MusicMan

Yeah it's a little steeper than I expected. System wide on Windows is a huge plus over Slate, so everything you listen to is corrected, otherwise I might have given VSX a go. I haven't completely ruled out VSX though. If anyone has the survey code and isn't going to use it, please PM me ?

Are you sure you clicked the right link? There are two on that page.. one for demo and one for downloading the regular pack which is normally paid. The page itself says; Royalty free All loops & samples in this library are licensed to you ‘Royalty-Free’ so you can use them in your commercial compositions with no extra costs. For more details see the license agreement.

I tried them a while ago and didn't think much of them... hasn't stopped me collecting them over the years for free, but I haven't installed one in a while ?

I think Antares uses it as well.. installed some of them, hated the look of Codemeter and then disabled it.

It doesn't seem it to me and even if it's legal, I find it deceptive. They don't even say Royalty Free* and then you find the asterisk and it explains placements. In one sense it is royalty free for you to sell your music, it's just if you place it with a major label, then they want a cut!

I don't think you can believe what you read on the website, which is my concern with Godlike Loops. I just checked another pack I had downloaded and on the website it says "Royalty-Free" clearly. But in the downloaded samplepack the Userinfo.txt says:

If you own any of their products, check your upgrade prices and if you don't, you you can get 20% off for new customers and you get €10 credit to your account). Discount code in my signature ? All JMG Sound 23 https://unitedplugins.com/AllJMG23/ 9 plugins at the total cost of €821 with a 76% discount normally, but on sale for €199 All SounDevice Digital 23 https://unitedplugins.com/AllSDD23/ 14 plugins at the total cost of €1,276 with a 80% discount normally, but on sale for €249 Ultimate FireSonic Bundle https://unitedplugins.com/UltimateFireSonicBundle/ 4 plugins at the total cost of €456 with a 83% discount normally, but on sale for €79 United All Bundle 23 https://unitedplugins.com/All23/ 34 plugins at the total cost of €3,346 (Lol.. ) with a 79% discount normally, but on sale for €699 United Guitar Bundle https://unitedplugins.com/UnitedGuitarBundle/ 5 plugins at the total cost of €525 with a 81% discount normally, but on sale for €99 United Guitar Essentials https://unitedplugins.com/UnitedGuitarEssentials/ 3 plugins at the total cost of €147 with a 80% discount normally, but on sale for €29 United Urban Bundle https://unitedplugins.com/UnitedUrbanBundle/ 7 plugins at the total cost of €513 with a 81% discount normally, but on sale for €99 United Vocal Bundle https://unitedplugins.com/UnitedVocalBundle/ 3 plugins at the total cost of €267 with a 63% discount normally, but on sale for €99 https://unitedplugins.com/bundles

This occurred to me as I was replying to the post too. Plenty of people download sample packs illegally and rip samples straight from songs and reuse them and will in many cases get away with it. I just prefer doing it all legitimately, but I don't judge people for not doing it that way. Music is a passion for all of us and some people might struggle being able to afford some of those things, so I totally get it. Good call out around graphics. I have seen some weird licensing with that there, but it never occurred to me it applied to fonts and brushes!

All for having subs as options, but they would definitely not see a cent from me again if they went subscription only, or tried to make perpetual a second class citizen like some companies do to try and incentivise people to subscribe. That would just incentivise me to leave! I haven't been excited about hardly any PA releases lately, apart from maybe one, so spending the $224 on the 2022 All Bundle from them has definitely been a cost saver for me instead of an annual subscription.

Completely agreed, it's easy to take it for granted! I often check and have been quite surprised by some of the ones where they're not royalty free and some of them are crazy, like you have to share royalties with them if your track gets signed to a major label (thinking of Godlike Loops in particular there). They in particular aren't at all upfront about it either, so I ignore all their sample packs now.

The devil is in the detail.. might be important to some people, so sharing in case it is:

Don't worry, neither can Plugin Alliance it seems ? It's been apparently coming for years it feels like!

They all do with patience... Which I must not have, because I'm pretty sure I paid more for a couple of them.. haha.. No regrets though, totally worth it.

No brainer purchase if you don't already have it ?

Yeah love them! Sometimes you come up with more unusual stuff and it teaches you a fair bit about synths and makes it easier to understand creating presets in non modular synths.

That would buy some top tier synths that would be much higher quality (quantity this might win) Mine is even worse at 399... Easy pass for me. It would be very close to, if not the bottom of my list now. Even at 149 I might need to be bored, or talk myself into it ?

Yeah I think I'll unsubscribe from these guys. I've learnt my time and effort is worth more than having to make sure I'm available right within that 16 minute window and deal with server errors at an unfriendly time.

Cloud could be dramatically improved if they simply added some caching with it for a few days, so if it can't check in during an internet outage, then as long as its not more than a day, or two, it's fine. Maybe we should all contact them and ask ?

I was thinking the same, but I think he will in the next version of Total EQ.

Maybe it's that for me too ? I have heard some praise for a few of their plugins, but not many people rave about them. I don't feel like I'm missing anything by not having them.

I never liked them because they only allowed one activation/machine, so I would never buy anything from them. Seems they recently changed that when I checked. As of v7, our licensing policy is two iLok authorizations per product purchased. This lets you use a single v7 license to authorize each of your two systems I still think I don't like them anyway now ?

You won the internet for the day.. I was buying these before I even knew exactly what it was I was buying ? They're not something I would normally buy (now that I know what they are!), but they are quite interesting and I'm sure will be useful and fun at times. Nice find ?

That's a pretty great price for that (albeit when compared to the bundles we've recently seen from UA its hard for a single type of plugin to compete with them). Easily replaced my CLA76 from Waves.

Glad to hear you're feeling a little better Mira and I hope you're back to 100% in no time, especially so you can enjoy making music again ?

The next round are: Renaissance Flutes Was $119.00 Now $11.90 https://www.sampletekk.com/specials?product_id=180 ST Clav Was $49.00 Now $4.90 https://www.sampletekk.com/specials?product_id=168 ST Pianet Was $49.00 Now $4.90 https://www.sampletekk.com/specials?product_id=195 ST Tonewheel Was $49.00 Now $4.90 https://www.sampletekk.com/specials?product_id=170 Vertikal MkII Was $99.00 Now $9.90 https://www.sampletekk.com/specials?product_id=165 I highly recommend NOT watching Simeon's walkthrough of these... otherwise you're likely to spend money!