Marina

Btw, PluginDiscounts’ offer is at $84.55 https://plugindiscounts.com/product/universal-audio-manley-voxbox-channel-strip/

Just give it a couple of months and it will be a freebie with some 14-day subscription trial  

AudioDeluxe is having a sale on three Sonnox plugins now:

Sonnox Oxford EQ Native $65

Sonnox Oxford Envolution $55

Sonnox Oxford Drum Gate $55

Sale ends on Aug 21.

43 minutes ago, Zo said:

Must be Ukraine war ... lol i m stuned the amount of people here that increase prices or regular stuff and when you ask they «  you know it the ukraine war «  lol even my barber shop lol 

But to be fait , energy prices in germany are going up like in france and i think if i recall well , they have a dev departemnt there ....

or they simply confident now to do so ... no more challenger , but well established one ...

But it s touching subs only right ? Or it is a question of time before lifetime licence are hit ?

I can confirm that gas prices for end customers in Germany are dropping now. A kWh generated from natural gas used to cost back in November 2021 about 0.12 cent, then in the summer of 2022 it surged to more than 0.26 cent just to drop back to 0.09 cent right now. One kWh of electric power used to cost 0.42 cent in my contract for 2022. Now my new contractual price for kWh is 0.32 cent. And the electricity in Germany is one of the most expensive in Europe. I see that in France EDF is charging about half of that for a kWh thanks to the nuclear power.

While the electricity prices are pretty high because of moving from coal and nuclear to renewable power, the gas prices are very stable at the moment and the effect of Russian war in Ukraine on gas deliveries is nonexistent.

On the other side fuel prices and increased demand for services and good after the lockdowns are over was what was driving the prices up. While we have almost no control on fuel prices, because Europe has insignificant sources of this commodity, the ECB has some means of regulating the demand of services and goods. And that’s the interest rates. So basically they’re reversing the inflation trend by increasing the key interest rates which makes it hard for people to spend money on services and goods like there’s no tomorrow, but that makes it also difficult for businesses to get a lifeline loans. Therefore businesses are trying to fill the gaps by increasing prices or decreasing the quality (as seen massively in grocery stores in Germany and maybe everywhere else too), because they know that while today it might be still possible to extract as much as possible from their customers, tomorrow it will be hardly the case. As a part of business ecosystem plugin and audio software developers know that and are profiting. The virtual goods are obviously unlimited in quantity, so developers loose really nothing from their deep “no-brainer” discounts, instead they’re getting more profits during times of recession. Without these profits right now they’re toast. And the price for the recession is once again paid by us - the customers and it’s up to us to stop spending money for what we don’t need.

And back to PreSonus, what new do they have to offer for 5 more bucks a month?

Businesses struggling to stay alive during recession. They seem to have learned their lesson since the last financial crisis in 2008, but sadly they learned the wrong one.

They want our money NOW, ASAP, as much money as possible. But the only thing that they get is  customers leaving a sinking ship and less earnings. And on top of that the interests on loans are increasing. Good luck greedy entrepreneurs.

2 hours ago, TheSteven said:

So this way your quieter vocals sections aren't more sibilant than the loud ones.
At least that's what I'm gleaming from what the video was saying.

Thanks for explaining. I probably misunderstood something and I’m blaming it on my English. What I got from the Essence manual file was that “signals below the Threshold will still receive some gain-reduction, and gain reduction will increase gently as the level of signal increases” in other words. that gain-reduction will be applied even for sounds below the given threshold, warranting even sibilance reduction in every case within reach of the soft knee. I have to test it this weekend to see if that’s really the case.

I’m mostly using deesser in audio restoration, so I guess variable threshold might be more useful outside audio post.

2 hours ago, TheSteven said:

Yeah kinda, but that's the worst definition of  knee (for compressors, limiter, de-essers) I think that I've seen.

"A soft knee setting applies compression differently to a hard knee setting. A soft knee setting will apply the compression gradually until the full ratio amount is reached. This makes the transition from uncompressed to compressed smoother and more transparent."
quoted from: https://www.mixinglessons.com/knee-setting-on-a-compressor/    (saved me from word-smithing from memory)

With soft knee the compression starts at a lower ratio once it hits threshold, signals blow threshold are not compressed.

I've got great respect for DMG but he needs to talk to his technical writer.

Edit: 
I've been looking into this further...
Apparently some systems classify the threshold as starting midpoint on the knee when there is a knee - so viewed from that perspective DMG's definition is correct. 

Thank you for digging into it. So basically SSL’s DeEss relative threshold is likely comparable to Essence’s Knee.

1 hour ago, Nick Blanc said:

I keep forgetting about DMG! I have Tracklimit and perhaps even Trackcomp 2 (have to check when I'm home). Those are great products.

I have Essence, Limitless & TrackComp 2 and I’m also happy with DMG’s  plugins quality and tweakability.

4 hours ago, Nick Blanc said:

That relative threshold seems useful. I'm no expert on de-essers, so are there any other that do that? I got a couple, so maybe I'm already set.

This looks similar to the DMG Essence’s knee function:

”The Knee parameter allows you to configure a soft-knee around the Threshold, which effectively widens the threshold, so signals below the Threshold will still receive some gain-reduction, and gain reduction will increase gently as the level of signal increases.”

PluginDiscounts has currently the lowest price for Elevate Mastering Bundle down to $79.69 https://plugindiscounts.com/product/eventide-elevate-bundle/

Followed by EveryPlugin - $83.11. Then it’s Audiodeluxe including the DeluxeBucks.

