MusicMan

33 minutes ago, Promidi said:

This one of those plugins were I do not believe for one minute anyone would actually pay MSRP for (in this case , $US179.00, which is what it currently is at tracktion.com)

Maybe not, but still an excellent FM synth and amazing at the sale price.

29 minutes ago, Grem said:

That's $1.25 per plugin. 

It's still a trap! Haha...

47 minutes ago, Fleer said:

In his defense, he often had glitches in our favor, priced too low, and stil honored them. 

Yeah that's what I mean.. if it wasn't for how good he's been up until now, I would completely cut him off. It's out of character for sure.

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4 hours ago, Eusebio Rufian-Zilbermann said:

There are a few waves plugins that I use regularly and I quite like them: Aphex Aural Exciter, Puigchild compressor, and the artist series by CLA and Manny Marroquin. I also quite like the Nx series (I use the headtracker that attaches to the headphones). There are many others that I use depending on the project

There is a lot of fear and uncertainty floating around WUP and Waveshells.

For the most part WUP can be ignored, just install the version that you buy, enjoy a year of free upgrades, then don't bother paying for anything until an upgrade adds a feature that you want (or adds new plugins that you want to a bundle that you have) and the upgrade price is worth it. If you bought e.g., Ozone 7 you wouldn't expect that Ozone 8, 9 and 10 would be all free upgrades, would you? Waves ends up working similarly, and the "grace period" is 1 year, which isn't bad. Getting the upgrade price can be confusing as heck (if you use the default selection you'll likely pay a lot) but actually, once you unselect everything you don't really need, the price is quite reasonable (comparable e.g., to iZotope)

Yes, you may end up with these waveshell dll/vst3/aax files with a version and a suffix, and if you have many waves plugins your plugin scans may seem to take a long time for them, but it's just that many plugins are being scanned for each waveshell. Each version may be split into a few "bundles" (e.g., Waveshell1-version# Waveshell2-version# etc.) but it's just that each one wraps different plugins

For me, the two criticisms of Waves I'd point out are inflexible installations (paths cannot be customized, and you're out of luck if your C drive is short on space), and that many plugins don't use oversampling when they should. I do hear an improvement when running them inside DDMF metaplugin and using its oversampling options. It is a problem that is solvable (I know of metaplugin, maybe there are other vst hosts that can do it as well) but it's an annoyance.

There are a few downsides that you haven't factored in. If you have two computers, you can only use your Waves plugins on one when the WUP runs out. Unless you want to use a USB dongle which is a hassle, or deactivate from one machine and activate on the other each time and that simply is not required for the vast majority of plugins.

With Mac and people upgrading, the plugins do at times break with the update, especially any hardware updates. This seems to happen quite frequently for people.

With iZotope you're talking about version upgrades. I dislike, but don't object paying for major version release upgrades, but even iZotope still provides bugfixes and compatibility updates many years later. Waves does not provide anything as soon as WUP expires.

With Waveshells, in Acoustica Premium right as of now, not all of my Waves show up in there for me to use, purely due to their stupid Waveshells.

There might be other companies that fail to get things right, but I'm somewhat at a loss to think of one that gets it so wrong like Waves on so many fronts and still holds course ?

1 hour ago, El Diablo said:

What website?

https://musicsoftwaredeals.com/

7 minutes ago, MrFigg said:

This is happening too often for it to just be a “mistake”. I seem to remember reading in another forum the guy himself saying he double checks everything before he puts it out. Anyway, as, annoying as it is, I still buy most of my stuff from JRR. But it is still annoying. 

I read that same comment from his as well.. unless he's not paying any attention to stock levels, but even that seems unlikely.

1 hour ago, BTP said:

There's 5 installers in that zip file. The VST3 installer for Windows is 62.5 MB.

Thanks BTP, that makes more sense now! I did wonder if it might be something like that. At least I can delete all the rest apart from VST3 when I download it.

Have you had a chance to use it much yet and if so, what are your thoughts so far?

Shows $49.99 for me now..

8 hours ago, cclarry said:

Bait and Switch...why advertise it if you're not going to sell it?

There's been a few of these from them lately.. he normally seems pretty straight up so I'd like to give him the benefit of doubt.. but it's getting harder to do that with these now too! 

