KVR Audio

Sequent · Post by **Sequent** » Mon Aug 12, 2013 3:36 pm

This is indeed a great freebie, thanks very much Tone2 and thanks for the update!!!

This was my first Tone2 synth and I still use it occasionally. Going to grab this new version so that I no longer have to worry about the keyfile. As others have said it's dead easy to use, has an awesome sound and is super low on the cpu. It sounds a lot more expensive than it was. I hope they keep the soundbanks in the shop for a while - at least until the next pay check! Perhaps I might pick up a couple sound banks to round out my collection. I believe there are (or used to be) some Firebird sound banks up on kvr as well.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Mon Aug 12, 2013 3:50 pm

Numanoid wrote:
Ingonator wrote:Yes, includes a few updates. Version number is v2.0.
OK, thanks for the info, will then install this over the old I had.

BTW, maybe time to update the thread title now that Firebird IS released as freeware

So far the most striking difference between v1.11 and v2 is that Saurus demo is baked into the v2 installer

Ingonator · Post by **Ingonator** » Mon Aug 12, 2013 3:55 pm

Numanoid wrote: Saurus demo is baked into the v2 installer

You could select to only install Firebird.

More details about changes were posted in my last post at page 10.

Ingo

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Mon Aug 12, 2013 4:00 pm

Ingonator wrote:You could select to only install Firebird

Are you sure?

eidenk · Post by **eidenk** » Mon Aug 12, 2013 5:19 pm

Numanoid wrote:So far the most striking difference between v1.11 and v2 is that Saurus demo is baked into the v2 installer

v1.1 runs on my oldskool Windows ME computer, v2 doesn't because of some remote debugger check function so I'm glad I did the facebook thing a while ago to get 1.1 for free.

Panphobia · Post by **Panphobia** » Mon Aug 12, 2013 5:53 pm

thanks tone2!

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Mon Aug 12, 2013 6:08 pm

eidenk wrote:v1.1 runs on my oldskool Windows ME computer, v2 doesn't because of some remote debugger check function so I'm glad I did the facebook thing a while ago to get 1.1 for free.

So can we deduce that Windows ME can run Facebook then?

eidenk · Post by **eidenk** » Mon Aug 12, 2013 6:22 pm

Numanoid wrote:
eidenk wrote:v1.1 runs on my oldskool Windows ME computer, v2 doesn't because of some remote debugger check function so I'm glad I did the facebook thing a while ago to get 1.1 for free.
So can we deduce that Windows ME can run Facebook then?

I hate it but yes it can.

flakes2 · Post by **flakes2** » Mon Aug 12, 2013 6:39 pm

windows me is still dos based and has been abadoned by microsoft a long time ago. it was an absolutely horrible and instable os. my guess is that your vintage computer lacks from sse2 support which has been indroduced with v2.0.

Ingonator · Post by **Ingonator** » Mon Aug 12, 2013 7:24 pm

flakes2 wrote:windows me is still dos based and has been abadoned by microsoft a long time ago. it was an absolutely horrible and instable os. my guess is that your vintage computer lacks from sse2 support which has been indroduced with
v2.0.

I had the same thought about the SSE2 support. This is a new feature indeed.

I guess that Win ME is no longer officially supported by Tone2 and also other companies. On most older systems it should be possible to run Win XP and if not it should be hard using that PC for modern music software.

Ingo

eidenk · Post by **eidenk** » Mon Aug 12, 2013 7:30 pm

flakes2 wrote:windows me is still dos based and has been abadoned by microsoft a long time ago. it was an absolutely horrible and instable os. my guess is that your vintage computer lacks from sse2 support which has been indroduced with v2.0.

It's not an horrible OS nor is it unstable and I have an SSE3 2.8Ghz CPU FWIW so it's not THAT vintage.

As I mentioned v2 doesn't run because the required function checkremotedebuggerpresent doesn't exist in my kernel32.dll (nor is it emulated by kernelex).

eidenk · Post by **eidenk** » Mon Aug 12, 2013 7:35 pm

Ingonator wrote:I guess that Win ME is no longer officially supported by Tone2 and also other companies. On most older systems it should be possible to run Win XP and if not it should be hard using that PC for modern music software.

Thanks for the advice but I'll never run a computer whose OS requires online activation (XP and above Microsoft OSes).

No one supports ME or 98 those days but it's surprising what you you can still run that is recent nonetheless (thanks mostly to the KernelEx compatibilty layer).

flakes2 · Post by **flakes2** » Mon Aug 12, 2013 7:52 pm

are you a hacker?

Zombie Queen · Post by **Zombie Queen** » Mon Aug 12, 2013 8:03 pm

eidenk wrote:No one supports ME or 98 those days

Kudos to you! I still stick with XP on my music and work computer, but I would never want to get back to ME, worst windows ever IMO (not counting pre 3.1 and XP64 which I never had a contact with), I remember it, as a kind of broken 98, blue screening on daily basis.

rifftrax · Post by **rifftrax** » Mon Aug 12, 2013 8:10 pm

Zombie Queen wrote:
eidenk wrote:No one supports ME or 98 those days
Kudos to you! I still stick with XP on my music and work computer, but I would never want to get back to ME, worst windows ever IMO (not counting pre 3.1 and XP64 which I never had a contact with), I remember it, as a kind of broken 98, blue screening on daily basis.

I'm on Windows 8 and honestly it's been such a bastard to try to use for music production that I'm half tempted to deal with the 3gb cap of XP and just go back.

I've had FL Studio projects running sets of plugins that I've NEVER had problems with EVER suddenly become so corrupt that I can't open any additional plugins and it destroys the integrity of the registry entries on random crap like all my IK multimedia plugins so that they have to be completely reinstalled in order to function again. I almost just want to go back solely to Reason it's become such a clusterfuck on window's newest OS's to even try to make music.

anyway, f**k microsoft I guess is what I'm saying

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I'm pretty stoked on firebird being free now. Between that and Synth1 it's hard to imagine entry-level synthesis being any more badass honestly.

Tone2 ftw

Tone2 Firebird+ is freeware (download available now)