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gondii · Post by **gondii** » Tue Dec 08, 2020 7:58 pm

I really hope the rest of the fx plugins are updated for NKS support very soon.

martinjuenke · Post by **martinjuenke** » Tue Dec 08, 2020 8:00 pm

Anybody able to load their homepage?

RasmusV · Post by **RasmusV** » Tue Dec 08, 2020 8:05 pm

martinjuenke wrote: Tue Dec 08, 2020 8:00 pm Anybody able to load their homepage?

Not here (in the UK), seems to be a lot of traffic going on...

martinjuenke · Post by **martinjuenke** » Tue Dec 08, 2020 8:09 pm

I've finally come through, but their upgrade offers are imo quite expensive. I pass for the time being.

mholloway · Post by **mholloway** » Tue Dec 08, 2020 8:37 pm

lol, this happens every time they release a new V collection. The website becomes nearly impossible to navigate / load, download times (if you can get to them) are in hour-long multiples....it's just chaos for a while.

machinesworking · Post by **machinesworking** » Tue Dec 08, 2020 9:41 pm

martinjuenke wrote: Tue Dec 08, 2020 8:09 pm I've finally come through, but their upgrade offers are imo quite expensive. I pass for the time being.

Yep, up to $299 upgrade from V6 now for me. Looks like I'm going to wait the traditional 6 months for the half price sale, again... Not a big deal, but I kinda wish this whole sale VS upgrade cycle didn't exist. Arturia, NI, IK, Ableton, iZotope etc. etc. all release great products with convoluted systems of extracting money from early adopters of even upgrades. It's their choice but it sets up a weird precedent. Owning things from all of them it's always a game of patience to not spend hundreds more a year for the same thing.

Tj Shredder · Post by **Tj Shredder** » Tue Dec 08, 2020 11:22 pm

The Arturia upgrades always gave you a couple of new instruments. And even free updates to the synths you own if you don‘t upgrade. As a bundle in a sale each of those added instruments had a reasonable price as upgrade price. Nothing to complain here...

WatchTheGuitar · Post by **WatchTheGuitar** » Wed Dec 09, 2020 2:06 am

Now I've finally been able to update I've been playing with some of the new synths in Analog Lab and the updated Stage-73.
For some reason I'm finding the Stage-73 is very very quiet when the amp is on, but very loud with the amp off. Setting the amp volume also doesn't seem to make any difference. Anyone else getting that happen? I'm on Win10 Pro x64 latest build.

ATS · Post by **ATS** » Wed Dec 09, 2020 2:11 am

machinesworking wrote: Tue Dec 08, 2020 9:41 pm
martinjuenke wrote: Tue Dec 08, 2020 8:09 pm I've finally come through, but their upgrade offers are imo quite expensive. I pass for the time being.
Yep, up to $299 upgrade from V6 now for me. Looks like I'm going to wait the traditional 6 months for the half price sale, again... Not a big deal, but I kinda wish this whole sale VS upgrade cycle didn't exist. Arturia, NI, IK, Ableton, iZotope etc. etc. all release great products with convoluted systems of extracting money from early adopters of even upgrades. It's their choice but it sets up a weird precedent. Owning things from all of them it's always a game of patience to not spend hundreds more a year for the same thing.

same for video games, most are $60 at launch then a year later you can buy em for $20. It pays to wait if you can.

