Batwaffel

17 hours ago, Paul Young said:

Dislike Engine.

I talked with Eduardo a couple years ago and he mentioned his new library would be using the new Engine 3 player but that time came and went with no new update to the GUI. I am wondering what is causing the delays at this point because it's a solid player; it just REALLY needs a new GUI.

Welcome back, Larry. 

1 minute ago, daveiv said:

Breaking backwards compatibility is profitable for software companies. I expect a wave of "Custom-tailored for K7" sample libraries.

That's one of the reasons I like being able to keep Kontakt 5 installed on it's own. I will likely keep both 5 and 6 installed once I do upgrade to 7.

I honestly don't see any reason to update yet. It took years for companies to really start making anything for Kontakt 6 that didn't use Player. Many companies are still developing their libraries using Kontakt 5. I'd personally say give it a year or so before spending the money because chances are, there isn't going to be much worth upgrading for.

5 minutes ago, PavlovsCat said:

I didn't witness Peter engaged in bullying and taunting. There's always an excuse by people who routinely engage in bad behavior for their behavior. I don't know you or your history with Peter, but 20+ years of managing digital marketing-- including social media-- tells me you engaged in cyber bullying and Peter, whatever rationalization you want to make for your bad behavior.  Try owning up to a mistake, apologize and do better. I'm not going to say anything further other than I was really sickened by your behavior and think you deserve to get a lifetime ban from this forum. 

No, you're right. I was in the wrong for making that public. I've been considering removing the ban on their company for a while and what I felt was a shot towards our community made me make a bad judgment call and I accept that. 

2 minutes ago, Peter - IK Multimedia said:

I've offered to bury the hatchet multiple times, funny you now play it this way in public when someone else notices you have some beef with IK/me.  I accept PMs here, I get them all the time.  You know how to reach me via the multiple other ways I've tried to communicate in the past if they're not working here.

That aside, this is clogging the thread and I apologize.  I would love to see Larry back but I also know that he has every right to take a break if he felt things were a bit toxic even if to some of us it might read differently or whatever, I can see why he felt a bit overwhelmed/frustrated/whatever about those posts.  I also recommend breaks from Facebook but if he's flourishing there and that works for him, power to Larry for that.  I always enjoyed communicating with him (including via PM) here.

I tried to send one and it said you do not accept them. None the less, I do apologize for the public shot. Our issues are not public ones though understand I did feel you were intentionally making a shot at my community. Please send me a DM here since it's obviously an issue for me to send one and I'll respond.

2 minutes ago, PavlovsCat said:

@BatwaffelYou deleted your post completely unprovoked harassing/taunting and bullying posts directed at a very friendly member of this forum. I don't know you, but I loathe bullying and those who engage in such behavior and was contemplating reporting your posts harassing a fellow forum member. I would strongly urge everyone to avoid this person's Reddit. We don't need to reward that kind of behavior. 

His post was an obvious shot fired at me for various reasons. I fired back. In fact, the reason I took it down was because I was sending a DM to try to bury the hatchet. Unfortunately, he does not accept DMs so... *shrug*

If he wants to talk out our issues we obviously have with each other, I'm open to it. He knows where to find me.

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10 hours ago, Luc said:

Also https://www.reddit.com/r/AudioProductionDeals/

Though nothing compares to right here when Larry is around.

Happy deal searching!

Thanks for the mention. It's currently run by my manager while I'm working on a film score but I'm still very present in the process.

Like many others, we're also working on a new, game changing website that will turn the industry upside down. /s It should be up shortly. We want to make sure everything is working properly before we launch so there are no unnecessary surprises. I'll be sure to post when it's up.

1 hour ago, antler said:

My initial reaction was oh, PA's version of Kontakt?; then Sander's comment reminded me about Soundwide - could this be Kontakt Lite with PA effects?

Based on what I saw in the email, this looks to be more along the lines of something like Loopcloud, ADSR Sample Manager, Cosmos, etc. though could be more like MPC or Maschine. 

https://gumroad.com/a/847520883/waasf

Limited to 500 sales. Use code: Batwaffel

Now hosted on Gumroad rather than Bandcamp.

This is an affiliate link.

4 hours ago, Frank said:

As always the price tag is high.

In this case, it's expected. These are plugin versions of synths that are in their current hardware lineup that sell for $800 each. I actually really like this idea. I got rid of a lot of my hardware synths years ago; many of them were Korg, because I didn't want to keep taking up space with them. This gives me the ability to have their current synths at a fraction of the cost and no loss of space other than on my hard drive.

Biggest release they've done in a while and you guys thought it would be a smooth transition? Are you guys new or something?

I'm kidding, give it some time. Their servers are getting blasted right now and probably will be for the next few days but they will get everything sorted and everyone will get their upgrades.

