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Was your PayPal account actually charged? Your account itself should be safe; if you're worried, you can turn on 2FA* but it's very unlikely anyone got your credentials. * you should probably do this anyway, irrespective of this incident

The closest to that currently in existence is probably something like Splice. A single Steam-like platform would be a nice idea, but I'm not sure I would want to/could re-purchase all of my plugins.

@Peter - IK Multimedia My experience with the IK Product Manager has been fairly smooth. There is one piece of constructive feedback that I will offer that in my (and maybe some others') opinion will bring IK's level of professionalism up to that of IK's competitors: please ask your team to explore the option of digitally signing IK's product installers/binaries.

Think I saw a post on here a while back where someone tried to get substitutions for all duplicates from a bundle pack like this. IIRC, support said that they do this out of courtesy (as Larry mentioned), and that in that particular case they were willing to sub one or two from the whole set. If you decide to try, bear in mind that: Their willingness may depend on how much you've previously spent with them You may be left with some duplicates depending on how many they decide to swap (if any) It may influence them to discontinue doing this in future

Not sure about the MTMs, but the iLoud Micro Monitors are very good. After looking around, I rarely find that buying anything direct from IK is the cheapest option (even after Jam points); I would recommend that you look around at other retailers.

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Another good reason is the KLANG series from Cinematique Instruments https://klang.cologne/klang21_free.php

They tried this tactic again on a slightly more recent song: Love is Noise. IMO, it sounds like a loop of Pingu chuckling and doesn't really work for me; I'm sure others love the sound though.

Hmm... doesn't seem to mention whether a TPM will still be needed

I would agree, but my wallet and disk space meters generally start frowning when I fill up my cart with SDXs

I know this will be subjective, but is Legacy of Rock better than some of the other newer SDXs (e.g. The Rooms of Hansa, Decades) too?

Looks like it's Mac-only at the moment. I'm going to guess it will be higher, pricewise - the new AMEK 9099 console has a list price of $449; Style Creator seems like bx_masterdesk ($299), but with a lot more tweakability, different producer styles, possibly some behind-the-scenes AI, and batch/parallel processing (not sure this will actually be useful if running on a single machine).

Not 100% on this, but I think the factory library's the same - in my Native Access, I can see Kontakt 5, and Kontakt (i.e. version 6), but there's only one Kontakt Factory Library; two if you also count Kontact Factory Selection, but it doesn't seem version specific. If you're only using one or two sounds from the factory libraries, you could always just bounce down the tracks (you can keep the MIDI parts in case you ever need to change them).

Depends on what someone needs - you can find a comparison table here: https://www.izotope.com/en/products/rx/features.html#comp The features exclusive to Advanced are: Dialogue Isolate Spectral Recovery Wow & Flutter correction Dialogue Contour Dialogue De-reverb De-rustle Ambience Match Center Extract De-wind Deconstruct Azimuth EQ Match Leveler Surround Support

That said, the lowest I've seen the 9000J for was $99, and that was a 1 (or 2) day special.

If you're planning on adding to your sonic palette, some of the newer libraries require Kontakt 6. If you like vocals, ETHERA Gold 2.5 sounds really good (and Daniele's voice really does complement Clara's); it requires Kontakt 6.4.2.

Not right now - they just want $499 at the moment. I get it - you don't need the extras, but it's a pretty good deal for someone who might.

As Larry mentioned, PRO is sub only. Most probably what will happen is that PRO will always contain the bleeding-edge feature set as soon as those features are ready. However, every year or two the feature set will 'freeze' and become MPS 5, etc. This is pure speculation on my part though.

Yes - though I thought I saw somewhere that if you've bought it before, you'll still be able to continue downloading it from your account if you need the installer. Might not get any VST version updates though.

I've read that SSDs function best when there's ~10% free space available. Does anyone know if this applies to an SSD being used as a sample drive, where I'm mostly only reading data off it?

If you want to help, buy something - nobody said you have to use or even install anything you buy.

I know this is a more expensive solution, but if you like their stuff, you could wait until the sale they usually have around the end of the year - pick up three discounted libraries, and you could choose the fourth for free.

No brakes? I'm guessing it was (too) easy to get full kontakt 😜

Is there anything in the group buy that isn't in TSM3? I'm guessing one or two of the newer instruments for SampleTank?

True - but don't forget that unlike other subs, you get back a voucher of equal value to pick up your favourites (ideally during a sale).