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That’s true, I had forgotten about that one. Arturia works in mysterious ways.

Or maybe Arturia thought they could make more money selling it separately. It’s still available for €149, but they’ve never bothered to make a VST3 version. Pretty strange.

When I bought V Collection 4 in 2015, Arturia Spark 2 was included. It had been removed in V Collection 5, but was of course still available for those with VC4. As far as I know, that is the only virtual instrument that has ever been removed.

I think there still is a Roland FA-06 instrument file on the Roland Clan forum. Have a look at this post from 2015. At the very bottom of that post there is a link to a .rar file which is said to contain the final version of the FA-06 .ins files. Good luck.

I found an interview with you on YouTube where, in the first 23 minutes, you talked about your story and the NHL alumni experience. Great story!

I have to admit, I did too. Only a few days ago I was pretty sure I wouldn’t buy any more plugins, like ever, but with an upgrade price of €299 for all of this, UVI made me an offer I simply couldn’t refuse.

My upgrade offer is €299. It's a lot of stuff, but do I need it?

I reported this a year ago. Still, nothing. Goodluck.

Does it make any difference whether you in UVI Workstation have Preferences > General > Use OpenGL Renderer turned On of Off? Also, do you have Preferences > General > UI Scaling and Preferences > General > Script UI Scaling set to some other value than 100%? If so, does it make any difference if you set them both to 100%? Or, any combination of the settings mentioned above? FWIW, I’ve never experienced this myself and I’ve used UVI Workstation with Cakewalk SONAR/CbB/Sonar for well over 10 years.

It was like that two days ago. But I tested again right now, and if I enter the 2FA code when first starting Sonar and then exit Sonar, I am indeed able to start Sonar a second time without being asked to log on and go through 2FA yet again. I guess something has been changed on the server since Monday, because I haven’t changed anything on my side. So, hopefully this change of behaviour will last. The constant 2FA nagging two days ago made me seriously start considering my alternatives.

This is getting pretty ridiculous. I've had to do 2FA every time I've started Sonar today. Sure, I have to do 2FA to gain access to quite a lot of sites these days, but that's mostly when I'm out travelling and start using a different IP address. Also, I have absolutely no problem with 2FA when it comes to things like banking or card purchases. But every time I start an effing DAW? C'mon.

I think you previously had to own three instruments in the collection to get an upgrade price of $150. For me, only having two instruments, it was never below $199. So, I'm currently being offered an upgrade to KORG Collection 5 for $132.45. Although it's a pretty good price, $99 would have been better. Hm.

Welcome home, Larry! Hm, haven’t I said that once before?

The voucher amount doesn’t seem to be as large as it used to only a few years ago. I also got a €40/$40 voucher yesterday, but considering my purchases last year, I had honestly expected more. Well, it’s valid until January 31. Maybe some interesting deal will show up until then. Otherwise, it will at least cover the purchase of a UVI Falcon expansion.

The first thing for you to do, would be to install the UVI Portal from here. That’s the software that manages the installation of all UVI plugins and libraries. You can read more in the pdf document here. Skip everything that’s said about about SonicPass, as that’s UVI’s all-encompassing subscription program. Instead, look at the parts that talks about permanent licenses, as I assume that would be the route for you to go in order to get World Suite 3. As you haven’t got UVI Workstation already installed, you need to install that one on your PC first. Once UVI Portal is installed and started, you can download and install UVI Workstation from there. If you’re using Cakewalk by BandLab, you might choose to install UVI Workstation to C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\VST Plugins\UVI. Read more about UVI Worktation in this pdf. As you don’t have an iLok account, you can create that as well from inside UVI Portal. Look at the instructions on page 6 in the UVI Portal pdf. If you then would like to buy, say, UVI World Suite 3, you do that at https://www.uvi.net/en/world/world-suite-3.html, or possibly some third-party vendor. Of course, you would need to create your own account at UVI, as this would be the first time. Once purchased, you would then refresh UVI Portal, and that library would turn up, ready to be installed. Once everything is installed, when you start Cakewalk by BandLab (CbB) the next time, it would by default scan your specified plugin paths. If you have chosen my recommended path above, everything should work automatically and UVI Workstation would turn up among your installed plugins. Then you can simply create a new instrument track inside a new Cakewalk project, select UVI Workstation as your instrument, and UVI World Suite 3 would be available among your soundbanks inside. Double-click your library/soundbank and the GUI would open. And, hey presto.