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Essentially what’s happening, to anyone who’s confused is Toontrack has gone to such great lengths to deter piracy that they’ve made their entire ecosystem into one big convoluted mess. Whether it’s a lack of information to end users, or complete software incompatibilities between products under the same banner and or versions. Rest assured, the Toontrack Product Manager is an incoherent mess of software that exists solely to make sure you aren’t pirating their software. They could truly care less about whether you just paid them for a product or whatever problems you may be facing due to their lack of competency. For example, I just downloaded a midi pack who’s installer isn’t compatible with Big Sur, I had to manually figure out how to dispatch all the correct files in the right directories to get Superior Drummer to recognize them. But had I not known how to do that (they DON’T offer instructions on how to manually install), I’d be out $23, which is more than likely the case with most people facing similar problems. My recommendation at this point to anyone who either has or hasn’t invested themselves into Toontrack’s ecosystem is to find an alternative to their products and save yourself the money, time, and stress. You can thank me later. To date, superior drummer and all of toontrack’s ecosystem is one of the worst financial decisions I’ve ever made in my life.

Operating system: macOS Big Sur (11)

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Thanked by: tumbolia and Moritz Fischer

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