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5 hours ago, Carl Ewing said:

The list is extensive when it comes to Hollywood scoring: Hans Zimmer, Ludwig Goransson, Benjamin Wallfisch, Junkie XL, Alan Silverstri, etc. So everything from Avengers to Bladerunner to Mad Max to Top Gun to Tenet were composed in Cubase. There's a good reason for that - particularly composers with strong hybrid styles that use enormous templates. Check JXL's Youtube videos for how his templates and macros / touchscreens are setup for stuff like Wonder Woman, Mad Max, Alita Battle Angel (similar process to Zimmer). 

IMO Cubase is the most sophisticated / versatile DAW on the market. But it has an enormous learning curve to make use of it's deeper features (eg. logical editor, midi features, visibility macros, etc.). Lots of great tutorials around though.

Sarah Schachner whose soundtrack music I adore (especially COD Infinite Warfare) also uses Cubase.  I bought 11 Pro but also bought Ableton Live simultaneously and never really tried to learn Cubase. Now I'm on Bitwig since it's a faster less buggy Ableton Live but I'm not finishing any music. Maybe I should try Cubase again. 11 is probably enough to try without upgrading first. 

17 minutes ago, Zo said:

oh yeah , i knew about that , i don'ty have this discount 

Best you might be able to do is $68 via Thomann assuming you don't get whacked with some kind of additional tax. 

https://www.thomannmusic.com/gforce_ob_x.htm

Unless you're a gambling man and want to try what people were talking about on GS; buy the Oberheim bundle on JRR shop with the forum code for $132.61 USD and see if it still redeems with OB-X included. Worst case scenario, you would likely be eligible for the 39 GBP upgrade fee on Gforcesoftware.com after redeeming the bundle, best case scenario you get OB-X "for free". The bundle with the updated contents including all 3 listed on GForce's site is 169 GBP. 

https://www.jrrshop.com/gforce-oberheim-bundle

If it doesn't work, don't blame me!!!

37 minutes ago, Zo said:

49 ? how , i'm just trying to buy it now and group coupon is gone !! 

Via https://www.gforcesoftware.com/ login to your account then go to the product page, it should show you the price you would be charged, I don't think I had to add it to the cart to see the discount but you could do that just to be sure. Since I already owned SEM and OB-E the price for OB-X was only 39 GBP. 

Hopefully they can do something about the latency of the Denise plugins! 

Hope it's all smooth sailing this time Larry! Alaska sounds amazing. Have a great trip. 

Virtual String Machine is on version 3 already. Version 2 to version 3 upgrade was free. The recent synths they've charged for upgrades have had totally rewritten synthesizer engines and totally new presets. Version 3 already has a pretty big UI and sounds really good.

So if they just roll out a new skin and VST3 support + Apple Silicon support with the new preset browser, maybe it won't be a paid upgrade. But I guess the more work they put into it, the more justification there is for an upgrade fee, and fairly so. 

1 hour ago, Vst0nE said:

upgrade from V2 to V3 will be free or not?

any confirmation on that?

Yeah a UVI team member on a KVR thread confirmed it would be free on more than one occasion. 

Perpetual shmerpetual. 

It's a marketing exercise to recruit users to buy Imposcar 3 at a slight discount without giving the impression of deep discounting as a general rule. Just try limiting yourself to Imposcar 2 when you know how much better Imposcar 3 is ?

They did the same with Minimonsta recently, gave 1 away via Novation and then released 2 shortly thereafter with the discounted upgrade offer. 

I'm fine with it. I'll buy Imposcar 3 when it comes out. I already owned Imposcar 2. But it's not quite the giveaway that it seems.

For anyone who does want to use Imposcar 2, there's a sneaky UI scale option buried away in the UI somewhere. I'm not in front of my studio machine at the moment but if you search for "Imposcar2 tutorial 3 gui sizes" there's a YouTube video from Gforce back in 2010 demonstrating how to resize it. It's a good example of the usability principle of affordances, and the lack thereof. 

I think this kind of deal is going to be exceedingly rare. Usually DiscoDSP only does 30% off. I bought Discovery Pro for $74.35 from Everyplugin in April 2022

The other thing to be aware of, though, is that DiscoDSP charges for major version upgrades. Version 7.9 came out in September so if you buy it now you may be asked to pay a fee to upgrade to version 8 before long. I haven't had to upgrade major version yet so I don't know how much that will be. Version 6 came out in 2013. Version 7 came out in 2020, and it's gone from 7.4 to 7.9 since April 2022 so speedier major version changes might be a strategy to increase revenue (like Native Instruments & Izotope is using), or maybe it just reflects the reality of support costs to keep compatibility with ever moving operating system and software interoperability targets. All I know is I don't really want to be on a hamster wheel of upgrade fees for bug fixes. 

As an owner of OB-E and Sem it was definitely cheaper to buy from Gforce directly, 39. 99 gbp converts to 49 USD vs 65 USD to buy from JRR with the coupon group. 

