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Careful with this one, the plugindeals facebook group shared some dodgy info about the site. Don't give them any details (especially Paypal) until it's confirmed the site is legit. 

Don't have time to demo it now, but I just installed it and I love the interface. 

I used mine within 2 minutes of getting it. VSM-3 and nvelope have been screaming at me for over a month to activate them. 

2 minutes ago, 53mph said:

Ozone 9 standard for 79 euro?  Would that be a good deal?

Normally a good price, but these days there are some crazy prices for Izotope around. Check KVR, there's someone selling O 9 standard for $50, and I've seen some incredible deals on the Tonal Balance Bundle and MP suite as well. 

I've been demo-ing Gig Performer for the past few days (since the sale started). I love the concept. For home/studio use though, Reaper covers most of the ground with its custom FX chains that you can save as presets. Didn't know about Kushview, will have to look into it. 

3 hours ago, Fleer said:

Masterdesk, here I come. 

Oh yeah. With the XLA-3, not bad for 20 bucks. 

19 minutes ago, cclarry said:

That would be me!  Bx_Meter for FREE!

Yeah, I was looking at the Bx_Meter too

There are some interesting bits in the sale, but the most tempting ones I already have (as I'm sure many of us here do). 

I was demo-ing Fuchs Train II all morning. And right now, Gig Performer 3. But I have a feeling that I might end up with a freebie myself. 

That special occasion when PA smiles at the mere mortals and grudgingly opens the vault of their finest collection of sales: 

      ***buy something at KVR prices without the hassle or get an OK freebie if you're a cheap ********

The previous sale was pretty solid though. You can get most of their best plugins for no more than $15 each, at the right time, which is more than fair. And would be downright awesome, if they stopped WUP-ing us. 

28 minutes ago, Abhijit Singh said:

On a different note, any other Amp Sim ecosystem you all would recommend? 
I play guitar and am learning music production for background scores for client CGI animations. 
I've got a few free Amp Sims and they sound nice, but really liked the whole Amplitube ecosystem and the tonal possibilities.
Such a shame I am not going to get AT5 Max if this doesn't get sorted before the deals close.

No worries, IK sales are very common, and deals are typically only getting better. As for amp suggestions, if you browse this and other forums, you'll see there's thousands of opinions about hundreds of amp sims. It's all inherently subjective. Demo some of them, at least to figure out what' s important to you in an amp sim. There are some other ongoing sales, too. Kuassa, for example, have a sale now  - they're cheap and sound good, great value. Try their Vermilion amp. 

Question for bundle owners: do Eventide bundles come with single plugin licenses (serial + license key)?  Or is it just one license, which becomes a 'locked group' in ilok? 

6 hours ago, Cecelius2 said:

QUESTION:   How does AT5 compare to Neural DSP (Plini, Abasi, Fortin) or Scuffham S-Gear?  I primarily use these and am very happy but I still use AT4 (Fender collections and SWR Bass).  Is AT5 up to the same "realism" that S-Gear or Neural DSP provide?

[I might upgrade AT4 to AT5SE but only if AT5 is close to Neural]

I play mainly clean/crunch. I have/use/love S-Gear, Plini, and was using AT 4 primarily for the Fender collections, so maybe this is useful to you.

If by 'realism' you mean playing feel, yeah, it's better than AT 4 (and closer to S-Gear and Neural DSP), due to the much improved cabinet section and optimizations (this will 'feel' like a big improvement especially if you were not using AT 4 with third party IR's so far).

The 'realism' in Neural DSP's plugins, beyond responsiveness, is centered on their approach in modeling the entire signal chain. It sacrifices quite a bit of transparency to give you more 'production ready' sounds. In this category, nothing touches Neural DSP, including AT 5. In terms of classic, pure clean/crunch tones, the part of AT 5 that I like (both older and new amps) is, for me, a nice complement to S-Gear. 

This is all highly subjective though; demo it, it's the only way to know. If you are hardly using AT 4 and like S-Gear and a Neural DSP a lot more, AT 5 might not change your mind. But if you do like and use the Fender collections (like I did), you'll probably upgrade at least to AT 5 SE eventually. You could demo the new amps in AT 5 in the custom shop, to see if it's worth going for the full AT 5. 

3 minutes ago, jgarland said:

Major problems.

Give it some time, they'll sort it out. I've also discovered a few bugs, but this is a major release and no amount of in-house testing will replicate all the scenarios in which it was used over the past 24 hours alone. 

7 minutes ago, telecode 101 said:

I am still on the fence on what AT 5 is. There might be a psychological thing happening still where  I am much more attached to the interface and tones of AT 4 just because I have been using them for so long. AT 5 sounds very very different. Much more metal and trendy emo rockish to my ears. For the type of music I do, I am not sure if its a step forward yet. Still have to spend more time with AT 5. I also ran into some really weird workflow issues this morning with SE. Will try to re-install it in  case it's half crippled due to the authorization issues IKM the had this morning.

