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I'm sorry to hear that you're having a hard time with your company. Once again I'm stunned to find out that one of the companies that I consider to be a big player in the music industry turns out to be a small business. In defense of this community I must say that giving people a generic 80% discount for all newsletter-unsubscribers was a desaster waiting to happen. One can't expect such a thing to remain a secret for very long. If it hadn't happened here, it would have happened elsewhere sooner or later. But I did in fact keep myself from posting it on mydealz.de as I imagined that it could be harmful to your business. Hopefully, on the bright side, you might have gotten some money from people who would normally never have spent money on your shop, like me (I don't earn money with music, I just do it for fun and my budget is quite limited). I wish you all the best. May the shock settle quickly, the financial damage not be too bad and your remaining vacation nice and enjoyable.

Hey guys - owner of ISW here. This is abusing our system. Period. This year and the last have been difficult for us with a general pullback across the music gear industry in demand. We've implemented various discounts for our customers as a gesture of a good will and to help people enjoy our instruments through rocky economic times. At the same time, despite that pullback in demand, we've created new jobs (with benefits) in the last 2 years and I'm personally committed to avoiding layoffs at all costs. In 2022 I took a 75% pay cut to ensure the well-being of my employees. Because of the behavior here, we have to disable this discount entirely, so nobody will get it, and we may have to disable others as well. I'll now have to spend my time (currently on my one vacation I get per year) and money researching how to solve a problem that folks here created. These are resources that could have been spent on product updates or developing new instruments, that we now have to spend preventing abuse. Please think about your actions next time you do something like this to a tiny business like us.

Nicely put. Of course we don’t want to see small businesses damaged. And yes, saying there’s an 80% off code for anyone trying to unsubscribe isn’t exactly cheating the company when it’s the company themselves who are trying to keep customers. I’d also agree that there’s probably been a lot of €90 purchases from people who wouldn’t have paid €400 or whatever they cost.

If we had no overhead per product this would be true, but depending on the purchase, it may be a loss for us. For example, we pay a per-unit serial cost for any Kontakt Player product, which scales to MSRP and not the discounted price; we have royalty arrangements on various products including the Tokyo Scoring series, so that the musicians are compensated for every sale; we pay for bandwidth used (which isn't trivial on 60gb+ downloads!); we also pay a % of MSRP for product delivery when using Pulse. So why did we do it then? One of our core company values is being honest and straightforward so I'll explain the context and thinking behind this deal. The majority of people on our email list are folks who downloaded a free instrument like Shreddage 3 Stratus Free or Super Audio Boy, but have not purchased anything. Our observation is that these free customers typically take years to become paid customers, and a minority of them EVER do, which makes sense... I've downloaded free plugins and not purchased other plugins from that developer's catalog. But we also noticed that even if someone took years to go from free -> paid product, they typically became lifelong customers, which is reassuring because we put a lot of time & effort into our instruments (and their updates.) Hence why we aimed to offer this deal. IF we had the opportunity to reach these folks when they were leaving, maybe we'd have one more chance to show them the value of our instruments. We do not inflate our list prices. In fact, when we released Shreddage 2 back in 2012 it was $149. Most of our modern Shreddage 3 instruments are still that price over a decade later despite many free updates and improvements. If you look across our catalog, our prices are middle-of-the-road relative to industry peers. You will certainly find more expensive amp sims, tape sims, virtual guitars, virtual basses, orchestral strings, etc. elsewhere. We also intentionally do not run frequent (or deep) sales/flash sales because we don't want to partake in the kind of behavior you're describing, where we list something at $300 but try to make all of our sales at, say, $200. This is different than some other companies in the industry who seem to do monthly or even weekly sales and deep discounts on large swathes of their catalog. Our internal sales reports reflect this approach - the majority of sales of any given product are at list price. I think we also put quite a bit into maintaining and improving our software. This year alone we've published dozens of free updates, including some for products over 5 years old. There are customers who purchased from us when we first launched back in 2007 (imagine that - before the smartphone era!) whom we still support and provide free updates to. I'm proud of that. Anecdotally as someone who has been buying software since 2004, more than half of what I've purchased over a decade ago is either unavailable or not updated.

ISW is a great company indeed. Not giant like Native Instruments but great notwithstanding. I think it’s a good thing to acknowledge their thoughts on this.

I didn't use this code and I sympathize/relate with everyone who is trying to get by, but it would seem to me that profits from customer sales that otherwise might not have occurred at the list price are still profits-- not losses.

