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Tomorrow is a Wednesday and it is now March so maybe very soon for Cubase Pro 12? ...or maybe an April fool a month early?!

Similar price for me Fleer; my upgrade from Anthology XI and SP2016 is $159.80. I am missing quite a few plugins from H9 though. So it might be worth it for SplitEQ and the H9 plugins I am missing (Crushstation, Crystals, Micropitch, Rotary Mod, ShimmerVerb, Spring, Tricerachorus and Undulator). That's around $18 per plugin which is pretty good value, but SplitEQ is the only one I really want as I have the rest covered by other plugins.

When Unify saves patches from a plugin it requests a "blob" of data from the plugin for each patch and that is what gets saved. It varies enormously from plugin to plugin, for example the Unified Hive 2 factory library (2421 patches) is only around 20Mb but NI Picked Acoustic (193 patterns) is 160Mb. The PG forum software is not the best so it's easy to miss new posts. I'm sure John will be happy to receive Unified Diversion.

I Unified Thorn months ago, but sat on it due to it being unclear whether the extra banks (one by DS and two by Rob Lee) that are included when purchased from PA could be considered as "factory" patches. Then someone on the PG forum posted this week that they were manually Unifying it. So I let the person know that I had already Unified it and sent it to John to see if he wanted to release it. I circumvented the potential issue by splitting it into two parts; the main factory presets and the 3 extra banks. So John has shared the main factory patches but is asking PA whether they are OK with the Unified extra banks also being shared. It would be unusual for non-factory patches to be allowed. There are two main threads on the PG Forums where people talk about Unifying stuff. One is the one you mention and the other is https://forums.pluginguru.com/unify-share/ . However, you will notice that there are a few stickies at the top of the first thread which make it easy to miss new posts that occur below them. It's also worth checking through all 8 pages of those threads for any that may already have been Unified or doing a search if you are planning to Unify a new one. One example you will find there is the V Collection synths which someone started doing a while back but never completed them. I have worked my way through the ones he did (there were some issues with them which I have fixed) and I was planning to do the rest. If you own VC8 maybe we could collaborate to split the task or you could carry on from where he/I left off? The ones that are done are ARP 2600, B-3, Buchla Easel, Clavinet, CMI and CS-80. I also started doing Analog Lab V, but abandoned it at around 3,500 patches when I noticed that it was over 1Gb and the estimated final thing would be over 2Gb! I kept what I had done though in case anyone really wants it finished. No-No's for Unifying for now are Omnisphere and Vital factory libraries. I have Unified the latter for my own use but the dev doesn't want Unified Vital patches to be shared so we have to respect his wishes.

Good to know, thanks for investigating further @Fwrend No brainer!

That's some deal @Fwrend! I haven't used Vegas in a while (v15 was the last one I purchased) as I moved to DaVinci Resolve, but I notice the NewBlue FX page says that it is compatible with Resolve. Would be nice to know whether the NewBlue stuff in this deal is tied to use with Magix Vegas/Movie Studio though before buying.

It's a funny thing @abacab but I probably had more fun using Unify's fuzzy dice with CA Quadra than any of the others I Unified this week and it is among the cheapest. You are right to say that it is ideal for keyboard splits and layers in one plugin. The only thing missing is drums, but anyone here probably has plenty of those to choose from not to mention some that come with Unify.

A reminder that UniLofi is still on sale until 1st March and it has now been updated with a further 75 SFX patches for a total of 325 patches. It's quickly become one of my favourites and recommended if Lofi is your thang. I have Unified another four factory libraries this week (Tone2 Icarus 2, Nemesis 2, CA Quadra and PA Thorn). These along with GForce OB-2 v2 and Decent Sampler Unified libraries are available from the middle of this page --> https://www.pluginguru.com/products/unify-standard/ Catch up with all the latest news from PG in tonight's livestream from 12pm PDT... Congrats @Doug Rintoul; it looks like your Unified Spire factory library is coming next week ??

