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  1. 7 minutes ago, satya said:

    https://polyend.com/play-plus/

    https://musictech.com/news/gear/polyend-play-plus-groovebox-launch/

     

     

    According to Polyend, the Play+ comes with four new built-in synth engines for you to experiment with. The first is ACD, which harkens back to the “golden age of electronic music with its recreation of iconic single-oscillator monophonic analogue synths”.

    You can get a new unit for $799/€799, or upgrade from the Play for a price of $399/€399.

    Thnx... looks good!

     

  2. 15 minutes ago, Zo said:

    Korg opsix reaaaaly surpised me i mean it s been a while i  wasnt surprised sepcially by fm synths ...

     

    Opsix is probably one of the best fm synths out there , if not the best... Never had a chance to play DX-1 back in the day...
    I like the Wavestate, but it needs great discipline, super organised mind-flow and patience 🙂

  3. 3 hours ago, Zo said:

    Oh yeah , but mainly i needd akeyboard , nowdayz i try to have one gear on desk centered , so it s remplacing NI kontroller ,.. only grip is that controll side sucks ... knobs while endless rotary act like regular knobs in studio one , so jump of values , emailed support to lobby on that cause even my minilab can do it as supposed to .

    By the way did ya trie the uad synth ? 

    Ah good to know 🙂

    No I didn't try the UAD synth, have plenty of HW and software synths... I'm done 🙂

     

  4. 3 hours ago, Zo said:

    Boy OpSix sounds great !!!!

    Both Wavestate and Opsix are absolutely great... @96kHz session they are so close sounding to the hardware that with little Eq adjustment you're pretty much there... of course no immediate hands on, but Wavestate Software is actually in most cases almost easier to program than the hardware synth and things can be mapped to controllers... so I think they are a winners!

  5. I hate subscriptions, left Adobe years ago, cut my loses with Waves and don't use them nor am interested in them at all (as their fees are just another way of subscription)... But having said that, I think I'll go with PA 99$ / year subscription with this kind of logic: Have most stuff I need and some old plugins still sound great, so not that many great really new and useful plugins are needed to be had for me... they just bring another flavour to the table... and my skillet is sorted with the spices already. So, if I feel there are three (3) plugins I want to purchase at the time of taking and / or renewing the subscription, I will do that... each costs 33 $, that's an ok price for me. The bonus is, I get all the other stuff to demo properly on real projects for a year and all the possible new releases. If PA decides to restricts and limits the possibility to use some new stuff within the subscription, it's their loss... I wont renew, they lost any further money from me! Done.

    So paying up front for a year gives me 3 plugins for 99$ right away, everything else is a bonus, if at next renewal there isn't anything within my subscription that I'm interested to make at least the 3 plugins to be purchased further... I'm out. 

    Learned the hard way... trust the offer what you have on the table, not the offer promised.... I don't trust anyone, they are all up for grabbing my money one way or the other. I govern to whom it goes. This hype and urgency of sales is funny and quite intimidating one's intellect... Sad world out there! Remember protection gals and guys!

    Love from Finlandia!

     

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  6. 2 hours ago, Denis Malygin said:

    Hello guys,

    I came across this forum thread just today so I appologize for not being able to post here at the time of active discussion.

    Hi Denis,

    Welcome here! I'm sure comments here are nothing to do with you being Russian... there are millions of great Russian peole and millions of bad business practices and scammers all around the globe any colour and any nationality! 

    Right is right and wrong is wrong! I'm for one super happy that you have expressed here your sincere feelings and facts. 

    I'll second @Last Call and suggest reuse the code , make it better, new software, move on and cash in on your intellectual property!

    Stay well and don't despare... in cycle of life tables do turn... if you push them hard enough!

  7. 5 minutes ago, John Bradley said:

    Yep. I love the Valhalla plugins, and $50 always is a far more reasonable price model than "$139 marked down to $49 this weekend only!", BUT $50 is more than my impulse buy limit of $20-$30, and without that "gotta act now or lose this 'great' deal" pressure... well, I've only ever bought one of their plugins.

    Whereas 2getheraudio has gotten more money out of me, even though I rarely use their stuff these days, simply because of the "name your price" model. I'll apparently buy *anything* for $10!

    I think everyone who has been around for awhile knows that there are always some kind of deals going on... and like a bus... it always come another one...
    I think when you have used that last plugin you've bought for at least one fully finished song you should entitle yourself to another one... but collecting digital dust is fun and actually quite expensive. So if you spend around 75 usd on average per month throughout the year, thats over 900 usd. I think one should ask himself what did I do with this money? Where was it used, how much did I get out of it? If this was your hardware  presumably laying around not being used for a year, you would consider selling it, right...

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  8. 30 minutes ago, Brian Walton said:

    To Yan's point.  That model would not generate as much revenue as it kills off the value proposition of the sales and limited time only nature of impulse buying.

    If I only bought what I needed at $30 a pop, they would not have hustled me into buying the ~90 I have today.  But I agree that would simplify and make the customer experience of only buy what you need a whole lot easier as there is a TON of overlap in the purchases once you start going crazy.

    So do you guys find it morally ok to actually being ripped off by this kind of game at hand which is imposed by many bigger vendors... is there something you like about it, like truly like it? What makes you feel good? The fix of the day? Better than making music using the tools you already have and have forgotten about it?
    I'm slowly growing really allergic  to it and start to find it a big distraction in multiple ways...

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