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There was a grace period update for SL 9 last year https://helpcenter.steinberg.de/hc/en-us/articles/115001891190-How-to-verify-eligibility-for-free-Grace-Period-update hopefully there will be one this year too.

It’s using improved Hybrid Transformer Demucs for stem unmixing, so hopefully it will be better at this than RX. In a nutshell, bye-bye RipX - you’re out of the game

It’s a nice synth imho. I’d definitely prefer the activation method with activation codes as provided in this purchase outside PA

I would avoid using license keys from shady online stores, even more when using the following license key on a PC used for business purposes.

According to UA support on Gearspace thread for native plugins “Purchases made from this offer should not trigger thank you coupons.”, but in fact their billing system seems to act strange and gives the $25 coupons to some of its customers, but that wasn’t the case for me. I got 3 out of 4 plugins in two separate orders, but no thankyou coupon Of course you might test your luck and order all of them in separate orders to see if $25 arrive in your account. EDIT: Oh, it looks like I got you wrong and you did actually get the $25 coupon.

This promo code works just fine with my UAD account. Got the Teletronix LA-2A along with Pure Plate Reverb for free with a Volt 2 device a few weeks ago and who knows why the promotion is currently available for me. I have no hw 1176, but I still like TrackComp’s 1176. On the other side TrackComp has no Fairchild emulation as of yet, so getting the UAD Fairchild looks reasonable for me. Also I’m using the Ignite Amps Pultec, but would be happy to replace it with UAD’s Pultec. Now the only question left is how good is UAD’s own 1176 emulation Anyone here to share if they have UAD 1176 and do they prefer it to TrackComp’s 1176 emulation?

Save up to 33% on all plugins Still no sign of sunshine here in Denmark, but at least we have a Spring Sale! Make a great deal on Basslane Pro, Unisum Mastering Compressor, and Kelvin Tone Shaper. Or grab the bundle and save even more. The last day of the sale is April 15, 2023 https://www.toneprojects.com/products.html

Including the “useful” RipX feature of calling home every time you start it. Run it four times with no Internet connection and it will greet you with this cute message: “RipX periodically checks online that the product license is valid. Please note that the next time you run RipX it will need to be connected to the Internet, otherwise creation and editing will be disabled”. Run it disconnected once again and it will promptly deactivate itself. Check it yourselves in the screenshots below. Looks like useless in disconnected post-production environment. Thankfully Demucs that is integrated jn RipX DeepRemix as a source separation utility is completely free and open source and it could be downloaded here: https://github.com/topics/demucs And their software doesn’t support license transfers. I’d stay away from any other products coming from these ppl.

A strange coincidence, probably he was mobilized to be around for their crisis management. I didn’t know about these audio forums back in the years when Waves had no WUP. Audio production is a hobby for me only during the last 3 years. My first impression when I registered here was that the community was upset about Waves update policy, so I stayed away from their plugins, because well, I’m a hobbyist and I prefer to own the copies of software that I paid for. Melda seems like a good actor among sharks just like the few small developers. Let’s see what will its acquisition by Image-Line bring long-term. I hope that it’s simple offline authorization will stay untouched.

Sore losers This is good news for perpetual license owners, but trust was already lost. At least subscription enthusiasm among other audio plugins companies was killed by Waves wrong move. Must have been a great lesson for all of them once and for all. Having in mind that most companies are doing their best to promote their products on forums in the form of “user” comments, it was an earthquake what happened everywhere from Cakewalk Discuss, to KVR, Gearspace and VI-Control communities. Probably the damage was fatal to Waves. Who’ll dare to be the next one?

After the Waves sub-only fiasco other plugin dev companies will think twice before following the Waves steps. Couldn’t be happier. AVID, I hope that you’re taking notes now

They’re backtracking now, LMAO Where are now the Waves advocates of our forum to tell us the tale about the Angry Minority ™ like this guy called @Carl Ewing who was sharing his wishful thinking yesterday, destroying all the critics of Waves sub move.

Sounds like Waves Audio advocacy based on wishful thinking more than a realistic prediction. I hope that the CFO of the company is wiser than this, but looking at the “success” story behind WUP it looks very doubtful.

For those with Macs it’s inevitable for the plugins to become useless sooner rather than later. Selling their plugins in protest might have been the best choice if only they knew that Waves is about to jump the sub train.

Adobe Photoshop was the de-facto standard for raster editing back then. Illustrator still is the preferred vector graphic software (yet some studios around the world are using CorelDRAW). Adobe Premiere is currently losing ground to DaVinci Resolve Studio (lifetime 2-slot license that gives free updates to future versions). Waves was never the audio production/mastering de-facto standard to begin with. They also weren’t the Avid of audii plugins. Of course they have the right to try ruin their own business. With no doubt many other developers will profit from Wave’s losses of customers. One could easily find one of the many online lists of Waves plugins alternatives - from pro-grade to cheap alternatives to free ones. I believe it must have been a difficult decision to destroy a semi-successful audio software company. I’m afraid that what they used to earn with their endless sales they will never see again with their subs model.

Looks like BRA is actively reading the audio forums If I were a (former) Waves Audio customer, I would get this bundle

I feel for every single Waves customer at this very moment In the same time I feel lucky that I never purchased a single plugin from Waves. I preferred plugins and audio software that could be activated with a simple key or static key file (FF, DMG, Valhalla, u-He, Xfer, TDR, Acon, SIR, Tone Projects, Kazrog, Wavesfactory) instead and now I can see what could have happened if I had loads of this $29 per plugin crap. In future I will be even more careful to only get new plugins that offer offline key activation and nothing else. Waves are probably adapting to the new economic really and it’s already obvious that WUP didn’t work well for them. Instead of throwing WUP under the bus they doubled down. A stupid move IMO. Don’t jump the Waves sub train, Waves looks to be an unreliable developer!

When there is working competition, perpetual licensing is still available. Adobe Acrobat Pro, Microsoft Office are first examples that come to my mind. And IMHO audio software business has too much competitive businesses in the game and not that many customers on the other side, which creates hostile environment for sub models. But it looks like some developers are testing the water just to find that their dreams of subscription heaven are unrealistic.

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Challenge/Response for offline activation according to their user manual https://pluginguru.net/unify/manual/doku.php That’s not good & makes me skip, skip, skip, skip.

Here comes the first bug report. My DMG Audio plugins don’t show in VST3 plugins list. Not even a trace of Essence, Limitless and TrackComp 2. However it’s long awaited improvement that is welcome.

Sounds great!

Thank you all for letting me know, URL fixed.

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Thank you for sharing your experience with Rosetta emulated plugins. I was really curious, having read many times about low performance under Rosetta, but I wasn’t aware about the number of loaded plugins limit under Rosetta, being a Windows laptop user myself.