Olong Johnson

3 minutes ago, Bapu said:

Accused me of premature expectation.

They have a pill for that now.

Thomann Music has the EBX 3 pack for $143. That's practically 50% off the retail price of $89/ea.

https://www.thomannmusic.com/toontrack_ebx_value_pack.htm

$295 is the upgrade price. Full version is another $100. For a nearly 1TB orchestral library it seems well worth the price. This is three times the size of my current orchestral library, and it ain't cheap!

The full version is $358 at Thomann Music:

https://www.thomannmusic.com/eastwest_hollywood_orchest_opus_diamond.htm

34 minutes ago, abacab said:

Can't wait to see v3!!!!! 😎

I'm also looking forward to Winds of Winter and peace on Earth, but I don't expect to see those in my lifetime either. 😁

Another freebie from VSL:

https://www.vsl.co.at/en/Violin_Runs

The computer I built last year is the one I always dreamed of: absolutely dead quiet with NO water cooling:

Ryzen 5600x w/ Dark Rock Slim cooler
Fractal Design Define 7 Compact case
Corsair RM750x PSU
all NVMe/SSD (this set me back a bit but it was worth it)
MSI GTX 1070 (still waiting for a reasonable price on an RTX)
all stock settings

I literally cannot hear a sound from this system, even when gaming.

2 hours ago, Bapu said:

With my orange slices + CC points and the fact that it's the only guitar I don't own in the full Guitar Bundle, my price is $69.71 . Schweeeeeeet Dealio.

That's a great price. I got 6% off with my slices for a total of $74.26 for the full guitar bundle upgrade.

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Not enough here upgrade-wise to rock my world. Maybe Black Friday 2023...

I own everything from AAS except this. Every modular I have ever listened to has left me underwhelmed.

14 hours ago, ALC said:

On the IK store, I added AmpliTube MESA/Boogie 2 (showing discounted price at $49.99) to my cart and it automatically applied MESA220 promo code for $22 off, for $27.99 total, without using any JamPoints.  I have MESA/Boogie 1 from before--not sure if that's a prereq.

Apparently I am a red-headed stepchild. I have Mesa 1 and my MESA220 discount was only $15 for a total cost of $34.99 for Mesa 2. Looks like I'm waiting for the GB.

Be advised:

"How does PA_EXT work?

PA_EXT is the 1st pop-up store. We will offer you plugins from our new EXTernal brands with a best price guarantee. These offers will be time limited, valid for 48 hours only! After that time, these offers will be removed from the PA store.

PA_EXT brands will not be sold via PA permanently, and they will not be included in our subscription bundles."

34 minutes ago, Doug Rintoul said:

Not me. Still got my $50 voucher so I could do 3 for $43.

This is what I did. Three plugins for less than $15 each, one of them being the AMEK 9099. Really didn't think I'd find a use for the $50 voucher but this deal made it way too easy. 😁

FYI, if you're new to Thomann and buying in US dollars you may see the price fluctuate to $66.77 briefly until you set the correct country.

1 hour ago, Fleer said:

I was thinking Lindell 50 and Neold Big Al. 

Big Al was on my list. Just picked it up with the Suhr SE100 for $24.99 with the monthly voucher. 👍

2 hours ago, abacab said:

Patience, grasshopper... 😉

Made me think of this.

I got an email this morning from VSL for a free Fujara Flute. During the installation the Vienna Assistant also automatically updated Synchron Player. Now my entire VSL library is missing except for the flute. I found out after that the new version of Synchron Player - which is required for the flute - won't work with the eLicenser libraries (that require the USB dongle). I will either have to uninstall the flute and roll back to an earlier version of Synchron Player or reinstall my 400GB VSL library for the software-based iLok in order to be able to use the flute.

Just the SQ-80 V AFAIK.

(Sorry for the echo. Didn't see the previous post.)

4 minutes ago, Fleer said:

Native Instruments has the deal as well and states: "V Collection 8 exclusive offer ends April 19, 2022", so I guess that's when V Collection 9 will drop.

It's possible. Release history:

V Collection 6 released on Dec 2017
V Collection 7 released on April 2019 (16 months from previous release)
V Collection 8 released on Dec 2020 (20 months from previous release)
V Collection 9 release on April 2022 would be 16 months from previous release

8 hours ago, Marc Cormier said:

The work that’s happened over the last four years is probably as good as the SPlat lifetime updates I paid for.

I read that as "splat" - as in the sound the proverbial tomato made when it hit me square in the face after I paid $200 for the "lifetime" update. 🍅 ->->-> 😫

If you're upgrading to the full version of V8 there's around 30 synths including Analog Lab. (Not sure if SQ80 V is included, it was originally a separate product.) General improvements for v8.2 are on the website:

https://www.arturia.com/products/analog-classics/v-collection/update8_2

How much? I upgraded last September for $149 US.

This is great for anyone just getting into VSL. For someone like me with a 400GB  VSL library this is nothing but a chore having to redownload everything again. I'll be keeping the dongle.

1 hour ago, telecode 101 said:

Yeah. I too am a little confused. Yesterday I managed to get a little time with syntronik2. I picked up the ADP V-80 freebie. I think its installed. I can't really tell. When i launch  Syntronik 2 and filter for only Syntronik 2 patches, it shows about 10 or 12 presets for V-80. Is that right or should there be more?

I have 38 v2 presets for the V-80, 104 v1 presets (the same as noted in abacab's post).