Lionel
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Does anyone know if they have these Komplete upgrade discounts during Black Friday or Cyber Monday?
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Then donate
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Thank you, sir
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Don’t really need this, but I’ve seen the awesome things you can do with Ableton and Lightroom. At this price, it’s too good to pass. So I bought it.
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Beta not available in my region 😞
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2 minutes ago, abacab said:
This topic is about the IK group buy, and info related to the product, and not the merits of a company's business practices. Please start another new thread to continue discussing that. Thanks!
Gladly. And hopefully Peter can chime in as well.
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1 minute ago, Doug Rintoul said:
I don't know about the size of all the companies. Sonuscore is fairly well known. But why should that make a difference? Because a company is large, it should absorb the cost of downloads? And if they don't, that makes them, scuzzy and evil?
Of course I could see why a smaller company would charge a re-download fee. Basically because they don't have the financial resources as a bigger company.
If a company like Native Instuments(a hardware/software company similar to IK), for instance, can have unlimited downloads of their content w/o a fee, I honestly just don't see why IK can't do the same.Not to mention, it was mentioned on this Forum in a previous post, that IK could go with a number of cost-saving cloud storage alternatives. IK should really look into those.
I still think IK needs to address this. I'm just not satisfied with the status quo. Guess I'm just the odd man out on this topic.
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31 minutes ago, Doug Rintoul said:
Sonuscore for one. In fact, when I try to download something I purchased in April 2021, I get the message: Sorry, this download has expired: Go to shop. Looks like I would have to buy the product all over again.
Fluffy Audio states this: Download links will expire seven days after this E-mail is sent. And there are limited download attempts for downloading your product. We suggest to backup your product to be able to recover your files anytime.
Sampletraxx has the same policy as Fluffy. They both use Fastspring for their downloads so it may that way for any Fastspring downloads.
Audiofier is another that uses Fastpring. Their email states: The link will expire in 7 days, so please hurry up 🙂
Xtant Audio has the same message as Sonuscore when I try to download past purchases.
These are some examples from my last year of purchases. Now it may be that if I contacted support, they might be willing to reinstate a download for free, but no where on their websites do they specify that this service is available. Fortunately I have not had to find out
I would like to point out that just because some or even the majority of company follow a certain policy, all companies should follow that policy. IKM implimented download charges for a reason, and I don't believe for a moment they did it because they were evil or trying to do something underhanded.
Update:
Just checked Fluffy's FAQ. Looks like they can reinstate download link if you contact support.
Thanks for sharing that info. I can't say that I've heard of those companies.
So would I presume these companies are smaller compared to IK, correct? Correct me if I'm wrong.
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1 hour ago, abacab said:
The IK plugin downloads NEVER expire in your account. Always available. The sound content is the part that does expire.
A lot of the companies that you list do not specialize in large sample libraries. So that is a big difference. Besides, paying one time $10 (or less with Jam Points) is cheaper than me buying another hard drive to archive hundreds of GB's of sample downloads on, in the rare event that I would ever need to recover them.
Maybe you or someone else could shed some light…
What companies(that specialize in large sample libraries) also charge a re-download fee for sound content? Because I’ve yet to encounter them(besides IK). And I’d be genuinely curious to know.
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3 minutes ago, Doug Rintoul said:
I don't find it sheisty or evil. And I am not going let a measly potential $10 charge stop me from purchasing from a company that gives me good value in their poducts. If you want to avoid a company based on an out of perspective principle, as you say, have at it. It is your loss. Fine by me.✌️
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6 hours ago, Doug Rintoul said:
I can't understand why people get their panties in such a knot over this one. I know IK Multimedia could foster a lot of good will by doing away with this but it is all of $10 for crying out loud. I have spent more on plugins that turned out to be garbage and were useless to me. Even spent more on duplicate plugins I had forgotten I already had. And IKM is not the only company to expire download access. Some even expire after a week or two. To me 180 days is quite reasonable.
There are a lot of things to complain about with the way IKM has done stuff in tbe past. This is way down the list for me.
There's more companies(some even smaller than IK) that don't charge a fee to re-download content. Maybe because I don't buy enough plugins from a wide variety of brands, but from the plugins/VIs that I do own from the likes of NI, Arturia, MOTU, AIR, AAS, D16, Melda, Plugin Boutique, etc... they don't charge a sheisty re-download fee. //Sheesh, don't be evil, IK
But hey, to each your own...
Have at it. How you waste money is entirely up to you ✌️
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Wow.
Just goes to show that subscriptions definitely aren't for everybody(myself included).
Try to stay away from subscriptions as much as possible. Unless it's rent-to-own, vouchers or something similar.
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Let’s see… this is where I’m at:
- Purchased all the synths from the last GB
- Still recouping from the last GB
- Haven’t had the time to fully use all the synths yet… last GB still too fresh
- Upgrade to ver 2 seems too confusing and very much a hassle
- These synths are sample-based (I knew what I was getting myself into. It just makes you really appreciate VSTs like Arturia V Collection that don’t take up a lot of HD space)
- This is a big one for me… I still despise IK’s policy on having to pay a fee to re-download content after a certain amount of time has passed. (shady, if you ask me)
With that said, I’m very much sitting this one out… maybe indefinitely(we’ll see). Maybe IK should call this a “Gluttonous Buy.” All I know is I’m going to have strict diet and cut out IK.
But hopefully this GB works out for you guys
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6 minutes ago, lawajava said:
So setting aside the 50 cent savings discovery, given that other companies have SSL emulations for these that many of us already have - what is a highlight to call out for why these are worth the spend even at this discount?
Who else best to buy the software versions of hardware than from the folks who actually made them, right?
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15 minutes ago, Carlos Iglesias said:
Let's gooo!
Log into or register an IK account and then head to your User Area
Use the pop-up message to Redeem your promotional item and sign up for the Newsletter, if you're not already
Thanks for the heads up! 👍
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Got it. Thanks for the insight, Paulo and Brian.
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Just curious... Is this a good price for Scaler 2? Has this been sold for cheaper in the past?
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Been wanting this, but in white =/
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If this was rent-to-own, then this might have interested me. But, meh...
I've already got Komplete, so I'm good. No need to pay for something especially when I own most of what's being offered.
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Expansion packs costs $49
https://slatedigital.com/verbsuite-classics/
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Dunno if it's been already posted on here...
AAS bundle for $29.99
Link:
https://deals.gamespot.com/sales/the-complete-2021-synth-sound-software-bundle
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Thanks!
NI Summer of Sound
in Deals
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Okay, thanks. Still on the fence on whether to update to this version or wait for the next summer's sale.