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The idea is to load several instances of UVI Workstation into UNIFY and divide the resources by using the UNIFY Keyzones. An experiment I did for the Austrian Grand was use three UVI workstations and created three zones, it really worked well. You just have to make sure that the patches are identical to stay consistent. You then could save this into your UNIFY User library to get back to it quickly. In the case of Quadra you could load the same patch and just disable one of the instrument cores. You could then use the LINKED Parameters in UNIFY to join the XY zone mixer so it would control all of your UVI Workstation instances at the same time. Lots of possibilities!

Yes, this seems to be the case. One of the issues with the UVI Workstation and Falcon is that they are SINGLE Threaded virtual instruments, meaning that they rely on using a single CPU core to handle all of the processing. What I am seeing on average is that most sit around 15% (sometimes rising to 20%) CPU usage depending on the complexity of the patch and how many voices are being used. I was able to get it to go over 90% ;^) I am working out a proof of concept using UNIFY (of course) that may help to mitigate this somewhat, so we will see. More to come.

Absolutely, downloading now.

My Quantum serial number came today, so I can’t wait to get this installed and try it out. Stay tuned ?

I am a big fan of Gospel Musicians; Jamal is a great musician, teacher, and yes even a developer. I purchased his Pure Synth about a year ago to run on my MacBook live rig and it is a very high performing rompler of sorts that packs the best of vintage keyboards and classic synths. This bundle gives you all of the expansion modules (which Gospel Musicians unlocked for me for the review). I plan on doing a live stream soon to run through it. Here are some more details. https://vstbuzz.com/deals/70-off-pure-synth-platinum-bundle-by-gospel-musicians/?ref=100 (This is an affiliate link that helps support my review efforts)

You beat me to it!!!! ? This should be an interesting instrument as I think it is the first UVI library using the 4 zone approach we have come to be so familiar with in some Kontakt libraries. I look forward to getting a try at this hopefully soon.

Thanks for sharing this, downloading it now. It reminds us that we are still dealing with this crazy situation and it is good to support each other.

This would be especially useful in sample library development, to have noise reduction and similar tools available at the front end, possibly even integrated into Kontakt. Interesting,

My first "real" audio interface was the Echo GINA. I was so sorry to hear that they went out of making interfaces a few years ago. I also had a killer firewire interface I used for my MacBook but the driver support disappeared and so did the interface. Glad to hear your Layla is still going strong.

Just a small update. I added Index markers so it is now easier to navigate through the video. I also did not realize that the UVI Workstation as well as Falcon DO NOT Support Multi-Threading. That is why I have run into really high CPU usage at times, especially the pianos with lots of sustaining notes. I think this really limits UVI in some ways. However I have an interesting workaround using UNIFY that I am going to share in an upcoming short video so stay tuned.

Replay is up, I def is coming soon after the video processes. Thanks for sharing this to the group. It was a lot of fun going through and discovering these pianos. UVI is interesting as they sometimes source their material from various engineers. This struck me a few times, one with one of the uprights that was recorded on location in South Africa. An interesting library bundle for sure.

Don't forget to try the Bonus Patches at the bottom of the list, they are denoted with a "z" in front of the patch name. Some very interesting stuff there. It also looks like there might be more custom patches for LABS looking at how things were going.

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Thanks so much, I have never thought to check this particular angle before. I will definitely check it out and really appreciate the insight.

So here is the BANE of my Vegas Pro Workflow Killer. I accidentally set some loop points as I was selecting the video clip on the timeline and tried clicking PLAY. First sign that you are done! White Screen Of Death! Then you look in TASK MANAGER and it is always the FILE I?O surrogate (not visible) (32 bit) that seems to be the main culprit in this nightmare. So it gets very frustrating as evident with Reid's experience. If you do not constantly hit save, it is almost impossible to anticipate where this will happen. Also, even though Vegas does save recovery files in the background, there is not sure fire indication it is not several edits behind where you were. So Reid, I really do feel your pain in this situation, and yet here I am hitting the same walls, maybe someone knows of a Vegas Pro recovery support group, but it is probably obvious that it is on a Davinci Resolve or Premier user forum. We'll get there eventually. ;^)

Not @Fleer but I really like Lounge Lizard. it has a certain "bark" when you lay into the tines. Pianoteq can sometimes come across as too clean or sparkly, which is alright if that is what you need but the dirt just makes things feel more authentic.

Here is a clip covering Acoustic Scoring Guitars. There is a lot of content in the library. I love that they give you all of the techniques mapped together and as individual patches. Heavyocity Scoring Acoustic Guitars | Livestream Flashback

Thanks @cclarry for sharing this. I just had somewhat of a backlog of things to share so this was a great way to do it. I find I do better just going with the flow of things. I am possibly going to release “flashbacks” from the stream to highlight some of those moments. I really do enjoy sharing with everyone. Thanks for the kind support.

It appears to be fixed! Here are two scenarios I have tried. Open Previous Project and Save without doing a SAVE AS - FIXED Started an Empty Project, Loaded VSL Synchron Pianos and HALionSonic - Save - FIXED I also was able to save some previous broken projects with their pre-release version. It also appears the version number was bumped up a little more as well. I would say go get it.

* Update * I just heard that Steinberg has officially released the eLicensor update that fixes this issue. You can download it here: https://www.steinberg.net/en/company/technologies/elicenser.html

Check out my article just posted here: https://wp.me/p6Mqqs-ze These sound really nice and are a taste of what is to come, so looking forward to more. Hopefully will be able to feature these soon.

Kirk Hunter has just released Traveling Pianos for Kontakt. It is a collection of two Yamaha pianos: Kirk’s very own G5, along with a very special C7 belonging to Michael Lehman Boddicker, and has been played by many wonderful artists, namely Burt Bacharach, James Horner, and many more. It is available at an intro price of $99. More info here: https://www.kirkhunterstudios.com/products/traveling-pianos/ Kirk Hunter Studios | Traveling Pianos | First Look

Don’t forget, with the purchase of Gravity, you also receive the new Scoring Acoustic Guitars Gravity pack that was just released.

Just beat me to it! I have been playing with this some this evening and it is definitely a wonderful library even at the full price but this deal makes it a certifiable "No Brainer".

Not necessarily, I was just experimenting with the possibility of seeing if I could use Unify to do to, the XY function of Orbitron. That is one of the limitations I see with a lot of audio plugins that offer transformative or morphing capabilities, I would love to see more MIDI potential baked into them and Unify is a very useful bridge to do those types of things. I would say that you can try the Orbitron Demo to see how you like the sound. I was playing around with it pushing Rhodes and Acoustic piano through it, some pretty freaky stuff. ? Another dream for Unify is to create some sort of audio input so it could be used as a hybrid audio/MIDI processor ?