They do send you a code to purchase one of five packages on their store, it appears the code works with buying the commercial unlimited use version, which I guess is something. I'm not even sure I can use any of the loops they include. MAGIX isn't exactly artist friendly with their licensing either. To get the instruments and loops you have to use a menu item under Help menu, 'Download instruments and Loop Collections' The loops they include aren't very impressive compared to what Sonic Foundry/Sony used to ship. Pretty much the same thing I saw with SF12 trial. If that one hangs (it hanged for every NI plugin I have, which is a lot) you can kill it and it will continue on. The sfvstserver app runs two processes, the first one uses less memory and starts another as the actual scanner. But again I suspect it's one or more of my other plugins that caused the problem. Oddly enough their own plugins didn't make it through the scan and had to be rescaned. I suspect the problem has to do with Visual C++ Runtimes and or shared libraries. Had to kill the scanner a few times to get it to go through, but I was able to select each one in the Failed list and rescan it and get them added. It seemed to have a lot of trouble scanning all my Native Instrument plugins.

The MIDI editor appears to be the same as it was (though my memory isn't that good on the details). Video support is limited to AVI and WMV files. A weak synth and a slice player without a lot of features. There aren't really that many included plugins to be honest, they have a 'rompler' and a set of sounds for it, based on Yellow Tools Independence. None of the new plugins seem to work outside of it (though I didn't even try the effects just the VSTis). If it was awkward or bad in Pro 7.0, it's still awkward and bad in 8. They seemed to have made little or no changes to how it all works. The new UI isn't all that new or good, it's at best a bad coat of paint. I still love ACID and how it worked and what doors it opened for me. So I bought the upgrade, more for old times sake than need.

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