Doug Rintoul

2 hours ago, Esteban Villanova said:

Upgrade is $100 for a year, I think. If you have an active Splice plan you get an extra year at the end of the 25 months, or I remember reading something to that effect on Splice.

So $400 for three years and one month of support. That is cheaper than getting Bitwig on sale in December for $100 off and then extending your support as soon as it runs out for two more years.

On 4/12/2023 at 6:59 AM, Esteban Villanova said:

I think the pricing is actually fine. You can rent to own it on Splice too.

The Splice option looks interesting. I am not sure how often Bitwig goes on sale and how much the discount is but going the Splice route, you basically pay retail price and get 25 months of updates. Or am I missing something here? How much does it normally cost to extend your upgrade plan?

On 4/19/2023 at 8:55 AM, Brian Lawler said:

RapidComposer full edition orders receive free Melodya and MIDI Mutator licenses (by request).

Already had RC V4, asked for and received Melodya and MIDI Mutator keys for free, plus links to a bunch of RC patterns etc. Thanks for the info!

2 hours ago, ALC said:

SuperRack Performer ($99) is certainly cheaper than the SuperRack SoundGrid ($599).  Interested in live autotune.

Looks like SuperRack Performer only supports Waves plugins, so no AutoTune. However you can use Waves Tune Real-Time

Not sure why, but I got a free SuperRack Performer added to my account. 

1 hour ago, dumbquestions said:

Is this comparable to metaplugin by DDMF?

Element does not load 32 bit plugins in 64 bit environments so it cannot be used as a bridge

Element is one of my most used tools. Great for when I want to quickly load and test a vst or vst chain. For VST2 plugins, you can just drop the DLL into the window to load it, no scanning of plugins necessary.

what?

I posted this in the Best Service thread but I thought it might be worth posting here as well...

If you don't have EZKeys yet, Best Service has EZKeys Small Upright, or Cinematic grand (and others) for $136.98. With the $20 Promo Code: EGGY20, that would get you in for $116.98 and make you eligible for EZKeys 2.

1 hour ago, ralfrobert said:

These vouchers are also good to buy items that hardly ever go on sale, for example FL Studio. 

If you don't have EZKeys yet, Best Service has EZKeys Small Upright, or Cinematic grand (and others) for $136.98. With the $20 voucher, that would get you in for $116.98 and make you eligible for EZKeys 2.

2 hours ago, dubdisciple said:

In light of the waves fiasco, i think i will upgrade to the fx essential bundle. I already own Mautodynamic and a couple others so my upgrade is only 61. I don't really need , but kind of want to support companies with simpler licensing policies. 

I owned 4 of the 10 plugins in the MEssentialsFx bundle and my upgrade price was 28 Canuck Bucks. The upgrade included MTurboReverbLE so that alone put this in the total no brainer category.

3 hours ago, ralfrobert said:

$32 cart minimum. 

Also since there is nothing you can use the voucher on for less than $39.99, this is the effective minimum. Though, I guess it could be used on two license transfers for $32.

46 minutes ago, Technostica said:

The only upside is that you can still sell your licences which still have WUP.

But who is going to buy them?

Just now, kevin H said:

I must be dense. I’m not seeing the year three bundle in cherry audio site. How did you find it?

https://store.cherryaudio.com/bundles/cherry-audio-year-three-collection

Is this a download product or a boxed product that needs to be shipped?

You know something is really really bad about the software if it gets less than 5 stars on PB.

On 1/21/2023 at 9:19 AM, abacab said:

It was $24 at JRR last Sep-Oct. I would wait for a better sale...

https://musicsoftwaredeals.com/price-history/biotek-2-by-tracktion/

Yup, picked it up then.

6 hours ago, kitekrazy said:

Limited Warranty period (parts): 1 year

Buyer beware.   Never seen  a warranty like that on a SSD.

I guess some have the money to take a risk like that. 

Some conflicting info there. The text in the PC Builder box says 5 year limited warranty as does the SP website.

https://www.silicon-power.com/web/ba/product-UD90

I think the 1 year warranty is New Egg's standard warranty that does not take into account third party warranties.

4 hours ago, kitekrazy said:

 I thought about Tantra but I have Cable Guys,  that one from Waves, there's on from Arturia, plus Live Suite.

You need Tantra for the complete set.

3 hours ago, Jan Schmitz said:

Remember Thorn isn’t Apple Silicon and probably never will be.

Umm, Thorn from PA is not Apple Silicon, but Dmitry has updated Thorn for Silicon. You can download it fromm his site.

https://dmitrysches.com/thorn-changelog

Thorn for Apple Silicon was available in September 2021.

My age touchstone was being a teen when American Graffiti came out and thinking how funny and strange the music and the styles were back then. Then along came That 70s Show and I realized kids probably thought the same about the styles and music of my teen years. However, maybe it is just me but I don't think DSotM sounds as dated as say Bill Haley and His Comets. 

1 minute ago, paulo said:

Well if someone who is related to you said it was so, then who could possibly argue with that?

Good point. Not my brother then.

34 minutes ago, Marina said:

And as far as I see M1 users avoid incompatible plugins, because they perform slowly under Rosetta. I wouldn’t call that “work perfectly fine”.

I don't have an M1 machine so I can't verify this but this announcement from PA, https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/news/article/items/m-1-apple-silicon.html, seems to indicate that a good block of PA plugins do support M1 natively. If all PA is saying is that their plugins work fine under Rosetta then that would be serious misinformation. But it does not appear to me that this is the case. I would be interested to know what percentage of PA plugins are in fact currently M1 native.

13 minutes ago, paulo said:

Can you provide peer reviewed evidence that you have actually learned this. I'm keen to understand if this assertion is fact based or whether you are just gaslighting.

My brother is my peer. If I explain sealioning to him and he in fact verifies that I have the correct definition, is that sufficient peer reviewed evidence that I have learned what the term means?

2 hours ago, Marina said:

My thumbs down are a sign of (more or less) vocal disagreement with using of sealioning techniques to silence the discontent of PA.

Sealioning, I have learned a new term! Just to be clear, I was not intending to sealion. Maybe it came across that way. I was not looking to shut down dialog nor to silence discontent of PA. Like Jesse G and LAGinz, I was interested in why people were so down on PA and Dirk in particular. Souterrain's comment did nothing to enlighten me. Your subsequent comments were more helpful. It allows me to form a more informed opinion and to determine whether what you describe is important to me. 

@Marina Why the thumbs down? I was sincerely curious.