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14 minutes ago, Fleer said:

Meanwhile, I’m also thinking of getting Zip for a tenner.  

I picked up Fault for free, but if they reset the voucher tonight, I might get Zip as well. Or G8 for free. Or the ADA flanger, also for a tenner.

Anyway, one of those. 

It's pretty crazy how cheap you can get their plugins compared to 1-2 years ago. 

32 minutes ago, telecode 101 said:

my understanding based on past discussions is no. the bundled copy is considered a free product you didn't purchase -- so not valid for upgrade. (I may be wrong).

Yeah. Unlikely that it will count. I have Amplitube 5 Max, which I bought as a bundle with Axe I/O, and I don't qualify for the Max grade. And that's despite the fact that the bundle cost more than buying the Axe I/O alone, so we're not talking about 'free, bundled software'. I find that odd but hey, it's IK we're talking about.  

I bought the MEssentialFX bundle (65 EUR for me having owned one of the 10 plugins). Interestingly, my price for the other bundles hasn't dropped much at all after I bought the Essential bundle; and there's no additional discount for the MCreativeFX bundle. Not sure if this is by design, or it's just that the site/database hasn't updated the available discounts with the latest purchase. 

I'm definitely crossgrading to this from A5 Max, to get some bits I might be interested in; the Hammond, Modo Bass, maybe some other stuff...

      ... in 2023-2024, for $88 using code: GROUP. 

Dear PA, get it over with and send us the monthly loyalty voucher. 🤩

Big difference is that you're getting upgrades/updates for free. Not bad for people who depend on these to make money. Less tempting for the rest of us, especially if we've already bought many/most of their plugins. 

1 hour ago, Reid Rosefelt said:

95% of other developers don't allow resales. 

Come'on now 😄 

Off the top of my head, based on things I bought/sold recently through resales: Toontrack, Arturia, Izotope, Acustica, Plugin Alliance, Eventide, Ujam, PSP, U-he, Fuse Audio, Tokyo Dawn, Crave DSP.  

I suspect that if we'd put together a list of the 100 best known developers/companies on this forum, around 90% or more allow resales. 

It's been said here already that you need to treat IK's products as singletons: don't collect them for upgrades, don't expect special discounts because of them. This is especially true when you consider that:

- their occasional freebies already qualify you for their typical crossgrade offer 

- they run a lot of sales which are focused mainly on customers that are new to their different product lines

- there's no shortage of cheap IK plugins on the second-hand market, despite the license transfer fees

- they generate a lot of marketing hype, which makes some (especially new) buyers disregard alternatives that might offer equal or better quality/value

20 minutes ago, mibby said:

Yeah, that one sounded great too. I kind of have "why didn't I get that?" remorse on that one.  If it had been $14 though, I would have!  🙂

Me too. 😪 I'm sure it will be on sale again soon enough though. 

15 minutes ago, Grem said:

I don't get vouchers anymore. Still spend some with them. Just don't know why I quit getting them. Maybe they got tired of me dogging them?

How much ya gotta spend to get any voucher?

You mean you were getting them before and you're not anymore? That is odd, maybe shoot them an email? 

25 minutes ago, mibby said:

I'd guess "yes" but I'm not positive. I won't be at my DAW until tonight to check...

Scratch that, I'm demo-ing it right now and it is Nembrini. I like it so far - but I like his Blackice amp more. Anyway, the good thing is the promo runs until March 16th, so it's going to be cheap for a while, perfect for everyone to decide whether they want to use their February/March voucher on this. Pretty generous offer for a new plugin! 

Like a lot of people, I burned my voucher on Knifonium. Is this another Nembrini creation? 

34 minutes ago, Bruno de Souza Lino said:

Exactly.

You lost me. You said this was a one trick pony. You also were 'meh' about it. Then you knew about Gojira, but you didn't. Then you post a video with you playing through it using a different preset/setting. Ok, so that is "not Silvera Solo". To show, what? That it's not a one trick pony? That it's still a one trick pony despite a different preset? That you tried it and it's great? That you tried it and it's still meh?

It's still an argument of some sort that hinges on taste, but I admit, I have no idea what the argument is. You win. 🤘

7 minutes ago, Brian Cadoret said:

Hi

Does anybody know where to download the  Pinnacle Studio 24 Ultimate installer.

