Technostica

I'm not that bothered about the size of the libraries with 4TB SATA and PCIe M.2 drives available for ~$300 right now. So a 50GB library is costing less than $4 of disk space. Considering how cheap the libraries are, even if they are twice as large as the competition, that's only an extra $2 for storage for a 50GB library, so overall they are still cheap. They do have the benefit of allowing you to create patches using multiple PARTS from multiple SP libraries. This is what is exciting some people due to the potential for creating hybrid patches from a wide range of sources. I'm not a fan of sampled synths generally, but in this case they make sense as building blocks for hybrid patches. I tend to keep away from new platforms so haven't dived in yet. They have released a ton of libraries in their first year. So even though they are cheap individually, they add up already to well over $2k and they still haven't released the large orchestral libraries. Those will seemingly be very large in size.

That was a fun video. The workflow looked very intuitive and quick.

I have seen them closer to £250 inc tax. Right now in the UK, there are deals for 4TB PCIe drives for £300 and a bit under. Harder to incorporate four of those for most systems.

Yes, I wish I'd bought it when it was 50% or so off.

I am going to watch the walkthrough on YouTube later, but it would take a lot for me to buy another hybrid keyboard.

I do wonder at times whether Larry tells the developers when it’s an appropriate time for them to have a sale. They are all waiting for the nod.

Klavier is cheap too and a few others.

There are legato patches also, so you can compose your own melodies.

I think you are right that it's an upgrade price. The Producer Bundle is £65 for a full license for those that are starting out.

You don't need a code if you use the link from the earlier deal. But it won't tell you what the full price is. But this is PA so that's rarely relevant.

The code YNY23 or maybe YN23 used to work. It even worked on heavily discounted deals.

I like Troels as a person but I find that he talks way too much in the walkthrough videos for my liking. I'm glad that SP use different presenters on YT.

I upgraded to V Collection 9 very recently at a stupidly low price (via a trade) and checked my account and there's a Crossgrade to FX Collection for $49. I also have Tape MELLO-FI which was a freebie, so maybe that brought the price down! So if you don't have Tape MELLO-FI and your crossgrade is higher, it might be worth buying it from KVR etc to bring it down! Not guaranteed to work. There's also a Pigments crossgrade for $49 but I'll probably pass. Glad I didn't wait for the BF sale as I've upgraded to V9 and added FX3 for ~$75 in total.

The downside was that they became NFR, which is not usually the case for them. At those prices I can't blame them as the used market might have got flooded.

Anyone here with FX1, please report back the upgrade price to FX3.

This was it: https://vi-control.net/community/threads/sale-closed-soniccouture-bundle.128322/

They are internal, they look like slim laptop SATA hard drives.

Not all systems are compatible with dual sided M.2 drives, hence the question I suspect. It’s more common of an issue with laptops.

This is a 3.5” drive so not an M.2 drive.

I have found them to be fairly quick to respond when I sold some licences and also when I had a pre purchase query. I haven't needed to contact support though.

They are going to offer a new type of subscription every hour for 24 hours, then 48 hours later they will discontinue them all. ? Sorry, I can never stand subscribing for more than a week before I get fed up.

If you buy all three of the Intimate Studio series, you will get an extra 20% off which is deducted in the basket which makes it $104 in total. Any basket over a hundred gets that discount and the percentage increases at higher levels.

Showing as $99.99 for me.

The UK cover had dozens of nude women on it. I had it on vinyl at one point. My sister used to live on the same street as Electric Lady Studios and I walked past it without noticing.

As you suggested, that's uncompressed. It seems a remarkably big library for what it does. The patches are about a minute long and there are multiple microphone positions, but even so...