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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.

Not to mention Linux is also better without naysayers that use ProTools, Cubase, Studio One, Logic... Cakewalk by Bandlab and Cakewalk Sonar going forward is a Windows application. Rewriting this for Mac was impractical, so rewriting it for Linux which has far less market share doesn't make any kind of sense at all. This is commercial software, so they must take that into consideration. Why isn't there a Linux version of most of the other major DAWs? There's got to be a reason other than "BUT IT'S TOTALLY BETTER THAN WINDOWS AND MAC!!!" don't you think? Cakewalk Next is cross-platform with Mac and would have a better chance of being ported to Linux, but what is the incentive for them doing so other than keeping a very small minority of people happy who are not using the platforms that almost every other commercial DAW does? The reality is this: This is commercial software, and they have to pay their staff, and keep their users happy enough to keep coming back. The Cakewalk team isn't very big, and I don't think many people here think it would be a good use of their time to port to a platform that has a comparatively small userbase for commercial DAWs instead of keeping the feature updates and bug fixes going for their products that sell to a wider userbase. Linux is great, I've used it since the mid-90s myself. (I still have PTSD trying to make an Intel740 video card work properly with a CRT monitor.) But there's really no compelling reason for most people to move to Linux when MacOS and Windows works fine for the overwhelming majority of users. There are some great DAWs that do work on Linux though, so if it feels that far superior to you than Mac or Windows, then they probably will fit your needs better than Cakewalk.

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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That much is quite obvious.

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?

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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

There's absolutely nothing about using that code that was illegal. It's just what it wasn't how it was intended to be used, that's all. But whatever your opinion regarding the ethics of using the system and code in a way that was clearly not how it was intended, the point of my post was that we should be able to agree to respect the point of view of the developer and the employees and contractors who made those libraries and plugins.

