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    Neural DSP Soldano SLO-100

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    1 hour ago, Soundwise said:

    Another licensed take on SLO-100.  I recall Paul Reed Smith being thrilled about GTR3 back in the day. He "couldn't tell" the difference.

    Wonder, if IK's version will keep the label.

    But maybe this one will be the right one ;)

    Zillya thing claims (in virustotal tool) installer has Backdoor.Bladabindi.Win32.17008.

    Hm, false positive or maybe they are mining bitcoins for cortex production 🤔

    Meldaproduction reduce the price of all of their bundles by 60% this weekend only.

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    Investment in Melda's things has one crucial benefit.

    They don't require any additional payment with any version advancement. So if they are improving algorithms or functionality you are getting them free of charge.

    Owner of their plugins can feel appreciated for that reason similar like for Acustica Audio.

    And maybe they are not the prettiest but really powerful and useful.  And they GUI as is written as shared by all plugins library has this advantage that with update is applied to all plugins at once. Unlike PA plugins which older and newer plugins are often like day and night difference about options for the same type of plugin.

     

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    PA Black Box HG2 MS version : my take on it ;)

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    6 minutes ago, Zo said:

    Sombody had a 50 $ vaucher , he addeda 19 $ plugin and git the thing at 34 $ or some  ;)

    Yep, I saw, but still embarrassing way of treating their more involved users... You cannot do this in any legit way, you need to use a trick and buy additional trash...

    This is not looking like appreciation for their user investing more...

    But it came with a price... I intentionally invested more to get threshold for $50 voucher then they changed their policy making it pretty useless trash and was regretting not having $25 one...

    But stopped to buy anything for months and now I have again $25 voucher (although they didn't give me as soon as my $50 v threshold expired but with a 'penalty' month). And what's more thanks to my break I don;t feel such desire to buy I can do it with pretty calm mind (GAS excluded for PA ;)

    If they delivered deals for $50 voucher user I would probably spend a lot o money buying just because of temptations. And maybe evem spent more than having subscription 🤣

    So in fact I can thank them :)

    I have bb v1 and like v2 but don't feel any temptation to buy it now, I can wait till BF or more. No problem. This is how company can help to treat GAS :)

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    Final Countdown - not a deal

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    2 hours ago, cclarry said:

    Back to the top...

    Have we decided what to do with the money?

    1.  Cancer research in his name
    2.  Donate To School Music Program in his area, in his name
    3.  Hospital in his area, in his name

    Or any other suggestions (if I forgot something please remind me)

    I would STILL prefer to get to his family if possible...
     

    Still some time to March.  I guess no reason to rush things? I am from different country  so cannot help with searching for address of the family but there are different ways to try.

    I generally - as already mentioned - not a follower of changing purpose of impulse from heart, especially from something what requires urgent help to something what could wait - whatever beautiful it seems to be or is named...

     

     

     

    A Fine Example of IK Stupidity

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    I believe many reason of such terrible approach to customer raises from lack of proper and strong feedback.

    They are not many companies over whole world that have built-in self improvement in their gens. And trying to do state of with art everything they do. Usually they are focusing on what they are trying to deliver, underestimating the rest.

    It is in fact hardly seen in big companies at all as they have many departments, people, procedures, passive approach to feedback (waiting for complains, counting them and reacting to counters in they development).

    Of course it looks like logical approach at first glance, complex product, big company lots of work,so  you must chose what do do first...

    But they often miss what should be really important as user experience is more than just putting something to input and getting great output. I have some plugins that I am using more not because they are the best from my collection but providing the best experience...

    They can hear  several guys like us complaining but they read enthusiastic reviews how good it is, where more likely  nobody bold things like terrible installers blindly and stupidly trashing disk with all possible versions everywhere (like McDSP and many others), like providing poor support for download (IK requires payment for libs after some time, but JST is permanently cutting off download after year, you bought so bye), like reasonable upgrade paths for customers who invested already lots of money, or those who are promising fake loyalty coupons (which are worthless as not working during deals where any person gets the same price and lower than catalog price - voucher) etc...

    What I am trying to say here is if we would have a way to convince them such things are more important, if for instance review authors also could take such things into accounts when giving a rating, it would be game changer. We are not strong enough to change it just with some random complains....

    For instance, reviewer probably think, install you are using once and done so not so important to mention about it. But it only means lack of understanding whole process, like wasting time to clean manually, lack of control over our own environment and  repeating with every next update.

    Also upgrade paths... How many reviews did you read where there were compared cost of products and also upgrade paths?

     

     

     

     

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    Pulsar Audio 1178

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    4 minutes ago, Brian Walton said:

    Note the bottom half of the Audiority one can be hidden when you don't want the extra controls.

    The pulsar one has some pretty annoying logoing going on all the knobs.  

    Yup, I am also appreciating such things like changing layout to current needs not keeping not usable in given context buttons, knobs or so...

    Real hardware cannot make its knobs to disappear but why trying to keep every stupid limitation of real hw and move it to virtual world where there are no limitations so everything should be adjusted to provide at first look things working in given context. Not to mess picture with things which are not working.

    While I like vintage things and appreciate saving the good about it I completely do not understand why forcing to keep also its limitations?

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    Kush Audio Flash Sale!

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    11 minutes ago, Mesh said:

    I don't have any of Kush audio's plugins, but liking what the UBK-1 does. Anyone use this?

    I use it from time to time.  It is great thing which is influencing groove, not just volume. 

    To be honest whatever I got from Kush never regret . Although the best approach as always if possible is to get demo and check by yourself as different people have something different taste so the best is to believe your own ears ;)

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    Kush Audio Flash Sale!

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    Good stuff... My only complains  is lack of option to resize. Sometimes too hard to see for my poor eyes.

    EDIT: For people who hate iLok, they require it although no dongle needed.

     

    SSL Essentials Bundle

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    3 hours ago, Soundwise said:

    Let's see. I have this combo in following flavors:

    1. Cakewalk ProChannel modules;
    2. Nomad ASR;
    3. T-Racks 5;
    4. Waves SSL and CLA MixHub;
    5. Plugin alliance SSL ;
    6. maybe some other versions I don't keep in mind.

    I doubt these "late-to-the-party" products from the original hardware manufacturer can be a game changer.  I might be wrong. Any good reason to add them to the collection?

    I believe they think the same and that's why they have entered Waves prices zone ;)

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    SSL UF8

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    Seems like they lost opportunity... They are SSL...

    They could (and should ) introduce for such price something with more knobs and looking as SSL console and also with soft for emulation of their circuits...

    Something similar to Console 1 + Console 1 Fader  concept together but with look of SSL real console + DAW utility controls.

    Overloud Fluid Convolution

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    On 2/5/2021 at 11:42 PM, Zo said:

    At least if you type real names in search exemple : fender , you ll find the stuff ....

    True, this is one of things I like in THU as well. I wish they improved search RIGs though. It looks like another thing not completed. They introduced nice  categorizing with color dot (clean to high gain) but not way to use it as filter in search. One needs it do by own eyes...

    Something I am thinking that not lack of time for developing but lack of imagination is  the real reason of all those shortcomings...

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