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Current AIR sale: https://www.pluginboutique.com/deals/show?sale_id=6396 You can also buy the AIR Complete Expansion Pack 3 upgrade which comes with a bundle of AIR instruments, plus the FX collection for $74.99, IF you have any single AIR instrument you qualify for the upgrade price. https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/1-Instruments/58-Inst-Bundle/2294-AIR-Instrument-Expansion-Pack-3-COMPLETE-UPGRADE- Single instruments can be had for as low as $9.99 if you don't yet have one. And yes they are old, and probably best for someone starting out on a tight budget. Because they are inexpensive!

Not quite free, but still quite cheap at $14.99, AIR Velvet 2 is another option for Rhodes, Wurly, and Hohner: Five Legendary Electric Pianos Velvet is a virtual electronic piano that combines five legendary electric pianos from the 60s and 70s into one versatile instrument. Based on the Fender Rhodes Suitcase, Fender Rhodes MK I and MK II Stage Pianos, Wurlitzer 200A and Hohner Pianet-T, Velvet accurately emulates the sound quality, response, and nuances of each original instrument to bring your piano tracks to life. Additionally, Velvet features a pallet of onboard effects and allows you to control every aspect of the sound for unparalleled realism: turn up the tube drive controls in the preamp section to warm up your tone; adjust the timbre, dynamic response, and velocity curve to customize the playing feel; and mix in the sound of pedal and other keyboard mechanical noises to recreate an authentic electric piano track. https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/1-Instruments/64-Virtual-Instrument/1559-Velvet-2 Until Sept 3rd this time, but AIR does almost always have something on sale... https://www.pluginboutique.com/deals/show?sale_id=6396

You can always download the Win 10 Media Creation Tool directly from Microsoft which will allow you to put the latest Win 10 .iso (2004) on USB flash, or DVD. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 If you upgrade a Win 7 Pro machine, you are entitled to Win 10 Pro. Or else from Win 7 Home to Win 10 Home.

The link in the OP appears to be dead now...

I would think that you would only require one instrument track per Kontakt instance, with the rest of the tracks being one MIDI track per instrument sent to that Kontakt instance. Using a different MIDI channel per MIDI track should keep you straight as far as routing within Kontakt. You can insert audio tracks if you require Kontakt to output separate audio tracks for each instrument. No need for extra instrument tracks. Maybe a screen shot of your setup would help?

Not really an Apple fan here, except for an iPod that I bought 10 years ago...haven't used it in years, since Android smartphones have taken their place. But there's no denying that the music app market is leaning toward iOS.

Not surprising as even the BiaB 2020 version of still has a 90's look and feel to it...

I keep Reaper around to test plugins and their routing, if I have an issue with one elsewhere, but don't use it much other than that. It is like a swiss army knife though, but I find it much too cumbersome to use as a daily driver. Lots of power under the hood, and unmatched routing capabilities! Respect to the developers!

I changed the subject to 1.7.x, as they update it so frequently. The current version is always available by following the link in the OP .

Did you guys know that Reaper could run DXi? Like your good old TTS-1 for example?

Yup, but those are Windows only.

Set your view in Task Manager to show a separate graph for all cores/threads. Whenever I encounter breakups in the audio, it's usually when the load on the first core/thread is running high, while the others are still idling. I think this is normal as the VSTi is most likely single threaded...

Their entire product range would benefit with a wet/dry switch for those that prefer to use 3rd party FX plugins in the track, or mix buses. But in all fairness, you can torn the amp knob setting to clean, and then turn the knobs for delay, chorus, reverb, and drive to zero, which is probably not totally dry, but workable. Then insert an amp sim of your choice and get some new flavors. Though when they add MIDI phrase drag and drop and instrument mode, I might be interested! ?

I found a few other Ligon presets that did break up after I leaned into some heavy handed polyphonic chords. But then I am running a CPU released in 2012. ?

LOL, exactly!!! ? Not a huge fan of the Apple empire, but I did buy an iPod once. Might even consider a used iPad in order to mess around with the latest mobile audio apps on iOS...

Seems like the web server is running on an old Pentium 3 in the back of the garage... right next to the email server... ?

I think it would possibly be easier to fork the VST3 SDK with an open source team on GitHub and start from something almost everybody has working today. Then evolve it into something new and standardized. Probably easier to get the buy-in from DAW and plugin manufacturers. Instead of starting from scratch.

Nice essay! By the way, where did that quote come from? Probably close to the truth, LOL!

I found one in SampleTank 4, and it is listed as a FM tubular bell tone. You might try searching FM synth resources for other options, as in the free DX-7 carts, playable in the freeware Dexed synth.

Bender on a Fender! ?

I seriously laughed out loud at that! ?

So what's the best "robot" guitarist available?

Hey @ZincT, are you still enjoying that new Arturia controller?

I use it too, for about a year. But if they get breached, I'm totally owned... ?