Brian Walton

The price depends on what you have in some cases here. For me they show up as $30 and $50.

No reason to get Peak if you have Pro on Masterdesk (unless you like less option interface I think) If you don't have either of the Shadow Hills, "A" is the more premium option with additional features and a resizable UI. They do sound different. Overall Class A can tend to be more tube warmth ish, which also means it can sound muddy on some sections. I tend to use it when I want a little flavor, and pick a different family if I want transparent. I use IRON which is also the same price more than Green.

I know more people that use Adobe than use a DAW with adon effects as a hobby and I live in both worlds. Both are worlds of a sea of hobbiests vs a small pool of people making a sustainable living wage at it, and ironically it takes most more than a decade to make pro level results in music and plenty of people can get good enough for a small gig in photography/editing in less than two years without prior experience with some practice and youtube instruction. Much harder to overcome the investment costs in music than it is in the digital art world.

Best opportunity was when they had the send in guitar playing recording offer. If I had waited until I racked up all my recording during the period and that final sale they had which overlapped honestly could have gotten MComplete from ground zero. It was a sweet deal for any guitar player that know how to record. And I imagine we will never see something like that again.

At least rent to own. The price point seems about right for the market now. While I never do subs (and have MComplete outright), I can't imagine the previous $50/month was something a lot of people could justify.

Also consider just grabbing MODO Drum the free version: https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/mdstudio/?pkey=modo-drum-kit-studio I have a few drum programs, AD2, EZ Drummer, Session Drummer (the previous version), Drum Core 4 - not discontinued, JamStix, MODO Drum, Melda's MDrummer, etc I'd suggest getting a few for a program or two to find out what you find valuable and difficult to work with before making a hefty purchase in this area. (JamStix,Slate, and AD2 also have stripped down but function free versions)

Did you sign up for the beta? Those who are on it know it is still seeing updates/changes before release.

I'll have to check the cpu hit on that. Amplitube tends to be resource hungry. I've run a couple tonex instances for the same, though I tend to use one of my real world drives so I can control with my feet.

I'm willing to deal with it for this particular product. I have virtually every product they have and agree that most take up crazy disk space I wonder if they released a TONEX player vst that lacks the modeling network stuff and took out the VIR, only loading individual IR for the profiles how small it would be. Each capture is a very small file size.

Amplitude bundles though. My own perspective is after TONEX came out my only use for the amplitude amps was simply to compare the difference. $40 can buy some nice TONEX captures from a variety of places and amps.

Just make sure you didn't already get it from PB a few years back when it had a limited time -$5 offer.

Haven't run the updater yet, but some of those are certainly things I was hoping for in the last update. Glad to see it isn't just a "we added products to buy" update.

Yeah, I thought the same. I ended up buying a 2nd pedal during that offer, using JamPoints. 😁 The $300 range is a solid/fair price. $400 is a bit high but not totally unreasonable given just how good it is.

The Dumble collection as free with Pedal Purchase was "worth it" if you had the jam points. The $50 release price would have been borderline, some of those captures are quite good. This one at $100 is too much, but I could see a Boogie fan picking it up. They don't make sounds that are my favorite, and the Amalgam captures are good enough for what I may occasionally take for a spin. They need real grail amps or a massive collection of something to really command that kind of price.

We want Sonar to be inexpensive. The in person store stuff wouldn't be well attended, it wasn't a packed house back in the day and far less likely to get people to show up unless they are also giving away the software. Virtual is the only way to do it these days at a minimal cost. That said, now that YouTube is a thing, I'm not sure I get the point of some sort of paid attendance as these things never end up being all that interactive. And questions could be handled via live stream if that is the goal.

Yeah I usually do this some but since we have no idea what the biggest driver for these deals continuing it is hard to know how to best adjust it.

It is legit but not DRM free, allows 2 installs at a time I think and done through Corel. Full version.

That is what I thought too and a smart move to bring people in as the hardware market is a lot larger for guitar players. And other companies beat them to market, have to do something to entice users

I haven't used it, but I interpret that as the capture tech is done in the cloud instead of locally. Something like TONEX capturing is a barrier due to the computing specs it needs to do advanced captures, but the playback after capture is rather low. Letting cloud servers do the number crunching in the short term sounds like a plus.

At this point I even consider new amp sims outdated upon release given TONEX is on the market (and has hit $40 or less price points).

Based on the EQ, this might actually have Forever29 potential. May have to actually give this a test spin. Wonder why that didn't go crazy with the MSRP here.

Not sure about that product, but the ones I do have require no additional authorization so even if they go belly up then there is a decent chance they have a number of years of viablelaty on Windows.

I got both during the last sale. The cloning and some of the auto brushing features made me grab Painter too otherwise Rebelle would have been fine and even preferable for me. It certainly has a more generous authentication system that I appreciate.

Not sure but the standalone equipment it uses under the hood is also high consumption. I'm sure they just reused code and with more functions in one plugin it adds up. Too bad as it seems nice.

No more generic and even the $25 is based on recent purchase history. The glory days are gone. Not that I need or want one but..Last month was my last voucher and I spent a stupid amount in 2022...don't remember how much in 2023 but a lot less than before. I have some forever 29 that I've been waiting for something amazing to use but nothing has drawn me in. The new Amek Console would have done it if it wasn't a resource hog...unlike the Amek 9099