Jacques Boileau

I only have the CM version, so can only say it trashes the CM version. I have no experience with the standard version. The CM version does ask you if you want to upgrade, but fails to upgrade it properly. Maybe KVR forget about that scaled down version in their upgrade.

Does not work when updating SynthMasterCM. Nothing works anymore after the update. Standalone does not even launch. Never used it, so I'll check if uninstall works well! ?

You are really, really good at keeping secrets Larry! ?

And there others, 3 or 4, that have poped up on other channels, that have the same message. But it does seem like a great product. Kinda swiss army knife with even more blades added!

Hum, it seems ownership is 9/10 of the fun here! ?

Hopefully this is not the only group buy. It is just Syntronik, nothing else for now.

I just finished this free series from Izotope. I really enjoyed it and it was as much fun to watch as it was educational. The other seasons where also very good, but this one is the best yet. It is the first time that there was a guest in addition to the excellent Jonathan Wyner. The guest is a mix engineer and Berklee professor: Enrique Gonzalez Müller. He is simply excellent and holds your attention throughout the series, very entertaining while he teaches. He has a great take on what mixing is. He focuses on: 'what do you want of achieve?' One of the best course of this kind I have had a chance to see. It beats many courses paid or free. Enjoy! Are you Listening Season 4 Previous seasons, although also interesting are not a prerequisite to watch this one. You can jump right in.

Larry, Larry, Larry, you should be aware of this forum's proper etiquette! There is no link! ?

One of the few I don't already have from TDR. Great! Has Nova GE ever been discounted this much?

... or you must never leave home! ?

Dang, I guess its plugin companies merger season! ?

@Craig Anderton I listened to your video of the clav patch above. Easy to hear and HUGE difference with the different sample rates! Quite an eye ear opener video. Thanks!

I love thread like these where I learn stuff that elude me before. Thanks guys!

@Craig Anderton Is there a simple recipe to create this distortion somehow? The point being, if I don't know how to recognize it, it makes oversampling more of a guessing game. Not a good thing. But yeah, I hear over 5k... err I mean my friend of course! ?

Amp sims are like guitars. You need exactly: Amp sims needed = Amp sims you got + 1

Asking for a friend of a friend of a friend etc.: if your earing does not reach very high anymore, be it because of age and/or abuse, will you ear the difference and could you need oversampling even if you can't ear the difference yourself?

Almost forgot to report back as promised! IK Support did answer me back with the following: 'Thanks, this is a known issue and the dev team are looking at various way to optimize the code. If you are having heavy CPU loads then you may want to use the Freeze track functions.' They are aware of the problem, that part I already knew, and still working on it.

... until tomorrow 9am GMT

Worked fine for me. Got it in about 30 minutes I would say.

Have you tried Izotope's free Imager 2? It's a reduced version of what is in Ozone, but it may be enough for your needs.

Tried that and it finally worked now. Thanks! And here I thought they had forgotten me. What a total loser I thought I had become! ? But all is fine now! ?

Larry has always been on fire. It is just that somedays he burns hotter than others. ?

I don't know if @LAGinz has a ticket open for this since I was the instigator of the CPU problem back in September. So, I just did respond to my ticket and will post any answer I get. But to be fair, I have had back and forth conversation on this through the ticket for over 6 months now. I know you have also chimed in to support on my behalf. Thanks! But it has been a looong time and there have been quite a few releases in the past 6 months. The problem is still the same and easily reproducible in 5.4.0. Please don't blame me for being a tad discouraged. I probably spent more hours researching and documenting the problem for IK than would be required to fix it.

Similar experience here but I didn't have your patience. I gave up and rolled back to 5.0.3! ?

Ok, unfortunately the CPU behavior is still there. Here is the difference in CPU usage between version 5.0.3 and 5.4.0 on my PC. This is by just starting the standalone version with the default preset and giving it time to stabilize. 5.0.3 - 2% 5.4.0 - 4.5% If I do the routing switch thing, click on the two amp routing and back to the single amp routing, the CPU usage for 5.4.0 goes down to a little less than 3%. Same behavior as with all versions after 5.0.3.