MusicMan

I'm glad these are only 24 hour sales.. the hardware they modelled are some very nice pieces of kit and I'm not sure I could hold out much longer ?

That's exactly what they're getting rid of, which is the eLicenser servers that don't scale for that very reason. For a system they're decommissioning it wouldn't be worth the re-development, costs and downtime to make it scale to then simply turn it off. I would hope/expect the new licensing platform are using microservices and scale.

To a certain extent that's what beta testing is for, but it would be difficult to capture the load testing at scale of something like this conversion. The process for the most part likely would've worked fine and for many people did, if their crappy old eLicenser servers could keep up with demand. We know they normally can't and this time was no different. In terms of just emailing out codes, they also needed to cover the existing licence on the dongles. Otherwise it would mean that people would have a full version of below V12 and then a full version of V12 as well. People would've for sure exploited that and been upgrading that as well and selling them, hence them wanting to mark them as non upgradeable. I'm sure there likely could've been other ways to address it, but not everyone would want to upgrade to 12 and have their 11 of whatever version they had upgraded, so they needed an opt in to an extent and I don't think just emailing a code would've been sufficient. Staggering the licence conversion process likely would've been better. So maybe people couldn't download V12 when the conversion was done, but the licence was available for the release date. The new licensing servers apparently handled the load OK, but were hamstrung by the link to the overloaded eLicenser servers.

I haven't really needed too much support before, but I have used NI support and IKM.. I was sufficiently underwhelmed ? I think with this one, the whole licence type conversion created more hassles. I'm inclined to cut them slack this time, as they're ditching their antiquated eLicensing and their server bottlenecks for it.. But on the next major release they would want to hope they're a lot better at getting back to customers by the sounds!

What's the support of other DAWs like out of curiosity? Especially around major version releases. I'm kind of used to constantly hearing of servers and support buckling during a new release, or even just a freebie at times.. A few easily come to mind ?

Maybe it's one final hurrah before they give all their customers the bird?and say they're not going to update to VST3 ever ?

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.

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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 ?