Humble Bundle just links to the Pinnacle buy page, no separate installer that I can find.

Thanks

Brian

 If you bought it, on the page with the key, there's also a direct download link (under the BitTorrent label, but it's a direct link). 

4 hours ago, Bruno de Souza Lino said:

No effects on the guitars except for some EQ and compression. And no, the lead sound is not Silvera Solo.

On matters of taste, beyond adding your impressions to the murky pool of general opinion, which we all do here, there's no point in trying to convince people of anything. Adding what you think are arguments doesn't change that. Because just as with the original impression, people may well feel differently than you about the argument (in this case, the song, the playing, the gear, the recording chain, the mix, it goes on and on). It's a never-ending spiral. 

Cliquez ici!

There is a high chance that you'd get better results by paying for insulating a few critical parts of the ceiling/walls in the apartment below, rather than your own. I was/am in a similar situation with my apartment. The studio flat next door and my apartment used to be parts of the same, large apartment. So the wall between them is quite thin. I could easily and clearly hear my neighbor having a conversation next door. So when I renovated my apartment, I installed pretty serious soundproofing on that wall. 6cm thick soundproofing foam behind two layers of drywall. On a 24 sq. m. wall. So not cheap. The result is that I can no longer hear normal conversations next door. But the new tenant has a puppy, and I can easily hear him bark; quite loud, too. I'm sure that the results would have been better if I could have convinced the owner of the studio apartment to install some cheap sound absorbing foam on their side of the wall. Increasing sound absorption is, most of the time, a lot cheaper than limiting sound transmission, once you're dealing with resonance through walls, pipes, heating systems, and so on. 

42 minutes ago, Brian Walton said:

RAW Therapee can produce good results, but if find it is clunky and takes way longer to adjust a photo than other paid applications.  Many of the tools are needlesly complicated and the interface isn't ideal.  That and Darktable are top of the heap for free programs.

I agree. It's sluggish and the interface isn't the best. But I can get great results with it with its core functionality, which is pretty awesome for a free product. 

1 hour ago, Bruno de Souza Lino said:

I beg to differ. Demos and trials should never be tied to any registration process at all. The purpose of a demo is allowing you to test a product to see if you're gonna buy or not, no strings attached. Who knows how easy is to delete and remove the accounts you had to create just to try that plugin afterwards? And what do they do with your data? In some instances, that can lead to enough bad publicity that a team or company can abandon the project altogether. That happened with Natron, a free/open source compositor similar to Nuke. It didn't cost nothing to use the software, but you had to register to download it. That caused many people to look somewhere for a solution that didn't require jumping through those hoops. The project is currently in search of a maintainer and has removed their registration requirements for download, perhaps a little too late.

In theory, I agree with you. But in practice, most big names are using demos to tie you into their system to some extent. My point was that Neural doesn't stand out in any particularly bad way in this regard. Sure, you can demo/install only plugins that come with zero strings attached. But you'd be missing out on A LOT of great plugins. 

1 hour ago, Bruno de Souza Lino said:

I wouldn't call 14 days "a generous demo policy" personally. Ableton gives you 90 days and many other companies offer you 30. I tend to have issues with heavy sounds thanks to using 12s tuned down one step. Everything sounds bassy and the high fizz in modern high gain sounds is fatiguing to my ears.

Whether a 14 day unrestricted demo (no noise, silence, pop-ups) is enough to decide whether one likes or doesn't like a plugin is really a first-world problem.  I think we can agree on that. The rest is down to taste, so inherently subjective. 

Thanks, that's useful info. RAW processing is key for me. I'll probably still install the demos to see what's what. 

34 minutes ago, Brian Walton said:

At these prices, hard to go wrong.  You can authorize it on as many machines as you own, and thus far all updates have been free (I'd expect that to eventually change).

True. But it would be good to know. I'm using Inkscape and RawTherapee and the price is right to switch, if the workflow improves. So I'd definitely demo them if the sale price is alive for at least a week or two. 

8 minutes ago, abacab said:

Does it sound better than the Amplitube SVX-VR version (in the SVX2 collection)?

Absolutely. 2.3 (95% CI: 2.22-2.36) times better.