Simotion Scout 5.1 Download May 2026

After your successful install, take a snapshot of the VM. Save it to a NAS. If your hard drive crashes, that snapshot is worth 40 hours of reconfiguration. Have a war story about a failed SCOUT installation? Share it in the comments below. Misery loves company.

Once running, however, SCOUT 5.1 is the most stable motion engineering environment Siemens has produced since the death of DriveMonitor. It handles synchronous operation at 1ms interpolation like a dream. Simotion Scout 5.1 Download

If you are reading this, you likely fall into one of two categories. Either you are staring at a dead HMI panel on a legacy packaging line, or you are a system integrator tasked with upgrading a multi-axis synchronizer from 2018. After your successful install, take a snapshot of the VM

SCOUT 5.1 requires MSXML 4.0 SP3. Windows 10 does not ship with it. The installer usually fetches it, but if you are offline, it crashes silently. Fix: Download msxml.msi from Microsoft manually and install it before the Siemens setup. Have a war story about a failed SCOUT installation

Comments

29 responses to “The Best Free VST / AU Plugins 2015”

  1. Nikolay Malanin Avatar
    Nikolay Malanin

    Extremely helpful article. Thank you!

    Reply
    1. Ilpo Karkkainen Avatar
      Ilpo Karkkainen

      Cheers Nikolay that’s what I try to do here.

      Reply
  2. alex brusten Avatar
    alex brusten

    i’ve been using flux bittersweet V3 for 3 4 months now, and it’s a perfect and simple tool for managing transients! i am glad that you are also listed here
    By the way, nice article, unique resource center here @resound:disqus HQ 😀

    Reply
    1. Ilpo Karkkainen Avatar
      Ilpo Karkkainen

      Yes it’s a great plugin and got me out of many sticky situations!

      Thanks for the feedback Alex.

      Reply
  3. Bob Avatar
    Bob

    You da man!!! thanks!!!

    Reply
    1. Ilpo Karkkainen Avatar
      Ilpo Karkkainen

      Cheers Bob thanks for the comment and enjoy the plugins.

      Reply
  4. Lynden Avatar
    Lynden

    My favorite emails every time… Thanks dude.

    Reply
    1. Ilpo Karkkainen Avatar
      Ilpo Karkkainen

      Glad to hear that!

      Reply
  5. Sam Matla Avatar
    Sam Matla

    Great stuff. Thanks Ilpo.

    Reply
    1. Ilpo Karkkainen Avatar
      Ilpo Karkkainen

      Cheers Sam!

      Reply
  6. Garil Avatar
    Garil

    + Thanks man!

    Reply
  7. Alexander Waters Avatar
    Alexander Waters

    This is great! Has certainly opened the world of plugins for me. However, the Voxengo plugins say demo on it, does this actually affect anything?

    Reply
    1. Ilpo Karkkainen Avatar
      Ilpo Karkkainen

      Great!

      Sounds like you have accidentally downloaded a demo of a different plugin. It’s very easy to do that Voxengo’s website.

      When you go to the plugin download page on Voxengo, the download links for the actual free plugin are at the top of the page. There are other download links in the middle of the page but if you look closely, you’ll notice those are actually for a demo of a different plugin.

      Reply
      1. Alexander Waters Avatar
        Alexander Waters

        Thanks that helps 😛

        Reply
  8. Joe Sa Sa Avatar
    Joe Sa Sa

    Hey bato loco U¨up!!! some…algo de tecniks, tricks & so on, o que…te posteo algunos tips? Aka tirando rola desde Baja…México rollings every nigth sin pachekadas.

    Reply
  9. Joe Sa Sa Avatar
    Joe Sa Sa

    No se te ocurra hablarme en Aleman porque te rayo.

    Reply
  10. OG Avatar
    OG

    Thank you for making a difference

    Reply
  11. Kewoni AudioElements Berkley Avatar
    Kewoni AudioElements Berkley

    Awesome! I also recommend some of these plugins.

    Reply
  12. Jaimie Pangan Avatar
    Jaimie Pangan

    this is awesome! thank you very much!!

    Reply
    1. Ilpo Karkkainen Avatar
      Ilpo Karkkainen

      My pleasure!

      Reply
  13. Bruce Avatar
    Bruce

    Thank you for creating this…I appreciate. All the best with your creations.

    Reply
    1. Ilpo Karkkainen Avatar
      Ilpo Karkkainen

      Cheers Bruce & thanks for the comment.

      Reply
  14. SL Avatar
    SL

    Really appreciate this. Will definitely look into these 🙂

    Reply
    1. Ilpo Karkkainen Avatar
      Ilpo Karkkainen

      Great!

      Reply
  15. Scott Finnell Avatar
    Scott Finnell

    Have you tried, Widemouth? This is a really great simple stereo widener. Just thought it was something to add. It’s also free. I use it all the time.

    Reply
    1. Ilpo Karkkainen Avatar
      Ilpo Karkkainen

      Nope – thanks for the tip. I tried googling it though and couldn’t find it!

      Reply
  16. Jason Charles-Nelson Avatar
    Jason Charles-Nelson

    For those who don’t have thousands of pounds lying around to splash out on Waves. Thanks for this!!!

    I’ve had Melda Production for a while now – absolutely fab for panning/bandpass etc

    Gonna look into all the rest!

    Reply
    1. Ilpo Karkkainen Avatar
      Ilpo Karkkainen

      Cheers Jason, have fun with the plugins!

      Here’s a bonus one that was just released as free AU/VST (it was only available as AAX before), and it’s GREAT one too for mixing: http://mhsecure.com/metric_halo/products/software/thump.html

      Reply
  17. Jonas Nilsson Avatar
    Jonas Nilsson

    A really promising open source synthisizer is Helm. If you haven’t tried it, I advice you do. If you can help with the development in any way, I advice you do that too.

    Here’s a little track I made using a few instances of Helm the day I discovered it:

    https://soundcloud.com/jonas-nilsson-750114717/straight-out-of-helm

    Reply

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