Probably a false positive. Software managers download files outside of the browser. I have many active blacklists in my browser, so it won't connect to known malware sites. But a download manager bypasses the browser, leaving things up to other malware defenses as far as potentially malicious url's. Thanks for checking! FYI: ran the XLN installer again this morning and updated both products OK. No further alerts! All clear! ?

It was just that first dll for Addictive Keys that got flagged 10 times before I cancelled. Apparently Bitdefender kept re-trying that one. Nothing got through.

They do seem endless don't they. My frequent downfall is going down the rabbit hole of sound design in the very beginning. I need to better discipline myself to limit my choices up front! ? Looking forward to your future explorations with palettes!

Visit the Toontrack site this week, as each day they are revealing a special deal! https://www.toontrack.com/holiday-deal-week/

Got them all! Is it still a money pit if you get the expansions for 75% off?

I agree, great video! Templates FTW! I am taking an online class in song composition, where the instructor addressed the issue of too many available sounds at the very beginning. He encourages making a pallete of sounds as being a decision to limit what to use for your project. When you can use anything and everything, that becomes infinitely huge! Which can be terrifying, because we have every option in the world available to us. Too many choices, and as you pointed out, not enough hours in the day. Defining a pallete is limiting the main tools to be used at the beginning of a project. Sounds very similar to your recommended use of templates! For example selecting a set of drums, bass, synths, and other stuff as needed. Not that it can't be changed later, but just something to begin with. Sound design can be done later on, but getting started with a specific set of sounds should get you moving with your song ideas.

Bitdefender went nuts here with infected web resource alerts after I clicked to start update on XLN Online Installer. So I canceled the update. The XLN installer itself updated without issue, but it was addictive Drums and Keys that needed application updates. And that is when the alerts started. Will try again tomorrow... most likely a false positive, but ya never know... the disclosure of the exploit of the SolarWinds supply chain this week is still fresh in mind! Thousands of companies and federal agencies may have been unknowingly compromised, going back to earlier this year. I'm not a tin foil hatter, but just cautious! https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/15/22176053/solarwinds-hack-client-list-russia-orion-it-compromised

And then set aside a few hundred extra $$$ for new disk space for all of those free/cheap libraries that you probably don't need. ?

Thx! Nothing yet... ?