Craig N

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Yeah I did the sums earlier and let out a hoot of both joy and pain haha. I don't really have the money for this bundle but damn it's a good deal at that price averaged per instrument. I bought electro acoustic (drums) recently on sale and had been keen to pick up a couple of their other instruments. This is the smarter move. Love these kind of bundles.

I heard my son playing this song earlier and realised the lyrics were remarkably fitting. I feel like this should be the theme song for this Group Buy! Can the energy take us higher... all the way to 25k ?!?!?!

I'm going through the process of installing all the freebies at the moment and I noticed there are Sound downloads for both Sampletank 4 and Sampletank 4 SE. Does anyone know if it's enough to install just Sampletank 4 or if Sampletank 4 SE has a core of sounds separate to Sampletank 4 that should be installed additionally?

I've got a bit more incentive if anyone is still on the fence about jumping in at all. Yesterday I jumped in at the $199 level, my third entry into the GB, after spending an inordinate amount of time trying to figure out if it would work out better in the long run to buy in using the Groove3 coupon code for 15% off 200 gear credits and save my JamPoints for a future upgrade to Total studio 3 when it goes on a sale price I am happy to pay, or to use my JamPoints now to save as much as I can today in case discounting options are different later on. I decided to go with the latter approach, using 42 JamPoints bringing the €160 price down to €112. I was expecting to have a regrettably small number of JamPoints left eg 40-something but it turned out I had 55 which is more than I expected. I'm not sure if I had earned more than I realised on my previous dips into the group buy, or if you earn jam points on the gear credits purchase and then again on the purchase with those gear credits. Anyone know? Either way it was a nice little win I thought. But here's the kicker: when I picked Sampletron 2 as a freebie I got an extra 30 free Jam points! So now I'm back to about the same amount of jam points I had before I used them to buy the gear credits! Epic score in my opinion. And now I don't need to cringe at any lost jam points discount when I upgrade to Total Studio 3 Max down the track, compared to having just sat the group buy out. And if TS3 Max doesn't go down to $299 for a while, I've got the vast majority of things in it for the moment anyway so that will keep me going in the meantime, and at a much cheaper price than TS 3 Max even during a future sale. I have to give it to IK Multimedia. This really is an epic deal. I spent a while sorting the order of freebies I would select and made my choices last night. I can't believe how much I got for free. It's just incredible.

Did somebody say need?

I just registered anew I think. I've got LMC in my account but not the channel strip. I just think of ILok as the license holder rather than the SSL shop account.

20th of September I think it said on the SSL site. Their timezone I'm guessing.

I couldn't resist this one. Great price considering they offer free upgrades. I don't own Fabfilter Pro Q 3 and this is a fraction of the price, even if Fabfilter does dynamic eq and this doesn't. Other features seem fairly comparable. And for those who avoided the Harrison 32c, this one doesn't cramp 🙂 I was pleased to see it's nice and light on CPU, so it should work well on each track as a goto mixing eq. I wish they included more presets though.

A lot of people get really excited by these Cherry Audio synths. I used to be one of them. Used the DCO-106 as my goto for a while. Then I compared it with the Softube Model 84 while watching a YouTube comparison by Starsky Carr and realised the Cherry Audio was but a pale imitation. Bought the Softube but it's tired looking UI doesn't really inspire me to use it as much as the Cherry Audio did. I enjoy looking at the Cherry Audio synths. They're cheap and cheerful I guess and there's a lot to be said for that. I'm hoping they improve the accuracy of the emulations as time goes on. Because then they'd really be on to a winning combination.

https://store.solidstatelogic.com/products/ssl-native-x-eq-2 85% off

Wow, the pace has really picked up. I figured it would as it got higher and higher. The more you get for free, the better the deal becomes, and the more motivation for people to jump in, and for those who have already jumped in to dip in again. I'm in twice so far and planning to go in a third and possibly a fourth time depending how high it goes.

