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Thank you for reminding me... forgot I already have the Pulsar Audio W495.

Season's Greetings to all, have a happy and safe one.

Not sure how buying via PA works, but I guess you redeem it on the Acon site, and download a License Key. So I would think if you bought Digital Restoration Suite 2 you'd be able to download the latest Acon Digital Restoration Suite 2 version from Acon site, and your existing License Key should still work, you can also get your License Key resent to you. Acon Digital stuff is very good value, the Acoustica Premium Edition with all the extra plugins is great value especially when on sale.

Mira, wishing you a speedy recovery, and you're out hospital very soon, to have a great Christmas and new year.

In fairness to DiscoDSP they do mention it at bottom of the OX-XD page: "Credit and Licensing OB-Xd is a software synthesizer developed under a commercial license granted by Vadim Filatov, also known as 2Dat. All rights and permissions for the use of OB-Xd have been lawfully obtained in accordance with the terms of the license agreement."

I'm seeing £29.90, and then getting a much lower price of £5.98 when logged in! Even so gonna pass on this bundle as don't think I'd use it.

Give me any single installer any day, over a product portals, etc. I ran iZotopes Product Portal yesterday and it insisted that it updates to latest version, unfortunately latest version doesn't run on my mac OS! Contacted support, reply: "I am sorry for the inconvenience. Here is a link to download and install the previous version of Product Portal that is compatible with your operating system: Please let us know if you are able to use the application correctly. Unfortunately, there is currently no way to prevent the program from prompting the update to the unsupported version. " So I can download and reinstall a version that is compatible with my OS, and before I can do anything, it seems that it's going to update itself to an unsupported version, again, brilliant! Madness.

Loyalty pricing, I was thinking about the bundle, as on the website at bundle up section it mentions "Looking for an upgrade? Great! Get in contact with us" I have asked how much to upgrade to the bundle from the two plugins I already have, but I've not received a reply so far, so not sure if there is loyalty pricing.

The TC Native bundle - what a great bundle, the reverb, filtrator, and the compressor, with side-chain plugin, were excellent. I ended up going down the TC Powercore route although that ended up being a dead end!

I think some updates have been free, and major new version have been paid for, the upgrade from the old PSP85 to the new PSP 285 is $28.50, and the old Lexicon PSP42 to the new is $49 (until May the 1st, and after that date, the upgrade will cost $69).

Always liked both the PSP42 and PSP84 (and then the updated PSP85), and I've just given the new PSP42x version a quick demo, it's a very nice update, I will upgrade. I have the PSP85, but I wasn't so impressed with updated PSP285 when I demoed it, and haven't so far bothered to update it.

Seems a fair choice for vocals, and having iZotope already covers you for most things.

Darn it... "You already own FirePresser" ...lol

I haven't compared iZotope RX and Acon Restoration Suite that much, but I did find that the Acon De-Click was better at removing vinyl clicks on a couple of track, if you have RX you probably don't need it though, but if you can get it for $15 it's worth having.

Thanks for this, just grabbed this for the two freebies, the ircam TS2 audio editor has the spectral clipping / remix built in, and it looked interesting, having them as plugins and able to use them in a DAW, rather than in an audio editor, means they may actually be useful as a tool / effect now.

Subscribed... good of luck with the new channel.

I do have a fair few waves plugin, unfortunately I'm now running an old Mac OS and the last time I started Waves Central app it automatically updated itself to a version incompatible with my OS! ...so I decided to depreciate my waves plugins ...they're just reserved for old projects. I hope Waves don't take it too badly. lol

I did get it as a APD freebie, sadly I've not tried it yet sorry... but I have just seen a post elsewhere saying "this thing is a secret weapon." ...lol ...so it could be worth a try!

If you can find a cheap copy of the "XCHANGE Recording Software Collection" it includes the PSP 85 as part of that bundle, just make sure you get the right collection that includes the PSP 85, as they did two or three collections, the PSP 85 is in the "Recording" one. That's how I got my copy, although it was some time ago and I did have to contact Xchange to get my serials/registration info. Just a thought.

I'm not sure if Trinity Drums is great or not, or if it's something I'd use, but buying it from BestService, I selected the FREE Universal Sound Pack and picked an AAS expansion of my choice, so Trinity Drums and an AAS expansion pack for $10, seems quite good deal.

I’ve had Pi and Phi since version 1, I found I could get results from it that I couldn’t get with other plugins, it’s been improved with version 3, never really been sure what it was doing under the hood, but the end results was pleasing and it's a useful eq/enhancer to have. I also have the 358 enhancer, which is a nice enhancer, this has also been updated to version 2. Also have the three Musiqual EQs, although never use them, I wish they'd just combine the three into one plugin, so you could just switch between them. MIA Labs do seem to update their plugins and I think they’ve all been free updates, as far as I can remember. The whole collection for €99 seems good value, as long as you end up using them! I would recommend people to try out the Pi and Phi as it is a great eq/enhancer.

I have the T-De-Esser Plus/Pro, T-Compressor, and T-Clarity. The De-Esser Pro is good, although I’m not a fan of their plugin protection, the plugins need to be signed in, and it seemed to loose the sign in sometimes, I think they may have fixed that in an update. I can’t tell you what the T-Compressor is like as I’ve not managed to get it to load without an error, for some reason I didn’t demo T-Compressor which I should have, but you kind of expect plugins to work! T-Clarity works fine. For free I’d grab the T-Compressor, and I’d recommend the T-De-Esser Pro, and the T-De-Esser free version is worth having.

Thank you for taking the time to share, and your views on the scripting always good to hear other peoples opinions, the truth is I don’t have the skill or musical knowledge to do any these libraries justice, but I do enjoy trying out and spending time using libraries, as I still think it’s pretty amazing that we have these tools at our disposal. I like the idea of a library of intimate more minimal strings, so I thought I’d give the library a try. I think I’ll keep an eye out for a Fluffy Audio sale, and try the viola solo string library, I’m quite intrigued by the difference in playability / scrpting between the libraries.

Thanks for the mini review Peter, I wasn't sure if I should buy it or not, as it's all too easy to get tempted by deals. Any extra info or views on 8dio stuff is always welcome, as the 8dio walk throughs seem to go forever!

I think they're royalty-free. And it's probably the best value loop bundles you can buy, although whether the loops are useful to you is another matter, but quite a mixture in the bundle (mostly dance related though), packs do include a reasonable amount of midi files which is a bonus.