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I'm not sure whether the bundle gives you a FL Studio Fruity Edition license or just a 20% off coupon for it. Because if you're spending 45 bucks or more on it, the full price of the Fruity Edition is 99.

I think the most offending example of that currently is the fact Sound City Studios by itself costs the same as the UAD Signature Bundle which comes with it and other 33 plugins.

I'm gonna give you one example you can look at: UAD has a bundle they call "UAD Signature Edition." It costs 300 bucks and comes with 34 plugins, their brand new Sound City Studios plugins is one of them. However, this bundle was announced shortly after a lot of people bought those plugins separately at sales prices, only to be hit with this magic bundle that gives you all of them for pennies on a dime, really. And this is considering just the Sound City Studios plugin by itself costs the price of the bundle I just mentioned. Also, they promised they would upgrade every Apollo and hardware based existing customer with native plugins for free. Shortly after that, they removed this statement from every single place they made it and started selling them normally and essentially giving the same discounts a new user would get or doing the IK strategy of giving new customers better deals.

Since UAD did shaft their customer which the whole bundle "blunder," I dont trust promises of "special upgrade deals for existing customers" anymore.

They've also removed the upgrade option from any version of Artist to the latest version of Artist for some reason. At least for me, there's not much difference in price from upgrading from Artist/Producer to Professional from buying a Professional license.

Even if you don't have a license for a product, you can demo them for 30 minutes, then sound stops and you can reload the plugin for 30 more minutes.

This one is worth just for the Upright Bass patch.

I think the only time I sort of improved at sight reading was when I was playing Timpani and, for reasons, decided to only play using direct tuning (changing to the pitch you want at the same time you hit the drum).

Explain how you can set it on REAPER then.

I tried many times with Firefox and Edge and it only worked with my Proton Mail account (which I used to download the sounds from the free stuff IK offers which shouldn't expire to begin with)

That's weird. I grabbed this plugin in the past when it was still called AVA Mastering EQ and it didn't need iLok to be registered. I've been very wary of Harrison and their plugins since the whole 32C fiasco. It's good to see they've turned to the worst.

I find interesting that people get those 4k panels and nulify all the advantages of having that much screen area by zooming stuff by 150%, 200% or more.

My guess is the plugin is gonna be either a cut down version of a new plugin (Like they did with CLA Echosphere, which is a feature reduced version of CLA Epic) or is gonna be something underwhelming with tons of marketing to make it better than it actually is (like BB Tubes)

I did install the LE version of it and some new features are kind of neat until you decide to use them. - MIDI Remote (I know the feature was introduced in version 12 but I haven't used it) looks like a cool idea if all you have to map is one of the controllers which are already there or simple stuff. If you have to create your own thing for it, you have to not only manually set things up, but more advanced stuff requires programming in JavaScript. - I looked at the Steinberg forums and a number of people with visual impairments are complaining about the new UI being hard to see, how you now can't tell which track is selected depending on the color options. - Steinberg removed Beat Detector and told people that use it to just use the new Tap Tempo feature which has less functionality and also changes the project's tempo.

The first attempt I did of submitting it was rejected because I was missing one of the steps and "didn't send mp3 files," even though the video that comes before the form tells you to "ideally send FLAC or WAV files."

Not worth the asking price even after discount. Just because Eventide has people willing to pay 8 grand on a DSP rack, doesn't mean they can suddenly act like Antelope and UA and charge half a grand for a single plugin.

I can give you a few: - Workflow based around and makes use of terminology that only people that have worked with tape machines are familiar with. - Keyboard shortcuts are hard coded to your keyboard layout. The program is not smart enough to detect you don't have a US keyboard and you manually have to change it in the settings on top of manually remapping conflicts for shortcuts you'll probably never use. - Unnecessary separation between stereo an mono plugins that often generates unnecessary duplication on modern plugins which can tell which signal they're receiving. This is on par with how Waves still makes plugins. This one is a pet peeve of mine: - The demo song which is specifically made for Intro has more tracks than Intro can open.

Not everyone wants to learn or maintain a ProTools centric workflow. Or has the money to do so.

Yeah, except the manager will not let you use it if you don't update in case there's an update available, which defeats the purpose.

Also, we've been through how many version of this and you still have to manually download and install the updates? If the manager doesn't even let you run it when it detected an update, why can't you make it update automatically?

What concerns me more is their response to that. I don't know if this is a fad since Linus Media Group, but companies seem very eager to literally wave off user concerns and just say "trust me bro," as if they were buddies you can rely on rather than a business providing you a service you're paying for.

It's probably a tracker of sorts. Probably part of the endless losing battle every company with anti piracy measures has against software piracy. It probably phones home silently in the background even when you're not using IK software. And yeah. You can't just claim a piece of software giving warnings on multiple anti virus software as "false positives" without explaining why they're behaving in a way which can be seen as malicious by anti-viruses. If you looked at recent events regarding Linus Media Group and Unity, you know how badly people respond to reassuring type messages of the "trust me bro" variety.

I'm not seeing why I should shell a grand on this when Komplete 14 Standard is 600 bucks and Ultimate is 1200. Standard comes with 6 pianos, Ultimate comes with 8. And those are known to be high quality. Things like Alicia Keys, Noire, Una Corda, etc. If you only want pianos, Pianoteq Studio comes at 900 bucks and you get 12 pianos plus other instruments. While you are right in a sense, we're currently facing a scenario with sample based libraries where they get exponentially larger without noticeable improvements in sound quality. Sure, there's no dispute that high samples, sample rate, longer samples, etc. are better quality from an objective point of view. But, there's a reason Native Instruments still bundles things like Alicia Keys in Kontakt despite it being a very old library. Which IMO would have been better invested in making MODO Drum also simulate cymbals and not have to rely on samples anymore. But I don't think that would've make IK as much money as this piano library can potentially do, what with the subscription plans and the questionable price.

https://www.moderndrummer.com/2023/09/drumming-legend-dom-famularo-has-passed-away/