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Very similar to me! I gave Tai Chi Lite a demo last year I think it was and it didn't wow me and I didn't buy it. I gave it another demo this year and felt the same. It wasn't terrible, but I have plenty of reverbs and it didn't add a lot in terms of sound and features. Then I tried the full version and I understood within minutes what people were saying and why they liked it and bought it. I grabbed Cinematic Rooms Pro which is amazing and I knew that was an insta buy for me in seconds and a few others as they stacked with EDU discounts plus loyalty so the prices were really good. If you buy the lite versions, or cheaper ones and then use the loyalty codes on other products to get the full versions, it's drops the prices down quite a lot.

I've been sitting it out this year and suspect that they might not have as many, or any freebies. It really didn't work that smoothly for them and seemed to cause quite a few issues including support calls. Unless they rethink how they can do it to ensure everyone gets one, or at least cover a few timezones, I'm not sure it's worth the trouble. They're always generous and I'm appreciative of that though and hope the sale does well.

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I get their point, but I think they may have shot themselves in the foot a little. Especially in the deals section. It was a thriving forum, where people were discussing all different DAWs and sales and that brought up a lot of recommendations for their products, which to an extent would've kept on carrying over to their new paid offerings. Less visitors to this section now due to their policy means lots of missed opportunities and less discussions and awareness about their new products and helping people understand their offerings which aren't the most clear for those less familiar.

As long as I don't open it during a sale, it's often really pretty quick for me. However if they're giving away a freebie, releasing a new collection, Black Friday sales etc. sometimes it's unstable or really slow too! With freebies, I'll often do whatever I need to do to claim it and then I don't even bother trying to install it until the following week, or so. That approach seems to spare some hassles.

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The costs of the upgrades for Apple are pretty comical. You could build an entire AMD, or Intel system with just the fat on top that Apple charges to upgrade to 8TB SSD! 🤣 The stock spec for RAM and storage should be much higher for the price of the unit to start with. They're often targetted towards multimedia, so the base spec is very low. I've personally never had a Windows update hose a system. I have had Apple updates render a whole heap of plugins and instruments incompatible though. Unfortunately in cases where the developers are no longer in business, there is no solution. It's either new Apple OS, or keep using your older plugins.

I believe it's 60% off according to this:

I'd have to check what I paid as it was a while ago, but I think the sale price might be 60% off. But... you can take 20% off that price with this: Melda Production (Code MELDA57625915 will get 20% off for new customers) And if you sign up for their newsletter first, that gives you a $10 credit, so you can buy the upgrade for $8 instead of $20!

For some reason I quite like DRC even for some simple pulse/square wave sounds, among others. Its easier to get really warm analogish sounds compared to Pigments. FRMS seems pretty good too, but I haven't used it much yet. I picked them both up with the sound packs on deep discounta while back and have no regrets 🙂

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I really quite like both of these. I did the same in the last few days as well. $15 is a bargain for them.

Harder sell at the moment when Arturia has their sale on.. I bought the entire V Collection X for $99. They also don't seem to discount the full bundle much.. it probably costs them a lot of sales, but they stick to their pricing.