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I have CorelDRAW 2018 and I like it; I just can't justify an upgrade to the latest version given both my usage pattern, and the upgrade cost. The only other thing that drives me mad about the upgrade popups is that they have different discount levels on different days: in the last two weeks, I've had adverts seemingly randomly giving discounts of any of 15%, 30%, 50%, and 55%.

Agreed. I was going to mention Affinity, but wasn't sure if it'd be taking the thread OT. I bought Photo a while ago as a replacement for Corel PhotoPaint (can't justify buying Photoshop for my usage pattern), and really like it. Recently bought Designer because I didn't fancy signing up for a Corel subscription. I might look into Publisher one day.

If anyone's thinking of getting CorelDRAW, here's something to keep in mind. Apparently this version will be the final version that has upgrades: as I understand it, there are three approaches to getting the next version (whenever it comes out): Buy it 'full' priced (i.e. not at upgrade price) Pay a subscription (where if you stop paying, you can't use the software anymore) Pay for their upgrade plan: this is like a subscription, but you can keep the last version you had if you stop paying I don't think this applies to any other product in their range.

They're in caps because of me? Well now... I'm honoured.

Deal prices are now also available on Time+Space

I caved in... Just installed the libs, and my first question is: why are all instrument names spelt IN CAPITAL LETTERS, except Signal?

I'm quite surprised by that: I would have expected it to tell you that for that price, you could get over 100 plugins worth over $30,000 for around 0 months by subscribing to their Mega Plugin pack... either that, or that there was a minimum spend of $30 to use that code.

Anyone know if this is any good? I've already got Audiority's TS-1, Boz's Transgressor, and the one that comes with Komplete: I know it's free but I don't want to add another plugin to my list if I'm unlikely to use it.

The sounds reminds me of listening to MIDI files with my old SoundBlaster back in the day 🙂

I emailed them to ask about upgrading from Portal. Apparently upgrades are independent from the sale price - you can either buy the bundle at sale price, or you can buy an upgrade at non-sale price. A little sucky, but still cheaper than the non-sale bundle price.

Seems interesting - I watched a shorter video on it to get an overall feel and was hoping someone would be able to fill in the gaps on something for me. The video I watched mentioned that it can suggest certain chord progressions in a particular style: in demo, the guy clicked on one of the options and a chord progression appeared in the top section of the plugin. Are those more like presets (i.e. you get the same progression each time), or is it something more like 'give me some chords in the style of' and it generates them according to some algorithm?

It's not on sale right now, but how about Gross Beat? https://www.image-line.com/plugins/Effects/Gross+Beat/ PS. Are you able to get a refund on Glitch bitch? If you don't have a dongle, you can't have 'used' the license.

And therein lies the problem with items that consistently move on and off my wishlist 🙂 To be honest, I did like the sound of analogue strings/brass; Signal did look inspirational. November's not over - time will tell...

The Output bundle's been flirting with a place on my wishlist for a long time now. I finally talked myself out of it last month and settled with Portal alone (using a T+S discount code), not realising Output would be having a sale this month 🙁 So with the sale going, the GAS is kicking in again and for some reason I'm contemplating the bundle all over again. Their stuff does look really cool, but I do wonder if I'd end up actually using it in my music; this pretty much sums up what I'm worried I'll be feeling like: Thanks Reid: I think you've helped me save some cash for some other BF deals!

Last I heard, their synth Union didn't support MIDI velocity. It was also quite CPU hungry, which it has been pointed out, is quite common for wavetable synths. These factors may or may not have changed with the latest updates, and may or may not affect your decision to buy.

Completely agree: knowing their $4 sale ended yesterday, I went ahead and upgraded my player to the full versions and added four expansions. Had I known they would sale the everything bundle I probably would have made an impulse buy and bought the bundle. Oh well, not too crushed I have only four expansions: I ended up paying less, and so I have a little more to put towards other BF deals.

They had one a little while back (along with their other titles), but it's ended now

Unless I'm mistaken (which I could well be), they're modelled rather than sampled

One of my 'favourite' Mac sales lines is (paraphrased): Mac's don't get PC viruses

Maybe it's because I'm ok with music theory, but I don't see why square would be easier to handle than e.g. C: a chord sequence of square, hexagon, hexagon, triangle, pentagon, square doesn't seem that friendly to me.

I don't understand: when I logged in, my 'upgrade' price was 299 euros - exactly the same as a new customer for the BF sale (and I have V Collection 6) 😕

I can't say for sure - my guess would be that it's a motherboard driver that's responsible for using thermal sensors/sending signals to onboard cooling fans (i.e. a very low-level driver); ilok is a very low-level security related driver that wants access to everything, and the two both overlap in some way?

plankjock doesn't really sound like a domain that would be good to visit... for anything...

Hmm... I feel a Coldplay inspired song coming... Look at the LEDs Look how they shine for you And everything you do Yeah they were all yellow

Dunno; probably not. But... I can't imagine it would take that long to just switch everything off at night, given it's causing you this much distress