MusicMan

Definitely a step in the right direction by automating the process, but this one snippet still sits a little uneasily with that "if" wording. IMO ideally iLok as a platform should take responsibility for that as well, once an approved licence has been activated initially.

I love that it prompted you to score some freebies and deals! This forum is great like that and easily my favourite ? Enjoy your new sounds! Analog Lab V is a great and the upgrade goes on sale at times too. If you can, sweet talk them into giving you a Lab 4 license instead as it's got a heap more sounds and a few other benefits too from memory ?

Thanks Fleer. I have noticed that does seem to be a bit of a trend. Lars.. please go forth an hunt down some pricing errors on the newly added 4 synths from the collection! ? Haha..

A very good point. I also find it a little funny the thought of paying an annual fee for ZDT to protect the licenses of the software you already paid for.. almost sounds like WUP to me! ? My preference is serial, or offline license file, so if the developers choose to go with iLok instead, then maybe they should pay for ZDT.. or like you said, iLok include it free. But they seems to charge money whichever way they turn, so not sure I see that happening! Maybe if the new open standard C.L.A.P plugin format gets off the ground the same group could look at an open license system based off blockchain and we could ditch iLok altogether ?

Out of curiosity, if I had grabbed this, would it have made any worthwhile reduction in the crossgrade price to V Collection 9? I've been toying with the idea of maybe picking that up at some stage. Or would it be cheaper overall to just to wait and do the crossgrade instead? So far I only have Pigments, Analog Lab and FX Collection 3 really.

Definitely a nice reverb that one. Pretty sure I still have an extra unregistered key for the 2445 EMT reverb ? It now has a new home with one of the members on here ?

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There's definitely some benefits with that, but if there was another licensing scheme that was as pervasive, then most of those benefits would apply. For me, that's iLoks number one benefit. But they could improve many aspects really easily and keep everyone happy. If they made all authorizations available by Cloud, or Machine and then had an option for a periodic check-in so it cached the authorization in case of internet outages, travel, etc then automatically return those licenses to your license pool, then I'd be more comfortable with it. That would protect everyone from hard drive failures, upgrades messing with the machine ID, etc. Then if people still want to use a dongle, given them that as an option too. Simple way of using the current platform but not penalizing paying customers. I still much prefer real offline keys and offline auth files too! I always support those developers more as I like to reward them ?

I'm generally impressed with most of the plugins I've tried from these guys. Some more than others, but overall they do well.

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I went ahead and grabbed The Famous E Electric Piano and while I did already have some options for Rhodes, this one really is quite nice. I don't even know how to describe it, but it's got a warm an intimate kind of feel and sound to it ? I love the way it sounds when you hold a note for longer and that really nice vibrato. That's probably one of the big differences between what I had and this one. I could probably add some effects to my existing synths/instruments and get a bit closer to it, but some of the supplied presets get it perfect, so for what it cost, it's worth it. There are a decent number of presets too. I tend to program my own when it comes to synths, basses and other things, but not so much pianos (yet!). There's a good variety in there too. Apart from the sound though, this company just seems to get it. I haven't brought anything from them before, so I was impressed by all the simple touches, like clear installation instructions with the serials for Native Access built into the instructions, exact file sizes to check the downloads and a few other things that made for a nice and simple overall experience. I haven't tried the freebies yet either. I suspect this won't be my last purchase from them! ?

I suspect they're going to sell all of these individually before dropping a bundle with them all, just to milk it as far as possible. That way people jumping in one of the bundles have already paid for at least some of the products in it.

I was thinking I might grab the The Famous E Electric Piano.. But I do have quite a few Rhodes patches in various instruments and the IK Stage 73 Mark V along with any others that come with Sampletank 3 / 4... so I'm a little on the fence with it. I've added it to the order for now though and will decide.

Seemed pretty clear to me... on the partners page if you browse that, it shows the $178 but if you add it to the cart it goes back to $339.. at least that's what I saw on the page and from adding it. I didn't plan on buying it, but I was curious ?

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Dupe post..

That's a pretty awesome price for ReAmp Studio!

I already had the Sonible Balancer as well and don't really use it, but I still grabbed this purely in case there's an upgrade offer via Focusrite (or Sonible) for any that I might want in future. In general I don't like the AI stuff, although there are some exceptions where it seems to be an ok option, so I try to keep an open mind ?

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It definitely is! Some of their products are actually really good and sound great. I would say some of the best group buys I've seen too. If they could just focus more on some of their standard shortcomings and listen more to customer feedback they could be unstoppable.

Once you can get the new software from Arturia maybe, but their servers and everything grind to halt and stop responding and syncing purchases as well, on almost any release, so they're maybe not the best example ? But they do seem well coded besides that. Agreed with Peter too.. whatever they pay him, they should at least double it!

And just like that, thou gods have spoken and cast shame upon IK and said, thou shall not shafteth thou customers by getting them to pay twice for something they already own.. for if they make them, IK will spend their eternity in the firey pits of hell, only reserved for likes of Waves and other WUP style peddlers ?

Thanks ? That's what threw me as I did a conversion from €79 to USD and the just don't add up! Changing to USD does indeed show $69 even though according to xe.com €79 should be $82.39.. VAT might explain it I guess, but it's definitely unusual..

I guess maybe they're just not as popular as the 2A, but you're right, there's not as many options unfortunately. If it was 65% off that particular plugin then it would be an instant buy. I'm still considering buying it even if it costs more, just to give the one finger salute to Waves and their crappy WUP antics ??

Not sure if it needs a reboot or something, but the gain reduction meters stop working when switching to mid/side. It's clearly being compressed and even increasing the gain on the input to 100 and peak reduction to 100, the GR meter doesn't move. Switch back to stereo and with no settings changed it's doing 15dB of gain reduction with the meters working correctly.. It did seem to work initially, so I'm now wondering if their software might be a little buggy or unstable. Solved: In testing on a number of source tracks, I had copied it to a mono track and that breaks the metering...