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Eusebio Rufian-Zilbermann

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  1. Headline summary: pretty good loop collections, commercial (royalty free) versions, for $1

    All deals of the advent calendar are now available

    https://www.producerplanet.com/us/list/advent-calender-2020-1769/

    For all the soundpool/loop collections, the price on the landing page is the price for noncommercial version but, you can click on each soundpool and get the commercial (royalty free) version for 2x the price of the noncommercial one.

    From that page, the soundpools (but not the instruments, effects, or Acid Loop Collections) are also available in the Musicmaker store, which means you can further bring down the price by using the current humblebundle vouchers, $1 for a $19.99 voucher and a $9.99 voucher

    https://www.humblebundle.com/software/your-sounds-your-movies-rebundle-software

    If you are interested in more than a couple of items, the vouchers can be purchased multiple times. If humblebundle warns you that you already have it and doesn't let you continue, you can work around the warning by switching payment methods (e.g. the first purchase is done via paypal, the second purchase via direct credit card payment) or by selecting "this purchase is a gift" and then gifting to yourself

    The soundpools are purchased and downloaded in MusicMaker but the downloads are wav or ogg files, and can be used in other DAWs

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  2. 2 hours ago, Nigel Mackay said:

    can I remove earlier versions of the same plugin?

    You should do this only from the Waves installers and only for major versions (e.g., if you're no longer running any v9 plugins, run the v9 installer and choose the uninstall option)

    You do not want to manually delete minor versions, because waves doesn't always update all the plugins in sync. E.g., some plugins may be version 9.82 and some 9.89, and if you delete the 9.82 waveshell then your list of available plugins will become incomplete. The waves installer will handle this for you (and this may sometimes complicate the "just copy over the files to your preferred folder" approach, because it will keep around in your preferred folder some obsolete versions that can cause issues, in addition to copying files you need to also track which waveshells have been removed and do the manual removal in your preferred folder)

  3. Available also at pluginboutique but it's full price and they aren't accepting the manufacturer's coupon (unfortunately for me, since I still have December freebies to claim...)

  4. From their overview video:

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    On today's computers, PIPA may use "some" CPU, so I recommend you downloading the demo before purchasing. to make sure your system can handle the plugin

     

  5. Some plugins (waves, etc) don't let you choose a target path. One option that I have found useful is, choosing one location as "the good one" and then replacing all the other folders with directory links to this "good one".

    E.g., if I decide to use c:\Program Files\Common\VST2 as the "good location" I would

    a) Check c:\Program Files\Steinberg\Vstplugins, and move anything in there to c:\Program Files\Common\VST2

    b) Delete the empty c:\Program Files\Steinberg\Vstplugins

    c) Open a command prompt and run:

       cd c:\Program Files\Steinberg

       mklink /d Vstplugins "c:\Program Files\Common\VST2"

    d) repeat the above procedure for all other alternate vst plugin folder locations

    After replacing folders with links, for anything that allows specifying VST location (DAW, plugin installers) use the "good" location (because some plugins do check and give you an error if they are scanned at a linked location, e.g., XLN) . Remove all other paths (e.g., in your DAW you don't want to have it scan all linked locations, because that will just multiply the time it takes to scan plugins and not add anything useful)

     

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  6. I haven't contacted their tech support but I have had to contact Steinberg Sales support and they did solve the problem I had, reasonably well (after purchasing a HALion crossgrade when it was on sale, the crossgrade verification took too long and I ended up being charged full price. The support rep asked me to pay full and he would then issue a partial refund to bring it back to sale price. Paying full and waiting was a little unnerving but the refund did come through a couple of days later and it all ended well)

     

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