Is it IR based? Very large installer apparently. 500MB. Still totally worth it if the sound is good. Thanks ?

1 hour ago, PavlovsCat said:

Good stuff, but the developer has been promising to make their plugins VST3 for A LONG TIME (years) with no results or even an update projecting a date. So if you're expecting them to have VST3 versions soon, I wouldn't hold my breath.  

That really sucks too because they're pretty great value and some of them quite OK plugins. I won't buy more until VST3 though.

1 hour ago, solodancer said:

If they did, maybe I would install more than 4 of the 36 plugins I own...

That's 108 (36 x 3) plugins installed if you did, since they force you to install VST2, VST3 and AAX regardless of whether you use them or not.. 5GB to 10GB of disk space completely wasted on those wasted formats too plus longer scan times ?

10 hours ago, telecode 101 said:

What are “shells”?

This is Waves method of gatekeeping by artificially holding back updates unless you have active extortion.. l mean WUP. ? 

So your old plugins get locked in that old shell / set of updates. If you buy a new plugin, it gets installed into the new shell with all the latest updates. If you pay their ransom.. (I mean WUP!) on that old plugin, it will be updated to the latest shell.

They're an annoying construct and like WUP should be abolished as they cause issues when scanning Waves plugins for some DAWs / audio editors.

6 hours ago, Fleer said:

Nice freebie, thanks. Gradually completing my 2BPlayed collection without paying a penny

Or ever using them if you're like me ?

4 hours ago, cclarry said:

A lot of these could be "bait and switch"

That's exactly what I've been thinking too Lars.

Note: Physical iLok only with this one.

Have they made any progress in updating their plugins to VST3 yet?

20 minutes ago, ralfrobert said:

Thanks,  I went the cheap route.

Pretty crazy value for $1.30, so definitely not a bad choice!

13 hours ago, Niky Serrano said:

To share some idea... this is a powerful combination

The Ultimate Producer bundle includes all the packs that the Serum presets come from, so it might be better to go with this bundle instead for all different presets for a few dollars more ($4.69USD):

https://glitchedtones.com/products/12x12-presets-bundle-glitchedtones-exclusive

Or go cheaper to just get the Producer bundle for $1.30USD with:

https://glitchedtones.com/products/the-panda-kit-chill-lo-fi-drum-samples

2 hours ago, ANTO said:

Agree.. From my experience in another forum, he responded very well to my request for a preset for a (not too popular) budget headphone in HornetVHS. It helps me a lot.

Yeah I try and buy his plugins to help support him. His prices are very reasonable to start with and then he still has crazy sales! No stupid copy protection and some of his plugins I really like. Analog Stage, Tape and Multicomp are all surprisingly good and insane value. He's got other good ones too, but those came to mind right now.

17 minutes ago, Craig N said:

Yan, what's the link in the email? I assume it goes to a page on the Softube site; I'm thinking that for those who didn't get the email, they may still be able to access the link on the site.

I didn't get an email, but I've noticed I don't get a lot of these kind of marketing offers from various companies. I think some email providers are maybe too diligent in their spam filtering. 
 

It's personalised. If someone is sure they won't use it, I don't believe it's tied to their account though.

2 minutes ago, cclarry said:

if you have not been able to get the plugin because of the server overload you can use the code:

DYNEQ100

To get the plugin for free. It expires on June 14th.

Saverio

And that's why he's one of the best!!

10 hours ago, Fleer said:

That 10% off hardware could come in handy when the new Fader control is launched. 

Unless it's released in the next few days and there's no promo code required on launch, I think we're out of luck there:

10% promo code discount valid on all hardware purchased at softube.com between June 11 and June 18, 2024. Promo code cannot be combined with other promotional codes. Unique promo code valid to be used twice following the terms specified above.

1 hour ago, Barrie said:

I'd be interested in what people here think of Metric Halo products, there seems to be a lot of negativity in multiple forums.

I read all the marketing blurb and decided it was too much of a game changer for me. This is clearly the best digital EQ ever made and they have solved all of the problems that normally plague all other EQs and physics! (Just to be clear as sometimes it gets missed in text... This comment is dripping in sarcasm ?)