Download link to the old version of LABS has been removed:
https://labs.spitfireaudio.com/download
Interestingly enough my LABS plugin corrupted last night and I checked older posts here for the link.
Every time I try to render a song in FL Studio that uses the BBC Discover orchestra plugin, one or more of the instruments get cut off. It sounds perfectly fine in the DAW itself, but the error only happens on export.
Here's an example with the strings cut off:
As the title suggests, im done with spitfire audio apps. I love all the libraries that they gathered, first app was brilliant!, but since the v2 app and then splice instrument, libraries go missing every few weeks, relocating and repairing is painfully slow and for a quick session the last thing i want is have to DO the manual locating, sometimes hard drive clogging because it downloads it again OR waiting for a repair.
I'm looking for a way or for someone who traveled the same path of trying and succeeding to load their wonderful libs into some other other player with whatever workaround vibecoded appburger that turned out to be a small, simple and no-bs alternative to having the privilege of playing with their packs without the use of their app.
I'm devastated cause this was one of my go to for everything VSTs and they chose to fix what aint broken and make it broken so there's something to fix.
Sorry for this venting but after seeing my projects (that i forgot to print the audio...) lost behind the time and labor based paywall for the gazzillionth time im full of dedication to find the alternative ways for it
TL;DR: how to use LABS packs i own with other vst lib players
As the title says I'm having major issues with Ableton + Kontakt 7 or 8 (I tried both)
Buffer size: 128
Sample Rate: 48000
Even when using one Kontakt instance I get crackling and popping along with 100+ CPU. Example setup below:
Screenshots of activity monitor and Ableton setup here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Yavhr95ttGmGD23u2cU-NMFLIEtDk--g?usp=sharing
I'm posting because I see videos of 50+ channels with Kontakt or other similar VSTs and they run fine so I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong. Thanks for any and all help!
So i just bought the Appassionata strings. And well yeah they sounds good, but they take like almost a minute to load. Is that normal? Since my SSO takes like 10 seconds.
Also, are they supposed to use so much ram? All 5 Appassioanta sections in one project take like 10-15gb of ram.
cheers.
I'm running into a problem that I'm hoping someone has a solution to - it has to do with importing midi from an external source (in my case, Sibelius) into my DAW (logic pro) and for some reason both spitfire solo strings and BBC orch pro have the issue demonstrated in the attached video. It seems to drop notes entirely or play notes with a super quiet attack, and no matter how I adjust the midi it doesn't help. For example, overlapping or separating them doesn't change it, and even if both notes have the same velocity it's the same thing. If I play the music into the DAW from my keyboard, it's fine, this is only on imported MIDI. Every other sample library plays normally, so it does seem to be Spitfire-specific. I'm hoping it's a classic case of toggle some hidden setting somewhere, but any light you could shed on this would be enormously appreciated!
I'm building my first orchestral template, but I feel like my current system is not going to be able to handle it.
My current setup is a Mac Studio with M1 Max cpu and 32GB of RAM. All of my sample libraries are currently on a Synology DS 1821+ NAS, connected with a 10Gbit connection. The drives in NAS are Seagate Exos drives. It is configured as SHR with 1 drive failure tolerance.
Before jumping to a new system, I'm curious if any of the following would improve performance:
Put the samples on a external SSD like a Samsung T7 (with around 1000MB/s read-write).
Put 32GB of RAM in the NAS. Would this even work at all? Would the NAS understand to load the libraries into the RAM of the NAS?
Buy something like a OWC Express 1M2 + Samsung 990 Pro 4TB to get higher read/write speeds over TB4 connection on the back of the Mac Studio.
Curious what you guys would opt for in this case!