Carl Ewing
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Just checked for fun - but the $19.99 plugins do not qualify. (Has worked before with the $0.01 difference, but not this time!) Luckily my Mix & Master subscription renews this month (grandfathered in) and they sent me a voucher to get the XXL sub for the same price. Niiiiiiiiice.
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Hoping they do the same for Absynth - or perhaps hand the source code over to Rhizomatic / Brian Clevinger if he's interested in evolving it. Although Plasmonic seems to be the focus now.
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Ya- $200 for a plugin. Lol. I just spent $200 for Salu, which is close to 100 GB of some of the most beautiful instrument recordings I've ever heard in a virtual instrument. And it required a couple hours of walkthrough videos to convince me it was worth it. The price vs. value in this market is totally out of whack. And people advocating $200 for a plugin that just hit the market.......I have words for these people. 😡
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Orchestra Tools Close-up soundscapes: Salu is 50% off
Carl Ewing replied to cclarry's topic in Deals
Promised not to buy anything new till the summer. Promised. Myself. This has been on my list forever. Can't reneg on promise, especially to self. Will not buy. No buying anything till summ--- Bought it. -
8Dio - The Century Strings 2.0 Bundle: Normale and Sordino - $48 - Flash Deal
Carl Ewing replied to Kirean's topic in Deals
I've reduced many of their libraries by deleting many of the MIC positions. Not sure how Century is set up (don't own), but it seems they have Two Mic Mixes in version 2.0, and up to 8 mic positions on top of that. It should be possible to reduce that footprint substantially if you have no use for the extensive mic arrays. The list on the product page is: Close 1, Close 2, Close 3, Close 4, Mixed, Decca, Close (another one?) and Wide. I've reduced a couple of their other libraries down to one close mic, mixed and decca and sometime the wide. Or just the Decca if I didn't like the close mic(s). Has reduced those libraries by 50% or more. This one seems a bit more complicated as the site mentions the close mics vary depending on articulation. -
This is a problem with convincing people that music / audio production is a science and not an artform. It ain't just music either. This is the problem in graphic design, animation, videography, photography, etc. as well. These industries are about selling you gear. Everything centers around this objective. I would love to see a video where a review for an overpriced or redundant piece of music / audio gear was "You don't need this. What you DO need is to go outside and have life experiences. Then you'll actually have something to say using the gear you already own."
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Here where? You have the wage trends for the company: 500+ programmers, engineers, UI / UX designers, cloud / SAAS, marketing, accounting, etc? Rent, taxes, electricity, computers, software, servers, etc. in Israel & US? I'm looking at their employee list on LinkedIn. Virtually all these jobs are technical and will have seen significant inflation pressure on wages over the last 10 years. Unless they are losing substantial talent, which is, of course, entirely possible. But you seem to have the numbers. I'd love to see them.
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It's 100% guaranteed that their cost of doing business has gone up significantly, and the previous 'race-to-the-bottom' plugin price bonanza was never sustainable after years of extremely high inflation.
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I Have to Ask - Is What's On His Screen a Real Product?
Carl Ewing replied to Daniel Hulse's topic in Deals
Nothing creepy about 6 fingers and 3 arms. I match many ladies on Tinder because of these attributes. Although in my case, it's not technically an arm. But it plays piano. -
Do you (or anyone) know if there is a way to export the one shot / loop samples (vocals, percussion, etc.) as .wav files? Looking at the World Suite walkthrough, there are some cool vocal one-shot performances, but much prefer to have these as raw .wav files in my sample / loop drive. This can be done with Kontakt, but not sure about Falcon.
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Just checked - and anything released since November - when I bought the bundle - has been added to my account. Only a couple new things, but it's definitely getting added. As for 2024, have no idea. One thing I'm disappointed with are the Battery Kits. There aren't even enough velocity layers to make them useable - for me anyway. Quite unfortunate, as they clearly did a lot of recordings for each of these kits (loops, multi-tracks, kits, etc.) so you'd think they'd spend a bit more time making them playable.
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Don't blame @jngnz for IK devaluing all their products to the point of absurdity. By your own logic, the ~140 products in TS3.5 are now worth ~$1.50 each, and the 30 products in TS4.0 are worth ~$5 each. Of course, some products are more valuable than others. For example - I completely understand that TONEX MAX is 50% the cost of the TS4 $199 upgrade, since it's so indispensable and ground breaking, and will absolutely not be abandonware in 2 years. But, let's be honest here. Like most developers these days, milking existing customers for upgrades is highly profitable. Whereas, attracting new customers is expensive, and incentivizing them with dirt-cheap "total catalogue" products is where profits are lost. iZotope and Native Instruments have perfected this method. Get people into the ecosystem for cheap. Then milk them for upgrades. IK might be slightly better at this when it comes to "group buys", which is another dirt-cheap way to get new customers in and prepped for the milking. It's smart business in the short term. That 3rd point is intentional. Has been the case for years in products like Amplitube. Crippling software with "missing product" prompts is a sales tactic. Doesn't matter what it does to the user experience. You must be constantly reminded of what products you don't own. I'm sure IK borrowed this from mobile gaming. And, unfortunately, it works gangbusters in the gaming world. Surprised more audio devs don't use this tactic. Then again, those other companies probably care about their customers' experience lol.
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Had this problem with Omnia. Even the ISO download links they sent failed during download. Had to install a better download manager (Chrome extension) that would re-connect the download fragment / queue, as it would not resume once connection failed. Took 2 days. But eventually worked.
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Have been chipping away at Time Micro / Macro. But Salu has been on my list since it was released. Very much considering the quartet, dreamstate, evolving and the other sound design-ish patches. Such a gorgeous sounding library. Just not sure what to get first. Picked up the entire Ark series (0-5) during 2022 sales season, and Sine player still hasn't grown on me. But for the sound of these libraries, it's worth the headache.