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EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Thu Feb 22, 2024 1:37 pm

Teksonik wrote: Thu Feb 22, 2024 12:15 pmThere are other developers who use a wrapper although I can't remember which ones off the top of my head.

A lot of them use a wrapper. It is a very common practice, really.

sqigls · Post by **sqigls** » Thu Feb 22, 2024 1:42 pm

if they do, they are a tad better than this crud.
give me an example of this level of shenanigans, none, if they're genuinely professional.
NEVER ever have i experienced this blank plugin GUI because a VST2 version wasn't in an absolute path with no options... f**king WHACK.

with a low res promise of a GUI...

we have added VST3 support, different GUI sizes, and compatibility with the latest PC and Mac operating systems and processors

"

Teksonik · Post by **Teksonik** » Thu Feb 22, 2024 1:43 pm

sqigls wrote: Thu Feb 22, 2024 1:31 pm a promise of a VST3 version

There are VST3 versions and they work just fine here.

RP 022224-1.png

You could contact Rob about it as he really is a nice guy and one of us. But I doubt he's going to put the time in to remove the wrapper and again I'm fine with that.

By the way Rob does a live stream on YouTube every Thursday at 5pm his time. Always very informative and entertaining.

sqigls · Post by **sqigls** » Thu Feb 22, 2024 1:48 pm

really???

hey rob, what's with this wrapper you made your partner do, on like Albino, like one of Peter's passion projects.
pfft, come on

Teksonik · Post by **Teksonik** » Thu Feb 22, 2024 3:17 pm

You're just screaming at the wind my friend.

syntonica · Post by **syntonica** » Thu Feb 22, 2024 3:36 pm

EvilDragon wrote: Thu Feb 22, 2024 1:37 pm
Teksonik wrote: Thu Feb 22, 2024 12:15 pmThere are other developers who use a wrapper although I can't remember which ones off the top of my head.
A lot of them use a wrapper. It is a very common practice, really.

I will add that, normally, the wrappers contain a copy of the base plugin therein, not look for it in another folder. There's never an indication that wrappers are even being used. It's very annoying (and fragile) when you only wish to install one format, but have to install two.

Teksonik · Post by **Teksonik** » Thu Feb 22, 2024 7:43 pm

Rob is live on YouTube now and is going over Albino 3 today. Lots of good info. You can of course always watch back to view the parts you missed.

Teksonik · Post by **Teksonik** » Thu Feb 22, 2024 7:45 pm

syntonica wrote: Thu Feb 22, 2024 3:36 pm I will add that, normally, the wrappers contain a copy of the base plugin therein, not look for it in another folder.

As you can see there is a copy of the VST2 .dll in the VST3 install location:

RP 022224-1.png

syntonica · Post by **syntonica** » Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:07 pm

Teksonik wrote: Thu Feb 22, 2024 7:45 pm
syntonica wrote: Thu Feb 22, 2024 3:36 pm I will add that, normally, the wrappers contain a copy of the base plugin therein, not look for it in another folder.
As you can see there is a copy of the VST2 .dll in the VST3 install location:

RP 022224-1.png

Then I'm unsure of what all the hubbub is about. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Teksonik · Post by **Teksonik** » Sun Feb 25, 2024 5:02 pm

Ok so I'm working with Albino 3 today and found in my archives the Pro-Sounds collections by Frank Genus who went by the name TOTC (Trains of Though Collide) here at KVR.

He was a brilliant sound designer and one of my all time favourites. He also worked with Image-Line and Cakewalk among others. Sadly after he graduated from Law School he apparently left the synthesizer field and I haven't heard from him since.

In my archive there is a collection called Diversity Free which as the name implies was a cut down free version of a commercial soundset.

There are some awesome patches in that collection that I think really show Albino 3 is still relevant in 2024 so I'd love for everyone to be able to use them.

However the EULA included states "You may not redistribute any of the files and/or parts of this package in any way, shape, or form without the written consent of the Pro-Sounds".

Unfortunately Pro-Sounds has long since gone out of business over a decade ago. I see that Yemski is mentioned and I know he worked with Xenos as well. Does anyone know how to contact Frank?

Seems a shame that such great presets should just fade away into history. Here's a link to the original product release announcement:

https://rekkerd.org/pro-sounds-releases ... lbino-iii/

dasen · Post by **dasen** » Sun Sep 15, 2024 11:46 am

tempted to buy albino 3 legend since albino 1,2 and 3 were my most used VSTS back in the days

havran · Post by **havran** » Fri Nov 15, 2024 10:06 pm

dune_rave wrote: Sun Nov 12, 2023 12:01 pm For me ,there's no equivalent synth in Explorer to Albino, predator is different. Currently I only have Albino (in the past I have owned an explorer license) , imho its the best.

Good to know. Because of the red theme, I assumed Predator was a successor to Albino.

Aloysius · Post by **Aloysius** » Fri Nov 15, 2024 10:13 pm

dasen wrote: Sun Sep 15, 2024 11:46 am tempted to buy albino 3 legend since albino 1,2 and 3 were my most used VSTS back in the days

Sometimes the most used things were the most used because everything else was crap. I'd say demo before you buy.

swilow11 · Post by **swilow11** » Fri Nov 15, 2024 10:56 pm

I demoed it and it was unusable. Constantly freezing, "not responding". Really wanted to purchase it because it's basically perfect for the genres I make but if the demo is this bad, I don't really have high hopes for the non demo version.

That said, I only installed the VST3 version so maybe that's the issue. Still, having to make virtually any amount of effort above minimum to demo software is an immediate red flag to me.

Effectsworks · Post by **Effectsworks** » Fri Nov 15, 2024 11:13 pm

I love it! And it works perfectly on Vst 3 for me (I'm on a new mac).

Albino 3 returns.....