KVR Audio

firepile · Post by **firepile** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:33 am

New in v1.5:

- native 64-bit support for Windows 7 and OSX
- a new kit and bonus kit-pieces from the BFD2 library recorded at London's Air Studios.

http://www.fxpansion.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7577211

festeringheap · Post by **festeringheap** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 4:43 am

40 dollars to get 64 bit ECO???

Aloysius · Post by **Aloysius** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 5:05 am

Thanks for the heads-up!

SKoT_FX · Post by **SKoT_FX** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 8:17 am

$20 to get a 64bit Eco AND whole extra kit of audio data. It will be $40 down the track. Normally we sell expansion kits for more than $40. We tried to come up with an offering that gave users something extra at a good price, and allowed us to pay for a year of painful 64bit upgrade work.

paterpeter · Post by **paterpeter** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:41 am

Congrats on the 64bit version

$20 for the added value is reasonable IMO.

I have Eco, but also BFD2 and almost every expansion, so I guess personally I wouldn't gain much from upgrading, right? Or is there content added I don't have yet?

Crackbaby · Post by **Crackbaby** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 1:22 pm

Wasn't a very hard decision to get the upgrade

but download speeds...

Oh well, i am in no rush and i know the pressure is high whenever you make crazy deals like this

fahlen · Post by **fahlen** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 5:07 pm

I can confirm that the new Eco 1.5 version (64-bit) now works well with Cubase 6.05 (64-bit). The drag and drop feature works as it should and you can now close the program without hiccups.

I find the upgrade policy reasonable.

vic_france · Post by **vic_france** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 5:58 pm

I too am very happy with the upgrade

festeringheap · Post by **festeringheap** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 7:40 pm

SKoT_FX wrote:$20 to get a 64bit Eco AND whole extra kit of audio data. It will be $40 down the track. Normally we sell expansion kits for more than $40. We tried to come up with an offering that gave users something extra at a good price, and allowed us to pay for a year of painful 64bit upgrade work.

Thanks for that.
Can you tell me how big the upgrade download is? thanks.

Crackbaby · Post by **Crackbaby** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 8:06 pm

328 733 kB

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 8:34 pm

How about a completely free upgrade just for the 64-bit DLL with no additional kits?

sergevoluminous · Post by **sergevoluminous** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 10:12 pm

How good are the new kits?

festeringheap · Post by **festeringheap** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 10:38 pm

EvilDragon wrote:How about a completely free upgrade just for the 64-bit DLL with no additional kits?

I am pretty impressed with the kits in ECO v 1.0 and the sound sculpting in it too.
I wonder also do I really need another kit?
Yes, why not just an 64bit dll?

festeringheap · Post by **festeringheap** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 4:03 am

Crackbaby wrote:328 733 kB

thanks m8

SKoT_FX · Post by **SKoT_FX** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 4:57 am

Q: Where is the extra Kit from?
A: It is another one of the BFD2 kits.

Q: Why not just a dll, for free?
A: It was a lot of hard work bringing our offerings into the 64bit world. Originally we had thought to delay 64bit support until BFD3/BFD Eco 2 because of the amount of rewriting and full retesting required. So this was a way to balance giving our customers something new at a really good price (a whole new kit for $20), whilst allowing us to recoup a small part of the substantial development time.

FXpansion normally gives 4+ years of free updates per product - some companies choose to hit you almost yearly for paid-for incremental upgrades. The push to go 64bit stalled our BFD product cycle, but we thought it was too important to delay until a major update.

A coder's gotta eat... we hope you understand! We tried to make it very worthwhile.

BFD Eco 1.5 goes 64 bit