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1 hour ago, Yan Filiatrault said:

With Bitwig active subscription. 

24 minutes ago, mibby said:

And TDR Molot GE is $15 on PB...

https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/2-Effects/8-Compressor/7002-TDR-Molot-GE

About $18 for me. I'm not familiar with Molot, but I used and like the free Kotelnikov, so there was that. Maybe I'd bite if PB had an interesting freebie to go with it. First world problems, for sure. 

I have this annoying habit of not going from the beginning for bundles that I like and want. Then I gradually pick up the individual plugins from those bundles,  during sales, to end up at or near the full bundle ...only having spent 10x the time chasing deals, ordering and activating plugins, without having saved any $. Tokyo Dawn, Soundtoys, Eventide, Arturia, Black Rooster, Izotope, I'm sure there's more. Just plain stupid. 🤕🙄

4 hours ago, cclarry said:

...but quality of the sales was not the usual...I suspect we're in for one heck of a Xmas/Year Sale bash as these
vendors fight for your holiday duckets...

That was my feeling as well. The only no-brainer deals that I came across are still online at audiodeluxe - the Tokyo Dawn comp/eq and the Exponential Audio reverbs. 

I find it appropriate that this thread sits right under the one on stuff we shouldn't have bought. 

43 minutes ago, asprog said:

Not tried but I saw somewhere than you must open the standalone before launching your daw…

Thanks, that did the trick! I played around with it a bit. I don't love the interface, but it sure seems quite powerful, and the limited samples/presets in the demo sound great. It also feels a bit scary - like something that you'd have to learn to adjust to, instead of figuring out an easy/quick way to integrate it into your workflow. 

Tried installing the demo.

Reaper doesn't 'see' the plugin.  

I'm too lazy to investigate. 

1 hour ago, lupis said:

Tried endless "deauthorize-authorize-restore purchases" combinations and finally got it sorted.

This is the only way it worked for me, only in this exact order fixed it for me:

1- Deauthorize Syntronik 1

2- Deauthorize Syntronik 2

3- ONLY re-authorize Syntronik 2 (if it went well, you should see that Syntronik 1 automatically gets authorized as well)

4- Restore purchases on Custom Shop

5- Done (at least for me) - as a side note, if you installed your IK products in a different path than the default one, add it to the configuration of Syntronik 2 and rebuild the database

I tried various permutations of activating/deactivating stuff to make it work with the Syntronik Deluxe synths. Gave up after 20 minutes. It's bad enough that we have a product manager, a custom shop, and an authorization manager installed, presumably to automate things, and they can't cope with the most basic of tasks. It's even worse that they don't release clear instructions on how to deal with their own mess. It's like their devs tried installing it on top of Syntronik 1, failed miserably, then said eff it, let's release it, they're too busy upstairs selling the company for anyone to care. 

Damn. I actually thought I might hold out this time, and it's not even BF yet.

Thank you, TDL! 

99/199 EUR (FX2/V Collection), having Pigments, Analog Lab, and the 3 Modulation FX. I think I had this offer before. 

And so, the black octopus swallowed the black rooster.  

29 minutes ago, balinas said:

I have a couple of BlackRooster plugins, which I like. I wonder if they will give me credit for those, if I go for this deal. 

There doesn't seem to be an upgrade offer. I have a bunch of their plugins and the bundle price is unchanged. 

4 hours ago, Pseudopop said:

Oh, well. It took some juggling but I think I managed to use my $50 voucher pretty well. 

Quite a deal you got there. Also, the Chandler is a hidden gem and my favorite PA guitar amp sim together with the Fuchs Train II. The two are quite similar to my ears, like variations around similar (but good!) flavors. 

On 10/12/2021 at 5:53 PM, tom said:

 Just wish they’d sampled them pushed harder into break up, it’s mentioned for this one but I always find it too subtle

You can always try stacking them until your CPU melts on top of the overloaded RAM. 

I'm with you on the redundancy part. even though I have/use/love several of their plugins. But just look at this thing, it's so damn cute! 

4 hours ago, chris.r said:

I was speechless. Is there any alternative like that nowadays? Is this Acon suite capable to do same thing?

Not only capable, but surely much better at it than the legendary Nero burning suite.

It might not leave you speechless though, our expectations evolved too much since then. Forget how good Nero was, like everyone else, you were probably shocked at the time that there was such a denoise-ing tool to begin with, so you bet that piano sound was left 'untouched'. Now you'll be fiddling with Acon for an hour or so, for +/- 1% soft knee tweaks and careful parallel processing , to be just about content with the amount of sheen lost in the high-mids. 

