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Thanks abacab. Yes it's certainly a good exercise to try and only install things that I am likely to use (and make a list of stuff to go on the KVR Sell & Buy Forum). It was also useful to try re-installing SPlat and CbB from scratch as I still use many of the SPlat additions within CbB. I have to say that it seems to have worked just fine. I am working my way through all of my Sonar/CbB projects and any plugins which are flagged as missing are the ones I install next, assuming the project is worth keeping, lol (some of my early projects were a little basic ! The thing I'm not sure about is whether iLok License Manager on the new PC will let me install the licenses to the hard drive there and whether these will coexist with licenses installed on the iLok key on the old PC. Maybe I will have to move some licenses to the hard drive on the old PC as well although I'm sure that some must be installed to the USB iLok key (e.g. Antares Harmony Engine Evo). That's why I keep coming back to the idea of using the iLok key in the USB switch but I will wait a little bit longer before I do anything I might regret. When Antares came out with the new UI for Autotune they moved to a non iLok solution for protection (Codemeter) and in a conversation I had with them recently about Harmony Engine Evo they mentioned that a new version would be out soon using the updated UI so I imagine they might also move that to use Codemeter protection. Also, looking through my 129 iLok activations most of the things I still use offer the hard drive option. The others will be going on the KVR list

So I have built my new PC and I am in the process of migrating to it. It is going to take a fair while due to the time available to do this and the sheer number of music production, video editing, office and other apps I have installed. It's actually a useful way to decide which apps I use the most and make it to the new PC. I want to keep the old PC as a fully functional workhorse during the move so I need to keep it "as is" for the time being. To make it easier to switch between the two PCs during the migration I have a USB switch (2 PCs plus 4 USB in) and I have my Logitech Unifying receiver connected to it for sharing the mouse/keyboard, Arturia Keylab Essential and AXE I/O. My monitor allows switching between two HDMI inputs. This is all working fine and I can easily switch between them. I have an 1Tb M.2 NVME drive on the old PC with a lot of audio libraries (e.g. 570Gb of Komplete/Kontakt instruments). For now I have this drive plus a couple of others mapped as network drives on the new PC. I am slowly installing software I use a lot on the new PC and so far have been able to point the programs to their data installed on the mapped drives. The one outlier at the moment is Native Instruments stuff, some of which refuses to see the mapped drives although Kontakt libraries that need full Kontakt work fine with data stored on the mapped drive. My workaround for the Kontakt Player libraries is to re-install them on the new PC (I can "relocate" them later once I move all drives to the new PC) . I tried using a symlink for Kontakt Player libraries data but this didn't work. It looks like Kontakt Player libraries have to have their data installed on a local drive. I have one question which is related to my iLok software. I am allowed to install the software that uses iLok on my new machine so long as I only use it on one machine at a time. However, I am unsure whether it is safe to switch an iLok USB key (I have a v2 model) between the two PCs using a USB switch i.e. is there any danger of corruption of data on the key? As far as I can see, so long as I eject the key on one PC before switching to the other it should be safe (like taking a key out of one PC and inserting it in another). The other option I have on some of the software at least is to install the iLok license on the hard drive. Just weighing up my options and wondering if any of you guys have had any experience of doing this with an iLok key.

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Thanks Mesh.

I got Royal for that purpose and it has worked out pretty well. You could try the demos of each one and see which works for you.

Yes indeed! Can you use Elastik with your own samples or only the Ueberschall stuff?

Tempted by this myself Fleer. Don't have any of their stuff yet but keep getting tempted Shame it's not more of a mix of genres.

Approx sizes: 964Mb - MPC-Beats-v2.8.1Windows 1.6Gb - MPCBEATSDEMOS 1.3Gb - MPCBEATSF9 2.1Gb - MPCBEATSPRODUCERKITS Total around 6.2Gb

Thanks, worked for me. Filled out all fields and email came through straight away.

Thanks Richard ?

Yay! The King is back, long live the King! Glad to have you back Larry. ??

Just had an email from Presonus. It's a free update for Notion 6 owners. Read more here... https://blog.presonus.com/index.php/2020/07/07/notion-6-7-now-available/

My initial impression with Instachord was wha!?!?!?? Then after watching a couple of videos including the one posted by Hillmy I got to quite like what you can do with it. Of course YMMV. Then again I do kind of collect these type of plugins - anything to help stimulate ideas. At $10 it's not much of a gamble and you can always try the demo if you're not sure.

Groove3 and Eli Krantzberg didn't waste any time https://www.groove3.com/tutorials/Studio-One-5-Explained

Thanks. I had to create a BR account first and login after activating the account. Maybe try contacting their support Simon? There also seem to be some other freebies in my BR account; The Canary, Cypress TT-15 and VHL-3C.

I have used one for years and find it pretty good. The main issue is as you get towards the nut it gets a bit tight on the fretboard. It's not amazing but it does remove debris from the strings. I also use GHS Fast Fret and if I had to choose between them I would rather keep Fast Fret.

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Probably worth it for PadShop 2 alone. @huskerI have the PadShop Pro upgrade, do you know if PadShop 2 includes all of the Padshop Pro upgrades? Thanks

This has been updated to 1.2.2 - not sure what the changes are. Any ideas @Richard Portelli ? Available from your account.

It was the separate license thing that worried me. As long as it's the same process as when I went from 9 to 9.5 then it doesn't bother me.

The previous version was actually pretty good but I wish they would separate the samples from the core program so that you didn't need to download 700Mb for every update.

Wasn't aware of that, where did you find that out?

Same for me. I still have a few DAWs to choose from although Cakewalk is my first choice. I watched an SWA course on Cubase a while back and then didn't use it for a few months after doing the course ?. Although I keep seeing features which make we want to try it again (e.g. automatically make harmony vocals from a single vocal track).

Now available: 2.0.9 Improved lasso selection, patterns can now be multi-selected and chained with ease Improve visual feedback on keyboard when binding a multi-selection of pattern with empty chords Improve user chordset loading to support renaming & moving session files Add new option to play-quantised to chord duration or on next beat Chord Edit panel now suggests chords at the same octave than the currently edited chord Accessing the Pad View does not stop playback anymore Add ability to Play/Loop progression from Pad View Add ability to navigate back to Edit View from the Pad View Improve live expressions behaviour, avoid re-trigger when releasing a note while other keys are being held Fix an issue causing the import/export state to break when overriding an existing session file Fix a display issue when reloading the Chord Edit view from a saved state Fix an issue causing octave jumps when using scale voicings Fix modulation suggestions to prevent octave jumps between distant scales Fix an issue when reordering chords causing them to shift to a wrong position Improve overall stability and performances