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16 hours ago, simon said:

Possibly - but the evidence suggests they are also wanting to gouge as much money out of people as possible.

I've edited my post to reflect that they are good people according to others on here, and that I have no personal experience with them to agree or disagree with this statement.

16 hours ago, simon said:

yes - and they even posted ON THIS FORUM that they knew that PA offered vouchers and sales.  They were well aware about it on their own forums too.

I noticed that too, and it seems to add evidence to the first quoted statement of this post.

16 hours ago, simon said:

We can also assume that GP4 is around the corner.  What they should have done is welcome ALL their existing customers on board, charge them ALL an upgrade fee to get to GP4 and move on.  

Agree. When Dear Reality (semi) parted ways with PA, they offered a free licence transfer (as someone here already mentioned). DR later released a reverb, and a distortion effect. In truth, I have 'need' for neither as I already have plenty of plugins in those categories. But they seemed cool, and I thought they sounded pretty good. So I bought a copy of them both.

I also don't know what the admin fee is about. I bought several library from Time+Space. When they packed up, it meant I could no longer (re)download any of my purchases. But, every single company that I contacted (so far) with proof added me as a customer free of charge, regardless of whether I used a T+S voucher or not. That includes developers that very rarely/never go on sale, and developers that prioritise their own store much more over reseller purchases.

I bought GP with a voucher from PA. I didn't particularly need it. I bought it because of a combination of hearing good things about it, having nothing else I wanted from PA at the time, and my PA voucher expiring soon. Had Deskew accepted the purchase, I probably would have paid for the next upgrade even though I hardly use it.

But they chose not to.

And as I don't really use it, I don't think I'll crossgrade or upgrade. And their sentiments seem to indicate that we'll both be ok that decision.

16 minutes ago, Yan Filiatrault said:

Installed…  Well, all Izotope, and almost all PA and NI (oh my, I think I’m becoming like someone else here!)

Do you have everything from Toontrack too? 😁

So from what I've seen:

1. Deskew don't discount. They want everyone to pay the same price for Gig Performer (with exceptions for education).
2. Deskew receive a certain percentage of sales-income from PA when people buy Gig Performer (from PA).
3. Deskew is a small company and want to be fully compensated for each sale. According to others on here, they are good people; I have no personal experience with them to agree or disagree with this statement.
4. When people buy GP at a discount from PA (sales, vouchers, etc.), Deskew receive a certain percentage from the actual amount paid. This amount is less than full price, and thus conflicts with (3).
5. Deskew want to detach from PA because of the conflict in (4), which has only now been realised.

Gig Performer's been available for purchase for a long time from PA - at least a few years. I'm not sure I understand: did nobody at Deskew check their income stream/s to see that the income from PA was lower than expected?

33 minutes ago, bitflipper said:

Harold Nyquist figured out how many samples would be necessary to accurately transmit a specified frequency range, when he was working at Bell Labs. But smart as he was, he could not come up with a mathematical proof. That challenge was ultimately conquered many years later by a fellow by the name of Claude Shannon, arguably one of the smartest math dudes to ever make the rest of us feel hopelessly dumb.

Interesting. I've heard of and read about the Nyquist frequency, but this is the first time I've heard of Claude Shannon. I wonder why his name isn't part of the (Nyquist frequency) term.

As for subjective posts, I seem to remember someone used to claim that the Cubase(?) engine sounded 30-40% better than the Sonar one, despite never sharing how that measurement was qualified.

To be honest, I expected that my account might disappear when Cakewalk did. I'm surprised (and happy) that Bandlab has kept it alive. I wasn't so lucky when Time+Space shut shop.

(To be clear, I'm not blaming T+S for their misfortune and have no ill-will against them.)

22 minutes ago, Bapu said:

Becan, the answer is *ALWAYS* becan.

'42', 'Becan': universal answers...

So... 42 Becan?

43 minutes ago, kitekrazy said:

People do that all of the time with video games.  No an assassin or solder wouldn't do that in reality.

Wait... Are you telling me that no soldier could actually carry out what happens in the DOOM series of games? This is worse than learning about the Easter bunny...

22 minutes ago, Last Call said:

Image doesn't load, is it working as intended?

It didn't for me at first, but does now. Trying a different browser worked for me initially.

Love the sound traps. Truly egg-cellent.

51 minutes ago, paulo said:

You know what.... ?

I'm gonna get me one.

Not the cheap one either.....

I'm getting the $8799 all singing and dancing one....

 

 

I just want to find out what it feels like to have too much money.

Good for you! Be sure to take a look at these accessories too. I'm not sure what makes a stand £949, but I'm sure there's a good reason.

8 minutes ago, paulo said:

The real question is.....

Does the big Mac come with fries ?

no, but it does come with chips...

5 minutes ago, PavlovsCat said:

To throw my hat in the ring with analogies, it's like buying a bike from a man who tells you, "I will give you free maintenance for your bike for the remainder of my life!" However, he ends up dying six months later and his son sells all of his bike maintenance tools to a neighbor. So you track down the late seller's neighbor and angrily demand that he honor the agreement of the now deceased seller of the bike. 

