Technostica

I buy mid to high end air coolers because you have the headroom to run them silently or very quietly provided you don’t buy a power guzzling CPU.

If you undervolt that helps with noise also.

If you are in the UK and possibly other countries, Samsung are running a promotion.

You can trade in any unworking HDD/SSD for up to £100 off an SSD.

Managed to grab a 4TB QVO for a net £156. Bought an ancient 80GB SATA drive from a local tech exchange for 50p to use for the exchange. Free to send it to Samsung also.

Shame the 8TB version is excluded as could have bought one for a net £280.

Basic drives, but at these prices I have no complaints.

Are license transfers even eligible for the Group Buy?

I have presumably been able to use freebies in the past as I was given one for the recent synth GB.

An acquaintance gave me a license out of the blue and it worked.

There are people selling cheap licences that they advertise as being eligible and based on their feedback records I believe them.

Oh, the ethical dilemma of it all.

32 minutes ago, Sander Verstraten said:

Must be that chip shortage 😂

Well you gotta feed the developers something.

2 hours ago, Peter - IK Multimedia said:

The T-RackS Group Buy is currently 11 for the price of 1

Well IKM have always seemed a bit Spinal Tap to me. 😀

16 minutes ago, Paul Young said:

Nope it's not Kontakt.  It's another player.

System requirements:    Free KONTAKT PLAYER or KONTAKT (Version 6.2 or higher).

As a reminder, I recommend deauthorizing certain software as even if you clone the O/S drive, some authorisation tools will recognise that the hardware has changed and you will no longer be authorised.
This is an issue for licences that have to be deauthorised on the hardware they are licensed to rather than from any system.
iLok is one that have this clause I think and you can lose an activation unless you go back and do it on the original hardware/OS.

(I was beaten to it).

1 minute ago, Paul Young said:

No shock and awe or mentioning on other forums. Here it is shock and not awe.

https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=583390

I departed the Waves gravy boat a year or two ago.

Fortunately I wasn’t in with them more than a few fathoms, so it was painless to get back on dry land.

I hadn’t realised that I have had this since May.

They probably added it to the latest version of the CreativeFX Bundle and I didn’t notice.

Handy for MXXX Core users also.

Just now, tom said:

Ah pheeew, yes worked fine after installation. Thanks!

I had something similar with the Mix and Master bundle which is why I suggested it.

1 minute ago, LAGinz said:

Grabbed VR Pro:)

I checked out some videos and will try the demo some day as I listen to ambient music on headphones which I think it will suit. Given the features it seems a steal.

Thanks guys.

So a single code to redeem all the EA reverbs with ilok?

I already have some so be good to be able split the bundle.

1 minute ago, tom said:

Not tried installing yet, I am just on the Product Portal at the moment. Will download and install now and see what happens

How many individual izotope serial numbers did you get, ignoring the EA reverbs?

12 minutes ago, tom said:

So I bought and have activated the serial for the RX Post Production Suite 6 and everything authorised as expected except RX Advanced 9 is still showing as Trial and I cant find a serial number to activate it? Any ideas?

It's possible that RX is part of PPS so there is no separate serial number.

Have you installed it and then tried to activate it?

3 minutes ago, cclarry said:

There is no "Check" so you can buy it anywhere.  Izotope doesn't check for previous ownership
apparently.  You get serial #'s for PPS, MPS5, a bundle of the Exp Reverbs, and a redeem code
for the Bx Plugins

I am not surprised as they always seemed to have the flakiest license management system. They use parchment and an abacus apparently.

It’s been this price before, the difference is that someone at VIC gave a link to the Upgrade that seems to allow anyone to buy and register it directly.

Just now, cclarry said:

It's $178.98 at Audio Deluxe with $8.94 in Deluxe Bucks

https://www.audiodeluxe.com/products/audio-plugins/izotope-everything-bundle-upgrade

$169 at JRRSHOP with the usual code.

But if you buy from a third party, there’s no guarantee it will activate.

But if they sell it to you directly, you have a better chance I suggest.

 I would pay the extra if interested.

Just to be clear, what it actually states is:

Upgrade from any previous version of Post Production Suite or iZotope Everything Bundle or RX 9 Advanced

2 minutes ago, Jesse Screed said:

lathered up and foaming

Too much information. 😄

52 minutes ago, Yan Filiatrault said:

Don't need those, Larry will post before the emails as usual

I sometimes wonder if the developers only know when a deal is on when they see it here. 😀

2 hours ago, abacab said:

It's probably fine for someone that just wants to check out modular in an easy to use package. Without the risk of entering a money pit! 🤣

I nearly bought it last month at a similar price as a way to get into a manageable modular setup at minimal cost and with little financial downside at this price.
Tried the demo and decided that I don't want the hassle of modular.
 

I still haven’t selected the freebies from the last GB.

Looking forward to being able to search KnobCloud for plugins with Clap.

But not in the office or HR will send you on a course for delinquents.

24 minutes ago, Barrie said:

Which was an error.. and they correct that pretty quickly. It was on sale for$ 249 and included …
 

That’s what glitch means in this context. 👍

I noticed that someone bought three of the $1k libraries for $300 in total.

 I did consider the Ensembles bundle but wasn’t convinced I would get much use from it.

It uses spot mics on each instrument, so you get a lot of flexibility to go along with the room mics.