Matthew Sorrels

Note they have removed the VST versions from the all plugins edition only during this Black Friday special. Very disappointing.

Given the blow out deals on Total Studio and the general devaluing their Max versions, I doubt owning the paid or not paid versions of any IK product will ever make a difference in upgrade pricing again. If they don't actually offer real update pricing, it won't matter how you get Amplitube 5 Max.

This was my conclusion. That in order to get all the new AmpliTube 5 stuff you had to at least buy the full AT5, the SE version wouldn't close that gap. And there is no "upgrade" path from SE to Full or Max. So I placed my pre-order on that basis.

The one minute early end does trip up a bunch of people I bet. I didn't get either of the two expensive things I was chasing, but I did get three pretty good deals.

The problem is they don't do upgrades. They do have a discount for IK customers that have bought something worth $99 or more but that's it. They haven't done upgrades for a long time. Despite the fact my order for AT5 said "upgrade" the price was the same as a $99 level IK customer with no AT products at all. Becuase of this I don't think "MAX" has any meaning, So I keep re-buying the same products over and over I guess.

So CS is not good enough for people (like me) with AT4 Max + everything but Sach. That's fine I think that makes sense. So we need to buy AT 5 SE or AT 5 or AT 5 Max. So what's the difference between those three for me? Is there gear that is only in Max or the Full AT 5 that can't be bought a la carte and added to 5 SE?

I think it's 99 Euro minimum for all of them. So no reason at all to use the non 20 code. Wow20 worked on my order and took off $19.71, I'm guessing do to Euro->Dollar conversion factors.

https://www.bestservice.com/deals/find_your_halloween_bonus_code_2792.html I think these are the codes: Wow20 Yes10 Okay5

It also doesn't have a date, just Q4 2020. The "press release": https://www.ikmultimedia.com/news/?item_id=10048 Also claims "129 new gear models" I guess the real question is, Amplitude 4 Max + X = Amplitude 5 Max This line in the release is interesting

It looks like they have added two new types of things, Speakers and Rooms, that aren't in AmpliTube 4. It may be necessary to buy some level of AmpliTube 5 to get all those things I'd guess. But all your current stuff should upgrade in the CS version. Maybe. The last T-Racks was kind of like that I guess.

From this page: https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/amplitube5/index.php?p=specs

It's a collection of plugins that work in various hosts. The box that appeared is just the activation manager. You need to load something like Blackmagic Resolve (free video editor) or Adobe After Effects to use these plugins. I'm not sure about HitFilm, I thought these were "built" into it, but I've never really bothered looking that closely.

Your right, but getting the upgrade from Mercury to Mercury + Studio Classics can sometimes be a better deal. It's the only "upgrade" path available to Mercury users. As a rule rather than WUPing anything it's almost always better to use a bundle sale and jump from one bundle to a higher bundle to get a new version of Waves. So from Gold go to Gold + Renn, instead of WUPing Gold. For Mercury that's the Studio Classics thing. After that though you're out of luck. Assuming you can do the upgrade for less than the $240 to WUP Mercury. NX isn't in any of the bundle's either. I completely forgot I had to buy that separately. B360 Ambisonics is the same. I suspect at some point they might make a bundle of Mercury and Inspire instruments. The Abbey Road stuff is very odd in the Waves thing, but as long as they keep adding one new Abbey Road plugin every year you can keep upgrading your collection bundle to re-WUP the whole collection. You shouldn't WUP lightly though, only do it if it gets you something. That said the two features V12 added are kind of nice.

Mercury has all the H-Series and NS1. None of the Abbey Road plugins are in any other bundle though. To get everything you you need Mercury + the Studio Classics bundle (available as an upgrade to Mercury) + Inspire Bundle + Abbey Road Bundle + DTS Neural Surround Collection.

I guess to do it right is a lot of work. It's a ton of samples (which is very hard to get ensembles to play). A ton of processing of those samples. A lot of scripting. And the synthesized/fake versions sound wonky. Spitfire has done it though, they know how to do it. So I'm really drawing a blank as to why they wouldn't at least include it. 10 mics but no legato. Crazy.

No legato, Spitfire player, epic price. I think I'll pass.

The RAR is missing the HeartbrokenKalimba.nkr file. The author doesn't seem interested in fixing it either. Waste of time.

Got this offer this morning from Tone2, I'm passing (have enough synths really) but the discount link looks open to anyone: We offer a time-limited discount for our synthesizer-flagship Icarus2. This discount is available exclusively to our faithful customers. Price: $199 $99 Click here to claim your discount! https://www.tone2.com/icarus2discount.html (link will be valid till November) Info about Icarus2: https://www.tone2.com/icarus.html

That's weird, both my links to go the same page here on the forum. Even though they are different. Very strange. Update: the second link had different text and URL values. Must have been my error copy and pasting the "bad" URL in. I think it's fixed now.

If you go to https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/amplitube5/ you get a blank page. If you go to something like https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/amplitube99/ you get a page not found error. Amplitube 5 confirmed. ?

In the YouTube comments: Finally velocity!

The Plus version replaces/is the only Nectar once you install it. Though oddly enough on the settings page it doesn't say anything about having being authorized for plus. Only way you can tell is the image/icon in the upper corner of the plugin is different. I have a feeling they were going to make this just part of Nectar 3 and then decided it needed to be a product/revenue generator and half wedged this whole plus thing in. Which may explain why they really don't "sell" or promote the plus thing on the website. And you can't really get much of a idea what is different about them. I think the way they did this is a mistake and of course now they can't fix it since some people have paid and upgraded.

The improved unmasking is actually an EQ inside the Relay plugin (which I guess I didn't get at first). You put Relay on the music track and Nectar on the vocal and then when you turn on the unmasking in the assistant it listens to both tracks and adds a dynamic EQ to the relay plugin on the music track. I got the impression that the Relay thing and the Unmasking were only part of the Plus, but by the time I looked at it I had already upgraded (via the Post Production Suite) so I don't know what the non-plus Nectar 3 was like. I'm not sure I'm a big fan of using plugins to do routing though, things like Relay can mess with the timing of various tracks. They often make assumptions about how a DAW works, and since no two DAWs work the same way that's often bad.

They are very similar. Morphestra 2 is the newer evolution. It's manual describes it as " 4,000+ morphed cinematic instruments & multis derived entirely from true orchestral recordings" vs CinemorphX which is an evolution of a bunch of earlier SampleLogic products based on ambience, bass, harmony, impacts, melody and rhythm. With more of a synth/electronic/world sound. Honestly they are kind of all interchangeable (SampleLogic has a few products all in this same area). If you have one, you may actually be good and not need more. Listen to the demo/walkthrough/samples and decide if the sounds work for you.

I hadn't tried it on the synths but your right. It's a huge win for CODEX and Flow Motion. I don't think I even realized how many presets those had until now.