Here's another tip. If you try to unsubscribe from their newsletter they offer you an 80% discount code.

I don't think it's fair to suggest that Andrew is scamming anyone (though maybe your comment wasn't directed at ISW). With that said, you're right that the way the music software market works has shifted. I feel bad (a bit anyway) for 'taking advantage' of the ISW coupon. Unfortunately, it's become very difficult to tell whether a 'glitch' is a pricing/tech error versus something hidden as an Easter egg to drum up quick business (or that might have initially been inadvertent but then is allowed to run for so long that the company is at least tacitly endorsing it). . Cinesamples and AudioOllie are the audio software devs that most recently come to mind as having had 80% off (or thereabouts) 'glitches' that were allowed to run for several days after people had checked with them whether it was legit. And, with the way coupons are stacking at UAD at the moment, I've bought several of their plugins (including sampled instruments) this month at 90% off. When even UAD have started playing in PA pricing territory (I got Ravel and Waterfall for $24 each!), it's easy to start thinking that this really is the new 'norm' for everyone...even if it isn't, as was clearly the case for ISW. What I do appreciate from Andrew's comments here is some insight into the impact NI licensing could have and the way those costs are based on full price rather than a discounted one.

I think you've got some nerve. Your company takes part in an industry-wide scam every day. Extremely inflated list prices intended to give a perception of value while conveniently tricking unsuspecting customers. Your company in particular bamboozles users with all kinds of obscure codes that can sometimes lead to products being free for anyone lucky enough to learn your arcane system, while others pay up in good faith. If you offer an (absurd) 80% off code for anyone unsubscribing, and users find out about this, there is absolutely nothing illegitimate about those users unsubscribing specifically in order to benefit from the discount. It's your stupid system that users are attempting to negotiate. If it looks perverse that's because you created it that way. I didn't try this unsubscribe trick, but I find your poor-me poor-us moralising hard to stomach. If anyone's the bad guys here it's you. We just do our best to avoid getting shafted. That's why this sub-forum exists.

We have a bundle upgrade system, so you can always start with a single guitar and then upgrade to a bundle (even at the group buy discount) later on. You can make multiple, separate orders during the group buy, too, as long as you initially joined the sale before July 12th. Once you're in, you have until the end of July to complete your group buy purchase (or make additional purchases). You can change your group buy order at any time, too. The group buy signup process just helps me figure out how many serial numbers I need to order from Native Instruments in advance, though. :)

@PavlovsCat I understand your thoughts, but a little comment about it, and to share with Andrew In my case, after login at ISW, I went to the url to abandone ISW and I received a code. And yes, I confirmed that it was the same code that was shared here, so it was a generic code (big mistake) I don't know if all people had my same experience, but I didn't use the code finally And if i had used it, it was legal in my case as other people in the same situation

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If you subscribe to the Impact Soundworks newsletter then unsubscribe they’ll give you an 80% discount code becasue they “don’t want to see you go”. Anyone got a $10 off code?

Run the IPP to update

Run the Steinberg Download Assistant to update

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I use Velvet which I originally bought for $9.99 Needed more licenses for Velvet so jumped on a bundle for same price that also include Hybrid 3 and MiniGrand: AIR - The Sounds of Summer Sale

Yes sure, in my case I respect the developer vision and employees of the company like I said in my previous messages, and I appreciate the Andrew comments because help us to understand the efford and work behind a company, but I wanted to point that, I suppose that not all people that used the code, did something wrong In fact and for me, when I went to the url to unsubscribe, the code was offered to me, without unsubscribe ( @Fleer was not necessary unsubcribe and subscribe again) About the ethics, is important to know, that there are no absolute truths I am sure that some people used the code by the back door, and here I am with you that the ethic is important But some people got the code from the site directly If you receive a code from the site, you are doing the correct things I wanted to remark this only

I'm going to repost this from the other thread... Hey guys - owner of ISW here. This is abusing our system. Period. This year and the last have been difficult for us with a general pullback across the music gear industry in demand. We've implemented various discounts for our customers as a gesture of a good will and to help people enjoy our instruments through rocky economic times. At the same time, despite that pullback in demand, we've created new jobs (with benefits) in the last 2 years and I'm personally committed to avoiding layoffs at all costs. In 2022 I took a 75% pay cut to ensure the well-being of my employees. Because of the behavior here, we have to disable multiple discounts entirely, so nobody will get them, and we may have to disable others as well. I'll now have to spend my time (currently on my one vacation I get per year) and money researching how to solve a problem that folks here created. These are resources that could have been spent on product updates or developing new instruments, that we now have to spend preventing abuse. Please think about your actions next time you do something like this to a tiny business like us.

