I eventually found them and have to say that the installation process was like pulling hair and nails. Really retarded and WTF is the end user NOT ASKED where they want the samples?

In addition, after downloading 17GB of files, I find none of them of much use, seems the way of ACID now is prebuilt patterns and beats.

I found that the installer kept on stopping fo no reason at all and it turned a task that should have been a few hours in to nearly 10 hours downloading and an hour of arsing around with then "Installing the files" which I might ask WTF were the files not downloaded and installed immediately on completion, wasting drive space and so on, too many Assumption still being made about end users machines... Is it too had to have access to presampling those libraries to save time downloading rubbish I didn't want or in fact, I doubt I will ever use.

I used ACID from day one when it was first available and used it for years and then had a break of 15 years and now, decided to go out and treat myself and have to say that I have never been so disappointed in my life... well not as much as the Mixmeister 7.7 I purchased that after reinstalling my windows 10 operating for 8 times, gave up trying to install mixmeister as it was wiping the entire hard disk and the system would blue screen and its a brand new octa-core beastie that has 16GB of the fastest ram I have come across with an SSD of 512Gb and I see no bottlenecks in the system and its got the power to run Mixmeister 16 to 20 times over...

So I guess, ACID is not the worst of the Magix bunch I picked, at least it installed without destroying the operating system.

If you don't like it then write a mail to infoservice@magix.net and tell them and ask for your money back. This should be no problem. The more users would do this the more likely it would be that Magix will change to something more user-friendly in the future.