I think Andrew is being very upfront and candid in his posts. It costs a business a lot of money to (1) acquire new customers and (2) to retain existing customers. Every competent business attempts to manage these areas and develop and maintain direct communications channels with their customers. That is what ISW's email to their prospects and customers represents (AKA email marketing). Companies pay a price to establish these kind of communications channels (e.g., money spent on advertising, sponsorships, influencers, developing content, incentives for current customers to tell other customers about their brand, PR, etc.). Let's say ISW has determined that it costs an average of $150 USD to acquire each new customer, there's also a cost/value to establishing a direct communications channel with prospects and customers and ISW may have determined that email subscribers average a certain amount of purchases over time as compared to non-subscribers. By the time a prospect or customer has subscribed to an email, they've jumped through a lot of hoops that cost ISW $$$ that many other folks that ISW spent money on did not make it through, and ISW doesn't want to lose them / blow that investment. So ISW offers these folks a fantastic deal to stay connected -- to remain subscribed; an 80% discount, in this case. Why? Because it cost a lot of money to get them to that point and if they unsubscribe that investment is basically lost and it would be difficult (AKA costly) to attempt to bring them back after they unsubscribe. So ISW put's out a killer -- some might say, irresistible -- offer to keep them subscribed. That's all there is to it. It's not unethical and it's not stupid or irresponsible. Of course, any company doesn't want that discount abused by folks scamming the system and spread around as a trick to be used in a completely unintended manner. Why? Think of how it impacts the company's revenues. Yes, to someone's arguments, it does result in some people buying who otherwise would not have. Certainly, some of the people who bought at 80% off would have bought at full price or at a less extreme discount, so it does absolutely impact a company's revenue. What occurs when a discount of this kind is used by a wider, unintended audience is that it's simply unsustainable for ISW. It's at a price where they can't adequately pay their employees, bills or pay a reasonable amount to the independent contractors who worked on a sample library or plugin (depending on the pay arrangement) . Another criticism made upon ISW regarded pricing and discounting practices. That criticism was entirely baseless. There are a lot of companies in the sample development and plugin market that engage in unethical pricing practices; I have never seen ISW engage in those kinds of practices and I have known of them since their earliest days. I have consulted in this space -- including to some of ISW's competitors (FTR,I have not consulted to ISW), so I am pretty familiar with ISW and own some of their string libraries. I've also been an outspoken critic of companies that do engage in inflating list prices as a tactic to claim outrageous discount percentages on sales. I've recently called out Waves and Rigid Audio for doing so to the point that their tactics violate regulatory agency rules in various countries (some people will refer to these as laws, and technically, that's not what they are, but they are somewhat similar; where I'm from, our regulatory agency is called the FTC; other countries have similar regulatory bodies for this area that create and enforce these rules, but the reality is, the sample and plugin industry is small enough that these folks fly under the radar of these agencies). ISW is not even close to violating the FTC or other countries regulations from any behavior I've ever observed. They really don't even come close to any ethically problematic pricing practices, so if we're going to be completely honest here, that attack made on ISW was not based in any version of reality. So, before someone attacks me for this post, I'm not moralizing regarding the two ISW threads on this forum with schemes to trick their system. Obviously, no one who participated in those threads had the understanding that they were using the system as intended, they were opportunistically trying to take advantage of the system to get something in a manner that was unintended. I'll leave it up to everyone's personal consciences to decide whether or not they find that is ethical or not. But what I do want to address, as a community member, is that it is wrong for Andrew Aversa to be attacked for his post or for him to be falsely accused of unethical pricing practices. The irony also isn't lost of someone attacking him for moralizing in their post while they're moralizing. We don't need to be another VI-Control with hostile posts of people attacking one another, mob action and a perverse group think sense of what constitutes ethics. Let's shelf that one and just respect that a developer, in this case, Andrew, took the time to communicate with this community, and I think he did so in an upfront and honest manner. I don't think he deserves to be attacked. I think we can do better than that. His bottom line point is that what was going on here was clearly not operating in a manner that was intended by his company, and I think everyone is well aware of that fact. To those who took advantage of the system, you got your deal, he's not taking it away. What he's clearly hoping is that people have enough ethics and empathy to understand the perspective of a developer / business they buy from on why these little schemes can be harmful to companies. You may not agree with everything he says, but I haven't seen him state anything that wasn't reasonable and fair. and I at least think he deserves our respect for coming here and engaging in civil dialogue. Most developers would have quietly removed the code with no communications whatsoever.

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

Mastering plugins are notorious for adding latency. They usually include linear phase EQ, and limiters with look-ahead, which both add a HEAP of time to audio sync, so even if you have a super beefy machine that didn't care about the CPU requirements, these things would still introduce latency because of how they work.

The movie "Idiocracy" is real....

I am quite irritated about some comments here! Why do some defend such developers that are doing shady marketing? Are such scam strategies by the developers ethical? Aren't their prices probably too high for today's market? Andrew's logic that prices have not increased and thus they're good is foolish IMO! Everybody in this forum knows that prices on music software/samples have dropped significantly in the last 10 years! The market has changed remarkably, don't they understand this?

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@Andrew Aversa thank you very much for taking the time to shed some light on the financial intricacies of running an audio software business. That was very insightful. I appreciate that you don't inflate your prices to make sales look more attractive, unlike many of your competitors. Your price policy sounds reasonable. You're on my good guys list.

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?

