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I like it. At least while it’s on sale this week.

It was just north of $80 for me. I had a couple best service dollars in my account.

Thank you! That’s a terrific idea.

I know it sounds like heresy, but I experimented and have for a while now been using the UJAM drums for recording my e-drum MIDI performances. It sounds great, and is plug and play. And I'm able to make easy adjustments to the sounds. I'd been using other drum synths, but found that UJAM's drums actually work really well to capture live drum performances and sound great while tracking. Then, to top it off, the mixing after the fact is straightforward, lots of different kit and piece sounds, and as needed I can drag and drop in different patterns as additional ideas. Going for the virtual bass 2.0 packs are an easy decision for me. I've already been using the 1.0, now with drag and drop MIDI that's a big plus.

At that price, I give. Thanks Larry! Also, because it is at that price with the code (which worked for me and puts the price at $48), I checked out some YouTubes on the sounds from it. Has some nice presets.

Thanks Matthew for your early tests with it. I downloaded the demo last night and threw together a new song in about an hour using it in Studio One. I have Orb Composer as well. This is easier. Limited, but easier. And convenient. I also have other similar tools. Seems like a helpful add. It was pretty fast and fun to put something together that sounded good. The interface is kind of fun. I didn't need the manual to get rolling with it. I'm glad they made it! I pushed the buy button this evening.

I’m fond of spring reverbs and I have these as well as others. I was thinking at this price I might be inclined to add it. Listening to the Eventide walk through demo of this one, however, I didn’t hear anything I liked. A lot of setting variables to be sure. I didn’t hear anything that interests me. So an easy pass. I have several Eventide plugins and like them all especially Blackhole.

I bought the Orbit for $2. Thanks Larry! I went through the first couple of modules of the training. I think it’s going to be good material - things I’ve wanted confirmed or more insight into. Very glad I have this training available.

These are fantastic headphones. I feel I get a very accurate sound that translates well to speakers/monitors. They are also very comfortable with no pressure on the ears. I can wear them for hours with no ear fatigue. I can’t speak to whether this site and price are trustworthy, but the headphones are.

There was a special in Aug to get the Legacy collection which I happened to get. To get the Triton addition, I used the link which has been provided earlier (on the first page of this thread): https://korg.shop/software/korg-collection-series/upgrade-products.html That got me to start putting the item (for $149) into the cart. I then had to go into Korg ID, which is located at: https://id.korg.com/users/sign_in I used the email and pw I had from when I registered the legacy Korg collection to get into that Korg ID site. Once in there I was presented right away with the individual discount code that you use in the shopping cart to enable the successful Triton order at $149. Straightforward from that point. But agreed, one of the more confusing paths to obtaining a product.

I received 15%. But I guess I can try again tomorrow!

I have had a really good experience monkeying around with Blue Cat Axiom since I picked it up in the Winter Sale. Actually, I picked up the Axe Pack which includes Axiom. This morning I had Positive Grid Bias FX2 in the right amp slot and Positive Grid Bias Amp 2 in the left slot, with Late Replies and Fabfilter stuff in various slots. It sounded absolutely terrific. I could change settings of course. And save various combinations of settings as presets in Blue Cat Axiom. The preset recall was quick when loading all that stuff back up. A real remarkable tool to have available. With the current (and recent) Positive Grid sales I was able to get those tools (which sound super and are very easy to get good sounds from). With the Blue Cat Winter Sale I was able to add Blue Cat to my bag of tricks for the first time. Blue Cat allows you to combine any of that stuff together. The potential is easily realized by just experimenting around. It's fantastic.

Me too. I keep checking. Nothin' yet...

What I see huge value in is the Axe Pack - with this Winter discount - as it contains Axiom, Re-Guitar, Late Replies, and Patchwork all in one go. Each one of them have great points. Axiom, Late Replies, and Patchwork all have that special capability of being able to bring together non Blue Cat tools and plugins so that you can capture a combined sound from different vendors that can be easily recalled as a preset. Axiom and Late Replies are already loaded with great features and presets of their own. So many tools can be assembled and layered together. I've been using it in demo mode and have been really impressed. And it's intuitive.

I'd been in demo mode with Axiom since around Black Friday time and experimenting with it quite a bit. It is great! I've also been wanting the stand-alone of Re-Guitar and Late Replies so I'm glad I finally have them now. Patchwork is becoming apparent to me as super useful. For example, I've looked at some recent tools from Audified which are like channel strips for specific purposes like acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, vocals. With Patchwork I can replicate those ideas (saved as presets), and also have the flexibility to move around and add various other effects as needed - and save as a preset for a recall on another song. For example, if I get a really good vocal chain for my voice I could use my DAW's tool for creating an effects chain (Studio One in my case). Or, with Patchwork, I can do it that way perhaps with more flexibility and with an enhanced method for saving presets. Overall, this particular pack is pretty powerful. I actually use other amp sims and have great sounds from them. I really like the idea of being able to combine those with any other effect, or even any other amp sim in this Axiom platform - and to save a good one as a preset.

