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SongKey is a bit of an anomaly really and not as reflective of the majority of his plugins. I haven't bought it for that reason. It could be a lot more complicated to develop and it hasn't been as well received. I think it's great he's branching out and expanding, but this plugin isn't his wheelhouse.

Semi off topic to the original post, but still related; are any of the drums in Komplete Ultimate decent and if so which ones? I haven't installed them yet as I've been been installing and checking out some of the other libraries first (and there's a lot!) but getting to these soon.

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I hadn't seen that one, but that is pretty much what I got from Patrick at TAL too. This is one of the few pricing mistakes I don't feel as great about. Often it's more giant companies with overinflated prices, whereas TAL isn't that and their prices are reasonable. I am really enjoying the synth though.

That is also somewhat right, but not the full story from my understanding. TAL never meant the price to be 13% of the original, more so 13% off as a discount. It was indeed a pricing mistake, but on TAL's side, not AD's.

It was a pricing mistake unfortunately, so not what they expected at all.. hopefully lots of good exposure for them though from people that may not have been familiar with them otherwise though ?

I wonder if/hope they'll get minimal sales and do a backflip like Waves...

Unfortunately I would say not and the deal isn't coming back...

For me it often comes down to how much of a good/rare discount it is and over time you get better at spotting those prices that look exceptionally cheap for quality developers and you haven't seen them that low before. Those ones I try and strike fast! Even then I've missed out on quite a few just in that window in the buying process. The TAL-J-8 was an instabuy so I snatched that one and started giving TAL-Drum a demo. I've got plenty of drum machines and heaps of samples, so I thought I'd check it out just in case it blew me away and make a second order. It didn't, so I slept on it, but had thought I might grab it anyway, but then I saw they were gone. There's no right or wrong.. sometimes you might jump fast and not demo and end up with a great price for something you don't like. Other times you'll give it a quick demo and miss out. But realistically most of us aren't going to miss any of these things hugely in years to come. We probably more miss getting them at a steal of a price and have plenty of alternatives to use anyway, so I wouldn't too much ?

Sometimes it really does pay to jump quickly! The Native Instruments one was a genuine pricing mistake, so that was never coming back once they realised. This one seems like lack of preparation and not anticipating the volumes and then compounded by them not being able to resolve it quickly, but there is still a slight chance they may add it back ?

It's basically that it seems from what I read.. Just a bit of an distributor insight (we distribute TAL to our reseller network), Patrick didn't give us a heads up about this deal so we were sorely understocked with digital codes. So our resellers have people buying this but are unable to fulfil them because they themselves don't have enough digital codes. Since Patrick is is another timezone, we've been trying to contact him but he's a bit elusive since he only answers via email and doesn't list his phone. Eventually the whole thing will be resolved and everyone will get their digital codes but its left a bitter taste in a few resellers and they've decided to remove TAL from their store entirely to avoid messes like this again.

I got the serial for TAL-J-8 within minutes, but I jumped on that order so damn fast, just in case the changed it! They've pulled them from the store now entirely.. hopefully they're just sorting out more serials and they put them back at the same price again.

Oohh.. the website is probably getting smashed due to the freebie..

Analog stage and Tape I've used quite a bit and they've got a vibe. Total EQ is surprisingly light and simple for some stuff and I occasionally use that. But there are others for sure too.

How ungrateful ? Haha.. But yes, there does seem to be a lot of them.. and a multiband compressor sounds like a great alternative ?

It's like that at times, but you should really use at least some of them ?

Very welcome Kiloteq and I try and take the time to read posts like that from our regulars on here like yourself and what's going on for them ?

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Yeah that's so bizarre (and a bit frustrating) they can't sort that one out for you.. fingers crossed they get it sorted ? Yeah bundle sales are pretty good for someone that doesn't have any of their plugins, but for most people that do, the prices before they sale with the credits for what you own and $50 off with $25 thanks were a lot better. UAD are still testing the waters. They've worked out that for $14 their plugins sell ?

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Best approach with UAD is just ignore them when they do stuff like that. Even with their initial high prices when they went native, for those that ignored them, you ended up getting them at $14 per plugin, or $39 without the thank you voucher. Just ignore them until this bundle offer is over, or whenever they make sense again down the track. I'm sure most of us don't really need any of the plugins, they're just nice to haves ? I'd say this offer was pretty well planned from the onset of the UAD Polymax freebie and knowing they were coming up to Black Friday as a good way to void lots of the active $25 thanks, which for a lot of people will expire before the end of the month. Ignore them and they may add some other offers over this month when sales drop ?

I'm not sure that URL looks very East West related there Lars ?

Yeah that's a bit weird I thought.. I wondered if it's because they're not all native yet. The other bundles reduce and they give you no credit for anything with that one. A LOT of the stuff in there I already own via Plugin Alliance which were all picked up dirt cheap and free and some of the others direct with the other developers too, so there's not heaps of additional stuff.

I think they meant to say Make Believe Prices ?

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