Eusebio Rufian-Zilbermann

Happy new year!

May 2021 bring the best deals and free upgrades we have ever seen

$29 (and $1.45 bestcoin) crossgrade if you already own a zplane product

https://www.bestservice.com/peel.html

96 rolls of toilet paper that my wife panic purchased at the start of the pandemic

Any opinions on these courses? (I did search online and wasn't able to find much, which is not a good start...)

The Sampletekk WG2 mkII (with a 90% discount code thanks to Larry that I don't think I would have obtained otherwise). It has become my go-to piano library.

On 12/26/2020 at 4:47 AM, mister_tea said:

who's betting on 2 versus 3 refreshes?

I would expect new vouchers (with minimum spending) rather than refreshes of the no-min voucher

(edit) ...and I got it wrong!

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

Probably. You could try it by moving the files somewhere else, checking everything works an then deleting the moved files (the good ol' learning through experimentation)

8 hours ago, Hatstand said:

Next year I will spend less on plugins and more on house renovations ?

Nice house! But yes, you may want to renovate the windows to make it more comfortable

Merry Christmas from Long Island, NY (not too far from @Reid Rosefelt) and Happy Holidays if you prefer to celebrate something else!

Also... not to say that 2020 was good but it did feel like it had even more deals and freebies than years prior

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)

piano textures is free as well

https://www.sonixinema.com/collections/all/products/piano-textures

Strange, it works for the presonus upgrade

Some interesting upgrade prices with this coupon

Studio One 5 Professional Upgrade $79 (-1.17 Bestcoin)

Melodyne 5 Studio Upgrade $129 (-1.17 Bestcoin)

Reason 11 Suite Upgrade  $149 (- $5.07 Bestcoin)

(+ choice of drum library/kontakt harmonica/etc freebie)

...and the "intro" for later upgrading to Liquid Music

Kards+Starter Pack is free today on Steam

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1471390/KARDS__Starter_Pack/

(this is a trading card/deck building game with a WWII theme)

I couldn't find any wheel to spin but 60% off is pretty good anyway (fwiw, Hornet plugins at full price are still a pretty good value-for-money)

Samplitude unbundled libraries are on sale in today's "window" of the advent calendar

https://www.producerplanet.com/us/list/advent-calender-2020-1734/

(I think it closes at midnight CET, Germany time)

These libraries are on producerplanet.com, but in the section that is not in the Musicmaker store, therefore the current humblebundle coupons won't work.

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...)

9 hours ago, Bruno de Souza Lino said:

For Waves plugins, you have to manually move the multiple WavesShell wrapper files to where you want

Yes, when you first set up the link (in step a), however, when you run the waves installer afterwards (e.g., to update or add more plugins), it will get automatically redirected to the linked location

From their overview video:

Quote

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

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)

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)