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Engine (Best Service) problems.

ControlCentral said:
I have the 75 GB Independence Pro sample library for Engine and it has literally NEVER been able to find and load the libraries. OK, not never, once I got it to work but it broke soon thereafter. Every year or so I spend a few hours trying to get it going to no avail.
Maybe when they release E3 I'll give it another shot. I do think it is the cleanest sounding sampler which is why I hang on to the dream.
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Is the Independence Pro library actually supposed to work with Engine? I know that Magix took over Yellow Tools and that Engine is based on that sampler (or so I believe), but I am wondering. I didn't manage to get the Magix version to work a couple of years ago, so I didn't even bother with it when I started using a new machine recently.
 
I've had problems with Engine, it frequently doesn't recognise my licence so that every so often I have to re authorise the libraries, It is really annoying.
 
Michel Simons said:
Is the Independence Pro library actually supposed to work with Engine? I know that Magix took over Yellow Tools and that Engine is based on that sampler (or so I believe), but I am wondering. I didn't manage to get the Magix version to work a couple of years ago, so I didn't even bother with it when I started using a new machine recently.
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I uninstalled it a while back but IIRC the Independence Pro library would only run in the full Yellow Tools/Magix sampler not the Engine version licensed to Best Service.
 
I’ve experienced the same: Independence Pro worked well with Yellow Tools. But when taken over by Magix and now running on Engine — the licensing mechanism is unreliable. Unfortunately, Independence Pro, originally a very good and even innovative library, is now simply outdated.
 
Greeno said:
I've had problems with Engine, it frequently doesn't recognise my licence so that every so often I have to re authorise the libraries, It is really annoying.
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I have this problem too, especially with Nada, and have had to contact Best Service to ask for more activations, which thus far at least they've been very nice about.

I do wish they would fix this so that an activation reliably stayed activated.
 
Greeno said:
I've had problems with Engine, it frequently doesn't recognise my licence so that every so often I have to re authorise the libraries, It is really annoying.
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Are you using Virtual Machines or anything like that? Disabling all VM functionality on Operating System level fixed it for me for good.
 
Does anybody know what's the latest situation with Engine 3? A quick google returns forum talks from 2013 that it's "due".


I'm really annoyed out by quirks and crashes of Engine 2. A modern sampler will hopefully do us good.
 
does Independence Pro still stood in 2021? someone is selling very cheap, i could not afford omnisphere tho ..
 
sadly i stopped using it a long time ago. My eyes are to too old for the small gui letters. I had a hell of time ever getting the libraries to show up for some reason as well. Sadly I do miss some of the libraries. I think there was a great church bells library in one of them (Era, Forrest Kingdom? Cant remember?) coulda used it in a film.
 
Does anyone know for sure whether Independence 3 Pro can open Engine 2 libraries? I have found several reports that the old free version of Independence (no longer available, I think) won't open them, but nothing definite about Independence Pro. Thanks in advance!
 
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rrichard63 said:
Does anyone know for sure whether Independence 3 Pro can open Engine 2 libraries? I have found several reports that the old free version of Independence (no longer available, I think) won't open them, but nothing definite about Independence Pro. Thanks in advance!
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It can open some of the older ones, but not the newer ones.

Worked:
Celtic Era
Desert Winds
Epic World
Era II:Medieval Legends
NADA (but misses front GUI. EDIT: Some patches work, but some error.)

Failed:
Dark Era
Forest Kingdom 3

You can try it for yourself here:

The free software sampler – Independence free

Magnificent sound design with MAGIX Independence Free. The software sampler offers countless ways to find your own sound.
www.magix.com www.magix.com
 
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Ben H said:
It can open some of the older ones, but not the newer ones.

Worked:
Celtic Era
Desert Winds
Epic World
Era II:Medieval Legends
NADA (but misses front GUI. EDIT: Some patches work, but some error.)

Failed:
Dark Era
Forest Kingdom 3

You can try it for yourself here:

The free software sampler – Independence free

Magnificent sound design with MAGIX Independence Free. The software sampler offers countless ways to find your own sound.
www.magix.com www.magix.com
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Thank you. Does your list of what works and what doesn't refer to Independence Free or Independence Pro? On my system, Celtic ERA and Epic World both fail on the latest version of the free product.
 
Free. It's the exact version I posted the DL link to above.

I'm not sure if the Pro version is more up to date or not? I don't use it.
 
Ben H said:
Free. It's the exact version I posted the DL link to above.

I'm not sure if the Pro version is more up to date or not? I don't use it.
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The exact version in your link does not appear to work here. So I have some debugging to do. Thanks again.
 
rrichard63 said:
The exact version in your link does not appear to work here. So I have some debugging to do. Thanks again.
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I figured out what I was doing wrong -- I had to reinstall Best Service Engine and reauthorize all the libraries in that plugin. Now I can confirm most of @Ben H 's findings. I don't have Desert Winds installed but the more recent Ancient ERA Persia also appears to work. I don't have NADA. And I don't have Forest Kingdom III but I do have the older Forest Kingdom II and that does appear to work.
 
rrichard63 said:
I figured out what I was doing wrong -- I had to reinstall Best Service Engine and reauthorize all the libraries in that plugin. Now I can confirm most of @Ben H 's findings. I don't have Desert Winds installed but the more recent Ancient ERA Persia also appears to work. I don't have NADA. And I don't have Forest Kingdom III but I do have the older Forest Kingdom II and that does appear to work.
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That's how it worked for me too. Glad you got it working. :)
 
Some more libraries that work for me:
Alpine Volksmusik 1 (but not 2) Ancient ERA Persia Cinematique Instruments 1 Cinematique Instruments 2 ERA II Vocal Codex Forest Kingdom II (but not III) Galaxy X-FX (don't know about the other two Galaxies) Organum Venezia Peking Opera Percussion Voyager Drums LE (don't know about full product)

Some more libraries that don't work:
Chris Hein Chromatic Harmonica Lite Alpine Volksmusik 2
 
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