good to hear most of you are looking forward to the new platform. I certainly am, but I am biased

I'll try to reply to questions as good as I can. If do not reply to something, then I can't

I can confirm that we plan to have all existing collections ported to the new platform.
<< That thing is going to be huge, and I’m concerned that’ll be a big draw on resources.
Not in my experience. It actually loads surprisingly quickly and is not huge at all, neither in file size, nor in RAM load for empty instances.
<< As I understand it, you balance a mix that you like, press the magic button and it generates a bespoke mix.
yes, that's exactly how it works.
<< But for what? One articulation? One instrument? The entire library?
EDIT: Turns out the system works slightly differently: it will merge all articulations of the instrument you invoke the Mic Merge on. The reason is that we want you to be able to load other articulations later on without having to go through the process again.
<< Also whilst it would be able to reduce the streaming overhead and RAM use, it would increase the storage requirements.
yes. You have to die one death

<< One thing I’d love to see, but very much doubt I will, is the ability to split mic positions up onto different drives.
I actually do not know how the UI implementation of the storage system works exactly, but that would at least be theoretically possible some day in the future. I'm basically answering this to let you know that you can voice it as a feature request if V1 does not support it

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Tobias