Thanks for the confirmation that I'm not losing anything besides money with this upgradejdnz wrote: ↑Sat Mar 06, 2021 7:41 pmSpark VDM is really old - and owners of the original Spark series ( there were a couple of other versions apart from VDM ) were offered an upgrade path to spark2
so you're really not missing out on anything - indeed I don't know if original Spark would even run on a modern OS
Yeah, it's a mess on the Arturia website. You can pay to upgrade but it also states that "no activation currently available".Weasel-Boy wrote: ↑Sat Mar 06, 2021 7:50 pm Spark VDM was the original incarnation of Spark. It came in the early V2 or V3 collections when Arturia was using eLicenser copy protection. Everything (sample-wise) that was in VDM is in the current Spark. The major difference was the interface. As to reauthorizing it, Arturia no longer uses the eLicenser system and cannot provide replacement serial numbers to reauthorize the dongle (yet another thing you’d need to get it running). So save your money because everything is packed into the current version of Spark.
It looks like an expansion pack for Spark. Can be confusing indeed.briefcasemanx wrote: ↑Sun Mar 07, 2021 1:31 am Lol when I first got Spark2 I too almost tried to buy spark vdm, not realizing the vdm stuff was included in Spark2.
Spark2 is very underrated.