MusicMan

Just about always slow for deals this time of year when they've already thrown everything at us progressively since Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Christmas and then New Year's. This is the time of year when they try and say see we do actually advertise at those crazy overinflated RRPs only so they can then discount them again ?

HoRNet SW34EQ MK2 free for 24 Hrs The HoRNet SW34EQ MK2 is an equalizer coming straight from the 80s. It’s the digital version of the EQ found in an American console and it features the typical analog EQ sound and controls. This plugin is specifically modelled after one channel of this console used in the main room of Virus Studio, here in Siena, Italy. This EQ is very smooth and gentle, both in the EQ shapes (bells and shelves) and it’s almost perfect for general tone shaping, especially the low shelf gives weight to the sound without pumping it too much. You also get an high-pass filter 18dB/oct slope that can be activated even if the rest of the EQ is not. Note: his website is currently struggling with high volumes of visitors ? https://www.hornetplugins.com/plugins/hornet-sw34eq-mk2/

Definitely recommend testing SigMod first, it crashes all DAWs I tested and is incompatible with many plugins. They are aware of the issue.

That code still doesn't quite look right to me ?

It's a tricky comparison because a lot of users are getting their first set of decent planar headphones for the first time with Slate as that's what they come with. If all Realphones users were buying new planar cans at the same time as Realphones it would be a more reasonable comparison. The edge Slate have is that the correction is based off the individual unit you actually receive from my understanding. You can also get individual correction measurements done by Dsoniq as well though. Note: Slate doesn't do system wide on Windows last I checked, which is a huge let down in comparison to Realphones which does. I'd rather be listening to audio through the DAW as well as YouTube, Spotify whatever through the same correction and setup instead of having to mentally adjust for the differences.

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.