[NKS] Freelance Soundlabs 3rd Party NKS Libraries for Komplete Kontrol / Maschine

So I received your email and I have tried to reply but I get blocked by your mail server for some reason with this:

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So not sure why your mail server is rejecting my email but I cannot reply to your question via email, you likely have some kind of aggressive spam filter or something. But to reply to your question here:

Q: Will Zenology be updated any time soon?

A: Yeah it is still on the radar to update, just due to how many other things also need updates and releases it keeps getting pushed back, usually updates to plugins that are just to add extra presets are lower on the list compared to new libraries or updates due to issues or completely new versions of plugins that break functionality. Rest assured I will get to it, just takes some time to get around to some things and at the moment I am having a break as I have been making NKS for over 10 years now almost without any break.  Also depends if it is a new update of presets or the whole library has to be done again to cover the new reverb effect you speak of as I have no idea, don't actually use Roland stuff myself.

Yeah unsure on why the bounceback, I have no issues with any other emails, only occasional bounces from mail outs which is expected but my admin email has been in use 15 years so has a pretty respectable score usually.

The cost is a massive reason I do not use Roland personally. I make the NKS for it using the subscription to do it but I just cannot personally bring myself to fork out constantly for plugins I would seldom use, and not being a professional musician I have no justification for it.

Anyway, it is a task logged in my list but no timeframe I can give at the moment. Very much depends on how much time I can devote to NKS since I have to take on a lot of other jobs at the moment to make ends meet and it's adding up to much less time to devote to NKS since I can only spend time if I have income from somewhere to stop the bank taking the house.

Yes this is because MTron Pro and MTron IV are completely different plugins so have separate libraries and the libraries do not work between these versions, IV was done from scratch. Would have been nice if they made it a simple update but was basically a new plugin with new ID etc.

You can actually have BOTH Pro and IV libraries installed at the same time together and these open the different plugins so they don't cause any issue, just think of them as different plugins, even tho they offer the same sound content basically and IV is kind of just an update, I guess it's different enough it had to be a new plugin since it just was not backwards compatible.

Now Available: VPS Avenger 2 NKS Library

Complete overhaul of the Avenger library for the new Avenger 2 release. It was impossible to update the previous library as Avenger 1 would crash with the VST3 version on any preset using the Arp system. That has been fixed now in the new V2 plugin but of course is a paid upgrade and the old NKS files are not compatible at all so they all had to be done from scratch.

This library covers all factory presets from the Factory/Factory 2 libraries with all tagging I did in the past carried into the new files and a few updates and changes to the template. The Main filter page is now page 2 and all the modular pages for Amp, Filter, Shaper, LFO and Envelope will cover the first 3 modules that a preset has (which in 98% of cases is fine) but will only show the actual modules added in Avenger:

Additionally, each preset has up to 2 macro module pages available with macro page 1 on the first page and macro page 2 (only if it exists in the preset) available on the second page with all macros labelled as they are in the preset. This all should make each preset much easier to operate instead of having generic and minimal controls but does make it difficult to update the templates if needed.

Most of the layout is based off the original template that received good feedback over the last 10 years so I did not mess with it other than several suggestions to move the main filter page to be before the modular ones.

And for the questions about expansions that usually crop up, sorry, still zero plans to add support for expansions at this stage as I still personally find them far too expensive to be bothered to even look at.

Supports VST3 Avenger 2 only (no VST 2 support)

Yeah that is now fixed