Sergio

Are there any shops still selling v6? If not, this drop in price does not make much sense. Unless someone wants to jump out of the boat and stops using the Collection for good, since after upgrading Arturia does not allow selling/transfering the old version.

How about a little Haggle

I already paid more than the asking new customer's $399 price for the collection by upgrading since version 3. That's why I skipped the v6 entirely (for which Arturia was asking a similar stiff upgrade price until the other day). And that's why I'll probably skip this release too. I'll do that until Arturia change this ridiculous pricing policy or until the releases accumulate enough new emulations to justify the asking price (which, IMO, that's not the case, coming from v5).

Something must be wrong. I have only V-Collection 5 and I'm unpigmented and my upgrade price is $199. But as I have Xils 4 and UVI Mello I'm still not interested in this upgrade.

I was saving my voucher to get the Oberhausen but I came to my senses and got the Museq on this sale for $14, more for the price than my needs (of another EQ). And, as I saved $60 in the change, I finally decided to get a Zero Downtime iLok insurance this month.

Thanks for your kind words, Zo (as always). Yes, I have a fall for those classic synths; after all, many of my favorite pieces of music were made with them in the past few decades ☺️. And I was just kidding about regrets (well... more or less). I have the Arturia SEM and I like it a lot but I'll probably get this one also since it has some additional features (like the unison mode f.i.) and the intro price, IMO, seems reasonable.

Release price is $99 for "heavy hitters". With my $25 coupon it'll be $74. Tempting, although I REALLY don't need another synth 🤔 The fact is: last year I loose the opportunity of getting a REAL SEM (actually, 2 of them in the same unit) and I really regret this. If this emulation is good enough maybe I could pardon meself. What do ya think, Zo?

You can choose the output's bit resolution and apply dithering Zo. And after that even if your DAW's project is 24 bits you can "save as" the resulting audio at the chosen bit depth without any further degradation. L2 was my first choice for years. Nowadays I prefer to use IK Multimedia's plugins for that (the Stealth Limiter and even the old Brickwall Limiter) after watching the excellent "Mastering With T-Racks" series from Groove3. Oh... and I really don't care if the limiter works internally as multi band or not. I just need to know that it does its job properly (stopping the peaks) and trust my ears for the rest.

Depend on your needs. The description says its forte is dialog noise reduction. I'm supposing (because of the graphics and... well... the price) it's a refinement of the algorithms used in the W43 and NS1, both based on the Dolby's CAT43 system. At least it's more flexible because you can adjust the frequency bands where it operates. I'd say if you have any need to clear dialogs in noisy recordings, maybe it's the right tool for the job although I guess the results will depend on the source as always. For $25 I got it.

Humm... I already have those APIs. I guess I'll have to find ANOTHER plugin that I DON'T need to grab. Or maybe I should get another copy of those for backup. You never know when this old gear will break. Decisions... decisions....

I've seem those 2 on sale for $29 many times but never picked them up 'cause, as I said, I already have the Noise Reduction bundle (that one with X-Noise, X-Click, etc). I was talking about this one: It looks a more refined approach for that kind of tool and I never saw it that cheap before.

Scheps Omni. The good ol' classic gear emulations (SSL, Fairchild, DBX, the channel strips, etc, including all the Abbey Road stuff), although the competition is stiff in that particular area. I also like all the Waves synths (old and new). Of course it'll depend on what you already have (hence my previous comment about the WNS Noise Reduction plugin).

A bunch of Waves plugins for $29 ($23.90 with YNY23 code). http://everyplugin.com/waves-29-ers.html I'm a bit disappointed that the new CLA Mixhub is not included but... anyway... What caught my attention was the WNS Noise Supressor; I never saw this pupy at this price level. I have the Noise Reduction suite so I don't know if it'll be redundant. But I think I'll grab it anyway.

Now I'm impressed!!! 😮😮😮 Sorry for my impertinence, Zo. I should have checked your video again before jumping into conclusions. I saw your video but, after a while, I was just hearing it and did not paid much attention to the image. So... do you think the PA emulation is on par or better than Arturia's (that I like a lot BTW)? I was hoping that Softube could release some vintage synth emulations since the sound of their modular stuff is second to none.

Zo is just kidding. This surely is the Plugin Alliance take on the Oberheim SEM emulation, and it reproduces the synth panel just like the Arturia version (hence, they're almost identical). Apparently they also added effects to it, taken from the PA pantheon (and it looks like they also added an arpegiator and a modulation matrix). Soon we will know.

Not in the site. If anyone is curious, here's the flyer. Release date: April-09; no price announced yet.

Log into your account, click the option "Redeem Gift" in the Licenses menu and paste the gift code you'll get from the collective site. The license will be deposited in your account and you'll also receive a discount code by email to use on the D16 web shop.

OK. In my case I have a Focusrite ISA One and a Novation ReMOTE 37SL registered in my account. Apparently, with these, I was able to access all the plugins they offered there.

When I log in, either via Focusrite or Novation, I end up in the same place. I don't think there's a separate site for each, only different entry points to the same thing.

Fantastic!!!! This is the second D16 gift I got from the Collective (the other one was the Sigmund delay). I have most of the Silver Line plugs and they're all great. And if someone never heard it, pay close attention to any promo for the Lush-101, that is one of the BEST sounding synths I ever heard in SW (rivaling u-he and other big names IMO).

Here is a Humble Bundle pack called 8-Bit Pixel Game Dev: https://tinyurl.com/y6t4wajd Mostly uninteresting for music production IMHO but in the $1 included options there is a pack called 8-Bit Retro Game SFX with 400+ audio files (165MB) of classic sound effects for games. Maybe useful for some.

The deals are great but the options I'd most like to get (Iron, Magnum-K or Cascade) are still on the expensive side. The SSL stuff also looks good but I already have two PA consoles and loads of similar plugins from Waves, so I think they'd be a little redundant. I think I'll go with SpecOps for $9. I haven't seen any interesting examples of this plugin in action but, at least, it's an unconventional tool that don't have tens of other equivalents and I bet I'll find some interesting uses for it.

Well... besides Focusrite ISA One I also have my Novation Remote 37 SL controller keyboard registered with the Collective. Maybe this can explain the discrepancies mentioned.

How is this possible? The offer is valid until 4 April. I registered my copy of Biotek TODAY, and a little after I posted it here.

The offer is there since Jan-31 and I have not received any notification about it. I just stumbled with it by chance today.