Brian Walton

I thought once you put it on a physical ilok you only get one auth and the machine option goes away. It is two without ilok involved that I'm sure about. I need to look this up again as I was surprised it wasn't giving me 2 ilok authorizations.

If you have Kontakt then the question is why would you buy/pay for yet another piano library? With his own - it has value to those that haven't paid for the Kontakt overhead, investment cost = $20. It makes sense to simply add to his offerings getting out of just effects and is a logical leap from the Clap, Stomp, etc that was an instrument. I'm also curious about the size, while he says it isn't a 40-60 GIG library, just how small is it exactly?

He has some Dumble "clones" that I'm sure he will eventually release. He has a massive Kemper pack with them (around 100 profiles if I remember correctly), but hasn't done ToneX yet. I wonder if this release will impact his timetable on that.

Well if used on 8 out of 20 that seems like a complete waste - given how many they are including in the pack. I've played real Dumbles before - some of them sound good - others are frankly rubbish and then of course there is the question of how well it is recorded even if it is a good one. But good to hear you are finding them inspirational. May need to try to test tonight if they are part of the trial products. Sadly I have 2 tonex pedals but was hoping not to need to authorize the 2nd one, to get these models - seems lame they are offering it as free to new people. The problem is if I authorize the 2nd in my account - it isn't like they give me any extra authorizations.

Apparently not this one. They are asking money from max users

Can you confirm this thing only has 20 tone models across 4 amps (and 2 pedals they included for no particular reason?) And how does it sound/feel for the clean to edge of break up stuff compared to the Two-Rock stuff I'm sure you have from Amalgam, etc.

Very. I've got quite a few an my login price still makes them $20 a pop for each I don't have. Not even a little tempted.

Wondering why it isn't on PA, was thinking they would have struck a deal after the eq release.

Last year they had tiers based on what you own (to a degree). Not this year. An unreasonable $900 for everyone!

Started demo. Pulled it into Gig Performer to look at CPU usage in a more isolated environment than a DAW. Getting 4-5% CPU usage compared to MAutoDynamicEQ and Kirchhoff (both of those hover between 0-1%)...Measured with MNoiseGenerator going through them as Melda plugins are smart enough to bypass when nothing is being played. Amex EQ200 is around 9% CPU usage. Also white noise in the Demo is quite frequent and annoying - given the demo seems to say 29 days left in the trial, honestly that seems really poor. If the trial is unlimited time, then it is at least more forgivable.

This has been around for a while, but too rich for me - so never tried it https://www.soundradix.com/products/surfer-eq/

Idea has been around for years, just never seen anyone actually attempt to implement it in an easy and intuitive way. There have been some options that treat things statically or dynamically (to an extent) but following based on key (instead of just a note or something of that nature, hasn't been intrinsic in the functionality of anything I've seen though I've seen people ask for it over the years. Wish this one was a bit cheaper to make it a no-brainer with all the other super power EQs I have. At $50, might give it a demo then wait. Also super curious about the CPU hit. Some other heavy hitters are pretty light on the resources - kirchhoff eq, toneboosters EQ4, Melda MAutodynamicEQ, etc I'm going to be a little surprised if this is competitive to Kirchhoff's consumption.

I always wonder how many units these companies can even sell at that price point.

New Amek Console was what I've waited all year to use a Forever29 on, and come to find out it is likely a massive resource hog. (Yet to be tested myself). Where the 9099 on the other hand is quite efficient. Making it even easier to pass on some of this stuff. Glad I got in when the getting was good though there is a ton of stuff I bought that I haven't used and don't need.

TBD Given the fact they have already said the UI won't load our custom Themes, those us of that view those custom themes as the UI we know and love - switching back to Mercury or Tungston feels like a major step back and I'm not expecting them to have something like what I use out of the box. I'm sure other features will be excellent, but there is a pretty important piece that is up in the air.

it is missing some of the more coveted verbs from the 500. Given it is at the same price tier at the TC Electronics Hall of Fame 2 x4, I'd say it has some competition. Though one of the main selling points here would be the form factor to functionality ratio.

You are right! I overlooked that sale as I'd already gotten all of them at those prices or cheaper. Pluralis was a new release at the time - but didn't get it.

They suspended the monthly loyalty vouchers for this??

That is basically the deal they offered at release and I haven't seen it that low since. Internet search isn't giving me hits on previous sales that low. All the others on your list have been between $0 and buy anything at PB to get for free other than Hyperspace - which was on a deep sale post release one time not that long ago.

You sure that wasn't Electrum Core you grabbed on sale? While that is discounted, it goes on sale all the time for $25 unlike the full version.

Seems to be working again.

+1 doesn't work. 4 hrs in and they pulled it??

Ahh MAC user...I was thinking Windows which tends to actually have compatibility even if not officially in the "support list"

They do super dooper deals when they release it. After that they don't really have what I'd call super dooper deals. If you have all the other plugins in the "guitar bundle" and where missing that one plugin - that might be an exception as that price can get pretty low that way.

Did they try and installing it? Tonex has far lower cpu consumption than either amplitude of neural dsp. Over the weekend I fired it up with my bass and just loaded a random Ampeg capture and thought it sounded better than every other modeler in the box I have (all the PA Ampeg sims, amplitude max, basement, audio assault, mguitararchitect, nembrini, etc, I don't own NeuralDSP because I demod it after tonex and it didnt make the cut all others are wasted purchases prior to Tonex)