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14 hours ago, Al Robbins said:

I have been considering purchasing Kontact.

See if you can wait until the next sale. I got it for $124, as crossgrade from a qualifying purchase (easy/cheap to do), during one of their 50% off sales. If you consider some of the amazing sample libraries it allows you to use, it's quite a bargain. 

1 minute ago, moebiwan said:

As a plug-in, I don't love it. As a stand-alone amp/effects modeler, it's all I use. 

That's probably why I got it. The 'package' effect, the interface, the hype. I'm sure it also depends on what you play. I mostly play strats and semi-acoustics, so cleans are paramount. I think I have free amp sims that, to me, sound better than Bias FX. As they say, whatever makes you happy. 

1 minute ago, moebiwan said:

I'm using Positive Grid's Bias Amp2 and FX2. Amp match and guitar match are worth the price alone imo. 

It's weird how personal taste is. I have Bias FX Pro and can't stand it, I have it flagged as my worst plugin purchase ever 😄

On 3/25/2020 at 8:29 PM, Christian Jones said:

Nembrini. Wait for a 70%-80% off sale and get his Marshall. Best on the market right now. 

Amazing amp sims. And the clean channel is as good/responsive and sweet sounding as that on the S-Gear amp sims, which I love. 

@Grem, @Fwrend, @Marc Cormier, etc.

Some 20 years ago I stopped being active on a few forums, after thousands of posts and serving as admin on some of them. Apart from becoming too busy for them, I never got to accept/like what they did to so many of their members: grant them a flawed sense of entitlement by virtue of group identity, in what often came across as a twisted popularity contest. Not much has changed. 

To you, Peter might be a great guy. To you, he’s not a troll. Perfect, no one is trying to convince you otherwise. On the flip side, this matters little me; I drew my own conclusions from my own experience with him. What you think of it is equally irrelevant. Again, this is not a popularity contest. 

May the Lord protect all of you from the “aggressive misinformation” I was clouding your judgement with, and shower your DAW with IK Multimedia’s plugins. 🙂
 

Worked for me, you should get an email to confirm the subscription, then another one with the link to the downloads page. 

2 minutes ago, Grem said:

I can say this much, Peter is a true member of the forum. He has helped many in his capacity as a IK rep. But to say he is a Troll is unfounded.

Peter might well not be a troll. Just a corporate rep with condescending, uninvited commentary over a customer giving up a purchase because a deal became a lesser deal, and others agreeing with him. 

I'm glad he's been helpful to you. Actually, he's been quite helpful to me, too, just in a different way. Illuminating, I'd say

I find it quite decent, actually. Subtle enough, if needed, to thicken a bit the sound of an amp sim. 

3 minutes ago, Christian Jones said:

So the older he gets the more expensive his s#!t gets? 

It's catch-22. They're still too expensive to be a great deal, while the other deal, the Maag EQ, is too cheap for me to be able to use my voucher. You just can't win 😪

21 minutes ago, Peter - IK Multimedia said:

Except that they are not exempt from charging VAT to customers in Europe (it was widely discussed and impacted dealers who have been required to charge VAT even if the dealer is US-based if the customer is in Europe, it's a law not just a "suggestion").  In fact, I'm 99.9% sure they're not supposed to sell to EU customers at all...

Sure. It's a loophole. Might not be a fair one for you, but neither is paying 27% extra just because you're based in Europe. So as long as these are around, people will seek them out. It wasn't that long ago that you could order out of state in the U.S. to skip the sales tax, and there wasn't anything illegal about it, until they adapted the legislation and closed the loophole. Feel free to sort out your business terms with your dealers, that is your right. 

 As a customer, as long as I'm making the effort to pay for your products, rather than download them off a Russian server, and I'm buying them from legit dealers, I don't care about the rest. Not when companies (even operating out of Europe)  routinely screw over their customers through their EULA, against the spirit of EU law, by charging silly 'administrative' costs for transferring licences between owners. Close THAT loophole and we can talk about VAT. 

3 minutes ago, arnoldoo said:

hahaha exactly the same for me, I was waiting to sell some plugs and buy that one from JRR but now I am out. My wallet says thanks

Mine too. My brain as well, I've been thinking about it for a few days now  Value-wise it's definitely quite an offer, especially for someone who doesn't have a lot of plugins. But I learned the hard way that I need (to try at least) to get stuff I really need/use. And I have comparable, or better options for most  parts. As a long-time lurker, half of them probably thanks to Larry 🤑

4 hours ago, cclarry said:

I figured that it was a mistake...but that mistake was the same price as buying
with Jampoints, so buying from JRR would have been the best option when
it was $125.99

JRR was actually cheaper if buying from Europe (no VAT). I was on the fence about getting this, but their 'new' price sorted out my dilemma

1 hour ago, Reid Rosefelt said:

But no, you cannot sell the instruments you don't want in the package of Total Studio 2 MAX.

Bummer. Can you check/confirm this, please? I'd get this for Amplitube, Modo Bass and T-rackS 5 MAX. I was hoping that if Miroslav Philharmonik 2, Sampletank and Syntronik came with their own serial numbers, one could sell/transfer them separately. Even with the license transfer fee, it would help offset the cost. 

4 minutes ago, Carlos said:

What's the total download of all this? 1000 Gb?

To expand on this, can the plugins be downloaded/installed individually if one gets the Total Studio Max deal? And does this also mean that they come with their own serial number, so you could, in theory, sell the plugins you don't use? This would really make it a crazy deal.