fitzroy

2 hours ago, tom said:

Seems like the V1 aren’t very deep sampled. Are they worth collecting or best to stick to newer ones? 

Judging from past sales, this group buy will do all the collecting for you. If you mean worth installing, once owned, I'd say yes. Hoarding is like using, really, and both are healthier than finishing songs. 

12 minutes ago, Fleer said:

Unless you’ve still got some …

It would be nice if they allowed buying however many gear credits one needs to make them usable (e.g. in addition to the ones we have), instead of the set values. No point for the latter, now that the discounts have been removed. Or at least make everything available in the Custom Shop (sounds download credits, license transfer credits). 

3 hours ago, Doug Rintoul said:

This is incorrect as has already been explained earlier in the thread. 

 Right.     

6 hours ago, fitzroy said:

Then you have to dig through forums, FAQs, explanations and experiment just to (try to) figure out their product line.

They sure make things really confusing (to the extent that no other company comes close). Then you have to dig through forums, FAQs, explanations and experiment just to (try to) figure out their product line.

I have S2 SE and S1 deluxe with the 22 synths. For a synth that's included in S2 SE, the new presets work in edit mode, the old ones don't. Full S2 allows S1 presets in edit mode and S2 SE doesn't? What if you didn't have S1 before getting S2, would S2 still include S1 presets?  And S2 SE doesn't? Even for synths included in S2 SE?  This is getting silly. 

11 minutes ago, DrShelder said:

yep, my account has been deleted😀 
and the support ignores my questions

That's just wrong. 

I picked up the iRig HD 2 a few weeks ago, with the promo of full (MAX, I guess) Amplitube for iOS included. Great value, great sound, really convenient/practical to use with an iPad, but quite flimsy. The headphone jack in particular doesn't feel at all durable. 

Anyone with a $50 voucher they don't need? I'll buy you a cup of coffee ($5) if needed. 

17 minutes ago, Bad Penguin said:

$ is not the problem, lack of transparency/respect for customers is.

Why EOL though? Maybe end-of-sale. It will work fine and you're free to use it for the foreseeable future. As for transparency, let's say they announced, together with the $50 sale for SSS1, that SSS2 was coming (not that many companies, if any, do that). How would you be better off than you are now? 

What am I missing? If you bought SSS1 cheap ($50), you can get SSS2, if you want, for the same total amount that a new buyer would pay. That's better than most upgrade deals I'm currently aware of for my plugins (i.e. it would cost me more, total, to upgrade to bundles from the plugins I own - most of them bought during sales - than if I were a first-time buyer just getting the bundles now). Not to mention that you get to use SSS1 and decide if/when to upgrade, while the rest of us have to decide between parting with $120, or stick to using the Drumkit from Hell on bossa novas 🤕

My rapidly filling up hard drive gave me the finger, my RAM won't talk to me anymore, I don't even drink coffee, but I bit.

2 hours ago, cclarry said:

My offer to upgrade to the Everything Bundle + Komplete Ultimate is $799!  That's a steal!

Mine is $749 but for Production Suite + Komplete Ultimate. I guess that's a good deal?

Then again, I could wait a few more days and buy a nice house in Russia for less. 

That's alright, I decided to skip this. Buying software to edit videos I haven't yet shot for songs I haven't yet finished can't be that urgent. At least with plugins I can put them on a 30 second stem and feel, stupidly, like I'm on to something. 

3 hours ago, Fwrend said:

Perhaps for some but personally I think $11 more is worth it for the perpetual license and no guesswork involved for TFX.

 That was the point of the question, to eliminate the guesswork. And it's not $11, it's $21 for a new buyer. 

So if getting this for the TotalFX, wouldn't it be a better deal to just buy a 12-month subscription to Movie Studio Platinum? That's $48 and also comes with TotalFX. Maybe someone can confirm that the TotalFX licence would be (still) be permanent in this case? 

Just now, Fleer said:

Actually, that famous (Scheps/Adele) Spring Reverb is a pretty great deal at 90% off. 

Absolutely; I have other nice spring reverbs, but I've been waiting for a good sale on this ever since I demo-ed it a while back. The acoustic feedback plugin is quite interesting as well. 

Wow. Nice! 

This has been available for quite some time. In fact, the value pack itself has been on sale in the past. 

Given the deal, I demo-ed this... wanting to like it. Nope. For whatever reason, I just don't jell with Softube amp sims, no matter what I do. As for Amp Room, to my ears, AT5 is a superior package, top to bottom. It's good to read that it works for some people though. 

The Force must be stronger in your $25 voucher than in my $25 voucher. Or your math is a bit off 🙂

It's the Deep Solo Viola library (Studio Quartet Series). Not sure why they added the 'emotional' tag. Maybe it's a Christmas edition with a single preset you can't change - sustain vibrato with a lush reverb. 

Are the included plugins regular VST's? So one can use them in any DAW? 

Just give it some time - as long as the order has been processed and we have our serial number, it's not like we're losing out on a temporary freebie. They'll sort it out. 

Maybe he is fixing it manually so that you can't log in anymore, for all the complaining 😄

Seriously though, I also only see the 2 rar's. 

1 hour ago, cclarry said:

Yes...straight from the Website...

I heard of this theory, I think it was a famous politician, that if you stop looking for viruses, maybe they won't be there? So you could just disable Bitdefender for 5 minutes and whatever it found might actually be gone. Worst case scenario, if your computer does get infected, you could simply inject some disinfectant into the RAM, I hear that might work, too. 

CHIP magazine is so awesome that I love it without even reading it.