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@Matthew Sorrels This might not be the same issue, and sorry if you've already mentioned/tried this. I had a problem a while ago where Corel Painter had problems starting up; it turned out that for some reason, two C++ runtimes of exactly the same version had been installed on my PC. It might be worth just checking whether there's something similar going on.

Sorry - my bad. Now that you mention it, I think it depends on the product. Just clicking on random products, I can see that you'll get $9.90 DeluxeBucks for Zynaptiq WORMHOLE (currently $99.00); but $2.31 DeluxeBucks for Robotic Bean Hand Clap Studio ($29.00); I also seem to remember that some don't qualify for them at all.

Time+Space are good too. They offer 5% money back in points, plus 500 points per review (only from the email that they send you with each purchase) - that's the equivalent of £2.50. They sometimes offer unique specials, and the occasional one-off coupon. Support is very good too from my experience so far.

Audio Deluxe has the best money-back loyalty scheme - 10% in DeluxeBucks. PB gives you the equivalent of 5%; you get monthly freebies and reward tokens though (which you can either trade for more freebies, or further money back).

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Zero-G also stock libraries from Silence+Other Sounds. These might be a little niche, but they do sound really fantastic.

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More than PhasePlant?

When I read the Ts & Cs last (which was a while ago), you have to use it all in one go.

Probably to remove the 32-bit versions. My guess is that they remove them so that you don't get into a situation where the plugin can behave differently under different hosts, e.g. the newer 64 bit version in one host, and the older and buggier 32 bit version in another host that can't support the 64 bit version.

Ironically, the worst way that you could have 'punished' them was to keep it - by selling it on (assuming you did), whoever you sold it to would probably continue to support them based on what you sold to them. I think the limited time upgrade thing wasn't cool, but I don't think they try to fleece people significantly more than any other company - they have 50% sales (or maybe its 40% - can't remember) on their drumkits usually at least once a year. They also have previously done 12-days-of-Christmas sales where they offer some stuff at good discounts - I managed to pick up EZKeys Classic Electrics for ~£20.

I do remember upgrades being a limited-time thing, but I think $300 might have been the full price (rather than upgrade); my upgrade was ~$170.

The only plugin I can do this with that doesn't grind my PC to a halt (though admittedly I haven't tried that many different plugins) is Overloud TapeDesk.

It's true that they're very CPU heavy, but I find that a single instance of Tape Machine 24 on the master bus adds a sprinkling of magic and doesn't grind my DAW to a halt.

Monthly vouchers expiring before the end of the month are usually a sign that there will be some sort of sale.

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If there are other libraries that you don't have, the best time for this offer would probably be (IIRC) near the end of the year when they have their best-prices-of-the-year sale, as you can benefit from both discounted product prices, and the fourth product free. That said, it'll most probably be outside of the best-intro-price period for this one.

I'm not that surprised by that - LogMeIn used to have a free remote-desktopping tool that they one day decided would be discontinued in favour of their paid-for version.

Me too. And like you, I've started using Affinity stuff. I originally learned CorelDRAW because they gave a free copy away with a printer

IIRC that was ReValver (1) SE. I think it's at version 4 now.