Any comments on the Nomad Factory Suite?

malcolmd
Any comments on the Nomad Factory Suite?

I like them. Great plugin suite. I use at least one (or more) of them in each project. And I only have the "SONAR included ones" on my system. My favourites are the FA 770-3, and the Analog Trackbox.
All the best.

malcolmd
Any comments on the Nomad Factory Suite?

If you perform a complete install of Platinum the Nomad plug-ins are installed via the Studio Mixing and Boutique FX Suites installers.
 
If you plan on doing a full X2 install, you still want to perform a full Platinum install or you will not get the updates to the plug-ins which are bundled with both.

You would not lose Beatscape if you install it with one of the Sonar installs that had it.  Being dropped does not automatically mean it would stop working, it just means it is not included with later versions of Sonar.  The same is true for V-Vocal.  If you install a version of Sonar with it included, it will remain on your system, and should still work, though you might try out Melodyne as an alternative/additional one.
 
Bob Bone
 

Feel obliged to update my progress.  What I elected to do was to re-install everything from X1 up.  Ironically, I discovered Beatscape as a separate disc install with the boxed copy of X1 (and I don't have boxed copies of all versions).  It was a time consuming exercise but in the end I felt happier that I had an installed copy of each version with it's respective plugins.  I have the video tutorials for each version and sometimes it's nicer just to go back to that version while you're studying the video.
My only complaint with running several versions is that an earlier version will pick up the plugin for a later version and then tell you it's not authorised to run with this particular version.  I suppose I can go to the plug in manager and ask it to exclude a particular plugin where this occurs.
Also, each version's content folder averages around 1Gbyte and I've assumed it's wiser to leave each version's content folder separate rather than copying everything into the one Cakewalk Content folder ( I welcome any advice on doing this).
Last but not least I had a little trouble finding my thread in the forum.  Is there any way of quickly referring to your own posts on a thread in the forum?
 
regards, malcolm

Most of the files in each version's "Cakewalk Content" are the same. You could go into preferences and point most of the folders which use "Cakewalk Content" to a single instance. I would keep the project templates separate though. There are some format changes (especially in newer Platinum) which will cause warning messages when using them in older versions. I would also leave Platinum "Cakewalk Content" in tact as it will get updated which will undo any changes made in that folder tree. If you plan on deleting parts of Cakewalk Content, delete folders from the old versions. If you look at the content, the bulk of each version is a tutorial folder. I no longer have X1 installed but X2 through Platinum appear to have the same content in the folder. The tutorials would be my first candidate for purging before deleting anything else.
 
One more thing, if you installed both Beatscape from X1 and the "Loops and One Shots" library from X2/3 you have about 4GB of duplicated loops in the Beatscape factory content and Cakewalk Content audio library loops and one shots folders.

malcolmd
Last but not least I had a little trouble finding my thread in the forum.  Is there any way of quickly referring to your own posts on a thread in the forum?

 
In the menu at the top of this page in the banner, click "Posts", then click the "My Posts" tab.
 

Thanks guys, I found the my posts tab and I'll look more closely at the Content & Loops & One Shots side of things.
 
Oh, and one interesting thing I discovered is that if you change the 'Content Path' in Platinum's Command Centre...  it actually changes the content path for all the earlier versions of Sonar as well.  I found that interesting...  so all I really had to do was to change the Project Folder location for each version.  (Which we all know we must do if we want to keep opening earlier projects in earlier versions).