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  1. VI-C also has some great people there, so defaulting to talking about a particular incident there and suggesting that therefore VI-C should be avoided seems unbalanced.
    There are people there that I block but I do that here also and at KVR.
    I only hang out out in the deals section here so I don't need to block many.
    People who regularly write essays on their pet peeves are included.

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  2. 2 hours ago, Jason Neudorf said:

    Before you search for <10PB, also look in your rewards section. There is an 80% off Serum pack ($1? $3?), and 3 months of loopcloud   (46% of $20?) available if you have a previously unused rewards token. Or Cataract 2 for $29*0.35.   They count, as long as it isn't 100% free (or maybe there's a $1 minimum).

     

    Keep in mind that the rewards can also be converted to virtual cash.
    Each one is worth £1.50 inc VAT.

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  3. Izotope seemingly have no way of validating if you are eligible for upgrades, so it leaves them very open to abuse.
    I did actually order the 5.x upgrade in the first week of August so was eligible anyway.
    But because of the way they bundle the licences, I just sell on what I don't require, which leaves me with a profit and two upgrades plus the two 3D reverbs.

    A strange way to run a business and maybe one that will dissappear if they integrate with NI more fully.
    NI don't make mistakes like that.

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  4. I bought it for ~$220 last December after someone kindly shared their monthly voucher. I am done with buying PA now as I will still be exploring these in ten years time.

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  5. With IKM, you have to pay a transfer fee for hardware, so that the new user can access firmware updates, utilities, and seemingly even drivers! :(
    Plus the software isn't 
    transferred, even though they will transfer the exact same software if bought by itself.

    With NI's Maschine for example:
    The drivers and firmware etc are open to anyone.
    It's free to transfer the hardware and the Maschine software is automatically transferred with it. 
    This is also stand-alone software in the way that IKMs is.

    So with IKM you pay and get less, whilst with NI it's free and you get more.

     

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  6. 5 minutes ago, Bruno de Souza Lino said:

    You don't even have that option with IK. If the owner doesn't transfer the license to you, you can't even download drivers for the product, let alone software for it.

    I am aware of IKM. Just pointing out that there’s nothing dubious with how NI handle Maschine IMO.

  7. 1 hour ago, Bruno de Souza Lino said:

    The only other company which does that is Native Instruments for their Maschine. The only legal way to obtain their drivers and software is by tracking the original owner and having them initiate a license transfer, which may or may not be impossible depending on how much of the original contents of the box (including the card with the product's serial number, which is printed on the product itself in every other product out there). No other hardware selling company does that because of how anti-customer this practice is. And that's for  almost every single piece of hardware IK makes.

    The drivers for NI hardware are freely available.

    https://www.native-instruments.com/en/support/downloads/drivers-other-files/

    The Maschine software is licensed and can be transferred for free by the registered owner. They also sell the software by itself and the same goes for that.  No drama unless you are ignorant about how software licensing works.

  8. A great price for an impulse buy.
    I still checked the walkthroughs and decided there should be enough there to get value from it.
    Having different engines for the strumming compared to what I already have, as well as new samples, made it an easy buy.
    I wasn't going to go in on The OTS group buy, so a budget option. :)

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  9. 23 minutes ago, trager said:

    Would you not get more bundle credit by buying from AD, cos then Melda would assume you bought at 50% off, whereas if you buy direct they know what you paid? (I get a bit MConfusedSometimes.)

    Yes. Buy from Melda and get 70% of the price you paid.
    Buy third party and get 35% of the full price.

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  10. I have Cubase LE 12 that came bundled with Zoom hardware.
    The upgrade to Cubase Elements 12 is £25.
    So if I purchase now and hold back registering until version 13 is released, are they still offering a free grace period update?

  11. 43 minutes ago, Robert Joseph said:

    This requires UA hardware correct? 

    You can filter to see which are Native and currently it seems to be much less than half of them.

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  12. 1 hour ago, ralfrobert said:

    Many great Melda deals in the last months. I can highly recommend their ecosystem. 

    The creative FX bundle offers a lot for the price.

    The Complete bundle is a vast resource, a bit overwhelming really!

     If you like the aesthetic, these are excellent value.

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  13. 14 hours ago, Technostica said:

    That looks like James Dewar who was his regular bassist/singer through most of the 70s.
    Ah, I had forgotten that Dewar was vocals only by the late 70s.

     

    5 minutes ago, bats brew said:

    are we talking about the same video?

    Are you talking about the  same post? ;)

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