Anyway, one point more here @Andrew Aversa In a constructive point of view I appreciate your work in this difficult market, but take into account that this type of mistakes is not a customer responsibility I understand perfectly the history behind this and that you are sharing with us (thanks a lot to give the other point of view from the other side!), your worries and the problems for your company and your employees, and you are right with this, but take into account the self-criticism about your mistakes in the campaign I think that no one want to hurt you, but I understand that we did it Sorry about that and as I said, best of lucks!

That's actually how I imagine Apple's target audience too ?

I think you shouldn't have a religion about operating systems. The most important are software and plugins. OS is secondary I started computer music with Linux / Ubuntu studio because I got a laptop and I didn't want to pay for a license for windows. Conclusion: I had to use specific amateur software with fewer features than those I had with Windows. The concern does not come from Linux but from the ecosystem of software and plugins. In the end, it made me waste my time and I switched to windows in order to have more choices regarding software. PS it's been 20 years since I heard that linux is better and that it will replace windows. ==>3% of market share Today for the desktop it still remains a geek thing

That much is quite obvious.

Extra discount with code GROUP https://www.jrrshop.com/meldaproduction?dir=desc&order=special_from_date

My coal dust booster is Solar Power only . Which one of you mental giants tried to put a battery in it ? In other news Kenny

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No issues with iZotope's plug-ins on my machines. I use them heavily. I think maybe it's time for you to upgrade your toaster. Also, a lot of people come to threads in this forum to do nothing but whine about off-topic details. Can we not?

Not to say Microsoft doesn't collect telemetry data, but claiming this is the reason Windows 10 has performance issues is just fear mongering and incorrect.

Melda recently bought by Image-line, who own FL studio and also bought UVI suspect it's a 'change of approach' ?

Take a look at iLok Cloud for example. It solves one problem by creating another, many of the plugins that use iLok are not compatible with it, so you end up having to micromanage your Cloud and local activations, it forces you to have your computer connected to the internet (which is something many people don't want their music computers to be on for several reasons) and, once you lose internet access or iLok experiences some issues which prevent you from accessing the auth servers, you just lost those tools. In Reason's case, they're holding you hostage as a user and taking things you paid for unless you comply with their demands to upgrade to the latest and greatest piece of software according to them.

Melda always has weekly sales of 50% off four of their plugins. That is what is on the JRR site. Once in a while a 3rd party will also have a deeper discount for a single plugin. JRR has MReverbMB for 66% off. So nothing unusual here. Also, Melda is celebrating their 15 year anniversary which the reason for the extra sale. I don't think Melda is hurting.

Completely agree Andrew In fact, I said that I wanted to buy Ventus Winds Duduk for 18€, but finally I didn't do it My apologies for this The best of lucks

https://en.meming.world/wiki/So_Anyway,_That’s_How_I_Imagine_Our_Target_Audience If you're willing to pay $10000 for a bottle of liquor that you won't even remember, I assume you might just buy an everything bundle from all the companies. Just in case.

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Ok

Those quotation marks are doing a lot of heavy lifting.

Plugin Alliance prices go up and down like the old Windows "remaining time" estimation. Windows: "Copying 50,363 files. Remaining time: 5 hours. No, 30 seconds. No, 10 minutes. No, wait, 10 years. Done.". Plugin Alliance: "AMEK EQ 200. Price: $399. No, $49. No, $29.99. No, $199. Here, you can have it for free". Sooner or later you can probably get every plugin from them for 29 or less. Imagine being one of those poor souls who've paid the full price for any of their plugins I wonder if that ever happens.

So uhm… I went to buy Tokyo Scoring Drum Kits for those 80% off and upon checkout they offered me Tokyo Scoring Strings for 35% off and it substracted the 80% from that as well…

I've been seeing a lot of sales for MeldaProduction plugins. They must be needing money as if right now or is that just JRRShop?

Is online authorisation such a big deal?

