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True. But let's also not forget MeldaProduction and Image‑Line (and probably a few others that have slipped my mind) have been good on their word for free updates so far.

Is that the one and only price it is/will ever be sold at (as per Spectrasonics' no-discounts rule), or is there some kind of intro-discount? I may have missed something, but I'm guessing it's the former?

My guess is 'yes', in that everyone will be moved onto one of the new tiers. This is speculation on my part, but if anyone has any unused vouchers, it might be a good time to use them. I also noticed the new Terms and Conditions reference a voucher expiry, but not sure if this applies yet. The cynic in me says as this is technically a new subscription, any previous promises about never raising the prices of subscriptions will no longer apply. (They did a few end-of-year deals where they said they'd never raise a subscription price as long as the person doesn't unsubscribe.)

Last I checked, Corel did away with that a few years ago. The remaining purchase options are a) a subscription; b) full-price (i.e. not upgrade pricing) one-time purchase. At that moment, I decided to 'upgrade' to Affinity.

Apparently, FL studio isn't considered a direct competitor - or it wasn't 7 months ago.

Can't help with getting your plugins to work, but I can log in both to Product Portal and my account on the website.

Thanks Marc - I know the battle all too well. I've been in the game for a while now, and I've known only one time where the entire team pushed back, and we went into 'maintenance mode' for a short while.

To be fair, it's not always the devs' fault. People come and go along with management changes, and sometimes that means overall knowledge of the product decreases within the team. And in places with higher levels of bureaucracy, management might decide over the devs on what gets built. It's possible (hypothetically speaking - I've no association with NI) the devs want to spend more time learning and fixing code infrastructure, but the higher ups insist on new features because that's what 'will' get more sales.

Perhaps that was the vision - just one version (with the same plugin ID), which updates with new features over time. But that might have been before the merge with iZotope and PA.

Not sure, but Microsoft will end support for Windows 10 in approximately one year from now. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/end-of-support?msockid=28b0994457f860b707078b21561861ed&r=1

It looks like something you could get from Scaler, which you'd have the additional advantage (depending on your point of view) of being able to run from within your DAW. Scaler doesn't seem to have buttons to explicitly show 11th or 13th chords, but you can type those variations in to get them if you need that flavour.

That used to be the case, but isn't anymore: https://help.sonible.com/hc/en-us/articles/5333228997010-Do-I-need-the-PACE-License-Manager-to-run-sonible-plug-ins

Because you're on a budget, or because you don't like ADSR?

I've never looked at FL Studio before today; I had no idea it could be used as a plugin from another DAW.

Might be the same concept as Melda. For example, let's say you had MEssentialsFXBundle. They then release a new plugin that goes into MMasteringFXBundle. If you have MMasteringFXBundle, you get the new plugin; if you have MEssentialsFXBundle, you don't because the new plugin is part of MMasteringFXBundle (and MComplete).