52 minutes ago, Pseudopop said:

https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/products/x-acon-digital-restoration-suite-2.html

Is this any good for anything else than audio restoration?

You can use it for most things you'd use Izotope's RX for. I use it for audio restoration or subtle noise/hum reduction on individual tracks/recordings. Comes with the typical modules (de-noise, de-hum, de-clip, de-click). Not as fully-featured powerful as RX Standard/Advanced, but it's excellent at what it does and has a very nice/intuitive interface. Great price, too, I bought it during a Black Friday sale for abour $60. 

31 minutes ago, Pseudopop said:

I crossed the line with my purchases and they hit me with this:

It's quite odd with PA's system that the $50 voucher is more of a penalty, instead of an additional reward. They really should do something about this. An easy fix would be:

- if your cart value is at least $75, it works as a$50 voucher

- if your cart value is above $32 but below $75, it works as a $25 voucher 

1 hour ago, kennywtelejazz said:

Maybe someone here with more experience w these type of things can offer a suggestion . As it stands now The X-Space apparently has been deemed registered w IK as one of my products ( 2 e-mails have been sent to me stating that ) As far as I can tell it is currently MIA ...

I hope this can be resolved soon because I don't want my pillow to reopen the pending case  and press charges on me

You don't have to register any serial number. Once you've finished selecting them as your 'promo' items, open custom shop, click 'restore my purchases', and leave it open. Then open Amplitube 5 and they should be there, ready to use (you won't need Custom Shop to be open past this point). You need the latest version of Amplitube (so update it in the Product Manager if it shows an update available), as it contains the actual installation for the new plugins. 

I just want to say that these are awesome, and IK... thank you so much for adding them to the group buy !!! 

If you were, like me, awestruck by the quality of some of the Neural DSP effect modules included in their plugins, these are very close to those. To me, an amazing addition to Amplitube. 

2 hours ago, kevin H said:

Turns out $25 is generic and can be used by anyone.  People posted their code on gearspace and they match my coupon code.  Minimum $32 spend.  You can’t stack them but I was able to use it after I used my official loyalty voucher on same account.  Likely can’t be used more than once.  Haven’t tried. Enjoy.

I think it was always possible to use someone else's voucher and, as it has been discussed here and elsewhere, in some months they do seem to be generic (i.e. everyone gets the same voucher). So maybe PA are indeed becoming more generous about how people use them. But just so we're clear - did you use two $25 monthly loyalty vouchers in the same (this) month? 

10 minutes ago, Fwrend said:

Ah, got it - sorry.

No problem. 

4 minutes ago, kevin H said:

I won’t use the $25 one until later as experiment and will update this thread.  I’ve heard of people giving away their vouchers and others using but don’t know if they ever tried using more than one voucher in same month.

Yeah, that would be quite useful to know, if it works. About a year ago, when I wanted to do the same, PA were not allowing it, but who knows, maybe they relaxed that policy. People giving away vouchers is probably not a good indicator either way (there are plenty of people who don't get vouchers who are happy to accept them). 

17 minutes ago, Fwrend said:

Nope, I have three activations available for each of my plugs in my one and only PA account.  This is from the Support page:

I was talking about something else. 

4 minutes ago, Fwrend said:

Actually don't need a USB stick.  I've had and have used all of my plugins on my Home DAW, Work DAW,  & SurfacePro 4 without issue and no dongle from the start.

You don't need a USB stick with one account, you can use online activation. Are you using multiple PA accounts at the same time, on the same computer, without using the offline activation? 

13 minutes ago, kevin H said:

since cat is out of the bag.  I created a second account a long time ago because I was having trouble receiving the newsletter.  Think it was getting blacklisted by my internet provider.  I still receive random PA  announcement on there but nothing else until last night when a $25 monthly voucher appeared.  I get my regular voucher in my other email.  So if you happen to have a backup account connected to PA you may have received another voucher.

That does complicate things a bit though. As far as I remember, you can only use one voucher of a certain value per account/month. If that hasn't changed, you'd have to use the second voucher with the second account; then you'll have PA plugins registered to (at least) two accounts. As per their policy, you can't use two accounts at the same time on one computer unless one is used in offline mode (license on a USB stick). 

53 minutes ago, simon said:

I do wonder if there has been 'internal assistance' - some of the buying patterns seem a little odd ?

1 hour ago, Max Arwood said:

If I buy 100 gear credits I end up with 1000? How do I be sure it is on the group buy?

Thnaks