MusicMan

I had wondered about how good this one was in the recent Melda sale. I've never really heard it mentioned in any of the mastering forums or groups ever. That's not to say it's bad, it could be totally slept on, but it's unusual. I might have to give it a demo at some stage. It was probably better for me in the bundle sale than buying it by itself I would've thought as it wasn't much more to get it with some other plugins.. that I probably didn't need either ?

Doesn't even seem to be VST3.. it's seemed a bit abandoned when I've looked at them, but I don't own any of their plugins.

The thing I missed at first glance was that Lars posted this in 2020. A number of the courses still exist but on the 3rd party EDU sites. So the links don't work on Berkeley direct, but the content mostly seemed to still be accessible.

I did receive the original email, but I could swear there was no mention of the requirement to upload a song unless I missed seeing that. The only place I saw the requirement was on the site after I had registered which felt a bit bait and switch if that's the case.

In ways I see where you're going with that, but the fundamental point of difference that actually is very similar in my opinion, is the developer still doesn't get something that they never had anyway. So whether the pirate makes money or not, it's somewhat moot as the developer hasn't experienced a loss in the same way they would if the pirate stole money or physical assets from developer. To put it another way, it doesn't cost the developer in a direct sense. I don't advocate piracy (although if a developer removed the ability to activate software someone had paid for, then fair game) and like I mentioned, I don't use pirated software personally, but speaking more philosophically, while both might be illegal and called theft, I don't see them to be equal when it comes to software as I do for physical things. When someone steals a physical object like the car which someone used in an earlier example the company no longer has the car and needs to spend money to replace it. When someone pirates software, or a library however, the company still has their copy to keep selling to whoever is wanting to buy it at that time and all they really lost was a theoretical copy and theoretical sale/royalty that they never really had.

That's exactly right. Many people simply can't afford the software and hell, even if you look at students in any university, college, audio school, they sometimes have as much pro recording and graphics, media, CAD software as some studios. Sometimes more! The point is they were never going to spend those tens of thousands of dollars, sometimes over $100K on that software at that point in time.. Even for pro studios, if they're using cracked software, then it's pretty clear to see that they're open and inclined to use pirated software at times and so unless there's a specific need to open a project someone has brought in and they can't get a cracked version, or the software is very, very niche and can't be achieved with anything else, they're also likely to find something cracked and not buy the software at that point in time. If I enter a raffle and don't win, I can't blame ticket holder 555735678 because i didn't win, as I was never guaranteed a prize. In ways piracy is similar. It's hard to claim an actual loss of a purchase that was never guaranteed to be made. If we assign that assumed loss to the company for every single pirated copy that any user has, that's completely unrealistic. Absolutely, there's not one single type of user for pirated software and there will be all sorts of variations and exceptions, but that's where the mentality of assigning a perceived dollar cost loss in every situation clearly doesn't hold any water.

Great to hear Bapu ? Headphones in general seem to fail, or wear out more than a lot of other gear, so build quality does become a bit more important. Glad they're still going strong.

How is the physical quality of the product these days? I read lots of reports of bands breaking and all sorts of frequent returns and warranty claims with them a while ago.

Maybe we should just stop giving them airtime and forget about them now.. I think the majority think it was handled poorly and they know that and will now do whatever they want with that..

I agree with a lot of what you've written here, but from what I've seen over the years, the people that pirate software, libraries and samples were never going to buy them, they would just find legally free, or other cracked alternatives. I don't use (or advocate) any pirated software and that's a personal choice, but when considering the damages of piracy, it's often not the same and somewhat implied, when there likely wasn't ever going to be a positive aspect from these consumers as they were never going to spend the money anyway. Just another perspective ✌️

I grabbed the bundle a while ago. Great value and a nice compressor and channel strip.

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It would be great to see updates available in there too. That's one of the biggest benefits of an all product installer by developers imo.

Slate just wants to force everyone to subscription and they got on that train early.. they only make the physical dongle mandatory for perpetual licences. There's no valid reason for it apart from trying to discourage people buying instead of subscribing. I had wondered if that stupid mentality would die now that Steven is no longer running things. Was glad to see him go! Even with UAD ditching the hardware requirement, even if Slate was to ditch the physical iLok dongle they've lost so many potential sales now.

I've used PSP InfinitiStrip quite a bit since it was on that deep sale and I'm so glad I picked it up. It's become one of my preferred FET compressors, the VCA compressor in it I really like, some of the EQs are fantastic and great saturation modules in there. I'd love them to do an EffectsRack to includes some of their delays and reverbs, etc, or add them to the strip as well. IK is more feature rich so gets the edge there by having them, but I still reach for InfinitiStrip more.

That could be it. You may have just missed out timing wise. If they come up again, someone will likely post about the offer on here which can be handy as it's very easy to miss, or switch off to emails from all these devs.

Haha.. yeah every year they normally give everyone with an account a free pick If you haven't already, then maybe even just register for the free player, or the inexpensive player and you will probably start getting them.

I saw that one and that's actually a really good offer from them. I've been slowly collecting them for free each year and don't have much need anyway, but otherwise that's not bad value at all. Might even warrant it's own post so people don't miss it.

I'd agree with that. I think they likely intended to give it away for free but decided to charge in-between so it seems like better value. The downside is that some resellers like PiB have used it as their only monthly freebie which is pretty lame..

I've got a few of these free now too ? All of the current free with purchase offers from JRRShop I have at least one copy..

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I think I bought most of mine (or got them free) from resellers, so by default my existing plugins predominantly all only count for 50% instead of full. Can't complain though, they were either excellent value, or free and at least reduce it slightly ?

Bugger... Yeah I never selected any payment details anywhere, as the order was just the freebie ones so it didn't force me to. Fingers crossed you enjoy it at least ?

I thought the exact same thing when I looked at it too! But yes, it is and worked perfectly. It also means all updates will show up and be delivered in there for it too once you register it in Pulse.

You can just add the code into Pulse and download it via that.