Yeah, it's definitely psychological on some level. My first impulse was negative, especially when I loaded some of my A4 presets into A5. I had a similar experience with Arturia's Analog Lab 4 vs 5, where I quickly felt I missed the v4 interface. After the first 10 minutes with Amplitube 5, I loaded Amplitube 4 and browsed the collections, hoping that since I now own A5 Max, they'd all miraculously be activated in Amplitube 4, too ? It's not easy to switch from things you're used to. 

Last 2 minutes:

Sampletekk is moving into orchestral stuff?! Wow, their website has a completely new look! Hey, where are all the pianos? 

28 minutes ago, Zo said:

guyz please : perfomance ? Smooth ? Cpu hit ? Verus at 4 cpu ...

For me, in Reaper, 1-1.5% A4, 2-3% A5. Not a big deal. 

6 minutes ago, cclarry said:

There is a HUGE-GIGANTIC-ENORMOUS difference IMO.  A4 was "meh" to me...
THIS, on the other hand, is INDEED a leap forward IMO.  

Awesome!! ? It goes to show how different we all are. 

I like the VIR stuff and I only scratched the surface with it, obviously. More to the inevitable differences between us, while I do find some (most?) amps in Amplitube 'meh', I really like a few, especially the Fenders. Then a few amps from the Orange and Leslie collections. With some nice IR's, they can sound great. In time, I'll compare *that* sound with the same presets tweaked in A5 with VIR, and if the latter option holds up, it would be great -> faster/simpler workflow. I guess if you start off by liking the old stuff, there's less room/opportunity for a big leap forward; that's why I'm ok with it and don't regret the purchase. 

2 hours ago, Brian Cadoret said:

Other than all the bells and whistles in AT5 does it actually sound any better than AT4.

I've got the Fender packs which I've compared in AT5 and don't notice any sonic difference.

To be honest I'm not struck on the new GUI so unless there are  hidden benefits I'm in no hurry to move over.

What say you.

From my quick testing of a couple of hours, I agree. You have more flexibility because of the cabinet models, but since I was mostly using it with third party IR's anyway, there is no marked improvement sonically. I wasn't really expecting anything different though (based on what was already known about A5). 

2 hours ago, telecode 101 said:

That's highly subjective. To my ears, it sounds more hard rock/metal-ish than AT 4 does.  I think I prefer my  Fender sims  more mid rangey as they sound in AT 4. I still need to play around with the new AT. Its too early to tell. The GUI is really good though. Drag and drop of FX is very useful.

Same here, my Amplitube 4 Fender presets definitely sound punchier in Amplitube 5. I tweaked the FX/amps, VIR and/or IR's, and I got closer to what they sounded before, which is to say I also preferred them in Amplitube 4. You can 'get them back', it just takes a bit of fiddling around. 

All in all, ***TO ME***, this is more evolutionary than a big step up. It's more tweakable, the cabinet section is definitely an improvement, the GUI is nice, but apart from that, sonically, it's Amplitube 4+, which is not exactly a bad thing. One of the biggest pluses for me is that having A5 Max means no more annoying encounters with stuff I don't own, presets that don't work 100%, all that cr*p. 

I feel the same way about the Axe I/0. It's solid, I like the guitar-centered features and the functional simplicity, but it's no improvement over my 12 year old Motu otherwise, with the latter also seeming to be better at dealing with electrical interference. But this one's USB, the Motu's firewire, so that's that. I bought the bundle for a fair price, no wow factor for me, but it's a solid package throughout so no regrets. Rather an indulgence than a necessity, but I think we're all too familiar with that conclusion. 

1 minute ago, telecode 101 said:

thats not the price of the item. thats the brokerage and duty for the item.

Now THAT would've been some deal ?

I meant... same price in $ as people in the EU pay in EUR. 

9 hours ago, telecode 101 said:

It was $20.

That sounds like a win, if you got the same price in $. 

8 hours ago, TheSteven said:

Were not the sound expansions selling for a lot cheaper before BF?
Maybe I'm thinking about the MIDI...

Yeah, those might have been MIDIs. But the 3 EZKeys instruments I picked up over the past 2 winters were around $24. 

Dear Toontrack,

If you're desperately looking  for another plugin to put on sale for the next 24 hours,  don't. Leave this one on, just drop the price an additional 40% so that it more or less matches what you asked for other EZKeys instruments during previous winter sales. 

Your most faithful fan 

2 minutes ago, telecode 101 said:

"an academic point" ? cool... ! ?

As far as I know, IK's order status FAQ is not differentiated by country, and no EU country is THAT far from Italy, anyway ?

Best of luck with everything! 

I was curious as I thought maybe you changed your mind about Acustica. And I was VERY tempted to buy AA Gold from you, but after I picked up Sand, Pink, Lime, Amethyst, Amber and Taupe (most of them at bargain prices on KVR - thanks to the new transfer policy), I decided to stop before it was too late. I'm glad you found a buyer in the end - you were selling them cheap, I was surprised that it took several days. 

I noticed that you sold your Acustica stuff on KVR. How come?