Hauptwerk version 8 is now here.

[B. Milan]

Hello everyone,

I'm excited to announce that we have just released Hauptwerk 8. This release has amazing new features and enhancements and we can't wait for everyone to begin playing it!

Here's the news announcement from our website which will give you a sampling idea of what's included. Please click on through the site to learn more about its new features and have some fun with it. We all hope you enjoy Hauptwerk version 8!

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Available for immediate download Hauptwerk customers may now upgrade to the latest and highest performing version yet. Hauptwerk 8 offers many new and exciting features and enhancement updates including an all new Touch Menu for quickly and easily navigating your way through nearly all of the Hauptwerk options within a single location. New and more flexible audio mixer and voicing options are included in version 8. Optimized for the latest processors, it may be possible to achieve up to 3x the polyphony over the previous version on certain recent Intel and Apple CPUs. The Hauptwerk 8 Release Notice outlines these in more detail and many more of the new updates.

In addition to the upgrade paths from previous versions we have introduced a perpetual license for the Lite Edition to accompany the perpetual Advanced Edition. (Lite and Advanced Edition Subscriptions will also be back soon, we promise!)

Download Hauptwerk 8 today to get the most state-of-the-art version of Hauptwerk ever!

[B. Milan]

Please note for support questions to use the yellow button form on the lower left of our website or you can email directly to "support @ hauptwerk dot zendesk dot com" directly through your email client. Please do not use "support @ hauptwerk dot com" as this does not work properly to get to our support system. Thank you for your help!

[mdyde]

The version of Hauptwerk that's available for download via the 'Download' menu at the top of the main Hauptwerk website (https://www.hauptwerk.com/) has now been updated to v8.0.1.

As covered in the release notice (https://www.hauptwerk.com/documentation/), the only changes in v8.0.1 above v8.0.0 are:

- Bug-fix: in v8.0.0 error 87 was possible when loading organs if using a Lite Edition v8 Perpetual license.
- Compatibility: a work-around has been added to retain compatibility with images in sample sets that have the wrong file extensions for their formats.

If you already have v8.0.0 installed, it's only necessary to update to v8.0.1 if you are using a Lite Edition perpetual licence. (The makers of the two sample sets that had that latter problem have since issued fixes to those sample sets anyway.)

These are the exact sizes and checksums of the files:

Windows:
InstallHauptwerk_v8.0.1.002.exe
Size: 3,208,869,568 bytes
MD5 checksum: e4deafa8ddc87d35f50c78b1e1601f25

macOS:
InstallHauptwerk_v8.0.1.002.zip
Size: 3,377,619,129 bytes
MD5 checksum: 779656aad4e1996b58914d2fb4236358

This is how to check the exact size of a downloaded file if needed:
- On Windows: right-click on the file and select "Properties". (Ignore its "Size on disk", which may vary and isn't the file's true size.)
- On macOS: right-click on the file and select "Get Info". (Likewise, ignore its "Size on disk".)
... and how to check the MD5 checksum of a file:
- On Windows: you can use a freeware utility, such as this one: https://www.winmd5.com/
- On macOS: https://osxdaily.com/2009/10/13/check-m ... -your-mac/