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It will be interesting to see how this progresses from here.

Based on the reactions I've noticed (forums, other social media, friends), you have, on one hand, people who are after 3+ of the bigger items. This group seems to be quite content, in general, with the idea of getting 5-6 freebies, anything beyond that being a nice bonus. The second group is formed by people who are interested in 'smaller' items (so mostly the $99 tier and below) , who are hoping for 10+ freebies, to make this group buy stand out (compared to other occasional IK/dealer sales and/or the perspective of a good sale on the Total Studio 3 Max). Those in-between these two groups form the last group; they want maybe 1 or 2 bigger items (mostly because they already own the rest) and would want a decent number of extra (mostly cheaper) freebies to convince them to jump in, instead of waiting for the TS3 Max sale. 

Given the way this group buy is advertised by IK (once-in-a-generation promotion, biggest ever group buy, goal of 25,000 participants), here is hope they'll be patient in letting this grow towards 10 freebies (by extending the group buy if needed). That should get all the groups discussed above interested.

I'm in. I don't have much IK apart from the Axe I/O and (all of) Amplitube, so plenty of decent options to go for. Hoping for 4-5 freebies, at least. 

I demo-ed it, thinking I'd probably buy it at this price. I can't seem to find a way to like it though. Some people highlight the importance of playing with the input gain to make it sound right (through your DAW, no input gain control on the plugin) while turning up the channel volume(s), but that didn't help much either. We're spoiled with some great amp sims these days and this one, to my ears, is not one of them. Cheap though so it might be good value, except that I already own a bunch of so-so amp sims that I hardly ever use. I know, we all do 😉

I find the Train II very similar to the Chandler for cleans and (soft) crunch. So similar that after adjusting the EQ's and playing them through the same IR's, I can barely tell them apart.

Which makes me wonder whether I need the Train II. 

27 minutes ago, Brian Walton said:

They have this free version also, which I tried out for a little bit a while ago

https://www.resonantdsp.com/swankyamp/

Hey, for a freebie, that's not bad at all! The EQ / Tone section is what I like the least, I find it heavy-handed and I couldn't get it to be transparent/neutral no matter what I tried. 

They need to make it possible to demo the pro version (duh). And yeah, think hard about that price. 

Two mediocre demos, no way to demo the actual plugin, $55? 

For those interested, I've seen it go a couple of times for a bit less ($70-80-ish) on KVR, so that might be another option, if you can wait and are searching for the absolute best deal. 

To my ears, for clean/crunch, S-Gear is top notch. There are other great plugins for cleans, with different flavors, which I use and love (Plini, Fuse's F-59, some of Amplitube 5, plus a few more). Like those, I think S-Gear is pretty close to perfect in what it offers, but they each have their respective strengths. 

7 minutes ago, jjattar said:

As it stands, if you are getting the new version anything you paid for the previous one is money down the drain. Unless you never cared for version 4, obviously.

You mean you bought GP3 caring about GP4 when GP4 wasn't even announced, but now that the latter is out, your GP3 is useless (as in money down the drain)? 

As a few of us noticed/commented at the time, that crazy last sale, when GP3 was $39.99 (so $15 with a voucher), made it quite probable this would happen. 

I bought it for $25 (with a voucher) during an earlier sale, and while I'd love to have GP4, I personally don't feel cheated. I basically bought a pretty great tool for not a lot of money, that I'm free to keep using. I'll simply decide if/when to get GP4 down the road, depending on PA's future sales. 

38 minutes ago, Paul Young said:

There's always hope that there will be some naive DAW user who thinks these deals are once in a lifetime.  I think the naive ones are the "plugin brokers" at KVR.

You're way off. I've sold bundle parts before on KVR, if they were duplicates. And I bought bundle parts that others were selling. You don't need to be a 'plugin broker', or make a living, or even a profit on KVR to do that. 