Psyclapse · Post by **Psyclapse** » Wed Dec 09, 2020 1:21 pm

The world comprises people with hugely different incomes. I don't blame them (NI, Arturia etc) for pricing high to start with to let those with large enough wallets pay the higher prices they can easily afford, and then reduce the prices for the other plebs like me later. I try to think of it as the rich subsidising what I end up paying.

ericj23 · Post by **ericj23** » Wed Dec 09, 2020 3:04 pm

Psyclapse wrote: Wed Dec 09, 2020 1:21 pm The world comprises people with hugely different incomes. I don't blame them (NI, Arturia etc) for pricing high to start with to let those with large enough wallets pay the higher prices they can easily afford, and then reduce the prices for the other plebs like me later. I try to think of it as the rich subsidising what I end up paying.

they beta test it for us too

kinkajou · Post by **kinkajou** » Wed Dec 09, 2020 4:22 pm

Sequent wrote: Tue Dec 08, 2020 5:27 pm And yet... I am now at my studio computer and I'm happy to say that the majority of my V Collection 7 synths DID get updated. This makes me feel much better because it means that they haven't changed their previous policy. It also makes me feel better about moving ahead with upgrading to V Collection 8.

How does this work?
I am only getting an update for the Synthopedia, nothing else... at least through the ASC.

Now i found the single installers but i think its gonna be demos only.

Ok, so updates NOT working and the single installers are demo versions only - as expected.

And again: How did you get the V7 instruments updated?

EDIT:
Now the updates show up in the ASC, seems to be a temporary issue...

Sequent · Post by **Sequent** » Wed Dec 09, 2020 5:42 pm

kinkajou wrote: Wed Dec 09, 2020 4:22 pm
Sequent wrote: Tue Dec 08, 2020 5:27 pm And yet... I am now at my studio computer and I'm happy to say that the majority of my V Collection 7 synths DID get updated. This makes me feel much better because it means that they haven't changed their previous policy. It also makes me feel better about moving ahead with upgrading to V Collection 8.
How does this work?
I am only getting an update for the Synthopedia, nothing else... at least through the ASC.

Now i found the single installers but i think its gonna be demos only.

Ok, so updates NOT working and the single installers are demo versions only - as expected.

And again: How did you get the V7 instruments updated?

EDIT:
Now the updates show up in the ASC, seems to be a temporary issue...

Yes, I think there seemed to be some issues yesterday, but it seems to be okay today.

Lotuz2019 · Post by **Lotuz2019** » Wed Dec 09, 2020 6:41 pm

Lotuz2019 wrote: Tue Dec 10, 2019 2:48 pm
Lotuz2019 wrote: Fri Nov 15, 2019 1:17 pm
Caine123 wrote: Fri Nov 15, 2019 10:15 am How is the sound/sampling in mellotron? Are you finding it nice sounding? For 99 bucks for 3 new synths and more sounds it is tempting
It sure is tempting. I think it's a cool VSTi. Have tested the demo a couple of months ago and I like the interface and the lofi sound it adds to your own samples. I've been trying to recreate it with Halion and lofi plugins, but it's not the same experience.

There was one thing I'd like to see improved though and that's the ability to load one sample per key instead of one sample per three keys. Hopefully that's been addressed already or will be soon.
Still hoping for the ability to load 35 samples per track. And if this is added, then I'd like to see a sample import feature that recognizes the key in the name of the sample file like Halion can. That would be very handy and timesaving if you want to import 35 samples per track. Much more convenient than drag & drop.

Also on my wish list is an ageing feature for each separate tape including dropouts. I know, I could fabricate my own aged tapes using a plugin like ToneBoosters ReelBus 4 or Audiothing Reels in my wave editor for example, and that would save CPU, but to have this inside Mellotron V would be nice though.

And besides Mechanics and Noise a Hum feature would be welcome too. This shouldn't be hard to add to Mellotron V, I guess. You could add and insert effect that produces hum, but again to have this inside Mellotron V...

One year later... Still hoping for these features.

RasmusV · Post by **RasmusV** » Wed Dec 09, 2020 8:01 pm

Managed to update the whole VC7 collection, including installing Analog Lab V on my system. However, none of the presets for E-II V and Vocoder V are working, as they are missing the sample files...
Anyone else noticed this? I'm not asking for the whole of the new instruments to be installed if I haven't upgraded, but it would be nice if at least a selection were working, especially since the Jun-6 presets work fine.

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