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I have some bad music software news. What, one of the companies we depend on the most issued a business-speak press release with terms like "streamlined experience" and "more cohesive audio ecosystem"? No, that's not it. That's a relief, what then? TWO of the companies we depend on the most issued such a press release. Oh noooo (at least the Francisco press release doesn't contain the word "synergy")

and in v3, TMNTTMT to get subtle variations in your Ninja Turtles across channels.

Their FAQ states that if you cancel the subscription the products stop working at the end of your billing cycle, so unfortunately it's not a last-version thing. Ran a search, someone at vi-control contacted support and they said there are no plans to discontinue perpetual licenses, and if that changes they'll "proactively communicate." Probably a good sign, although I don't think it's the proactiveness of the communication users are worried about. I hope it's allowed to cross-link forums: it's post 77 here. @Fret Flintstone I agree that "which" makes that an ambiguous mail. It could mean: "Ozone Pro is our latest version of Ozone. Ozone Pro is now available exclusively in MPSP subscription", or "Ozone Pro is our latest version of Ozone. Ozone is now available exclusively in MPSP subscription" I think it reads like the second, but they mean the first.

If it's just TMT and mid-side, and the upgrade ends up being expensive for existing users, some DAWs have easy ways of making your existing plugins Mid-Side. For example in Logic X: on a stereo track, when inserting a plugin, choose "dual mono", then click the "gear" button left of the L/R selector, and choose mid/side from the dropdown. The L/R buttons are now Mid/Side and return to those plugin instances. You even get a "Couple" switch to match changes across the instances.

This is how I read it. Pro gives you a continuous latest version, and with the perpetual licenses, people buy paid upgrades to get features in chunks at a later date. To feel better, perpetual license users can spin this as letting the subscription users kick out the bugs Here's a comparison chart that might suggest that model, but it doesn't quite confirm. https://www.izotope.com/en/products/music-production-suite-pro/compare.html While I've never needed to use customer support it looks odd that someone who shelled out $999 (499 on sale) for MPS4 doesn't receive "priority support" that the subscription users do.

thanks! yeah, I was in the same case, it's tempting to get the new stuff and WUP at 40% off, but needed new Mac compatibility for my V9's that wouldn't have been included even in Mercury (and I certainly don't need Mercury). Ended up purchasing through Koby... Once in 7 years isn't bad, hope I can go that long again

That seems like a good deal especially if you don't have overlapping products for everything. (edit: asked a very special-case question about upgrade UI, removed since it distracts from the discussion)

thanks, a little less, $24 and change, at JRRShop with GROUP The discount or the compressors?

It's been nice being able to pick some of these up for $29 regularly but someone should get them a screenwriting book to cover plot construction: "and for our mega grand finale... the exact same thing as act 1 and act 2"

sent my request number off to Koby but can't help thinking a year of slate bundle is $12.50 a month, and WUP is more than that for plugins that were already "purchased." We get OS/DAW compatibility updates but they would need to create those even without WUP to be able to be able to keep the plugins on the market.

Never WUPped but might have to for v12. Some observations on the pricing. Nothing on duplicate licenses here because I don't have any. I think when pricing goes over $240 pre-discount, the rate it uses is still $240 per year, and WUP just goes for longer. In one case I have a plugin that is still under wup and expires Sep 2 2021, or six months from now. If I include that one, everything is wupped for 18 months rather than 12, but I pay $360 rather than $240 to extend out. Then the discount applies. But this seems generally NOT worth doing. It might be in one small case, where you're not going to buy any waves plugins soon, want WUP for over a year, and think there will not be a sale like this again. Otherwise if you buy a plugin next month it will expire in 13 months. If you would have WUPped for 12, then in a year and a bit WUP for another 12, that plugin would be covered. If you WUP for 18 months now it would expire sooner probably. The one "bonus" in the new system is that if you have plugins expiring in the next month, they get included without increasing the cost and you get another month free. For example, only the expired plugins is 12 months for $240. Including a plugin that expires in 2 weeks does not raise the cost and WUPs everything for one year and two weeks. But this is a small victory and only works for some people... it is not possible to just acquire a plugin that expires in two weeks if you don't have one already.

thanks Larry I know this is already further down than the advertised sale, but the automatic special promo code seems to block out using jampoints.

