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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.

6 minutes ago, Kirean said:

Then there was a Signature Upgrade that was supposed to require that you own another bundle, but you didn't need to own anything (thus people could get the  whole bundle for 150 bucks.)

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.

2 minutes ago, JT3Jon said:

Didn’t follow the whole situation, do you mind a quick summary?

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.

12 hours ago, John Maar said:

I started learning music notation in parallel with learning to play the piano when I was 8 years old. By the time I reached 12, after studying with the soloist for the St. Louis Philharmonic for 3 years, I could read notation like it was a book written in English. I just knew what everything meant. But to this day, 60 years later, I still struggle with Bb and Eb instruments and how to score them. I don't do it often, and need to refresh every single time.

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).

3 hours ago, John Vere said:

The fact that WASAPI Shard mode doesn't offer buffer adjustments is 100% on Window and your Audio systems end. It has nothing to do with Cakewalk

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.

On 10/31/2023 at 12:15 PM, John Vere said:

I don’t understand the negative attitude towards Pro Tools often found  here as I find it very user friendly and it’s pretty high on my list of a suitable DAW for my workflow.

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.

On 9/28/2023 at 6:59 PM, Mark Morgon-Shaw said:

That methodology has always struck me as a bit of a strange way of going about  things. Surely more efficient to learn onw DAW really well and just roll with it ?   

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

4 minutes ago, simon said:

in this case I'm really glad they didn't

 

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?

2 hours ago, TheSteven said:

False positives do happen but it is rare when they occur across more that one or two scanners.
That it's triggered alerts on 12 scanners...  ain't touching that until it gets an all clear.

It's concerning that it failed to trigger any warnings on IKM dev machines.
They should examine their own process chain to insure something like this does not happen again.

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.

8 hours ago, simon said:

v1.07 is still showing as infected.  What leads you to  say it's a 'false positive' ?

Looks like it's a file within the installer/manager - "availability.exe" that is now being flagged by 12 different malware scanners as malicious on virustotal.

it would be good to get an update as it's likely many will have installed this version.

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.

1 hour ago, Peter - IK Multimedia said:

Sometimes bigger is better, though.

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.

1 hour ago, Peter - IK Multimedia said:

We are also known for some groundbreaking physical modeling

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/