Kirean

You can get 10% off from NI themselves if you use Simeon's affiliate code 'praise10'.  Most likely some other Youtuber has one too.

Don't think the 60% code works anymore.

SV30 saves 30%.

Well, VSTBuzz re-opened and as expected the deals are.. not as epic as their advertisement promised: https://vstbuzz.com/

Plus now you need to click on the deals to see the price.

As they say: "Not with a bang but a whimper."

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Kinda expensive

Edit: nevermind, Works now.

Thanks ya'll.

Also in the other thread I got the impression that they don't really trust their paying customers with activation/drm either so I'll live, even without their plugins.

No email for me.

However, are these worthwhile even if one has Pigments, Falcon etc?

7 minutes ago, Magic Russ said:

It's also confusing because they say that some of these are samples only but I have read other people say that they include Battery kits with the expansions.

I bought the $1 tier just to test. Only got WAV files.

Codemeter is a blight. If only Virharmonic stopped using it as well.

Yeah. Got it a year ago when it was ~30 bucks. At 15 it's an extreme steal.

Guess I got lucky with the pricing then as well. Nice.

Once I'm through my dayjob freelance stuff, it's time to shine and create the most complete and deeply sampled fart instrument ever.

37 minutes ago, Canopus said:

So, you've tried? I've downloaded the separate 75 page pdf manual, in case all my future attempts to do it in true WRTFM fails.

Nah, not yet. Just figured that things are often more complicated than they initially seem. I'm sure you'll figure it out though.

23 minutes ago, Canopus said:

Installed.

When Kontakt GUI Maker was released earlier this year the price was $59.99, and I said that I'd wait until the price was $4.99. Never thought it would happen this quickly, though. Also, getting Zynaptiq Orange Vocoder Nano included for free doesn't hurt either.

My initial plan is to see if I can make the extremely boring GUIs of SampleTekk's Kontakt libraries a bit more exciting. I have no idea if it will be possible to update an existing third party Kontakt library, but for roughly €5 I'll take my chances.

You can also create a new instrument when you record the sighs and gasps you make as you try to figure it all out.

All I see is ~100 bucks with owning Smarteq 4

If companies are using their own auth servers, the minimum should be to have a feature where you can manage the licence online (deactivate/etc).

But yeah, I'd consider changing DRM a shady move and worth raised eyebrows unless it actually and truly benefits the consumer (ie. making it easier by removing online activation etc). It should  not reduce the user's options and chances to use the software.

And by default, if a company is stopping support for a software they should do all in their power so that those who have bought it can continue to use and will be able to do so in the future with the current or similar configuration (within reason).

Those with Musio 1 (perpetual), have you been able to download the new electric cello?

Edit:

Nevermind.

Apparently had to upgrade the program to get to use em.

19 minutes ago, CSistine said:

More and more I get cured by price increase and "technical evolution". Installation, authorization and updates get worse and worse, take more time than making music (it's especially true if you sync some systems)! What a world! Luckily there are some exceptions, but the list of plugin providers that are on my black list has increased dramatically in the last 2 years! 

Too true. I really don't want another installer on my computer to increase the bloat. Especially if they don't allow you to select where to install them and especially if they install **** on random folders in the systems drive anyway.

Just let me download the plugin, install it where I want, keep it contained and control the activation from the web (or better yet, just make it a simple serial without draconian online checks and hardware prints or having to email the developer to deactivate or reset the activations.)

Not that I'm constantly activating/deactivating plugins anyway but if I were to do a system reset and start clean, the process of uninstalling/deactivating/etc is gonna be a major pain and a timesinker.

Same.

I've spent some but my mind has definitely been less active on reading deals and most of all, less active on acting up on them.

I guess a lot of the deals as of late haven't really triggered the 'dontthinkaboutit' part of the brain and thus not as much impulse buys anymore.

I hope, I really hope, that I've also come to the realization that unless it's a really good deal, I don't need another EQ or whatever.

I think I've also been soured by some of the holiday deals where I could have gotten a better deal had I waited a month or two.

There also hasn't been that many price glitches as of late or they've been patched out before being able to act.

Includes:

• UNITY Modern Trailer Synth
• PRISM Organic Lofi Drums
• PRISM Taped Indie Pop Drums
• PRISM Retro Pop Drums
• UNITY Nostalgic Synth
• PRISM Urban Legends
• PRISM Modern Pop Drums

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/pricing/composer-essentials-bundle/

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/specials/komplete/ava-music-group-sale-2024/

Damn. Looks like this ended yesterday?

I was in a broken state of mind ready to part with my money. But money saved I guess.

Had Battalion in my cart some hours ago but went onto do other things.

Ah well. Saved 40 bucks for later.

Thank gods or whatever that it doesn't apply to bundles or I would have been mighty pissed (having bought one of them already).

32 minutes ago, Sander Verstraten said:

Does anyone have experience with Imaginando's Visual Synthesizer?

https://vstbuzz.com/deals/70-off-visual-synthesizer-by-imaginando/

Was interested as well, but historical low two years ago seems to be 19.80 euros (vs 26.10 eur @ vstbuzz).

Not sure if it was one off intro pricing or something, though.

1 minute ago, MusicMan said:

I actually think I read that too.. sometimes it takes either the dev, or the resellers to update the info pages. That was taken directly from JRR.

Yeah. Kinda hoped they'd reverted back to iLok but doesn't seem like it.

I thought Moog got rid of ilok activations with their latest versions in order to push their own drm.

Have they said anything about making the UI bigger?