Best Service - Engine - Finally getting an update

[Glenn F.]

I hope my Medieval Legends and Forest Kingdom II get updated. It's 4+ years since Apple Silicon. Not terribly impressed by that.

 

[Ben H]

I hope my Medieval Legends and Forest Kingdom II get updated. It's 4+ years since Apple Silicon. Not terribly impressed by that.

I wonder whether they will bother to update FKII, since FK3 has been out for quite some time?

EDIT: August 2021

 

[mducharme]

I wonder whether they will bother to update FKII, since FK3 has been out for quite some time?

EDIT: August 2021

And also to answer @Glenn F. No, they've said they're only going to update the current releases. So FK3 should get an update, but not FK2. But, they seem to be doing flash sales on all libraries that are migrated to the new player, so that if you grab it during that two day period it is a special sale price. I'm not sure if they'll do that for the upgrades too, but I would imagine so.

 

[Glenn F.]

I'm not giving them any more money. Thanks for the info.

 

[FlamencoJazz]

And also to answer @Glenn F. No, they've said they're only going to update the current releases. So FK3 should get an update, but not FK2. But, they seem to be doing flash sales on all libraries that are migrated to the new player, so that if you grab it during that two day period it is a special sale price. I'm not sure if they'll do that for the upgrades too, but I would imagine so.

There was a good-priced update from FK2 to FK3, which I took advantage of. It's a no-brainer to stay up to date-with this stuff.

 

[mducharme]

There was a good-priced update from FK2 to FK3, which I took advantage of. It's a no-brainer to stay up to date-with this stuff.

And that upgrade price still exists. I just meant that it may potentially drop further when they have the flash sale on porting the library to Engine Player, to try to entice customers who hesitated to upgrade due to the old Engine.

 

[Paj]

Theres a BOGO sale for Eduardo Tarilonte libraries, both Engine2 and Kontakt, at Best Service until May 23.

Paj
8^)

 

[Mark Schmieder]

I'm finding the new engine is WAY faster to start up AND to load libraries, and easier to work with across the board, but I haven't had time yet to see if it is on feature par with Yellow Tools, which anyway Best Service had already been distributing and updating for some time.

I didn't find all the features right away so wondered if it has become more of a "player" than before, but I've also been busy beyond all compare with gigs, sessions, and the "day job". I seem to recall a more intuitive approach to mappings and a more obvious transposition indicator for octave offsets.

 

[mducharme]

I'm finding the new engine is WAY faster to start up AND to load libraries, and easier to work with across the board, but I haven't had time yet to see if it is on feature par with Yellow Tools, which anyway Best Service had already been distributing and updating for some time.

I didn't find all the features right away so wondered if it has become more of a "player" than before, but I've also been busy beyond all compare with gigs, sessions, and the "day job". I seem to recall a more intuitive approach to mappings and a more obvious transposition indicator for octave offsets.

It is just a player, and certainly doesn't have feature parity with the Magix Engine. If there's something you need that it can't do that the older Magix Engine can, you should probably let Best Service know. I doubt they intend to build full feature parity - too much work if certain features are things that nobody is using, but maybe if they know some people really find certain features valuable, it might be possible to add them.