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Harder sell at the moment when Arturia has their sale on.. I bought the entire V Collection X for $99. They also don't seem to discount the full bundle much.. it probably costs them a lot of sales, but they stick to their pricing.

This might be helpful for those that don't know what GeoShred Play is.. like I didn't 🤣

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Is it in their sticky / rules? I don't recall ever seeing anything banning mentions of other forums? Competing DAWs yes, but not forums!

I'm a bit surprised at Groupon too.. they are somewhat reputable and the majority of the deals are legitimate, but this is pretty bad..

If you use the search history in this forum, you can find some more info. Something similar popped up before and turned out a little too good to be true... A tonne of negative feedback in the days after. I don't recall anyone off here buying it at least, but It was hard not to have a look at it even though it was pretty certain to be a scam 🤣

Try again now Satya 🙂

Try it again now. It just worked for me clicking the link in this post. I already owned it, but the purchase went through again. Maybe Saverio noticed this thread and fixed it 🤣

There wasn't a code in the email, but they migth have auto added it in the cart. Clicking the link for me doesn't show it as free any longer and yet the counter on their site and on the homepage says it's free for another 16 hours, so I'm really not sure what's going on now!

That's really strange. Glad you got it in the end though 🙂

Is there any chance you already owned it and maybe picked it up last time it was free?

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It's an issue, just not for you maybe. For anyone that has a desktop as their primary DAW and a laptop as a mobile rig, without active WUP they can't have an activation on both. They need to either transfer licences every single time they use the other device, or resort to a USB dongle. Of course Mac updates also frequently break software and you can't update to the latest version without active WUP either, but most people are aware of that one. Whether it's an issue for you, or not, doesn't change the fact that's it's just trashy corporate greed and they're one of the few plugin companies holding on to such outdated and custom unfriendly licensing models.

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Seems to be a trend currently with a lot of new plugins being a lot more expensive.. I guess they thought they should add to the cost of living increases! These guys are now on my ignore list for all their plugins, even if they do cheaper ones. Too many brilliant and well priced other developers.

If the free version opened my existing T-Racks plugins, of which I have the vast majority, then I would install 6. Then I might even test some of the new plugins and then who knows, one might inspire me to buy one of the paid bundles. But seeing how they don't, I'll pass on 6 entirely for now and not bother trying the new ones at all, or cluttering my system with the new suite. Considering how many T-Racks5 I own, the upgrade isn't really that appealing (for me). A Group Buy could be around the corner, Black Friday is around the corner, Total Studio 5 could be around the corner. As Starship mentioned, V5 works fine. Easy pass for now 🙂

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iZotope is terrible for all this as well.. another reason why they're such a great fit with NI and that's not something they should be proud of... If I could just purchase a new version of Ozone, RX, whatever and have it open old sessions the upgrades might be more appealing. I couldn't be bothered updating to their latest versions for that reason alone. Plus, they often force you to install VST2 and AAX with some of theirs and so then I need multiple major versions of software installed along with corresponding VST2, AAX, etc for each one that I'll never use.. wastes plugin scan times in multiple DAWs and actually some of those formats have caused errors when scanning all plugins. Epic fail on both NI and iZotope and a great example of how not to be as a developer.

Are you sure it's not just a phase you're going through? 🤣 I had a look via Music Software Deals site for you and I couldn't see anything crazy cheap when I sorted. But sometimes there might be something pop up during the month.

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it is always possible that they themselves have been infected by a virus and scanning with Virus Total is really useful and something I often do. Especially as sometimes on here there are new developers I don't know much about, but might want to test their stuff out. It's not uncommon to see a detection or two on VirusTotal. These will generally be false posititves if it's so limited. What Erik mentioend is spot on. It's always the balance between being too aggresive and keeping you safe, or the scanner being too relaxed and letting something malicious slip through. They almost always err on the overcautious side. I did scan the installer the other day and noticed that detection too. It appeared to be an AI scanner from memory. That probably adds another layer of potential to get things wrong as well. Just like in the pictures AI creates with hands that have seven fingers on them, AI sometimes gets things a little wrong too! I installed the update even after seeing what I'm 99.99999% certain is a false positive. Often if you scan a little while later the companies have realised it's not malicoius and it will pass. Some you can even just upload to them to review.

That sounds like a simple question, but it really depends on what function it's needed for at the time! Some general ones that come to mind for a few different use cases: Deep settings / swiss army knife compressors TDR Kotelnikov GE or Klanghelm DC8C advanced compressor. These cover so much they can replace allmost everything if you add a saturation plugin and EQ. SSL style buss compressors Plugin Alliance Townhouse compressor (I always turn the noise way down on this now) as it's got a great vibe SSL Native Bus Compressor 2. Often just works. Drums and aggressive UA 1176 Bundle or Overloud Comp76 FET Compressor-Limiter (Basically every compressor from Overloud is pretty much is amazing) PSP Vintage Warmer 2 or Micro Warmer Vocals Overloud Comp LA or UA Teletronix LA-2A Leveler Collection Bass Kiive KC1 | Opto Tube Compressor (works great on vocals too) Mastering Unisum Mastering Compressor Weiss Compressor / Limiter Pulsar Mu Super coloured UA 175B and 176 Plugin Alliance SPL Iron If I was answering tomorrow, there might be some different answers, as there really are so many great compressors. Most of that list can be picked up on sale and for the sale price of the UBK-2 you could be getting up to 4 or 5 different compressors in some case. Some are a bit more expensive than that on sale, but you could still get 2 (or more depending on the combination) great compressors for the same price as the UBK-2 on sale. Unisum is actually more on sale by about $20, but it is insanely more versatile and comrehensive and there's no comparison. A bunch of the Plugin Alliance compressors are really good. I love the Neold ones, Elysia (Alpha and mPressor (noise down) and more. We're really just so spoilt for choice these days. There are so many that came to mind (and those that didn't), that are equally worthy of being ont the list and are almost entirely sub $50 on sale