My bad, I misunderstood what you were saying in the video Simeon. I agree that the number of parameters displayed can be a bit disconcerting! I think it probably needs a way to filter what's displayed; maybe something that's already on Shane's big list of possible changes. I will be interested to see what you come up with on Synchron Player. First of all I should say that I am not keen on symbolic links so I avoid using them where possible. For Kontakt libraries, I have taken to only Unifying Kontakt Player libraries to share (the ones with a graphic on the left hand side that work in the free Kontakt Player). If it's for your own use then non-Player libraries will also work fine. NI made some changes to Kontakt 6 last year, where you can add a path to the location of your non-Player libraries. Despite this, it is still possible to create a Unified non-Player library which doesn't work on someone else's machine. I expand on it a bit more in this thread if you haven't already seen it --> https://forums.pluginguru.com/unify-patchbook/unified-pluginguru-kontakt-megamagic-pads/ I look forward to seeing your results ?? It's definitely worth looking into Simeon, especially for libraries with more than, say, 50 presets. It can seem a little daunting at first, and it probably helps to have some coding experience or appreciation of the concepts, but persevere and you will reap the benefits. Give me a shout if you need any more help with it. There are also certain things which are easier and faster to do using Shane's batch tools.

I would have Unified them Fleer, if I owned them I like a lot of their libraries but I stopped buying them when I realised that I couldn't resell them. I guess Composer Cloud might be a way of obtaining them to Unify, but we are talking about some pretty huge libraries so not sure I have the disk space. Simeon's been Unifying a lot of Spitfire libraries, so maybe EastWest could be his next venture? Then again I watched one of his videos on VSL BB recently, and I think he said that Unifying this type of library could be tricky as the player is so much a part of how it operates. Maybe that's also true of Opus or Play IDK?

Pleased you got it working Doug, and glad to help. I remember the first library I Unified (RA Synferno) - 350 patches Unified manually. What a chore and took a few days off and on! I thought "there must be a better way". Once I got AutoHotkey up and running it became a bit addictive; that's how I ended up Unifying so many libraries. I hate to think how long it would have taken to manually Unify Hive (2,451 factory patches) or UVI Synth Anthology 3 (3,554 factory patches). There are quite a few that are over 1000 factory patches.

Why not give it a try. With AHK you are making it replicate what you would do if you were saving all of the patches in Unify manually. So you are telling it where to move the mouse and where to click, copy, paste etc etc. It takes a little bit of setup using Window Spy to work out where the mouse has to click, and also working out delay times between clicks etc. However, the great thing about Phase Plant is that all of the metadata that you need is not only visible on screen but can be clicked and copy/pasted. So, for example, the first patch in Hardwire (Analog Reese), you can click on its name and copy/paste the name and you can also double click on the macro names to copy/ paste those. So once you have the macros saved using the 0-based index method for the first patch (I usually set up a dummy patch) they will get replicated across all patches and the macro names can be copy/pasted by AHK from each patch as it steps through them. You could just try a simple script to start with copying only the patch names to each Unify patch. I also have Hardwire (Kilohearts gifted it to me) and Tremor which I bought cheaply from KVR as well as the freebie Grattis 2021. I have now made an AHK script for these PP expansions and have Unified Hardwire and Tremor (cannot share the Unified libraries though - see below). One of the things we discussed over on the PG forums was the need to ONLY share Unified Factory libraries (developer permitting). That's why, for example, I have Unified a number of expansions that I own for various synths but I won't share these as I would be giving away paid expansions for anyone to use! However, it's ok to share any AHK scripts to Unify expansion libraries, since whoever runs them must own the library or running the AHK script would be pointless. That hasn't happened though mostly because it then becomes a massive support headache for the script author to assist others to get the script running on their system. Especially if they aren't familiar with all of the ins and outs of running AHK with Unify. For example, all of my scripts make use of my Ultrawide monitor (3440 x 1440) so I use coordinates that would be off screen for most 1080p monitors. At the very least, anyone running them would want to change the coords of any windows used which would then alter the coords of where to click etc. You can change whether the coords are relative to the screen or active window but I tend to work with the screen mode.