I'm glad I upgraded to 12 via the 11 Suite offer. That was a great deal. Rebirth and then Reason is what got me making music in the box way back when, after I gave up on using trackers, so there's a nostalgia factor to be sure, but I'm glad to still have Reason Rack in the toolbox in high res at last.

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I'm getting the same error. Was all set to purchase the Bettermaker EQ and then it says the voucher code has been used already, which it hasn't.

On the topic of full Kontakt libraries not appearing in the graphical libraries tab, it's well worth familiarising yourself with the "Quick load" panel; it's like setting up bookmarks in your browser. Once you get your libraries bookmarked there, it's actually more convenient than to scroll through a long list of player-compatible libraries and its a million times easier than browsing your hd to find the library each time you want to use it. I have only been collecting Kontakt libraries for a short while, I don't have a huge number and I categorise mine by company name, then library name, and then I have the instrument and any snapshots in the next level down. At some point it might be worth organising them by instrument type. The great thing is there's nothing stopping you from having kontakt libraries categorised in more than one way if you like, so I could add a second set of category folders in addition to the company name ones. Another tip is I have found some larger full Kontakt libraries can be slow to load initially. There's a "batch re-save" feature that helps Kontakt avoid having to search for files during loading, which can speed the initial load time before the library UI appears from as long as a minute, down to a few seconds. Not every library needs it, but for those that take a minute to load its a real disincentive to use them. After batch re-saving, they load much faster.

That's a shame. I really wanted a Roli Seaboard one day. Waited too long I guess.

Yeah it is unfortunate. The Authorizer app lists "hi res" after the name of the extension after its been updated, so the easiest thing to do is just delete all extensions and then press sync all on the website, which will reinstall the whole lot.

Btw as a heads up if you have rack extensions installed eg if you bought Reason 11 suite, and you're not getting high res graphics for some of those extensions eg Radical Keys, you may need to close your DAW, run the Authorizer, delete the extension, then go into your account on the Reason Studios website and click the Download button for that extension again. It's a bit of a drag, but the updated graphics are worth it in the end at least.

I signed up for the beta program so I've tested a few of the high res betas along the way. Makes it usable software again for me. I couldn't bear using it previously.. It was so ridiculously cramped and tiny.

Are you asking if you get 10x the gear credits? If so, it doesn't quite work like that. If you buy the gear credits and then use them to purchase a product that is eligible for inclusion in the group buy, you will receive 10 free picks for the same retail price or less from the list of group buy included products. So make sure you pick a product with those gear credits that's listed on the group buy page. Also, I don't receive a commission on upsells or anything (lol) but if you buy 150, 200, 300 or 500 etc gear credits there's a further discount beyond 1 credit per dollar/euro, whereas buying 100 gear credits is no cheaper than spending $100 on the main site. And you probably already know that you can use a voucher code or jampoints when buying gear credits...

Ah yes, it does seem a bit tricky! I'm going to be facing this myself unless I opt for the 500 gear credits and jump in at 300. Perhaps the Amplitude 5 upgrade? For me it's listed as $199 / 200 Gear Credits -- and Amplitude 5 at $199 is also listed on my Crossgrade/Upgrade page https://www.ikmultimedia.com/userarea/eligibility/

This song seems relevant to the occasion... pardon the 80's nostalgic flavour. I'm showing my age.

As long as it's eligible for the group buy, yes that's my understanding. I originally wrote that registering the code in your account enrolls you in the group buy, but I am not sure you'd get a code from the Custom Shop - it probably registers it directly into your account. All I know is tons of people have been buying with gear credits (even though I haven't) so we'd know by now if it didn't qualify. Just make sure the thing you buy in the Custom Shop is listed on the Group Buy page, and if its something with a few flavours eg T-Racks, when you view the product page for that particular product variant it shows the red dialog at the top right of the screen indicating it qualifies. Because T-Racks MAX does not qualify, for instance, but T-Racks Deluxe does.

Ayyyyyyy