Kirean

Wonder if Dreamsynth and Quadra are worth 18 euros.

Based on price alone, probably (as musicsoftwaredeals has their lowest at $24-26/each)

But as synths?

8 minutes ago, GoncaloL said:

Mine did show up with the release of quadra this week

Damned. They're playing with my emotions as I can't find any. Wonder if there's a prerequisite... 

Has there been a new voucher after the one that ended in April?

Available wherever magazines are available at.

1 hour ago, locrian said:

Sir, on this forum ^those words are blasphemy!  😁

6 minutes ago, Fleer said:

And if you like (or love, as I do) what the Crow Hill devs (and that lovely Christian Henson) bring to the table, you’ll need CodeMeter. 

https://www.wibu.com/nl/products/codemeter.html

I see it as just another iLok thing. And I wouldn’t want to miss out on EastWest

I don't mind iLok at all. In fact, kinda wish Virharmonic used it like Eastwest does. (In fact, didn't Virharmonic use it before?)

Codemeter just seems like something one might see an energy plant use for their obscure public bathroom waste disposal control software, so that Angelina Jolie and Jonny Lee Miller could hack into it and reverse the process.

My problem lies in that for the end user Codemeter takes an extra effort to teach its place and contain its shenanigans (and how managing a licence through it seems like a chore if not even impossible). Plus having the software start up webservers on your computer is kinda uh, not cool.

2 hours ago, kitekrazy said:

It's a testament to the direction of development these days.  If these things are part of reducing piracy I'd say it probably promotes it.  I get it if you are Waves,NI, or IK who sells huge bundles.    I like direct downloads and will probably only support developers do that.

I'm not against installers per se. But installers have been around for a looong time and they never, ever, should need a degree in nuclear physics to figure out what the internal logic is just to install the product that one just bought.

Like, whatever happened to this simple stuff:

Guess I should check it out myself before ranting too much though... 

21 minutes ago, Bapu said:

Please explain what Codemaster is and how it affects your purchase decision as it relates to this product.

Codemeter is the DRM that's apparently there as a default for plugins that are Gorilla based in case the devs don't want to maintain their own licencing procedure.

It's an extremely complicated, bloated and somewhat intrusive software for simply being used to activate the licence for a ~130 buck virtual instrument. No idea how it works on Apple stuff, but on Windows it opens a bunch of services and needlessly runs a local webserver which all you need to nuke down yourself. Just a hassle that does far more than it needs to do.

Best part is that I haven't found a way to actually manage the licence via the software (ie. deactivate for example).

You can find more experiences on VI Control and Gearspace etc.

Unbelievable how one can screw up an installer in the  year of 2024.

It's not like installers and good practices are exactly a recent development.

Actually I was wrong.  Gorilla is not the problem. Got confused that it was the licence manager, but it isn't. Codemeter is. So I guess they'll stay on the shiet-list for as long as they have that trainwreck slapped on.

4 hours ago, cclarry said:

This new version no longer requires Gorilla Manager (please do not remove Gorilla manager from your system if you use our other libraries until all of your libraries by us are updated to 1.1.0

 

Great news. I've always whined about Gorilla. This will definitely put the rest of their products on my shopping list.

I've spent a good chunk within a time frame of a year on Plugin Alliance and also did not receive a coupon. 

1 minute ago, Bapu said:

I have:
Abbey Road One
Albion 1
Albion Colossus
BBCSO Pro/Pro Piano
EW Composer Cloud
Sonuscore The Orchestra 3
NI's Orchestra in Komplete 14 CE 
Studio One's Symphony Stuff
Bitwig's Orchestral Tools Orchestra

Do I need this bundle too?

if your stage name is DJ Mozart, then sure.

Had pro in my cart for 299 euros and didn't pull it. Ah well, maybe I oughta use the tools I already have.

Sad to see them hang up, but I think I last checked Vue 15-20-ish years ago?

None the less, I have huge respect for the people there for making the software free as their last huzzah. 

How does it compare with Flux Stereotool v3 (which is free), Melda's MStereoGenerator or Plugin Alliance's bx_stereomaker?

How's Relayer or Sparkverb? (Aside from "old").

Dammit. PB is currently out of serials.

How promising is SM3 compared to the previous versions?

I got "The Bundle" when they previously added something significant to it (SEM?) and then got OB-EZ for free later.

However, seems like this time they haven't added DMX to the bundle for previous users. Can't find any loyalty discounts/crossgrades either.

Wonder if this is gonna get added to the Obe Bundle?

It's amazing that Serif got a payday with Affinity by creating a product that respects the user (not that I like that they sold themselves, but whatever) whereas Magix and others of such ilk create software that basically feels like bloatware/adware, instead of focusing on actually creating well optimized, fluid, great products. If they fall over, they've got only themselves to blame for being stagnant and doing crap software.

Is LADD still relevant or useful (I already have Cineperc and bunch of percussions from here and there)?