IMPORTANT INFORMATION - PLEASE READ FIRST!!

BEST PRICE GUARANTEE

How does our Best Price Guarantee Program work?

If you buy an item on www.soundsonline.com or www.soundsonline-europe.com advertised with the Best Price Guarantee badge from now through June 30, 2014 (Guarantee Period), and find a lower advertised price on the same item (of identical brand and model number) within 14 days of the purchase date, Soundsonline will match that price subject to verification and the terms below. The cost difference will be credited to you in the form of a Soundsonline promotional gift card. This offer applies only to the advertised online price of identical items offered for sale by competitors. Auction site prices are not eligible for this offer. For purposes of comparing prices, the price ("Price") is the total advertised price of the item including shipping costs, but Price shall not include discounts from a "Loyalty" or "Membership" program, and Price shall not include shipping discounts from a membership program such as Amazon Prime. In addition, the Price of a Soundsonline item shall not include sales tax, if any. Competitor's Price must be advertised after you bought your item but no later than June 30, 2014. All times stated herein are Pacific Standard Time.

Exclusions: The Best Price Guarantee does not apply to:

• 1. Items not displaying the Best Price Guarantee badge at the time of your purchase.
• 2. A Competitor's item offered (a) for free or with rebate or coupon or promotional gift card/promotional credit, (b) as part of a bundled offer or financing offer, (c) as a clearance/closeout sale.
• 3. A Competitor's item which is out of stock/not available for immediate shipment or which is offered in limited quantities
• 4. A Competitor's item which is offered as open box or refurbished.
• 5. Add-on services such as extended warranty or installation.
• 6. A Competitor's advertised Price which is the result of a typographical error.

Limitations: Only one price guarantee per customer; only one price guarantee per item.

COMPLETE COMPOSERS COLLECTION 2
INSTALLATION and SETUP GUIDE

The Optional Hard Drive and System Requirements

IMPORTANT: Complete Composers Collection 2 is available on a Western Digital 1TB USB 3 (with USB 2 compatibility) external hard drive (see system requirements). The available hard drive is subject to change without notice and may be supplied in black or silver based on availability. To obtain satisfactory performance from the supplied hard drive a USB 3 compatible computer is required. If your computer does not have a USB 3 connection, you can use the USB 2 connection supplied with the hard drive to copy the data to another (non energy saving) internal hard drive of at least 7200rpm, or external drive of at least 7200rpm that has a Firewire 800 (not 400) connection or preferably faster, and use the supplied hard drive for backup. USB 2 is too slow to stream these ultra detailed virtual instruments, and may result in poor performance (pops/clicks/dropouts etc.).

IMPORTANT: When shutting down your computer, eject the external hard drive first or you could lose data and/or damage the hard drive.

Please check the required specifications for the Virtual Instruments selected to ensure compatibility and optimum performance.

Can a USB 2 computer be upgraded to USB 3? 

If your computer has an ExpressCard slot, you can purchase a USB 3 ExpressCard HERE. If you have a tower system you can purchase a USB 3 PCIe Card HERE.

Installation

Simply remove the hard drive and the cable from the box and plug it into a USB 3 port on your computer and you are ready to install and authorize the PLAY software.

First Time Users

The hard drive comes in the format that you ordered it in, so make sure to run the installer that corresponds to your operating system (Mac OS X, Windows 32-bit, or Windows 64-bit), located on the root level of the hard drive (if you copied the drive contents then go to the folder you copied it to).

IMPORTANT: When running the installer make sure you "check the products and version of that product, you ordered" in the product list page. Once the installer finishes your web browser will be launched to http://www.soundsonline.com/Support where you will download and install the latest version of the PLAY software.

Existing Users

Locate the installer folder on the root level of the hard drive. Make sure to run the installer that corresponds to your operating system (Mac OS X, Windows 32-bit, or Windows 64-bit) and run the installer to determine if you have the latest version of the PLAY software on your computer.

If you have an older PLAY version, then the installer will launch your web browser to http://www.soundsonline.com/Support in order to download the latest version. Once you have the latest version of the PLAY software installed, you are ready to authorize your libraries.

iLok and Authorization Code

The authorization codes (for each product you ordered) are provided in your order invoice that is either e-mailed to you.

After running the installer, navigate to the East West folder in Program Files (in Windows) and Applications Folder (in OS X), then locate and open the Authorization Wizard.

Type in your soundsonline user name, password, and authorization code. You will need to do this for each product. At the end of the process, the licenses will be deposited into your iLok account where you will go to download the licenses to your iLok security key that you already own, or purchased with this product. Once the licenses are successfully downloaded to the iLok key, you can start making music. One of the major benefits of iLok is portability. The iLok security key provides access to the entire collection, so you can plug in the USB3 hard drive and iLok key into any computer in any location.

If you do not yet have a soundsonline account, create an account here.

Loading Your First Instrument

Launch the PLAY software (standalone, or preferably as a plugin in your favorite Audio Sequencer or DAW); go to the "Browser" view. In the lower left "Favorites" panel, you will see the library entries, click on one and you will see a list of instruments appear in the columns to the right.

Click on an item ending in .ewi to select the instrument, then click on the Add button, or you can simply double-click on the .ewi file to load the instrument and you are ready to make some music.

Manual and Documentation

There is a folder called "Documentation" in the root level of the drive which contains the manual and quick guides for PLAY.

Our FAQ/Knowledgebase will answer most of your questions and can be found here: http://www.soundsonline.com/Support.

Other useful links:

Updates: http://www.soundsonline.com/Support
Forums: http://www.soundsonline-forums.com
Website: http://www.soundsonline.com or /
Contact licensing: [email protected]
Contact sales: [email protected]