I got Syntronik 2 CS a few months ago when I became an IK Multimedia customer. I've since got a number of your products and have up till now had nothing but a great experience and am very impressed. However, now I'm confused and don't understand what is going on.
I thought about getting into the Group Buy for a a couple weeks while i did some due diligence and researched most of the 33 Synths offered. Your version of the Korg DW-8000 made my list of must haves. The kicker that convinced me to select the KW-8000 was the "200 Instrument Presets" that was advertised. However, no matter what i do, only 80 named presets show up.
"A Fat Pad From Inagi" down to "Wub Wub Bass." Is that all there is? 80? I dont get it.
There were 4 main zip files and 1 update zip file. I have around 12 gigs from the download, but only 80 named presets. is that correct? If so, Why does it say 200 Instrument presets?
I cant find a list of 200 instrument presets anywhere so i cant check to see what i may be missing either.
UPDATE:
Ok, I've done more searching, troubling shooting, and researching:
1. One Problem I noticed while unzipping some files is that: If the Total File path is too long, from C:\ all the way to the end of file.st4i, then it doesnt install that File with the super long name. So install with small root directory names i guess.
2. The Preset Mystery: Here is what i have Vs what is Advertised. And what ive discovered.
What it have: -----VS -----What IK Advertises:
KW-8000 80 Presets------200 Presets Advertised
Pro VS 59 Presets-----195 Presets Advertised
Sorcerer 67 Presets---- 87 Presets Advertised
Triptych 69 Presets----- 99 presets Advertised
------Sometimes its advertised as "Instruments" not presets-------
MiniMod 188 Presets-----143 presets Advertised
Bully 138 Presets-----100 presets Advertised
J-60 160 Presets-----78 presets Advertised
J-8 157 Presets-----116 presets Advertised
Memory V 189 Presets-----148 presets Advertised
Pro V 170 Presets----- 87 presets Advertised
Sh-V 137 Presets-----100 presets Advertised
StringBox 149 Presets-----110 presets Advertised
T-03 325 Presets-----223 presets Advertised
V-80 140 Presets-----102 presets Advertised
VCF3 134 Presets-----106 presets Advertised
In Summation: IK Over-delivers on older "Classic" synths (which is awesome)
While it Under-Delivers on New Synths... However, here is where it gets interesting and we find out I may have done all this research and troubleshooting for nothing but we'll see.
Here is what I found, It looks like all the missing Presets for the Newer Synths are in my Unzipped, downloaded Instrument folders in a folder called, Wave sets.
Syntronik 2 appears to understand how to use the .ST4i files in the Wave sets folders for the "Classic Synths" but not the "New Synths". So...
What can I do so that Syntronik 2 and SampleTank 4 understand how to read and load all the .ST4i files in the Wave Sets folders As Presets? for each of the "New Synth" instrument folders? Because it seems they are loadable in the Oscillator banks. But once loaded there, all the other settings are built around, and for, whatever Preset I had loaded.
Is this how it is intended or am I doing something wrong?