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Yes, I did expect there may at least one of those comments ? It's not about whether I think either of those organisations are great, they're more just as an example that it's widely used and is regularly reviewed from a cyber security perspective. I wouldn't recommend it if I didn't trust it ? I use it personally and also for family, etc.

Haha.. I considered that when I first came across it, but he seems to be one of the good guys ? It's often recommended by banks, governments, etc.

Yeah that is the downside of registering for lots of freebies and deals.. I tend to use a more junk email address for small devs and then a main one for the larger more reputable companies. Still no guarantees though.. larger companies still get hacked too at times unfortunately... Very useful site though ?

Almost all of my Air VSTi instruments are only VST2.. not sure I have a lot of faith in them actually updating to VST3 either.. They were cheap and even free for a few, so not too major if I lose them, but I wouldn't recommend that bundle price until we know for sure if they're going to update and if it will be for free.

Wow... That's a worry! Have you checked to see if your email address has been listed in any data breaches? https://haveibeenpwned.com/

Only VST2 from these guys, but it sounds decent to me. I got it for free, but wouldn't buy it or upgrade to the full version until they come out with VST3 but otherwise it's a good one.

That was my thought as well. If that is the case, then it will be interesting to see how well it handles being sped up, or slowed down.

Ideally they should have made all of the Syntronik 1 sounds able to be edited in Syntronik 2 as well, so then that way people just need to install Syntronik 2 and then any instruments from Syntronik 1 that they wish to use. It's a little clunky where Syn2 can only play the instruments from Syn1 and not edit them..

Boycott the WUP and make it go away ?

Agreed. It's weird how they all have a variety of options of what they do and don't allow. If they just made it all 3 (machine/cloud/dongle) then it allows people to pick and choose. I wonder if the coding is the same, or more involved. I tend to boycott any Dev that only offers one seat these days.. but for free I'm a little more flexible ?

Easily solvable by iLok... If they cared about customers.. but they're all about selling dongles instead of making cloud auth user friendly ?

Mine is $49 so better off getting the bundle if anything. But I wonder when FX3 will be released... I might consider jumping in then.

@mibby Thanks! I normally appreciate when people add some of those details, as we all have different systems and preferences so it just made sense sense to save people time ?

There's really no contest is there? ? Very grateful for all the freebies and deals he shares!

Glad to be able to give back a little every now and then.. mostly while Lars is sleeping.. otherwise he's already posted almost everything I see ?

That's a very good point Brian. iLok could solve it so easily, by simply caching the authorization for x number of days/weeks, instead of always needing it. Even the new authorization methods announced by Steinberg are better in that one aspect, which means iLok is really kind of lagging now for non dongle solutions.

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I totally thought this was going to be a distressor clone!

I'd definitely recommend getting this one. I bought it and have no regrets. Like Fleer said, it adds some analogue warmth and I do like that it really works on a wide variety of sources. I'd happily buy it again ?

For what it's worth, I prefer SPL Iron and Elysia Alpha Comp more than any SSL Buss compressor I've used. Once again both of these are different to each other. Iron I use more for buss duties and glue, Alpha I use more for mastering, as it's so versatile and great sounding. I'll often A-B Iron against some of the various SSLs from a number of Devs on a song and end up using Iron more often. But sometimes the SSL sound just fits better. That's why it's good having a few different options ? Personally I prefer both of these to Shadow Hills as well, even though I know the Shadow Hills are lots of people's favourite.

Different animals. Townhouse is like an older, coloured, grungy (in a good way!) kind of vibe. Great on drum buss, or master buss in particular. 9000J is punchy, modern, wide and nice highs. Great on the same busses and versatile enough to use on tracks as well. If they're the same price I'd go 9000J as it's a strip, so more versatile, but if you're more interested in the compressor side only, then both are good choices, just different ?

When I tested all the SSLs I preferred that one. The others weren't bad and I might pick up the E, or G at some stage, but not feeling a need yet. I've got a few SSL G style compressors etc, including Townhouse Buss Compressor from PA which does that OK too.

My wallet and free space on my hard drive isn't grateful to you.. but I am ? Quite a nice plugin. I really like the IKM Tapes and I'd say this holds its own with them. What I wasn't expecting from Acustica was for it to be less of a CPU hit than the IK Tapes! Given the price wasn't far off Reelight Pro which is on sale now and I was considering, this wasn't too hard to pull the trigger on.

The trial is VST2 only, but was only updated last year, whereas the full product was recently updated for Monterey. Does anyone know if the paid/full version is VST3? It seems hard to find a conclusive answer in Aquarius or on their site... the manual says VST2, but I wouldn't be surprised if that wasn't updated.

Haha.. really? MasterComp is the other one I'm waiting on! Seriously underrated compressor. I was really quite surprised when I tried that one ? PianoVerb hasn't seen too much use from me, but if they update it I might give it another shot too.