Axe Pack - that's the one I've been waiting for through all of this Black Friday / end of year sales period. Thanks!

Piotr - I actually contacted support about the issue sort of to investigate your issue. The answer that came back: try starting your DAW as Run as Administrator. How about trying that?

Piotr - have you connected with their support? I don’t see that at all. Logged in once. Never asked again no matter how many instances or tracks I’m using it on. Understand that would be awful. But not seeing it here - so seems specific as an issue for your install.

I received the survey then voucher. Purchased Bias Amp 2 Elite as a result as the price with the 50% discount plus extra survey voucher made it too tempting. After install it did not load. I did a quick Google search and there’s a top result that comes back where someone else had the same issue. He pasted the Positive Grid support response into his posting. The steps (deleting a file in a folder) were all that was needed. It worked right away for me after I did that. No reinstall or anything necessary. The sound is great! I was like “whoa! Glad I bought this!” after starting to try it out. Here's the solution text found on Google someone who had installed Positive Grid Bias Amp 2 and it just hung on start up after the install. I had this issue as well initially. I followed these steps and it immediately resolved the issue. ------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for writing to Positive Grid support. This is a known issue we are working on, but for now, please try this workaround: Rename Documents/PositiveGrid/BIAS_AMP 2 folder 2.Delete BIAS _AMP 2.settings in: C:\Users[User_name]\AppData\Roaming\PositiveGrid\BIAS_AMP2.settings Thanks, let us know how it goes.

Steven - I've had Bias FX 2 Elite for a couple days now and have been experimenting. One thing I've done is create a variety of tracks with different guitars and different pickup settings and playing styles - and then per track flipped between different amp sims and different presets and settings for some comparisons. What I'm coming away with as a fresh conclusion is that it's not as much as what does this one have that another doesn't. Each have some amazing sounds and/or presets that can apply. Without going overboard in choices (which can happen with having even one amp sim), I'm glad I have all of these amp sims - including Bias FX 2. Clicking each one on its own I get something special that I can't wait to use on a real song. Each amp sim has a wealth of excellent sounds. I do really like the Bias FX 2 clean look and ease of use and again the sounds are great. As a side note, PodFarm 2 still has some great sounds even though the UI is a few years behind the times. The kicker for me is that while I did this experimentation I've been also trying out the demo of Blue Cat Audio's Axiom. Axiom allows in its single amp sim interface to combine other effects (including other amp sims) into one effect and save it as a preset. It's super deep. I've been experimenting with blending stuff from Amplitube 4 and Bias FX 2, or with Blue Cat's amps, or with Guitar Rig or PodFarm This gets into overboard fun possibilities. That said, I've easily come up with some super high quality "wow!" sounds by being able to use more than one of these tools in one place (Axiom). It seems very handy once I have a good sound to save that as an Axiom preset and it restores all those settings in an instant when I recall it. (I'm waiting for a Blue Cat sale to actually get Axiom). Looking at keyboard sounds - I have a bunch of synths and patches to those synths. Blending those synth patches can make some killer and unexpected sounds. I think for guitars - amp sims actually can potentially used in a similar way - not as silo tools, but somewhat like synths and patches. Some really inspiring amp sounds can be achieved when you put an A channel and blend it with a B channel. In short, Bias FX 2 is a good add especially at the discount price. Not a substitute for something - an add.

Piotr - I'm new to Bias FX 2 Elite. I've installed it. Sounds great. I do not see that pop up. I've selected many amps, choices. Is it a surprise pop up that occurs randomly, or are you somehow stuck in that pop up cycle, while others are not? At least for me as of now I have not encountered it.

I received my code back in just a couple hours after the purchase. I guess based on their business hours.

Thank you to all! I had not reviewed these before as they'd been out of price range at times I had thought about looking. This is a great deal! Especially for the FX 2 Elite which is my starting point now with Positive Grid. Great stuff!

These sound pretty good. I tried a few and liked them - at that price I'm satisfied.

Thanks to you all on this thread I followed a similar inquiry. My purchase date for 2.1 was Aug 3. A couple hours after my inquiry I received the serial numbers and Groove 3 code. I echo the sentiment. Very impressed and grateful! I have plenty of good will now toward iZotope as a result.