MusicMan

I have them almost all of Unfiltered Audio, including Triad and Byome, which I got for a comically cheap price in one of my funniest PA deals ever ? If they didn't have them in their stables, it would be much worse. I would actually like to see more instruments from PA too. Some of the synths they do are really quite good. I had been expecting PPG to pop up soon, but like their mastering DAW they promised, they both seem like vapourware. I guess if they didn't have to keep fixing for Apple updates we might have had both, but it's hard to know. We also might just have more channel strips, compressors and EQs!

It's one of those ones that I haven't heard people raving about or anything, which isn't a foolproof way to look at it, but often if they're good, more people will notice and post / comment about them.

Thoughts on this one? Worth a demo?

These actually aren't bad, but absolutely zero incentive for a lot of people to buy this CM edition to get them.. It's almost hard to avoid getting hit by them they've been thrown out so many times as repeat promos by resellers and LoopCloud, etc!

Sometimes I wonder just how many extra updates for major features, GUI improvements, optimizations and new plugins we would all have if it wasn't for all the developers needing to constantly divert resources just to appease Apple updates.. They really do take up the lion share every time an Apple update breaks something.

I still really like a bunch of my PA plugins and they still get a lot of use. For me, I've cooled on them for a few reasons.. they didn't really branch out and get creative, it was just more channel strips, compressors, EQs. They really already covered that base well that it's hard to see a need to buy a bunch of these new ones from them, especially when we were picking up all the old ones at such crazy sale prices. If I hadn't, then some of their new stuff would be pretty appealing. There are a couple of plugins from them on my list that I may buy if they tempt me enough with a better sale price. But definitely not in a hurry. I think I love just about all that Neold stuff.. I've even considered that one too and definitely don't need it ?

He often is! ? It's got the underscore in front of it in his post, which I suspect is why you couldn't find it. It's not a bad reminder anyway and John's comment is useful. I can't recall if I clicked add in Pigments or not now, so will check that too.

I think the APD one was Cryptic Soundscapes.

Actually there were a couple in quick succession. It might have been the other one from APD and this one direct. I got it in June, so could've been this post too:

Free back in June via APD, but nice that it's free for everyone directly on Arturia now instead.

Thanks Craig, that was an upgrade price I thought made it reasonable too Any thoughts on whether ultimate is worth the upgrade at the same time? I just did the upgrade from Pro V1 to Pro V2 and the upgrade to ultimate is cheaper now as well.

Handy to know, otherwise it was worth a shot! I'm not sure I would've even taken part, but lots of love for that deal around here, so it would've been great to see.

Maybe we should contact them and see if they will do a forum offer / code for everyone again. It's good advertising for them and sounds like lots of people would take advantage of it

Yeah that was the loyalty price John. I bought the bundle prior to DMX so I get the loyalty discount too, but someone that has never bought anything from them before can go to a reseller and get it on sale for pretty much the same price. They almost never let us down with sound though! The OB-X is my least favourite from them so far. I just haven't clicked with that one yet. All the others are really good.

When did they change the minimum spend for the voucher back down to $32? I must have missed that.

Physical iLok required I'd imagine. LFOTool has VST3 beta now apparently and I'd probably consider Cableguys, or Duck by Devious Machines before this instead and skip that requirement. Duck didn't actually seen to say VST3 though, so not sure on that one.

Always with them unfortunately... There have been a few exceptions, but in general, their "loyalty" offers are always worse than buying outright elsewhere. Same with Sonible.

I wouldn't be surprised if that was more feedback from the survey they sent out. I dare say they heard a few of those things a lot!

Lowest non pricing mistake price ever maybe ?

Eventide H9 plugins for $2, of whatever it was, is my kind of deal ?

I have just started looking into these for a new system build. Trying to decide on system drive and library / sample drive. Reliability is my top consideration, but definitely want something that performs well too. Only really looking at 4TB or 2TB these days. These seem reasonably well regarded. Any downsides, or alternatives to consider? (will look into the Crucial mentioned by Barrie too)

Great delay and even better on copy protection. These guys are solid

If you use any Kontakt Instruments, it's really not much different. To use a single Kontakt instrument, you need to install 3 applications. You need Native Access (Download Manager) to install it, Kontakt Player (Or Full) to run it and the library itself for inside Kontakt. The libraries are often much larger than 2GB as well. It's pretty common with anything that uses samples, or wavetables, so that's pretty unavoidable if they do. Quite a few Devs will also have their own downloader for Kontakt Instruments. This is often required above Native Access. This would install the activation app, which could really be combined with the download manager and you would get one extra app which is to manage the libraries. More relevant if you were going to be installing more Halion libraries. 1 or 2 extra apps that run on demand only and the size doesn't really seem like much of an issue if it sounds good. I've installed it, but haven't tried it yet, so I can't comment on sound, but it's not much different to Kontakt. It just seems like more if its the first Halion instrument you're installing.

Do you mean with their downloader? Or just in the list on the download page?

You can still go to Downloads anyway after ordering. So I don't think it's actually required. A lot of the sample packs are repeat freebies though, so people might already have these.