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1 hour ago, Paul Young said:

 My mistake.    It was Metro Exodus that I didn't like.  The game above is decent.  I didn't really care for the ending.

Isn't Exodus the final/latest instalment in the series? Did they do a poor job despite doing a good first (2033) and second (Last Light) entry in the series?

I think that's the price for Ethera Gold 2.5.

Cyberworld is a preset-pack expansion priced at $11.95

I don't think I expected anything else from a company that charges for x.5 updates.

I'm sure Cubase is a very fine product, but charging for updates and needing a dongle are two things that stopped me from considering Steinberg when Cakewalk went under.

A fairly good deal, though not sure why someone would buy at 20% off when they could have bought at up to 50% off (+further 10% with 3 or more products) during the BF sale just a few weeks ago.

34 minutes ago, mibby said:

The PB freebie of the month has stolen me away from AudioDeluxe. AD needs to up their game!

Depends what you're after - AD give 'back' 10% with their DeluxeBucks; PB give 5%, plus 20p per review

Hey @Eusebio Rufian-Zilbermann - I just noticed the link in your signature and decided to click it; strangely, I no longer feel so bad about the number of plugins I have .

At 4420 items your plugin scan must take minutes! In a private version of that spreadsheet, I dare you to put in the cost of each plugin and look at the total 😁

2 hours ago, Reid Rosefelt said:

Even if you have some Adagios laying around it's a good deal because they have different stuff that Anthology doesn't.  

Are you sure Reid? I'm only asking because to my understanding, Adagio has gone through a few iterations and apparently the newest version doesn't have what the original versions did - I'm happy to stand corrected, as I'm a little confused about this string library's evolution.

Interesting... I might pick this up one day. I admit I haven't fully followed this thread, so sorry if these questions have already been answered but:

• With previous versions, I could buy any edition and get any missing gear I needed separately as and when needed. Is this the same with AT5? I saw something about VIR that might mean you can't 'upgrade' your editions (CS/SE/Standard/Max) through the custom shop?
• It looks like the AT5 installer is quite big because of the IRs - are these subject to the 180 day download time limit?

26 minutes ago, Magic Russ said:

Remind me again, which is better, "deeply sampled" or "sampled in exquisite detail"?  If I'm going to have the piano take up 75GB on my hard drive I want to have whichever one is better.

Both deeply sampled and sampled in exquisite detail sound wonderful. However, I don't have 75GB to spare on a piano/s; as much as I have loved the sound of some pianos recently on sale, I'll stick with Pianoteq.

23 minutes ago, cclarry said:

Appears to be a lot of that going on!  On Audio Plugin Sales, Deals , and Freebies, there's a lot of people
saying that they are being redirected to Whitehouse.gov!

Sounds like something's gone wrong at the DNS level, and all websites are being redirected

26 minutes ago, TerraSin said:

Try to log in and it sends you to https://www.whitehouse.gov

Yeaaaaah

I signed up and got the music box earlier; didn't get redirected to another site

If making a purchase, it might be a good idea to use the secure/https version of the website

https://www.cobbermedia.com/product/music-box-dlx/

11 hours ago, JoeGBradford said:

Just got a freebie from Time & Space - AAS Chromaphone 3 - Solids soundpack!

Hey Joe - when did that come through? I made a purchase on Friday evening (first day for that promotion) and have been waiting for the freebie. Thought it might be because a person needs to 'authorise' it rather than it being an automated thing, though I'm currently wondering if I need to write to them (though they probably wouldn't respond on the weekend)

1 minute ago, cclarry said:

The Adagio Individual Libraries are normally $98...not $248.  The bundle is normally $249, and $98 in the sale

Good spot - my fault for just copy/pasting that bit from their blog without checking

The New Adagio Bundle Anthology $98

Or, you can get the individual volumes separately:

• The New Adagio Violins $38 (goes $248 on December 25th)
• The New Adagio Violas $38 (goes $248 on December 25th)
• The New Adagio Cellos $38 (goes $248 on December 25th)
• The New Adagio Basses $38 (goes $248 on December 25th)

https://8dio.com/

Personal disclaimer: with the transformations that the Adagio series has gone through, I have no idea whether the $98 bundle includes everything that all of the separate $38 volumes would have; if anyone knows, please add to the thread.

1 hour ago, paulo said:

HINT: Next time, try posting before you tell everyone else about it.😉

It won't matter - somehow, Larry just knows 😁

Worth noting that this is also available from Time+Space, where any purchase over £10 will get you AAS Solids. Hopefully AAS will be willing to substitute Solids for another pack if you already have it.

They've been a little sporadic with their emails as well. For those who can remember to check, they update their blog post (fairly regularly) with their daily deals:

https://8dio.com/2020/12/03/holiday-sale/

The latest deal is for 15 Dec: Dark Prophecy for $48

1 hour ago, simon said:

When you have it then a whole world of free, cheap and often really excellent stuff opens up.  The cost of buying it is totally offset by the freebies and cheapies....

Completely agree with this. Just as an example, there have been 23 Cinematique Instruments KLANG freebies and 10 8Dio On the House libraries released so far (that I'm aware of). If you considered the price of Kontakt (which would be even less if you you crossgrade from a Player library), you could think of it as £11 per instrument; even less if you start considering freebies from other companies.

To all guitar amp sim fans - how does AT5 compare (sound and cpu) with the competition? (e.g. BIAS FX, TH-U, S-Gear, Nembrini, your current favourite amp sim)

16 hours ago, Fret Flintstone said:

I'm still on 1903 with my main machines, my laptops are on whatever Microsoft has dished out, the Laptops are nothing important so I don't really care, but they seem to work OK. Not that they get used for anything other than going on the Net and downloading files etc. Haven't noticed anything undesirable, I don't look into any new stuff that gets added or anything like that, If the laptops were running Pro they would likely still be on 1903 as well.

You may (or not) want to consider upgrading at some point: iirc each release is normally supported for 18 months - 1903 would have been released around March 2019.

They go really fast! There were just over 600 when I started the sign-up process - down to around 350 by the time I was able to get a copy.

Looks like they have reintroduced their 'bundle maker' though - if anyone has enough left over to spend, these discounts are available with the corresponding code:

You might still be able to save 25% on the Bela D media shop with the code SAVE25

https://www.beladmedia.com/

If I'm not interested in using Rigs, is upgrading from TH-3 to TH-U worth it? (e.g. modelling quality, features, etc) I already have Bias FX 2  (yeah, I know some people say it's rubbish, but I think it sounds good enough for me)