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Yup they just confirmed on chat that Dronar was not supposed to be included! Also free shipping is for orders of £75 or more so might be better to use less points and lower it to £75 to get free shipping. I also keep getting endless loops using PayPal where I think I have paid but it takes me back to the T&S order page asking me to enter my phone number (which is already entered in my account). Doesn't inspire me with confidence despite having made lots of orders with them in the past. Going to sit on it for a day or two. I don't need the freebie and maybe I should give my local store the business. Plus as mono says it is early on in a long month.

Not heard back from T&S yet BUT... The free Dronar offer has disappeared. When you put Komplete update in your basket it includes "FREE Zero-G Kontakt Instrument worth £59.95" When you add loyalty points to your order the resulting calculations are wrong e.g. £79 minus £9 in loyalty points gives a total of £68.20 for me and it also wants to add shipping which I though was supposed to be free.

Just heard back from T&S.... So the deal is even better EXCEPT that when I tell it to add Dronar for free it tries to charge me 35 GBP. Something strange going on there as the popup to add Dronar for free says "Offer ends 2nd January" like it's an old deal unless it means that the offer is good until next January! Anyway, I have replied to Jack's email and will post any update here.

Waiting with baited breath for your first impressions Mesh ?

Ditto, seems fine. Thanks TS.

JRR is now up. https://www.jrrshop.com/native-instruments

Thanks HIBI and TS. The last item in the list of fixes has been er...bugging me (no pun intended)!

My local store in the UK Gear4Music also has them in stock without freebie that T&S are offering but if you want it now and live nearby... https://www.gear4music.com/Music_Software/Native_Instruments-Summer-of-Sound-Offer

Just messaged T&S and received an automated reply : "Time + Space will be back on Monday."

Kinda tempted by the T&S boxed version as you effectively get a backup of the software on hard drive at no extra cost (in UK) and the Zero-G synth seems not half bad. Their site seems a bit weird at the moment though. When I add K12 update to my basket it automatically offers to add Dronar Hybrid library for free which it then charges 36 GBP for. What happened to the Free Zero-G Herz O G? Maybe they'll sort it out on Monday.

Bump! Looks like it ends on 14 June.

I will update to K12 but just waiting to see who has the best deal. Here's a comparison of Komplete versions... https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/bundles/komplete-12/compare/

Great deal. Thanks Larry.

Oh, I thought it would show me how to sing like Pharrell ??‍♂️ I'm in anyway, thanks Larry.

Whatdyaknow, it worked!!! All I did was re-authorise ST3 and American Acoustic is now unlocked in ST4! Weird as American Acoustic was working fine in ST3 so it must have been authorised. I guess it was to do with it being already authorised before the ST4 installation. Anyway, thanks Promidi and I trust that IKM will send you some support commission ?

Agreed. I cannot understand why, in 2019 they don't have a clean and simple installation system like pretty much all of the other top tier "audio production software" companies.

Same here Canopus. Looks like it is free for another 25 hours and 25 minutes (as of 12:38 pm BST for those in the UK).

Worth a try. Thanks ?? I should add that American Acoustic works fine in ST3.

Thanks Promidi. I have been through this with support. Anyway I have always had two separate locations for ST3 and ST4 sounds under a common IK Multimedia folder. It's all in the thread I listed above. I have removed all folder locations and re-scanned with none, then adding each one back one at a time starting with the ST3 instrument folder and re-scanning etc (see above thread). With only ST3 instrument folder I still have the same problem. I have an SSD drive with all of my sample based instruments on. S:/IK Multimedia/SampleTank 4 and S:/IK Multimedia/SampleTank 3 Here's a listing of folder content using Treesize Free. Under ST3 Instruments you will see, amongst others, 200_American Acoustic , 410_NRG and 600_Electronika Chillout. The last two work fine in ST4 but American Acoustic still shows a padlock. That is the issue. TreeSize Free Export.pdf

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To be honest I really regret buying SampleTank 4. If I had the chance to change my mind and not buy it I would jump at the opportunity. Yeah I know all of its great features etc, blah blah. Could I do without it? Easily. This sudden disappearance of IK (Ryan) after he had started to help over a week ago is unforgiveable. It's like "Oh you raised a support ticket, great we can put you on the back burner now". Still nothing from Peter either. Do you think this is a good way to deal with your loyal customers Peter? The nightmare that is their ST4 installation method was always going to cause problems with lots of end users and there are plenty of threads on various forums indicating as much. Nevertheless I was methodical in my installation process and I have religiously updated from 4.0.0 to 4.0.4 and the new sound installers. ST4 itself seems to work fine but it will only let me use some of my ST3 MAX libraries (all of which work fine in ST3).

Hey that's pretty cool. Slightly annoying for me though as they are my local store in the UK (25 minutes drive) and when I emailed them to ask whether the crossgrade was a boxed version with e-licenser they said... ?

Seems like a great bundle for the price mono. I would be tempted if I didn't already have the OTS Evolution Songwriter and MusicLab RealStrat Elite. Also my main real guitar is a USA Tele so I am well covered for Tele sounds.

Lucky you Fleer. Still heard nothing here. ? Ticket number is # 3496650 raised on 22nd May

Thanks husker and Matthew. I like the look of that Streamworks Audio course and it works out at around 26 GBP with the current discount so a definite contender. I will also probably get the Groove3 one on offer and wait for the others. I will also check out the Ask Video and SOS Tutorials although I don't have a sub for SOS magazine. I have subscribed to the Steinberg YouTube channel so maybe I should work my way through their content before spending too much money on paid for tutorials.