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If you're considering alternatives, don't forget about HitFilm either. Don't know how it compares against the competition, but I quite like it.

In case I come off sounding a bit negative, I should probably say this just to be clear. I have no problem with companies wanting to be paid; I have no problem with companies diversifying their payment methods: perpetual licences, subscriptions, rent-to-own - they all have their own advantages/disadvantages. Personally I prefer perpetual licences over the others (and hope they don't remove this option in future, like certain design-software companies decided to go with), but I can see how they can be beneficial in certain circumstances.

Actually I forgot: there's Elements too; up to five different versions of plugins.

So now there are Standard, Advanced, Plus (for Nectar), and Pro versions of their plugins? Sounds like too many versions to me, especially as they don't even make clear what the differences are for Nectar Plus.

Ironically, you can already do this with iZotope (and many other companies') plugins on Splice. As far I know, this method of purchase has been available for quite some time now with iZotope plugins. https://splice.com/plugins/search?q=izotope

Thanks for chiming in Simeon! As the guy who seems to have reviewed every single piano library out there (and then some), it's great to hear your perspective on things.

Yeah... but they pretty much own Ferrari, and they're still pretty sought/dreamt after

Their decision to remove CorelDRAW upgrade pricing made me say "Hello Affinity!"

Hey Fleer, how would you rate Lounge Lizard vs Pianoteq's electric pianos? I've already got the former, and was wondering whether to put the latter on my wishlist should they have another instrument pack sale this year.

Just had a listen to the sound demos - it sounds versatile and quite gorgeous. I'll grab a demo and try it out.

As mibby mentioned, you need to buy the Gallien Krueger 800RB (you can bring the price down to $39.99 with the code GK-INTRO-3999). From the product description (and Larry's post): https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/products/gallien_krueger_800rb.html

I know guitar tone is subjective, but can anyone recommend any good PA amps? I was thinking the Fuchs ones sound quite nice.

Personally, I love their GEM plugins. I would recommend waiting for a sale. There was a time a few years ago when they put a different GEM on sale every week, but more recently their sales coincide with the 'main' sales (e.g. Black Friday, etc). If you already have a GEM, you can further discount the discount price with a code that's available when you log in (I'm pretty sure it's the same for everyone, but I'm not going to post it).

IIRC the green one can be got with one of their any-plugin-for-29.99 vouchers that they sometimes/used-to give away; the red one is newer and $49.99 is the lowest price I've seen for it so far.

Are you sure that's iLok related? I thought iLok for Melodyne 5 was optional; according to their FAQ, one of your activations must be via their own proprietary licensing system:

Nah... we don't know this definition because we frequent the Deals forum too often, and subsequently don't have anything to save 😁

I hear some people hang them on trees too

If anyone still has a voucher, it apparently expires 25 Feb. I'm guessing there'll be a March-themed sale for a few days at the end of the month.

Had to look up Laravel. PHP - eww 😜

UI looks a lot nicer than v1

FYI: These expansions are FREE for Everything Bundle Users, Here's how our SynthMaster One users can download them inside SynthMaster One: 1. Click on the 'Browse' button to switch to the Preset Browser page 2. Click on the 'KV331Audio Shop' button to switch to the KV331 Audio Shop page 3. Right click on the products list, select "Refresh my licenses" menu. 4. Right click on the products list, select "Restore my expansions" menu, SynthMaster One will start downloading the bank(s)

Might be an idea to enable 2FA on your account

I understand your point, but the "it's been done before" argument could also be applied to pianos, strings, guitars, drums, vibraphones, etc... I'm sure each library offers a slightly different tone, or articulation set, or something.

For £419, I hope this is a really good reverb. I think for now, I'll stick with the reverbs I already have...

I picked this up yesterday. I was initially going to go with a less pricey basket, but then realised that you can use a max of one coupon code per checkout, meaning I would have missed out on some other savings. As these bulk MIDI packs never go on sale (unlike the individual MIDI packs), I thought this would be a good use for the coupon.