MusicMan

I never like seeing these types of clauses buried in the info when they have "Royalty Free" plastered everywhere. I suspect it's the same with all their sample packs. I'm not opposed to them having the clause if that's what they choose, but they should make it prominent on the webpage for that sample pack and not only visible in text files once someone has purchased and downloaded their samples. PLACEMENTS If you place a record with a major label or artist using the sample"s" in this kit, you agree to splitting the publishing, mechanicals, points, and advance fees with Godlike Loops. Contact ( godlikeloops@gmail.com ) to handle negotiations.

That was my issue with it too.. it was pretty prone to crashing when running the scans. I do have a reasonably large sample collection, but Atlas for example had no trouble. I might give the latest version another try at some stage.

It a big NO for me after their extra royal shafting of customers and their resellers. Too soon for me to let them off the hook. It's a shame, as there were 1 or 2 plugins from them I had been considering right before they tried to pull the whole subscription only shady switch on people.

I got that too but it did work initially.. I wondered if I made them mad for trying to use the code on products that were excluded ? Looks intentional from their email. But should be good for quite a few people to take advantage of it.

Both such great plugins. These hold their own against a lot of well regarded and more expensive EQs.

You claim it on the Lunacy Audio site directly with the code you get from Audio Plugin Deals so you do quality for the discount to upgrade from them ?

All these prices are a lot higher than the original "test the waters" offer for their native versions where many of those collections that were $49 are now $89 in this sale (1176, LA2A, Fairchild, Pultec). Even with coupon juggling with this current sale, that would have bought extra plugins for the same price in the sale a few months ago. So I'm happy to hold out and remain a lurker, as there's no real need to jump at these prices at all. I'd rather not encourage them to stick to these overinflated prices personally.

The website is working (albeit that's a poor and misleading message) it's Softube that are di##$ because they now don't offer any upgrades unless you own a previous Volume. They changed it for Volume 6..

I wonder if they will come crawling back and offer upgrades to non Volume owners that own a stack of the plugins in the bundle (or any, even the most expensive one alone!). This is a hard pass for me, even if they offered it at and extra 40%..

I got them all free and even an extra on some from memory, but this is still a pretty great price besides that.

For some reason, on the device I'm using, the prices on that cheatsheet don't reflect when you click on the link. Many of the ones that say 80% off just showing the retail price crossed out and the "current price" the original price! Maybe they're still updating things...

I was looking forward to that and much like their mastering DAW it really hasn't developed into anything solid yet!

I would agree with that. I wouldn't say it was exactly a masterclass in the traditional sense. I expected more technical tips and techniques, whereas it was more a coffee chat as someone referred to it and there were some concepts and simple techniques mixed around the sales pitch for their paid course. Still somewhat interesting though mainly due to their wealth of experience. I bought the FAST bundle the other day. I did claim the code all the same in case I want to add some extra seats, or swap it with someone for something else, seeing how I'd sat through the webinar. The code came through OK ?

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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