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The email I received from KV331 Audio said the deal was valid until Nov 16th. The OP posted that same date also.

Nope. You only get the 1800 factory presets with SM 2.9 & SM Player. There are no KV331 expansions for SM One, but it comes with 1250 factory presets. The KV331 expansions for SM 2.9 are available for individual sale, or included in the Everything Bundle.

Yes, I find many of these presets are quite inspiring! Like, how the heck did he do that one, or that one? Good education! At least the browser supports browsing by category, or searching by text strings, which speeds up the trawling. And making use of the favorites list lets you tag the ones you especially like. And this synth is deep, and as such it can be difficult to see how the dots are connected at times under the hood. I hope the upcoming v3 is a bit more intuitive as far as the workflow. I do like how the developer simplified the workflow a bit in SynthMaster One. And I think that he plans to port a bit of that ease over to the new version of SM 2.

Obviously his presets are demonstrations of the emulations of vintage gear that can be achieved with this synth. Too recognizable can be a good thing if you are trying to emulate something. Learn to program your own sounds in this manner by reverse engineering a few of his. Or tweak and mangle them beyond recognition to fit your own taste!

Yes, he has some good ones. I think his initial SM effort was included in the factory presets bank. You can find them by filtering in the browser by author for Michael Kastrup, then in banks by Factory Presets. They all have MK as a suffix in the preset names.

Note: The audio demo is done entirely SynthMaster except the following: drums, percussions and bass guitar.

It's only $4 on sale at this time, so maybe I will buy it. My understanding of the everything bundle is that you get all of the expansions that are available at the time you purchase the bundle. I don't believe that future expansions are intended to be included.

That is something that I believe could be done with a lot of synths. All you need is a decent modulation matrix. But I have rarely seen a sound designer take advantage of it as frequently as BigTone does. That was my point! Not much need to tweak his patches, instant gratification!!! Performance ready out of the box!!!

Make sure that you have his "Dawn of Electronic Music" vols 1-3, and "Historic Synth Giants" vols 1-4.

Everything by Nori...

That kind of makes up for them removing ReWire from Reason Intro. The Reason Rack Plugin is now included with Intro! https://www.reasonstudios.com/en/reason/buy

You will probably need to be stranded on a desert island for some time... without distractions!!! Maybe Waves will have their presets fixed by then?

Good to know! I never paid attention to the "none" selection in there, as I have always wanted to send the track to a specific channel in a multi instrument. But that is one thing for sure about Cakewalk, there are many ways to do things! The main downside to that method is that you would then need to edit the event list to change the default MIDI channel numbers for individual selected notes in the track to make them go to their designated instrument parts/articulations. But it is possible.

Congrats on "Everything"! I have had the "Everything Bundle" for a while, so I checked my expansions in the SM browser, then did the "refresh my licenses" thing from the context menu. I now see all of the expansions except for Japan showing as "installed", with Japan showing as "available for purchase".

Take the time to explore the presets from BIGTONE. You will be rewarded! BT has the extraordinary ability to use the controllers for mw, pb, at, and vel to create very expressive and playable patches! I was surprised when I realized that you could use the pb wheel for something other than pitch bend. It's very unreal the first time you wiggle both wheels and there is no pitch bend, but you suddenly have two mod wheels in your hand! Wheeeeeee!!!

This thing is a beast when fully expanded! The upgrade to v3 will be cheap, so no worries there. Something like $30 is planned, I believe...

For a cool virtual analog synth, take a look at Waves Element 2.0. On sale now for $44.98 with coupon code "FALL2019" https://www.audiodeluxe.com/products/waves-element-20 https://www.waves.com/plugins/element P.S. this thing occasionally goes on sale for $29, so if interested, keep an eye out for upcoming holiday specials!

OK, but if you go read the Magix user forum threads about AP v9, you might come away with the impression that the product is very unstable and barely usable in it's current form. It seems to be the consensus over there that the perfect solution would be a v7 in 64-bit.

I saw that thread too, but he is just a marketing guy hired to "manage" social media. We'll see! Deal breaker for me!