Nice analogy.

The (unrelated) lifetime deal that I once got confused over was for a circuit breaker. Back in the day where everything was corded, it was commonplace to need a power cord to plug lawnmowers into. I saw a power extension cord with built-in circuit breaker for sale once, sold as a lawnmower accessory; its description said it came with a lifetime guarantee. I'm still not overly sure to which party the lifetime refers to 😁

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The M2 Ultra version of the Mac Studio comes with up to 192GB of memory, and as much as 8TB of solid-state storage. Note that in configuring your Studio system for purchase, the new M2 Ultra comes in a choice of two graphics levels: a 60-core GPU, or a 76-core version. The M2 Ultra version of the Studio starts at $3,999, but with all the possible upgrades, the top configuration sells for $8,799.

Too pricy for me... (too Mac-y as well...)

Whenever I see MultiDynamics, I always think it's one of Melda's plugins 😁

9 minutes ago, bitflipper said:

So do some of your audio plugins, whether they advertise it or not. That's partly why your Melda and FabFilter stuff is so CPU-efficient.

Didn't know that - I thought they only used it for the UI.

Well, I learn something new every day - thanks.

45 minutes ago, Lamia6 said:

Thinking its still in the works because there is no way that can be correct. New 3D fighting games don't even require that much processing power.

But 3D games offload to the GPU. It's a bit apples vs. oranges as CPU instructions are different from GPU instructions, but here are the specs of NVidia's GeForce 40x series cards. (from https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/graphics-cards/40-series/)

20 minutes ago, trager said:

Why is no one talking about the paler shade of orange?!

We skipped the light fandango
Turned cartwheels 'cross the floor...

Oh wait, we're talking about a paler shade of orange aren't we? Sorry, wrong colour... 😁

11 minutes ago, Bapu said:

For some tasks I find it VS Code helpful, but I've been using Epsilon (emacs based) editor since the early 90s. Back then it was the only Editor I could find that was Unix/Windows cross platform, as I worked in both. Muscle memory persists to this day.

Fair enough. I had my share of emacs back in the day, and then some VI (some people swear by it, some people swear at it 😁). They weren't for me, but I appreciate that old habits stick. Tools are tools; use whatever's most comfortable I say.

16 minutes ago, paulo said:

then announce it without actually announcing is  bizarre behaviour to me, but it seems to be the way of modern marketing. Treat everybody like children.....ooh look everyone, we have this new thing, but we're not going to tell you everything about it ... you'll have to wait a bit longer because for some reason marketing people either think it makes it more interesting (actually has the opposite effect on me) or they think their customers are the kind of people who just can't handle being told everything in one go. 

As you say, it's a modern marketing technique. By not letting someone have it immediately, it's supposedly making the audience think about it subconsciously: 'Won't it be great? I wonder what features it will have... I have to have it... I must have it!'.

And then when it's finally available, people are more ready to buy. At the very least it helps initial sales numbers as those interested have some notice.

Or at least that's my understanding of it. I'm not a marketing person though; I'm sure @PavlovsCat would be able to offer a better insight of this technique.

22 minutes ago, Bapu said:

 

Notepad++ is awesomly superb.

VS Code is better. I can't think of a single time in recent years where I've though otherwise.

18 hours ago, Bad Penguin said:

Will this eventually be incorporated with Komplete (e.g., in 2025, NI K15 UCE)?

[I hate buying individual "instruments" when they eventually will be included in a bundle, for a fraction of the individual price]

 

Most probably; this came out after 14, so that's a good reason why it isn't in 14.

Not sure why anybody would be allergic to Kontakt Player 7 - it's free, and there are no intrusive copy protection systems (you're free to shut down Native Access after the installation too). But yes - avoid it if you don't want to run Kontakt Player 7.

9 hours ago, Nick Blanc said:

I always wanted to try out VS, which is €99. So I have to spend €90 to get VS for 10% which is €9,90. In total that is €99,90. And that would get me VS and some other product I don't really want. Sorry, I wish them a very happy birthday, but they will have to celebrate without me.

I thought VS looked interesting, so I watched a few videos on it a while ago. Note that things may have changed since those videos were made, but VS is (or was at that time) aimed primarily at live performance - there is no way to export a video synced with your song. I seem to remember that one of the suggested workarounds was to get a screen recorder and record a real-time playthrough.

2 hours ago, MarcL said:

There is just one single case where it would be an advantage to use iLok: If iZotope would go belly up (I know, it is not so likely for such a big company, but still not impossible), then it would still be possible to use their products on a new machine with iLok, whereas with machine authorization your lost!

Most companies (say they) will provide all users with an unlocked version of their software if they pack up. I remember Accusonus did when it decided to discontinue their product line. Whether other follow through if something unfortunate happens to them will (probably) be dependent on their circumstances.

I've used iZotope products for years and have never had a problem with their copy protection system. (I don't use iLok.)