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YAY!!! FREE WUP! I can add this to my 20 other licenses!

Ok, slightly off topic, but my man Jim Roseberry, who built and sold me a great studio computer a few years ago, just spent over an hour on the phone with me when my computer decided to do some not so funny things, like not booting up, not recognizing my audio card, etc. although I could get it to boot, it was thru a painful tweak of BIOS SETTINGS, and after reboot my thunderbolt interface stopped working. I am lucky to have an alternate audio interface, but for over a week it was both painful and frustrating. Jim correctly diagnosed the problem via email (dead CMOS battery), and today he walked me thru replacing it, adding the BIOS tweaks from his original co figuration, and after a struggle where I was a bit challenged, we got thru it and it’s all fixed again! I’m sure many of you know, Jim’s computer builds are as good or better than anyone in the business, but what really stands apart is his commitment to his customers and service before, during and after the sale. Thank you, Jim, and to all of you looking to purchase a new DAW machine, you could not do better than working with Jim Roseberry. He is one bad mofo’ and that is the highest compliment I can give. Plus he’s a quality human being. Thanks, Jim. Now, back to work for me… PS. Go here! https://www.studiocat.com/ oh, and visit my YouTube channel, too! All music created with Cakewalk, and video and audio created on a DAW from Jim. https://www.youtube.com/user/midiexpert

I also heard bapu has 6 wifes .....

Is this the "trolling for Bapus" topic? 😆

That's pretty much it. It just about always coincides with Apple announcing a new OS and then developers announce dropping support for the plugins and apps, for everyone. I'd rather they just dropped support for Apple instead. Then maybe more people would complain to Apple or move to PC and Apple might start considering the impacts to their customers. They seem to mainly care about their native stuff they make and completely disregard 3rd party software. I know that was always their ethos, make Macs non compatible, so people have to buy parts etc from Apple only so they're locked in, but surely it's time for them to evolve.

Not really - those folks love nothing more than an opportunity to try and be first among them to pay a boatload of cash for basically the same thing that they already have. 😀

Link is in the description for subscribers.

That's between me and my computer. 😉

Ah yes, the good old 'run the installer to install an update for the installer in order to install future updates to this installer'.

next topic - How many kontakt libraries i have

I almost bought this last time it was on sale... And then I checked my plugins folder and realized I already own it. Now I have to try using it!

I wonder how many extra years of support everyone would get if they didn't have to allocate (waste!) resources on supporting Mac versions every single time Apple releases an update and breaks compatibility 🤔

I don't disagree - and had a long and VERY boring reply typed out but I think it best to summarise it by saying : There are no guarantees that any of the companies we spend our money with will be there tomorrow. Unfortunately audio software is not an 'investment'. Buy what you want and use it today and hope it continues to work. Genuine support is rare in the audio software world. (IMO!) Mac users have it even worse - they cannot even guarantee their hardware will work with the next generation, never mind their software. I also understand Apple will be dropping Rosetta 2, probably sooner rather than later. I'm not saying that this is 'A Good Thing' but we have to be realistic about the software we buy

There is a lesson here for anyone interested. We all come to this forum to save money on plugins and sample and loop libraries. We've recently seen a good deal of plugin developers engage in deep discounting, including Izotope. It's gotten to the point where when there's a deep discounted effects plugin selling for $39 USD or $29 that regularly sells for several times more, it's inevitable that someone will come along and complain that they're not spending more than $10 or $15 for a plugin. But the reality is, a developer deep discounting a plugin that normally sells for say, $179 to a promotional price of $10 - $15 isn't necessarily a good sign. After a developer discounts that deeply, it's trained the market that the product may be deeply discounted again and its regular price can seem inflated. And that leads to the bigger problem of deep discounting software...a developer selling a plugin for $10 or $15, unless they can sell an enormous quantity of licenses, isn't likely to be investing in the continued development of that plugin. The lesson is, go ahead and bite on that super deep discounted plugin, but don't get too fond of it or expect updates and don't expect plugins that are very actively being improved to sell for the same kind of ridiculously low price as one that hasn't had major updates in years. The writing was on the wall for all of these Izotope plugins for years.

@Tez Thanks for sending the project. We've identified and fixed the issue. For the record it wasn’t a timing issue but a bug where under certain conditions it would not determine the dependencies of the aux track. So it would render the bounce as if there was nothing sourcing the aux track, leading to silence.

At PlugInBoutique https://www.pluginboutique.com/products/3291

Most of you don't know this, but Bapu runs the WPB (World Plugin Bank). Like its sister organization -- the Global Seed Vault -- Bapu is responsible for securing and safely storing one copy of every plugin ever made. In the event of a global apocalypse this precious store of plugins will be utilized to reboot the world's music industry. So hey, cut the guy some slack! Here are some photos of the installation and its employees. But don't try to find it; its location is top secret.

We have a policy now that we all understand. Thank you @Wookiee for making this clear. When people break these rules in the future, let's just tell them about it. Nobody needs to be reported. Let them know what the rules are and hopefully they will abide by them. Going forward, what's fair for one should be fair for all.

BTW I'm not just a VST hoarder there is this 500 Series Rack And my 2 Recording Chains: And my Successor: This is my guitar pedal board: And my bass Pedal Board

Done!

Installing is highly overrated.

Already has been given away maybe 3 or more times, it just renew the WUP haha

I probably know what they mean, but it always strikes me as funny or lazy marketing when a developer wants me to download an "analog synthesizer'.

