Fix the Mellotron's redundant samples. Apparently, if you purchase additional Arturia sound banks that include a Mellotron, they don't utilize the existing Mellotron samples, they install redundant samples in separate folders specific to that sound bank library. Not the full Mellotron library, just the samples required for those presets.
I can understand why to some extent. If a person purchased a sound bank, but didn't own the Mellotron plugin, for example, an earlier version of Analog Lab prior to the Mellotron, any preset using the Mellotron wouldn't work without the samples. Maybe they keep the samples separate for possible resale or license transfer scenarios.
The downside is the extra samples are taking up space and making the Mellotron Factory samples menu confusing, with multiple listings of the same samples (see image).
From the Mellotron sample menu, how do you identify which of the three 'MkII 3Violins' is the original sample that belongs to the Mellotron plugin? Best guess, the first one or according to order in the directory structure?
I think the sound banks samples should at least belong in a separate category, identifying which library they belong to, not in with the Factory samples.
I guess I could go in and edit all the sound bank library presets which are using the redundant samples, but that might be a big chore. I'd have to go into each preset within a sound bank library and see if it used the Mellotron, which samples it used, then exchange it for the original plugin sample.
Or maybe go into each of the sound bank libraries' folders and rename the samples to help identify them, then fix the broken presets.
If I purchased more sound banks, I'd have to repeat the process for the new sound bank.
I don't think this happens as much with their other sampler base plugins, Emulator, Fairlight or Synclavier.