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3 minutes ago, antler said:

I don't think the recent change in leadership had anything to do with a fee suddenly being charged for a Player license (which in turn caused Sennheiser to stop offering the Player version of their drumkit) - the Player license has been there for a long time (otherwise, there wouldn't have been so many free-but-requires-full-kontakt libraries in the past).

i tried to test the sennheinser drum kit. it only downloads a zip file with bunch of data folders. i tried adding it to Kontakt library and rescanning and no go. anyone know how to get it to load in Kontakt? i tried mapping /users/shared/drummic and well as /users/shared/drummic/data . no luck so far.

You can't really predict much from corporate mumbo jumbo.  There was a rumble that NI may build upon Maschine to make it DAW like and am I def sure they have a new Guitar Rig in the project map.  I was part of beta survey. Not sure about other stuff.

What might be in K13?

- noire

- straylight

- modular icons and or some of their lame play series.

not really enough to entire upgrade IMO.

the rest of the stuff is just too new. but who knows. anything is possible.

11 minutes ago, antler said:

Not sure why someone would want MODO Drum, MODO Bass, and their SE versions. Don't get me wrong, MODO Drum/Bass are great, but their SE versions are just cut down versions; it doesn't make sense to me why someone might want both the 'full' and the 'reduced' versions.

i was thinking more of a case where someone is  getting the full versions. i can't see a good reason to get the SE. its only 25% less but has a lot less instruments in each.

2 hours ago, bluzdog said:

I've never seen an IK Group buy not make it all the way. In the past they have extended the time and added additional levels for more freebies. 

Rocky

yeah. you are probably right.

as a IKM customer. I think where this deal gets interesting is for people that don't really want sampletank or syntronik because they know they won't use all of it and have a good idea of what they will need. if it hits a 4 for 1 or 5 for 1, using it for individual items would be a real good thing to look into.

for for example: at the $79 level:

- hugh padhham drums

- clavitube

and then some Syntronik items that you know you will use. 

You don't blow away hard disk space with stuff you may rarely access and you get only what you want.

If you are lucky this might hit 3 for 1. Looking at MODO series, you are looking at roughly $200 for 4 products -- so $50 each. It adds up to around 75% off sale based on the condition that you buy 4 items.

If I recall, Syntronik and Sampletank were offered on quite steep discounted sales quite   a few times this past year.

Yeah. The every mysterious updates by the IKM developers.

"General reliability improvements

+ whatever the latest product they released"

We suspect the updates are to insert the demo of the latest product they are trying to sell.

4 hours ago, Vernon Barnes said:

A suggestion. Some of the Sonic Reality drum kits have been ported to Sample Tank 4. I have most of them for BFD. I love the Hugh Padgham kit in particular.

If you don't have BFD this could be way to get these kits.

and the dumb question of the day from me is, do you get hugh padgham midi type patters n MODO Drum?

2 hours ago, Fleer said:

First group buy with selection anxiety for me. I’d love the Hammond, Modo Drum and Modo Bass, each of them at $199 value. But what next? Already have SampleTank 4 and other $199 items. 
Would be nice if IK could spike the deal by adding their new reverb. 

Yup. this would be good.  But I guess it would require expanding to Tracks 5 product lines.

I am looking at Modo*.* as I like to micro tinker with drums and bass a lot.

23 hours ago, Dzilizzi said:

Is there a reason to get HALion if you have Kontakt, Omnisphere, and Falcon?  I don't really use it when I use Cubase, so I have no idea if there is anything special about it. 

FWIW.. I am looking at the Halion upgrade. In my workflow I use the Halion SE plugin and it's piano for the chord track in Cubase exclusively. I find it uses less resources and integrates great. I am looking through the YT videos at what the full version can give you compared to the SE.

On 8/6/2020 at 8:25 AM, Zo said:

Molto modo !!'

I agree with this! ^^

Once it hits 5 for 1, it will be a decent deal. The only problem with this deal is all these products are going to take up a shit load of disk space. The MODO's plus syntronic plus sampletank I am  calculating to be at least 250 to 300gb. Maybe more.

1 minute ago, Vernon Barnes said:

You get a lot more for your money to be sure. 