If anyone gets this it would be useful to know if you get individual codes to redeem each included plugin. In that case it would be worth getting it, then sell eventual duplicates. 

wow, crazy price; makes me think that we might not get much of an upgrade deal to Gigperformer 4 

With so many plugins released by their competitors since, they're still at the very top for me. And the $83 I paid for the Effect Rack feels like cheating, for what I got.

You can find the full bundle for sale on KVR fairly regularly at about the same price (or below) as the current offer, if you're interested but for some reason can't jump in right now. 

  British Kolorizer?  😄

They say this sounds fantastic on 'Rule, Britannia! '. It gives it a certain Master Tone. 

This one's actually pretty cool; useful and straightforward. 

Edit: for whatever reason, I didn't see your attached image, Piotr, before I installed it. My antivirus can't find anything now. Might be because the ransomware has already settled in. It's probably busy putting crappy reverbs on all my tracks. Time will tell. 🤕

25 minutes ago, mibby said:

Was wondering about this one to get around the single seat limitation...

I hate that they do that 😒 These are not some legacy plugins that no one cares about, but awesome reverbs that many people love and use. How hard would it be for Izotope to integrate them into their Product Portal? 

Personally, I prefer the Black Rooster combo (VEQ-5, VEQ-1P, and the free filter).

12 minutes ago, telecode 101 said:

I am not sure if I see it as a bait and switch. I originally thought it was $19 to upgrade to Pigments 3. Then later found it its just if you want to get the preset combo deal. Seems like a  fair deal to me. I think I might pick it up. Though I have > 1700 presets in Analog Lab.. do I really need 500 more.. 🙂

It's not that it's a bad deal, it's a good deal. I agree with the TheSteven though, the fact that you can download the presets yet you can't activate them or use them is a bit misleading. But I'll give you that it might not be intentional - and maybe I'm just not familiar enough with Arturia's business model. Most people would probably assume, intuitively, that if you can download and install presets, they're free and yours to use. In this particular case that assumption proved wrong and it cost us some time, that's all  

8 hours ago, craigr68 said:

That seems to be what I'm experiencing.  I went to the store from within Pigments demo and it shows nothing, as you indicated.  One thing that threw me was what this webpage is for.  It allows you to download the Spectrum Sound Pack as 5 subpacks(?) as exe files.  They seem to install but not do anything.  So I uninstalled Amethyst.  Anyway, thanks abacab for the info.

https://www.arturia.com/products/analog-classics/spectrum-sound-pack/resources

I did the same thing. Those installs do actually install the sound packs (they're in their own folders, next to the Factory presets), but unless they are activated in Arturia's Software Center, they're not available, and you can't load them individually, either. When I saw the post you replied too I also thought that maybe they became free. On the flip side, I listened to the demos and they don't sound all that interesting to my ears, so not sure I'll get them, even for 19,99. 

4 hours ago, cclarry said:

$599

12 minutes ago, Paul Young said:

 Is it worth it to use mt $25 voucher even though I wouldn't use it to perform?

That's the trick question. I demo-ed it during the previous sale, and really liked it. It feels quite organic, being able to save tweakable instrument/effect chains and build your own interface with the controls you want. It's definitely more 'analogue' feeling than a DAW and great to just play through. I bought it using the $25 voucher. I think it's good value, but I also hope I'll be able to link it up easily with Reaper using the Jack API.  

5 hours ago, Zo said:

Can recall who told me this was a superb flanger , Ol Pal , Larry or Bapu , but i went for the ada flanger , what a beauty !

Got it too. Love it mixed in at low % on acoustic/semi-acoustic  guitars. 

21 minutes ago, kevin H said:

They added the warning way after some of us bought like 50 bx_tuners

What warning? 

So I guess the unlimited use of the voucher was a glitch then? Based on their 'official' emails and what's been posted elsewhere it seems that's the most likely scenario, unless someone has better info.

Kind of made me feel bad for them, as I grabbed a bunch of stuff. Then again, I wouldn't have paid more than $20 (total) for the "freebies" I got (and I didn't already have), which is a fraction of what I've spent on their plugins. I also bought two $29.99 plugins using the voucher, so they did get something out of me this time as well.