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This weekend - Ambient: Best of Ambient

$8.99 for the commercially licensed option (or $4.99 for the non-commercial)

https://producerplanet.com/us/article/best-of-ambient-4449/?license=commercial_unlimited

Note that, because of how bestservice has designed their search 🙄, the link doesn't have the search encoded in it, you need to enter "Magix" in the box and click the magnifier button

https://www.waves.com/account/free-berzerk-dom-sigalas

If you want several Xils Labs instruments, the "buy more save more" discount at dontcrack.com can provide interesting deals, for a final price even lower than everyplugin

• Buy a second product and get 5% extra discount off from both products
• Buy a third product and get 10% extra discount off all 3 products
• Buy a fourth product and get 15% extra discount off all 4 products
• Buy five products or more and get 20% extra discount off  all products

E.g., Xils String machines + Xils vocoders + Xils KaoX + Xils Poly KB III + Audiomodern Forms ends up at $208.79

There are other low-priced items that can help lower your cart, e.g. Blue Cat Hot Tuna

Back to the Dontcrack.com newsletter - Sounds like they (plugivery) could be on a path to absorb Xils Labs products, taking over distribution and collaborating on maintenance and development of new products

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Today we are very excited to announce that our parent company Plugivery Distribution took over global distribution of XILS-Lab - developers of Professional Virtual Synthesizers.

XILS-Lab and Plugivery will from now on share resources for the XILS product line to be kept right up to date and to bring exciting new products to the market. Already the pricing has been revamped, the product descriptions rewritten, the visuals updated, etc.
 

2 hours ago, Nick Blanc said:

It seems to me they are ditching a majority of their creative plugins and focus more on mixing, mastering and AI stuff. Their partners at Soundwide (Plugin Alliance and Native Instruments) seem to be filling in that gap nicely

If it were a reorg within Soundwide, these plugins would have been moved to PA and/or NI. It doesn't sound like either would be reluctant to add more reverbs, more synths, etc to their lineups

10 hours ago, Reid Rosefelt said:

Noooo... no funky business like that.  I'm not going to risk another channel

That's not what I was suggesting.

It should be possible to

1) Create a new email (and configure it to forward everything received there to your main email account, so that you don't end up having to read mail from multiple places)

2) Create a new personal adsense account using the new email address

3) move over your existing channel to this personal adsense account https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7367146?hl=en

Anyway, I'm not trying to convince you to stay on YouTube. Personally I've had my disappointments with putting my creations on YouTube (for a different reason, their random application of US-centric cultural standards and disregard for other countries' culture, regarding bullfighting in particular). If this is the end of your YT account but the beginning of your Rumble and/or Odysee accounts, I'll be happy to subscribe to the new ones.

6 hours ago, PavlovsCat said:

We've recently seen a good deal of plugin developers engage in deep discounting

My theory is that we are just seeing a recession unfolding. There is a serious inflation problem and prices are going up, but people are also becoming more selective in their purchases and figuring out what items are non-essential. Some companies are finding that they don't really have pricing power because people are choosing to buy nothing and, instead of being able to raise prices and follow the pace of inflation, they have to offer discounts as the revenue streams dry up. When it's clear that the revenue from discounted products cannot sustain the business, they go into more drastic cost-cutting, reducing personnel and eliminating less profitable product lines.

When we see "unusually good discounts" let's enjoy them as they come, but we shouldn't be surprised if the recession wipes out a few products and possibly even whole companies when they don't have a sufficiently good combination of both good products that people still need and a robust business model that allows them to weather the storm.

One thing I didn't understand is around 4:10 why you're referring to "singular email address"? Why not create an email account at a free (or paid) provider and configure it to forward email to your main address, then use this new address to create the second adsense account?

https://www.lifewire.com/forward-outlook-mail-1170648

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/10957?hl=en

...Or Odysee

I recently had to deal with truly distopian AI and a friend introduced me to gethuman.com. I just checked what they have for YouTube and it looks like phone support doesn't exist at all but you may be able to go past the AI and get to a person through other forms of communication

https://gethuman.com/phone-number/YouTube

8 hours ago, mibby said:

It comes to $125.97 for me. (U.S.)

Slightly more expensive for me, then I noticed it's actually $119.40 + tax

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Upgrades from cubase are not discounted but I have seen people at kvr reselling their cubase for "upgrading" at a pretty decent price (which could be a good chance too for those looking for cubase instead)

From the Native Instruments plugins, is there anything particularly recommended? (note: I already have Komplete standard)

For reference, wavesaudio has a free tape transport plugin

https://www.wavesfactory.com/free-audio-plugins/cassette-transport/

Multiple orders of individual plugins is more flexible than being forced to pick 10 plugins in 1 order. Also, considering that they are putting it in writing that it's OK to gift/resell these vouchers, individual plugin vouchers are much more convenient from this point of view, probably that flexibility is worth the extra $1

Back to business...

In addition to being able to pick up to 3, an interesting advantage of this "higher level voucher" is that the list of plugins to choose from is longer, compared to the lower level

E.g., Amek EQ250, HG-2MS, Console Amek 9099, Soma, Lindell 50 series, etc.

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This weekend - House: House Nation

$4.99 for the commercially licensed option (or $2.99 for the non-commercial)

https://producerplanet.com/us/article/house-nation-1978/?license=commercial_unlimited

The Soundpool contains loops from 'House Vol. 10' of 'Soundpool DVD Collection 16'.

The full Soundpool DVD Collection 16 can be found on eBay for $15 (+free shipping in the US), includes commercial use licenses, and it may be a better deal

PA_EXT is described here https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/news/article/items/pa-ext.html

I don't see any iZotope products there and the exclusion is specifically PA_EXT (not "External"). FWIW, the F29 vouchers DO work with previously added iZotope products (e.g., RX9 Elements), so it may be a matter of waiting (or contacting support, as suggested)

@Bapu no, I'm not talking about the more recent final offer. From what I can tell (based on emails) Soundwide was announced on 4/12/2022 and Forever 29 on 4/14/2022

8 hours ago, Technostica said:

Does it count as an External sale?

No, PA_EXT are sales with a limited time that don't become part of the permanent catalog.

7 hours ago, antler said:

I think those vouchers are only valid for PA's plugins; iZotope/NI might be excluded. That text was probably written before the companies integrated their respective storefronts

Forever 29 was actually released 2 days after they announced the Soundwide partnership and the first bundle of PA/NI/Izotope products.

I was playing around with different products in my shopping cart, and the voucher works for some iZotope plugins but not others (e.g, it works for RX9 Elements but not for RX10 Elements)