Was holding my finger on the trigger when it appeared on JRR as I thought if I waited they may be asked to remove the coupons like some brands do, locking in the $77 price, but I waited, and got it for 49 usd a couple hours later so I'm chuffed ?

Love these new GForce synths. 

Seems the upgrade pricing to Synth Anthology 4 is no longer available. Thought it might have been possible to upgrade a little cheaper. Probably for the best, I don't really use SA3 anyway. 

There's also a new offer of UAD complete for $1499 in my offers section. But I don't have hardware. Or that kinda loose change haha. 

Except the Tuesday prices are no longer available. Still some bargains but not the ones I wanted to buy. 

Got a thank you added and the Tuesday coupon is back for the moment. Maybe just for me? But might be worth checking 

12 minutes ago, TheSteven said:

What has been the update fee?

Officially its 99$/Euro but it gets discounted and at launch it was the lowest I've seen it, at something like $57 on bestservice. After that it went up to something  like $78. Via Rob Papen direct with coupon it's $74. I've been waiting for it to go back down to $57 so hopefully that will happen again at the launch of 9. I think the grace period was something like 3 months. I'd bought it in February of that year so I wasn't eligible. 

18 minutes ago, TheSteven said:

Re Albino: Papen and the plugin designer LinPlug had a parting of the ways.  

With LinPlug having designed the Albino audio engine I wonder how different the new version will sound.

Also wonder if you buy Explorer 8 if there's a grace period update to Explore 9.

There is but it's not as long as you might like. I bought Explorer 7 and skipped 8 but I'll upgrade to 9 for sure. Thankfully the upgrades so far have been the same price from any Explorer version. 

15 minutes ago, Fleer said:

Then again, it seems the deadline has been reset for October 3rd  midnight PST. 

Sweet, hopefully they'll come through with an extra thank you voucher before then! 

1 hour ago, rubenruben said:

I did got the Polymax too, and I wrote the customer service so I could the Creative for 99$ but they say they can’t extend the offer for me. I don’t know why… I thought it is possible as I saw at the forums some people had that offer.

This might be a silly question, but did you sign up for LoopCloud or whatever the subscription was that was giving away Polymax for free, or did you just use the plugin boutique coupon code to get it for free? 

4 hours ago, Fleer said:

Write support. I did and got the $99. 

And then when I heard that worked for Fleer I did the same and got it too. 

14 minutes ago, Fleer said:

I only got the Creative Bundle (for $99) and I’m happy at that $10/each level. 
But I’m hesitant to get the Mix Edition or Diamond, as they will undoubtedly grow larger with (many) more native titles. 
As for the Ultimate, that’s another story. If you buy it (after registering some hardware) you’ll get it all, including future native releases. 
Then again, UAD is on a roll, and who knows where they’ll land. I do consider a possibility that UAD 12 will go very low, but when…

On the other hand, many plugins aren’t native yet and those are the ones I’m interested in, so I might wait. 
So for now, I’m thinking I’m fine with the instruments (while only missing the new Rhodes) and a few special FX like the ones on the Creative bundle. 
As for mixing and mastering plugs, I’ll stay on the fence. 
Hope this rambling helps somewhat. 

Thanks, that's really helpful. It mirrors my own thinking, although the $25 and $50 coupons are going to expire in October and that's motivating me to use them haha. 

The Diamond Edition doesn't even include all the native plugins presently available so it's definitely only going to be a stepping stone, but the price per plugin is a lot better than buying any of this stuff piecemeal. 

55 minutes ago, Fleer said:

That’s a no-no, coming from the horse’s mouth. Never goes lower than $799. Until it does, of course. 

Damn. What do you think is the best move? Get some cheap solo UAD2 hardware and wait for ultimate in one hit, or bite the bullet at $244 (319 - 50 personal coupon to make up for Labor day coupon disappearing - 25 thank you)? 

I guess you bit the bullet facing that same choice... Any regrets? 

Does anyone know if the price of Ultimate comes down further than 799 if you own the Diamond Edition? 

34 minutes ago, jngnz said:

Nope, still doesn’t work for me.

Did you get an email with a personal code included? 

If not, have you registered the code for the plugin in UA Connect? I hadn't gotten around to doing that when the first set of emails went out, but I registered it a few days ago in UA Connect and got this latest email from UA with the personal code. 

28 minutes ago, trager said:

Anyone know what it does to the price of Diamond when you pick up the $99 Creative deal?

I picked it up for $99 last night. Diamond is now offered at $319, which, oddly enough, is less than they want for Mix edition ($339). I guess it's priced as a proportion of the products you own in the bundle. Ultimate 11 is $799 as Fleer mentioned earlier. 

1 hour ago, Greg said:

$49 here from version 2.  I take it I can uninstall 2?

I doubt it'd be backwards compatible but would love to be wrong!