marcL

By the way, last time I forgot to mention that their plugins can be used without shell! Just copy the plugin dlls to your scanning location, works without problems!

Sadly loyalty voucher already used!

4 hours ago, El Diablo said:

Either the programmers of Kontakt 5 don't exists anymore or they don't know how to save processing power by using assembly language to do the heavy lifting.

I am sure assembly language is not required! Even a good C++ program would run more efficiently!

6 hours ago, TheSteven said:

Kontakt 7 is a big Irish Setter with that lustrous long red hair that your significant other would kill for - it may be beautiful but it's still a dog, a big dog.
 It still takes longer than any other plugin or DAW to load on my system - over 5 minutes each time; must be scanning every drive on my system every time it loads.

I previously complained about this on a NI thread opened by the developers and aside from some hemming and hawing (it shouldn't do that...) from devs got nothing but snarky replies for other users.
 

NI did a very bad job in programming Kontakt IMHO! Just the fact that all quick load stuff is being parsed when Kontakt is loaded is very stupid! Good programming practice would load on demand in such a case!

Once I found this out because I had some libraries on an external disk that had not been inserted. As a result I moved the folders back to the local drives and tried to keep only the sample folders on the external drive. But hell, even this is scanned before it's being used! How dull can software developers be sometimes! 😆

IMHO this is regress! It causes a painful installation with NA!

23 hours ago, MarcL said:

How many seats do they provide?

If someone is interested: They provide 2 seats on iLok (dongle/cloud).

45 minutes ago, kitekrazy said:

IK, Presonus, Steinberg, does that.

But it's not required for those who really have a customer friendly authorization (NOT LIKE IK, Presonus, Steinberg)!

11 hours ago, cclarry said:

Until 8/31

https://mialaboratories.com/products/

How many seats do they provide?

1 hour ago, ralfrobert said:

I think TB plugins phone home for authorization. Or don't they?

The authorization works totally offline!

If you are online, maybe they check the current version, IDK!

10 hours ago, Marc Cormier said:

Tonebooster EQ4 has some pretty impressive features, too.  All right around our sweet spot of 29 buckaroos.  I have a bunch of their plugins and both this and the reverb are excellent.  Great value, the lot.

https://www.toneboosters.com/tb_equalizer_v4.html

+1 

I also love the Toneboosters EQ4! It is my choice! And it has a customer-friendly authorization, too (no internet required).

IMHO it is more about what you decide to do with an EQ, than which one you choose! There are always those people who think the more expensive tools are better, what I doubt!

Setting the plugin size of BlackAsh/BlueAsh by Black Rooster Audio to 110% and then either adding a new instance of the plugin or closing/re-opening the plugin gets CbB hanging! I have to close it with the task manager. Using GUI size 100% or 150% works without problems.

In Sonar Platinum or Reaper the GUI size 110% has no issues!

6 hours ago, Bruno de Souza Lino said:

I don't think it's a good idea to go with these for one particular reason. You have 10 downloads per license. Once those are gone, you're in IK territory.

For me it is not a big problem to save an installation package, especially if there are not so many useless updates as with IK (only new components added that you may not/never own)!

But what is more important IMHO is that you are able to authorize your plugin/software on a new or changed system in any case! Luckily this is possible with Audio Assault (=good company! 😄), once you've done an offline activation you can save your key and it works on a changed/new computer!

I still prefer OuterSpace from AudioThing! It is a recreation of the same hardware. It costs less even with normal price, it has an easy installation and authorization (without internet, i.e. it works forever even on new systems), it is very light on cpu and it sounds really good! My goto delay/reverb for single tracks! But YMMV!

2 minutes ago, jngnz said:

Tell me about it. Half of the stuff I bought is rotting away on my backup drive.

Frankly, it's the same with plugins for me! The couple of  plugins that I really like and use, are mostly of small developers that almost never have a deal, but always a fair price!

But it is embarrassing how much money I wasted in deals (have only about 900 plugins installed of much more than 1000, but maybe I really use 50)!

13 minutes ago, jngnz said:

Like 99,8% of free and paid Kontakt instruments I've ever tried.

I fixed it for you! 😆

Here it is €155.21 !

It doesn't look retro at all! 😄

9 hours ago, Craig Fowler said:

What I do appreciate from Andrew's comments here is some insight into the impact NI licensing could have and the way those costs are based on full price rather than a discounted one. 

Relating to the NI licensing I think it was ISW's decision to make it a Kontakt Player product! Many small developers create "full Kontakt" products to avoid this cost!

IMHO it is a bad thing for owners of Kontakt full, if a product is Player compatible, because this raises the price and makes installation/authorization worse (NI Access).  Also the more Player products are in Kontakt, the slower it starts (I know, one could remove them manually from loaded libraries).

I am quite irritated about some comments here! Why do some defend such developers that are doing shady marketing?

Are such scam strategies by the developers ethical? Aren't their prices probably too high for today's market? Andrew's logic that prices have not increased and thus they're good is foolish IMO! Everybody in this forum knows that prices on music software/samples have dropped significantly in the last 10 years! The market has changed remarkably, don't they understand this?

You say it precisely: "I would be a no-brainer - without brain", if I would buy something of IK again! 😆 

Even if it looks very tempting (I guess I wait for a good price on PSP InfinityStrip instead).

After all the installation and activation trouble with IK in the last years!

Installed!

53 minutes ago, Magic Russ said:

The problem with AAS demos is that Thiago could make your mom's old fan organ with a broken F# key sound like anything from a choir of angels to the sound of the apocalypse.  The packs never can live up to those expectations.

And I just wonder do they develop something else than packs anymore? 😉 It's almost the same with Overloud!

3 hours ago, Anxiousmofo said:

Always wanted to try the Murf. Nice price! Let's see how stupid I get after some wine this evening.

Anyone know if it covers the Murf AND Bass Murf (both previous hardware) territory?

I don't know something about the Murf, sorry, though I know the smurfs!

This thing with the wine is a good idea IMO (although I prefer beer during these hot days) and you don't get stupid by it, everything is just slightly easier!

1 hour ago, iNate said:

Except you're wrong? Registry has a standardized organization. 

What a standard! 😄 Typical Micosoft! 👎

2 hours ago, iNate said:

Do we really want to go back to tens of thousands of .INI files scattered across the system?

Frankly, I prefer that old way, because then the configuration is together with the application files. It is much easier to find than in this monolith configuration labyrinth!

Nowadays the configuration is scattered across the registry! 😆