Sascha Franck

In case of the zoom functions it'd be absolutely fine had they not massively dis-improved them.

I think they also showed a new Logic version when the last Intel Mac Pro was demonstrated - but you're absolutely right otherwise as it wasn't an announcement.

Because I rather have them to finally use their manpower to adress some decade old issues.

Will the sample editor still look (and function) like in 1998? And will the "normal" strecthing and pitching algorithms still be of chipmunk quality? Seriously, all this talk about AI this and AI that - and at the same time, certain core functions haven't seen any love since over 2 decades. That's quite embarassing. I would very much prefer a decent housekeeping update.

I would give all the new things in if I could have the zoom functions back to LP9 level. And yes, you can bet I'm absolutely serious!

Fwiw, I have a bunch of similar devices as well. Pretty much everything with a "let's slap this in kinda for free" interface is usually only working properly at 48kHz as long as it's not coming with dedicated drivers (inexpensive small mixers, guitar amp modelers, whatever). You can set Logic to 44.1, though, and sometimes it may work ok-ish, but as can be seen in this very thread, it's not a reliable thing.

Fwiw, just some hours ago I opened Logic 9 under Snow Leopard on my old Mac Pro. What a wonderful version. Especially as the zoom functions are working as great as they ever did until the unholy event of LPX.

When you downgrade to Kontakt 7 V9, it should be fine. V10 was horrible. The V9 installer (posted by NI themselves) is here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wakk3I4jKsxMRBmnu2bM1dXc4boNZEZE Fwiw, they already pulled V10 from their NA update options. Apart from that, all NI is an incredible ****show these days. Reaktor is running as bad as it gets under silicon, will likely never be updated again, the latter seems to be true for Battery 4 as well. Selling content, that's all that's left.

Not sure I like any of this. I will most likely end up using lots of things, but in general, AI was exactly what music never needed.

That's exactly what I'm doing, too (just a little different than you). Hear, hear... I only noticed recently that you can actually delete channel presets within the browser while pressing backspace. That's just completely weird as it's the only item you can delete there using a KC (usually, the selected track will be deleted). The lack of any file organisation (others than "save" and being able to delete channel presets") is not exactly making the thing look particularly hot. Which is quite bad as once you've got your presets done and sorted, it's absolutely excellent to navigate through them. The bare minimum they could do is adding a "show in Finder" option (which exists for other Logic-internal things too, let alone plugins such as Zebra and what not, all having a "show in Finder" option on board). Add some "auto refresh" library function (so files deleted/moved in Finder are automatically deleted/moved in the library as well) and you really wouldn't have to do much on the library itself anymore. Ah well ok, with an ever growing number of presets, a tagging/favourite system would certainly be nice to have.

Not really, just all the additional information (author, patch comments, tags) is getting lost when converting them to aupreset.

Btw, not to end up with doubled files inside Z2's own browser, I placed the .aupresets in "/Users/<username>/Music/Audio Music Apps/Plug-In Settings" instead of keeping them in "/Users/<username>/Library/Audio/Presets/u-he" Goes to show how all of Apples preset organisation could do with a major overhaul. You simply never know where they go, the library based paths even exist twice, so theoretically there's always 3 places to look for presets. Add to this that in "/Library/Audio/Presets/" different types of presets are allowed to co-exist. And add to this that many companies still decide to roll their own and save their presets in yet another place - which I can perfectly understand, given the mess that Apple's organisation displays.

What is "KM"? Fwiw, it was reasonably fast just doing it within Z2, rightclick > select all in a folder > rightclick again > convert to native. But you have to do it for each and every folder.

As I'm still setting up some things on my machine, I thought it'd finally be a good idea to convert the latest Zebra2 Factory and Legacy libraries (all available for free for users) to aupresets. I love using the Logic Library browser instead of the internal Zebra one, no need to even keep the UI open. Infofile inside the zip. https://drive.google.com/file/d/13lKw7eFZG4ipcub41a2gPqtGzXHT1LUD/view?usp=sharing

Uli B.: "What's that betatesting you're talking about?"