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[PPH]

Maybe some of you guys are interested in this:

http://www.ikmultimedia.com/vigb/

You buy one of their VSTi instruments for half the price (69..99, i.e. 70, dollars), and get three more for free (that's because there are already more than 1000 buyers; if there are 1000 more before September 8th, buyers get an additional VSTi).

Miroslav Philarmonik doesn't seem to work in Windows 64-bit, by the way, but if you have Sampletank, you can play its samples there. It may be a good chance to get several Gigabytes of samples at a reasonable price. These are not the best of the best samples around, but in my experience, one never has enough samples.

[LPChip]

Interesting. I most likely will buy sampletank. I always wanted this but it was too expensive. They have more VI's and I get more. yay.

Thanks for the heads up.

[Saga Musix]

Be prepared for buggy plugins.

[LPChip]

Thanks for the heads up. I'll try the free version inside chainer and see how it performs there. thats the environment it will be used in anyway.

[LPChip]

Just tried the free version in stand alone, and aside from all the install trouble, I'm not at all impressed with the sounds. This is not going to be a purchase on my end.

Seems this discount will make it a fair price for an overpaid set of products, but I guess I currently have better stuff. I don't need this.

[Mr.Eagle]

Miroslav Philarmonik doesn't seem to work in Windows 64-bit, by the way.

Nope!
It works very fine in Windows 7 x64 and in combination with OMPT...

[Saga Musix]

Random guess: It has the same problem as SampleTank and requires admin privileges to run? (Let me emphasize one more time that this is not a problem with OpenMPT but all other hosts as well)

[Mr.Eagle]

Again: nope!
Both variants of Miroslav Philharmonik (plug-in and standalone) work fine whether with or without admin privileges. Since I never tried Sample Tank I can't say anything about it.

[PPH]

I have both SampleTank and Miroslav. SampleTank works by running as admin in Windows 7 64-bit. Miroslav causes a crash in OpenMPT, and appears as an effect in Renoise. Of course, maybe there's a way of making it work. But it doesn't work for me. Anyway, I don't care much: as long as I can use the samples, I'm fine. still, I'm curious.

[Saga Musix]

Yay, more dodgy plugins. Does Miroslav happen to crash in other hosts as well (apart from Renoise, obviously)? If not, it might be worthwhile finding out why it does that.

[Mr.Eagle]

Strange...

I would be interested if there are any other plugins that causes such problems on your machine.

[PPH]

Miroslav stand-alone works in my machine. It's the plugin that doesn't work. Renoise thinks it's a VST effect, and OpenMPT crashes when I try to add it. I haven't tried other hosts.

[Mr.Eagle]

Unfortunately, I have to correct myself.

The day before yesterday I built a new PC for me and now on this new machine, I've got exactly the same problems with Miroslav Philharmonik that PPH already described. 
Well, since the OS hasn't changed (Windows 7 Pro x64) it seems to be a problem with the new hardware.

[Saga Musix]

Did you try running OpenMPT in administrator mode as suggested above?

[Mr.Eagle]

Oops! Well, what can I say?
You really made my day, Jojo. Everything works fine now...thanks.

I forgot to try the admin-mode, 'cause it didn't care on my old PC as I wrote above:

Both variants of Miroslav Philharmonik (plug-in and standalone) work fine whether with or without admin privileges.

I have no idea why, but now (on the new machine) it seems to be necessary to use the admin-mode...