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12 minutes ago, JT music said:

I think that a good business and commercial gesture would be for pluginguru to put the Unify standard as a free Player to encourage the purchase of different expansions, personally it is expensive for me to buy a player that only incorporates instruments and effects which by default are free... Does anyone think the same?

There is incredible intellectual property in the build of Unify.  Unbelievable time and energy put in by both Shane and John.   That doesn't make sense as they are trying so hard (and generously) to get it started from their own energy and ideas.  They are not a faceless corporation.  They offer their time every weekend where users can interact with them as the build and journey continues.  I can't think of any other tool and sound design company that provides that kind of access and interaction with customers.  The Unify platform itself is loaded with innovations that aren't available anywhere else.  It's not just an empty platform to bring up instruments from others, it puts other instruments on steroids.

13 minutes ago, FatBlimp said:

https://www.bestservice.com/en/deals/toontrack_ezkeys_midi_weekend_deal_4951.html

Cool!  Forum friends come through again!

For tenners - good deal and I’ll grab them. 

I looked at this, and put it in the cart.  I happened to have the prior product Bollywood Maharaja - because I had that the price was reduced to $39.

In case you happen to have that product and had any potential interest, that's the more enticing price.

Sanjay has a slight talk about it from a clip several weeks ago that prompted my interest to look at it further.  The Beatskillz intro video on Bolly-X is limited to only some sound examples.  Sanjay shows it.

I have the other Mosaics. The preview on this didn’t get my interest that much yet. Probably because I have synths well covered already.  May or may not look at it further.

I just updated to 14.0.4 yesterday after waiting for some of the dust to settle.

I’m a fan.  If you consider these products at some point look for YouTube clips by William Knowlands. His series of videos provides practical “how to” that really helps.

CodeMeter is mysterious and I don’t trust it.  It was a pain with Avenger.  But with Antares it seems behind the scenes with no configuration required.  Antares also keeps licenses and info on what you have within their tools so downtime for recovery from them does not seem too concerning.

But as a general comment I would pick an iLok license over a CodeMeter license any day.

In my case, I use it on every song. 

grabbed it - thanks!

grabbed it on the 9th - discount was still active

the code?

I bought it when it was offered as part of the ProChannel way back in ancient times.

Went through the EZKeys2 YouTube clips released this morning.

The feature set has everything I hoped for.  This is going to be fantastic for me.

2 hours ago, abacab said:

Yes, definitely a Studio One thing. The updated Waves Central installs a new v14 Wave Shell.

Plugins for v12 were fine, but I had to force Studio One to re-scan plug-ins to pick up the new v14 Waves Shell. Apparently S1 fails to auto-detect the new point release for "14.12".

Select "Update Plug-in List" in Studio One (forces a re-scan at DAW start-up). Found in S1 Menu > View > Plug-In Manager.

 

I’d like to double or triple thank for the steps described. Very helpful!!

Great way to start my day reading this!!

6 hours ago, Bapu said:

 

When I decided to add another year of WUP before the 26th I checked Waves price. I'm 99.99% sure it said $250. 

All my stuff was already WUP'd thru 25 Jan 2024. Proud to say I never foolishly bought Waves duplicates. Can't say that about PA though. 🙂 

I went to two resellers (while I still could) and got a price of $225 and $223. I took the $223 price.

$240 was the max if not adding stuff still under a WUP.

1 minute ago, Yan Filiatrault said:

They should bring everyone's plugins version to 14 for free for this fiasco

That’s a good idea. It would be a nice reconciliatory gesture if  give their customers something to restore our trust and soothe our trauma.

22 minutes ago, abacab said:

At high speed!  From the Waves announcement on their site: “we’re working to get perpetual available again as soon as possible”.

Ha Ha! Ha!! Ha!!!!

41 minutes ago, abacab said:

Popcorn time. User reaction to the announcement over at the Waves forum...

https://forum.waves.com/t/introducing-waves-creative-access/6850

 

Wow - that forum read is a party!  Everyone venting directly on Waves’ own forum.  A lot of mad customers!

3 hours ago, husker said:

Wow.  Cool.   Hopeful Waves will do the same thing. 

Antares went full subscription. Now they offer perpetual and subscription (at least for some products).

Bummer overall.  I'll just sit and continue to use what I have.  When they stop working I'll stop using them, alternatives to many also in hand or available with perpetual liceneses.

Back on topic, the PSP InfiniStrip is really quite a nice tool to have ready to use on a song.

$58 at JRR if adding code GROUP.

Even so, can’t say it’s that interesting.