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What do you guys/gals think of the Stratus & Symphony verbs? Is it only the 3D versions included in the deal?

Not from Image-Line... I don't know if you can find a 'box' version somewhere that does, maybe... The bundles include versions that only run within the FL Studio DAW You can still pick up various Image-Line VSTs through JRR Shop, and other 3rd party venders. I suspect we'll see a couple on sale with the holiday sales coming up. A number of their plugins are excellent but they won't be seeing any further development (i.e. no VST3 versions - ever) which is a shame.

If you already own one of their bundles check to see what's your 'Black Friday Bonus' upgrade is to higher editions - for example $85 from Signature to ALL Plugins editions. If the All Plugin Editions included the VST versions I'd be jumping on this. As is (in my case) I have to question the rationality of paying money to only acquire DAW trapped plugins + 5 Producer Loops Sample Packs libraries (that I may never use) for a DAW I only now occasionally fire up.

Blackbird is in my shopping cart @ $20. Maybe only works if your name is Steven. It's your mum's fault...

More info on T-De-Esser Pro MSRP $90 USD $27 USD with discount Techivation T-De-Esser Pro: Natural Sounding De-Esser

Damn I wish EW would permit trial versions... I will probably pick this up down the line when it hits the 50-60% sales but if I would probably bite a lot sooner (and for more money) if I could verify that I actually use it in a current project or 2.

Hi Dono, Hit Ctrl-Shift-V.

I thought it, the update, nuked your settings while installing the new presets - hence the need to back up. If not then I still need to do the 'restore' to finish my update.

My installation was 5 minutes at the longest, probably more like 3. I ended up installing it twice cause I thought I must have accidentally bolloxed up the install for it to wrap up in the time that it did.

There's a couple of nice perks listed on that page

<sigh> The older I get - the more retro my organs feel...

Woot! ^^^What he said

Meh... I soured on Motu long ago - bought one of the original Ultralights in 2007. Lemon from the moment I opened the box - device had issues, audio had issues, drivers had issues. Support strung me along for months submitting endless log files, testing new drivers, etc... Finally replaced it with another DAC and never looked back. Never sold it because it didn't feel right ruining someone else's day for a few bucks even though at the time funds were in short supply. I'm sure the new generation is much more reliable, can turn turds into gold, etc. but MOTU permanently lost a customer with their shenanigans.

Agreed. There are now so many saturation/drive/transistor or diode mode clipping/transformer immolation plugins that overlap each other in various ways that I doubt if this one offers anything unique to my collection other than it's by SSL. Still FOMO may get me to pull the purchase trigger... Edit: If you're interested in demoing the plugin: https://store.solidstatelogic.com/plug-ins/ssl-fusion-transformer-plug-in?tab=freetrial

Soundtoys freebies (and the discounted mini versions when on sale) can get you nice discounts on the full suite if/when you decide to go that way. So they are worth collecting even if that particular plugin isn't to your taste.

Did the same (well maybe not a 'ton' of merch)!

Over. Missed seeing this last weekend.

waiting for Novum price to drop...

Doubt it. (The following vitriolic opinion is mine, YMMV) McDSP is a MAC shop that only started supporting Windows for the money and then reluctantly. Every upgrade is a charge, for example ec300 v6 to v7 which (from what I recall) mainly if not only added v3 support - yours for only $29 I stopped using their plugins and haven't missed them.

The warnings are far from horrendous. They could be popups that slap you every time you load the forum that you then have to click on to dismiss! The alternative is to have a fat paragraph on top similar to what's on the Coffee House forum but I suspect that would eat half the screen or more... Personally I think if you're going to have posting protocols that are specific to a particular forum (or at least more applicable to the Deals forum than the others) that they should be posted upfront to avoid any ambiguity.

for Xils Lab XILS 5000 Vocoder the code GROUP saves you even more, comes to $41.16

Anyone compare XILS 5000 Vocoder against current stock by other developers?

Looks like Blue Sky can probably replace 60 to 90% of my reverb plugins - if so, it's worth $199. Can I afford to spend $199 on a plugin right now? No.

Still waiting for a decent sale price for upgrading Legacy...

^^ The you run Omnisphere or Trillian (probably true for Keyscape as well) standalone versions they check for updates BUT you won't see that there's an update or get notified until the NEXT time you run them. I.E. some table, file or registry entry gets updated after the load information is read. Been this way on every computer I've owned that I had Spectrasonics installed on. Willing to bet it's because they don't want to add even more of a lag to the time it takes the standalone to load. I've complained to Spectrasonics about it but apparently there's not been enough user complaints to warrant their rewriting the startup code. So I always run Omnisphere twice (because it checks for updates on the others as well) when checking for updates.