33 minutes ago, Bapu said:

So now can you [lease tell me when the G3MultibusComp and SSL 4KB are on sale for $29.99 each? 😂

If only i could know  

Btw do you have any idea is DeEss’s Brighten function of any good use? I have Essence and I’ll be basically skipping this sale, because of feature overlap between both deessers, but still I see that SSL’s deesser has Brighten which sounds interesting…

Having read this a few days ago I hope that @Bapu will really love this one.

Audiodeluxe is offering a SSL DeEss sale for $29.99. More details here: https://www.audiodeluxe.com/products/audio-plugins/solid-state-logic-ssl-deess

Obviously the so called transient eqs are becoming the new “game changer” and the next best thing since sliced bread  With Eventide, Hofa and Crave looking for new horizons in the already over saturated audio fx market…

Meanwhile the price is really not that bad, having in mind that developers such as Crave DSP will never have sales.

Latest SpectraLayers Pro 10 is using Demucs and has user friendly activation process which doesn’t need to call home to keep software activated unlike Hit’n’Mix products.
 

I gave my RipX DeepRemix activation code to a friend about two weeks ago, because it was useless on my audio post computer that has no Internet access.

Do they still need to call home at least once a month or else the license gets deactivated on the machine? Like a little brother of Corel or Hit’n’Mix.

I’m sorry for quoting myself, but I already wrote that the introductory sale is no longer available: 

We both know that with endless desperate sales as seen in the last couple of years the MSRP of (audio) software is becoming pointless.

Just now, iNate said:

That was the point. Upgrade from SL Pro 6/7 to SL Pro 9 was the same price as SL Pro 9 to SL Pro 10 today. So - obviously it’s more expensive to upgrade today than 1 yr ago.

P.S. If you didn’t notice my upgrade wasn’t SL Pro 8 to SL Pro 9.

18 minutes ago, iNate said:

No.  the upgrade price from 9 to 10 is $79.99.  The price last year from 8-9 was $99.99.  The price from 7-9 was $129.99.

The prices have decreased across the board...

Those are not intro prices.  Those are the prices.  It's ~20% cheaper.

35 minutes ago, chris.r said:

Question to my online fellas, I'm new to UAD, just bought their Dimension D native plugin. Is there a way to install a single plugins? I spent the whole evening looking up for info but really found nothing besides their UA Connect, is it really the only way? Some devs, like Softube, like to promote their Managers and hide other options like manual or offline installation from user so we often have to dig more to find it.

Sadly that’s not the case with UA native plugins, because there’s no way to install them offline and make them work. Tried copy/paste of VST3 folders from one system to another and plugins are non-functional unless I download UA Connect and re-download them, then UA Connect could be uninstalled and they will still run just fine.

8 hours ago, Bruno de Souza Lino said:

SpectraLayers 10 uses the Steinberg Activation Manager, not eLicenser Control though.

There are still many SL 6/7/8 users as seen on Steinberg forums. SL is SAM compatible since version 9. eLCC is also required while upgrading SL 6/7/8 to 10, so it kind of looks more than coincidence that an eLCC update appears on the very same day of the SL 10 release.

2 hours ago, TheSteven said:

My upgrade price from 9 Pro to 10 Pro is $79.99

Don't think that this is an intro price (no info if is or not).
The question is if I'm not going to immediately use it should I hold off hoping for a sale?

Exactly, there are no more introductory discounts since version 10. 

On your place I’d wait for a BF sale when price drops to less than $50. IMO  that will send the right message to seller for the price increase (the missing intro sale).

1 hour ago, iNate said:

This is the best update they've had in years, especially the stuff surrounding vocal cleanup, multi-speaker separation and vocal transcription (the latter of which really needs to come to WaveLab Pro).

However, it's a bit odd that they still haven't released an AudioUnits plug-in for ARA2.

If the upgrade wasn't 20% cheaper than usual, I'm not quite sure if I would have purchased.

Actually the update price increased comparing to 2022. In 2022 SpectraLayers Pro 9 Update from SpectraLayers Pro 7 / 6 was 79.99. Now a SL Pro 9 to 10 update costs the same amount and the update from SpectraLayers Pro 6/7/8 to 10 is 99,99 which I find to be quite an increase of price (25% more). So Steinberg’s sales department have probably made a faux pas by increasing the update price and many SpectraLayers Pro 8 license owners will be waiting for Black Friday.

Thankfully grace period update voucher is automatically triggered by the system after using an activation code purchased during Steinberg’s May sale when SpectraLayers Pro 9 Update from SpectraLayers Pro 8 (which becomes a SpectraLayers Pro 10 Update from SpectraLayers Pro 8 if activation code is used during today’s release) was only 47.99. Steinberg’s SpectraLayers discounts during new version launch were actually a good thing for us customers.

New SpectraLayers 10 was released a couple of hours ago. It’s probably something to do with it.

1 hour ago, Bruno de Souza Lino said:

"Where possible" in this case means they'll either not add any hardware acceleration or only support CUDA.

Hmm. Let’s see how will software developer respond to your question there. Though better results in stem separation even at the expense of more processing time is worth it for me, because I’m using the feature mostly for post work.

According to  author

”Not at release (the bench I posted is CPU-only), but the next patch will add NVIDIA/AMD/Intel HD Graphics/Apple CoreML”

https://forums.steinberg.net/t/spectralayers-10/846749/57