I have a similar site going up soon in a different format. Will update when it's closer to completion.

IK support has always been rubbish, imo. They do everything in their power to be as unhelpful as they can including blaming the customer for the issues they are having. There is little to no accountability with them. I never recommend them to anyone and refuse to post them anywhere because of their anti-consumer practices. They are well aware; they just don't care. Plenty of better products out there now.

What's really fun is getting through your emails and then looking back and seeing 150 more have appeared. That was pretty much every hour this black friday. It was absurd and irritating because some companies were sending 3-4 different emails a day as well.

6 hours ago, PavlovsCat said:

Where do you post your deals at?  

https://www.reddit.com/r/AudioProductionDeals/

4 hours ago, PavlovsCat said:

It is ironic that people who come to a deal forum could be averse to sales.

It does seem strange but in my case, I started my community for two reasons: I have a lot of developers who are very good friends who I personally have seen affected by piracy. Many people don't seem to understand that this isn't a multi-billion dollar film industry and that the production industry is actually very niche and filled mainly with normal people making products they hope to sell enough copies of to get by on. More than one of my friends have had to close up shop when their products stopped selling. I'm also not interested in any moral debate on the topic so I will leave it at that.

The second was to introduce people to the fact that they could indeed occasionally afford many of these products on a budget. 

At first, this whole thing started out as something to do an hour a day while I would be referencing tracks or something along those lines. Now I take the entire month of November off my calendar and only work on odds and ends in the studio to post sales much like Larry does here and Reid does over on VI-C.

That said, I don't like sales for the reasons in my last post. That doesn't mean I won't take advantage of them when they come up because I'm terribly frugal. lol

Though this year, I've not even had the time to look at most of them...

Here's my hot take on sales and Black Friday.

In general, I don't like sales. I believe that they do nothing but anger existing customers and devalue the product itself which can become it's own rabbit hole to jump down. On the customer end, many people feel slighted when they buy something then a week later it's discounted. There were a lot of complaints about that this year as many sales were pretty steep.

Then we come to the devaluing of products. When you put something on sale, you're essentially lowering the price people will be willing to pay for it. Very few people will ever again pay the full price for the product if it's been on sale and will wait it out for another sale to come by before giving you their money. Then it becomes a game of "do we set it at the same price or do we lower it even more to get more people in". Most companies will take it lower which means you now have a crowd of people who will wait for that percentage or better again before making the decision to buy. I've seen people scoff at a whole 5% saying they will wait till it reaches what it was again before buying.

I do see the other side of it though. Companies need to sell products to make money and sales are a good way to do that. Companies like Plugin Alliance and Waves sell on volume. They don't care that people don't buy at full price because another sale is right around the corner and they will sell tens of thousands of dollars or more worth in one go.

There are a lot of new companies each year as well and trying to get the attention of people is very difficult; especially if your product doesn't compare with existing companies so many get stuck in this constant sale routine or in the case of many, giving product away for free to get attention. It's a bad place to be in because you can't dig yourself out of it easily.

They are all in overdrive from last year's dry spell. I've gotten 5 hours of sleep the last 48 hours and there is no sign of this stopping. 

Holy shit, it only took 13 years. Want to bet it will be delayed for another 13 years?  

What will be a bigger letdown, Forbidden Planet or Cyberpunk 2077?

Just now, cclarry said:

They fixed the price...it was showing the ACTUAL price of $215 when I posted

No complaints from me. I won't say no at this price.

Just now, Reid Rosefelt said:

It's expensive, but it's a really great product for anybody who likes to mess around with sound effects.   I made a video on it once.

I made an oops and actually looked at the site. This isn't what they raised the price on. The sale price for this is $107.50 which is really really good.

I'm seeing $107 on the website

49 minutes ago, antler said:

It's probably a combination of things - if all the sales hit at once:

• it's difficult for the consumer as they'd blow a crater in their wallets over the course of a few days, rather than spread them out over a month
• it's difficult for the web shop as they might accidentally get DDoS'ed from people wanting to buy something, e.g. think about what happens during limited 500-serial giveaways; or even when a new version of Komplete comes out
• it's probably a tactical move from the developers - if your sale is out there first, there's more chance that someone with that on their list will buy over another product on their list that isn't on sale yet.

That last one is something I had been discussing with quite a few developers over the past 6 years and now I feel like it's biting us in the ***** a bit. Some of them were complaining about not making as much money as they thought they should during the holiday season and the reason based on the metrics I was collecting was that everything was hitting at one time and/or people were waiting on the "big stuff" so by the time the smaller companies got their sales out, everyone's money had been spent. My advice was to release earlier in the month to compete with that. Now I'm finding a few of those companies I spoke with are releasing their black friday sales as far back as the third week in October.

Sorry, I guess? 😕