@Jessie Jacobs What? Jumping straight to The Triple Dog Dare? Dude! Serious breach of Protocol…

@Jessie Jacobs Now I KNOW you’re smoking something whacky! Ultrabeat’s UI is one of the ugliest VIs in the history of VIs. The audio results are sometimes quite remarkable, but I believe I’d rather lick a light socket.

IMO, it’s not really much of an update. Ok, a free new Session Players, an improved Chord Track. The Stem Splitter algorithm was updated a bit. But, they totally redesigned the sound library and they moved the functions to renovate that library to Settings rather than in the Library Manager. @Dane Holmes recently released a YT video about this and it’s worth the watch. What I’ve read on the outside is a mixture of complaints and praise. Be certain to make a backup copy of your existing Logic version before installing the new version. And Logic 12 requires Sequoia 15.6 at a minimum and Logic 11.2.x has issues on that version OS.

Not that NI is too big to fail, but, it COULD happen that the various acquired companies are sold off to offset the debt. I believe they overpaid for PA/BX after a banner year for those two (2020), and with all the massive (see what I did there?) discounts NI promotes, they couldn't generate enough income to offset their monthly expenses. It is clear, or should be, that NI is a company that generates. TON of revenue... consider that they have multiple revenue streams even within the Kontakt banner alone. Add to that their hardware sales, and the fact they are a host for many third-party generated sample sets, they are a true B2C/B2B organization, one of the most complex business models around. By declaring this financial position, they are essentially saying... we need help to pay our bills. How & who gets paid from NI proceeds ongoing is anybody's guess, but the facts WILL become apparent at the appropriate time. Now, with all of that behind us, what's to become of the distribution and support channels for all the NI entities? It's clear there is value within The Community for Support & Distribution to continue. I doubt the products & services offered by NI and it's partners goes away, rather, I suspect they will be provided by a Business Concern who makes a savvy investment and buys up portions of the NI product portfolio. What if Apple purchased PA/BX to enhance Logic's software offerings? What is Dirk Ulrich (now owner of Apogee/Manley) buys back full or partial control of PA/BX or iZotope and makes it part of Apogee's software platform (which it doesn't have much of one, right now)? And, there is AKAI and inMusic who may step in... it depends on what assets, if any, are sold off. Way to early to tell, just yet... And, as mentioned earlier in this thread, the laws related to insolvency differ between the United States and Germany; we'll learn more about this in the coming weeks. Let the speculation fly & circulate... let us focus on the facts. We'll see... just gotta be patient. But I, for one, won't lose any sleep over this. I don't believe anything the end-user consumes is going away...

@Brian M NI bought PB? I knew they bought PA. Hmmm...

Hello, Cliff... Error 15 can point to a couple of things... in a Unix/Linux/MacOS World, it would indicate some network stream/thread was seeking interaction with the target on a "block device", and none was found. That suggests, to me, anyway, that Waves may be performing software maintenance on one or more systems and an unexpected/unplanned reboot/restart was required (or it may have been part of the change procedure, but the outage was expected to be minimal). The additional text "This request was blocked by our security service" suggests that the Waves Web Team use this error number for something OTHER than that defined by the C/C++ coding standards & practices (not really that uncommon), and could be as simple as permissions on a folder (again, on the target). I just used Chrome to access www.waves.com with zero error or lag. Are you still experiencing this described difficulty?