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Pettinhouse have released a free Kontakt full (K6.8) Fender Strat. https://www.pettinhouse.com/html/download.html

Exactly the same issue here. I have to shutdown quick start in order to load any project from explorer.

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I can recommend you have a look at Julian's YT page. https://www.youtube.com/user/JayKayRause Either before or after you make any choices, but before buying. He is very indepth and clear about interfaces. And hopefully has looked at any you will be considering.

Just booted up my W10 music PC (superceded with a new W11 machine). And was offered a years extended update till Oct 26. I just checked on updates and the offer was there to enroll for another year for free. No points, purchases or anything. May be worth checking if it is available for you. Though I will just use this old pc for backups etc as have transferred eveything to the new pc. I had heard rumours of this. It may not be a UK thing only but Youtuber Britec had said it was available. And it was.

Yes. Got the email end of last week and jumped on it. I only had a couple of freebies from UJAM (Mellow Bass, and Sparkle 2, and the original Reverb) So jumped on it. Paid £17 for 5 items . Good bargain. Got the Neo finisher, Reverb 2, Delay, Filter, Usynth Stranger. Plus the free Neo Retro.

I get a lot of mileage out of Bass Professor MKII by Sonic Anomaly. Particularly on Acoustic Upright Bass. Plus some other great plugins from him. https://web.archive.org/web/20190926213601/http://www.sonic.supermaailma.net/plugins

VOS is using Bitly now . That's where the d/load link takes you. It's an URL shortening service and a link management service. It's legit.

VOS has updated Feenstaub TX (Transient exciter/expander) and Feenstaub TC (Tube compression/colouration) to V1.1. incls VST3. And dependant on your set up you may need to install a Windows redistibutable. Details on the page. https://varietyofsound.wordpress.com/blog/

Great ! Maybe Wookie and myself should get something from Scan for the recommendation ! They will set up W11 as a local account. So ignore Windows pushing you to open a MS account including splash screens (unless you want too). It backs off after a few days. I hope it all works well for you.

Iain. If you go to the link I put above to Scan. And press configure on the first set up (PB650) you can change elements you want to such as cpu, ram, etc. Which is what I did. Added the Ryzen 7 7700 instead of the 7600. And added an extra 2Tb NVMe drive for storage (WD SN5000). You can do this with any of the setups they have. I did a lot of research beforehand. And chose the 7 7700 because it had a good mix of cpu 8/16 threads and importantly was only 65w power. So no need to go with beefy cooling etc.

Hi Iain I concur with Chaps. I had my system built by SCAN UK. A long established and respected audio PC builder. Whom I have bought off many times. Here is a link to there current offers. https://www.scan.co.uk/3xs/custom/daw-digital-audio-workstation-pcs/workstations#anc They spent a long time talking me through my needs etc. And advised me every step of the way of progress. Ending up with a video of the completed system before despatch. I went with the system as detailed in my original post. And they set up connections for me to just plug in my extra SSDs. I went with Ryzen due to issues and advice about 14th Gen Intel. Though I have always used Intel in the past. I have to tell you the system from SCAN is so quiet it is totally inaudible. Plus the Ryzen CPU is so fast. And upgradeable in the future if needed. I would strongly advise you look/talk with a company with a strong history in building audio PCs. As we know our needs are different to gamers etc.

This will crash Sonar if trying to authorise offline. Needs to be online to authorise ok without issue.

Actually this a nice little delay. Clean interface and settings.

NA updated to V3.20.0 Plus I raised an issue with NI about Electric Keys Diamond 1.1.0 not having an image in classic view on W11 24H2. Turns out it was not me but NI. So a new version 1.1.1 is up and now has an image in classic view. Use NA to update.