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7 hours ago, Brian Walton said:

I'm not sure Affinity couldn't end up with the same issue potentially.

At one point they had the rather genius move to add easy access to 3 stock image providers.  Well we only have 2 in Affinity today becuase one got greedy and decided to charge for the API which Affinity had no intention of doing and suddently it disapeared in an "update"

It's certainly possible. I think Affinity would need to have much more of a market share for them to consider it though. This whole thing started because Adobe didn't want to pay a license fee any longer. For now though, it can certainly work to Serif's benefit.

Funnily enough, Affinity comes with Pantone colours. Photoshop just lost them because of a pissing match going on between Adobe and Pantone and Pantone is now charging a monthly subscription for them to be in Photoshop. This is a really good video about what is going on. This is really going to help Serif get more companies who do professional product design moving their way.

Disclosure, despite the clickbait topic, he's not suggesting piracy.

1 hour ago, Fleer said:

Same goes for Serum 2

Serum 2 is coming!

...eventually. 🙃

Being worked on atm but that's about all I know. Steve mentioned someone was working on it with him and I can't for the life of me remember who it was.

Ahh bummer. Was hoping I'd get the $99 price point for registering this. Guess I'll hold off getting Total Studio Max for now. I must read the fine print next time. Heh

Does anyone know if this will drop the price of Total Studio Max? Was thinking of picking that up.

https://www.guitarcenter.com/IK-Multimedia/T-RackS-Tape-Machine-Collection-Plug-in.gc

Guitar Center still has it for $30!

5 hours ago, boxed said:

Did you guys read the FAQ on the Affinity site? They said they have no way of telling apart those who own v1 and those who don't because of the different app store policies. Most people that own Affinity bought from the various App Stores and not the Affinity website.  Apple and Microsoft simply don't give enough personal data to make the upgrade pricing work for the new cross platform Universal Licence (that covers Windows, MacOS, iOS and iPad OS).  So they decided to offer the upgrade price to everyone including new users. Therefore launch price is the upgrade discount and it costs less than a 2 month Adobe subscription.

Strange. I assumed everyone needed an account with Serif when they bought it anyway so not sure why the "where" would matter? Either way, I bought it without a second thought because $99 is a good price for a version updatre on 3 different applications which is about what I expected to pay for the v2 upgrades anyway. I'm not worried that everyone else got the same price. Doesn't matter to me. I'm happy with my price.

6 minutes ago, Nick Blanc said:

I was hoping upgrades were free. I seem to remember something like that. Or did they circumvent this by releasing a version 2?

They mentioned that you'd get free upgrades through the life of the version. Their intention was always paid version upgrades though. Plus, V1 was going strong for 7 years before they did this upgrade to v2. That's a good long time.

1 minute ago, Daniel Hulse said:

Agreed. Plus you actually get to keep the software instead of renting it.

Still wish they had come out with an After Effects competitor... but who knows...

 

 

I was hoping for a Lightroom style photo organizer as well.

9 minutes ago, daveiv said:

$100 for three cross-platform apps is a pretty good deal, but I wish they'd give me some upgrade discount.

Agreed. I was expecting some sort of upgrade discount but eh, $99 for all 3 is a really good discount in itself and I'm not worried about what others are paying, really.

Ohhhhhhh that's a pretty one! Thanks for sharing

28 minutes ago, trager said:

Do these bundles come as separate serials? Already have some of what’s included.

Yes, each library has it's own code

I'm on Komplete 10 Ultimate

Can I just say that was the fastest store website I've ever used? It was very responsive. O_O

On 8/4/2022 at 3:36 PM, Starship Krupa said:

Check Microsoft Store and the iOS App Store and Google Play Store. All of them have SomaFM players that allow you to Like songs and go directly to sites where you can purchase them. I haven't checked, but the MacOS App Store probably does, too.

Whatever CODEC they're using is really good.

On 8/4/2022 at 3:48 PM, abacab said:

Ohhh thanks, guys! Will check these out tonight.

1 minute ago, abacab said:

The web browser HTML version on PC works well. The main page lets you browse all of the stations, and the pop-out HTML web player controls the playback for the selected station.

Yeah, I'd just like something akin to Spotify's app so it didn't have to run through a browser. I'm strange when it comes to all this browser based stuff. I've always liked everything in their own apps. Especially since browsers are trash when it comes to resource balancing. Hell, Firefox is using over 2gigs of RAM right now. lol

I love SomaFM. I don't love that they disabled streaming on platforms such as in games. lol

There are some amazing stations on there though. I wish they would put a software player out that would allow browsing stations easier. I still run it in Winamp. lol

23 hours ago, Brian Walton said:

I think it is an issue of timing.  If you look at the deals we saw last week (if you factor in universal voucher codes), I don't see how anyone could possibly suggest there were not deals to be had (Amek 9099 + one of many other top shelf plugins for a combined $37 was frankly amazing).  Of course if you spent $50 for the Amek using a $75 voucher less than 2 months ago...and spent $25 on Blackbox MS using a $75 voucher last month....like someone I know....it might not have felt like the best timing.  

I have no doubt the next deal is going to be amazing for new comers.  However, those of us that have been purchasing in mass quantities over the last few years with the plugin boom, we might be in for some disappointment with too much overlap of what we already purchased.  

The bigger issue I think is that many of the new plugins they've been putting out lately are just not up to par with a lot of the stuff they've released in the past. They've taken the road that Waves took and are spending much more time on promotion and advertising while sculpting their image rather than investing in the quality of their products. There was an interesting discussion the other day on how they've essentially molded a fanbase that would support them in giving off the image that they are top tier when they really aren't. Waves did that same thing for years. How many people would get started in production thinking that Waves plugins were the best in class because they were the name thrown around by everyone despite their quality severely dropping over the years? I think that's the bigger picture that people need to be focused on with PA right now. Regardless of their marketing, their new products just aren't hitting the marks.

At this point, I'm filing everything PA under my "who cares" folder. They are really screwing the pooch lately.

Anthony is awesome. I've learned so much from him.

Did they update or something? This has been out for quite some time. The reception has been kind of "meh" because the interface is so badly designed (like Absynth was) but the sounds are awesome.

$149 for me but they seem to do this right before a new version then have an obscene intro upgrade price.

24 minutes ago, Barrie said:

I'm seeing $1399.00

You have to be on their mailing list or something. They send you a discount code.

4 minutes ago, StopWar said:

Haruki Murakami calls McDonalds food junk food and most people in Russia agree with this. So it's not McDonalds, that's gonna put end to the sick dictator's regime.

It used to be the case when the war started. Now the situation has changed. Most people do understand that it's horrible slaughter of innocent people in the name of usurper who claims to be national leader. By most I mean more than half. Not sure how many exactly.

Most people in America agree with it as well yet it's still one of the highest grossing restaurants in the country. This is also why Russians were lined up around blocks to get their last fix of it yesterday when the news broke. Plenty of videos available online of this happening so obviously many do care.

Regardless of how many people you believe may know, the fact that there are still those who don't is a problem.

There are a few reasons this is happening. The first is the tougher the world makes it on Russians, the more likely the government is to cave when the general populous gets angry with their government about being blocked from literally everything.

The second part, possibly the more important one is that most people in Russia have no idea what is really going on because their media is being very controlled right now and they are painting a picture that the rest of the world is at fault. By things like McDonald's pulling out of the country, people are going to want to know what is really going on and will start to question.

Yes, it sucks. It's going to suck for a while but it's absolutely needed at this point.