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I own 3 of them (Thanks Zo!) and play mostly progressive rock and metal. They're great sims (I own a lot) and my go-to along with S-Gear. They're not just for heavy sounds, Archetype Abasi, Nolly and Plini all have great clean and crunch sounds inside. I haven't tried Fortin Cali but I expect the quality would be extremely good.

Not Abbey Road specifically but I just got an upgrade quote through Waves.com and ran it past Koby to see what sort of a price he could do. Saved me a decent chunk of change and his responses were lightning!

Seeing Batwaffel and King Lars in the same room at the same time? No deal is safe!

For those with Canon DSLRs, check out Magic Lantern. It's free firmware to add more features to the Canon line. I use it for better auto exposure bracketing for HDR. You load it onto a memory card so it doesn't change anything onto the camera.

I picked it up cause $10 but yeah, hard to find specifics on what's actually changed.

Was thinking we were having Black Friday in July this year... nothing in 2020 surprises me anymore!

Welcome back Lars. If the family emergency was inability to find the right plugin bargains, they called the right guy! In all seriousness though, hope everything is ok with the family. They come first.

Bought one but didn't register yet in the hope that it counts towards a group buy later this year!

I love the clean tones in Plini.

Does WUP ever go more than 25% off?

That'd be the deal of the decade!

And note, there is no upgrade path from SD2 to SD3.

Sounds like a rough launch so far!

Actually, I should correct myself... this IS what internet is like in most of Australia if you go by land area, but not if you go by population 😁

Tezza, can you get that SkyMuster satellite NBN? For everyone else, this is not what the internet is like in most of Australia But it's a big country with a low population so outside of urban areas internet coverage quality drops off pretty quickly.

Everything requires little effort if it's not you who needs to do it 😅

It's not that simple. If it was just social isolation for 2 months, that's cool, no problem. The issue for me is the number of people who have lost their jobs and livelihoods (indirectly) because of the isolation that's the concern for me. It's going to take years, it not decades, to recover from the economic effects of this.

Skipped that thread cause of the title - but read this one cause of the title Well worth posting, I think.

I've been pretty critical of SSD5 here in the past, mainly due to some bugs that had gone unfix for years. Finally the 5.5 update dropped, the bugs (at least the one that annoyed me) got fixed and some stuff was added (tons of grooves and a refreshed interface being the highlights for me). I'm pretty happy with SSD5 now! I've got SD3 as well but SSD5 certainly has its place in my collection.

If I was only going to get one would you say the Blue Zone is the one to get for lush pads? What other ones are worth getting?

I've used SSD5 for the last couple of years and I don't mind it. I'm comfortable with the interface. The thing for me is there's a bug in the MIDI grooves browser where you drag a file from the browser to Reaper and it shows "Offline." The workaround is to drag the MIDI file from Windows Explorer into Reaper directly. But that defies the point of a groove browser. Anyway, long story short, Slate has been promising an update coming "soon" to fix this issue for a year or two, and it's still nowhere to be seen. For me, I had enough and moved to Superior Drummer 3 and never looked back. It is better in just about every way and I could tell the difference in the mixes straight away after replacing the Slate drums with SD3.

I've just got a couple of new machines to set up and in each instance I'm installing the VST2 and not VST3 versions of each plugin where I can. It's annoying when like RTAS and AAX get installed without me being able to deselect them but such is life. So far I haven't noticed any issues or deficiencies in my workflow using VST2 only.

That's insane. I'm not affected and I doubt many people would be, but people paid for these products. It's not right that they shouldn't be able to activate them after a certain date because a company decides they don't want to support those activations anymore. Make it right and release offline versions of them or something. Native Instruments have such rubbish customer-unfriendly policies.

I’ve got a bunch of all sims, way too many! The bx ones are ok. I tend to use Bassdude for bass and some cleans, and megasingle for heavier tones. I’d also recommend S-Gear, the new couple of Nembrinis and anything by Neural DSP. My main style of music is metal.

While I’m not gonna go for it as I don’t wanna spend the $250, this looks like a pretty darn good deal to me. This is really what subscription services should be. This does away with the feeling of “once my sub ends I have nothing to show for it” which stops me looking at sub services.