I don't use AHK for the undocumented feature; it's more about whatever macro knob changes you make to the first patch getting carried over to other patches. In the case of Phase Plant unless you could make the macro knobs "generic" then they wouldn't function when carried over to other patches. That's where the undocumented feature helps, because it makes the macro knob settings generic. That said, the chap who Unified Phase Plant used a combination of AHK and some Python/C# code to harvest the macro knob information from Phase Plant. I'm not that advanced and tend to just stick to AHK and also use some of Shane's development tools for things that I used to have to script. I can share the Pigments AHK script but I'm not sure how useful it would be and, unfortunately, AHK can be a bit awkward to use. The process is far from fully automatic and will always require debugging and manual intervention for any particular case. You also have to pick the right type of script depending on how accessible the patch names are for the plugin. I have even done a couple where I created a big file of patch names by OCR'ing the screen of the plugin, when no other method worked. Let's continue the discussion by message as I don't want to derail this thread any more than necessary!

Thanks Simeon. I will look forward to your video. I was wondering if you have ever covered Perc-X ( https://www.auddict.com/percx )? I had a look on your YouTube channel but couldn't find it. It seems to be on perma-sale and I have seem it recommended by others. Maybe for a future video? Thanks again, and also for all of your SA Unifying ??

Cubase 12 ... tomorrow???? They are certainly teasing us with all these updates

Hey Doug, Yes I'm using AutoHotKey. There's a long thread over on the PG Forums where the idea was gradually developed and tweaked starting around January 21. Here's the thread... https://forums.pluginguru.com/unified-libs/autohotkey-unify-patch-browser/ Now, the undocumented Unify feature... When linking macro knobs in Unify to synth parameters, you normally create a list of linked parameters for whatever you are trying to control in the synth. Taking Phase Plant as an example, the first preset (Analog FM) has a list of Phase Plant macros called FM Amount, Phase, FM PW, Q, Filter Env etc etc. In Unify you would see these in the Linked Parameters named exactly as above. So, when you create the link it works fine for this preset, but in the next and every other preset, the Phase Plant macros are all different. So, on the face of it, you would need to manually create links from Unify macro knobs to Phase Plant macro knobs for every Phase Plant preset! Quite a job! However, the undocumented feature which avoids the above scenario, is that Unify normally references plug-in parameters by name, e.g. inst/1/plugin/paramName, but also allows using their 0-based index, e.g. inst/1/plugin/#0 is the first parameter (regardless how it is named), inst/1/plugin/#49 is the 50th, etc. If you hold down ALT (Option on Mac) when clicking the "+" button to add a new macro-link, you can select the parameter in the usual way, by name, but Unify will automatically substitute the appropriate index instead of the name. Your resulting parameter paths can be created for one patch, and re-used for others where the actual parameter names might be different. Shane (the Unify dev) made a note to himself to add this to the Unify documentation so it might appear in the manual soon.

Great stuff! Thanks @TheSteven and thanks to The Unfinished!

Same here abacab - the sounds he makes are exactly what I'm looking for!

Fascinating video @Reid Rosefelt You are definitely onto a winning format with this. I can see it expanding in future to include some of the other folk involved in your stories (maybe publicists, writers, celebrities, producers, directors etc).

Thanks Larry! They also have some pretty nice freebies ( Grainstation 3, NOCOBOT and Beatfox ) on the Patreon link --> https://www.patreon.com/puremagnetik/posts?filters[tag]=Free+Tools

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Worth picking up with voucher. It has a number of patches designed by John 'Skippy' Lehmkuhl (patches with JL in the name).

Some decent prices for Kontakt Player libraries e.g. Bronte $34.30 and Tanpura $23.40. Tempted by Bronte.

That's just it! You can build up amazing patches super quick, using all the synths you own, and quickly get rid of any layers that don't work. Brilliant update ?

Having Phase Plant Unified is also killer ? I love how the randomise feature works as you have a lot of flexibility over which libraries/patches it can choose from. This one feature should sell a lot of copies of Unify!