John Maar

Found it. Thanks. Installing now. 👍

I mentioned above that I have Steinberg and Waves on my "never again" list. I forgot to add two others, Slate and iZotope. I've purchased 2 iZotope products over the years. Both had problems being correctly scanned by a couple of plugin scanners. Sometimes they scanned, and sometimes not. Too unreliable. Uninstalled both. When I was first getting started with "in the box" recording and mixing, I bought some Slate plugins. They only supported licensing via the iLok dongle and not soft licensing to my PC. Sometimes my desktop got along OK with the dongle, other times not. When iLok cloud licensing came out, they updated those plugins to support the cloud, but didn't add machine licensing at the same time. Over about 10 years, they never once responded to any of my attempts to contact them. When I moved to France, I sold my desktop PC and bought a high-end Lenovo laptop. It has never once recognized the iLok dongle, so I can't even deauthorize the Slate plugins that are on it. As I also mentioned, I have a license for Komplete 9 that I've never upgraded. Successive releases just looked like bloatware to me. Komplete 15 seems no different. Hard pass.

I own T-RackS 5 MAX v2 and IKM wants 199 € to "upgrade" to 6 MAX? Hard pass.

I love living in France now, but I really miss the Cali spinach.

Cool! Thanks. I just tried those settings with the new Cherry Audio release of Blue 3. Sounds close, but not quite. What chorus and vibrato settings do you use?

None of them. Windows manages the audio without an ASIO driver.

I have 3 entries: ASIO Fireface USB, BC Connector ASIO and Machine MK3. Now that I have my new RME Fireface UCX II up and running with its multi-client ASIO driver, I plan to uninstall BC Connector.

There's no need to use the Realtek ASIO driver (I didn't know there was even such a thing). I just let Windows manage the Realtek audio. I use the mains on my audio interface for Windows audio, but I default to the Microphone Array in my Lenovo laptop for audio in. Works great. If I turn my interface off, or an audio app changes the audio from 48K to 44.1K (Windows loses visibility to my interfaces audio outputs), Windows defaults to the internal speakers. Easy peasy.

That would work! 👍

Sorry, but you misunderstand the problem. The v1 presets DO NOT WORK with v2. I copied them into the v2 Factory Bank folder and v2 found them and loaded them, but the v1 presets are incompatible with v2.

Thanks for the update. As I suspected, the v1 presets are incompatible with the more complex v2 plugin. The only option is to leave v1 installed along side v2 and recreate as best as possible each v1 preset sound that you like in v2 and save as a v2 user preset.

Hi Nigel, I'm doing great and hope the same for you. I finally figured out how to update my Amazon Music playlists on my phone. The Android app insists on using French. Yesterday, I finally figured out how to sync my playlists that I create with the Windows app to my phone, so now I have my Devine Lie playlist on my phone and downloaded, so I can listen without using 5G data while walking my dogs. 🎸👍

Maybe I needed to turn the volume of my audio interface up to the max, hard clipping range. Looking forward to Sampleson's response. And it's not like there are a ton of presets. 13 total, 6 with v1 and 7 with v2. I would be nice to have both, but maybe with the new audio engine in v2, the v1 presets won't work.

Now they are copying Steinberg's business model. Other than 3rd party VST2 and VST3 plugins (I have over 900 of them) that have to license and use Steinberg's SDKs, I am Steinberg- (and Waves-) free. 👍

Semi-related question: I first purchased SynthMaster 2 Player before upgrading to the full bundle. Is there any reason to keep the v2 Player installed along side SM v2?