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I have only dabbled with what it offers Mesh but it's such a great upgrade over AT4 in so many ways that it's a must have if you liked any of what AT4 had to offer. I spent some time yesterday combining amps in a dual routing scenario with one panned left and one right in the mixer to create some lovely wide patches. As with a lot of IK software (and others to be fair) the initial version tends to be a bit buggy but they get ironed out over time and there's already a new version out fixing some issues from the first version.

Was thinking the same thing jesse. As a K13U owner it's pretty much the only thing I don't have that I would want and that I can use the voucher on.

It took about an hour for me before it showed in NA. It's approx. 977Mb and sounds really nice. Quite a few presets and the key layout is interesting with a mixture of single notes, performance patterns and strums.

Same here. The upgrade is listed at £60 with £46 credit shown for the free via PluginBoutique LE version.

I spun the wheel and got 10% off and it worked on top of the 60% so I bought something as a gesture of good will.

Yay! JRR sent me a new Iris 2 code. It's taken long enough but at least they resolved the problem. I will hold out for a cheap price on the MPS 3 to 4 upgrade though.

Interesting, wasn't aware of that thanks rsinger. I am half way through a Core membership and wasn't planning on renewing but this is making me wonder about going pro to get the Jupiter 8 or maybe D50 for life for $99. I actually quite like Zenology and the ever expanding library of presets but I find myself not using them as I know that projects I use them on will stop working when I stop paying Roland for the privilege.

Same here Fleer. If you click on tweet and then ignore twitter it still lets you go ahead and download anyway.

but seriously, it does sound pretty good....

Thanks HS, I will have to demo that also.

Thanks Larry. They seem to have a lot of updates at the moment. At least it's a doddle to update their plugins. Change log..

@Luc I have this but rarely use it now mainly because of the tiny UI. It works and sounds OK and for $10 as abacab says it's a good stocking filler Personally, I would spend a little bit more and get the Cherry Audio 2600 which can be had for $20.99 from Everyplugin. http://everyplugin.com/ca2600.html

Thanks Reid, looks interesting. Have you tried Microtonic from Sonic Charge? https://soniccharge.com/microtonic It's relatively expensive but pretty cool and you can also download and use free rhythm creations from their Patternarium ... https://soniccharge.com/patternarium

Thanks TS! I've been eyeing this up for a while. Will have to try the demo.

This is from their FAQ...https://u-he.com/support/faq.html#licenses:how-many

I like the idea of this but I can imagine this functionality being added to Scaler 2 or similar tools one day. In fact I might suggest it to the dev.

Yes Beatzille is great for free. Bazille does come up on KVR Sell & Buy regularly which is where I bought Diva and Repro in the summer for approx. the current NI sale price.

I already have Diva and Repro and the sound of those is what made me want more U-He. Even their free stuff is quality. There are also heaps of decent U-He and 3rd party preset packs for them. I'm not really interested in their effects so I would be looking at Zebra2/Dark Zebra and maybe Hive 2. Shame there's no Bazille in this deal as I liked the demo.

Good point Tomgu; I'll grab that while I'm at it. Zebra3 has indeed been a long time coming and Zebra2 was only updated in October (v2.9.2) (I have been demoing for a while). They also added NKS support to The Dark Zebra in October and it comes with ZebraHZ (a custom-built version of Zebra2 for Hans Zimmer).

Wow, that's a surprise! Not seen U-He on NI website before. Time to grab Zebra 2 methinks. Cheers Larry

Here's Databroth's take on the new ChorusX feature in Rapid which he shows also makes a great resonator!

Funkmasters and Americana now show "Out of stock" on JRR. The other two are still available. EDIT: Now Reggae is also out of stock.

Good call Larry! Thanks for taking the time to post this Matthew. 157Gb is not so bad and I might be tempted to store on an offline drive but first I should check what's included in last year's bundle and the ones that are free as Larry pointed out.

Loving it so far Peter! Gotta agree with all the positive comments about how great the new amp models sound and even the old ones through the new cabs. The UI is also a superb improvement along with the long awaited ability to only show presets that you own. On reflection I don't actually think it's display lag that I'm seeing so the display card is irrelevant and it's a bit nit-picky so apologies in advance. I think it might just be the order that AT5 highlights and de-highlights previous/current presets, the latter being done after it has finished loading the new preset. If it de-highlighted the old preset as soon as you clicked a new one and then loaded the new one it would just seem to be a lot snappier. For the record I'm pretty sure that my new PC is not an issue as it performs well in everything else and I'm loading the presets from one of the fastest consumer SSDs available (an NVMe M.2 ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro ).