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  1. Bundle for Ukraine

     

    998 items

    Minimum $10 donation

     

    Over 700 creators have joined in support to donate their work. All proceeds from this bundle will be split between the following charities:

    International Medical Corps provides medical assistance in the region. They have very low fundraising overhead (1% of income), with 89% of donations going to medical aid and 10% to administration. 

    Voices of Children, a Ukrainian organization that helps children cope with the horrors of war, PTSD, readjusting to school, and getting back to being kids. They have also been doing a lot of grassroots impromptu work during the war, such as helping set up shelters. Our hope is that this war will be over soon, and they can begin the work of healing these kids' hearts. 

     

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  2. 2 hours ago, cclarry said:

    Truth is truth..it has no pre-requisite for ANYONE to believe it.   It's TRUTH!  The problem
    comes when "humans" relay that information to one another, where it get's "molded" into a "narrative"
    that supports our personal "perception", rather than what is factually accurate.

    To quote:

    “You may remember the story of how the devil and a friend of his were walking down the street, when they saw ahead of them a man stoop down and pick up something from the ground, look at it, and put it away in his pocket. The friend said to the devil, “What did that man pick up?” “He picked up a piece of Truth,” said the devil. “That is a very bad business for you, then,” said his friend. “Oh, not at all,” the devil replied, “I am going to let him organize it." 

    I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. That is my point of view, and I adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief. A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others. This is what everyone throughout the world is attempting to do. Truth is narrowed down and made a plaything for those who are weak, for those who are only momentarily discontented. Truth cannot be brought down, rather the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountain-top to the valley. If you would attain to the mountain-top you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices. 

    — Jiddu Krishnamurti

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  3. I'm wondering if anyone would be able to tell me what the Acustica Audio loyalty discount tier amounts are (e.g., 20% for EUR 200 - EUR 500). I've had a good look around for this info, but to no avail.

    Thanks in advance for any time and attention if given .

    Kind regards,
    Cat

  4. 57 minutes ago, Peter - IK Multimedia said:

    I learned how to program in BASIC when I was a kid so I'm old if not basic

    Reads this ↑

    *Streisand starts playing in head*

    "Memories light the corners of my mind . . ."

    Suddenly I don't feel so young 🙁 

     

    Note to self:

    Dear mind,

    No Streisand in the morning, plea...

    *interrupted by more Streisand*

    "Can it be that it was all so simple then
    Or has time rewritten every line
    If we had the chance to do it all again
    Tell me, would we?
    Could we?"


    Hm 😐

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  5. 3 hours ago, S.L.I.P. said:

    I contacted them a couple of months ago, and it took them 10 days to get back to me. 

    Thanks S.L.I.P.! While a wait of many days like this isn't what one might consider ideal, your reply is reassuring.

    3 hours ago, paulo said:

    I haven't had need to contact them for some time, but usually they are among the very best in my experience so it might be worth checking to see if something has gone astray.

    As is this reply. Thanks paulo!

    A short moment later . . .

    I just checked my inbox and was delighted to find a response from iZotope Customer Care apologising for the delay and letting me know that an MPS 4 upgrade had now been deposited into my account.

    Ah, the wonders of synchronicity!

  6. Hi all.

    I wasn't sure if this was the right place to post about this kind of thing.

    I'm wondering if anyone has had any experience with iZotope support of late, and what kind of time frame the response was received in, if at all? I ask this as I contacted iZotope Customer Care about a bundle upgrade twelve days ago (I didnt get  the advertised free upgrade to MPS 4 after buying and registering MPS 3 a week earlier) and haven't received a response beyond the standard initial automated "your request has been received" type response received shortly after submitting my request.
    __________
    The first part of that initial automated response:

    Thanks for contacting iZotope Customer Care. Your request has been received and is being reviewed by our support staff. We will respond to your ticket in the order in which it was received.

    Please note, due to increased volume requests may take longer than usual to receive a response. We are working as quickly as possible to reach out in regards to your issue.

    __________

    While it's reasonable to assume that this is a pretty busy time for iZotope, is twelve days without a word too long?

    Thanks in advance for any time and attention given.

  7. 2 hours ago, cclarry said:

    I got Nebula the last time it was on sale...couldn't pass it up!

    Inexplicably, I wasn't familiar with Acustica Audio before this year. It's a mystery to me now how I'd managed to overlook them for so long! Suffice it to say, it was after reading your post about getting Nebula the last time it was on sale that I became curious and set off down the rabbit hole. I bought Nebula a few days later and happily have been slowly adding to my AA collection with Acqua offerings ever since. But ever the procrastinator, I've still yet to go the third party route for Nebula options.

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  8. I don't have this product myself. But what I have heard of it does sound really quite nice for something in this price range. If you'd like a good example of how it sounds in action I would recommend checking out Simeon Amburgey's 'First Look' video published on YouTube on June 13 of this year. Love your work, Simeon!

    I decided not to link to the video here myself, just in case Simeon would like to do so with a suitable lead in description himself. But otherwise, it's easy enough to find with a simple search.

  9. While I have an abundance of samples, I have comparitively only very few vocal samples. I can see that this set would have quite limited use. But maybe it could be useful as fairly cheaply priced, half decent fodder for experimentation with vocoder, morph, glitch, verb (and so on) sound designy type tools, in spite of that of it which sounds a little on the verbally incoherent side.

    Is this silly thinking? I honestly don't really know. I've missed a lot of sleep in recent days.

  10. 1 hour ago, kevin H said:

    I can’t access either.  

    I can access it, but then it redirects to TVC-mall within a few seconds of JRR Shop loading. TVC Mall is in Shenzen, China.

    Slightly unrelated, but perhaps still worthy of note in my books:

    On July 29 I googled "jrrshop" and clicked the top result which took me to japan.jrrshop.com which was odd. Directly after this I visited Plugin Boutique and while there was surprised to find VAT was being added. I've never had VAT added before, ever. It seems this was due to location-related site settings having been changed in my browser, unbeknownst to me up until that moment. Odd, to say the least. I then changed site settings for PB in my browser, after which things returned to normal,. i.e., no VAT being added to prices.

    (Incidentally, japan.jrrshop.com is presently also redirecting to TVC Mall.)

    A couple of days ago my bad JRR Shop checkout experience happened (I posted about this earlier in this thread). And then when I happened to visit Plugin Boutique directly after that I found VAT was being added again. Location-related site settings for PB had changed again, unbeknownst to me. Odd, and a little concerning by now.

    (Incidentally, when I had the pricing issue at PB in July it also ocurred when I then went on to sign into PB on a different device altogether. I didn't try on a different device when it happened the second time recently.)

    Since the aforementioned bad JRR Shop checkout experience happened (during which I was attempting to pay with Paypal) I've received an email appearing to be from PayPal, stating that my PayPal account has been restricted due to bad activity. The email contains a link supposedly to login to Paypal. All signs point to this email being scam related, and I have disregarded it as such. The question now beckons, is my bad JRR Shop checkout experience involving Paypal in any way related to me receiving a scam email phishing for my PayPal login credentials soon afterward?

    The common factor in all of the above has been JRR Shop. Coincidence, or otherwise? I hope I'm quite wrong. But personally, after seeing this latest issue with the redirection to TVC Mall, and in light of the above mentioned experiences, I'm inclined to deem visiting JRR Shop a potential risk of some kind at this time, and to be avoided for caution sake.

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  11. 3 hours ago, Fret Flintstone said:

    Contacting him directly worked like a charm during the great crash, I done it a couple of times.

    I had an experience like yours where everything went fine until the very end, where it just shit itself. I didn't receive any purchase stuff from JRR, but it was shown in both PayPal and CC or Bank account whichever I used at the time. I contacted JRR support and they had it sorted in no time, a little stressful, but all good in the end.

    Personally I wouldn't and don't hesitate to purchase from JRR, that may change if I have a bad experience, but been using JRR for many years a no real issues.

    Thanks for following up with this reassuring reply. I hope the wording of my post wasn't too seemingly overreactive. My concern was that each of my several near-complete but essentially failed checkout attempts might still have been resulting in an erroneous expensively excessive set of transactions. In retrospect, persisting after each fail may have been a little foolhardy. Incidentally, it turns out no transaction activity involving JRR eventuated.

    For as long as I've been buying audio software JRR has always been a favourite when either browsing or purchasing. Thinking back, I've had contact with support there only once. On that ocassion a few years back Uncle E replied to a support request email within very short time with a better than hoped for outcome. I recall being rather impressed at the time. As for today's case, the item being sought was likely going to return from sale price to regular price soon and it was outside JRR's contact hours, so I turned elsewhere. In the end I was able to get Izotope MPS3 upgrade from MPS1 for $268 at Plugin Discounts, as opposed to the $255 that it would've been at JRR.

    I look forward to seeing the JRR webshop back in reliably good health in the hopefully not too distant future!

  12. JRR Shop is in somewhat down territory again presently. It did appear to be back to normal briefly a few mins ago, during which time I attempted a purchase, but to no avail. The checkout process was broke as a joke, failing several times to complete just short of completing the final step. And then the site went back to being unusable again.

    Following this discomforting recurrent failed checkout experience I feel compelled to strongly advise avoiding attempting to purchase anything via the JRR Shop website presently, even if the site returns to appearing functional again. Having said that, I don't know how contacting JRR's directly to get a purchase done would go. 

     

  13. According to the countdown timer in the email I received about this deal, it's set to end in around 3/4 of an hour. Is there anyone who has used it that can chime in at this late stage with thoughts about it?

    I can get it for around $3 with loyalty points, which is a steal. Just wondering what (if any) its negatives might be.

  14. On 8/25/2020 at 9:28 AM, Grem said:

    Good plan. But do keep us posted. I am still waiting to see if you do get it!! : )

    Will do, Grem.

    On 8/24/2020 at 5:03 AM, mibby said:

    They have done this before. I almost wonder if it is intentional at this point.  🤔

    I'm actually now also beginning to wonder if there might be an element of truth to this. In the twelve days since placing my first and only ever order (Nectar 3 for $29) at Musician's Friend I've counted nineteen emails from them (sometimes several in one day). One was an order confirmation notification while the other eighteen have been marketing spam purposed basically to entice me to order more stuff from them. At this stage my order is still 'Processing'. 

    I've been waiting for them to contact me about what's going on as the onus is squarely on them to do that. Their automated marketing spam send-out's aside, I'm wondering if my order might've actually fallen through their system's cracks somehow. If day 14 comes and my order is still 'Processing' then I'll email them to push for a resolution.

  15. 16 hours ago, mibby said:

    They have done this before. I almost wonder if it is intentional at this point.  🤔

    At this point, after nine and a half days of waiting for my order status to progress beyond 'Processing' while receiving no contact other than the regular daily deal emails, I'm inclined to just simply write this off as a loss and move on. If the order does happen to complete sometime then I'll count it as an unexpected bonus. 

    'Musician's Friend'? Ironic.

     

  16. 59 minutes ago, S.L.I.P. said:

    this is one of my favorite Boz plugins. 

    It's a good'n alright! While I count Boz's plugins in general as favourites, this one typically sees most regular usage. It does its thing well and with an absolute minimum of fuss. No faffing around. Nice.

  17. On 8/21/2020 at 3:44 PM, GroverKen said:

    6 days and counting. Still getting bombarded with emails from them encouraging me to buy more stuff. Really?

    Same boat here. I had previously stated that all I'd received since ordering is an order confirmation email. But I have actually also been receiving the daily Stupid Email of the Day . . . I mean, um... Stupid Deal of the Day email.

    In fairness to Musician's friend they've probably just got a lot on their plate of late. But the daily deal email thing really is starting to rub me the wrong way. Ideally, a customer should be able to have a purchased software product registered, downloaded and installed within minutes or hours of ordering. Instead I'm just receiving unwanted regular-as-clockwork deal enticement spam and no word whatsoever about the order.

    Order status: still 'Processing', eight and a half days and counting.

  18. 34 minutes ago, Fleer said:

    A.D.A.P.T.I.V.E.R.B.

    Just sayin’. 

    🌈♩AAaa♩ddaaaapp♩tttiiii♩vvvveee rrrrrrr bbbbbb . . . . . . . . .. . .. .. .🌈

    Just smearin' (with ADAPTIVERB).

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