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4 hours ago, jngnz said:

Which proper DAW doesn’t cost somewhere around that for updates? And don’t say Cakewalk.

Like all of them not named Live Suite.

FL Studio, Studio One, Cubase, Reason, Reaper,  Mixcraft, Acid.

I have licenses of the above and 2 Suite licenses since Live 8.

2 hours ago, Niky Serrano said:

That's a bit dishonest...

Also unnecessary work for  a DAW that will eventually cost you $250 in upgrades. 

I'm a fan of VSL but like EW it's a single license. 

7 hours ago, ralfrobert said:

As I said: good for the plugin count.

Post of the week.

For us hoarders - post of the weak

5 hours ago, Bruno de Souza Lino said:

In some ways, Reason introducing VST support was their undoing in two ways:

- They can't gouge their user base for Rack Extensions which are just conversions of plugins from the outside.

- It showcases how, once you look at the outside world, some of their attempts at Virtual Instruments are really pedestrian and don't really stand out.

Well with VST and RE's thoe choices are overwhelming.  RE content can't be stored on another drive. Those REs take up over 15gb on my systems.

3 hours ago, Fleer said:

But not that cheap

It seems like they inflated those prices before the 50% off.

3 hours ago, ralfrobert said:

It is definitely a lot of fun. I am trying to make one song sketch a day, and I love to sit down with FL Studio and toy around. From all the experiences with different DAWs, this is by far the most positive one. 

Once below the surface it is very deep.

Setting up Kontakt is annoying.

3 hours ago, Paul P said:

I've been watching some how-to videos lately that have used FL studio (and some that used Bitwig) and find myself asking how I could do similar on my daw, Studio One 6 Pro,

It seems that often enough, I can't, or it's not obvious.

Even on sale it's a lot of money, and a lot of learning, for something that might just be a passing interest for me.  But it looks like it'd be a fun adventure.

 

FL is the typical dance genre DAW.  Live is the same way.  I love both and Live takes some time to get use to the everything interface with no real separate windows.

The FL user base seems to have insecurity issues thinking the company will go broke and change their business model despite the founders telling them it wont happen. They are well into the red.  Their demos are downloaded more than any DAW.  Despite their large product they are a very small company.   

On 4/15/2023 at 11:54 AM, paulo said:

I don't think I've ever been so disappointed with seeing the "new" version as I was with BFD3. I held off buying BFD2 at the time because v3 was imminent. I still bought BFD3 because the consensus was that it was good, but man that UI.... I know it shouldn't matter really as it's all about the sound at the end of the day, but it doesn't make me want to spend too long looking at it. On my system at least it also seems to grab a lot of RAM that it didn't let go of when swapping kits which would then result in crashes, which soon becomes old, so mostly for that reason I very rarely use it these days, which is a shame  because it did sound ok.

I might remove it from my systems.  There's way too many issues that would take me hours n google just to solve.  I don't think mine even makes sound.   There's so many drum modules not named BFD that just works right after installation.  It's a bad example of any developer trying to protect the product that is on par with Yellow Tools.  There's just something really wrong with it burdened by authorization.

2 hours ago, Quick Math said:

I bought FL studio so many years ago.

I really like how they get all cool new features over the years even though I never really finished a single song on FL studio. I wonder if I ever get used to it...

It looks super cool that you can use Patcher and creat your own GUI for it...

It's still tough for me since I started on a linear DAW at the turn of the century.   It's rare that they ever disappoint its users.  Few developers can match their loyalty.

Just now, Fleer said:

You don’t say

Should be my signature but eventually it will fail on epic proportions.

Easy pass as I have too many plugins.

17 minutes ago, Fleer said:

Similar thoughts here. We didn’t get much in terms of new instruments with Reason 12, only Mimic and a renewed Combinator. 

But with VSTs and REs that's where the choices are overwhelming. 

$79 is too expensive for me these days.  Too bad it's not Waves or PA where it will hit $29.

They'd have to throw it in for free in the Reason 13 upgrade for me to bite.  It's not about quality it's that I have so much quantity. 

Serial number for ST Max 4 v2 now in place.

15 hours ago, Grem said:

When they work as expected they are wonderful. 

However, when they don't...

 

 

 

[TOTP!!]

This was rare and I never had issues with IK.

We found a flaw.  I also posted it on their forum and the mod was kinda clueless.

I loath licener managers that also downloads.      

Thanks for your report here. It is confirmed that the new SampleTank 4 MAX v2 is not appearing properly in the User Area at this time. It does appear in the IK Product Manager, which is the suggested install method at this time.

That said, the missing SampleTank 4 MAX v2 has been reported and should be fixed in the morning.

I went ahead and reactivated your sound content as well for another 180 days time just in case its needed.

Meanwhile some of my shit in Sampletank is no longer authorized and I think the support fuxed that.   Also trying to fix this on my own I got a warning from my ISP I've used 75% of my bandwidith.   FUverymuchIK.

4 hours ago, Bapu said:

FYI my Sampe Tank 4 MAX v2 shows registered at the bottom of the list in the Products tab for Sample Tank 4 (as well as Sample Tank 4  at the top of the list). Same situ for all the other MAX 4 products.

Yet if I want to download those sounds from my account this happens

Sounds expired? You can reactivate ALL of your sounds downloads access by purchasing 1 (one) 'Download Reactivation Credit' in IK Multimedia's webstore. Reactivation will open download access for 180 days for all registered products. Once you have purchased it, come back here and click 'Reactivate'. We recommend that you keep a backup copy of your downloaded files.

After 3 Max versions I can still download Philharmonik 2.    Syntronic and Sampletank - no.

Uses iLok?

This issues is not the software but their licensing is beyond suck.  They make great stuff no doubt but their licensing sucks compared to other developers.

1 hour ago, mettelus said:

Ouch, sorry to hear that. Did you try submitting a separate ticket (not replying to the first)? Support people can vary night vs day, and I had similar last year with Steinberg. First ticket zero response, second ticket was months later and I got a self-contained email with links and serials that resolved the issue in 10 minutes.

Usually IK support is great.  Of course there is Peter but he's not here that much.

14 minutes ago, craigb said:

Somewhere an untrained 19-year old support agent is wondering why he ALWAYS gets the same questions!

The end users gets the same response that could have been automated.

Registered  TS Max 4 om 5/4

In my account all have new serial numbers for Max products  except for Sample Tank Max which still has the 2021 registered date.

Syntronik Max has the new serial number but in my account page you can't download sounds without them wanting you to pay for activation.

I email USA support and they don't seem to listen and given me everything but listed above.   I want to download my sounds from the account to archive them.

Total Studio is Total Shit since it's missing the ST4 Max serial.  

I sent pictures of both issue and they seem to give what is worse than an automated respone.

Just fix it pretty *****in please.

I never had this piss poor support from IK. 

I can only enter my Total Shit Max serial so many times into their flakey authorization manager.

Just fix ir pretty *****in please.   I want what is entitled to my purchase in my web account.

Just fix it pretty *****in please.

Just now, cclarry said:

Most of my products show 173 days to download...except Syntronik 1 products

Try clicking sounds download in Syntronik 2 and it will say they are expired.