That's funny and just right in my case

There wasn't a big enough number to vote on.

A healthy gazillion.

LMAO! No, no... Larry and Fleer might be in group number 3, but Bapu is probably in group number 7! 🤣🤣🤣

I like Macs, but hate Apple's continual cycle of milking customers with intentional crippling of products

I looooooove Macs. Kill me

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Apple's pricing strategy will do that 😜

Not one but 2 KTR Klons and a coveted original Cali 76!

It's interesting that the most popular response is more than 1,000. But friends, I think most of us are plugin hoarders, me included. Kudos to those with less than 100 plugins, I have no idea how you do it.

Run the UVI Portal to upate

Up to 30% Off Everything! https://www.bigfishaudio.com/2022-Fall-Sitewide-Sale.html

That's so often the case isn't it?! Although it doesn't say Kirchhoff-EQ is excluded, so hopefully they slip up and release that while this sale is active 😎

Yeah

Good plugins but still too spensif.

My theory is that we are just seeing a recession unfolding. There is a serious inflation problem and prices are going up, but people are also becoming more selective in their purchases and figuring out what items are non-essential. Some companies are finding that they don't really have pricing power because people are choosing to buy nothing and, instead of being able to raise prices and follow the pace of inflation, they have to offer discounts as the revenue streams dry up. When it's clear that the revenue from discounted products cannot sustain the business, they go into more drastic cost-cutting, reducing personnel and eliminating less profitable product lines. When we see "unusually good discounts" let's enjoy them as they come, but we shouldn't be surprised if the recession wipes out a few products and possibly even whole companies when they don't have a sufficiently good combination of both good products that people still need and a robust business model that allows them to weather the storm.

Good gauge for an acoustic.

Check the truss rod, I've heard horror stories. 🤑

Just heard back...strings are .12 to .60. Way to heavy for me! And he has the trem bar...he's going to ship that out!

@PavlovsCat any company has been reminded of the rules at some point. If there's peeps not following the rules then you need to remind them so all players are playing fair, or report them as this was. All this user needs to do is; 1. Put a link to his website in his signature. 2. Only reference a product no direct link. Case sorted,. iIt should be noted I rarely visit the deals forum, my furry pockets are not deep enough to do so. This was brought to my attention by a report ticket.

What's hilarious is that my video got over 3000 views in two days. I'd be excited if one of my videos got even 100 views in a few days. I have videos that have only reached 300 after many years. As Bob Dylan wrote: "There's no success like failure." 😀

"Very cute indeed. Until they grow up and start using my lawns as their toilet." S.Strummer 2009

It's fine to disagree, but your above statement is fundamentally incorrect. Without getting too academic, a seller lowering its price certainly is INTENDED to increase unit sales of a product and gross sales. Of course, the seller has to sell a lot more product to generate the same total profit as the net profit per unit is severely reduced. Unlike a product like soap or toilet paper, technology products (this is where I've spent my career, btw) come with support, and that is an incredible difference. Unlike soap, software products do require investment to be maintained and improved and each customer that paid $10 for a plugin costs the same to support as a customer that paid $199 (AKA there are variable costs that you need to consider; you treated tech support as if it was a fixed cost; it's not and that's why selling 1,000 licenses at $10 that each come with the same support as a $199 license is unlikely to be a sustainable model for most plugin developers). For an effect plugin, as you mentioned, one area of ongoing maintenance is compatibility with monitor technology, which, of course, changes over time. Then there's compatibility with hosts/DAWS, other plugins, hardware and OS's and that also changes over time. All of that requires the plugin has resources actively committed to a product, which costs the developer money and with any competently run business, human and financial resources are going to be directed towards those products that generate the most revenue. In short, it's incredibly unlikely that you're going to be maintaining and improving that ten dollar plugin for very long, but see it as a cash cow and take the money you made from the ten dollar plugin and invest it into more products that show greater profit potential. Now, you can disagree with what I wrote above, but all of it is business economics and strategy 101. There's nothing I wrote above that isn't considered fundamental. I have lots of opinions on this stuff, but they aren't contained in this very elementary explanation.

Very few plugins need major updates over the lifespan. They simply need a few bug fixes and compatiblity ( future format usage), and if was developed a while ago - it also needs resize abilities to stay relevant. This isn't a DAW that needs new features and massive updates to stay relevant. The number of people that pay the "normal sales for" price is the extreme minority in a $179 catergory. The vast majority pay $40 or less these days for any single plugin. Plain and simple except for a few special tools that are usually a package of things to command that price the new norm is what you are calling some sort of extreme discount. Even if a plugin sells for $179+ and it never gets any discounts, we run the exact same risk. Look at Drum Core 4 which got a major overhaul a few years ago for the v4 release and is now totally discontinued. The price the consumer pays has nothing to do with the support model, a lower price means it is more likley to have more people using and depending on the product for production. Izotope is saying they won't even support you if you are unable to install the product on future machines. This is poor customer service. I personally own all of those plugins that were listed (in most instaces , I actually have multiple copies of each), and I can think of one of them that did have install and authorization issues on a machine even during the supported life....so this news is relevant for the future even though we think "they should last for the forseeable future"

Those izotope/exponential plugins haven't been updated for years anyway. They were already legacy. Bad news if current ones stop working (eg you buy an new mac ) - but for most I don't think it makes any difference. Current izotope products have bugs too - and it's not like you get actual technical support from Izotope....although customer services are good IMO basically nothing changes

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