Drumlab is a bit of a specialty really if you want to create hybrid sounds so i would not say Slate compared in concept.  The Abbey Road drums are probably on a par sound wise.

Thanks. I got used to the Abbey Roads kits and the mixer and being able to separate different drums to different midi channels. I never tried SS Drums but always heard good things about it.

how does this compare to NI Abbey Road or Drumlab?

1 hour ago, simon said:

this fixed all the issues I was having in cubase - so ?

yup!! same here. good for me thats my DAW

Analog Lab also updated. A few extra items fixed there.

First notes are no longer missed when starting the DAW playback

No more CPU overload when opening Cubase projects

Program changes are no longer crashing Live when rendering audio

Opening a standalone no longer resets the sample rate to 44,1Khz

Preset name is now properly displayed when browsing presets from KeyLabs

Audio Unit state is now properly recalled when reopening a project

Undo/Redo function is now working properly with all controls

No more presets missing in Analog Lab Lite

When assigned to the OB-XA effects, smart controls are no longer muting the concerned effect slot.

No more audio blasts when loading "Bouncin Ball" preset

VST3 automations are now working properly in FL Studio

4 hours ago, abacab said:

I almost asked the same question. But then I thought maybe he doesn't have it yet and was asking about the deal... ?

you can get analog lab with the hardware i believe. the midi controllers comes with analog lab.

2 hours ago, paulo said:

Thanks for replying, but I don't have an account, which is why I was asking.

how do you have Analog Lab if you don't have an account? You need the Arturia account and their software center to install updates and what not. Just create the account and enter your serial.

I think waiting until BF should be worth it. I dont  recall what the deal was for Analog Lab owners. But I do recall it was $99 to upgrade from vers 4 onwards.

i picked it up. it says "RX 7 Elements (lite)".  Not sure if there is any different between regular elements.  Stiil it was cheap.

https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/1-Instruments/31-Synth-Presets/5609-Diverge-Synthesis-Serum-Ultimate-EDM-Vol-1

$2 serum presets

1 hour ago, Paul Young said:

Which ones? Thinkin about getting the SEM filter.

I was looking at the delays. i am a guitar guy so like to use them. will need to demo.

i might bite the FX. i missed the intro deal when they had the FX on sale. Can someone confirm, it was $299 for all the FX last time, right?

22 minutes ago, John Bradley said:

I concur completely. Even $99 was too much for basically a Melotron. (CZ and Synthi? No interest in either.) Throw in the OB-Xa and the $99 at least becomes something I'd think about.

Wish they'd do more 'mainstream' offerings in the future, though I suppose their choices get limited once you start talking about ROMplers and other '80s-'90s synths that can't simply be emulated, they need actual copies of samples etc. that the companies still own. Korg and Roland aren't going to be in any rush to let them do an M1 or a D50 for example, as they both already sell (or rent!) their own VSTs of same.

i am still on V6. Had no interest in CZ or Synthi. I am sure OBx will be in the next deal. I still think its not really enough to justify an upgrade. I think mabe if they do some really cool and advanced things with a new ver of Analog Lab, then we are talking. Mayby if they some some combined sale of synths and effect, then that could also be interesting. But just to get 3 or 4 more retro synths -- not enough IMO.

39 minutes ago, TheSteven said:

They've had 2 sales where the upgrade price was $99, but for me that was still a bit much.
If they include the latest item (forget what it was) and they have a $99 sale later I might go for it.
That said.. $49 would be no brainer, $99 then it depends on what else is on my WannaBuy list.

the last one was OBx. i think i might wait a bit until v8 to upgrade. I don't think there is enough in there to warrant an upgrade yet.

The sale for individual items  is up on PB.

yeah. v collection upgrade is on sale for $299. effects not seeing them on sale.

also, for the uber Arturia/Star Trek fans out there..(not a deal i presume)  you can now get the sound explorers collectors edition.. oohhh

https://www.arturia.com/products/analog-classics/sound-explorers-collection/overview

2 hours ago, aidan o driscoll said:

OK Im going to say it .. this thing is the

DOGS PROVERBIALs

that thing almost made me go out and buy a MPC Live and dump Maschine. it was damn good and easy to use. need to find time to try this new  version.