Software companies act as if I don't have any rights to the software I purchased out right in the past . Reason 11 is all I can handle right now and I don't like the idea of being strong armed into having to upgrade to Reason 12 . Also I don't do subscriptions . I aint gonna pay to play and the days of me spending up to 300 bucks plus a year on any companies software yearly upgrades are long over . To clear my head , I'm gonna grab and play a guitar I bought over 40 years ago . Did I happen to tell ya'll I own that mother effing guitar out right ? rant over Kenny

The delay is likely due to audio buffering. The buffers you have control over are the Mixing Latency settings in Preference > Audio > Device Settings (or software supplied by the hardware manufacture) and Plug-in Delay Compensation - some plug-ins require time for processing. The DAW uses PDC to keep everything in sync. Toggle the FX button in the Mix Module. as a quick test for PDC induced latency. If bypassing FX noticeably reduces latency, then one or more plug-ins somewhere in the project are the cause. Usual suspects are dynamics processors and IR-based reverbs. Consider temporarily bypassing the plug-ins or replacing them with less resource intensive plug-ins during recording. Also review the PDC button page.

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BlueLab plugins - development ceased in 2021 and made freely available. Mainly tools, some Fx - see list below... Download the whole set at https://web.archive.org/web/20211120133206/https://bluelab-plugs.com/ or just check out devs old web site for plugin details. or individually at https://plugins4free.com/dev/606/ Scanned on both ESET and Bitdefender as clean. Plugin list Air - Air extraction and remixing plugin. Autogain - Gain rider plugin, which follows and adjusts the level of a track automatically. Chroma - Chromagram visualization plugin. Denoiser - Plugin that attenuates or even suppress the background noise (hiss) on a track. EQ Hack - Plugin to retrieve visually and accurately an equalization previously done on an audio file. Gain 60 - Plugin that modifies the gain of a track from -60dB to +60dB. Gain12 - Plugin that modifies the gain of a track from -12dB to +12dB. Gain24 - Plugin that modifies the gain of a track from -24dB to +24dB. Ghost - Powerful spectrogram visualization and editing software. GhostViewer - Simple spectrogram visualization plugin. Impulses - Plugin that captures the acoustic characteristics of a place by using impulse responses (IRs). Infra - Phantom fundamental bass enhancer plugin. Lo Fi - Simple and efficient bitcrusher plugin. Panogram - Stereo sound field visualization plugin. PitchShift - Plugin that changes the pitch of a sound, from one octave below to one octave above the original sound. Precedence - Precedence (Haas) effect processing plugin. Rebalance - Single track spectral demixer plugin. SampleDelay - Plugin that simply applies a short delay to a track, with a precision at the level of one sample. Saturate - Simple saturation plugin. Shaper - Transient shaper plugin that amplifies or attenuates the transients on an audio track. Sine - Simple and accurate sine wave generator plugin. Spatialiser - Binaural HRTF spatialization plugin. SpectralDiff - Plugin that detects if two audio files are identical or slightly different. StereoPan - Plugin that sets the panning of a stereo track for each of the two channels independently. StereoWidth - Stereo widening plugin. Wav3s - Sound visualization in 3D. While some of these looked interesting I never really got to checking them out in depth due to bad timing, i.e. my previous computer dying and not realizing (till now) that I had never installed them on my new one.

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Hi @Bruno de Souza Lino, SpectraLayers developer here - to answer your questions: -The improved Hybrid Transformer Demucs implementation in SL10 is pretty fast - actually faster than the Spleeter implementation in previous versions of SL. On a macbook air M1, using CPU to unmix 45sec of stereo audio it takes: -20sec on SL9 -15sec on SL10 in Fast mode (which is much higher quality than SL9) -30sec on SL10 in Balanced mode -45sec on SL10 in Best mode -You were wondering about frequencies above 17k. Here's a screenshot of a song unmixed in SL10. As you can see, no issues above 17k: -Concerning future hardware acceleration, it'll likely be based on DirectML (on Windows) which allows support for NVIDIA, AMD and Intel HD Graphics GPUs, and on CoreML on macOS. I've already done some tests with those accelerators, but did not judge them stable enough for the launch date. Hopefully the situation will be better in a couple months. I added "where possible" because I know some hardware accelerator such as CoreML can't support all kind of AI nodes, so all AIs may not benefit from CoreML acceleration. And I also had some crash with DirectML on some AI models, so let see what will be the situation in a couple months...

For the one who has the v1 the Crossgrade coupon code discount is $49 equally I have already tried the V2 and it is very mediocre, a paid upgrade is not justified at all.