This does what it says on the tin, and does it well, but just for everyone's reference there is the "ultimate-er" 6060 with selling points of: a few more modules, a few more spaces in the virtual rack (seriously), and some parallel signal processing. Possibly some algorithmic changes. For a while there was no 6050 upgrade path, which felt like getting a little burned. Since then they have offered upgrades at $99 and at least once $49. That said, it's good. I keep meaning to use it/6060 more.

This should run through the end of the day. Any opinions? It gets good reviews, but some comments at GS suggest remembering it's a very clean EQ, and can be sonically duplicated with some other digital EQs, and the interesting parts are in the curve selection and interface. Those are important and the team worked hard on them I am sure. Also, given the high starting price I've been curious how long it's taking PA to target people who don't want to spend $300 on an EQ. This was released in sept 2020 and means it took 4.5 months to go on sale from $300 to $80, and a best price of $30 for $50 voucher holders. I think some older plugins, like Amek, still have not dropped much, but this is one example that it can happen in under half a year.

Thanks Scott! This won't apply to everyone, but I had a loyalty voucher for buying something in 2020, which was going to expire february 1, so that took some more off... emails went out early january and vouchers are also listed in a page in "my account" on the site.

Affinity sells through their website, and also through the Windows and Mac stores. All of them look to be on sale. I don't know of any significant difference between them, but in case people like to avoid app stores, or have a credit somewhere...

There are some other products in this area, but usually not free: Vienna Ensemble Pro might be the standard for offloading plugins across the network? There's probably an orchestral composer in here who could say. Waves SoundGrid is a proprietary product like this... only handles Waves plugins though. And I think you overpay for the hardware quite a bit. Waves isn't a charity of course. Might have originally been targeted toward live sound but you can use it to free up resources. MuseBox was something that did "vst in a box" several years ago but I'm not sure end users could just install plugins. I think that is defunct. Reaper may still include "ReaMote" which can offload plugin DSP across the network. Apple Logic used to have Logic Node. I think this was dropped for X. I have not used any of these personally. I believe you do start needing to think about purchasing multiple licenses for multiple nodes for some companies, if you only have one ilok license, etc. Dante is exciting but I think it only routes audio, like an external synth, and you'd be on your own for remote access to the other computer, and sending MIDI. There are standards here that are evolving so maybe there's an official one for midi over LAN. Otherwise I think Apple has one and someone made a compatible version for windows machines. It's been a long time since I looked though.

I wonder if @Peter - IK Multimedia and the AT5 team would be interested in putting their VIR capture robot on it for a hypothetical SVX3. At 600 IRs per speaker, at least 35 speakers... 21,000 IRS for one cab?

"The tone is sounding slightly muddy. Can you turn down the bass knob and turn up the treble? Just a touch" "fine, I'll get the ladder"

That one might be a one-off amp Ampeg made, an 11-foot tall promotional SVT, "The Beast." Ampeg 8x10s are big but not quite that big. Or it really is an SVT-CL stack and Dirk is really short.

Looks great. I'm impressed with the other archetypes from black friday, and I wish them success with their new floor unit. But their pattern of sales is making the logical part of my brain want to wait for 50% off here.

I thought "El Stompo" and "El Snapo" would be good names to complete the series with "El Clapo." But Das Boot is probably a better name.

for repeat customers, latest loyalty coupon seems to stack with this deal, too. It's possible pensado has always qualified for loyalty coupons; I just recall that in the past, sometimes the plugins with "official" names didn't qualify.

likely stating the obvious but the first 1992 amp looks like a 5150 model.

@Kal - I don't want to answer for Filo but I believe the short version is vouchers are not "dynamic discounts." "Dynamic discounts" refers to PA's normal single-purchase bulk discount setup, where, like for example if you buy 3 plugins at normal price they take 30% off your cart total, up to buy 5 get 50%. Here is the link to their help center about it. The text you quote just means that they don't apply this system to the plugins on sale, so you can't buy five amp sims and save 50% off the already-reduced $40 price.