"Is that all I got (sic)?" I was merely agreeing with your statement. Be careful what you wish for. I've been following Linux' fortunes since early 1992. I downloaded it from a BBS on floppies and gave it to one of my company's programmers because we had chattedf about him using UNIX at university and I thought he would be interested in this thing. I have a Linux box in my home right now, a retired 32-bit iMac. I've lost track of how many Linux systems I've built. I find the OS fun to tinker with and useful for lightweight productivity things like web browsing, email and word processing. Libre Office runs great on it, so does Chrome, and for the vast bulk of people, that's most of what they do on a desktop computer. I use my computer for those things, but I'm also an enthusiast of audio production and games, two areas Linux is terrible for. For audio production work, where it absolutely falls on its a55 is when I try to set up audio on it for anything more complex than an onboard Realtek chip. For games, nobody makes decent games for Linux. The usual Linux apologist answer to this is something along the lines of "it's the fault of the hardware companies for not supporting it." "If they would only make games for Linux, people would buy them." Followed by a list of software that actually does support Linux. I've heard the pitch a hundred times, it never changes. Like Sakini said, I haven't seen a Linux weenie like you in decades. If this is some kind of 90's roleplaying or an elaborate troll, I have to hand it to you, you sound just like they did back then. Participating in this topic reminds me of my younger days, when the Linux-smitten would loudly proclaim how Linux was going to take over the market "real soon now" and that Windows was doomed. I haven't seen one of you boys (and you're always boys) around in a long old time. Here in the Bay Area the younger ones tended to be into facial hair, polyamory and sword collecting and the older ones kinda looked like Hollywood serial killers. The market has had a very long time to speak, and it has and continues to speak clearly: the demand for audio production software on Linux is tiny. Do not mistake LOUD for large. I imagine that the notable commercial DAW software companies that do support Linux, Cockos and Tracktion, did it mostly to shut the Linux whiners up. "Linux is no longer an underdog in music creation circles and is much much better than the current Windows offerings, which are terrible." The first part of that statement is not quite true, Linux, while indeed being a dog for music production, is not an underdog, because to be an underdog, the dog must be in the fight, which it isn't. You think Linux is The Answer. You are convinced that it's going to take over the world real soon now, and that you're smarter about the software market than the people who run Adobe, BandLab, Presonus, Acoustica, Steinberg, Avid, Magix, iZotope, MeldaProduction, Waves, UAD, IK Multimedia and Image Line who are going to be left behind as the Linux platform assumes its rightful supremacy. You're that market-savvy, yet somehow you got the idea that coming to a forum for a Windows-only commercial product and whining and picking fights would be a good way to drum up support for your favorite computing platform. The current Windows offerings are "terrible?" Cakewalk is a "Windows offering" that you're begging to be ported to Linux. You went on about how great Cakewalk is, you do realize that what you're asking for is a DAW on Linux that works as well as Cakewalk does on Windows. You had to run Windows to know that Cakewalk was so great. And that's pretty much how it is in the world of audio production. The software runs on Windows and MacOS/OSX/whatever Apple's term for it is (funny that when Apple finally realized that MacOS 9 was crap and needed a full rewrite, they had the sense to base its successor on FreeBSD). Why not just go download a copy of REAPER and use that? Support a company that supports your platform! Boycott the rest into submission. REAPER used to have kind of a Linux-y loudmouth would-you-please-just-STFU culture around it and if you're lucky, you might find some of those people in their user community to hang with.

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

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OK, let's do a hypothetical: You run a small bakery with a small team of bakers. You make pies for your village. You make 3 kinds of pies, beef pies, pork pies and gourmet escargot pies. This business pays your rent, your staff, and puts food on your table. Luckily business is good. The pies you sell most of are the beef and pork pies. They're not your favourites because they're quite fatty and you don't care much for the flavour but the townsfolk love them for some weird reason. You believe your escargot pies are superior in every way to the other pies. You have one guy who comes in every 2 weeks to buy one of these pies and you talk for hours about how everyone else just doesn't get it and they're totally missing out. One day you decide to take a stand to make people see what they're missing. You move all of your focus onto making these escargot pies. Your one guy who loves them as much as you is overjoyed. The rest of your customers are disappointed by this decision and go to the pie shop down the road to have their beef and pork pies since you're no longer putting in the effort to make the thing they liked from you. You know one day that people will eventually come around and realise how crap those beef and pork pies are. They'll see! One day! The young people will eventually get sick of that stuff and abandon ship and see how much better your escargot pies are! You just wait! In the meantime, you can't pay rent, any of your staff, and have to reluctantly close your bakery because your now dramatically smaller customer base has gone elsewhere. Those other guys may be on a sinking ship in your opinion but they still have their lights on and their doors open. It's a commercial product. The Bakers need to be paid. They can't do that with "one day..."

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

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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.

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...