JoeGBradford

Ah hope the bug doesn't treat you too unkindly. I've had three colds in about 9 weeks as a result of emerging back into the world. Latest one is the worst! Think I'll hibernate until Christmas now! Take care and take it easy

I've only scrolled through the presets but it seems to have quite a lot of promise

@PavlovsCat Well said I have always found people here to be incredibly helpful (even when I have asked stupid questions) There is a real sense of community and support.

This forum really needs a heart emoji in the reactions ?

@PavlovsCat - top work thanks! I'll add mine in due course ?

@PavlovsCat Great idea. I'll chip in a few of my favourites if they're not already on you list ?

I'd be interested in that Peter - thanks. I'm limited to the Decent Sampler libraries but I'm sure others will be interested in your recommendations of the Kontakt one

To be fair the sales rep advised just going for the SSD as a data drive and that is perhaps why! Still I did get £100 off in their BF deal so not too unhappy

Chillblast who are building my new PC (and built my current one over 10 years ago) have charged me around £300 for one of these as a data drive (I have 1Tb of the same for my system drive) which is a bit steep to say the least (their other component costs are not unreasonable and they have a five year warranty - 3 years on site) but I thought I may as well have it fitted from day one.

Very sad news indeed

Interesting re Air - I have several of theirs including XPand2 which I like very much so hope I don't have the same issue! Fortunately I don't have any projects dependent on them as far as I know One other issue will be the inability to use Loopcloud as the latest version requires that you have a paid subscription I believe. A shame as I have gone through favouriting thousands of samples ?

Thanks - yes I've read horror stories about moving Waves & ilok - I think I should be ok unauthorising them as long as my current PC doesn't die before I get the new one - it seems ok - just reporting a power surge every time it boots up so I need to go through the BIOS screen every time. The PC isn't Win 11 compliant and about 11 years old now so I was going to change it soon anyway - this issue just speeded up my decision!

Thanks - I think the biggest issue apart from the sample library relocation and software re installation will probably be the unauthorising and reauthorising of stuff with at least IK, ilok, Amplesound to do and almost certainly several more. I think I may be best to make a list of what may need. With VSTs I imagine I am safest to reinstall rather than just trying to swap the DLLs to the new PC. I have around 1,000 VSTs according to Cakewalk (though I assume that includes 32bit, 64bit and VST3) at the moment - I think I will have a lot less when I move over to the new PC!

No software but this PC with £100 off from Chillblast 1x Chillblast Fusion Custom PC 1x Intel Core i7-12700 CPU, 12 Cores* / 20 Threads, 2.1 -4.9GHz 1x 32GB DDR4 3200MHz Memory (2 x 16GB Sticks) 1x NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB Graphics Card 1x 1TB Samsung 980 PRO M.2 PCIe Gen 4 Solid State Drive 1x Corsair RM850X 80 PLUS Gold 850W PSU 1x Windows 11 Home 1x 5 Years Warranty (3 Years Onsite & 2 Years Labour) UK Mainland Only* 2x Noctua NF-A14 PWM Chromax Black 140mm Fan 1x Noctua NF-S12A PWM Chromax Black 120mm Fan 1x Noctua NH-D15S Chromax Black CPU Cooler 1x 2TB Samsung 870 QVO Solid State Drive 1x Fractal Design Pop Air Case- Black 1x ASUS PRIME Z690-P WIFI D4 Motherboard 1x 24x DVD-RW Drive 1x 2TB Samsung 980 PRO M.2 PCIe Gen 4 Solid State Drive Oh and four Michelin tyres for the Berlingo which were 10% off on Friday but then, infuriatingly 20% off on Monday!

Thanks for the detailed reply. I have some of the free Kontakt Player libraries and the Freddy Mercury Piano which I won. My other main sampled instruments are Garritan Personal Orchestra and some Amplesound instruments

Oh that's bad news! I'm getting a new PC and was hoping that I could just copy them over. I realise I'll have to reinstall software programmes but thought I could just copy all my libraries across. Are there any other libraries you have had to reinstall rather than copy eg IK libraries

Yep I had to reinstall two libraries this time!

Thanks - I ordered it on Friday - with a bigger case & mobo to accommodate up to three M2s rather than the two that this mobo takes

Many thanks! I was pretty much committed already but that has convinced me ?

I've asked this question over at the Computer forum (amongst others) but not had a response yet so pitching in here if that's ok?. I'm getting a new PC and my geeky friend is very insistent I should get M2 drives both for my system and data. System I am definitely happy to go for it but from reading around there seems to be the impression that M2s are not that much faster than SSd in loading samples etc. Anyone have experience of using them compared to SSDs?

I mentioned a potential SCAN spec a while back but had no responses - as it turns out I am now favouring sticking with Chillblast who built my current PC which has been very reliable but is not Win 11 compliant and at 10 or 11 years old is due for replacement. Chillblast have the advantage of a 5 year guarantee. My current PC is an i5 with 8Gb RAM which I have managed with to date but it has not been intensively used with Cakewalk and has managed most things I have tried to do with it. I only work with midi so no live recording. Chillblast has suggested a music production / light gaming spec as shown below. It has an M2 system drive but, on the advice of a friend, I am considering upgrading the data drive (which will have my samples and instrument sample sets) to M2 as well. I have been reading though that M2 makes little difference to sample time loading or performance. Does anyone have a view on this, or on the spec as a whole? Thanks in anticipation 1x Fractal Design Meshify 2 Mini TG Case - Black 1x Asus PRIME B660M-A WIFI D4 Motherboard 1x Intel Core i7-12700 CPU, 12 Cores* / 20 Threads, 2.1 -4.9GHz 1x 32GB DDR4 3200MHz Memory (2 x 16GB Sticks) 1x NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB Graphics Card 1x 1TB Samsung 980 PRO M.2 PCIe Gen 4 Solid State Drive 1x Corsair RM850X 80 PLUS Gold 850W PSU 1x Windows 11 Home 2x Noctua NF-A14 PWM Chromax Black 140mm Fan 1x Noctua NF-S12A PWM Chromax Black 120mm Fan 1x Noctua NH-D15S Chromax Black CPU Cooler - Full Custom Air Cooling setup. 1x 2TB Samsung 870 QVO Solid State Drive 1x 5 Years Warranty (3 Years Onsite & 2 Years Labour) UK Mainland Only*

yep me too ?

Peter & abacab - time for a friendly truce ? Love you both!

Ah thanks for that. What a pity. One for the recycle bin then!

The demo is showing up in my free Kontakt Player but I haven't tried it yet