Doug Rintoul

(Hope I don't get ninja'd on this one)

Get ASCEND for $74.50 (reg. $149), for the first time ever, during our Summer Sale.
Plus, get an additional 10% off your order when you buy three or more products (Mosaic Pluck not included).

All offers end June 30.

https://heavyocity.com/product/ascend

2 hours ago, Fleer said:

NO WAY

YES WAY!!! AND I CAN YELL LOUDER THAN YOU.

5 hours ago, Hillmy said:

If you have the session version of LL4 you can upgrade for 50% off. So for $49 you also get the sound pack included for free! I just did.

And if you live in Canada like I do, you get to pay the same price in Canadian $s. So I can get it for $51.45 (with tax) which works out to about $43 USD.

I am in too! Been a long time since I seen the sights of jolly ol' England.

3 hours ago, mibby said:

PS. Billy Decker is a Nashville mix engineer and has mixed 16 #1 hits.  He's big on drum replacement and published a book earlier this year with a walk through of his template.  A very good mixing friend uses and really likes some of his plugins like the Drum Bus one.  However, it's never on sale by itself.  ...Which is probably why I'm so annoyed with the JST site.  🤔

Ya, I know I could have just gone to the web site to check it out; the name just hit my funny bone. I think it would have made more sense to call it "Billy Decker's Bus Glue" though.

I wanna know, what is a "Bus Glue Billy Decker". Do I want/need one? My GAS wants to know. Sounds like someone just threw a bunch of words together.

4 hours ago, Yan Filiatrault said:

Regular price for Ethera Gold Lite is 13$, so not much to get from that. Since I already have Ethera Gold 2.5 full version, I asked to get instead the Ethera Studio One 5 package that is less expensive than that and they allowed the swap.

T&S have allow me to swap in the past as well. Too bad I already have everything Ethera. On the other hand, I am not unhappy I have everything Ethera. 

1 hour ago, Mesh said:

You can also put the serial in the Continuata Installer (although it looks very similar to Conduct Installer) and download.

Right. That is what I actually did.  Didn't realize that there were two different downloaders. I did not have to give up any information.

You can also download the new Conduct installer from here https://continuata.com/download-app, without having to create an account or sign in. You can then paste the code and download your library. Not sure what all the library-login stuff is about.

5 minutes ago, cclarry said:

Just a curiousity question...

How do the Free instruments get delivered?

Via a single key you paste into Zero-G/T&S's downloader Conduct. IIRC you can also get direct links to the downloads and thus bypass the downloader. Just in case you were thinking of selling them, the files are watermarked.

What is my wife going to think if she sees I have downloaded a file called Fetish.zip on my computer and installed a program called Fetish_5.0?

1 hour ago, Mesh said:

Thanks dee...

I was just about to ask if anyone has got the boxed set yet.....I ordered mine on 6/1 and no news  on the delivery date from T&S.

Me three. Fortunately I have enough toys to keep me busy for the time being. Could be why T&S added the bonuses to the pot.

5 hours ago, Yan Filiatrault said:

NI is charging ridiculously overcharged conversion fees, even when compared to the worst of them.

Ya, it looks like it. Posted rate for CAD to USD is .83. When I purchased with Paypal, the rate I got as .795. So my $98 should have cost me $118 using the posted rate. It actually cost me $123 from T&S. It would have cost me $129.50 directly from NI. So if you can, I guess it is better to buy from a third party in USD.

13 hours ago, Fleer said:

Indeed, WUP just does WUP but mostly doesn’t add anything. And it’s much more costly than the price you pay ($29 or less) for those plugins. And if you’re on a Mac like me, they’ll stick it to you each year or so: no WUP, no new MacOS compatibility. 
Heck, I’ve got lots of Waves, but they’re all dead and buried until someone in Israel decides the fun is over and WUP is finally banned.

