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  1. (Got notification this time, but too busy to answer immediately ) Interesting links, Colm. I stopped to look for the plugin packages since a long time, convinced that nobody were selling them anymore. Clearly not the case... 85 euros is a very good price for the whole package. I paid twice the price when I bought my first ASX a few years ago... If I would need to give a personal evaluation to these plugins: - Prodyssey : 9/10 - Pro12 : 9/10 - FMAgia : 7/10 (sounds good, but I prefer myTX81Z for this kind of sounds). Deserves experimentation and can give you good surprizes (the factory sounds are not good) - Drums&Bass : 3/10 (clearly something they delivered in emergency, because they promised it). Easily beaten by a PC running ReBirth... (and I don't like ReBirth ) Now, I would recommend to be careful about these "packages". When you buy them, you just get a voucher code, not a file or something like that. You then need to connect to UseAudio website, create an account, provide them the voucher code and the serial number of the ASX or the Plugiator. Their server then sends the file to the plugin manager software. So first, you should check that the plugin manager works on your machine and is able to see the server. The plugin manager is based on a very, very old version of Flash, and it simply does not work anymore on recent versions of Mac OS or Windows (ok... it never worked on Mac...) The last time I played with the plugin manager, I had to remove the last version of Flash and force an obsolete version to install... All of this manually... So rather funny to do... (but very cool to be busy for a whole rainy weekend) I don't like this machine. It's a Linux computer with a Windows emulator (Wine) to run VST plugins. It fails with almost all commercial plugins (because it does not support the copy protection mechanisms) and many freeware plugins act buggy on it. The Receptor from Muse is much better... but the price is also much higher. And as you said, the CPU is rather on "low end" side... giving high latency (15ms is common) Yes, it can work with 5V too. The local switching regulator on the ASX turns it into 3.3V and 1.0V (needed by the DSP). As far as I know, there is no 5V component on the board And, no, the USB and the MIDI OUT are completely independant. They did that clearly on purpose, to avoid "sniffing" the System Exclusive when you load a new firmware in the Flash
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