Magic Russ

One thing that's a real pain point for me right now is dealing with old projects where I have old versions of plugins, especially Kontakt. One case in point is that I plan on replacing my DAW soo. I'd rather not have multiple versions of Kontakt installed when I only need the latest (and 5 for the import features which weren't carried over). Another issue is that NI tends to update their libraries to include features from the latest versions. This of course causes problems when loading a project that uses that library but was saved with an older version. Cakewalk saves plugin state, so it should know which patches/instruments/multis are loaded for the given plugin. It shouldn't be that difficult to open the latest version with the given preset. In fact, a few other DAWs already have this functionality I am requesting.

One thing that's a real pain point for me right now is dealing with old projects where I have old versions of plugins, especially Kontakt. One case in point is that I plan on replacing my DAW soo. I'd rather not have multiple versions of Kontakt installed when I only need the latest (and 5 for the import features which weren't carried over). Another issue is that NI tends to update their libraries to include features from the latest versions. This of course causes problems when loading a project that uses that library but was saved with an older version. Cakewalk saves plugin state, so it should know which patches/instruments/multis are loaded for the given plugin. It shouldn't be that difficult to open the latest version with the given preset. In fact, a few other DAWs have similar functionality.

Same here and they did so fairly quickly.

In my case it does not show up in my account. If I go to their download manager and click on Collections, it displays serial numbers for every collection except that one.

For some reason it's not registering the Morley Collection for me.

From what I have seen (including checking out the demo presets through Analog Lab), the LoFi is much better than the LoFi entries in the NI Play series. With NI, they seem like they are just tacking lo fi on the end of things, like "Hey let's take our new piano library and run it through Trash so it has a bunch of distortion and media noise and vibrato" Arturia seems to have more of a vibe like "LoFi? Like the cheap stuff we used when we were starting out and this is the best we could afford at the time? I got an old Casio, you still have your old PortaStudio.. maybe we could get some old Radio Shack mics and one of their old 'reverbs' ..."

It would be even better if clicking on them took you to links for the product page.

The intro does seem to be a fair deal MiniMoog Prophet 5 Juno 6 DX7 MicroFreak Augmented Piano Augmented Strings Stage 73 $199, crossgrades available, probably half that for BF.

I was having issues installing the updates for Pigments and Augmented Strings. It could not seem to find installed paths. Has anyone had similar issues?

Same for version 9. I guess a lot of us will wait it out.

Oddly when I logged in today everything under My Account was in German, but when I clicked on the links they were in English. Also, more importantly, they have updated nearly everything. The main change is in popups, with lots of bug fixes. The Augmented series seems to have been updated to v2 as well, at least with the ones I have.

Even though it is a pretty complete package I wouldn't mind if they added a Polivoks or an OSCar. Maybe an advanced Additive synth.

https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=581665&start=180 Screen shots allegedly from future music's Spanish site posted for the JP 8000 and pure lofi. Note that there is a trance gate effect on the JP-8000.

That's actually a good point. When I use Analog Lab I tend to find presets for things I wouldn't have thought of, especially the layered ones. For example, I'm not really a fan of working with modular synthesis, but if I can find a patch that sounds cool I'll use it. Still, there are more than a few synths in there I haven't opened since I first got them.

Someone on KVR posted a link to a site which has since been removed which would seem to confirm that there will be the JP 8000 and some new Lo-fi sampler Called Pure LoFi. Also an update to SEM, which seems like an odd choice.

But how much does it come out to when you calculate the Plugins You Actually Use?

I generally agree but one thing they don't have in this collection is a drum kit.

Don't forget that before they were bought by Cakewalk, the Ultrafunk Sonitus package went for that much too.

If I had known that I probably would have gone for the first one, as it will be one less serial to enter next time I have to update everything.

I did too, and a few minutes later got an email from their customer rep saying that there was an issue processing the order. Also curious about them adding state tax on downloads.

Has anyone noticed they changed the name of the Jimi Hendrix and Slash packs for Amplitube to Electric Gypsy and L.A. Rocker?

Also a Komplete Kontrol update to 3.4.1

Most of the 3rd party products they have included have either been reincluded (Overloud), those that haven't I have either gone with the full version or decided I don't need if I haven't forgotten about altogether. On the other hand, there are a lot of products developed by Cakewalk which were in Platinum era Sonar but don't exist in the new iteration. I wouldn't mind seeing most of these plugins updated and added back, if only that it will make my life easier the next time I do a clean install. Even so, there are a handful of features I'd rather see. First would be some sort of painless method of updating stored instances of Kontakt to the latest versions. Other hosts can do this. Second would be some sort of tagged browsing system for track templates and FZ chains. Third, in most cases I find the containers for FX chains to be an encumbrance and would like to have the ability to drag and drop from the browser without having to extract plugins from the container.

Which patch banks are people liking here? It's kind of hard for me to remember which were ones I bought vs the random freebies or bundleware. I'm pretty sure that things like Synthetic Trap aren't ones I would have purchased on their own. I do remember having bought the Shofuku Cartridge series. It's impressive programming from a DX back in the day, but there's nothing here that stands out in comparison to all the other sounds I have. I like the Witcher tribute for it's fun creepy atmospheric sounds. So far I have been less than impressed with the Artist tribute packs that I have. Autretech is an exception, mostly because I don't know their music and can appreciate the sounds for what they are.

I think I mentioned earlier in the thread that I found a compatible DXi version of Rapture on a backup drive. I did check my original account, but I don't believe that specific version was available there. That is good advice in general, though. All's good, not much need to post to this thread any further.