WUP sucks big time for MAC users, not so much for Windows users. I would never paid for WUP and probably never will unless there is a show stopper bug or a must have feature upgrade. Unfortunately for MAC users, almost every time there is an OS upgrade, there has to be an upgrade for apps and plugins. Apple also really wants you to keep up to date with your OS and generally does not support software on older OSs. Just try getting GarageBand or XCode for Catalina if you don't already have it installed. The recent Moog give away was only available for Big Sur. I have a perfectly good Mac Mini on which Apple only officially supports Catalina. It can run Big Sur just fine but Apple decided to not release Big Sur for it.

Bottom line is if I were completely in the Apple ecosystem, I would avoid Waves like the plague. As a primarily Windows user, I could care less about WUP and Wave plugins can be a good deal.

41 minutes ago, Toffo said:

I'm in Australia too. Kontakt > Komplete upgrade is $199 USD but $299 AU for us (at NI site and resellers). But the exchange rate for $199 US = $257 AU. I have no idea how they justify the extra $38 AU for a digital product.

You never get the posted rate exchange rate when you purchase online. What would it actually cost you if you  purchased the upgrade at $199 USD with a credit card or paypal and factored in bank fees, etc?

Forgive my ignorance, but I never knew there were so many styles of house. Shows my age I guess.

38 minutes ago, paul cummings said:

Fyi I went to music matter in the UK and got K13 uce upgrade for £340 so, good deal or terminal GAS?

Both. But they go hand in hand. At least My terminal GAS is driven by the "good deal".

For those jokes that go right over your head.

2 minutes ago, TracingArcs said:

I'll probably get it anyway due to the freebies. Without shipping they are asking £85, NI £89 which is the same as T&S with shipping. So not a biggie (but some UK retail outlets are charging the same and incl postage. First world problems eh!

Yup. FWP. As noted before, you do get a drive out of the deal as well.

Umm, Not Ultimate, but Unique.

1 hour ago, TracingArcs said:

Something  I have noticed about T&S and they are doing again on this offer. It is free shipping on orders over £75. But they put the amount before VAT (which is £70+) to calculate on. Which means they then add on shipping . Bringing it up to the same price as NI. I've been caught by them before. Adding up goods to reach a total to get free shipping but had it added on anyway because of how they calculate.  Not a big problem but just seems a "hidden way" of doing things .

I think that is the way most companies work. I am not from the UK so no VAT for me, but here in Canada, the "free shipping for orders over $50" is always before tax. As someone mentioned earlier, if you don't want the drive, just the serial like you would get from NI, T&S will refund the shipping. If they do that, is it then cheaper than NI?

Just coming back here one more time to apologize for kicking up a shit storm. I truly appreciate the community on this forum compared to other forums which shall remain nameless, and I am sorry that my contribution made it a little less civilized. I should have realized that trying to change anyone's opinion is a futile endeavor and that my comments would only lead to people getting pissed off at me. Life's too short to waste so much energy on something I really don't care a lot about. 

To quote Fleer, Dronar is pretty, pretty good. I already had the full Ethera libraries so Ethera Lite was pretty much redundant. 

Just ordered from T&S for the Komplete 13 upgrade. They contacted me right away. They currently don't have stock but are hoping to get it by the end of the week. They are going to send me my serial before they ship. I have had nothing but good experiences with T&S. They seem to go out of their way to serve their customers.

4 minutes ago, Paul Young said:

I never understood how people apply these "theories" to software.  It was a shit business move by both parties.  It appears the majority in this thread are not happy. 

I can never understand why people think the value of something is a physical product and so does not apply to software. That is same argument people use when they download and use commercial software they did not pay for. When you pay for a software license, you are paying for the engineering, the software development and the testing, and the documentation that goes into producing a product. That goes for upgrades as well. 

Not sure why you think the majority in this thread are not happy. I haven't done a definitive count but it seems pretty split down the middle to me.

Anyway. I am outa here. I have better things to do with my life than feel bitter that I didn't get the deal of a lifetime.

27 minutes ago, jjattar said:

It is! It is generous towards everyone with the exception of people that bought the very same software they are selling the upgrade to. 

Right. So I shouldn't be generous unless I can be generous to everyone. 

Look. I bought GP3 at the $25 level with a voucher. I wasn't pissed when they sold it a couple of weeks later at the $15 level. That is life.