KVR Audio

SHall1000 · Post by **SHall1000** » Wed May 05, 2021 5:32 pm

Much as I like and appreciate the free sounds, I’ve had enough of constantly repairing libraries and pointing the app to the library location. And now the plug-in is randomly crashing Live 11.

Been put off risking their paid for stuff I’m afraid.

starflakeprj · Post by **starflakeprj** » Wed May 05, 2021 5:46 pm

I have experienced the same thing, needing to repairing the libraries.

I don't have a good experience with their support either. I missed their intro deal on Abbey Road One with a day (or a couple of hours). The one where you would get $100 off and the next expansion for free. Emailed them and asked if they could do an exception, but no.

I'm guessing they thought I would buy it (later) anyway, but I didn't. Ended up buying the Hollywood Orchestra Opus Edition from EastWest instead.

Michael L · Post by **Michael L** » Wed May 05, 2021 7:38 pm

Other users had the same frustrating experiences in earlier Labs versions and the app has many bugfixes since. I needed to entirely cleanup and reinstall the app. There is an earlier thread about it.

starflakeprj · Post by **starflakeprj** » Wed May 05, 2021 7:39 pm

In my case I installed Labs a week ago, for the first time, and experience the same thing anyway.

Michael L · Post by **Michael L** » Wed May 05, 2021 7:45 pm

Fortunately there are many other choices for free and paid.

bagpipe200 · Post by **bagpipe200** » Wed May 05, 2021 9:25 pm

I thought it was just me! I had a consistent problem with the Spitfire VST causing Reaper to crash. Disappointing too as I loved the sounds I was getting.

Downangle · Post by **Downangle** » Wed May 05, 2021 9:29 pm

I also stopped using it. It's great that it's free, and I certainly do appreciate the gesture, but my DAW is a well tuned tool. I won't have a drunken, unruly plugin stumbling around in there slapping asses and talking loudly.

jancivil · Post by **jancivil** » Wed May 05, 2021 9:43 pm

it was a nightmare to repair the thing here after I'd restored from Time Machine having had to roll back the OS.
but, there is a very specific procedure before it's successful and it turns out I was missing part of the instructions or not seeing it in the interface

donkey tugger · Post by **donkey tugger** » Wed May 05, 2021 9:51 pm

..and the same here. A pity because the sounds are great, and I don't want to knock something that's such a great freebie..if only it would work...

I ended up like most others here getting frustrated with the repeated requests to repair files, so uninstalled it.

Hope they can sort it out...

Mr Arkadin · Post by **Mr Arkadin** » Wed May 05, 2021 10:06 pm

I have had issues with LABS, but support remoted to my machine and fixed it. Seems to have broken again recently for some reason. However on the same machine I have a fair few of the paid Spitfire Player libraries and they have mostly been fine (one or two had to be optimised, that was about it).

jancivil · Post by **jancivil** » Wed May 05, 2021 11:05 pm

Well, I'm very stubborn, I got it to work finally. TBH it was more me than them, but I think the way instructions were worded was not ideal.

I have two things in the Kontakt engine, they were no problem as far as I recall

actually 3 but Cimbalom in two versions

abernathy · Post by **abernathy** » Wed May 05, 2021 11:28 pm

I had a lot of trouble initially on Mac, but been ok lately. Seems like they have a needlessly complicated system though.

SHall1000 · Post by **SHall1000** » Thu May 06, 2021 6:54 pm

It’s the crashes linked to particular patches in certain libraries that has done it for me. Just doesn’t make any sense. Can corrupted samples do this maybe?

penfever · Post by **penfever** » Thu May 06, 2021 7:02 pm

If you can find a friendly old-timer to lend you a hand, you can still get many of the Labs in Kontakt format, where they are much more pleasant to use and almost never get drunk.

jancivil · Post by **jancivil** » Thu May 06, 2021 7:46 pm

Broken here again. I have no clue what has changed that would break it
this is pretty bad, actually

I am done with Spitfire Audio’s Labs.